BXBX NOVEL Chapter 393: The Deal Pt.29
Chapter 393: The Deal Pt.29
The amount of speed Lake was able to use on his way to the next item made the trip much shorter than it would have been if the first item he had found hadn't given him Perception. It had though and by a lot so he had been able to increase the speed he could run by about 40%. The location of the next item seemed to be a town but he would have to go in closer to know for sure.
Entering the town Lake saw the direction the arrow glowed in change when he was near the middle of the town and looked back at the buildings he just passed. "Guild buildings." Getting closer to make sure this was actually where the item was, Lake also took the opportunity to see which guilds were in this town.
Reading through all of them Lake ignored both the Alchemist and Farmers guilds and settled his attention on the Blacksmith and Fighters figuring they had a much better chance of being where a piece of armor or weapon would be. "Now all I need is a name."
Taking his list out, Lake set Detector to highlight the name of the closest item and read the name of the 15th item down from the top.
Wilmur Estimated Lv.50
Unlike how its name sounded Wilmur was a piece of armor, a chestpiece that had only been added to the list because it had been in the Holy Domain and Lake had loosened the restrictions to be added to the list for things that were closest.
Putting Wilmur into Detector Lake saw something start to glow beneath the blacksmiths guild and used Mana Vision to see if it was currently on a person. When Mana Vision was unable to see the item at all Lake assumed there was a good chance Wilmur was currently sitting in a vault or just happened to be in an area that was encased by something that blocked mana but either way he decided to try to get to it.
If it had been earlier he would have probably moved on but with it being so close to him he couldn't help but think he could pull off this heist extremely quickly and without even needing to go inside if he did the right thing.
He needed to wait till no one was looking at him as well so gathering a bit more information while he waited to be unnoticed by the people around him. The first thing he looked for was a barrier because if Mana Vision wasn't working right there was a good chance the place Wilmur was in was surrounded by a barrier of some kind.
He needed this to not be the case for his plan to work so when nothing started to glow Lake smiled and set Detector to look for an enchanted vault. This ended up being the right one and something cube shaped that was in the same direction as Wilmur started to glow. "It looks big, there will probably be more than one thing here as well."
Lake wasn't sure why he had said this out loud because as soon as he did the amount of people looking at him increased by a lot. It didn't last for too long though because people weren't going to stare at someone all day just because they said something odd out of nowhere.
As soon as the last person had moved on Lake didn't waste a second of time and used Ghost Touch to slip into the ground. Once he was inside he turned the ground above him back solid so no one would fall into the hole he had just made leaving himself incased.
Not wasting any time since he was pretty sure he would run out of the small amount of air that was in here with him he started to head towards the vault that held Wilmur. He slowed down a bit as he got closer and used Detector to see if anyone was inside the vault because it was definitely big enough to hold a guard or something but when there were none he just made his move using Ghost Touch on the wall of the vault.
He had expected Ghost Touch to have a bit of trouble with the vault but he guessed whatever enchantments they had put on it weren't made to stop a skill like his because the wall was no harder to get through than the dirt around him. Slipping inside Lake instantly went towards Wilmur since it was his goal even though he could tell there were other items around that he might want to take.
Once he had his eyes on Wilmur Lake realized the reason such a great item was here unused, it had been damaged by a spell or maybe acid. This was a bit disappointing but he didn't leave it because there was probably a good chance Inner Vault could still make it useful for him. Switching it with one of the health potions in Inner Vault Lake turned and started to look at the other items around him.
There were actually a lot of other damaged things in this section and Lake was about to move closer to where he had entered the vault because the stuff there was in better condition but decided to look at a few things first because maybe there was a reason this stuff hadn't just been thrown away even though they were trashed.
Brutish Helmet Lv.43
Seeing the level Lake understood why these items had been saved, the forties were the current level max since the best blacksmiths had become the God of Metals Demigods and even if these items were damaged they had value as examples of good work. Grabbing a few damaged things without even checking what level they were, Lake set Detector to look for items over level forty while he put the newly stolen stuff in his bags Booster Bag space.
