BXBX NOVEL Chapter 356 Experiments (Part 2)
With the guide of Vincent's subordinate, Daimon and the girls soon arrived at the treasury, the Trident Marshal didn't give Daimon any key or anything to pen the magic reinforced door of the treasury, because there was no need to.
The two guards standing in front of the door saw Mellie and they bowed their heads.
"We the treasure guars, greet young miss Delphini, Lord Marshal told us you will visit with your friends, please just place your hand on the lock of the array".
Mellie has always had access to the personal treasury of Vincent, so she just placed her hand on the door and the magic array scanned her energy to confirm her identity, no one's energy firm was repeated, even twins wouldn't be exactly the same, so this was one of the best ways of to secure something.
The array illuminated for a couple of seconds, before the metal door whose width was of about four meters, slowly opened for her.
The guard nodded and then stood aside to allow the group to enter, Vincent's subordinate did a salute and then left.
Daimon and the others entered and the door closed behind them, unlike the treasuries Daimon has seen in the Revy and Argent clans, which are akin to those of royal castles, with tons of materials, weapons, spell books, secret records and other valuable things filling the room.
The Trident Marshal's treasury could be considered "boring", there were a bunch of troves filled with different gems of different properties, racks with a lor of storage rings which contained different amounts of sea crystals and a few minerals and ores classified as "unknown", medicines of different kinds and that was it.
Don't misunderstand, the amount of racks filled with storage rings was quite high, each ring could contain millions of crystals so the amount of wealth accumulated in this room was nothing to look down on.
Mellie saw Daimon's interested expression and she softly laughed, remembering the first time she came here.
"It's a bit strange right, all the weapons and raw resources, uncle seize from enemies or get as tribute, are used for the army where he says they will have a good use instead of just rotting behind a metal door, or being used to hunt talents".
Daimon chuckled, the previous clash he had with the Blackfin Duke made it obvious that the royal family has an steel grip over high ranked weapons and other resources, they are granted as prizes, but they come with strings, in other words those who accept them end up being tied to the royals.
The army and the royal guards are always in conflict due to that, it's worth mentioning that they royal guard is conformed mostly by members of the old noble faction, while the army is now practically influenced by the neo nobles, the king of course favors his own guards over the army.
And while there are nobles related to the army, they don't dare to give the soldiers weapons and other treasures, unless the king does it first, but there is an exception, the Trident Marshal.
Vincent's authority is high enough to not have to show face to the king in that aspect, and the king doesn't really care as long as it is only him doing it, it's managed as a situation where a retired veteran funds the army due to his patriotism, instead of a noble investing in the army.
"That old man is more cunning, than what he suggests", mumbled Daimon, making Mellie giggle.
'Daimon, there is a lot of mana crystals here~', Narasha's happy voice echoed through Daimon's mind, when Disaster absorbs energy from things, Narasha is also benefitted, so she was like a kid in a candy store right now.
Unfortunately, that analogy was true in more than one sense, while Disaster if left alone could probably keep absorbing energy forever, in truth, it would only make use of a part of it during a certain period of time, the rest will escape from the blade and be released on the atmosphere, in the form of that black aura with red borders that Disaster used to attack.
In simple words, Disaster was like a kid who eats more candies that what it should and gets and upset stomach, if Daimon doesn't restrain it.
'I'll give you some too later, once Disaster had processed the mana from the self-destruction array, okay'.
'Mm, thanks~', cutely said Narasha, despite Disaster's complains.
Daimon then grabbed a few dozens of rings, from the racks, sea crystals were used for anything on the Arch rank and above, and all the ones displayed in the rings in the racks are low quality ones, which are easy to find in the crystal mines.
So Daimon was sure the Trident Marshal wouldn't care about him taking them, he then went straight to the coffers that had random mineral ores tagged as "unknown", who knows he might find another one which is up to Disaster's taste, so he grabbed a few samples of the different ores that were just stashed there.
Mellie saw Daimon looking through the coffer of minerals that others considered just decorations and she found it amusing, she saw how happy he was when he ordered the magic beasts to find more of the Sea Devil ore for him.
"Is he always like that when it comes to materials?", she asked to Aisha.
