Chapter 217 - False Belief (1/2)
After hearing the four remaining humans accept the second choice, Argentum could not help let out a light chuckle before saying, ”Truly a wise choice.”
Whoosh!
Since the four remaining humans have agreed to offer him valuable items and their knowledge of skills, Argentum saw no need to be up in the trees anymore, moving down to a distance decently far away from them before going ahead and disabling his polymorph skill, reverting to his original form, which shocked the four remaining humans.
Finally seeing the one that killed their three brethren in front of them, all of them could not help but look at Argentum with gazes of intense fear and anxiety, with their legs feeling like they're going to give in. Fortunately, they did not let their legs give in as they remembered that they had accepted the second choice, allowing them to go free as long as they just gave him what needed. There was no need for them to sacrifice their allies anymore.
Looking at the gazes the four remaining humans gave him, Argentum let out a chuckle once more before taking in a deep breath. He then focused his sense of vision onto the four humans before asking them, ”Let's start the trade, shall we?”
”First, let's start with valuable items,” Argentum soon added, to which one of the humans mustered up their courage and asked in response, ”By valuable items, you mean…?”
”The currency that you have on you right now,” Argentum said in response to the human's question. He then continued, ”Of course, the clothes and the equipment the four of you are wearing right now are also considered valuable items, but I don't have a need for them.”
”But currency is different,” Argentum added not long after. ”Currency has a fixed value anywhere you go. And so, that's all I'll ask from you four. All of your currency…and a pouch to put it in.”
Hearing Argentum's explanation, the four of them looked at each other with slightly confused expressions. The air that they felt from Argentum was vastly different from what they felt before. Although Argentum's words made a lot of sense since people had different classes and specialties, it did not have the murderous and sinister air Argentum's words had before. It was as if…the Argentum they were talking to right now was a different Wind Spirit altogether.
Even though the feeling they got from the current Argentum was different, all of them still knew how powerful the Wind Spirit in front of him was. And so, with the Wind Spirit's previous feats of killing in their mind, the four of them hastily rummaged through all of their pockets in their clothes for currency, eventually pooling a decent amount of currency. The four of them then conversed with one another as to who was going to give the Wind Spirit a pouch to hold the currency in, with one of them eventually giving his pouch to Argentum due to the reason that its design was quite exquisite when compared to the pouches of the others.
Receiving the pouch of money the four had pooled in with both hands, Argentum listened to the words of one of the humans as he said, ”Great Wind Spirit, unfortunately, the amount of money on us at the moment only equates to around 7 gold coins. I hope the design of the pouch appeases you.”
In response to the words of the human, Argentum went ahead and raised their pouch in the air, allowing him to get a better view of the design on the pouch. The pouch was made out of incredibly smooth black fabric while the string that bound the pouch complemented the fabric, being a dark gray color. On the fabric were engravings of animals and plants out of what seemed to be gold, giving the pouch an expensive feel.
Argentum closed his sense of vision for a bit as he pondered over something, hemming and hawing in the process. Hearing the Wind Spirit in front of them hem and haw, the four of them could not help but feel a bit of fear, wondering if what they offered wasn't enough. In their minds, they had a feeling that the Wind Spirit in front of them would kill them if what they gave was lacking.
Surprisingly, that did not happen at all as Argentum opened his sense of vision, focusing it on the four humans. He then went ahead and placed the pouch on the ground before saying, ”Give me your secondary weapons. As humans with fighting classes, you'd definitely have back-up weapons, right?”
”Although the amount of currency you've given is somewhat lacking, by selling your secondary weapons, it would allow the amount of currency on me to be at a satisfactory level,” Argentum soon added. He then continued, ”Don't you think giving your secondary weapons is far than being killed?”
At this moment, Argentum radiated an aura of cheerfulness, to which the humans felt hidden killing intent from. Of course, Argentum was not radiating any hidden killing intent at all, he was purely radiating an aura of happiness. The humans only thought that he was radiating hidden killing intent after what he had done to their brethren.
As slightly loud sounds resounded throughout the forest under the pale moonlight, the four of them hastily rummaged through their bodies once more, grabbing their back-up weapons as said by Argentum. A few seconds later, four distinct clang sounds softly resounded as four items fell to the ground near the pouch given to Argentum, allowing Argentum to closely look at what was given to him.
Unsurprisingly, Argentum was given four daggers of the same quality and size. He then looked at the four and felt that it was normal for them to be carrying daggers as secondary weapons. Daggers were quite a handy tool for humans wherever they went, may it be for killing or other miscellaneous tasks.
Just as the four thought that the daggers they gave him were not enough, Argentum let out a sigh of satisfaction before saying, ”Although these daggers are on the slightly inferior side of quality, they're more than enough to supplement the amount of currency you four have given me. That shall be all for valuable items.”
Hearing that the Wind Spirit was satisfied with what they've given him, the four of them could not help but let out sighs of relief as they looked at each other. Surprisingly, even though it seemed that the daggers they threw at Argentum were all they had, in actuality, they hid more back-up weapons that were of higher quality and price on other parts of their bodies. They just gave him the daggers that were on the side of their waists, thinking that Argentum would not be able to find out that they had other back-up weapons on them.
Ignoring what was going on in their minds, Argentum went ahead and grabbed the pouch and daggers with his hands made out of green energy, silently muttering what seemed to be gibberish to the four.
Whoosh!
As the four looked at what Argentum was doing, their eyes soon widened to a great degree after seeing that the items that they gave Argentum had disappeared into thin air in an instant. Seeing this, their fear of Argentum had subconsciously increased since it seemed that Argentum had more power than meets the eye.
Of course, the gibberish that Argentum was muttering was commands to the system, as well as questions regarding whether the system could keep these items inside some sort of inventory. Surprisingly, it was then that Argentum found out that the system actually had a small inventory inside it, allowing him to store the loot he had been given without a problem. With the items now out of the way, he then focused his sense of vision back to the four, making them feel a bit tense.
Nonchalant to what they were feeling, Argentum went ahead and said, ”With the valuable items now done, there is only one more thing left you four have to give me.”
”Your skills,” Argentum soon continued before letting out a light chuckle. ”So…who's gonna go first and share their skills with me?”
The four of them looked at each other in response to his question before all of them took deep breaths at the same time. Eventually, one of the four humans stepped forward and shared all of the skills that he knew with Argentum, increasing the number of skills Argentum had after talking about it with the human back and forth for a few times to solidify it. Not only that, but the human also went ahead and showed the skills in front of Argentum, allowing him to get a better idea of the skills that he had received.
With the first one now being done sharing his skills, he could not help but let out a sigh of relief as he radiated an aura of happiness. In his mind, he knew that he was finally going to be free from what seemed to be torture. Seeing the effect sharing skills had on their ally, the remaining three hastily moved towards Argentum and started explaining their skills and their uses. Of course, since the three were blabbering at the same time, to Argentum, it felt like he was listening to a cacophony of sounds instead of explanations.