BXBX NOVEL Chapter 152 Eating Away At The Foundation
The cat led the way to the Garcia family treasury while hanging on Zick's shoulder.
"The treasury is protected by multiple layers of magic circles, but there is nothing to worry about. It can be easily broken with a single attack from me." The cat bragged triumphantly.
Zick had gotten used to hearing it praise itself by now: 'It probably got some confidence back after becoming free again.'
Zick turned to Levienel: "Miss Levienel, do you know any dead dragon or any of its body parts location?"
It was an odd question but it held importance to Zick.
Levienel thought before shaking her head: "No, I don't know any. Getting to meet a dragon is already very rare, much less a dead one." Her cold voice was like cold water which was poured onto Zick's expectations.
'That's no good, Do I have to attack the alchemy tower to get potions to increase my talent?' Zick thought about the pros and cons of this idea.
Destroying the alchemy tower was out of the question as he needed them to fight against the demon lord's army. But it would be a different matter if it was just to loot them. After all, taking a potion would not directly harm the tower in any way.
'It's decided then, after finishing curing Seveleen I will directly head towards the dragon egg first, then I will give Jhesker alchemy tower a 'visit'.' Zick could only temporarily give up one eating a dragon.
Zick was aware of his dragon slayer status, so he knew that eating a dragon body part could surely strengthen him. If it is a dragon heart, it would be the best situation!
"Well, can you continue explaining about the element manifestation now?" Zick looked at the black cat from the corner of his eyes.
They had already reached the place where The cat and Levienel fought. The whole mansion in the area was blown away, with nothing but the barren ground in front of them.
According to the cat, the treasury was right below the Garcia family head's room. Zick and the other moved towards it leisurely.
"The ice element manifestation must be caused by extreme cold and immense flow of mana. Most likely there was a mana crystal mine around the place you got this." The cat spoke with a lazy voice, but Zick focused on the thing it said seriously.
Hearing the cat say there was a mana crystal mine there so easily, Zick was shocked: 'It really is knowledgeable when it comes to this.'
The cat continued: "There is a limit to how much you can strengthen yourself with this method of course. Everything has its limit, if the monster's body reaches its limit, taking any more of this element manifestation would just kill them."
Hearing this, Zick got a basic understanding of the snow essence he has.
"What do you mean by reaching the limit of the body?" Zick spoke feeling the need to understand it even further.
The cat spoke in a professional tone: "It is just like what it sounds. Every being has its own biological limit, and going past that is very hard. This is also one of the reasons why no one was able to rise to the God rank, at least theoretically."
Zick wanted to ask about himself, but he stopped and asked in a roundabout way: "Then, how much time do you think a dragon could strengthen itself using this element manifestation?"
The cat seems to have fallen into a state of deep thought before speaking: "They should be able to strengthen themselves until grandmaster realm I think, but a large amount of elements manifestation would be required."
The secret of being able to strengthen himself by using snow essence was something that Zick was not willing to expose even to the cat. He didn't want to reveal this secret until necessary.
'I should really explore the Lectic mountain region after I run out of snow essence.' Thinking this, Zick looked in front of him.
He could see an underground passage at some distance from him. It was exposed thanks to Levienel's last attack in the ending.
Walking to it, Zick started descending the steps with no hesitation.
'What is there to fear? I have two grandmaster-level assets who can take care of everything.' Zick would be delusional if he hesitated right now.
Zick thought of a few pieces of information from the novel: 'There were many people who were against forming an alliance between the two continents. I need to plot them to death at all costs!'
Zick put this matter aside as it was not the time for that now. Causing too many deaths could lead the two continents into a state of extreme unrest. There was no need for such a thing currently.
The Underground passage was illuminated by the yellow lamps attached to the wall. The three of them moved quietly, the cat and Levienel didn't care much about the loot, while Zick kept some expectation of getting an item that could increase his strength or potential.
'Though the Garcia family doesn't have a foundation as robust as the Melvix family, there must still be some very rare and expensive things in their treasury.'
'As the saying goes, the most trustworthy thing in the world is oneself, I have to increase my strength quickly. Relying on others is not good for me in the long run.' Zick didn't want to leave any opportunity behind, where he could strengthen himself.
Soon the group reached the end of the steps. A brown door with the Garcia crest drawn on it beautifully entered Zick's and the other's sight.
"Wait a second." The cat lifted its front paw lightly, and with a ripple in the door, suddenly a cracking sound rang out. Many magic circles appeared and then vanished as swiftly as they appeared.
Seeing the cat relaxing, Zickand and Levienel started walking toward the door. There was clearly a hole for inserting a key, but he didn't care and delivered a heavy kick to it. Without the magic circle, the door was just a normal enchanted item, with Zick's peak rank strength it was broken easily.
Bang! Crack-! The door went flying, exposing the bright light from within. The first room was filled with many kinds of gold and platinum accessories. There were mountains made of coins too.
The whole room was made of mysterious black brick.
With a wave of Zick's hand, All this entered his space ring.
"Hey! Leave something for me too...." The cat complained.
"What are you going to do with it anyway? In the first place, I can get you many high-quality wines with it." Zick had discovered the peculiarity of the cat, for some reason it was against killing humans.
'It still harmed humans while robbing wines though...' Zick's thought drifted away.
"I see, that makes sense. I will be expecting a feast after all this then!"
"Yeah, yeah." Zick concluded within him: 'Its intelligence is low as well.'
Zick and the others started walking toward the door at the end of this black brick room.
The cat broke the magic circle protections again. This time, there were many more magic circles compared to the first door.
Crack! the magic broke apart and degenerated in the air. Zick kicked open the door again and entered with Levienel following behind him.
This time a huge hall welcomed them. There were many weapons inside myriads' magic circle. They were positioned one meter apart from each other in perfect rows and columns.
"Can you disable all this magic circle?" Zick looked at the cat on his shoulder expectantly.
"It's no big deal." It lifted its hand, from which a black ray came out and spread all around the room.
Crack! Swish~
At once all the magic circles started vanishing one by one. Zick closed his eyes and concentrated, his consciousness searched every corner of the room. His eyes opened, finding what he wanted.
He walked toward the left corner of the room, a small red ring was laying on the ground there.
'To store this many things, my space ring is not enough, this one seems very high quality so it should be enough.' Zick bent his knees and picked up the red ring. It looked very beutiful, with a red jewel in the middle and the ring itself made of red and white metal. Some unknown letters were circulating within the red jewel too.
Putting it on his index finger of the left hand, Zixk sent his consciousness within it. He was shocked at once, the space within was more than 2000 Square meters!
"It's rare to see such a high-quality space ring. I've only seen a handful of them in my whole life." The cat looked at the ring with amusement.
Levienel added from the side too: "I haven't seen many space rings but that one gives out an extraordinary amount of mana."
"Well, let's continue then." Zick put all the weapons fallen on the ground within his space ring.
Walking toward the next door, Zick calculated: 'Including the sword, bow, dagger, spear, staff, and other things, I have 35 middle-rank weapons, 12 high-rank weapons, and 2 peak-rank weapons.'
'There are also 15 scrolls in which at least high-rank spells are stored.'
Overall, Zick benefited immensely, he could make a fortune selling this.
This was to be expected actually. Currently, Zick was eating away the whole foundation of the Garcia family, which has more than 500 years of history. They were one of the highest rank nobles in the Cravion kingdom.
'Let's see what I can get from the nest room.' Zick looked at the best room's door.