"Yeah, that's an habit he took thanks to and old friend of the family", said Aisha referring to Liz, Daimon took a liking to magic blacksmithing due to Liz giving him the prototype of the magic gun, and Daimon turned out to have talent for it.
"I have everything I need, let's go back to the room".
Ignoring Daimon's words who could be misinterpreted, the girls nodded and they left the treasury, now that they have come all the way here they didn't need the guide of Vincent's subordinate to go back to their room.
Speaking of Vincent, he who was about to interrogate some of the pirates that were captured during the battle, he received a message on his mirror plate, one which said how many rings were deduced from the racks.
'That kid is merciless... but he does have a conscience', thought the Trident Marshal, as he entered the interrogation room, he was going to make the pirates spit till the last bit of information, to let out some steam, how could he ask money back from his own niece, he could only hope Daimon didn't empty his treasury.
...
Back at Daimon's room, he and the girls entered, Mellie and Jasmine had already shared a room with them, even spending a night on a bed next to Daimon's, so they didn't stand in ceremony and sat on the second bed with the Risha sisters.
Daphne doubted for a second but she joined Mellie and the others a moment later, Daimon and Aisha on the other hand occupied the other bed.
Daimon took out his two emblems and the necklace that the queen gave him, after listening to the story behind it, he originally was inclined to it being what asked for crystals in his dream, because it fulfilled one of the requirements of the mission he had in Neptune.
Daimon opened the mission tab and observed his progress, since he was declared the winner of the beast hunt it was updated, but he left it for later.
[Stealing from the hero (Clear Water Kingdom): the hero of light Adam was prepared the stage to find companions and allies in the Clear Water kingdom, but its way was blocked by the host at a critical part of the event].
[Objectives:
[Become well known among the four dominant factions (2/16) Ã )12/16)]
[It's too early for the host to show he possesses the system to other system users, proceed with the mission without being related to your public self (1/1)]
[Make a great entrance like a hero (1/1)]
[Win the beast hunt (0/1) Ã (1/1)]
[Win the three-art tournament (0/1)]
[Get the hidden gem to join your side (1/2)]
[Steal the legacy left to help the Hero of Light (0/1)]
'Mm, I still lack the second gem, the legacy, the three-art tournament and becoming more famous, well I guess not all the noble houses participated in the first event', thought Daimon.
And he was right, for example the family of the Minister of development, which is the only one with an status at the same level as Vincent's, outside of the royal family of course, and his subordinated families didn't go, it was common knowledge that Vincent and the Minister didn't stand each other after all.
With the three objects in front of him, Daimon was sitting on the bed, with Aisha sitting behind him, with her head resting on Daimon's shoulder as she curiously looked at what her son was doing.
"Okay, let's do this", mumbled Daimon, with a wave of his hand he took out a small mountain of sea crystals from one of the rings he took from Vincent's treasury.
The Risha sisters and the princesses also stopped what they were doing and looked at what Daimon was doing, then under their surprised eyes the incomplete lifeless gray Devil Emblem trembled and then slowly floated towards the crystals.
"Oh, so it was you, then are you perhaps like the emblem of the hero who had an ability even when it was incomplete...".
Daimon couldn't finish his sentence, because his black Sea Emblem suddenly flashed and then the head of the rune shark manifested outside of it, before Daimon could react, the jaws of the rune shark swallowed the Devil Emblem and the crystals too.
"What the hell", Daimon exclaimed, he could hear the crunching sounds coming from the snout of the rune shark, meaning the crystals and the emblem were both destroyed before the head of the shark returned to the black Sea Emblem.
But that wasn't all, the black emblem didn't become inactive like normal, but kept floating in front of Daimon, as if it was asking for more "food".
"Sigh, whatever, you better give me something, I was going to use that Devil Emblem", said Daimon as he took out a large pile of sea crystals.
This time the rune shark didn't appear, apparently it only did it so that it could eat the Devil Emblem, this time the thing just shone and all the mana contained in the sea crystals was absorbed by it, turning them into lifeless useless rocks.
Unfortunately, this was just the start of Daimon's nightmare, the thing kept asking for more food, and it didn't stop until Daimon had emptied about five dozen of rings, the thing then started glowing and rotating.
