Max thought for a moment and figured it out immediately.
"It was that worm. The description just fits. "
Earlier, Max didn't pay attention, because he thought that the worm was some mutated creature.
But after reading the prompt, he remembered the descriptions of the wills of the world in the simulator and it fit.
The will of the world is rarely in a physical form, only when heavily injured, too weak or for some special purpose does it enter its physical form, and that form will always be that of a giant worm.
Max ignored the matter for now because he had to check something much more important.
"Simulator pick items."
A list of the available items that were in contact with Lucy before she died appeared in front of him.
After some browsing, Max smiled because he didn't find the map or the tree.
"she did it."
Max scrolled down just to find a piece of equipment.
-Scorpion treasure chest.
If Max picked a normal chest as a reward, then the simulator will consider the box and the things inside as separate items.
However, if that chest is considered a valid storage equipment, then the simulator will bring the chest and obviously the things will be still inside.
"Simulator pick Scorpion treasure chest & [Fairy escape] & [Blessed mind]. "
As a dark green box with scorpion markings appeared in the room, Lucy's eyes regained focus as she felt her changes in amazement.
She also regarded the scary-looking box with curiosity.
'simulator scan the chest'.
[scorpion treasure chest] :
-F-rank storage equipment.
-Has basic defensive aura to protect the stored items.
-If you attempt to unlock it in the incorrect method, a trap will be triggered on pressure, and poisonous spikes will lunch towards you.
"Sigh."
Max was relieved that the box didn't have too much radiation. If it did, the simulator would have informed him of the danger.
And since it didn't, it was obviously clean, or the amount of radiation was not harmful to him.
...
Max took out the telekinesis skill scroll.
"Little Lu, you ready?."
Lucy's eyes brightened immediately. She wasn't even done understanding the full power of her newly obtained skill, and she gets to learn another.
'ready.'
"alright Focus. "
Max already checked that Lucy was in a perfect condition from the stat window, so he used the skill scroll without hesitation.
...
silvery light shone on Lucy, and he heard the prompt he was waiting for.
[Ding, your pet Mountain Ferry Lucy learned the blue grade skill telekinesis. ].
"Simulator, show me Lucy's stats."
Name: Lucy.
Race: mountain fairy.
Strength: E.
Agility: D++
Vitality: E.
Spirituality: E++.
Overall evaluation: E++.
Skills & abilities :
. [ Fairy Escape] :
Skill rank: Blue .
Proficiency: perfected
-Permanent 1,000 points boost in Agility.
-Once activated, cover yourself in fairy light, increasing flight speed by 600%.
The light has protective capability, with its health being your vitality multiplied by four.
At the same time, gaining the immovable trait while the skill is on.
-Beastly instinct : the skill will activate on its own in case of danger, doubling the normal buff for 10s.
Note : beastly instinct has no cooldown, but it will only double the normal buff once every 30min.
.....
"wow. Just wow."
Looking at his white skill [wind flight] that was multiplied by 10, and still couldn't achieve a sixth of [fairy Escape] Max was somewhat depressed.
...
. [Telekinesis] :
Skill rank: Blue .
Proficiency: initiation
-gain telekinetic powers comparable to your spirituality stat.
Current limit :13kg
...
All other skills and abilities were the same. The only noteworthy thing was that [blessed mind] disappeared.
Max was confused.
He did read that after blessed mind gains the minor telekinesis effect, it will disappear after learning the real telekinesis.
It was because they were using the same part of the brain or something of that sort.
But what confused Max was the fact that Lucy's telekinesis was identical to his.
Even when Max checks for detailed information in the simulator, they were identical.
"huh? "
'Maybe it's something for later, probably when Lucy reaches a higher proficiency. '
"Lucy, come here. Let's test the defense capability of your skill."
Lucy obediently flew towards Max with curiosity evident on her face.
"alright, I am going to punch and I need you to stay still. Don't actively use your skill. "
Lucy just nodded, a bit confused.
Max was very impressed by [fairy Escape.], because it technically quadruples Lucy's health bar, but he had to test it to confirm its efficiency.
Not using his full strength, Max punched, only to meet a solid blue light barrier.
Bang!
The light soon disappeared, because Lucy didn't maintain it consciously and Max punched again.
Bang!
And again.
Bang!
.....
