Chapter 331: Chapter 192: Dark Night Ancient City Secret Box

[Ancient Burning Blood Holy Sword]

[It originates from the ruins of a vanished civilization within the deep forest. The sword drinks not the blood of enemies, but the blood of the one sacrificing themselves. With blood as prayer, seeking to vanquish foes. In response to the supplicant, a divine blood light appears on the sword blade.]

[Tier: 7]

[Category: Great Sword]

[Attack Enhancement: Holy burning attack that continuously deepens during attack]

[Equipment Skills: Blood Stealing, Blood Boiling]

Apart from being a treasure artifact, this is an exquisite weapon entering the Excellence Realm.

“Lulu.”

Li Ang called Xiaoniu over, and before she could respond, placed the sword hilt in her hand.

“Use this sword.”

“Eh?”

ALulu received the giant sword, easily lifting it with her small hand, which made Schneider’s eye twitch.

She rotated her wrist, and the sound of the blood-burning holy sword cutting through the air roared, her cheeks blushing, and sweat trickling down.

“This sword seems to suit me well.”

“Yes, indeed,” said Li Ang.

“But…”

Xiaoniu hesitated, “Isn’t brother going to train us? This is a tier 7 weapon with pure magical energy attacks, this way…”

“You won’t become complacent because of the weapon, this is my trust in you personally.”

The Paladin of the Oath of Glory will naturally strive forward, and her Divine System profession is rather unique, it’s not about mere practice.

“Besides, it’s not like you shouldn’t use it when you’ve obtained it, and I don’t want to sell it either,”

Li Ang shrugged.

Dorothy admired the giant sword, “Lulu is the first among us to use exquisite equipment, right?”

Li Ang pointed to the Wind Breath Sword: “That one is not far either.”

The Half Elf feigned a face, and Li Ang said, “Later, I’ll have a way for you to improve, as long as you obey obediently.”

“Then I’ll listen to anything~~” Dorothy affectionately leaned in.

“I won’t fall behind either,” Andasu tried to get as close to Li Ang as her, but had to stand a little closer to reach him.

“Alright, alright.”

Li Ang stepped aside and explained the Blood-Burning Holy Sword to ALulu.

Though it has only two core skills, combined with its attack attributes, it achieves a simple yet extraordinary result.

Its forging process certainly involved blood sacrifice, but perhaps because this civilization’s sacrifices were of a positive nature, the response was divine power.

The sword blade of the great sword ignites divine fire when attacking; it is difficult to extinguish, as ordinary elemental power won’t suffice, requiring potent pure magical energy to counteract.

As long as it’s not extinguished immediately, the divine flame burns more painfully, inflicting cumulative true damage, in gaming terms.

The first skill, Blood Stealing, absorbs the user’s physical strength; without enough robustness, frequent use can lead to anemia. This is the sole cost for gaining formidable attack power from this sword.

The second skill: Blood Boiling, inversely incites potential as the wielder’s injuries and physical depletion intensify, becoming more valiant the fiercer they fight.

This ensures the swordsman is nearly a continuous fighting meat grinder if there’s healing within the team.

“I, I’m strong enough, this shouldn’t scare me,” ALulu said.

“Indeed, that’s precisely why I decisively let you use it.”

“Thank you, brother.”

Li Ang watched as Xiaoniu left the vault to get familiar with her new great sword, while Li Ang himself checked the following items.

“This guy cleared things more thoroughly than I imagined.”

While there were no other gains, the goal Li Ang was concerned about was acquired.

Originally, Zoe, having no other equipment, was sticking her fingers into piles of coins, but seeing Li Ang unearth three boxes, she instantly approached with curiosity.

The three boxes appeared both golden and jade-like, with very unique texture, feeling slightly metallic yet lighter, more elastic, and vaguely warm.

On the box surfaces, centered around the moon, were concentric curved line designs, with engraved runes in the recessed patterns.

[Dark Night Ancient City Secret Box]

[Locked [Spirituality]]

The system provided no details of its contents, only surface information.

These three boxes were the most distinctive spoils during the Soul Apex. They were placed in a storeroom, surrounded by treasures. Everyone felt they were valuable items.

