29. Treasures (2)

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"Wow, Reina," said Lucius, a little amazed. "I have to admit, your way of storing your treasures is very thorough. You even invested so much money in turning a simple room into a hidden treasure house."

Hearing this, Reina just shook her head.

"Although I do want your praise, it's unfortunate that I can't claim the credit this time," said Reina. "When I took over this old fort, I accidentally discovered a set of these hidden blueprints in the main hall. It seems like whoever built this fort in the first place wanted a secure and safe place to store his treasures away from anyone else. My only regret is that with such a powerful hidden safe, it was already empty when I found it. If not, then based on the quality of the treasures stored, the wealth inside would never have been low!"

Reina walked up towards the metal frame and started working on the lock to open the doors.

As she did this, Lucius walked beside her and took a closer look at the metal that made up the doors and couldn't help but sigh.

The metal was a dark silver color but still showed faint signs of glowing from time to time. Based on this alone, it was clearly some sort of magic metal or magic alloy. It was just that Lucius's knowledge of such matters was still poor, so there was no way for him to identify it.

But even if he couldn't identify it, he still knew its strength.

Based on the regular strength of even the most basic magic metals and alloys, it was completely impossible for a regular 3rd-class fighter to break through such a wall, and yet the original MC of the story had managed to break through.

'Tch! It's not good to compare myself to these OP munchkins in the future, or else I might get demotivated,' thought Lucius.

Of course, even if the protagonist is a bit OP, with his heroine capture system, as he earns Love Points and buys a few good talents, he won't be too embarrassed in the future, right?

Hell, in theory, if he earned enlightened Love Points, it would be possible to buy enough talents to become so OP that even the protagonist could only watch in admiration.

Of course, that was only in theory.

Just the price of one of these MC-level talents was enough to make Lucius feel cold, let alone several of them.

"Click!"

As Lucius was having these miscellaneous thoughts, Reina finished with the lock, allowing the doors to swing open.

With that, the group didn't waste any time and entered the basement below.

The rooms weren't anything fancy, just a small basement cellar, but it was still filled with enough treasures to make Lucius's hands itch.

There were several potions and herbs that could be used to aid in a fighter's physical and mana training, and there was also a magic axe that glowed with a faint red light.

Clearly, this was Reina's original weapon that she hid when she was performing her failed sneak attack yesterday.

In addition to these magic potions, there was a bag of treasures that made even Lucius's eyes a little hot.

Magic stones!

These were high-ranking treasures and a method of solid currency.

The value of magic stones was over double their weight in gold!

Various alchemy constructs and weapons used magic stones as their fuel source.

Magical methods of transport, such as airships and mana trains, also use magic stones.

Magic stones also have major uses for mages, such as in the casting of many spells and creating large-scale magic circles.

Damn! A bandit like her is actually this rich!

Lucius couldn't help but give Reina a second glance.

Not only was she strong, but she was bold as well.

Someone who carried magic stones could never be an ordinary person, yet she still dared to rob them, or else there would never even be any magic stones here.

Reina should thank her lucky stars that Lucius didn't have a storage bag or storage ring on him right now, or else this entire place would be completely swept clean!

Besides the mana stones, there were even a few pieces of magic equipment, but these were nothing too special.

Clearly, they were all failed magic equipment created by magic apprentices that often flowed into the market.

Even a commoner could buy these low-quality items if he had enough gold coins.

Lucius looked around the treasure pile and finally set his eyes on the object he was looking for.

Based on its appearance, it was easy to catch Lucius's attention.

Lucius picked it up and looked at it with keen interest.

It was a strange amulet made with exquisite craftsmanship in the irregular shape of a burning flame.

The amulet seemed to be forged from shiny bronze that showed no signs of rusting despite its age. All along the bronze amulet were exquisitely carved symbols of the Barbarian people that represented courage, wisdom, and valor, and deep in the middle of the amulet lay a large burning red gemstone that seemed to capture the eyes of anyone who laid eyes on it.

The strange amulet lay hooked onto a sturdy metal chain that was adorned with small feathers and animal teeth, giving the rather refined amulet a strong and wild barbaric taste.

Reina saw Lucius was hooked on the amulet and couldn't help but ask, "Are you interested in the treasure?"

"Yeah," replied Lucius nonchalantly.

"Do you know what it is?" asked Lucius.

Although Lucius knew that this was a significant treasure with an important secret, he was curious to see what Reina knew about it.