Next, he went behind Lucy, in order for her not to see the punch coming and it was the same result.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Lucy was getting excited by the second, while Max finally understood how Lucy survived in that wasteland.
"Now that's something. "
Max was honestly impressed, since defense wasn't even its main enhancement but speed.
Lucy opened her arms wide, waiting for Max.
' I can do this all day long. '
"alright, don't get cocky.
Instead, you need to get used to your [telekinesis], since it will be your main weapon from now on."
Normally, perfected green grade skills is a bit stronger than blue skills in the initiation proficiency.
But telekinesis was an exception because it gets stronger based on your spirituality attributes and Lucy gets a huge buff mountain form.
.....
Max ignored Lucy and went to the chest, using telekinesis to open it since he didn't want to get poisoned.
clatter!.
However, it wouldn't budge.
Putting more force would break it, so Max stopped and looked for any mechanism.
"huh?".
But after some time, he didn't find any.
"Lucy, how do we open this? ".
Lucy just gave him a blank look that says how would I know.
Max scratched his chin, not knowing what to do.
He didn't want to risk damaging the things inside.
There was the extremely useful origin blood, and the map.
With the most precious thing probably being the tree Max Junior.
After all, Lucy gave a single drop of emerald water to a mosquito and it grew beyond its species' limit.
But this tree has been drinking emerald water for almost a thousand years. Even if it was completely useless and couldn't produce any magical fruits or such, it could be used as a precious forging material.
"Lucy, I need you to think about how to open this thing. Give me an answer later. "
Max wasn't in a hurry to open it anyway, so he didn't mind waiting a little.
By tomorrow, if Lucy can't figure out something, he'd open it by force.
Lucy gave Max a puzzled look.
This wasn't usually her line of work. Most of the time, she would be doing the fighting, not the thinking.
Max ignored her and picked the remote control that looked like a tablet and started searching the web.
Thankfully, the TV had web access, otherwise he would've had to borrow another phone.
Max looked for information about how to make mirrors out of metals, just to find an easy way to make a perfect mirror out of silver.
Next, he looked for a suitable restaurant to reward Lucy with wyvern eggs or something similar.
But he didn't find any restaurants like that in Kain-city, but thankfully his next destination was quite a prosperous city and had a few restaurants that offers such meals.
It was Rusead-city, a place known for a good number of technologically based dungeons.
In all honesty, Max wanted to try his luck in Ancunn-city to see if he can find more mirror skills or some other unique skills.
But that city was just too far from his current location. Even at full speed, it will take him 4 months to reach it.
Normally it wouldn't be a problem, but the Oubach will reach Kain-city before that.
As for teleportation, he didn't like the idea of it.
He read about teleportation in the simulator, but he didn't know which specific method they used in this world. Some of them can be incredibly dangerous.
What if that thing malfunction and harm his body or teleport him to someone known place?
Anyway, it is better to avoid trouble than trying to fix what's broken.
Max relaxed on the bed, leaving the TV to Lucy while pulling the basic blacksmithing book he bought. He was very motivated, since even Lucy made a solid blueprint.
But before engrossing himself in reading, he released the crows to accompany Lucy.
" don't make too much noise, and you're not allowed to touch that green chest. "
Craw! Craw!
The crows were quite obedient, afraid that Max will lock them up again.
...
Max ignored the bunch and focused on reading.
Max's impressive stats allowed him to read at an incredible speed, finishing the entire book in one night.
Although he didn't memorize the whole thing, he absorbed enough information to start working with, since all what he was lacking was the basics recorded in this book.
Max stood up, putting his sleeping pets inside his pet space, tucked the scorpion Treasure Chest into his space ring, and headed out for a quick shopping trip.
Since Kain-city lacked a dedicated mirror shop, he visited various regular stores, buying all their stock of mirrors.
He kept doing this until he reached Phantom Titan's associated shop.
Inside, Max didn't head to the 2nd floor, only shopping on the first.
After some time he bought A D-rank resource called dense silver, and unlike other D-rank minerals. This one was too expensive, even more expensive than C-rank ones, but that was to be expected since even normal silver wasn't cheap.
Max also bought some materials for making enhanced gunpowder, and a special reagent that can give silver a perfect mirror surface.
Adding a lot of different tools used for forging and handling molten metal, and others to do some precise carving on jewelry.