Chapter 28 - Volume 1
TL: Please excuse any errors as I have not been sleeping very well at all. I might have to pause for 1-2 days as I finish my art assignment. I want my GPA 4.0, cough.
Edit: So anyone who reads the raws and come back to read my version should know that I don’t follow the text 100%. It’s at the level where I even completely rewrite it, because a) Author contradicts himself, b) I sometimes change 4th wall narration to Brendel’s 1st person thoughts to make it more immersive. c) I remove a lot of redundant stuff, d) I dismiss cliche writing almost entirely.
The latest chapters I’m TLing seem to be on a roll with Brendel’s long monologues + author’s 4th wall, so I’m editing it pretty heavily. I’m almost 99.99% certain that you guys won’t notice anything strange (since no one’s complaining yet on PWP), but just so you know.
Chapter 28 – Haven
“The Half Plate of the Wind Empress!?”
Brendel opened the heavy bag and took a look inside. He rubbed his temples after finding the copper colored armor tucked neatly in it.
[It’s no wonder then… It’s no wonder why the mature Rotten Beast could not drag Freya away. This armor was protecting her.]
“Why didn’t you wear this?”
[Use it on myself? Or add it to a skill’s XP bar? But the ratio is just plain terrible, 10 XP needed to change into 1 AP! Plus, there are no skills right now that I need to learn from the Mercenary profession. But I can’t possibly waste it to level up the Militia’s level right? I have to at least wait till I have an abundance of XP.]
Brendel felt he was in between a rock and a hard place. He checked the outside sky again. It was starting to become fairly bright, and they were ready to move off. The servants relied on phototaxis receptors, sounds and mana ripples to sense their surroundings, so there was no difference to them be it day or night. Humans would have an easier time if they traveled in the daytime, as the light from the torch flames were a giveaway to the Rotten Beasts.
His hand searched within his pockets to see if there was anything else that he could use, and he quickly found that card with an artistic drawing on it. Brendel suddenly had the idea of experimenting on it.
To identity an item required a full set of alchemy tools and information books. Players who were not so good at doing that simply went to a NPC. However, it was quite expensive to identify things and the game allowed players to use items even if they did not know what it is.
So many players developed a system to test the items out.
He first tried using common chants but nothing happened. Then he brought the soul gem to touch the card and check if there was any reaction. Usually there would be some mana resonance if the item reacts to the soul’s energy.
But he did not expect the card to suddenly shine with piercing radiance from the moment he touched it with the soul gem. In fact, the soul gem completely lost its color and became a transparent crystal.
[Absorbing reaction!]
Brendel nearly jumped up in shock, and he stared speechlessly at the transparent crystal in his hand.
Soul gems that lost their potency were called ‘Creation Containers’, wizards and elementalists bought these containers and used them as storage for spells. They were similar to ‘spell scrolls’ in other games, while these crystals were the ‘spell scrolls’ in this world.
But Brendel was not concerned about this right now. He felt a terrifying shiver traveling all the way up to his spine. ‘Mana Absorption’ was one of the strongest mana ripples amongst the resonance types. He had gambled wrongly, and even if the Golden Demonic Tree was more than ten miles away, it would have felt this……
This was not the only enemy. With such a strong reaction, who knows if there were any strange creatures who had their eyes on him?
Brendel did not understand why the card reacted so strongly with the ‘Mana Absorption’ effect. Such effects only appear when it is a magical equipment over 40 OZ, and this card did not look like one.
Brendel quickly made his decision and stood up. Freya and Romaine naturally looked at him in surprise when they saw the light.
“We’re leaving. Now.“