Chapter 117 – Tomb Raiding (2)

Behind Sun-woo crossing the underground plaza, Alda’s calling voice could be heard, but he didn’t stop.

It was a voice with many curious things, but he left the burden to Caroline. Couldn’t waste time getting caught for no reason. No, he moved faster worried about getting caught.

The opposite passage from where the prince’s party entered, behind where the dragon lay, several small passages smaller than the main passage were connected like a maze.

Originally it looked like a passage difficult to enter with various magic, but now that the dragon owner died, all magic stopped working.

Though stopping magic didn’t seem to make the frantically twisted maze easy to pass through, it didn’t matter to Sun-woo.

Earth spirits crossed underground showing the way and Sun-woo continued running through shortcuts.

Shortly after, Sun-woo arrived before a massive door carved with dragons.

Only this cave located at the innermost part couldn’t be grasped even with earth spirits.

Just seeing the splendid door filled with jewels, the possibility didn’t look bad.

“As expected, won’t let me in easily.”

Unlike other magic circles released after the dragon died, the magic carved on the door was still alive.

Sun-woo frowned seeing the magic circle floating above the door.

He checked the magic circle with newly obtained [Boundary Magic], but it was completely different magic from what he saw in the secret passage.

“Should call it biometric security device.”

If the magic seen in the secret passage was made of a kind of code, password, this magic circle was a method that opened by recognizing a single object.

The secret passage was encrypted so incarnations besides the dragon could travel, but this place was set up so only the dragon itself could enter.

“Ugh, then there’s no answer.”

The dragon already died so there was no way to open the door. Moving that massive corpse was close to impossible.

But couldn’t just give up either. Sun-woo decided to check past records.

He raised one hand and carefully approached toward the door.

Gigi-ging!

Then before Sun-woo’s hand touched the door, the magic circle began moving.

“This! Even approaching isn’t allowed?”

Sun-woo tried to quickly pull out his body, but rather his body began being dragged toward the door.

Simultaneously magic circles and summoning circles revealed themselves on the floor and walls. Defense devices began moving.

Sun-woo urgently drew up inner strength. Didn’t know what would happen if dragged like this. But Sun-woo who drew up inner strength suddenly couldn’t come to his senses from inner strength being sucked to one side.

Inner strength continued being sucked toward his pants pocket.

Woong!

Simultaneously light began coming from the pocket. No, light from an object inside the pocket pierced through the pocket and came out.

Sun-woo urgently searched the glowing pocket.

What was glowing inside the pocket was the dragon heart extracted from the dead dragon.

The dragon heart was continuously sucking Sun-woo’s inner strength, and magic circles appearing on walls and floor were stopped just before activation.

“Does the magic circle get confused because it’s the house owner’s dragon heart?”

Would have been nice if it recognized this dragon heart right away, but didn’t seem to be that extent.

Moreover trying to slowly back away, the stopped magic circles showed signs of moving to attack.

“Attack when backing away and get attacked when inner strength is all sucked?”

Converting inner strength to sorcery and blocking with earth walls seemed like he could somehow survive, but then the treasure vault before his eyes would definitely become pie in the sky.

Sun-woo with hardened expression divided the inner strength being sucked in half and activated another skill.

‘Illusion technique!’

That moment, the Green Dragon that died just before appeared before the door.

The dragon’s appearance was translucent and even rippling, looking like a hologram to the eyes. But the dragon’s mana was intense, so its presence was certain as if really there.

Clang! Clang!

Fortunately Sun-woo’s calculation wasn’t wrong. All magic circles appearing on walls and floor disappeared and the massive iron door began rising upward.

Sun-woo immediately took out a potion from inventory, drank it, then jumped inside the iron door.

“Wow!”

Sun-woo who entered inside raised his sword and examined surroundings. And he had no choice but to burst out an exclamation without knowing.

Inside was a considerably large underground plaza where dragons could enter, with gold coins, silver coins, and various jewels scattered all over the floor.

Gold, silver and jewels sparkling by walls glowing with magic dazzled Sun-woo’s eyes and made his heart race.

But Sun-woo immediately calmed his excited mood. The jewels before his eyes were completely useless.

To take objects from here back to the world he lived in, he had to use 1,000 points to itemize them. Had no capacity to care about gold coins or jewel scraps.

Sun-woo first put the dragon heart in his hand into inventory. As expected, forcibly contaminated objects entered inventory without itemizing.

Like with the <Contamination Spreader> before, why this happened was a problem to investigate later.

Then it happened. The Summoner’s voice was heard.

[Will close reward window in 5 minutes.]

As expected, keeping the reward window open continuously was impossible. Sun-woo immediately clicked the reward window to additionally purchase <Item Transformation Stone>.

Not much time remained now. When the reward window closed, would definitely be forcibly summoned shortly after.

Sun-woo immediately began rummaging through the mountains of gold and silver.

As expected, various objects showed themselves among the jewels.

Necklaces, rings, beautiful accessories decorated with jewels and antiques. Probably objects made by races the dragon dominated or stolen from humans.