The team tried various ways but couldn’t open them; even attacks couldn’t destroy them, and not even linear-level 9 dimensional tearing forces could break through.

Li Ang sensed peculiar spiritual fluctuations at the time, without the Spiritual Horizon, relying only on perception.

He suggested letting him try to open them then, but Rams seemed apprehensive and was unwilling.

Li Ang recounted the box story to the young girls, sparking more curiosity. They encircled to watch expectantly as Li Ang attempted to unlock them, temporarily ceasing their searches among the coins.

Switching to Spiritual Horizon, sure enough, under such circumstances, the spiritual lines on the box surfaces became visible.

The materials used for the boxes inherently harbored different spiritualities, and they used unknown, outrageous craftsmanship to draw the materials and spirits into fine threads, weaving them into boxes. This ensured interlinked spirituality, forming a new spiritual state maintaining the box’s integrity.

They left a way to open them, akin to a “lock” similar to a building block game, but required Li Ang’s current level of observation and manipulation ability.

Assembling building blocks posed no challenge to him and was completed almost instantaneously.

These boxes weren’t truly locked; perhaps for the Divine People, they were just typical storage containers, crafted with techniques and capabilities far surpassing those of today’s people.

The first box’s surface disassembled into threads like serpents, revealing its contents.

“Rune Stones!”

In the dark blue box quietly lay over a dozen rune stones. Although all small in size, they were clearly premium.

Unlike the crude rune stones seen in past adventures or the ones Sisyphus presented, which looked rudimentary, leaving one to question their efficacy,

the box-contained rune stones were exquisitely crafted, systematically engraved with runes, inherently infused with golden divine light.

Li Ang tentatively picked one up, and the system instantly absorbed its energy, the rune stone turning to dust.

Indeed, its internal power is also a “Creation Formula.”

Li Ang’s collection progress jumped from 14% to 17% instantly.

These small ones each held thrice the storage of those rune stones.

If all the box’s contents were absorbed, Li Ang’s collection progress could surpass 60% directly.

Though it was uncertain if, like system-granted profession training, it would yield benefits at certain thresholds.

This was a significant gain but not much to discuss, so Li Ang closed the box, those threads resurging serpent-like to flawlessly reassemble the surface.

“Quick, check what’s in the second one,” Zoe urged.

Li Ang opened it, an overflow of faint crimson gold light diffusing from it, briefly dazzling enough to render one dazed.

This level of brilliant radiance was only seen during the Bahamut time.

Inside was more of the same, even another level higher.

[Refined Source Steel Block]

[This material is preeminent, collected by the Divine People during creation, top-tier material refined by organically cycling the Four Major Elements constrained by runes. Emulating the supreme object “Divine Crimson Gold” imbuing Creator God’s power, its crimson highlights are manifestations of concentrated Power of Foundation. It can substitute any material in Equipment Creation with Purest Star Crystal, creating a treasure artifact.]

[Tier: 9]

[Attributes: Stores spirits of the Four Major Foundation Elements]

[Purpose: Equipment Creation [Treasure Level], Alchemy, Energy Source Core, Domain Construction…]

“This is the material used to craft Bahamut’s equipment.”

Upon hearing, Zoe compared it to her source bone crystals. In texture, it was similar but the latter had lost much spirit.

“With this, Li Ang is more likely to craft a treasure artifact, right?”

“Yes.”

However, Li Ang was uncertain of the method to use it. This was the most precious material he had encountered and he dared not misuse it casually.

“If not termed resource, I’d presume it an art piece.”

Dorothy clicked her tongue, “But nobody should be making art into a brick.”

Carefully storing the second block, with curiosity overwhelming even the little feline, Li Ang eagerly anticipated the third box.

These items were the true haul from the Dark Night Ancient City, all else was mundane.

Rounding back, they still fell into the hands of the one who made the greatest contribution in overcoming the place.

Li Ang smiled as he opened the third box.

Inside lay a rune-engraved white jade stone, densely packed with spirituality. Upon opening the box, magical power caused by its spirituality covered its surface in a glow.

[Secret Scripture – Spell Stealing]

[Contains the spiritual manipulation technique to directly steal and release others’ magic]

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