Chapter 108 108 A strange box
[El's POV: ]
"Yawhhh~. 'Key. This one's done."
It didn't take long to destroy this nest and kill these blood lion kittens and defeat the last of their boss, leader, elder, father, and fucking whatnot but he was a good-looking (Level-90) red cat so he wasn't my type.
'But this is still shit though, yak.'
They were called blood lions, yes, but why the hack did they burst like a balloon filled with blood when killed?! My clothes were stained with their shitty impure blood, ughhh!
There was blood all around me, a lot more blood than we usually have after doing a mass genocide. And I didn't like this even though it had been fun killing them.
-Snap!
Clearing the stains off my clothes with some water, wind, and minerals, I took out a pair of gloves from my storage space.
"Haaaa… the loot is still loot though. I shouldn't say no to these useful things."
Blood lions were some of the few creatures that dropped something after their death, not items or things like that but some of their biological materials that get left behind after their death.
'It's better to say all the creatures in the 'semi-non physical' category gather all their life force into a certain part of their bodies before dropping dead, the same way some of the energy beasts gather all of their total energy and condense it into the form of an energy core.'
It's a natural process and these things can be used in the creation of some other good things, plus, as they were lions, a kind of rulers, there were some pretty things from their previous prays laying all around in this dan of theirs.
'Let's see…'
Collecting stuff from a pool of blood wasn't an easy task. Definitely not. Yak. Would have loved it if it was pure blood though.
Especially his, hehe.
"Claws, teeth, essence, I see a few eyes and rare drops of skin as well. There's also six stat stones for Mana and stamina so this little harvest seems to be good."
Hmm. Not bad actually.
'I got thirty good things in total… and the stat stones will go to their unique storage as usual.'
All the creatures in the Worldline had a chance to drop a stat stone that increased a certain stat by one to three points depending on your luck. However, one can only use a stat stone when the strength of the state it has is greater than or equal to the strength of the stat the user has.
'We had hundreds of stat stones piled up after spending years of our lives hunting in that forest but, since the strength of our stats was so high, we were going to wait until we area ready for the second stat awakening to increase them all in one go.'
That was the plan, and after we do that, we should be strong enough to take on creatures tens maybe even a hundred levels above us easily.
"Then the ride to the next stat awakening should be pretty easy- hmm? What's this?"
I was gathering stuff around a small cave some distance away from where I killed the last guy and among some attractive gold and jewels and random stuff, my eyes fell on a unique metallic box.
'White eyes.'
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[Storage safe]
-> A storage device with 12 cubic meters of inner storage.
-> It is made with advanced dwarves technology and there seem to be hidden markings on it.
(Infuse an appropriate amount of Mana to reveal the markings.)
-> The storage safe seems to be in a locked state and requires the 'key' to unlock it.
(The items inside cannot be determined due to interference of a unique power.)
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"Oh? Interesting…
I didn't know I would find something like this in this simple place. Lucy never mentioned there was something like this over here.
Ah, did it say it will reveal something if I infuse Mana?"
-Oooooong.
I infused some Mana into the device and, though there was no reaction at first, after a continuous Mana infusion, the silver metallic box glowed with blue light, some unique magical patterns that seemed to be enchantments appeared all around it too, and on one side, a familiar insignia materialized on its surface.
"Theocracy… no, looks like this is something directly related to the pope."
A unique cross with a symbol containing twelve major constellations of this planet in the back. Something that directly revealed the pope's authority.
'He's another bastard we will have to kill within a few years or so but he isn't an opponent we can defeat at our current level.'
Not only was that bastard a master of holy and light sorcerer but if not for the existence of <Saint of purest light>, he would be considered one of the absolutes of this world.
'The temple…'
There were many known gods of this world and so were their followers, but the [Temple] was the main religious organization on this planet, and aside from the theocracy of cross of the western continent, there was a whole nation controlled solely by the Temple on all four continents under different religion leaders. However, the pope was a central authority and the highest position of this religion.
