Hero? Are You Worthy?
Chapter 54 - 47: Cage in the Void (1)

Chapter 54: Chapter 47: Cage in the Void (1)

Seven hundred million Mana!

He didn’t love money.

Really.

As a Hero, having a salary of one hundred thousand Mana each month was already considered high on the Sky Dome Continent, though it wasn’t as lavish as that of the Great Nobles.

In the first week, Qin Chu hardly worried about money.

Yet, this number still shocked Qin Chu. He had never expected Rose Vesper to be so wealthy, especially considering that after he had saved the entire continent, he had only received a yearly salary of one hundred million.

Rose Vesper was merely the Holy Daughter of the Holy Court, and though her position was exalted, her monthly salary wasn’t excessive. Not to mention that Rose Vesper, despite being in her twenties, couldn’t possibly have saved up that much even if she were two hundred years old, based solely on her salary.

It was clear to see that Rose Vesper, exploiting her status as the Holy Daughter, had filled her pockets, raking in a vast amount of bribes. She was utterly corrupt.

The worst part was that in the first week, Rose Vesper often clung to Qin Chu, insisting he buy her clothes. Whenever they went out to eat, Qin Chu always had to foot the bill.

This woman, she had always been pretending to be poor.

But on second thought, how many precious materials would Rose Vesper need to resurrect Jie Luo? All these had to be bought with money, and she had even nurtured a faction of her own. Could she do this without money?

To emphasize again, Qin Chu wasn’t about the money. It was mainly because all this was too depraved; he simply couldn’t stand such shameless behavior. With feelings of extreme hatred, Qin Chu stuffed the storage ring into his own pocket.

Somewhere along the line, Qin Chu’s eyes had already curved into crescent moons.

He had even nearly forgotten his original purpose for coming here, with the mindset of a raid, Qin Chu snapped his fingers at Shaye:

"Shaye, the next one..."

Shaye was also in high spirits; she was even less short of money than Qin Chu.

As the most powerful Witch, Shaye could definitely be considered wealthy enough to rival a nation.

But...

For some reason, Shaye always loved shiny things — crystals, gems, gold coins, banknotes. These always brought her a distinct pleasure, so much so that Shaye wondered if she might have dragon blood in her veins.

After the reversal of time, her physical body had collapsed.

Now only able to inhabit Qin Chu’s body, all the wealth she had amassed in her past life had vanished into thin air. Now that she could come upon a windfall, Shaye felt particularly happy.

She didn’t even wait for Qin Chu’s command; Shaye had already drifted to another spot, a wall to the left with an equally sophisticated and ingenious magic prohibition that even Qin Chu couldn’t detect any trace of.

But, before Shaye’s superior skills, Rose Vesper’s prohibitions were useless. They were easily unlocked, revealing another storage ring inside.

Once magic power was infused, the contents of the ring fully appeared before Qin Chu and Shaye.

This time, it wasn’t banknotes, but a storage ring filled with... Holy Crystal Stones, the multicolored lights of which were so bright that they almost hurt Qin Chu’s eyes.

Holy Crystal Stone was an extremely precious mineral on the Sky Dome Continent. On Earth, it would be akin to a combination of diamonds and gold, as beautiful and precious as diamonds and as useful in numerous crucial contexts as gold.

To the humans of the Sky Dome Continent, Holy Crystal Stones could be crafted into the most beautiful jewels for the Royal Princess and Noble Ladies.

For Magicians, Holy Crystal Stones could be embedded in magic wands, thereby enhancing the wands’ magic conduction capabilities.

For warriors, Holy Crystal Stones could be embedded into armor. With special enchantment processing, the armor could become much harder.

Additionally, Holy Crystal Stones stored a vast amount of pure Elemental Power. For any Cultivator, they could not only assist in training but also replenish magic power or Fighting Energy when exhausted internally.

All in all, Holy Crystal Stones had a wide range of uses.

But being rare and extraordinary, this also made the price of Holy Crystal Stones incredibly exaggerated.

It could be frankly said, the Holy Crystal Stones in this storage ring were even more valuable than the banknotes in another ring.

Qin Chu and Shaye completely turned into robbers, sweeping clean the first floor before heading straight upstairs, Qin Chu even almost forgot his original purpose.

Each prohibition housed a storage ring.

"This time, we’ve struck it rich..." Shaye excitedly rubbed her hands together.

Qin Chu looked at Shaye somewhat astonished. It was his first time realizing that the most powerful Witch was also a greed monger.

