52 Onward. (1/2)

Lurk picked out the rest of the items from the storage chest. his eyes glimmered as he picked up a book and finally he saw what he had been waiting for in the menu once he looked at the title of the book.

[Elven Writing learned]

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[Book - Understanding Runes]

(Elvish)

common

paper

0 slots

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”huh... a book can get a rune slot too if it's made of good paper?... ” Lurk muttered to himself. He had now gathered enough attention from Resti and Sala who came over to look at what he was picking out of the weird dimensional hole in front of him.

”Wow! This looks amazing! What is it?” Sala looked above and below the flat glowing square floating in front of Lurk, seeing just a glowing field beneath and the chests contents from above. Lula making noises seemingly also wanting to see unable to see from the back of Sala.

”It is a magical chest, so far as I can gather from it... The chest here in front of us can be accessed anywhere via this ring” Lurk showed the new ring on his hand. Sala and Resti's eyes shined on seeing the amazing craft and the pretty looking gem.

”This is amazing Lurk! Such items are extremely rare! Only the elves and some of the greater mage kingdoms have these... I never knew they had a chest placed down somewhere though...”

”Yeah, that is a requirement for this ring. This entire room seems to have a beacon spell to allow certain things to connect to it here... I am not sure if the chest itself is a part of it... I would have to examine it a bit closer. But why would the elves leave it here unattended...” Lurk said picking up another book also written in elves, following by some scrolls that did not seem magical in nature, but merely contained some drafts for various items. The book though when he opened it had elvish words and numbers but it was not making sense in the slightest.

”Huh... that's weird...” Lurk turned a few pages trying to make sense of the contents of the book when the menu suddenly popped up with a new message for him.

[ Cryptography ] Learned

”Huh, it's encrypted... Well, this should be fun to try and crack...” Lurk turned a few more pages before putting it back into the chest. He opened some of the pouches and his eyes glimmered as he saw several coins in each of them.

”Wow, this is a lot of gold... It all the great kingdom coins too... They are still useful even today” Resti looked over Lurks shoulder as he opened up the pouches. Sala started drooling seeing the glimmering gold. Apparently, goblins knew the value of gold, which made Lurk ask her a question about it.

”Where would you use coins, Sala? You seem to know they have worth?” Lurk tilted his eyebrows

”Well strong goblins will collect things like these, some wear amulets and charms on their armor to show how strong they are at being able to keep it. Sala saw back in the old cave once when the big chief was visiting he had several of the coins placed down for everyone to view, and he collected them from the bosses that had taken them from raids. So goblins were told these were to be collected for the bosses. Along with a lot of other shiny items like rings and necklaces.”

”Hm so its purely a sense of pride and strength holding onto pretty things...” Lurk pondered on it but it seemed to easy of a solution. Since Xarn had connections to the dark kingdom it might be because they took gold currency there. Or that someone else took the coins in turn from Xarn. Lurk held up a gold coin and examined it.

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