He was the proxy chosen by all twelve gods the temple worshiped and… the bastard was almost immortal with the current age of 1329 years. But he was still not the strongest.
"Dragoneel. My dear cute hotty."
He was a key figure in our plan that we needed as our own but for that to happen, we had to do many things, become criminals, then heretics, destroy a city, build a nation of our own, and show the world some miracles that only the gods are thought to be capable of.
"We have many things to do, haaa…"
Life was tough, the world was a bitch, things were tiring, and I was getting bored again.
This unique cube, or the storage safe that I just found was locked with a unique magical formation that was too complicated for any human mind to understand… which meant it was fucking too easy.
I can unlock it right now, but I should confirm it with Lucy just in case he knows something about this.
But the bastard was fighting another bastard like him right now, haaa…
"Anyway, let's go to the next place."
Storing the things here and the box in my storage space and collecting the remaining stuff, I walked towards the front entrance of the dan, which was blocked by a barrier with two strong-looking armored knights guarding two sides of it.
"Hello, gentlemen. Thanks for your good work."
The barrier they were using to block this place was pretty good, but it wasn't something that could block my path so after disabling it for a moment, I put it back as it was after I was out.
The guards didn't react to my genuine greetings though. They were cold bastards that just stood there like statues. Hump!
'They didn't care who was walking out of it. Their only work here was to stop anyone from passing through that gate. Nothing else.'
These guards were good when they weren't doing their work but when working, they were boring and mean like right now. Bastards!
"Heh, so, to the next location…"
Walking away on this lonely path of mine, I encountered some lone monsters and strong creatures but they were pretty easy to deal with.
I just killed them, walked forward, and looked around for treasures but for some fate-forsaken reason, the only good thing I got after that ring was a small crystal bead that can store a little bit of Mana, something I can use as an explosive.
But that was it, and all the students I encountered and defeated also didn't have more than a few points so it was just too bad and frustrating! Ughhhh!
'Defeating someone with no points gives a hindered points to the winner but if someone even has one point, the winner will end up with that one point, something that was happening with me right now.'
All the chicks and babies I met on my path to the deeper reagon of the labyrinth had one to ten points so I was at a loss here.
I had only gathered around a thousand points by the time I reached area <W>, and the top people were already playing on the field of tens of thousands at that time, the first person in the rankings being Rex as usual.
'He must be doing his auto farming so his speed of point gathering was extraordinary as is, but, I think he met Cathy from how she is ranked second and their score is increasing simultaneously.'
They weren't a team but were simply working together for the time being, which was a good thing.
They were acquaintances already and, it shouldn't be long before they become friends.
'I'm rooting for you two~. Become one and gimme my nieces and nephews~.'
AJ should also be fucking someone somewhere so it was fine as well, but that bastard will rise from the ashes during the last few days to hunt the remaining juicy prey.
It will be a fun show, but we should be fighting that bitch by that time.
"Hmmm… everything's good it seems."
There was nothing too big or out of place from what I can tell from the rankings, so it was going good… fuck! Then why am I still so far behind?!
Where were these people with higher points hiding?! Why the fuck is no one here?!
The last area I was in was filled with little babies, the area before it was practically empty, and even this area! There was fucking no one here as-
"Oh!"
Suddenly, I could hear some kind of footsteps from a distance away so I slowed down and waited for them, and, by the time their shadows were visible some distance away, I had recognized one of the footsteps coming this way.
"Hey Nes~. Looks like you are doing pretty fine~. Who is the person-"
"Hmmm? Is that El? El~!!"
Nes came running towards me with her usual joyous smile but, the person she was walking with, was certainly not someone I wanted around her.
"Oh? Is that someone you know Miss Agnes?"
He was a bastard even worse than AJ.
'Now I know why this area seemed so empty as well.'
It was all because of this piece of absolute fucking mosquito-shit, but now that he was before me, he will have to die, for real...
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