He felt like the image of the strongest Witch in his mind was crumbling a bit.

Shaye’s eyes twinkled with light: "These three rings, they must also contain plenty of money. Let’s split it seventy-thirty."

Qin Chu was a bit unhappy: "Why do I only get thirty percent?"

Shaye scoffed as though mocking: "The seventy percent is mine."

"Why do you need so much money? You can’t even spend it now, can you?"

"So... keep it with you for now, interest is six points..."

I’ve heard of usury, but never of high-interest deposits.

Is this guy really a Dark Witch? Are you sure she’s not a Money Witch?

Qin Chu didn’t take Shaye’s words to heart and picked up a ring. When he saw what was inside the ring, he couldn’t help feeling a bit disappointed. The spacious storage ring wasn’t packed like the previous ones had been by Mana and the Holy Crystal Stone; it contained only nine notebooks.

He casually flipped through one and immediately dismissed his previous disdain, a weird smile spreading across his face.

"What’s with you, laughing so sinisterly?"

"Nothing much, these notes are quite interesting," Qin Chu said, chuckling as he stowed the books away.

To Qin Chu, the value of these notebooks was even more precious than the Holy Crystal Stones and Mana.

These nine notebooks, written from Rose Vesper’s perspective, detailed the everyday interactions between the other nine members of the Hero Team and the First Generation Brave Hero Jie Luo.

Perhaps Rose Vesper intended to keep these as fond memories?

However, as soon as Qin Chu picked up the next storage ring, he immediately overturned that guess. In the other storage ring, there was only one thick diary, which clearly conveyed Rose Vesper’s strong and nearly insane possessiveness.

She maintained a fierce hostility towards anyone who came close to Brave Hero Jie Luo.

Even if they were men.

The entire diary was essentially a collection of Rose Vesper’s dark side.

She filled it with thoughts she couldn’t speak aloud and ideas she couldn’t expose, recording them in a manner that almost seemed cathartic.

When Asina, Catherine, and Silf came close to Jie Luo, when Jie Luo was laughing and talking with other women, Rose Vesper’s jealousy nearly drove her mad, and the diary was filled with words like "bitches" and "whores."

Shockingly, Rose Vesper even devised dozens of different and increasingly tragic deaths for each of her nine comrades in the diary.

No wonder Rose Vesper sealed this diary properly with a Magic Restriction—the woman had accumulated too much negative pressure under her surface elegance and holiness. She could only release this pent-up distress in such a way, but the diary absolutely could not be exposed, or the image of the Holy Daughter would be utterly destroyed.

After properly securing this storage ring, Qin Chu opened the last one.

The last storage ring contained seven scrolls.

The seven scrolls, made of some unknown material, were slightly different from the common parchment scrolls and had a dark color that was somewhat uncomfortable to the eye.

The surface of the scrolls was covered with dense, chain-like marks, flowing with countless ancient characters, which caused a stabbing pain in Qin Chu’s eyes with just one glance, almost bringing him to tears.

Dark mists twined around the chain-like marks on the scroll surfaces.

The chains were tight, and it seemed as if something was about to break free from beneath them.

For some reason, Qin Chu felt goosebumps all over his body. In a trance, he seemed to see countless sinister figures wriggling on the surfaces of the scrolls.

Danger!

In a mere instant, Qin Chu broke out in a cold sweat. As a first week hero, Qin Chu could tear the Demon King apart with his hands, and on the Sky Dome Continent, no one could stand against him.

Although now weakened, his courage and will remained.

But at this moment, Qin Chu felt his scalp tingle, his mind continuously warning him that it was something absolutely not to be touched.

"Open it..."

Suddenly, a soft voice echoed in his mind.

The voice seemed to carry endless temptation.

His trembling fingers reached towards one of the scrolls.

Despite not wanting to touch it...

Why...

Finally, Qin Chu’s fingers touched one of the scrolls.

Hum...

In an instant, Qin Chu felt his mind was struck with raging waves, a ferocious turmoil swirling within.

Before him was endless darkness and an unfathomable void, and within the void, a massive spherical body was engraved, its surface covered with dense vertical pupils.

Above the spherical body, countless traces that looked like black pythons extended, wildly and gloomily.

The black pythons seemed to dance without any order, wriggling and eventually intertwining together, forming a huge chain that stretched further into the void.

At the end of the chain that the pythons had evolved into, there was a massive cage!

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