Chapter 260: Planning For The Future And Meeting My... Future Fiancee?! (1/2)
Alma POV 5/5
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Since that day that Dagger was able to reveal to me what did my parents had that I haven't stopped looking through the library's secret room for an anti-magic artifact, but no matter how many Dagger absorbed, there wasn't anything like it.
Well, he got more energy out of it and gained more useful abilities, but they were nothing game-breaking, but were convenient and made him into a competent fighter.
There was an ability named Spatial Storage he got after absorbing a spatial pouch, so now he became spatial storage for my things.
Aside from that, we emptied this secret room which I had accessed by moving a certain book in the bookshelf, it was all filled with dust, so one had entered in that place for eons… I just hope I don't get found out… haha…
I had begun to snatch books and steal them this time, preparing myself for an eventual escape from Greenwood whenever I and my sister get captured.
This wasn't my idea, but Dagger told me that he could aid me at that moment, but for that, we would need to first prepare… Abusing his Spatial Storage, I began to steal all matter items I could find around.
As the princess, I had access to almost the entire palace, but there were magic barriers around the prohibited me from walking out, so I could wander all I wanted but not get out, the barrier would stop me and only me too… What a pain!
Well, I still did what I could, the storage had a near-endless capacity, it was a legendary artifact after all. I gathered books, gadgets, weapons, pieces of armor I found around, food, clothes, pencils, and… yes, magic cores!
Now that I could do whatever I wanted, I was able to collect mana cores however I wanted, or well, they couldn't give them to me explicitly but being able to freely move let me go around, there were usually a lot of mana cores in certain areas where large artifacts that fueled the palace with light were.
I moved underground until I found a large wooden box, it had over a hundred mana core! But if I take them all, it will be pretty suspicious, so I only took around 20. They were all Rank 1 or 2 and would serve as fuel for Dagger whenever he ran out of it from the artifacts he had absorbed.
They seem to be refilled every weekend, so I came every weekend to pick 20 of them, and sometimes I got greedier and took some more, it seems that it wasn't that noticed.
I had taken so many things I had begun to forget how many things we had, but everything was worth it anyways… I had decided that it was pointless to convince my parents, they were below some kind of spell, the only thing I could do is actually wait for my little sister to be born, grow, we go to Greenwood, we escape, survive, and find a way to destroy the spells on our parents to finally come back here to confront them… Hopefully, it can go as I want…
But you never know what might happen around the corner, everything is quite dangerous in this world… So I have to prepare even more things.
And how will I hide Dagger? Well, he has collected some abilities to help him with stealth, such as camouflage, mana presence negation, and hiding veil. I wish I could equip him and use him, but I actually can't without my mana being poured on him.