Mellie, Jasmine and Daphne were speechless.
"If I remember correctly, your grandmother has an Elemental Emblem, right Jasmine, what's its price like?", asked Mellie.
"Mm, I have seen granny using it, it's the light yellow Elemental Emblem, its ability isn't suited for combat though, but it can function as an artificial sun to help nurture crops and even magic herbs, as for the cost it's activation needs around two million low ranked sea crystals, then it needs one hundred thousand crystals to work for a month", said Jasmine.
Mellie nodded in response.
"Uncle's silver emblem turns into an armor, the activation cost is about ten million crystals, which is on the expensive side of the known emblems... but then it's been more than fifty millions and that thing hasn't activated".
Daimon was also in awe, only the activation costed so much and the thing also ate his other emblem.
'You better have some really incredible ability', he thought as he looked at the black emblem rotating in the air in front of him.
The thing stopped what it was doing and then it returned to Daimon's pocket, that's right, nothing else happened.
"...".
After a moment of silence, the girls nearly fell from the bed, while Daimon could feel a headache coming his way, he had his hands full with a "cheeky" treasure in the form of Disaster and he didn't want to deal with a second one.
But then, the unmistakable sound of a notification rang in his ears.
[Ding]
[A special mission has been created due to a specific action <!>]
[Listen and rejoice emblem bearers, the gates to Neptune's legacies will open in 7 days, whether a civilization survives or not, it will depend on the results of this life-changing event!]
[Special Missions]
[Global Raid: Those with at least half an emblem will be taken to the third layer of Neptune through the closest entrance, where they will have to face tribulations, and find their way out <!>]
Daimon clicked on the "!" icon and then the details of the mission showed.
[Reward: If the host finishes the mission without any casualties a copy of "The road to the Stellar level" will be granted, extra reward "Random Blessed Box (High ranked) if the host clears the raid]
[Penalty in case of failure (casualties in the raid team): The emblem will be destroyed, the Drakolevia and Black Armored lineages will be lost forever]
[Remaining review time: 7d 3h]
Daimon was in awe for a moment, if it wasn't for the system he wouldn't have known he will be dragged into whatever the third layer of Neptune is, the event was adapted to the system function and a reward was assigned, but it will happen whether he participates or not.
'Legacies... whatever was left for those two should be there, the timing is perfect too, practically after the banquet offered by the royal family', he thought as he accepted the mission.
[The mission has been accepted, the host has been assigned as a raid team leader due to the high ranked emblem in his possession, please find a proper party, (maximum middle Lor rank, each one must have at least an incomplete emblem) (0/20)]
Aisha could see the screen of the system since Daimon has allowed her to, and her eyes were glowing with interest.
'Treasure hunting with my darling~', she thought.
Daimon turned to see the princesses, he didn't want to participate in another meeting today, but he couldn't stay silent about the need of incomplete emblems.
"You three, ask senior Vincent, Aurora, the queen and the duchess to gather incomplete emblems, the type or ability doesn't matter we just need to get a lot of them, the price is irrelevant too, this concerns the survival of your respective seas".
The three princesses stared at each other, throughout the previous events at the beast hunt they never saw Daimon put on a serious or worried expression ever, but he was dead serious now, so they didn't take his words as a joke.
"Mm, leave it to us", they said.
Daimon wasn't being serious for nothing, the rewards actually told him more about the difficulty of the mission than the description itself, normally rewards are one level above the difficulty, in this case the first reward was a book with knowledge about the Stellar rank, meaning the dangers that they would directly face will at most round the Arch ranks.
But the second reward is what worries him, he'll get the first one just by returning alive without casualties in his team, but for "clearing" the raid, he'll get a high ranked reward, low ranked conforms the group of rewards that can be find in his galaxy of origin.
In other words, everything up to the Half Stellar rank, then middle rank rewards are those of ranks he has seen and knows off but aren't a thing in his galaxy, the Stellar rank basically, so to clear the raid he'll face a problem that should be handled by a Stellar rank.
The a high ranked reward is... something of a level of which the host hasn't heard nor seen before, it's normally the best reward given by the system, as irregular level things are normally growing type according to Evangeline, like his Core Synchrony which got stronger with each soulmate he got.