Chapter 40 - Treasure in the Mind, and Wine under the stars

*Ding([Host has received Legendary Equipment Gate of Babylon]

[Gate of Babylon -

A treasure vault filled with the finest riches, wines, and weapons. With the use of mana the gate will open and release the owners dėsɨrėd treasure.]

The description may have been vague but I already knew the equipment's abilities from watching the anime. Before I only had a blue and green sphere representing my Heavenly World (Haven), and an orange and red sphere representing my Reality Marble (Unlimited Blade Works) floating around in my sea of conscious but now something new popped up.

It was a small golden sphere which I guessed was the treasure vault for the Gates of Babylon. Upon getting a closer look, I saw that the sphere had many fancy decorations on it as well as a giant formation all around it. Sending my conscious inside I couldn't stop myself from squinting my eyes at the glittering lights.

Everywhere I looked there was some type of glittering object ranging from gold coins, gems, vases, and weapons. They were all scattered as far as the eye could see, and upon spreading my domain I realized that the diameter of the vault is 20 miles. Compared to Haven which is still growing and Unlimited Blade Works that is literally infinite this vault was lacking in the space department.

Once I had confirmed my surrounding I began to look at the vault's contents with excitement in my eyes. Using telekinesis I separated the treasures into four groups of wealth, weapons, wines, and miscellaneous.

If I were to rate these groups in terms of size:

- 50% was made up of weapons

- 20% was made up of wine

- 5% was miscellaneous items

After looking into the miscellaneous group I saw that it had a lot of rare herbs and metals. Other than that there were fine silks and animal furs there but I didn't pay much attention to them. As for the wine, while I'm not a wine expert I can tell from the smell that they were aged for many years. Honestly, I wanted to try some than an there but I still had to look into the other groups. Turning my sights onto the wealth group I saw a lot of bronze, silver, gold, and platinum coins as well as other ȧssortments of gems and jewelry. As for the weapons, there were many decent ones with a few exceptions within the mix.

The weapons ranged from polearms, swords, daggers, spears, axes, and other weapons. They all had very nice designs giving off an aura of elegance, nobility, grace, or intimidation, however, looks weren't all I was looking for I wanted to find powerful weapons too. Of all these weapons here none of the fell below rare grade, with some reaching unique grade, and only a 13 reaching epic grade. There was however 4 golden containers that identify or open.

After I was unsuccessful in my attempts to open it I looked back at the pile of weapons around me and sighed.

Yu - While having this huge arsenal of weapons is nice it's not like I can spam this ability on every opponent I meet.

Gates of Babylon is a huge treasure trove but in battle, there will always be those who can either dodge or defend against the weapons I throw at them. With the exception of those higher quality ones, normal weapons won't do much damage against ultimate rank fighters.

Going over the pros and cons of Gates of Babylon I grabbed a jar of wine and left. Returning my sights on the garden I noticed that only an hour passed. Sitting at a bench inside the gazebo I opened the jar of wine and drank its contents. I may have been underaged but my constitution was pretty high and wouldn't let me get drunk without only a small jar of alcohol.

Yu - [I wonder how Irina's doing right now?]

It's been around 2 days since I left home and invaded Romania and 5 days since I last saw Irina. On the outside, I seemed fine but during the whole Romania incident, a part of me wonder about my current relationship now.

I knew she still had feelings for me because when I looked at my title interface the title [Royal Consort] was still beside Irina's name. This gave me some hope that I could fix things with her. I won't lie I am a greedy guy having a harem of my own has been a dream of mine that I couldn't achieve in my past life. Hence when Kuroka and Shirone's started want to become more intimate my defenses went down like dominos. However, I overlooked the fact that not everyone wants to share their lover with others.

The girls were fine since they both already choose to be mine when I saved them that day and didn't mind sharing but Irina was different. While she was part of the supernatural world she was still a girl and would obviously get jealous at the fact of me having other lovers. The fault was mine and mine alone.

Yu - *sigh* [Greed is a very troublesome emotion.]

My greed caused me to overlook the feelings of others for my own benefit but was I going to stop being greedy sadly no. Greed is an emotion that everyone has and even if I wanted to get rid of it I can't since greed is one of the seven sins of human nature. I can't get rid of greed just like I can't go back in time and change any of the choices I made because that would be denying who I am. I can only try my best and hope Irina can forgive me.

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Time passed and before I knew it morning came and I was still sitting on the bench with a jar of wine in my hands. The only difference was that there were 5 other empty jars laying at my feet.

Yu - [I didn't get drunk once but surprisingly I feel more refreshed now.]

That night beside my love life I also reminisced about my life in general. Thinking back on all the things I've done in both of my lives. I laughed at the fun parts, blushed at the embarrassing parts, frowned at the bad parts, and cried a little at the sad parts. In a single night, all the stress I built up these past few days diminished greatly and I felt great.

Standing up I stretched my limbs and cleaned up the area around me. Since it was the morning I planned to plant the herbs I found inside the Gates of Babylon as well as check on how the spirit herbs were doing. But just as I was about to take my first step outside I heard a soft groan behind me.

Widening my eyes I turned around to see a sleepy Valerie rubbing her eyes as she rose from her bed. After her eyes adjusted to the morning light she surveyed the area and set her sights on me. We stayed silent for a while before she broke the silence.

Valerie - Who are you?

Yu - [Now how I am I going to explain this?]