43 Magic Books and Gemstones Part 2 (2/2)
Saleen gave up the idea of bringing the armor. He simply couldn’t fit it into the Ring of Gifts. Looking back at Sika and Canghong, they likely had no energy to carry it either. If they didn’t find anything else worth selling, this armor would also be able to fetch a good price.
Saleen felt a bit better. In the end, he was still young, and after more than half of Canghong’s men had been killed, he was constantly afraid that this mission would not reap anything. In the eyes of Canghong, Saleen was a little weak. However, who knew how much longer this innocence would last in him?
Saleen smiled to himself and opened the box. In that moment, he felt all his innocence vanishing.
The box was filled with various gemstones, shining so bright that they hurt his eyes.
Calcite, chlorite, jade, zoisite, sapphire, benitoite, cordierite, kyanite, ruby, fluorite, rutile, amphibole, actinolite, nepheline, red halloysite, calamite, diopside, various quartz, pure crystal, tiger eyes, obsidian…
Almost all the gemstones that Saleen could identify could be found in this box. Saleen sat on the floor, shocked by the sudden happiness that had been granted to him.
Saleen grabbed a piece of calcite and observed it under the light, confirming that it was a colorless crystal. Calcite’s special coolness rushed through his bones, yet did not make him feel cold.
There was even tourmaline, the rare phantom-white and green quartz!
Saleen stared at them in a trance before beginning to shove everything into the Ring of Gifts. There was only around ten cubic feet of space in the Ring of Gifts and near the end, Saleen could only pick out the less expensive gemstones and place them in his pocket.
Should he share these with Canghong? Of course not! He wasn’t even a mage.
Saleen felt ashamed, but this was normal. Any mage who saw this many gemstones would have gone crazy as well. Inside the box, there was still adamantine, thorium, mithril, and cuprite. However, all of these no longer mattered. Saleen's eyes were shining even brighter than the gemstones. He excitedly got down to work.
Putting the most valuable gemstones into the Ring of Gifts, Saleen emptied out his bag and stuffed them full of gemstones. Even his sleeves and the spaces between his belt were stuffed full of gemstones. Looking at the remaining half of the boxes of gemstones, Saleen shouted.
”Sika!”
Within thirty seconds, Sika came with his side and asked anxiously, ”Chief, what’s the matter?”
”No, we’re rich!” Saleen pointed to the open box and started laughing.
Sika pounced on the box and grabbed a fistful of adamantine, shoving it into her bag.
”Take the gemstones first. The adamantine is too heavy!”
”I can carry them.” Sika disregarded Saleen and began her scavenging mission. What she wanted was gold, and after picking out most of the precious gold, she started taking the gemstones.
Canghong had been alerted by the commotion as well and rushed over with Sarah. Looking at the floor which was strewn with gemstones and precious gold, Canghong looked at Saleen. ”What are you looking at, pick them up!” Saleen shouted at him.
Canghong and Sarah immediately sprung into action, taking out a big leather bag and filling it mindlessly.
Saleen knew that there might not be another chance to return to this ruin. It was possible that the sacred Holy See was targeting the place, so if he could not take it all, he could not leave it for others either. He might as well let Canghong and Sarah have it. Bye, Sikeqinya. I’m off to the Qin Empire, and who knows when I’ll return.
In actuality, these gemstones had been worthless before the Second Dynasty. Back then, humans had been able to travel across parallel universes whenever they wanted, and some of these universes had contained a plentiful amount of gemstones. No mighty person would have thought of collecting these things, hence the abundance of gemstones being in the basement.
The four of them filled their bags to the brim and sat in a circle on the floor. Sika asked suddenly, ”Chief, how are we going to get out of here?”
This sentence left Saleen speechless. That’s right, how are we going to get out? This temple had once imprisoned a large number of supreme demons, proving just how unusually sturdy it was. Those twenty-five magic arrays…
Seeing Canghong looking expectantly at him as well, Saleen calmed down and said, ”We will ask that demon. It should know the exit.”
Saleen could not be sure that the magic array at the center of the altar was a teleportation portal. Would they really be able to leave from there? And, even if they managed to activate the magic array, would the hill cyclops still be outside?