Being a quick witted person Nero quickly construct a plan. A plan about how to use this whole place and make it his sanctuary towards the danger of this world can offer.
If he is inside of this place he can feel a little ease because the lich would protect him. Furthermore, just looking around this area alone have numerous gold coins that were being ignored at the floor.
If he can use those coins to buy things from the [Items Shop] he could become stronger little by little. Looking back at the interface of the item shop, he can easily come into conclusion that if he wants to become stronger faster he had only one way. That one way is to spend money!
Nero was still following the lich as Graham explains the area. The whole throne room is massive, but most of its beauty were in ruines now.
They finally arrived at the throne and Graham sat on it while Nero was standing before him.
Just beside the throne were books. Tons of books that it even form a mountain of them. Fortunately, the books were not scattered but instead they were neatly arranged.
"Where do I rest?" Nero asked.
Graham didn't reply and just observe Nero. "You have become more relax than before, good." he said after a short while.
"I just wanted a companion that would accompany me in this lonely place. I've been alone for a long time. You can still have your freedom and I wouldn't hurt you. I will even teach you magic if you want to." Graham said.
"If boredom pay visit to you too. You can simply grab a book from one of these." Graham added as he pointed at the mountain of books.
"Okay, thank you for your hospitality. Can I roam around?" Nero said.
"Of course, just as I said you can have your freedom and I will not restrict you. But you cannot live this room because you will die." Graham said.
After hearing that Nero swallowed his dry saliva. "You said you will not hurt me." Nero calmly said.
"Yes, just like I said I will not hurt you but I cannot guarantee about those guys from the other side." Graham said as he pointed his index finger towards the giant door just 18 meters away from the throne. It was located at the center point in front of the throne.
Nero then look at the location where Graham was pointing. He could not see will that far because of the darkness. No torches were attached on its walls so no light is emitting from it.
"Beyond that door were mindless flesh eating creatures called Ghouls." Graham said.
Nero once again swallowed his dry saliva after hearing that.
"Can I perhaps have those shiny golden coins that were scattered on the ground?" Nero said as he point in on one of those coins on the ground.
Graham then trace at where Nero was pointing and saw the gold coins. "Oh, those? You can have them if you want. They are useless to me anyway.There are tons of them all over this place. They're also one of the reason why once in a while I wasn't bored, yohohohoho..."
Graham remembered the things that help him get out from his boredom and started telling a story to Nero about those events.
"Once in a while, brave beings would go in here especially humans the most. They're the reason why once in a while I wasn't bored, yohohoho..." Graham felt happy and added, "But lately I haven't seen new ones coming in here."
Nero look at the skeletons on the ground and thought, "Ah, I think that answers one of my questions. Those guys probably died in the hands of Graham."
"He had completely forgotten about my question on where do I rest."
"I guess I will just find my spot in here."
Nero thought and said, "Graham can I check the whole place up?"
"Of course, take your time. I will just be here sitting." Graham replied.
Then, Nero did not waste any more time and went away. He found the perfect table to sat. It was a round rubble.
He then said, "Open [Item Shop]."
The familiar interface appeared and Nero wanted to explore the interface in order to familiarize it.
Nero clicked [Profile] and the interface change from the home screen into the screen inside profile.
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[Item Shop]
Name: Nero Eshwald
Age: 10
Race: Human
Height: 138.5cm
Weight: 25kg
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It was a simple looking interface with the basic information about him.
Nero then proceed to [Bank] and clicked it.
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[Item Shop]
Balance: 20 gold coins.
Deposit Amount:__________ / Coin Slot:
Note: The Bank system only accepts gold coins and will exclude other coin currency that is not made of gold. Once you have deposited your money, you cannot take it out. The money on the bank shall solely be spent inside the system [Item Shop].
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"Tsk. I must be cautious when depositing my money on the bank as I cannot take it iout once its in there." Nero said inwardly.
Nero clicked the hide button and the contents of the note were hidden immediately.
After for a while, he then proceeded to [Storage]. Inside the storage interface is an 5x5 grid empty boxes.
Nero then look around near him and found a big rock. He wanted to store this rock inside the storage. As if the interface has read his mind. A crack on space just beside the interface appeared. The cracks widen and it turned into a black vortex like a black hole sucking the rock in.
After sucking the rock, the black hole disappeared along with the rock. The previously empty slots now something on it. Out of the 25 available slots one of them now have something inside.
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[Item Shop]
Slot 1: Rock
Note: just a rock nothing special.
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Slot 2: empty
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Slot 3: empty
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"How do I take out my things from the storage?" Nero asked himself. After he said that inside his head he saw a [?] at the top right corner of the [Storage] interface and he clicked it.
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[Storage]
If you want to store something in the [Storage] please just click one of the slots that you want to use and a subspace should appear in front of you.
