And suddenly, Marvin’s second plan had already been set in motion!
…
Flames were still dancing in the cave.
A shadow jumped high up, surprisingly leaping from the ground all the way to the ceiling.
Marvin had used Night Jump, making his jump a lot stronger!
He had a long silver wire in his hand. As he approached the ceiling, Marvin tucked his body in to flip around, and both feet stepped on the ceiling!
Anti-Gravity Steps!
Marvin stuck to the ceiling.
He crouched down against the ceiling, both hands quickly moving, as he tied the silver wire around a special nail and then nailed it into a small crack!
He then kicked off the ceiling, throwing himself toward that Basilisk’s neck.
In an instant, a stretched silver wire was connecting the ceiling and the floor. Both sides were nailed down and it appeared extremely tight.
Marvin’s silhouette was extremely nimble as it jumped around the Basilisk, moving back and forth from the ground to the ceiling!
In a handful of seconds, the fire spell disappeared, leaving practically no snakes behind. And in the cave more than a dozen silver wires had appeared!
These wires were tightly restraining the Basilisk, especially the silver wire Marvin had taken risks to put around the Basilisk’s neck.
Thus, the Basilisk’s movements were extremely restricted. If he thought about moving, that stretched silver wire would ruthlessly cut into his scales, and keep tightening. He would become badly mangled.
The nail securing the silver wire was something prepared beforehand. It had an extremely strong attractive force toward stone. When matched with the silver wire, it was used to trap large monsters.
The only requirement to take advantage of it was for the user to have an extremely high dexterity and jumping ability!
After Marvin advanced to Night Walker, he saw [Night Jump] on the skill list and had thought of using this trick.
Now, the Basilisk was firmly locked in place by Marvin’s frightening silver wire trap.
But he was totally unaware!
Even if he was King Cobra, he didn’t see through Marvin’s strange trick.
In his eyes, these thin silver wires were unable to injure him.
“Are you a clown?” A mocking voice came out of the snake’s mouth.
“I have to say, your moves are exceptionally sharp, but I only need a bit of strength and I can swallow you whole!”
Marvin calmly stood there with a dagger in each hand, making a provoking gesture toward the Basilisk.
The latter suddenly turned angry and opened his bloody maw, ruthlessly throwing himself toward Marvin.
For him, those silver wires would easily break so he didn’t think too much of it!
…
When the Basilisk moved, the whole cave began to shake!
In an instant, his body was covered in countless cutting wires. He tried to rush forward to swallow Marvin, but he kept feeling an intense pain!
He had barely moved once when at least three silver wires cut into the Basilisk’s scales.
And with the movement, the silver wire ruthlessly cut through his scaly skin, scraping his scales away.
In mere seconds, several spots on the Basilisk body had been scraped away. He let out a scared and pained grieving howl. Bloody scales fell to the ground one by one!
“You might be a bit troublesome to handle as a 3rd rank Cleric.”
“But you are nothing more than a huge snake right now.”
“Idiot.”
Marvin sneered and suddenly launched his own assault!
He nimbly moved back and forth between the silver wires, his two daggers ruthlessly cutting that exposed flesh as fast as lightning!
The snakeskin which lost the scales’ protection was unable to endure the fierce attacks!
The Basilisk kept howling in grief, overwhelmed by Marvin’s unrestrained assault! It could only back away instinctively!
But he couldn’t have imagined that this would only speed up his death.
Because there were also countless silver wires behind him, ruthlessly scraping more scales away. Flesh and scales were flying around making the scene in the cave extremely frightening!
Marvin wasn’t the least bit concerned, only focusing on slashing away, his daggers extremely ruthless as they cut the Basilisk’s weak areas.
In a minute, Marvin almost slashed a hundred times!
Reckless Dual Wielder’s frightening property was brilliantly displayed by him!
The lower half of the Basilisk’s body had already been cut into pieces by him!
The upper half wasn’t much better, with only the head remaining on the ground, constantly squirming. With his body already cut like that, he simply couldn’t turn back into his human body!
Marvin’s arms felt numb.
The Basilisk’s vitality was very high, but the strongest part was still his defensive ability! Thankfully, he had that silver wire to scrape off his scales.
Otherwise, today’s fight would have been extremely annoying.
“Sssss!”
The snake’s head on the ground stared at Marvin with extreme rancor. Marvin rushed over, mercilessly raising his dagger to keep slashing!
Suddenly, the Basilisk opened his mouth and used up his last bit of strength at death’s door to spurt out a small poison fog!
Even if Marvin immediately stopped breathing, the poison still spread to his skin. His skin immediately started to blister!
A series of “Poisoned” reminders popped in front of Marvin.
‘Shit!’
Marvin only felt the sky spinning!
He exhausted the last of his strength and thoroughly finished cutting down the Basilisk’s head.
The entire cave was in a mess. Silver wires were everywhere, some snapped because of the Basilisk and some still firmly nailed on the walls.
‘I have to find a way to detoxify immediately!’
