Chapter 422: 422
“If I’m not mistaken, we’re at what used to be known as an Acraepoid’s commercial building . ”
The wounded Level-2 sorcerer opened up his sorcerer’s robe and heedlessly pasted grey medicine cream on the huge patch of purple boil that was on his stomach . The grey medicinal cream was negating the effects of the dark purple aura as it became entangled .
The sorcerer drew in a cold breath with a huff . He dropped his sorcerer’s robe and stored the medicinal cream away like it was some kind of treasure .
“Caw? Does it mean… we’re rich!?”
Little Myna shrieked out in excitement . It seemed like it could not wait to plunder all of the treasures in this place . Beneath the Mask of Truth, Grimm too appeared to be joyful .
The resources needed to set up an experiment to observe the destructive energies was like a bottomless pit . One of the reasons Grimm came to this world was to pillage their wealth to support his future experiments .
“Hahahaha…”
Wicky was laughing raucously . The huge hammer in his hand rotated in high-speed and shrunk into a tattoo on his skin in a lively manner .
“Who’d knew we’d have such great luck . Master, are there any other resisting forces up there?”
A hundred meters away, a sorceress spoke in a low voice . “The treasure vault is sealed using an opposing infernal energy . To open it up according to the normal sequence, you would have to release the appropriate complementing infernal energy . ”
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh…
The party of more than ten Demon-Hunter Dark Sorcerers flew up to a huge door of an enclosed chamber . They found a place with four fingerprints . That must be where they entered the password using their infernal powers .
There was a bone-chilling aura being exuded from the enclosed chamber . It felt like the coldness was about to penetrate into their bones .
Wicky was the most anxious one amongst the crowd . The essence of earth vein seemed to be of great concern to him .
Wicky placed both his hands on the wall and released a faint ripple . He was trying to sense the situation within the enclosed chamber .
“Damn it! Opening it up by force will trigger the self-destruct device within the room . This world had actually evolved to the extent of having such a device . ”
No wonder Wicky was taken aback .
In a world where the inhabitants evolved by practicing the Infernal Swords, though there might be some simple mechanisms, they would normally not reach this level of refinement .
In Grimm’s mind, he thought about how things went down .
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The Demon-Hunter Sorcerers must have found out about the treasures of this Flame Burrow by accident . Out of greed, they would not destroy it nor reach out to other Demon-Hunter parties for help . They would not tell others about this place and have their wealth watered down .
On the other hand, the Acraepoids did not wish to abandon their treasures as well . They would send in groups to repel them like what had just happened .
Beneath the Mask of Truth, Grimm’s pair of eyes lit up . The eternal flame was lit as he pressed his palm on the wall .
Huff…
The eternal flame was converging with the cold air . Quite a while later, Grimm retracted his eternal flame . He shook his head and gave up .
“To use up the energy reserve of the device inside through external forces would take up more than a year . It’s utterly impossible . Looks like we have to get a specialist sorcerer if we want to unlock this room following the correct sequence . ”
Thus, the sorcerers were surer than ever . There must be immense wealth waiting for them inside!
Was not the point of the sorcerer’s expedition to pillage the wealth of foreign worlds?
“Damn it, I have a friend who has great mastery in mechanical sorceries and elemental magical arrays, but I can’t get through to her right now . ”
A Level-1 sorceress grumbled .
In her anger, she pulled her long hair and violently bit into a green apple .
‘Can’t get through?’
In a flash, Grimm conjured up a Null World Stone .
As he was about to list out the conditions, Claudia walked gracefully and looked at the uninjured Level-2 Demon-Hunter Sorceress .
“Master, do you know where the corpse of the owner of this treasure vault is?”
There was a grass crown on top of the sorceress . She looked at Claudia and sensed the ripple of a Rank-3 Honor Badge . After pondering for a while, she pointed at a charred, dismembered remains in a distance .
“When we were occupying this place at first, the Level-1 Acraepoids were guarding this Acraepoid . But we hadn’t discovered the secret of this place then, that’s why we killed them without much thought . ”
Claudia nodded . With her tall, slender legs underneath her short skirt, she walked slowly towards the remains . She gently bent down and picked up a charred limb .
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“I’ll give it a try . If I’m successful, I want to have first dibs on the loot . ”
Claudia had a bewitching smile . Some of the sorcerers would be delighted by her smile and thought of her as friendly, which would make them relax around her . Some sorcerers would naturally resist her .
“Ok . ”
The crowd set their sights on Grimm . Naturally, the Rank-1 Honor Badge sorcerer was without a doubt the sorcerer with the absolute authority here and had the right to determine how the loot was going to be divided .
After giving consent, Grimm continued on, “I’ll take all of the essences of earth vein . ”
With a smile, Claudia gently placed the palm of the charred limb on top of the door . Pink scorpions that were the size of fingernails crawled up from Claudia’s skin and burrowed themselves into the charred limb .
A while later .
Nothing happened to the enclosed treasure vault, yet Claudia flashed a confident smile . She started to chant some incantations . A negative energy that belonged to the occult of life and death started to fill the air .
