East Meet West

142- The Mysterious Dagger

Like, in a situation where I am running low on money, or I am unable to access the shop because I got stuck in some special place which is able to affect the system or something similar case, there these [Low grade Energy Cores] will be my backup.

Or, I can weaponize these [Low grade Energy Cores]. Like, I can add them to armors or weapons, like those where to activate an armor or a weapon, the user needs to supply his energy. So, instead of that, I can use the [Low grade Energy Cores]. Or I can make an explosive weapon out of it?

Or, the [Low grade Energy Cores] can also be used when I am going to perform an attack or magic. For example, if I want to manifest a magic ball of size equal to a golf ball, then it requires 500 MP. But if want to manifest a magic ball of size equal to that of football then it requires more than 50,000 MP. This means that a huge amount of MP will be drained away from my body. And if I am in combat that could be bad.

So, getting this [Low grade Energy Cores] is important.

I went to the Lamia elder who was waiting outside the door and asked her

“Elder, I wonder how many of these could I take?”

I showed her the fist sized [Low grade Energy Cores].

She looked at it for few seconds and said,

“Hmm... are you sure you want these? Although, these [Low grade Energy Cores] are rare and hard to form, but they are just empty cores and do not contain any [Spiritual Qi]. So, other than using them in creating weapons, they would not be much use to you.”

Oh, it seems that [Low grade Energy Cores] can really be used in making weapons. Looks like, I need to check a lot of things in the [Blacksmiths association].

[Author’s note: This will be explained in the later chapters.]

“Yes, I can use this to ask some blacksmith to make me some artifact.”

“Well, whatever. Although, they are not of much use to us, but they still are rare material and can be traded for many resources. So, I guess you can take 2-3 [Low grade Energy Cores].”

Well, I can at least take 3 then. In the future, I can search for these, or I can trade them from Sheela for other resources.

So, I went back inside the treasury and picked up another 2 [Low grade Energy Cores]. Then after looking at all the items, I picked up a [Red grade Level 2] Dagger and walked out of the treasury.

Of course, there were many advanced medicinal herbs, ores, and weapons but there is something special about the knife that I picked up.

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?????? Dagger: [Red grade Level 2 weapon]

***The Level of Observation skill is low***

+1000 Strength

+1230 Agility

+23 Luck

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Of course, I feel like I might have made a mistake by choosing this Knife just on the basis that I am not able to view its description. But the ‘Otaku reader’ inside me, urged me to pick up the knife because it has ‘?????’ marks.

Of course, there have been cases where I am not able to determine the level of a person with high cultivation. Or not able to view the stats of the orange grade weapons. But now not able to view the details of [Red grade Level 2] weapon is the first time.

And even if in the future, after the Observation skill levels up and then I find there is nothing special about this knife then, I won't mind. Because I am not losing anything. But if there is really a secret related to this knife, then I could be said to have made a big profit.

Additionally, there is the luck stat bonus with this knife, so that is enough to make me satisfied.

After I moved out of the treasury, I showed my picks to the lamia elder. She looked at me weirdly and asked,

“I won’t comment about the 3 [Low grade energy cores] that you have chosen, but why would you only choose a [Red grade Level 2] weapon, when there are weapons of higher level, including the couple of [Orange grade] weapons? Although, with your cultivation, using a [Red grade level 1] is already a difficult task, but if you take a higher grade weapon then in the future as your cultivation progresses, you will be able to save money and have a good weapon for your protection.”

“Sigh... you know what... it's your choice, but I am still giving you a chance to choose a better weapon instead of this weapon.”

I know that I should at least choose a [Orange grade] weapon, but I have already decided to go with the flow. So, I politely declined her goodwill.

“Ha... no I am content with this weapon because according to my strength, this weapon is more than enough. And I don’t want to depend more on weapons, as that can make me feel dependent on them and affect my cultivation.”

“Whatever...”

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Recap:

Materials, herbs, pills, medicines, Skills, Techniques, cultivation methods are all divided into 8 grades similar to the division of weapons.

Normal grade, Red grade, Orange grade, Yellow grade, Green grade, Blue grade, Indigo grade, and Violet grade.

And each grade is divided into 12 levels.

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After that, I went to meet Sheela to discuss about my treatment which would get rid of the [Devil’s breath].

“Umm... I guess you are here to ask me to start your treatment and get rid of [Devil’s breath], is that right?”

Without any need to ask, Sheela was able to guess my intentions.

As a confirmation, I nodded.

“But you do know right that, to remove the [Devil’s breath], we need to mate with each other?”

“Yes...”

“So, you know this, then that means you are going to cheat on my daughter? By mating with her own mother? Was all the love for my daughter all lies? Were you trying to deceive us?”

Sheela spoke coldly.

There she goes... these people really know how to play with me and from the looks of it, they really love it.

Honestly, sometimes I feel that these two Bertha and Sheela are both psychos and not nymphos. I mean one day they discuss things sincerely and the next day they act like brain damaged people.

I guess it is true that people with higher cultivation are temperamental, and their mood swing is unpredictable.

Of course, I thought all this inside my head and did not dare to express it.

“My feelings are true but if you think I am cheating on her, then you can tell the steps and procedure to Armelia and I can ask her to help me.”

But as much as I wanted to speak in a normal manner, my voice contained few rough notes.

I swear that if she thinks that she can play with me just because of my situation and low cultivation, then ‘the god of these Lamias, bless your people because once I am pissed then the consequences could be dire’

“Fufu... I was just joking. I have already made an oath to help you, and if don’t then I will die. I just wanted to have a small harmless fun. Please don’t get angry.”

Laughed Sheela.

“I knew it- Not a Nympho, but a Psycho.”

I thought inwardly.

Sheela continued,

“Actually, I understand that within the human race, a male can marry multiple wives and take as many as women as his concubines. And within the monster race, there exists a similar situation too. So, I don’t mind if you are involved with other women, but of course, I don’t have any idea how Armelia would feel. I just hope that you don’t hurt her feelings.”

After calming myself, I nodded to Sheela and said,

“You can rest assured and I will take care of Armelia. As for taking other women as wives and concubines, I don’t have any plans for that because for me now the things that matter are getting stronger and take revenge on people who poisoned me.”

Hearing this Sheela nodded and said,

“Very well. Now, coming to the issue of your treatment, I hope you do not reveal this to my daughter.”

After I gave her the confirmation, that I would not reveal anything, Sheela asked me to follow her to her bedroom.

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AUTHOR’S NOTE:

[The next chapter and chapter 144, 145 will contain 18+ scenes or adult content, so I would request people below 18 and the people who are not interested in those, to skip the next chapter & chapter 144, 145 and start reading chapter 146. Rest assured, that the next few chapters will not contain any important matter related to the story and if it does then, I would once again describe it in chapter number 146.]

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Author's Announcement:

Sorry, there was a small delay due to a change in the story setting.

So, here is the mass release.

And, this goal is released on 20th May 2021. So, I want to inform the readers that if you come across this goal after this date then there is a chance that the goals have further increased, so you can check the goals in the latest chapters.

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