Dragon Monarch System Chapter 1182:- Rich Gets Richer [iii]

Continuing on his quest to get richer, Aditya continued searching around the treasury. After finding two back-to-back extremely useful items, it looked as if his luck had finally run out. For the next hour, whatever item he picked was mostly useless or worthless to him. He did still find a few decent things that he decided to keep, not for himself but for his subordinates. Aditya felt those things could be very useful to his subordinates.

One of those things was an ancient Berserk Skill that he decided to gift to his general Henry.

Another was a butcher knife with the ability to drain the blood of the opponent to give the user a 20% boost in strength and agility for a period of 10 minutes.

Aditya really liked the butcher knife. Unfortunately, the knife was a peak four star artifact. He felt that giving this butcher knife to someone else would be much more useful than keeping it for himself.

And that was basically the two useful things he found after searching through the pile of treasures for an hour. After searching for a long time, Aditya was beginning to feel that he wasn’t looking through a pile of treasure; rather, he was looking through a pile of garbage.

Of course, he didn’t dare to say it out loud, as he did not want to anger his grandfather or hurt his feelings. Everything in this room had some use, but Aditya simply could not find anything like those two artifacts that would solve their immediate problems.

Finally, after looking for a long time, Aditya found a small orb which was about the size of his fist. Curiously, he decided to pick it up and have the system show its description to him.

It was a small crimson orb resembling a miniature sun.

Holding it, he could feel that this orb’s interior contained an enormous amount of compressed fire-element mana.

’This is very useful.’ He instinctively knew that if he absorbed this enormous amount of compressed fire-element mana within the orb, not only would his understanding of the Crimson flame deepen, but also his overall cultivation would significantly improve.

『Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb』

『Peak 6th Star Artifact』

『Description: An ancient artifact forged from the core of an extremely powerful fire-element magical beast. The core was refined for nearly a century before an enormous amount of highly concentrated Crimson Flame was sealed within it. Because of this, the orb can be used both as a cultivation treasure and as a one-time destructive artifact.』

『Ability 1: The user can slowly draw Crimson Flame from the orb without destroying it. Cultivating near the orb can also increase the user’s understanding and control over Crimson Flame. The greater the user’s affinity with Crimson Flame, the greater the benefits they can receive from it.』

『Ability 2: The orb can be completely detonated at any moment. Once activated, it expands into a miniature crimson sun before exploding, releasing an extremely powerful shockwave followed by a sea of Crimson Flames. The explosion is powerful enough to destroy a heavily fortified military fortress and severely injure 6th-order cultivators caught near its center.』

『Ability 3: After the explosion, Crimson Flames will continue burning throughout the affected area for several minutes. These flames are extremely difficult to extinguish and can continue damaging cultivators, formations, buildings, and anything else caught within them.』

『Limitation: Drawing too much Crimson Flame from the orb for cultivation will gradually weaken the power of its final explosion. Once the orb is detonated, the artifact will be completely destroyed.』

After reading the description of the『Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb』, Aditya could hardly believe what he was seeing.

If the previous two artifacts had made him immensely happy, then finding the『Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb』made him extremely grateful that he had decided to come here with Harrington today. Who would have thought that the answer to one of his biggest problems would be sitting inside the Harrington Family’s treasury?

At this moment, Aditya almost wanted to run over to his grandfather, give the old man a big hug, and tell him just how thankful he was.

However, Aditya had absolutely no intention of using the『Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb』as an explosive artifact. Doing so would limit the usefulness of such an incredible treasure to a single use. Once detonated, everything contained within the orb would be released at once, and the『Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb』itself would be completely destroyed.

To Aditya, that would be an enormous waste. What he truly wanted was the Crimson Flame energy stored within the Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb.

By slowly absorbing that energy, he could use it to deepen his understanding and control over Crimson Flame while also using the opportunity to increase his cultivation. More importantly, the existence of the Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb solved another problem that had been troubling him for some time.

