Chapter-16: Lock picking skill, the real poison trap guarding silver treasure chest
He hit something after digging for a while and he quickly moved the torch to check. It is actually a silver treasure chest. He cannot move the treasure chest out because they are fixed. So he carefully picked the lock of the silver treasure chest.
The lock is really complicated and he is sure that he cannot break it using simple rocks. He at least needs a metal chisel and a strong iron hammer. So if someone found it even if they are good with strength they cannot open this treasure chest.
He worked hard for half an hour before the "CLICK…" the lock opened. At the same time he got a skill obtaining notification….
"Tring…
Congratulations host, with your persistent efforts you have obtained the skill "LOCK PICKING"
...…"
The skill is a level 1 skill and he has to pick more locks to improve the skill level. This skill after improving for a certain range can give him stats related to intelligence and sense. Visva became happy with a grin.
But his mind is still clear and did not open the treasure chest stupidly with his hands. He stood a little away from the dug hole and used the metal spear to open the treasure chest. Immediately a strong green mist came out of the box.
The moment he saw the green smoke, Visva let go of the spear and ran out of this room to the farthest room to stay there. It is a poisonous gas trap. While panting he muttered. "So that is the real thing that is guarding the silver treasure chest."
Visva felt fortunate that he was cautious and he ran out of that place quite early. If poisoned he might die there and his body would become part of the dungeon while his soul would reincarnate.
When he found a safe place he calmed down and took out the life soul cup. He doesn't have to use it specifically. The life soul cup can be activated with a thought. When he kills someone or some creature or there is someone dead or killed near him he can let life soul cup activate.
But the condition is that the creature should have died freshly for low level and higher the level the longer time the life soul energy can be kept. Any way this life soul cup would absorb that energy and condense it into drops of life soul essence liquid.
Consuming it would directly replenish the spent magic energy (MP), the vitality (HP) and the stamina (SP) to some extent. Also it can strengthen both body and soul to some extent through constant consumption.
It would not fully replenish the spent energy, vitality and other things. 1 drop can replenish 10 points of each. In the cultivation world 1 drop is equal to the energy in a low grade spirit stone. But it is in very mild essence form without any impurities that can be consumed directly.
This life soul cup can only hold 100 drops of life soul essence liquid. For a level 1 monster it would produce 1 drop of life soul essence. For a level 2 monster it produces 2 drops if it is freshly killed.
If it took an hour the amount would drop by half and as time passed by the amount would decrease. The life soul essence that is condensed is constant in nature and it can be upgraded if the life soul cup was upgraded.
For that he has to go to the dungeon cultivation world to find the necessary materials that are soul stone and other things that are rare. Right now he did not have them and it is not easy to upgrade it in the dungeon right now.
But he was not worried because he can collect the liquid in special bottles. So what he has to think of is not how to upgrade this life soul cup instead he has to find a storage device that can store the life soul essence.
Life soul essence is very volatile and it needs special storage device to keep it. There is a storage device that would perfectly fit this thing. It is actually the storage bottles of health potions and magic potions.
They have this kind of storage capacity. To be precise they would not completely store it but the speed at which the energy dissipates can be reduced. When he keeps it in his space where time is stagnant the amount of energy loss can be almost negated.
Yes there are treasures that would lose their properties and energy even in a time stagnant space. It is just that they have to be kept carefully in as many restrictions as possible to keep it from losing its special properties and energy.
Fortunately he has the items and conditions for storage. The minor storage potion bottle can store around 10 drops of life soul essence liquid. If it is medium grade one it can store 20 drops of life soul essence liquid.
Similarly major potion storage bottle can store 30 drops and the superior grade storage potion bottle can store up to 40 drops of life soul essence liquid. Just like that the things can be stored in different capacities.
It is not the size of the bottle but it is the conditions in the bottle that can bear the capacity and energy. If minor storage potion bottle got more than 10 drops it would directly burst open because the energy inside is too much for it to bear.
As for how he knows this. Well it is based on his understanding of this liquid from the future memories. He did not have this space at that time so Robert came up with this way to store the things.
Now that research is useful for him in storage. While thinking he first drank a drop of the life soul essence after all he has worked hard during this time and exhausted part of his energy. He wanted to recover it and also get familiar with the life soul essence.
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