<Highest grade necklace made by dwarf craftsman>

<Ceremonial tableware made in ancient empire’s royal workshop>

<Sculpture made from elf wood>

They looked beautiful and precious, but these weren’t what Sun-woo was aiming for.

“Found it!”

Sun-woo who rummaged for a while finally discovered several boxes buried in jewels and gold and silver.

Fortunately these boxes weren’t locked so Sun-woo opened the boxes immediately.

“Whew!”

When the boxes opened, Sun-woo narrowed his eyes and whistled. The objects he wanted finally appeared.

<Water Staff: Magic staff made from branch obtained from tree of life by high-ranking elf mage>

– Aqua Ball

– Water Cutter

– Water magic enhancement

<Lightning Spear: Spear completed by ancient empire craftsman mixing metal obtained from meteor>

– Mana amplification

– Mana acceleration

<Iron Wall Shield: …>

The boxes contained various weapons and accessories.

Unlike objects rolling around outside, they had no jewels embedded or emitted beautiful light, but in the phone camera they all boasted their skills.

All were magic items.

Normally he would check phrases and skills one by one for a long time, but regrettably now there was no such time.

Sun-woo roughly flipped the boxes dumping objects inside onto the floor. Then swept through the dumped objects with the phone camera.

“First exclude things with only common-looking skills, and also exclude things I can’t use.”

Companions who traveled together briefly came to mind but he immediately shook his head. His own nose was three feet long.

Holy relics emanating sacred energy flew backward, and swords said to give qualifications of throne succession were thrown aside.

Organizing quickly like that, eventually four objects remained before Sun-woo.

Two accessories and two weapons.

<Lich’s Summoning Ring: Summons registered life forms from other dimensions>

– Summoning

– Mental defense

– Affinity enhancement

<Magic Earring Degate: One of ancient empire’s 5 great treasures>

– Mana amplification

– Physical ability enhancement

– Mana barrier formation

– Spatial movement. Possible once per week

<Empire Royal Divine Sword: One of ancient empire’s 5 great treasures>

– Self-generating mana

– Form transformation

– Ancient kingdom swordsmanship

– Mental spirit ego

<Evolution Bracer: Bracer with defense magic engraved by beginner mage. Gradually strengthened through long use. Extremely sturdy.>

– Enhanced defense magic

– Ego generation

The <Item Transformation Stones> he had now were two, wanted to buy more but points were insufficient. Eventually had to choose from these four.

Flashy earring and sword, and plain ring and worn-looking arm bracer. The earring and sword were among the 5 great treasures of the destroyed ancient empire, incomparable to other objects both in appearance and skills confirmed by camera.

The additionally chosen skull-shaped <Summoning Ring> was because of the summoning magic just obtained.

Though he obtained summoning magic, there were too many steps to prepare for summoning life forms from other dimensions, summon them, then contract afterward.

But with just this ring, he could summon life forms registered in the ring while skipping such steps.

The last old leather bracer taken out was chosen because of the unique property called evolution.

Since other objects couldn’t match the empire’s 5 great treasures anyway, he chose something not in other objects.

Time kept flowing. Sun-woo who was seriously conflicted first chose the ring between ring and earring.

The two accessories with different directions couldn’t be ranked superior or inferior, so eventually the decision was made by choosing the less embarrassing one.

No matter how he looked, the dangling earring that seemed for women was too much for Sun-woo to wear around.

After putting the ring on his hand, this time he held the bracer and divine sword in his hands.

Holding the two objects in his hands, he could roughly reach a conclusion, but he began injecting mana into the bracer and divine sword.

Because he was curious about the skill called <Ego> contained in the two objects.

The ego descriptions attached to the divine sword and bracer said reactivation was possible by injecting mana.

[Wow! Mana tasted after a long time! Nice to meet you!]

The first to react was the divine sword. The somewhat dim sword shone brightly then a voice was heard in Sun-woo’s head.

[You’re not a dragon. Seeing you’re human, perhaps a hero? I am divine sword Ares. Greetings to the new master.]

A clear, clean female voice was heard beautifully.

Hearing the voice, Sun-woo could understand what <Ego> was. Seemed to be a ghost attached to objects, or objects with self-consciousness.

‘Hmm, should think of it as a smartphone with secretary AI function?’

Then reaction also appeared from the bracer side that had no reaction until now. Regrettably the bracer didn’t change and quite stiff voice was additionally heard in Sun-woo’s head.

[Who. Is. This? Where. Is. This?]

Seemed this ego wasn’t a proper ego.

But Sun-woo had no particular complaint about the stuttering voice. Was just curious so checked anyway.

The divine sword’s ego continued introducing itself.

[I can transform into various weapons just by master’s thoughts. Sword, spear, shield, if there’s no mass difference, combat is possible with various weapons just by master’s imagination.]

Probably explaining as a kind of manual or tutorial concept.

[And I help master acquire kingdom swordsmanship. From posture to mana flow, and training, I can teach as if experienced.]

Seemed this was why swordsmanship was attached to the sword’s skills.

[Reward window closes. Will be summoned in 30 seconds.]

Seemed time was up. Sun-woo looked at the bracer and divine sword in his hands then threw one backward.

[Eh?]

A bewildered voice was heard from the divine sword rolling on the floor.