Sss Awakening I Can Class Change At Will Chapter 205

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Bam!

She smacked face-first into the barrier, the impact hard enough to make her stumble backward. The cores nearly slipped from her hands as she caught her balance.

“Ow,” she muttered, rubbing her nose with obvious irritation.

It was apparent to them, the condition was not based on who enters first. Not based on possession of the cores. What variable was different between him and them?

“Yara, you try,” he instructed, taking the cores back from Selene.

Yara approached cautiously, one hand extended to feel for the barrier. When she touched it, she pushed experimentally.

The result was identical. The barrier refused her entry completely.

“Maybe the pavilion has already recognized you specifically as the only person permitted to enter?” Selene reasoned, unable to come up with any other logical explanation that fit the evidence. “Something about you triggered its acceptance criteria.” Her eyes suddenly lightened as she remembered the notification hint, “Or…you are the one deemed worthy.”

Moon considered this. He’d been the one to defeat both the Magma King and the Druid Spirit. He’d been the one to collect their cores. Maybe the inheritance recognized the one who’d proven worthy by defeating its guardians?

“Maybe,” he said quietly, though he wasn’t entirely convinced.

“Alright, you should enter first,” Selene decided, her tone becoming more practical despite the obvious concern in her eyes. “We’ll wait for you out here. There’s nothing inside that you can’t handle, right?”

Moon thought back to what he’d glimpsed in that brief moment before returning outside. “No. It’s quite empty. Just a large chamber.”

“Then go. Be careful. And come back if anything seems wrong.”

Moon nodded, then turned to Mirage. “Stay with them. Protect them if anything dangerous approaches. With Mirage here, you would be able to escape if anything happens, he is fast enough.”

The White Horse lowered his head in acknowledgment.

With a final glance at his companions, Moon turned and walked back into the pavilion, the two spirit cores secure in his storage ring.

This time, when the darkness lifted from his vision and revealed the empty chamber, he didn’t immediately turn back.

Instead, he moved deeper inside, his eyes adjusting fully to the space.

The circular chamber was perhaps twenty meters in diameter, the walls smooth and unmarked. The ceiling rose high above, providing enough head room.

And in the exact center of the room, set into the floor…A circular indentation. Perfectly sized to hold two objects.

Two cores, specifically.

Moon approached slowly, studying the carved depression. It was divided into two sections—one half marked with flame symbols, the other with nature imagery. The purpose was obvious.

This was where the spirits were meant to unite.

Moon knelt beside the indentation, pulling both cores from his storage. The moment they came close to the carved circle, both began vibrating intensity, as if responding to proximity to their intended resting place.

He hesitated for just a moment. Once he placed these cores, something would activate. Some inheritance would awaken. And he had no guarantee it would be beneficial rather than dangerous.

But they’d come this far. Defeated the guardians. Found the temple. Been granted entry.

Turning back now would be cowardice. Besides, Moon didn’t think that there was anything left he could strengthen about himself at the moment.

He was at the peak of his power inside this realm. The highest level possible, with the strongest skills he could obtain. If he couldn’t defeat whatever creature emerged with his various powerful skills, then he was never worthy of it. Moon placed the Magma King’s core in the flame-marked section. Then the Druid Spirit’s core in the nature-marked section.

Both cores settled into place with a soft click that resonated through the chamber.

For a moment, nothing happened.

Then light began to flow between them—red meeting green, fire intertwining with nature, two opposing forces finding balance in the space between.

[Congratulations! You have successfully defeated the strongest existences on Lunaris Island!

The Magma King, ancient ruler of molten depths, whose flames have reduced countless challengers to ash across countless years…

The Druid Spirit, cunning master of the Rotten Pine Forest, whose wooden army has claimed the lives of every expedition that dared enter its cursed domain…

Both apex predators have fallen by your hand. Both spirits now rest in harmony, their eternal conflict finally ended.]

[You have proven yourself worthy through strength, cunning, and the will to survive against overwhelming odds.]

[You alone are the one deemed worthy. You stand alone in this chamber not by chance, but by fate.]

[The inheritance awaits, challenger.]

[Will you accept the legacy of the World’s Flaw?]

[Yes] / [No]

Moon stared at the floating text before him, his mind processing each line.

The system was acknowledging what he’d accomplished and apparently, he’d passed the hidden trials.

But the final line gave him halt.

Legacy of the World’s Flaw.

That name again. The mysterious Benefactor who’d helped the Savi people, who commanded the Golden Fish, who’d built this temple and left behind whatever inheritance waited in this space.

Someone who called themselves a flaw in the world itself.

What kind of legacy would such a person leave behind? What kind of power or knowledge came with accepting an inheritance from someone with that title?

Moon reached forward and selected [Yes].

The moment his intent registered, the light flowing between the two cores intensified dramatically. Red and green energies spiraled upward, intertwining, merging, creating something new from their union.

The chamber filled with radiance so bright Moon had to shield his eyes.

A voice began to resonate in the Pavilion.

“Power without understanding is destruction. Understanding without wisdom is madness. Wisdom without will is uselessness. You possess the will. I provide the understanding. Wisdom… that, you must discover for yourself.”

“Use what I give you well, inheritor. The world can never have enough flaws, so become a flaw.”

The light faded.

The voice disappeared, so did the surrounding next to Moon, he was no longer in the chamber…

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