All storage rings were secured with what was called Soul Bond by their owners. So the only way to access an owned storage ring was either by permission of the owner or make sure the owner was dead.
For an existence called magus, the death of the physical body was not real death as long as their spirit soul still existed. Hence, of the 11 storage rings the group had, only one could actually be opened as only one of the elf magus’ souls was destroyed in the battle.
One way to open the rest of the storage rings was to destroy all the spirit souls the group had in their possession, which any sane person wouldn’t recommend as it was frankly a foolish idea considering spirit souls of elf magus could be redeemed for rewards on any Magus Alliance headquarters.
Another way the group could do was to find a good formation master to break the soul bind. However, this choice was something that would be very costly to carry out, especially with these magus-level soul bindings.
Both ways evidently had their own drawbacks, where ultimately the group had to sacrifice something. But fortunately, with the ring owners’ spirit souls in their hands, Emery and his friends possessed the best way to unlock the restriction.
Without wasting much time as the group was already drowned in anticipation, Klea happily went into action and showed how it was done.
With the owner’s spirit soul in one hand and the ring in the other, Klea proceeded to manipulate the unique energy within the spirit soul and compelled the soul resided within to open their own storage ring, and because they were only in a spirit state, the soul of these magus were only able to put up very weak resistance to her attempts.
“Open it, please… Yes, thank you!”
Klea only needed to use her spirit reading ability, and a few minutes later she was done.
As the difficulty increased in proportion with the cultivation realm of the magus, the group started their series of openings with the easiest to unlock, which were the seven storage rings belonging to the Crescent Moon magus.
One by one, the bindings on the rings were broken and they were free to be accessed. The group excitedly peeked inside the storage ring and when they saw what was inside, surprised expressions appeared on their faces as broad smiles of satisfaction graced their lips.
“We are rich!!” Thrax exploded excitedly, laughing maniacally.
Each of the storage had hundreds to thousands of red and yellow spirit stones – ranging from 50 thousand to a million spirit stones, and if the values of all of the spirit stones were added up, the number could reach a total of 3.1 million spirit stones.
Not only that, there were also many valuable objects, such as Tier 4 and Tier 5 artifacts, weapons, and armor. There was even a gallery of life-saving items displayed inside. Even though most of them were based on the dark elf’s proficiency; metal, fire, and darkness, it didn’t remove the fact that all these are such a fortune.
As the group emptied the seven rings of their contents, there were also hundred miscellaneous items, pills, scrolls, and potions. They quickly gathered all the items, and put them together on one ring to be analyzed later.
Now that the 7 Crescent Moon magus rings were successfully looted, Emery and the others smiled as they looked at each other. Excitement was clear on their faces as it was time for the next one.
“Alright then. Next, Half Moon storage rings! ” said Thrax with palpable anticipation.
Hearing those words, Klea moved to open the three storage rings belonging to the Half Moons. Unlike before, it took her a pretty decent amount of energy to unlock the rings even though she already had the magus spirit soul at hand. The time spent was also much longer.
The first one she managed to open had a few hundred red stones worth tens of thousands while the second one had close to 2 million spirit stones, which made Emery and the other three boys’ eyes wide open. Their mouths were drooling as they glimpsed upon the wealth before them.
Added with the last one belonging to the Half Moon magus Kasin, the spirit stones collected from the three totaled up to another 2,8 million spirit stones. The number was beyond their expectation, and it really made them feel their struggle wasn’t in vain.
The same thing also with the number of artifacts, the combination of the three rings exceeded the previous seven.
Of the mountain of precious objects, there was one thing that had attracted their attention and interested them the most the moment they lay their eyes upon it. It was the magus level Tier 6 artifact, a pitch-black dagger with a bronze handle.
[Shadow Bane]
[Tier 6]
[Length: 54 centimeters, Weight: 13 kilograms]
A thick dark aura flowed out with the dagger like a gushing river as it was brought out of the storage ring, as if it originated from the underworld in myth. Even though they were all spooked by its appearance, desire could be seen in their eyes when they sensed how powerful it was.
Tier 6 was indeed very valuable, something that’s uncommon to have even among magus and anyone would really want it, including Emery.
It might just be a small weapon, but since it was classified as a Tier 6 item, it was still worth at least a few million spirit stones. But of course, the group wouldn’t just choose to sell an item of such quality.
Next, as his consciousness slid into and went through Magus Kasin storage ring, other than rare valuable artifacts, Emery also found plenty of apothecary items, ingredients with hundreds of blood tubes, and obviously research items.
Among the apothecary items, he was startled when he found a unique-looking book. It was a manual, and the title made his eyes pop out of their sockets as he read them.
[Orcs Breedings Manual]
It immediately hit him that Kasin was the leader in charge of this project, hence the man must be involved in the creation of the Orc lair. Even with just a glance through the manual, the contents he skimmed through were able to shock his mind.
From the book, he found out there were instructions on how to modify blood with the help of natural energy within earth. It was something that was new and eye-opening for him, and of course it had piqued his deep curiosity.
As he read more, inspirations came to his mind like a waterfall. He couldn’t help but hope that this research would be able to help him to improve the Metamorphosis skill.
“Let’s now check what’s inside the last ring!”