Chapter 82 - First Exploration ( 2 )

Cyril followed the direction that the Luck Token is hinting at him.

Based on his calculation, this Arcane World should be twice as big as his Red Goblin Arcane World.

It means that the experts didn't have that many places to hide their treasures. Aside from that, most of these treasures should be located in some landmarks or the path going to these landmarks.

Now that they are going to the lake, Cyril already expected to find some treasures here!

"Cyril… Aren't those Thunder Apes?" Myrtle suddenly pointed above them…

Cyril had of course noticed them already but he wasn't that worried.

"Nope… Those are just Spark Apes, they have similarities with their blue tail but Thunder Apes have larger fists and two huge fangs. These small ones aren't near that… They're only F-Rank…"

"Ahh! I'm sorry…"

"That's alright… They can also be a problem if more than 20 or 30 of them move together. So we have to scare them a bit…"

"Oh, are we going to kill them now?" Myrtle asked as she bumped her first.

Bam!

She wanted to show off a bit in front of Cyril. She didn't want to be seen as an encumbrance after all.

She knows that even though she can't wield powerful Artifacts, she's a good fighter and confident in taking part in close combat against lower rank Magical Beasts.

Cyril was about to start shooting the Apes but since Myrtle decided to offer her help, he decided to watch her for now.

"Alright… I'll be staying here. There are only eight Spark Apes now anyway. I'll guard your back."

"Got it… Don't waste too many bullets on these weaklings."

"Yeah… Don't worry." Cyril nodded and felt better after seeing Myrtle's confidence.

Anyway, his bullet can be considered one shot one kill so spending 8 bullets to eliminate them shouldn't be considered wasteful. He has more than 80 Musket Bullets with his two pouches so he actually has quite a good number to spend on the enemies.

After all, they would only stay here for eight hours and their main task wasn't even to hunt magical beasts but to look for treasures instead.

Gah! Gah! Gah!

The Spark Apes noticed Myrtle's provocation as they soon started surrounding her. They don't seem to be worried about Cyril's presence as he didn't pull out any of his weapons yet.

'The Spark Apes doesn't have powerful attacks… However, they have tough skins… F-Rank weapons would need 3 to 5 strikes before penetrating its body.' Cyril recalled his experience with these weak creatures as Myrtle pounced towards the nearest Ape.

"Haa!"

Her silver gauntlet glowed with yellow radiance as she punched the face of the nearest Ape…

'Slow?' Cyril thought seeing that Myrtle's movement seem to be in slow motion…

Even the Ape who thought that he would get punched sneered in front of Myrtle!

'You pounced at me so quickly but your punch is so slow! You wasted your opportunity!'

This is probably what the Ape thought as he put force on his feet to jump away… Right now, his friends should be pouncing on this human already…

'Eh?'

The Spark Ape realized that the others didn't move but he's also unable to move!

Soon, he realized that he can't dodge Myrtle's mysterious glowing gauntlet!

"Eeeekkk!"

The Ape screeched as he did his best to getaway!

Cyril saw everything that had happened!

'Incredible! Is this still a Rank-F item? Maybe it's related to the runes used?' Cyril was astounded.

The gauntlet radiance seems to have stopped the Apes from moving... It is also burning with power, like a flaming comet falling onto the Ape's body… Well, it might be an exaggeration but because the Ape didn't even set up a defense in his body and focused on fleeing instead, it was hit square in his face destroying his head like melon!

"Eh?"

This time, it was Myrtle's turn to be surprised!

She was surprised that his Gauntlet was so effective against these beasts!

"Eeekk!"

"Eeekk!"

The seven other Spark Apes realized that their opponent was simple at all as they decided to scatter around… Unfortunately, their senses seem to have dulled as they couldn't move quickly for some reason!

Myrtle managed to kill a total of four Apes before letting the others escape since they all run in different directions.

Cyril looked at the four fleeing Apes thinking whether he should shoot them or not…

'Well, there's nothing valuable on their bodies… No Magic Cores or even an ingredient that can be used.'

With this in mind, he held back shooting them.

"Is that some kind of poison? That's incredible." Cyril said after noticing that Myrtle is checking the Spark Ape's body.

"Ah? Not really. Just some weak hypnosis. Anyway, do you know whether we can loot these creatures? Is there anything valuable on them?"

"Not really. Their meat is not edible for us, their skin smells a lot, they also do not possess magic cores… They're just good for practicing our skills."

"Ohh… Then we're just going to leave them here?"

"Yeah… The Metal Wolves loves to eat them."

"I see. You know quite a lot, Cyril. Is there any book I can use to learn these kinds of things? I want to study them too…" Myrtle asked with a serious face.

Knowledge is extremely important after all.

"Ahh, you can just read something online. There should be people blogging about their experience in their Arcane World Exploration. Reading them when you're not busy might be helpful."

"Oohh! I will do that." Myrtle excitedly said after realizing that it is indeed quite a good solution.

Perhaps, if they could bring cameras or any recording device here, Cyril wouldn't be surprised if many vloggers are appearing online.

The two continued moving until Cyril finally found a hidden treasure...

They have to remove a rock blocking the treasure!

"A book…" Myrtle muttered…

She wasn't too happy seeing this but she immediately recalled something.

"Ahh! Is that a spellbook?!" She quickly tried reading the title.

However, after seeing the familiar language, she knows that it is most likely not so she felt disappointed again.

"This is an original copy of one of the five Common Potion Recipe Book… It has eight recipes with clear illustrations and instructions. It's not bad." Cyril said seeing the common potion recipes.

"This should be worth around 150,000 to 200,000 Ains…" He added as he decided to bag the item.