enjoyebooks Chapter 16 Fighting-Style Intimacy
Chapter 16 Fighting-Style Intimacy
Terra carved out a space in the cave wall, placed a workbench on it, and put down the anvil and chest she had swiped from the blacksmith. She crafted a chain on the anvil, creating a sawmill. Then, she activated the sawmill to create a loom.
Finally, Terra used the spider webs she had just collected to create silk and made a bed, which she then placed on the floor.
Terra installed a wooden door in the hole in the wall, then touched the headboard. The lower left corner of her vision immediately displayed: "Respawn point set."
"Looks like the new version's house detection is the same as the old version," Terra muttered to herself. Now she doesn't have to worry about respawning at a ridiculously far spawn point after dying.
He also carved out four small, three-dimensional rooms in the wall as respawn points for his fellow NPCs. Although the world had become three-dimensional, Terra didn't intend to provide the NPCs with very nice houses; since the old two-dimensional housing detection system still applied, they would continue to use it.
Since teaming up with these three new NPCs, Terra has been able to see their portraits in the housing search interface. He hung the small red flags, each adorned with the portraits of the Guide and the other three NPCs, in the four small pop-up "rooms".
Then, the four people who were still doing their own things outside the room were instantly teleported over.
Both Lagun and Bahrain were amazed.
This wasn't the first time Andrea had seen Terra use this tactic; she had witnessed Terra do the exact same thing to that poor miner when they first entered the city.
Mana's cheeks flushed slightly, her hands gripping the hem of her school uniform and the edge of her robe, as she leaned close to Andrea and whispered, "Sister, could you remind me before using teleportation magic next time?"
Ragon tilted his head and muttered, "What are you babbling about?"
Mana turned around and her expression changed instantly: "I wasn't talking to you."
Andrea saw Mana clenching her thighs together and immediately understood the reason.
She walked over to Terra and whispered, acting as a mouthpiece: "Next time you use teleportation magic like before, could you please let me know beforehand?"
Terra nodded: "Since it's Mom, I'll listen to her."
Andrea quickly told him to lower his voice: "Please, don't call me 'Mom' in front of other people."
Terra looked puzzled: "But Director Xiang was just on the street earlier..."
"Ahhh~ I understand, uh-huh." Andrea 1 quickly interrupted.
She went back and told Mana that Terra had understood.
Mana wondered to herself, "Won't this cause a mental breakdown?"
Terra threw all the items and coins from her backpack into a box to prevent them from falling out if she ran out of backpack space or died.
Seeing Terra bustling around, Mana finally understood why Terra had said she was ready.
It turns out that Terra the doll itself is a super-large dimensional pocket.
*
The five people walked along the corridor inside the ruins.
Terra led the way, moving swiftly, and whenever the four behind him thought he was about to disappear into the darkness, he would stick torches into the wall.
Mana curiously touched the torches and discovered that the flames were almost cold and never went out. The entire torch seemed to be stuck to the wall, yet it couldn't be pulled off at all.
While Mana was studying the torch, Balin and Ragon stood around watching, one above the other.
Whenever she saw the three of them looking amazed, Andrea felt a strange sense of satisfaction.
"Let's go, stop studying." Andrea urged the three of them to follow her and Terra.
They went down a few flights of stairs when Terra, who was leading the way, suddenly stopped: "The background music has changed here. We must be on the underground level now. We're probably about to start spawning skeletons."
Sure enough, skeletons began to appear from time to time in the corridor after we went downstairs. They were completely different from ordinary skeletons.
They also share the same characteristics as the monsters in the forest.
Moreover, this skeleton can also attack from a distance by throwing bones.
Despite appearing weak, it managed to inflict wounds on Ragon, as if the scales on his body were merely decorations.
Even more bizarrely, the thrown bones could not be shot down with weapons, and Mana and Ragon struggled to fight in the narrow corridor.
In the end, it was Andrea 1 who shot him dead from a distance.
Balin shook his head: "I'm even more skeptical of the reliability of your information, Ragon." As he spoke, he bumped into Terra, who had suddenly stopped.
Terra turned to face the wall to the side.
Andrea 1: "What's wrong?"
Terra didn't reply, just stood there staring at the wall, occasionally swinging her pickaxe.
After a while, he said, "Nothing much, just opened a treasure chest, but there wasn't much in it." Then a crying face bubble appeared above his head, "In the old version, the first slot of a treasure chest always contained a useful item. I didn't expect the new version to change that."
Terra looked at the new items in her backpack:
[Angel Statue] *1
[Shuriken] *50
[Torch] *20.
The only useful weapon is the shuriken, which can be used for ranged attacks.
