Moving on from the events earlier, Ray is now using one of the four narrow bridges connected to the square platform at the center of the lake.
As Ray continued, he had then saw the familiar individual in the area.
It was the previous NPC-like mystery merchant, It was still on the center of the platform squatting.
Relieved, Ray had moved near it and began looking at the items on sale.
[Medium Soul Detected, new products unlocked!]
Receiving the notice, Ray surprisingly found that there are new items on sale on the mystery merchant.
Excluding skills, there are new equipment, weapons, and even special items that needed medium souls.
[Scroll of Friendly Teleportation] (1 000 small souls, 1 Medium Soul)
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[Scroll of Friendly Teleportation]
[Type: Special Item]
Consume a bit of mana to teleport near someone with the same mark, no matter the distance.
Limitations: Single Usage.
Description:
A spell scroll derived from an ancient spell.
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Besides this scroll, there are also items like an enchanted water jug that can give off five liters of purified water per day, items that can summon F rank creatures, etc.
All of them needed at least 1 medium soul.
Some need small souls and medium souls, and others only needed medium souls.
There are even 2 items that cost a whopping 20 medium souls each!
[Earrings of Perception] (20 medium souls)
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[Earrings of Perception]
[Type: Special Accessory]
[Earrings of Perception]
Agility + 10
Detect any kind of danger within 10 meters.
Description:
earrings that belongs to an elven hero.
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[A compass that doesn't point north] (20 medium souls)
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[A compass that doesn't point north]
[Type: Special Item]
A compass that guides people to the thing they currently wanted most.
Description:
An item that belongs to a legendary pirate.
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Ray, finds it strange, a single boss only gave 1 medium soul, if he wanted to buy them, where would he get the other needed souls?
However, after he pondered for a while, there are still the other areas.
If there are four bosses in each area, then there are at least 40 bosses all in all.
But still, he needed to finish this area first.
Ray then moved on to the weapons and equipment.
As he scans through them.
Two items caught his eye.
[Giant Slayer Sword] (4 000 small souls, 1 medium soul)
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[Giant Slayer Sword]
[Type: Special]
E Rank Sharpness
D Rank Durability
Enhance Weight (Special Skill): Can use mana to make it heavier or lighter. Cannot go lighter than 200 kilograms and cannot go heavier than 1 ton.
Definition:
A giant heavy sword used to slay Giants.
Warning: Very Heavy.
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[Ring of Madness] (2 000 small souls, 2 medium souls)
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[Ring of Madness]
Mana Steal (Passive): Recover a little portion of the remaining mana from a killed enemy.
Madness (Special Skill): Consume a bit of mana to enter madness state for 5 seconds. At madness state, basic status is doubled, however, in compensation, you will receive double the physical damage and triple mana-based attacks during the 5 seconds duration.
Description:
Ring of an infamous Mad King.
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As Ray looked at these 2 items, it was like they were made especially for him.
especially the ring of madness, no other item was as compatible as this when it comes to his 2nd Unique skill.
However, he still needed another medium soul to buy it, so Ray then selected the Giant Slayer Sword.
[Giant Slayer Sword successfully bought!]
Bang!
A giant sword had then appeared in front of Ray, stabbing the ground.
A scarlet thick sword with a length of about two and a half meters.
With its elongated sword guard and handle, the giant sword looks like a modified scarlet cross.
It was like it was made to slay giants!
So, menacing!
What size!
Ray held the grip with his two hands, as he gently lifted the sword.
Heavy!
'This weight!'
It was about as heavy as 250 kilograms!
Feeling the weight, a normal person wouldn't be able to lift it easily, what's more use it effectively.
However, Ray is different.
Currently, Ray's basic strength alone is 5 times that of a normal person, and with the boosts from the blessings and skills...
He had more than enough!
As Ray managed to lift it, he had then given it a test.
Slash!
Slashing with all his power on the air, it was like the wind was cut as the sound of his strike resounded in the area.
*Vuaaash!
With his blow, the wind around had scattered on the area.
'This power!'
*Vuaaash!
*Vuaaash!