Marvin stood up with difficulty and shook his head, trying to stay awake.
This poison mist was still within his calculations. After turning into a Basilisk, King Cobra’s poisoning and cursing abilities had been greatly weakened.
He could still withstand it.
‘I should still be able to support it for a few minutes.’
Marvin ground his teeth, relying on his memory to go to the deepest part of the cave.
There was a hidden cupboard there with an antidote inside.
Marvin groped around for a while before finding that cupboard.
It was fortunate that he had repeatedly farmed the Hidden Granary instance for a Poison Resistance set back then, thus knowing each area like the back of his hand. Otherwise it might have been difficult to find this cupboard while poisoned.
“Bang!”
The hidden cupboard’s door was opened.
‘Third on the left.’
Marvin took a glance and finally found that red colored potion.
This red potion known as [Extra Grace] was something bestowed by the Crimson Patriarch, it was made in case of their own were accidentally poisoned.
This potion could remove all of the Twin Snakes Cult’s poisons!
Marvin took out the red potion and drank roughly a third!
The signs of poisoning slowly began to disappear and his skin gradually returned to normal.
He sighed in relief.
Marvin leaned on a wall and slowly sat down, feeling weak.
This fight really used up a lot of stamina!
He was still in a poisoned state. Even though he took the antidote, he still needed half an hour to regain some strength.
But the fight just now had caused a great clamor.
‘There will definitely be some people attracted by the noise!’
Marvin forced himself to focus and hid the snake’s corpse and the silver wires deeper in the cave as fast as he could.
As expected, not long after he fini
shed, someone respectfully asked from outside the cave, “Sir King Cobra, we heard some commotion, has anything happened?”
Marvin’s heart tightened!
Those who came were at least 2nd rank Clerics.
In his current state, he was definitely not their match.
He immediately checked around him and noticed a clean purple gown on the wall!
…
Outside the cave, the two 2nd rank Clerics were somewhat puzzled.
King Cobra rarely ignored them.
They patiently waited for a moment. They then looked at each other and then ground their teeth as they went in.
What they saw was that familiar purple gowned silhouette standing on top of the stone platform. He was in front of a basin.
“Sir…” One of the Clerics cautiously said.
How could he have thought that the person wearing a purple gown would suddenly turn and ferociously look at them!
That expression was very vicious!
The two men were startled and soon noticed the basin was filled with blood!
‘King Cobra was in the middle of communicating with the Crimson Patriarch!’
‘Then the noise we heard might have been coming from…’
The two were suddenly extremely frightened. They repeatedly apologized and hurriedly withdrew from the cave.
And Marvin on the stone platform silently touched his cheek.
‘The Mask of the Deceiver is really useful!’
‘Now, it’s time to loot.’
Chapter 146: Eleven Golden Bulls
Chapter 146: Eleven Golden Bulls
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The Officer’s loot was originally very abundant, but after turning into a Basilisk, his storage item automatically became sealed.
Marvin killed King Cobra while it was in a sealed state, so his good things would naturally disappear in the void.
This made Marvin feel a bit sad. But the Twin Snakes Cult’s Clerics had this kind of character. Only higher ranked Clerics could use mind control skills to make them take out their stuff.
Marvin looted the cave, sweeping away the bottles and pots in the hidden cupboard.
There were many outstanding potions there. Cold Resistance, Fire Resistance, Attribute Increasing, with a total of roughly 20 bottles of all sizes!
This was the biggest harvest!
Potions were usually very rarely seen. Potion-making was a branch of Alchemy, but in this Wizard Era, people able to make potions would also have the talent to become powerful Wizards. Very few were willing to make potions for others.
Together with material limitations, high level Potioneers needed a great amount of money, energy and time. The price remaining constantly high was understandable.
Some potions were able to save your life at the crucial moment. That potion of Dragon Strength Marvin drank before for example, had helped him three times at key points.
And even though these potions he obtained from King Cobra’s hidden cupboard might not be as strong as Dragon Strength, there were a lot of different ones which could be used in many different situations.
This made Marvin very satisfied.
As for the Uncommon items, Marvin found three items which could compare with his equipment, but their effects were very ordinary.
Typical uncommon items already didn’t enter Marvin’s sight. Only items like the Rock Giant Belt could meet his grade, while the rest would just be thrown into his Void Conch after a simple glance.
But what made Marvin pleasantly surprised was that he unexpectedly found a Nature Leaf on the Officer Cleric’s desk!
The Nature Leaf was the only way for Rangers to learn spells. Marvin naturally didn’t hesitate and used it to obtain his second spell!
[Shapeshift Basilisk]: You can transform into a Basilisk for 10 minutes. 10 minutes later, the spell will automatically be lifted. While transformed, it takes 5 seconds to remove the transformation.
This spell could definitely come in handy at some point. It was a 2nd-circle spell after all, so its strength was still very high.
But its use seemed a bit inferior to the Transformation Vine to Marvin, because he could only use it once every day.
But having more spells could only benefit Marvin.
