Chapter 188: Firefighting
Coop double-checked the temple at the top of Huracan’s pyramid, seeking hidden loot that may have been squirreled away within. He wouldn’t be a proper scavenger if he left anything of value behind, but there was nothing that immediately caught his attention.
The High Priest had created a modest throne room with a crudely forged seat opposite the main shrine entrance and little else. Other than the snuffed out living flame suspended in an oversized black stone brazier above the pit full of ashes, there were no other furnishings. The walls contained a series of worn patterns that Coop was sure would be extremely interesting to Jones if he were there, but Coop couldn’t make heads or tails of the message they sought to display, and they were from an era that was long gone. There wasn’t even a chest hidden behind the throne.
Shrugging as he turned to leave, slightly disappointed that he hadn’t discovered any treasures accumulated by the High Priest, he took a closer look at the hanging brazier. He was considering whether he should take it with him so that he wouldn’t be leaving empty handed. The brazier might make a decent reward. It would probably fit inside the lightroom of the lighthouse if he wanted something more antique to house the Spectral Relic.
When he pulled the hanging ornament closer, he found something rattling around inside. When Coop scooped the culprit up, excited to see what he found, he was surprised to find a large quartz-like gemstone, almost the size of his hand. Upon closer inspection, he discovered that it was another large, uncut Unique relic called the Seed of Wind. Coop admired the stone for a moment, letting it sit in his palms, watching swirls of gray flow inside the clear surface. Huracan had been using the relic to feed the now snuffed out flames.
He didn’t have a quest to retrieve the relic, but he still imagined what it would have been like to collect an obviously wind themed item instead of the stone with ethereal affinity. If Ghost Reef had Charlie as Champion, and she completed the first bonus objective, they might have ended up with an unending protective storm instead of phantoms.
Coop nodded with satisfaction as he checked his status, happy that he had been properly rewarded with loot.
[Status]
HP - 14520/14520
MP - 8249/27540
Class - Revenant (Level 177)
Profession - Scavenging (Level 131)
Affinity - Spectral