*Vuaaasshhh!!!
Such Might!
The heavier a strike, the more effective Ray's 1st unique skill was, that's why he had always wanted a heavy sword.
And now with this Giant Slayer Sword!
*Vuaaaaaasssshhhh!!!
He could now use his 1st unique skill much more effectively.
The Giant Slayer Sword then vanished as Ray put it into his storage.
It's a good thing that the storage was upgraded, or else the storage wouldn't able to handle the sword with its obscene size.
Afterward, Ray then bought a skill on the mystery merchant worth 1 000 small souls before walking towards another bridge to avoid the people from before.
[Waterstrider (Active Skill) successfully bought!] ...
...
5 people could be seen in an area near the lake.
At first, Yale was being scolded because of failing to do his duty of watching their perverted groupmate.
There was a reason that the girls and Flaye are taking a bath in the lake.
There was an incident that happened at the mansion earlier that cause the girls to be afraid of taking a bath there that's why they have always felt uncomfortable with their sweaty uniforms.
Earlier, at the mansion, the girls felt uncomfortable and wanted to take a bath there.
However.
Who would've known that when they would go to the bath they would hear the moans of a woman and someone as if they are doing that something that couldn't be spoken.
Because of the zombie event earlier filled with deaths, the people have been really depressed and nervous, that's why a couple had retreated there to comfort themselves.
Though such an incident had caused the girls to be afraid, it made them suddenly aware of the presence of a number of men and such that it had made them think of the things that could happen scaring themselves to the point of being even afraid of taking a bath.
Meanwhile, Flaye being a caring leader managed to read between the lines earlier, when she saw the girls kept on looking on the lake with desire.
She might've said that they are not here to play around, but taking a breather or two isn't bad. Especially since they are just teenage girls who were only thinking about school and such recently.
That's why Flaye had invited the girls to take a bath in the lake and then ordered Yale to watch over Cole who has been really attached to her since the mansion, knowing the personality of the pervert.
However, Yale still failed such a simple mission.
Yale felt betrayed, Cole had acted like he really had a bad stomach-ache and had even gone to the point of taking his pants off in front of him with a pained face in a desperate act.
What could he do? Did he have to watch another person relieve himself? that's too much to handle for a teenager like him.
He could probably handle it if it was a girl, but a greasy dude like Cole relieving himself in front is just a no for him.
Cole, on the other hand, got a bunch of kicks from the girls and even Flaye as punishment. Though it only made him happy much to the girls and Flaye's anger.
Now their topic has moved on to Ray and the words he had said to Flaye.
"Are we really going to trust that pervert and go towards the dead forest?"
"I don't know about that man being a pervert... but spiders are somewhat creepy..."
"Then let's decide by majority decision" Flaye, hearing the words of protest from the girls, said to everyone in the group.
"No for me, I don't trust him," Anna said, being taken advantage of by a stranger, and following said stranger's words are just too much for her.
"No for me too, Spiders are just... not my thing" Elsa, on the other hand, had different worries, she couldn't even handle the small spiders in real life, there's no telling what nasty surprises the spiders here are having.
"... I think we should follow what he says" Yale hearing that such advice came from the man from before, thought they should follow him. Unlike Flaye, who was somewhat threatened by his ability to kill people easily and him being unbound by law, Yale had begun to idolize the strength that Ray had. He is thinking that if he just had such strength then things would've been different.
"Why not try going there, what could even happen?" Cole, on the other hand, didn't think much of it. He just thought that with Ray being a fellow who knows how to appreciate naked women without being excessive, then he was a bro he could trust.
"Then it's all decided, we'll go towards the dead forest"
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Meanwhile on the Wasteland Portal.
"Oh! Damn! another weird place without the sun!" Hermes said as he led his 3 members.
"I wonder if that thieving punk is still alive?" A four-armed person with a slimy complexion said.
"Ugh, why do we even have to go through all of this?" A woman with thick make-up protested as she felt annoyed by leaving the comfy mansion.
"That's why you're a noob old hag, it's only common sense that we need to fight monsters in order to level up." Glasses boy responded.
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