Sound the alarm!

So here I am, standing in front of the doors that will lead me to my shiny mountain of loot, I feel so excited, I push the heavy wooden doors open while I skip over tripwire in front of it. My shiny here I come!

Scene in front of me left me stupefied, really, really stupefied! I expected to see a mountain of gold or something but damn, talk about dream crushing… What's in front of me is total disappointment, there's couple of closed chests, pile of items, pile of some jewelry, gems and cores and that's it!

WHERE IS MY SHINY MOUNTAIN!

I wish I could scream right now but unfortunately that would definitely alarm the bandits. Looks like being a bandit isn't that profitable either. I shook of my disappointment and walked up and opened four chests at the back of the room, but instead of blinding light of gold I encountered blinding light of silver! Damn it, talk about being cheap, you can't even convert silver to gold properly and you call yourself a bandit! After looting the chests it ended up being worth 416 gold, it is a big amount of gold but it's far from a mountain of it, next up I went to inspect the pile of items, of course because high level of realism of the game there is no inspect or appraise command or spell, actually there is but people need a lot of effort to get it and appraiser will be highly sought after later in game and every guild will have to recruit at least one or two. I tried my best to check up what items there are but there is no glow on those items like in some other games so I don't know how much they are worth, I picked out a set of leather gear for myself, of course without appraisal it won't give me any status bonus even if it has it but at least it's sturdy and gives me some sort of protection.

Beside the set of armor I got for myself there was also some metal ingots in there and some other valuable looking items, by the look of it those ingots are of different colors and beside black which I presume it's some kind of iron there's also some silver and orange ingots. Couple of swords, sabers, axes and maces later I finished inspecting the pile and turned around to face pile of jewels.

It looks like my luck wasn't rock bottom after all and I managed to dig up couple of rings, necklaces and earrings with some runes on them, I took for myself two rings that had speed enhancement engraved on them, a neck with enhancement for elemental affinity and of course no earrings, no matter how power hungry I may be I will never ever wear earrings! Let's say it's my personal taste and I hope no one else would be offended by it.

Beside jewelry there were some low grade gems mixed in the bunch and also some attributed monster cores, I took out some cores and gems for my current use and stashed rest of them in my inventory. Although I didn't get my shiny mountain I did manage to get some profit from this trip, which reminds me, although my goal was the bandit loot my main goal was finding this toy here. In my hands was what looked like a toy carriage, anyone else would just discard it but not me, I know full worth of this little thing, this little thing is actually a spiritual item! Spiritual items are unlike regular items, they have a spirit or a spirit fragment in them, there are two kinds of spiritual items, natural born ones and crafted ones, natural born ones give birth to a spirit inside an item while crafted ones infuse a spirit into an item, if a spirit is strong enough that item might even possess intelligence. Without stalling any longer I bit my finger and dropped my blood on the carriage.

Ding!

[Do you wish to bind Spirit Carriage to yourself?]

"Yes!"

Finally, what kind of a merchant would I be if I didn't have a carriage? And damn my finger hurts like hell, I don't know if I bit it too hard but the guys in the novels I read so far never even flinched when they do this kind of stuff.

I took out a beast skin parchment from my inventory along with some mana ink and silver feather I got and I started scribbling on it while infusing my mana into silver feather while dipping it in mana ink. Luckily I have a lot of patience and I managed to finish it in my first try, it ended up looking like a spiral formed out of runes, it's one of the things Gab taught me, he called it "Soul Charming Maelstrom" and he said that with enough resources it could wipe out even an army, but that is if every person in that army was my level or lower, unfortunately each and every bandit in this lair is higher level than me so I will have to spend a bunch of my resources just to make up for that level difference, and I do mean bunch of it because there is more than two hundred bandits here, RNG god really forgot about me, at first I thought there will be only fifty or hundred bandits at most but damn this is too much.

I took out all of the cores I had because it seems like I miscalculated the required amount of them I will need, after arranging them in their position around the doors and across the room I threw the drawing I made in the air with light yell "Activate". That piece of parchment disappeared along with all the cores that I placed around the room, I took another look around me and feeling satisfied I started yelling with all of my power.

"Sound the alarm, we have been robbed!"