Damien looked at the egg that came from the inside of the Metallica lizard and turned to look at the thing before he started looking around himself as he said, " You …did you say that this was the only one here? Then how come it has an egg?"
The last thing he needed was another of these monsters popping out and coming for his head when his mana was already at the limit, even though it was getting renewed, it will still take some time! He could not wait till then.
" This is the only one here, master," replied Lynch as he turned his head to the gigantic lizard and said, " Metallica lizards are on the verge of getting extinct which is why they have developed a new ability which gives them an opportunity to create body organs they don't have which allows them to get pregnant even if they do not mate with the opposite gender. Most likely the same thing happened with this one as well since it was locked in this place for such a long time."
He then flew down with an extremely studious look on his face and said, " If you look carefully you will be able to see that she also has a——"
" All right that is enough," Damien stopped Lynch from giving him an explanation that he did not need and then poked the egg with the tip of his shoe and said, " Now that its mommy is dead, I think it must be dead as well." He paused and looked at the crack that was on the egg and hummed. " There is a crack as well must be because it fell from such a great height."
" I guess," Lynch answered but he did not sound certain, metallica lizards were one of the most hardcore demonic beasts that were not easily defeated by low-ranking demons and beasts that were below rank three or the same. It would be a surprise if their eggs broke and died so easily but Lynch did not want to break the bubble of his master and thus agreed.
The two instead of focusing on the egg, turned their attention to the small box that seemed to have swallowed the darkness itself. It was pitch black with a chill emanating from it and that made Damien gulp as he pointed at the box and asked, " Is this safe to open?"
" I guess not," Lynch flew down as he tapped the treasure box and then looked up at Damien before he said, " You should turn on appraisal, master. You must have received the skill within the treasure-hunting box."
Damien hasn't paid attention to the treasure hunter window because all his attention was on his stats, he turned on the flickering window that only he could view in front of his eyes and looked down at the small box that said appraisal.
[ Appraisal skill —— uses 4 mana points at each turn.]
" Four mana points? That's so expensive," exclaimed Damien as he looked at the window to which Lynch deadpanned, " Four mana points or your life, you need to decide master."
In the end, Damien chose his life, he used up four mana points that he has just acquired and then turned the appraisal window on.
[ Appraising the treasure box—— please wait.]
[ Beep.]
[ Beep.]
[ Beep.]
[ Beep.]
[ Appraisal completed. The box includes —— a piece of the demon overlord's devilish body, a space ring and poisonous gas that melts even the skin of a demon.]
Damien immediately threw the box on the ground as if it was a bomb and scampered to the back. Just now he opened that box without any preparation! He touched his face and heaved a sigh of relief, fortunately, he was prepared and stopped himself or else he would have died in this cave.
"What's wrong, master?" Lynch asked when he saw the human throw the devilishly charming box on the ground and could not help but say, " Please be a bit kinder towards the thing that has been left behind by the overlord—-gack!"
Lynch gasped when Damien curled his fingers around his body and pointed to the box that was on the ground and gritted out, " That thing holds a poisonous gas that can even melt the skin of a demon and you want me to treat it carefully? For what? For an ice cream like death?"
" Oh please be ..oh please be careful," Lynch pushed Damien's fingers off his body one by one and then shook his wings. " Ah, that's better."
Only then he turned to look at the box on the floor and then hummed with a finger on his chin as he said, " Why not use the tooth of the Metallica lizard?" He pointed to the long, sharp fangs of the monster behind them. " The Metallica lizard is supposed to be indestructible if not for their soft bellies, use that to smash the box open."
" Are you sure?" Damien asked sounding dubious to which Lynch nodded and replied, " I am sure."
With a heavy breath, Damien turned to the corpse of the dead lizard before he lifted his sword and shifted it such that he could easily hook the longest tooth of the lizard out of its mouth. It took a lot of twisting and turning but Damien was able to wrench the tooth, he looked at the shiny white trophy that he won with his hard work and then took a couple of safe steps from the box.
Lynch flew beside it while holding the egg in his hands.
" What are you carrying that for?" Damien asked as he looked at the egg which was white with purple swirls around it.
" I think it's too much to leave it alone and watch it melts, Master Damien," answered Lynch with his wings fluttering.
"If only you were half this sympathetic towards me," Damien scoffed under his breath before he raised his hand and then took aim at the box with the pointed edge of the tooth at the box and yelled just as he threw the tooth at the box, " Fire in the hole!"