Chapter 256: The random junk you collect along the way

Chapter 256: The random junk you collect along the way

If I want to keep my unlife runes up, I cant keep wasting mana hiding in the walls

Sofia had her ghostly skeletons carry her through the thick walls up to the third floor, taking special care to avoid the air vents.

The skeletons had previously backed up from that room, letting Sofia know that there was an elf in there, but the graveyard skeletons were quite dumb so maybe they had been mistaken. Slowly nearing the closed room, Sofia focused without producing any results, to her senses, that room was still empty. Carefully, she poked a finger out of the wall to let Pareth out.

She felt a wave of relief when she discovered there was no iridescent creature lying in ambush inside.

So there was actually an elf Credit where credit is due, I was the one giving a bad order this time

In the spacious room which seemed to be an office of some kind with much machinery of undecipherable use everywhere, a long-dead elf sat in an armchair. Like a dried zombie. Looks like he tore down some of the machines to reinforce the door and plug the vents. This steel must be pretty darn strong if it can stop the level 200 rats.

Sofias first order of business was to make sure these barricades would hold. Basically she just stacked more heavy things in front of the door and the vents. It wouldnt stop the elven parasite thing but it should be enough to fend off the swarm, which seemed to lack any attacking power whatsoever besides probably spreading the parasite on contact.

I never tried attacking them, did I? Well, I dont really know how. The whip is the best option maybe, assuming I can even hurt them.

Turning her attention toward the dead elf Sofia quickly understood what had transpired in this place. The state of the room and the corpse told her all she needed to know.

This elf must have witnessed what had happened to the other elves. He had first barricaded himself, and when he ran out of supplies, had decided to leave this world on his own accord rather than risk becoming one of the monsters.

And his body has survived long enough to tell the tale. It should have become nothing but a pile of dust by now. I suppose without air it works differently, no maggots or carrion-eaters either.

The fact that anything still works here after who knows how many thousands of years of neglect speaks volume about both this strange environment and the elven technology. I can clearly see now that the mage in zangdar was studying the same kind of thing. I wonder if his own version would be considered an upgrade or the contrary

Hmm I shouldnt let myself get distracted. I have three months, how do I kill the corrupted elves? First I need to know how many there are.

Pil?

Another riddle like last time? Or it could be just Pill, but an L got erased to save a character?

Pills These? Right, I have three of them. Never ate them because Sen said I should level up a few times to be safe before getting more stats.

[Processing pill] : Consume to gain 5000 maximum processing.

Item level : 200.

Grade : Flawless.

Now is a good time I suppose? Is Processing meant to help me with the book? I hope this is what you meant because I dont really see it if pil is meant to be something else.

Oh, right, I still have this thing too.

[Scroll of assisted inspiration] : Infuse it with mana after writing your current issue on it; the system will provide you inspiration to resolve the problem. One-time use.

Item level : 100.

Grade : Flawless.

The situation isnt desperate enough to use that now, but thats an option If it even works? It could very well not, considering the system apparently doesnt reach here. Kind of strange that it could reach into the margin to Zangdar but not to the sun, which shouldn't be that far in comparison. I mean, its in the same plane at least.

Sofia really wanted to make the mana compartment field work. If she was right and the monster tracked her from her mana emission, it would allow her to create a safe space where she could relax, regenerate her mana, and try things without worry. And she would do it then and there, and try to feed the dead elf to her book, which she knew usually spilled a lot of mana everywhere. The book of skeletons in general was constantly leaking mana fog when it was out. Comparatively, she could take a regular book in and out of her storage ring a hundred times before using that much mana.

Alright, lets eat the pills for the weird stat, and hope this doesnt make me more visible to the monster somehow.