Sam came back to his senses and looked at Kartikeya with an embarrassed expression. The fight he fought is nowhere near a real fight. He has fought Kartikeya completely taking advantage of the rules of the game.

From damaging Kartikeya bit by bit and his last onslaught like a mad fiend, all of them are his tricks to take advantage of the rule and he did this knowing full well that the other party is going easy on him. Just like the Monkey King did.

"Don't feel bad, I also broke some rules I set for myself, but your performance is better than I expected, at least you can play the game and mold the rules to yourself."

Kartikeya spoke and waved his hand, Sam felt all his mental fatigue recover and sighed in relief. There was too much pressure from this game and he had died sixteen times in total. At least, he avoided the pain and torment and committed suicide most of the time by jumping off the stage.

So, at least he was spared of the torment, but still, he feared that he would suffer some mental damages. He has very few emotions that he could feel heartily. They might even be pain and anger, but he didn't want to lose them.

So, Kartikeya's healing is something he was grateful for.

"Gambler really did pick some good candidate and no wonder that Dumb Monkey likes you so much, it is acceptable. Even I was regretting a bit by not picking you as a candidate."

With that Kartikeya took out a black crystallized metallic ball and threw it to Sam.

Sam caught it and examined it.

"That is the thing Monkey King promised you. It will give a great upgrade for the dimensional traveler you are using."

Sam was ecstatic and immediately placed it in divine dimension. He was not in a hurry to examine it through. After all, there are still rewards that are awaiting him for this Palace of Inheritance. He has suffered too much to not think about them.

"I wanted to give the winner, something that would help them in commanding the battle well. But from what I heard, it was already there with you, even though yours is of the lowest level, the best property of that it can be developed along with you.

Normally, a being at your level, couldn't do much with it as looking after yourself will be hard enough already.

But from the looks of it, you got that covered.

I was so sure that my candidate will win, I mostly prepared the rewards that would be suitable for him."

He paused for a bit and said.

"I don't want to cheat you, how about we make a deal?"

"I am open for it."

"Actually, the ultimate winner will be getting three rewards in total, but the rest of the candidates will only get one reward based on the level they reached and the performance they had shown.

At first, I wanted to give you a spear, the commander's table, and some life-saving trinkets, but I want to request you to forfeit the spear so that I can give it to my candidate. In place of that, I will give you my Ripple style technique.

And since you won the game technically which I didn't expect from any candidate, I will give you a superior reward that the final prize dictated."

"What kind of rewards are we talking about?"

"How about the Chessboard?" Kartikeya asked with a smile. Sam was stunned, he didn't expect that Kartikeya would give him a cultivator chessboard.

Sam pointed at the table in front of them and asked still in disbelief.

"This board?"

"Not this one exactly. Another board which will suit you more. Trust me its value is on par with the thunder prison you already have."

"What about the trinkets you spoke of?"

"I will give you five items, one of them will be aiding your breakthrough after you reach the Consummate realm. I heard that you already got the peaches the Monkey King awarded and this treasure will go well with those peaches."

As he spoke he took out a small glass vial which has a drop of transparent liquid. Even though it looked like water, Sam could feel its divinity.

"This is a diluted drop from the Divine river of Akashaganga. Even though, it is diluted, if can help you a lot in the break-through. Drink it with the Heavenly wine you have after eating the peaches, right before the breakthrough.

And the breakthrough should be done only after you feel like your body couldn't bear the extent of the power it is sheltering in.

The second one is a battle puppet. It has the strength of a Consummate level cultivator and it can be used three times. Anyone within the limit of Consummate realm will die no matter how strong they are."

Kartikeya took out another small humanoid metallic doll and place it. It almost looked like a transformers toy.

"The third reward is the transference scrolls. Five of them. You can never have enough of them. But their range is different from the previous time, you can now reach the range of five thousand kilometers."

Kartikeya then places five scrolls on the table.

Sam was ecstatic. But he still waited, there is another present waiting for him, these three items are