Lake was a bit sad when nothing that wasn't damaged started to glow and it made him think maybe he had been more right than expected when he said these things were being used to teach blacksmiths what you needed to do to make good items. He felt it was very possible that this guild branch was being used as some specialized school by the Blacksmiths guild.
Deciding to grab a few more small broken things Lake was leaving through the wall before he really needed happy with what he had taken. It was true that it was all broken but maybe someday when he finally got around to seeing whether Blacksmith was another Unique job he could fix it all.
Popping out of the ground a few moments after exiting the vault, Lake made sure to close the hole with Ghost Touch before heading out of town. Once he was out of town he pulled out an arrow and set Magic compass up to lead him to the next thing before opening Inner Vault to see what bonuses Wilmur was giving him.
Inner Vault
Contents
Lv.35 Health Potion (High Grade) X3
Lv.45 Small Juice Based Poison (Perfect Grade) X3
Lv.39 Credglin (Enchanted Mace)
Lv.54 Mizzly's Bow (Filled Soul Vessel)
Lv.46 Diadem Of Dripping (Uncharged)
Lv.48 Wilmur (Damaged)
Bonuses
+30 Health
+23% Natural Healing Rate
+Poisoned Effect (65 damage a second)
+40% Weight
+10 Strength
+10 Agility
+48 Perception
+32% Skill Range
+17% Water Affinity
+15 Intelligence
+Spell Raindrops
+34 Endurance
+20% Size Adjustment
It seemed the estimate on Wilmur's level had been a little high but it was still pretty close. It was just too bad the item was so damaged because even with a 2X multiplier to its bonuses it wasn't that great. He also didn't know what size adjustment was so until he figured out that particular bonus all Wilmur was doing was giving him a bonus to his lowest stat that he didn't even need.
"It's not like I spent a lot of time on it." He had probably only been in the town for twenty minutes and he had grabbed four other things so it had definitely been worth it. Taking Wilmur out of Inner Vault Lake put the other four items in one at a time to see if any of them would give him a more useful bonus.
Lv.43 Brutish Helmet (Crushed)
+21 Strength
+17 Endurance
+5% Damage Reduction
Lv.44 Glass Scepter (Cracked)
+12% Light Affinity
+32 Intelligence
Lv.40 Runic Dagger (Unknown)
Lake stopped for a while on the third one because it didn't give any bonus which he found weird because even random garbage gave a point or two in random stats. This made him think maybe this old rusty dagger was more special than it seemed so he made sure to put it away safely in his bag so nothing would happen to it before he had the time to really look at it.
Lv.42 Black Armor Shard (What's Left)
+6% Metal Affinity
+6% Dark Affinity
+5 Endurance
Lake wasn't surprised by how bad the last thing was because he had grabbed the two smallest things they had and this armor scrap was very small. It had probably been a piece of something amazing based off of its effects though so it was too bad it had been destroyed to such a degree. "Glass Scepter it is."
Lv.35 Health Potion (High Grade) X3
Lv.45 Small Juice Based Poison (Perfect Grade) X3
Lv.39 Credglin (Enchanted Mace)
Lv.54 Mizzly's Bow (Filled Soul Vessel)
Lv.46 Diadem Of Dripping (Uncharged)
Lv.44 Glass Scepter (Cracked)
Bonuses
+30 Health
+23% Natural Healing Rate
+Poisoned Effect (65 damage a second)
+40% Weight
+10 Strength
+10 Agility
+48 Perception
+32% Skill Range
+17% Water Affinity
+15 Intelligence
+Spell Raindrops
+12% Light Affinity
+32 Intelligence
The list of items would probably look very different by the end of the day but for around three hours of time he was already pretty happy with what he had. There was still no sign of his next mission from the Insider though so maybe he wasn't doing what it wanted after all.