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Chapter 69: The First ’Obelisk’. Part-3.

"Although I do not know the origins of this mysterious ’object,’ I haven’t wasted so many decades possessing it either..."

"Throughout my lifetime, I have discovered several key abilities of this mysterious ’Obelisk’ and its ’tattoo’..."

Ignoring Xinran, who was almost starting to yawn from all this long and boring talk, Layla smiled at Zephyr and spoke,

"From what I know, the ’Obelisk’ has three main uses..."

"First is ’Extreme Miasmic Resistance.’ Possessing the Obelisk makes you a ’Torchbearer of Hope’ and greatly enhances your resistance to miasmic corruption."

"The main reason why people called me a ’Chosen Hero’ was also because I was capable of fighting miasma and corrupted monsters without getting affected myself..."

"In the eyes of others, only someone ’blessed’ and ’heroic’ can resist the ever-corrupting powers of miasma... people thought it was my power as a ’Hero’ that I was resistant to miasma, but that’s not true..."

Layla glanced at Zephyr’s tattoo and spoke with a slightly regretful voice.

"Now that the ’Obelisk’ has been transferred to you, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that I am a bit jealous that my power to resist miasma has been stripped away and given to you..."

"But well, the ’Obelisk’ is not something I can control; it’s free to choose its user and free to leave as it sees fit..."

"Moreover, I am a ’Defeated Hero’; I am no longer a fitting vessel for it anymore, so it’s understandable that it’s been eager to leave my side for a while now..."

"But still... It makes me sad to part with something that’s been with me for almost the entirety of my life... sigh..."

Hearing those words, Zephyr could not find appropriate words to answer and console Layla, as he wasn’t close enough with her to act as a friend.

Xinran, on the other hand, only giggled while seeing Layla in such a depressed mood.

"Keke, finally the oh-so-great Layla Jauregia will also have to learn how to avoid getting entangled with miasma from now on..."

"Ah~ It feels so refreshing to see proud and smug folks fall from grace; it makes my blood become excited, hehehe~"

Ignoring Xinran’s mocking expression, Layla looked at Zephyr and spoke,

"As Xinran said, after transferring the ’Obelisk’ to you, I will lose all the powers related to it, and thus the status of the ’Hero’ it used to give me would also become invalid too..."

"Losing your resistance to miasma in this rotten world filled with corruption is tantamount to death, but losing the status of a ’Hero’ is beneficial to me..."

"For my entire life, I have been shackled to the role of a ’Chosen Hero.’ I have always wanted to live a life of freedom, and even after losing the ’Obelisk,’ I am still one of the strongest mages on this continent, so I won’t die so easily either..."

"Xinran has been surviving for so long in this cursed world without the protection of the ’Obelisk,’ so it’s no problem for me to be able to do the same too... there’s no need to worry about me."

Zephyr shook his head and replied calmly,

"I am not a saint or a ’hero’ either; I am not worried about your safety. You don’t have to give me words of consolation; we are not that close to be exchanging such words..."

Xinran also nodded her head and declared in a loud voice,

"Yeah, Little Zephy is right! He belongs to me! Don’t you dare use your fake kind persona to try to scam him, you old witch!"

"Only I am allowed to seduce him! Others have no right to get close to him!"

Layla ignored Xinran’s words and didn’t even take her attempt to portray herself as being close to Zephyr seriously, as if she were used to Xinran’s eccentric personality.

"Getting back to the main topic, aside from miasmic resistance enhancement, the ’Obelisk’ also has the ability to grant knowledge and all kinds of skills to its user..."

"But this knowledge granting is random, and even I don’t know what triggers it..."

"Even I have only triggered it five times throughout my life; now that you have the ’Obelisk,’ you might trigger this ability too, but it depends on your luck..."

Hearing the word ’luck,’ Zephyr didn’t even bother thinking much about this ability anymore.

’With my horrible luck, I might as well just consider this ability of the ’Obelisk’ as non-existent...’

’Even if I trigger this ability, with my horrible luck I will likely only be granted some useless skill or knowledge at most...’

"What about the third ability?"

At Zephyr’s question, Layla replied with a smile,

"The third ability is very mysterious and strange, but I think it helps you enhance your ’intuition’ and ’mental fortitude’ passively..."

"This ’intuition’ is the reason why I knew that I needed to create the trial and stay here in this building and wait for the next inheritor to come and inherit the ’Obelisk’..."

"If not for this ’intuition,’ I would have left this place long ago by now..."

A look of understanding appeared on Xinran’s face after hearing those words.

"No wonder you are never surprised whenever I barge into your place completely unannounced! You are able to ’intuitively’ sense that I am about to ambush you!"

"Tch, what a horrible cheat this ability is; it kind of makes me jealous... thankfully, my little Zephy has this ability now, and the old hag finally won’t be able to predict my movements..."

"That’s good news..."

Hearing Xinran’s words, Layla shook her head and replied with a smile that seemed like she was gloating.

"No... as I said, the ’Obelisk’ enhances the user’s intuition and mental fortitude passively..."

"This passive increase is related to the user’s innate intuition and mental fortitude being increased permanently; losing the obelisk won’t affect this ability..."

"You will still not be able to ambush me even after I have lost the obelisk and its powers because I still have my powerful intuition and mental fortitude intact!"