After passing through the long temple corridor, they arrived beside a stone stele at the side of the temple's rear hall. The blue-green stele was covered in moss and riddled with cracks. Ancient writing was carved into it, so old that many of the inscriptions had crumbled away, leaving only faint traces still visible.
Lu Yang stood beside the stele and said to Wan Zhonghui, "We're here."
Wan Zhonghui blinked and looked at the stele. "This is the special quest?"
Lu Yang smiled at Wan Zhonghui. "This is it. The words carved on this stele are called the Blood Oath Codex. Any player who recites an oath here will receive a class advancement quest for the Blood Oath Shaman."
The Blood Oath Codex was a real code that existed on this planet. Its contents roughly meant one thing: if someone killed a member of your family, you had to kill one of that person's children in revenge.
But that meant that after you killed one of their children, they would kill one of your descendants, binding both sides in a blood feud for generations.
Lu Yang had no opinion on the codex. It was not his place to judge it. Still, in his previous life, someone had discovered this codex and read the words upon it, triggering the Blood Oath Shaman quest. That was quite useful.
"Repeat after me. I swear in the name of my ancestors..." Lu Yang instructed Wan Zhonghui word by word.
Lu Yang was a fire mage and could not trigger the quest. Only orc shamans could do so. Wan Zhonghui followed Lu Yang and recited the contents of the codex line by line. Suddenly, a blazing blood-red radiance lit up across the stele's writing.
The light crawled over every carved inscription like real blood. When