The other way was thinking that you want to store something in the [Storage] and the system would automatically abide to your wishes.
If the subspace appears you just put the item you want to store in the subspace and it would automatically be stored.
On the other hand, if you want to take out something inside the [Storage] you need to think about it or click on the slot that item belong to and a subspace would appear along with the item.
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Nero look at Graham and the lich was still reading his book.
He then tried to take out the rock inside the storage by clicking the slot. The familiar cracks on thin air appeared and it quickly turn into a black vortex and the rock could be seen slowly getting out.
Nero then take out the rock and check for abnormalities. Surprisingly, the rock is the same as before and nothing change.
"Interesting." suddenly the voice of Graham enters his ear.
"!!!" Nero was startled. He look in front of him and saw the skeletal body of Graham slightly leaning on him.
"You can do space magic from such a young age. Your potential in magic may exceed me." Graham said.
Nero unknowingly look at the interface and Graham face. "He can't see the interface?" Nero thought.
"N-no, I don't know any magic." Nero replied nervously.
"Of course, I know that and I'm planning to teach you." Graham said.
"Look at my hand kid." Graham added as he conjured a ball of wind. "What do you see?"
"A ball of wind?" Nero replied unsure.
"That's it!" Graham replied excited. "Normal beings that haven't attained tier 1 yet cannot see magic, but can feel it."
"But you! Looking at you, you are barely 10 years old and yet you can see magic and even used a space magic one of the most difficult magic of them all. Of course, I can easily do space magic." Graham said as he's like looking at his future masterpiece.
"What!? It wasn't normal to see magic? What about those people from before who are cheering for that man?" Nero said to himself.
"I think the previous owner of this body is unknowingly a genius in magic and I happen to inherent it?" Nero said to himself and a smile is slowly forming on his face.
Graham was still talking about his ideas for Nero, but Nero wasn't listening to him as he too construct his own plan.
He still plan to do his old plan, but just added something new. If what the Lich said is true, he may just stay here a little bit longer until he was strong enough for the outside world.
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Time passes and both of them were doing their own things.
"Ha, this is the last one of them all." Nero sigh of relief.
Beside him was an old iron bucket full of shiny gold coins. He look at the bucket and a big wide smile form on his face and like a miracle drug all of his fatigue disappeared.
He is now sitting at the round rubble he found earlier and opened the system. He then went and clicked on [Bank].
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[Item Shop]
Balance: 20 gold coins.
Deposit Amount:__________ / Coin Slot:
Note:
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Then, Nero tried depositing 1 gold coin through the coin slot and the transaction was successfully. 1 gold coin was added to his balance. Once again a smile form on his face, but this time it reach from ear to ear.
He started a depositing coins like a mad man addicted to slot machine gambling in a casino.
Later on, all of his coins were already on the bank and a system notification appeared.
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The [Item Shop] system has detected 625 gold coins in your bank.
Would you like to use 500 gold coins to upgrade the system?
Y/N
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Nero frown and ponder what to do. There is no guarantee that something will change in the system.
Furthermore, no one guaranteed that there will be more gold in this place as he already sweep the area clean of it.
After thinking for sometime Nero decided to ask Graham who is currently reading a book if there is more gold coin in this place. He temporarily ignored the notification and went to Graham.
"Graham can I ask a question?" Nero said.
"What is it?" Graham replied without looking at him.
"Do you still have those golden coins?" Nero asked.
This time Graham stop reading and look at him. "Yes, there are plenty of them on the underground mine downstairs."
"C-can I have those?"
"No, you are too weak from going outside. Just a single ghoul is enough to kill you."
"Instead of me getting it, can you get it for me? In exchange, you can have a bottle of the potion of healing I previously drank." Nero bargain.
"Really!? Okay I'll get them for you. How much do you want?" Graham excitedly said.
"The fish have taken the bait." Nero said inwardly.
"A-about 3 buckets of them if possible?" Nero said as he point at the empty bucket he used before.
"Okay, wait for me. I'll be back immediately." Graham said as he start to chant and blue magic array manifest on his feet and above his head. A second later, he dissappeared.
"Teleportation magic!?" Nero said excitedly too.
He then open the [Item Shop] and bought 1 potion of healing. 90 gold were deducted from his balance.
He had place the bottle at the arm rest on the throne.
He then came back to his spot and look at the notification in front of him.
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The [Item Shop] system has detected 625 gold coins in your bank.
Would you like to use 500 gold coins to upgrade the system?
Y/N
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"Yes."
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500 gold coins has been deducted. Please wait for a while.
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1%... 26%... 78%... 85%... 99%...
100%.
The update is complete.
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Update Contents:
New in Shop:
- 2 new potion have been added to the
- Power shop have been unlock.
- Book shop have been unlock.
New in the system:
- Augmented Reality have been unlock.
Note: The ability [Copy] have been given to the host as a reward.
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