…
Apart from this, Marvin found many other good things in the cave.
But Marvin didn’t dare to touch those things!
Because these items had the Twin Snakes Cult’s brand on them. After what happened in this Hidden Granary, the Crimson Patriarch would definitely investigate in person. If Marvin left any traces, the other side would come look for him.
When the time came, the Crimson Patriarch would deal with Marvin in person. Even if a powerhouse like Ivan was closely following Marvin, he might not escape the Crimson Patriarch’s deadly attacks!
After all, wanting to kill someone was really easy in this world. Especially for the Twin Snakes Cult’s two Patriarchs.
These items included a very good Poison Resistance set, [Fearless]: Set of 6 including Chest piece, Pants, Gloves, Belt, Shoes and Headgear.
Once equipped with that [Fearless] set, one could even resist a Wyvern’s poison cloud.
Marvin looked at it enviously. If he was in the game, he would have directly taken it!
But in this real world, he had to be careful of the retaliation of the Twin Snakes Cult!
‘Really troublesome… These brands aren’t something many people can wash off…’
‘Wash…’
‘Eh?’
Marvin suddenly thought of something!
‘Hold on… I can check…’
He hurriedly opened his data log and looked at a few logs.
Half a minute later, Marvin displayed a pleased smile.
‘I’m somewhat impressed, turned out I have a way!’
‘As expected, every class as its uses. I was too contemptuous.’
Marvin then unhesitantly took the Fearless set into his Void Conch.
He didn’t take much of the rest, as the method he just thought of could only target a few precious items. Even if the other things were pretty good, they were still unworthy of Marvin taking any risks to get them.
After properly clearing King Cobra’s cave, Marvin immediately began the second part of his plan.
…
“Sir King Cobra, may I have your orders?”
Inside the cave, a 2nd rank Cleric respectfully approached and looked at the purple gowned silhouette on the stone platform.
But without waiting for him to finish, a shadow leapt in from the side, suddenly arriving behind him!
Two daggers slashed down!
“Pshh!”
The 2nd rank Cleric didn’t have the reactions of King Cobra, and his head was directly stabbed by Marvin before he could even turn!
‘First one.’
Marvin silently dragged his corpse to the side, checking for a bit and finding an Uncommon Item and a large amount of money. Satisfied, he rushed to the stone platform and pulled on the 2nd cord!
There were six cords hanging there, and each cord was linked to the perception of one of the six Clerics in the Hidden Granary.
King Cobra would usually pull on one of these cords to summon a subordinate.
Marvin killing King Cobra first gave him a great advantage.
He kept following the pattern with the rest of the cords, and in less than an hour, the six 2nd rank Clerics had tragically died in the cave!
Although these guys were 2nd rank Clerics, they weren’t a threat to Marvin at all.
But the loot they yielded was also pretty bad. Apart from a considerable amount of Wizard golds, there were three Uncommon items in total.
And among those three Uncommon Items, only one entered Marvin’s eyes. That was a necklace raising perception, it just happened to replace his already useless [Mark of the Moon].
[Keen Necklace]: Perception +1
Marvin’s percept
ion was average. He could only raise it bit by bit.
…
After the six Clerics died, a huge turmoil swept through the Hidden Granary.
Those mind controlled civilians immediately became clear-headed. They clearly remembered what they did before. Some were unable to accept it and turned crazy or depressed, while many others didn’t think at all and just fled.
The entire granary sank into chaos.
Only Marvin was calm as he left the cave. He didn’t pay attention to those people running all over the place as he went straight for his objective.
If it was the game, his goal would have already been accomplished. The Officer Cleric and the six 2nd rank Clerics were all dead. This instance would have nothing that he would want.
But this was a real world!
This instance was called the [Hidden Granary]!
The thing that Marvin didn’t care about in the past was now the most valuable commodity.
And that was food.
…
In a cave in the depths of the Hidden Granary.
Marvin cautiously avoided a few traps and opened a door.
There was darkness behind the door, but since Marvin had Darksight, he simply didn’t need torches.
This was a relatively wide room with a slowly flowing underground river in the distance.
Surprisingly, there was a tall treehouse on this left!
There was no lock on the treehouse, so Marvin easily entered.
There was no one in the wooden house, only eleven golden bulls.
Indeed! Golden bulls. These eleven golden bulls had a gravity spell added onto them, which made it so that no matter how heavy they were, they would become a lot lighter.
Seeing these eleven golden bulls unscathed, Marvin was overjoyed.
Finally got them!
If anyone else saw these eleven golden bulls, they might merely consider them simple artwork made from molten gold.
But Marvin was different.
He knew that these eleven golden bulls were a product of alchemy!
Each golden bull was seamlessly casted from gold, but could opened or closed with an incantation.
The inside was only filled with a great amount of food!
Marvin had previously farmed the Hidden Granary many times and the golden bull was a rare drop. He simply sold them when he got them.
But this time, these golden bulls would alleviate his territory’s food crisis.
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