"Where's the box?" Mana asked, touching the wall in confusion.
"Behind the wall."
"What do you mean by opening the box through the wall? You're making me feel completely useless." Mana looked at Andrea 1.
Andrea looked completely innocent: "What happened to me?"
Terra looked puzzled: "I just normally saw something behind the wall, then saw a treasure chest, and just opened it, right?"
Mana sighed.
Ragon patted Mana's head: "Don't worry, we grew up together, I won't abandon you, even if your magic level isn't high enough."
"Get lost! Although I was bad at practical classes when I was in college, I was always first in my class in theoretical classes."
"That's not how magic works! You have to take out a loan to go to magic school and then buy ridiculously expensive textbooks."
"I also have to spend time every day coaxing the tiny spirits in the air and reciting incantations. And I have to spend a fortune on materials to make a staff out of damn gemstones."
"You have to use sweet incantations to lure the spirits over when casting spells, and then you have to fill them with magic in the end!"
"Hey, you're getting impatient," Lagon teased.
"You green-skinned lizard, do you want to die?!"
The two started fighting.
Bahrain covered his face: "Sorry, you all laughed at me."
Andrea thought of Terra calling everyone else "Mom" in the guild, and felt she didn't know what to say.
"Stop fooling around, let's go." Bahrain said, stopping them.
*
The five people walked to the end of the corridor, where they found themselves in a spacious room. Directly opposite the corridor was a huge stone door, blocking their way.
On the left side of the room was a huge shrine, enshrining a skeleton seated on a stone throne. Beneath it lay a golden treasure chest.
"The second chest!" Terra ran over and started moving forward little by little as she got close to the chest, making sure it wasn't a mimic before sticking to it.
The other four also gathered around, wanting to see what else was in the box in the ruins. Just as Mana was about to open the box, Terra stopped her.
Terra's head bubbled with anger: "Is this how you open a chest? What if you trigger a trap?"
Mana wiped the blood from her nose and said to Andrea, "Sorry, I didn't expect this floor. I just finished fighting, and my head is a little dizzy."
Andrea looked at Mana, whose face was bruised and bleeding from the nose, whose robes were torn, and Ragon, whose chest scales were burned and whose eyes were swollen with large blisters: "Are you alright?"
Bahrain said, "It's alright, it's their unique way of being affectionate," and handed the two men recovery potions.
"Oh? Is that so?" Andrea 1 didn't know what to say.
Terra, seeing everyone gathered around, proudly explained how to open the treasure chest: "First, you need to use a pickaxe to dig up this treasure chest and see if there are any debris effects when the chest is dug up."
He dug into the box, but it didn't produce any debris like the previous box.
"Looks like this is a trap."
Terra started digging through the floor, ceiling, and walls around the treasure chest with his pickaxe, and sure enough, they found a mechanism in the wall that could fire arrows.
"How about we try opening treasure chests like this next time?" Balin joked.
"What a load of rubbish!" Mana scoffed. "If someone could maintain a glimpse through walls for an extended period and casually dig through thick brick walls of an underground city without worrying about collapses, then that kind of guy wouldn't need the stuff in the treasure chests at all, right?"
Terra dug away most of the surrounding walls and floor, and after confirming there were no traps, she excitedly opened the treasure chest with a "Yoohoo!"
Everyone crowded around, eager to see what was inside the heavily guarded box.
however.
Inside were only: a pair of rotten boots, several bottles containing some unknown liquid, a pile of nearly chewed-up arrows, and a few torches.
"As expected, there's a reason why this ruin was abandoned," Mana sighed. "The contents of this box were already looted by the adventurers before us."
The only thing still worth anything was that small pile of coins.
Mana picked up a coin and examined it in the torchlight: "These can probably be sold to antique collectors. They can authenticate which historical period the coin belongs to, and maybe we can make some money based on its cultural value."
Andrea suddenly grabbed Mana's hand: "An antiquities collector? You know him?"
Mana nodded.
"Please make sure I get to meet that person when I get back."
Mana said "Oh," not understanding why Andrea 1 was so excited.
Seeing Andrea turn her head away, she brought the hand that Andrea had just held to her cheek.
Sniff, it turns out that the elf's hands smell the same as a human's.
"Whoosh~" Lagon whistled when he saw this.
The two started fighting again.
Andrea lay on the box, examining the coins closely: "This pattern is somewhat similar to a common style used in the late Empire, but I've never heard of using this kind of coin during the Empire era; they always used cowrie shells."
While everyone else was pondering the value of the coins, Terra looked at the worn-out boots with delight and exclaimed, "Finally, some equipment!"
"Huh?" Everyone looked at him in confusion.