Chapter 247 - Black Tortoise’s Protection
Somewhere in the underground vaults of the Special Task Force, in the Imperial Capital.
Lu Xuan stood before the vault, which was over 50 meters underground.
“Some defenses you guys have here indeed.”
Lu Xuan was feeling quite impressed, as the trip to the vault by an elevator took them quite a while.
“We have to defend against some frightening beings, after all.” The Dragon continued, “The usual brand of thieves wouldn’t dare to venture down here. Even mercenaries would die by the dozens if they dared to trash the place. These supposed *ssholes could hit us hard with the element of surprise, but none of them would be able to get out alive all the same.
“But then again, the same couldn’t be said for some others out there, like the likes of Count Dracula.”
What the Dragon said made Lu Xuan realize right away that the very reason the vault was constructed in such a secretive location at 50 meters below ground was to defend against inhuman beings like the vampire lord.
If the vault were to be constructed above ground, the likes of Count Dracula would be able to leave easily with whatever goods he came to steal.
“This!” Lu Xuan continued, “Dragon, I’ll be taking this ring as payment for yielding the count’s dead body to you guys.”
“What’s so special about this ring?” the Dragon asked.
“This is a defensive ring,” Lu Xuan said as his gaze continued to lock on to the rustic ring. It had a crimson color throughout its body, featuring a subdued, rustic pattern on it.
He held nothing back from the Dragon.
Lu Xuan had no lack of offensive means with the Dragonslayer in his hand, but he had nothing as far as defense went that could compare with the likes of his Dragonslayer.
If he were to go out and look for such means on his own, it would have consumed a lot of time, and there was no guarantee about the quality.
The ring in question was different.
He had seen that ring before. The ring was named “Black Tortoise’s Protection,” and it had once been worn by the Dragon back in his past life. It was said that the Black Tortoise’s Protection could sport a quality rivaling that of the True Force Sword when restored to its fullest capacity.
It was an item capable of defending against all manner of attacks, and it was what Lu Xuan needed the most at the moment.
With the ring in his hand, Lu Xuan no longer needed to worry about his own safety.
While Lu Xuan was fully capable of crafting common defensive power items himself, the exercise was deemed pointless, for his constitution was so formidable that he had no fear of common attacks, to begin with.
Even a direct hit from a missile would only be able to break through his Shield of Vigor, and making him look haggard was the very limit attacks like that could do. Dealing actual harm to him was totally out of the question.
If there were to be anything capable of actually harming him, those things would have definitely not been something that Shield of Vigor was capable of shrugging off, which, in turn, made common defensive power items utterly useless.
That was a weakness that the Black Tortoise’s Protection was capable of compensating.
“No problem.”
The Dragon understood what was going on in Lu Xuan’s head right away. Defensive power items had always been expensive, far more than the common offensive types.
However, the way the Dragon saw it, the ring was hardly worth mentioning when compared with the corpse of Count Dracula.
Lu Xuan put the ring on his hand and began to sense it quietly.