Chapter 144: The Mysterious Necklace

  Barbarian got the equipment he liked and left happily, leaving a warehouse full of things to me. Although it's said that there is a whole warehouse, in fact, it doesn't add up to much. I took a quick look around, most of the equipment was suitable for mages, but I didn't really need them. As I walked between the shelves, occasionally flipping through this and that, I thought about taking some back to Larsson and Losa to exchange for one or two good items. He could use these things to equip his mage troops, and I should be able to get one or two rare items from him, such as some of the rare equipment he's collected? Thinking of this, a smile spread across my face.

  I arrived at a corner of the warehouse, and in an inconspicuous corner, I saw a somewhat old box. This box seemed to be made of animal skin, looked black and dusty, with many years of dust on it, judging from the marks, it was probably untouched for many years. The light in the corner was dim, the color of the box was also dull, and there were no magical fluctuations emanating from it, if not carefully observed, absolutely no one would notice this tattered box.

  Since this place is a warehouse for storing magic equipment that dwarves don't use, how can there be such an inconspicuous box with no magical fluctuations here? I couldn't help but feel curious.

  I walked forward, picked up the box, which was heavy and somewhat oppressive. On the front of the box there was a button, and with a light press, a soft "click" sound came from inside the box, and the box silently opened, revealing a necklace in front of me.

  This is a necklace made of unknown metal, with no luster, and the black chain has a red gemstone inlaid at the end. I carefully held the necklace in my hand to examine it, and I seemed to see a faint flash of light in the red gemstone, which disappeared immediately, and the entire necklace had no magical fluctuations. I tried to input magic into the necklace, and what surprised me was that the magic disappeared without a trace in the red gemstone, but the gemstone still had no reaction.

  I once again input magic into the necklace, this time increasing the output force, but what made me disappointed was that the necklace still didn't have any reaction. I then decided to try one last time, unexpectedly this time it made me suffer greatly, all of my body's magic seemed to be summoned by something and surged towards the red gemstone on the necklace, when I realized it was already too late, I basically couldn't move my hand away from the necklace, nor could I stop the magic from continuously flowing into that gemstone.

  I was in a great hurry, wanting to shout for help from Ciel and Fleur outside the door, but I sadly found that I could no longer make any sound. All I could do was stare blankly as my magic flowed rapidly out of my body.

  It took about the time it takes to eat a meal, and that terrible necklace finally sucked out all the magic in my body. I went limp and sat down on the ground. Thank goodness, I was finally free from the necklace, although I had lost all my magic, but being able to get rid of the necklace made me feel fortunate.

  I hastily sat down cross-legged, recovering the lost magic power. After about half a day, I barely recovered less than half of my magic power. I stood up from the ground and put all the equipment in the warehouse into my storage ring one by one. Since learning from Losa, referring to his spatial magic, and combining it with the spatial magic I learned from Nantes, I tried to expand the space inside this storage ring, so now it can hold a lot of things, and I'm not worried about running out of space.

  In the end, only the necklace in the box was left. Due to the terrifying experience just now, I had a lingering fear of that necklace and decided to abandon it in its original corner. But when I turned around wanting to leave, I suddenly thought, if I wear this necklace on my body, will it also help me absorb some magic when I'm attacked by magic? If so, wouldn't I have gotten a free magical shield?

  I turned around again, picked up the box, took out the necklace and put it on my neck. The gemstone on the necklace was not eye-catching at all, but the style of the necklace looked noble and elegant. Wearing it made me feel mysterious and charming. It seemed that the designer of this necklace must have designed it specifically for men, and the floral pattern on it was also very suitable for men to wear.

  I waved my hand and sent the box into the storage ring, then summoned a water mirror technique. A mirror that could reflect people's appearances stood in front of me. Actually, this magic was used to reflect enemy magic, equivalent to a high-level defensive magic. But it was being used by me as a real mirror.

  I carefully admired myself in the mirror, and I was still very satisfied with this look. In the mirror, a young magician wearing a black mage robe, holding the "Staff of the Gods", medium build, black long hair, blue eyes, plus the mysterious long necklace hanging on his chest, looked calm, gentle and mysterious. I nodded, this image is very consistent with my impression of a magician. After careful consideration for half a day, hmm, it's great, although my face was still pale because my magic had just been drained and hadn't fully recovered yet, but this was the look.

  After finishing the collection, I walked out and saw Owen and others who had been waiting impatiently for a long time. I smiled apologetically at them and said, "Sorry, something small delayed me inside, let's go."

  Evan joked: "How long have you been in there? We thought you were stuck inside."

  I smiled and said: "A warehouse full of things, all mine, one by one to identify, it's very time-consuming..."

  Xī Lù pouted and said: "Can't you put it away first and look at it slowly when you get back? Are you afraid it will run away? You're just wasting time, I want to go to the market and try some of the dwarves' specialty snacks."

  I asked in some surprise: "Can dwarves make something delicious too? What is it?"

  "Hey, hey! Mr. Copper Hammer here says: "We dwarves aren't just good at crafting equipment, our BBQ is also famous all over the continent! Eating BBQ and drinking ale, that's one of life's greatest pleasures! Come with me, I'll show you what real flavor is!"

  Xī lù zhǎo jiù kāi xīn de tiào le qǐlái, dà shēng hǎn dào: "hǎo a, hǎo a, wǒ zuì xǐ huān chī shāo kǎo le, yà lì kè, jīn tiān wǒmen bǐ yī bi, kàn kan shuí de jiǔ liàng gèng hǎo!"

  I was dragged by the dwarves to their market with a black line on my head, that night we ate delicious barbecue and drank sweet malt liquor, finally all fell down drunk, even the barbarian who came later was also drunk by us.