Damien threw the tooth that he has extracted from the Metallica lizard at the box and then hid behind a large boulder. It was a great decision because the second the tooth stabbed the small box, the thing broke with a creaking sound and a cloud of green gas billowed out of the box like a small chemical explosion.
The eruption was as tall as the ceiling and it covered a majority of the corpse of the Metallica lizard that was on the ground. Damien waited for the gas that was filling up the small space to vanish and by the time the cloud became smaller and the green gas slowly died down, a small gasp left his lips when he saw that not only there was a huge crater where the box was but even the sturdy boulder was molten to the point where it now looked like a huge brown ice cream melting in hot air.
Even the armour of the Metallica lizard was melted a little.
Damien looked at the disaster that was caused by the puny-looking box and almost felt his heart drop to the bottom of his stomach. If he had opened the box then he would have had zero chances of survival in this task, he would be just a pile of bones!
No wonder no one was able to get out of this place alive, even if they somehow managed to defeat these monsters, the box would have killed them.
" You can go near the box, now Master Damien," said Lynch as he pointed to the box that was now broken in half. " The danger has passed now."
It did not sit right with Damien to walk closer to a box that almost killed him but he still sucked in a breath and willed his feet to move closer to the crater in the ground. He has come this far because of this treasure, there was no point in running like a coward now which was why he did not hesitate as he slid down the crater and walked closer to the remnants of the box.
Now that the box was open, Damien could see that there was a purple velvety cloth, on top of it was a glass case that had an eye which seemed to be whirling as fast as it could and next to it was a small ring, which he knew was the space ring that the appraisal mentioned to him.
He crouched down and wiped the black pieces of the box aside to see the treasures that he has found more clearly.
[ A rare treasure has been found]
[ The eye of judgment, once owned by the overload of the underworld, gave him the power to see through lies and deception. Allows the demon of unfair judgment to share his powers with the owner—— strength + 12, uses mana +20 points every time activated.]
[ Space ring: current space —— total five slots. Raise your level to rank two demons to get other slots to be opened.]
The eye was golden in colour, with an array drawn on it. It seemed to be shimmering in the darkness as it moved in the jar, Damien picked up the glass case and just as he did that, the golden array eye turned to look at him as if it was staring right into his eyes.
"Found you."
A voice echoed in his ears followed by raucous laughter as he turned to look around him with a troubled look on his face.
"What's wrong?" Lynch asked as he looked at his master who was looking around the surrounding with flickering eyes. " Is something troubling you master?"
" You did not hear it?" Damien asked as he looked at Lynch who shook his head and said, " I have no idea what you are saying, master."
So Lynch did not hear the voice that just spoke to him? Damien frowned as he turned to look at the eyeball once again, but this time neither the eye of judgement looked at him nor did the voice echo in his ears which was why Damien could only drop the matter.
He raised the glass case in his hand and showed it to Lynch and said, "Now what? What do I need to do with this?"
" Just open the lid master, everything else will happen on its own," Lynch replied and Damien frowned at his causal words but he still did as the latter said since Lynch seemed to know more.
He unscrewed the glass case that had a special liquid which preserved the eye of judgment and then placed the lid down on the ground, waiting to see what was going to happen.
It happened then.
Strings like veins filled with blood erupted out of the glass case and swiftly before Damien could even stop them shot right at his left eye.
" Argh!" Damien screamed as the vein-like things dug around his eye socked as if they were hooks that were digging into his skin, he tried to raise his hands and take the thing off but it stayed where it was… in fact the more he tried to take it off the more harder and deeper those strings went inside his skin and then Damien felt like he was burning in hell.
The eye of judgment pressed against his own eye, as they started to merge and fuse together. His vision in the left eye turned blood red as thick, warm blood dripped down his left eye socket and onto the ground —— the pain was excruciating, so excruciating that he could not even scream because he was too busy trying to claw the eye out of his own.
It was as if thousands of needles were prickling him in the eye and Damien did not know how long he suffered but the pain finally came to a stop and he was on the ground with his face planted against the dirt as sweat dripped off from his skin.
[ Successful merge of the eye of judgment. The host is now 2% closer to becoming a Demi demon, please keep up the good work.]