Buzz…
Kachak, kachak, kachak…
It looked like the charred limb was given a second lease of life in Claudia’s hand . The hand injected a weak sequence of infernal energy into the door which matched perfectly with the cold aura . After that, the sound produced by the friction between metal chains could be heard .
Rumble!
The door to the treasure vault had been opened . The crowd could not wait to look inside . Everyone, including Little Myna, was stunned .
“Caw caw caw, cawcawcawcawcaw, we’re rich, rich, rich…”
Little Myna was salivating . Crystals of various colors filled its eyes, as well as hundreds of thousands of soul essences, wonderful ores, and exclusive broken branches . There were also small containers that were filled with various precious liquids .
“Wow! This… this is the Wood of Traverse! A legendary precious wood that could be used to communicate with the traveling fires!”
A Demon-Hunter Dark Sorcerer walked up to the long wood and could not contain his excitement . Although he wanted to make it his own, he did not do so due to the Dark Sorcerers rule .
Wicky rushed excitedly in front of three small containers that were filled with black liquid . Beneath his metal helmet, his eyes were fixated on them .
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Certainly, those were the essences of earth vein .
Grimm walked past pieces of level one and level two crystals . After stopping at some precious-looking level three crystals, his eyes were attracted by some of the natural elemental souls amongst the hundreds of thousands of soul essences .
For the Acraepoids, there was not much distinction between natural elemental souls and normal souls . They had all been distilled into essences by some special means and lumped together!
The rest of the Demon-Hunter Sorcerers soon realised this as well . Two of them set their sights on the floor .
“Huh!”
A black metal caught Grimm’s eyes . He was astounded as he mumbled,” Mysterious Metal… they even have this in this world?”
Lefay’s grandfather was a great Level-3 sorcerer . He had clearly said before his passing that those who could unlock the secrets of the Mysterious Metal would one day become a distinguished sorcerer .
Grimm then found out that the metal could induce mysterious forces by melding with flesh . Although it was great, it was not earth-shattering .
Claudia stopped in front of a huge ember . Her eyes were fixated on an insect about the size of a palm that was sealed in the ember . She appeared to be contemplating about something .
A while later .
A Level-2 sorcerer appeared to have sensed something and abruptly said to Claudia, “Close the door to this treasure vault . ”
“Huh?”
Claudia came to from her deep contemplation . She suddenly thought of something as well . Kachak, kachak, kachak . With the sounds of metal chains, the huge door of the enclosed chamber was shut off in a rumble .
“Looks like we’re gonna have to move fast to distribute the treasures before they destroy this Flame Burrow . Heehee, I’ll take this . ”
As the sorceress who unlocked the room, Claudia was the first to pick out a treasure . She chose the mysterious piece of ember .
Grimm chose to have the black metal and a few pieces of natural elemental souls . He also quietly stored the three bottles of essence of earth vein . The rest of the Demon-Hunter Sorcerers too started to loot the treasures for themselves without stopping .
Everyone was overjoyed by the huge windfall .
A while later, a rumbling sound came through, shocking everyone in the enclosed chamber . Grimm called out loudly, “The Flame Burrow is about to collapse, it’s free for all now!”
Everyone was prepared for this . With Grimm’s words, they manipulated the nature force to move the treasures around them . Grimm and Little Myna tore open dimensional gaps to store the huge piles of crystals .
Rumble…
Before the Flame Burrow collapsed completely, the group rushed out in haste .
Grimm looked at the collapsed rubble in a pitiful manner . In the final moments, quite a huge portion of the treasures had been destroyed after the group broke through the enclosed chamber .
It was the terrible nature of the Dark Sorcerers .
They would rather destroy the wealth than to share them with the other Demon-Hunter Sorcerers that would arrive later at the Flame Burrow .
After looking at each other, the sorcerers wiped away their joyful expressions and reverted back to inconspicuous members amongst the millions of Demon-Hunter Sorcerers .
As the beneficiaries of the Demon-Hunter expedition, the wealth derived by the chance discovery had far exceeded the average income of the other Demon-Hunter Sorcerers .
The sorcerers turned and left .
Grimm took out two out of the three bottles of essences of earth vein . Calmly, he said, “Twenty-eight grams in total . ”
“Hahaha, good, here’s twenty-eight Sorcerer Essences . ”
Wicky seemed delighted . With his big hand, he took out a lump of Sorcerer Essences from his sleeve and broke it into a smaller portion . He handed over the essence to Grimm in exchange for the essences of earth vein .
On the other hand, Claudia was melting down the outer portion of the mysterious ember with nature force .
After storing away the Sorcerer Essences, he took a look at Little Myna who was very much delighted, so much so that it was on the verge of insanity . That little guy took as much as Grimm at the last moment .
Grimm had always been suspicious . Perhaps this little guy had accumulated an obscene amount of wealth, hidden somewhere in the depths of the dimensional gap, unspent due to its scrooge nature .
“Alright, let’s move on to find Solumn and Millie . ”
Grimm led the group ahead on their journey .
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