Chapter 321: Precious New Treasure (1/2)

Since Drake didn't speak even after waiting for almost half a minute and just kept grinning as if he just won a hard-fought, challenging battle, Aiden couldn't hold back anymore and asked his friend with a slightly annoyed expression.

”Don't just grin like an idiot, speak up! What is this ring for?”

As if he was waiting for this exact question, Drake instantly burst into haughty laughter, guffawing boisterously. Galina was looking at the strange silver-haired human concerned for her Young Master's safety.

'This human must have gone mad…' She thought as she kept looking at him.

After enjoying his moment of joyous victory of finally pulling out something that could potentially amaze this monstrously strong friend of his, he finally calmed down and began to explain, keeping the wide grin plastered all over his face.

”Aiden, my friend… This is the item that got me inside the orcs camp in the first place! It's an incredible magical treasure! It has amazing abi-”

”Yeah, I could see it working flawlessly…” Aiden snorted, freezing the already prepared words in Drake's mouth, and causing his joyous moment to quickly sour back to the grounds of reality.

True, he ultimately failed, but the fact remained: The ring was a powerful treasure, almost at the level of the artifacts.

”Well…” Taking a brief moment to adjust his demeanor Drake continued with a much more cool-headed play. ”Although I ultimately failed, that doesn't change the fact that this ring is a powerful treasure, in fact, one of the strongest weapons in the kingdom!”

Sighing as the introduction was already getting annoyingly long and arduous, Aiden waved with his hand urging the youth to continue and get to the point finally. A look of wry annoyance was starting to settle in his exposure giving a bit more pressure to his friend.

”Fine, fine… I get it! At least let me enjoy the moment for a bit!” He grumbled but continued regardless. ”This small piece of gold jewelry is called the 'Ring of Masks'. It has the ability to change the wearer's look by simply injecting mana into it. To top it off, the illusion can last as long as you can keep up with the cost!”

Done with playing around, he pushed his hand in front of Aiden, nodding, motioning with his head to take it, grab it from his palm.

”It's a unique, one-of-a-kind item in the entire kingdom, at least to my knowledge. Take it Aiden and use it. Let this be my thanks for doing everything to save me…” Not used to thanking others, Drake had quite difficulty with expressing his feelings. Due to that, as he spoke, he averted his gaze towards the ground instead, his voice gradually lowered turning into senseless mumbling by the end.

Still, Aiden with his enhanced senses could clearly understand his friend. With a warm, kind smile, he grabbed the ring, nodding in response.

Taking a closer look, instead of waiting for Drake to once again collect himself enough to continue with the description, instead he turned to his guide, Enya.

'Enya…' He asked inwardly. 'Do you know anything about this item?'

The response was instantaneous and should have been expected by all the years behind him.

'[Please place the item into the System's inventory first so it can be analyzed.]'