Chapter 28 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi_Bo_Studio  Editor: Nyoi_Bo_Studio

Ruhr, an orc robber, hoarded his treasures in an actually very secret place. His treasures were located in the depths of the Ashes Woods, next to a vacant space that bred skeletons.

In the Ashes Woods, there were places where it was so particularly easy to concentrate negative energy that it was empty and flat. Beneath the ground, the flow of negative energy would slowly transfer a variety of bones here, forming a huge pile of bones. Every night, it would become a large group of skeletons silently absorbing negative energy into the open space and becoming powerful.

This special terrain was called “skeleton pile”. When Sui Xiong just embarked on land, he studied such a “skeleton pile.”

The place Ruhr used to hoard treasures was located near a medium-sized “skeleton pile”. Whether looked at from the sky or on the ground, nothing special could be found. Only by using positioning magic could the coordinate be found.

Positioning magic was a very special magic which made a huge coordinate system for the vast land by combining horoscope and detection. In the system, each coordinate was a place. It was said that there were always people, who were studying the positioning magic, that included “height” in the calculation. That being said, so far they had not been successful.

It was somewhat inauthentic and complicated, yet it still was very popular. For one thing, it was very helpful for taking an adventure in the wild and adventurers could determine the direction by referring to the map. For another thing, it was very helpful for people to hoard treasures because it was almost flawless.

Before the locating magic was invented, treasure hoarders had to design some clear yet difficult-to-be noticed features for their hoarding places. This was indeed a technical job. It was unknown how many people had found the place for hoarding the treasures according to the map left by predecessors, but it was found that the treasures had been dug out by adventurers who passed by and found the traces. Some narrow-minded guys even left traps in those places, which turned out to be a huge trap for the adventurers.

But since the invention of positioning magic, hoarding treasures was much easier. People could make the place so featureless that a group of people could not find anything special even after searching for ten to fifteen days. Only by knowing the exact coordinates of the place would it be possible to find the treasures.

Compared with the predecessors who wanted to compete with future fellows, the treasure hoarders now would find it proper to make the treasure secret enough and then leave their children and grandchildren the coordinates and mining methods.

It was also the same for “Bloody Hand” Ruhr’s place for hoarding treasures, whose position was not a bit special. Even with the exact coordinates, Gerrard and others were somewhat confused when arriving at the location shown in the coordinates.

“This place doesn’t look special at all. Even if there were treasures, where could they be hidden?” Having carefully observed the surroundings, Palin could not find any trace of the treasures, so he could not help but be a bit skeptical, “Could the coordinates left by that guy be wrong?”

Of course, coordinates could not be wrong. Ruhr’s soul, once falling on Sui Xion, could be considered a book that could be read at any time without any hidden information. In addition, Sui Xiong had also told Gerrard all the information therein. He was even crystal clear about the accurate composition of the treasures. Then, how could the coordinates be mistaken?

“The place is right here, so you need to dig into the earth. When you are about ten feet deep below the ground, you will see a magic gear. Unlocking the gear requires Ruhr’s blood as a proof, so at that time we will have to bother Ryan.” Gerrard selectively mentioned the information, “In short, let’s start.”

Of course, they had no objection to this, and the three started mining.

Gerrard was infinitely powerful and he was the main workforce of mining. Ryan was experienced and could help with errands. As for Palin, he could only be responsible for the layout of the camp, so that everyone could rest well at night.

In fact, in accordance with the original intention of Gerrard, it sufficed to search for treasures himself alone. He felt that even if he was not that capable of doing that, he could turn to His Majesty Oscar for assistance and did not seem to need any help from others. However, Sui Xiong did not think so. He thought that Gerrard’s appearance now made him an outcast of the society and that if he did not work hard to develop some social relationships, sooner or later he must become a hermit master who was left behind and independent. Like creatures such as giant dragons, Gerrard would also live alone in the barren land, where not even a ghost could be seen, let alone friends.

After all, humans were social creatures, so there was absolutely no fun in being around those creatures!

So he asked Gerrard to take Palin, who wanted to expand his vision. He also asked Gerrard to find someone to dismantle the magic gears by using excuses like “I’m so busy”. After all, he just hoped Gerrard could communicate with people more and know some friends.

In fact, he had been thinking about how to readjust Gerrard’s appearance for this period of time. This bald buddy, though not bald now, had an extremely cool appearance. Even if the issue of having no friends was not considered, such a big body also made it difficult for him to find a girlfriend!

There was a witty saying on the earth, “age, income, characters, and even sex life and death, etc. cannot stop love, but only the physical size is the glaring disadvantage”. Gerrard’s aesthetics certainly belonged to the human’s, so it was impossible for him to like ogres or mountain giants and other large creatures. If he wanted to find a girlfriend, he needed to be turned small again or have the ability to freely get bigger or smaller.

So after the good sleep, Sui Xiong had been working hard to study this topic. At this moment, if someone flew high above the ground and onto the huge floating jellyfish, you could see a muscle on the back of the jellyfish that was constantly changing its shape.

That was Sui Xiong, experimenting and studying the method of changing shape freely.