Chapter 256: The Black Witch’s Gift (2/2)

“Idiot!” Black lines filled Rinloran’s face once more.

“Whatever. I’m going to take a couple things regardless,” Stingham said as he ignored Rinloran.

“Be careful not to damage anything here.”

“Oooh, this looks pretty good!”

Just after Rui issued a warning, and before he could say anything else, Stingham had already quickly stepped forward and grabbed a box out from the below the desk.

“This is?”

Everyone’s expressions became astonished.

Because no one else had seen the box below the desk.

The box seemed to also be made of some beast’s bones. After observing it for a while, they could see an oily yellow light containing an inner red layer of light around it.

“This thing seems to be alright. So this will be mine!”

Stingham immediately opened the box. His eyes became fixated by what he saw within. It was an oval, milky yellow crystal. A faint light flickered within as a weak scent diffused outward from it.

Stingham immediately went to pick it up.

“Ouch! It hurts! Why?!” Stingham cried in misery the moment the crystal touched his palm.

The crystal had suddenly grown a mouth and taken a very painful looking bite out of Stingham’s palm!

But what scared him even more was that this milky yellow crystal remained attached to his hand even when he subconsciously shook his arm through the air, as if it had merged with his hand.

“Just what is this thing?”

Everyone present was completely shocked.

They watched as the milky yellow crystal quickly turned gray, as if something was flowing out of it and into Stingham’s body.

Crack!

A couple moments later, the milky yellow crystal abruptly shattered and turned into a cluster of dust and fell to the ground.

Ah!

Stingham’s entire body began trembling.

By now, his entire right arm had turned the milky yellow color as he felt a burning sensation spread from his arm across his entire body.

“Just what kind of strange thing is this?!”

Stingham discovered that he currently couldn’t move a single muscle. Every single strand of his flesh seemed to be twitching as if there was a force squeezing in order to form new things.

“How come it feels like his aura has gotten stronger?”

“Could the crystal have contained the bloodline of some legendary divine creature? And this fellow accidently obtained it?”

These were the first thoughts which emerged in everyone’s minds as they watched the scene unfolding before them

“Ah!”

Before long, Stingham’s entire body stiffened for a moment as the abnormal changes occurring within his body seemed to stop.

Afterwards, his body quickly returned to normal.

“How do you feel?” Rui hastily asked.

“Like I’m about to die…” Stingham bitterly replied as he looked like he was about to cry.

“About to die?” Everyone’s expressions changed.

Stingham had a long face as he continued, “I feel like there is an extra materialization esque energy within my body. But the sensations just now were truly too unbearable.”

“As of right now, it only seems like a materialization esque energy has appeared within your body?” Rui suddenly felt relieved.

“You idiot. We thought you were truly about to die!” Rinloran felt an urge to kill Stingham rise within him once more.

“Why don’t you try using that energy,” Rui said as he regained his composure.

Stingham began to speak, but the moment he spoke his first word, his eyes immediately widened as he fell silent.

Streams of yellow and red light began to flow down his body like water as a yellow zombie looking existence wearing a red striped metal armor appeared before him. In a zombie like fashion, the creature contorted its body and hugged Stingham.

“Just what the hell is this thing?! Hurry up and get it off me!” Stingham shouted several seconds later with his eyes closed.