Chapter 538 - Harvesting
GDK 538: Harvesting
It was a feeling that could not be explained with words. As Han Shuo stood before the door, his death basegod soul attached to the skeletal staff had definitely sensed an unsettlingly familiar aura coming from an item inside. It felt almost unreal.
From the pressing tone of Han Shuo’s words, Jasper could tell that he was very excited. Although she was somewhat puzzled, she did not say a word before proceeding to the stone door with the authorization token Crosius placed in her hand. When she inserted the token into one of the grooves, the stone door started to rise slowly.
A wide, well-lit tunnel was revealed. There were lighted torches placed on the wall made of stone. There were four chambers connected to the tunnel, and two on each side of the tunnel. At Jasper’s indication, Han Shuo walked into the tunnel with her. She pointed at the stone chambers and explained, “This is War Demon Valley’s weaponry depot. There are also some unique and rare materials stored in here. You may have anything you wish.”
From the moment he entered the tunnel, Han Shuo only had eyes for one of the stone chambers. He rushed straight in as Jasper talked.
A round of clanking reverberated through the tunnel as Han Shuo rummaged through a bunch of curiously-shaped weapons. From a notch in the dust-coated stone wall, he dug out a bone tablet. The tablet wasn’t big, shaped like a brick, and it wasn’t obvious which creature’s bone it was created from. On the front side of the tablet was the pattern of a skull, while the back side was a Canopy of Necromancy magical matrix, emanating faint element of death.
Having completely unlocked all the secrets inside the skeletal staff, Han Shuo recognized that this bone tablet was the key to opening and operating a Cemetery of Death. The original owner of the skeletal staff had once received a bone tablet similar to the one Han Shuo was holding. It was given to him along with the Cemetery of Death. Later on in his career he had managed to memorize the imprint inside his bone tablet and transferred the imprint onto his own weapon – the skeletal staff. This had effectively rendered the bone tablet useless.
The fact that Han Shuo had found the bone tablet suggested to him that another Cemetery of Death was present in the Abyss Realm. Han Shuo gradually released his mental strength using his death basegod soul, allowing it to flow into the bone tablet. He discovered that the imprint within this bone tablet had been stripped off as well.
“Han Shuo, what are you doing?” Jasper approached, puzzled, as Han Shuo contemplated while fiddling with the bone tablet in his hand.
“This thing, where did it come from?” Han Shuo raised the bone tablet at Jasper and asked with a grave expression.
Apart from that, some strange materials that were exceedingly difficult to obtain on Profound Continent and Earth were stored in large quantities in this warehouse. For example, black iron ore and black gold ore of the highest purity, and an assortment of blue-gold sand that was more precious than diamonds.
Hundreds of rare materials, as long as Han Shuo found them useful, were swallowed into his space ring with no trace of modesty. With so much good stuff on his hands, in addition to the Braingorge Raksha he had plundered before, Han Shuo could immediately set about refining dark dragon Gilbert a new body.
Furthermore, with these materials at hand, along with some extra time, he could refine demonic weapons just as useful as the Blood Seether. It would be a wonder not to be overjoyed by that.
“Have Hemanna and Sylph been deceived by you like this? Hmph, you lustful animal!” Jasper feigned anger coquettishly. But soon after, she let out an adorable giggle and whispered, “But still, in this Abyss realm, there hasn’t been a man who could talk so amiably and be so approachable with ladies like you. You are quite interesting!”
Any fool could tell that Jasper had feelings for Han Shuo. However, as he had proper business to complete, he did not rush to set about occupying her. He let out a mischievous laugh and said, “Alright, alright, let’s move on to the other three rooms… Hehe…”
As he spoke, Han Shuo deliberately got near to Jasper to sniff the refreshing fragrance from her body, putting on a punchable face as he relished her scent. As Jasper had feelings for Han Shuo to begin with, she only berated Han Shuo with a smile. She appeared most willing to be teased by Han Shuo. Later, she proceeded to introduce the materials in the other three stone chambers.
Han Shuo found even more materials that were extremely useful in the other chambers, not to mention equally rare on Profound Continent. Han Shuo couldn’t have been more thrilled harvesting those goods and continuously repeated, “This is good, this is useful, oh, this is useful too…”
Jasper was just speechless.