Previously, Aditya had already planned to increase his cultivation to Beginner Sixth Order right before the civil war began. He could always come up with some explanation for his sudden breakthrough, but regardless of what excuse he created, in the end, it would still sound exactly like that:

His cultivation speed was already terrifying enough.

If he suddenly reached Beginner Sixth Order right before the war without any proper explanation, it would naturally raise questions among the people around him. Even if they trusted him enough not to investigate further, Aditya still preferred having a believable explanation prepared beforehand.

And now, the Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb had given him the perfect explanation.

No one would question how he had managed to reach Beginner Sixth Order so quickly if he told them that he had absorbed the highly concentrated Crimson Flame energy contained within the Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb. He could simply explain that absorbing the Crimson Flame had greatly increased his understanding of Crimson Flame while simultaneously pushing his cultivation forward and allowing him to achieve a breakthrough within such a short period of time.

After all, miraculous treasures capable of rapidly increasing someone’s cultivation existed in this world.

They were incredibly rare, and not everyone was fortunate enough to obtain such treasures, but their existence was not something that cultivators would find impossible to believe. If anything, given the Harrington Family’s immense wealth and the countless treasures accumulated within this treasury over generations, finding something like the Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb here was completely believable.

Aditya could finally hide the fact that the System had helped him level up. The Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb would become the perfect shield for hiding his greatest secret. And unlike some hastily created excuse, this time, he had the actual treasure in his hands to support his story.

"Is it good?" Harrington asked in a lazy tone, seeing Aditya staring at the Crimson Orb.

"This orb has enormous compressed Fire Element Mana in it. It can be used as an explosive, or if I absorb all that enormous compressed Fire Element Mana within it, I am confident I will be able to reach beginner sixth order before the war starts."

Hearing this, Harrington nearly fell from the chair on which he was sitting.

Although he and others did not mention it in front of Aditya. The person that they were most worried about was Aditya. Because the only way that this war will end is through the death of either Fake Unworthy Emperor Ren or Aditya himself.

There was a very strong possibility that Ren would send powerful cultivators for Aditya’s head. Once he is killed early, the war can be stopped immediately. But if he were to reach beginner sixth order, not only would his overall attacking power increase, but everyone would be less worried about his safety.

Harrington and Boris, both could dive into the battle without needing to worry about their grandson.

"This is great!" Harrington was beyond overjoyed.

Do you want to keep looking?" Harrington asked in a hurried tone.

Sensing his urgency, Aditya smiled and just shook his head.

"For now, I’m done." Time was extremely limited for them. There wasn’t much time left before the war started. Aditya understood that Harrington wanted him to sit down immediately and start absorbing the enormous compressed fire element Mana within the orb and quickly reach beginner sixth order.

"Grandpa, what if I fail to overcome the heavenly tribulation?" This was something that every cultivator who wanted to reach sixth order had to go through. In fact, from Sixth Order, even for every minor realm, there was a minor Heavenly Tribulation. But crossing from one Order to another Order was always the most dangerous and powerful.

Many cultivators simply died before the lightning strikes of the Heavenly Thunder.

Not to mention, the more fighting power a cultivator had, the stronger the Heavenly Tribulation would be.

This also made Harrington slightly worried. Aditya was already strong enough to go against any 6th-order cultivator. He could even hold his own for a while against a Peak 6th-order cultivator. This meant that the Heavenly Tribulation would be as powerful as facing the full-force attacks of Peak 6th-order cultivators head-on.

There would be a total of six Heavenly Thunder Strikes. The first few wouldn’t be that strong, but the last few would be the strongest. The final strike would be the strongest and most dangerous of them all. With each Thunder Strike, the power of the next Heavenly Thunder Strike would increase.

’I need to do something about that.’ During this process, no cultivator was allowed to interfere. If someone interfered, then regardless of the cultivator’s strength, the Heavenly Thunder would kill that cultivator with a single or multiple powerful Heavenly Thunder Strikes, with each strike being significantly more powerful than the previous one.

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