The Insider System

Chapter 392: The Deal Pt.28

This was a lot closer to an item than Lake normally had to get for it to show up in Mana Vision but he thought that could be a good thing because it pointed to the item having some type of enchantment that made it harder to notice which could make it even better for him when it was inside Inner Vault.

Using Detector one last time to look for traps before heading towards the bow, Lake found that this area was also devoid of anything he needed to be wary of and started walking towards the room the bow was in. The door to this room was unlocked and he was able to easily open it to get a look inside.

The first thing he saw when he looked into the room ended up not being the bow and instead he took a good look at what he would call a skeleton though it still had a bit of what was once flesh on its bones laying on top of the bed. This body really didn't hold his interest for long though he did use Detector to see if it was Mizzly, it was, before he moved on to the bow that was propped up next to the bed.

"I wasn't expecting it to be wood." The page in the book that had been about this bow hadn't said anything about the bows appearance and had really only focused on stories about what Mizzly had done while in possession of the bow and why they thought the bow was the thing that made it possible so getting a look at the carved wooden bow really changed the mental image he had formed for what it was going to look like.

Walking into the room so he could get a better look at the weapon, Lake saw that there were shapes carved on the front of the bow that looked like a cat eye and understood why people assumed the bow was the reason Mizzly had been able to see things others couldn't. "That's a good sign for it giving me Perception."

After a few seconds of looking at the bow Lake saw no reason to try and pick it up and reached out to take it into his hand. As soon as he held it Lake felt the presence that had been watching him disappear and quickly realized it had been the bow that had been keeping an eye on him from the very beginning.

"I could have probably put that together before now if I had tried harder." All the signs the bow had been what was watching him had been there and the eye carving should have really made him realize but the reason he hadn't was valid in his opinion.

A Thief's Sense (U) Lv.1

Gives a 6th sense for how much attention is on you, Also gives lie detection, night vision and increased hearing.

He had always assumed items wouldn't be included in what his skill could sense but he guessed just because it had never happened up to this point didn't mean it couldn't. Opening Inner vault Lake set the bow inside ignoring the weird feeling he now had that he assumed was some effect the bow had just given him and got to work looking around for anything else he might want to take from the now dead Mizzly.

Mana Vision had pointed out plenty of enchanted objects other than the bow on his way in so he knew there were other goodies around that he needed to gather before hitting the road again. "It's too bad I don't need a secret base at the moment."

He guessed it would be here waiting for him if he ever needed a place to hide but with the damage he had caused to the cave wall that had been covering the first chamber where all the cubbies were anyone could walk into the cave and find this place now.

He didn't think it was very likely to happen though even if it could because he felt it would have been noticed already even with the false wall if people actually ever came here anymore.

"Oh wow look at that." As Lake looked around for other things he eventually noticed that under the layer of dirt on the only table in the room there was a book and it seemed to be in ok enough condition that it would still have information in it if he wanted to try and read it. Adding it to his bag, Lake then moved towards Mizzly's body to see if the thing that was glowing in his chest was what he thought it was.

It turned out that Mizzly's core was still intact so Lake put it into his bag and moved on to the next room that had anything that showed up when he used Mana Vision. "What are these called again?" The thing he found was a headband made of stylish metal and a large center gem that would be on the forehead but he couldn't remember what the name for this type of jewelry was so he used inspect even though he had wanted to save looking at everything for when he was running to the next item.

Diadem Of Dripping Lv.46

Lake was a bit grossed out by the name of this item but seeing its level he continued to look through the rest of its information because it was good enough to be on his list even if this item hadn't been in the book. After a bit of searching he was able to find the list of enchantments and while they were good this item didn't really seem to suit him.

Enchantments

Increases affinity for water to high

Gives access to the spell Raindrops after the Diadem is filled with water mana.

Lake had never seen an item that gave you a spell and wondered if this wasn't a spell everyone could use. He knew spells made by people were a thing but if he was right and this thing somehow gave access to one the abilities of high level items were much better than he thought.

Opening Inner Vault Lake set the item inside and went back to looking for anything else that was worth taking. To make this easier he set Detector to look for items over level thirty when nothing else started to glow he reset it for books which got a result.

It was pretty obvious this place had been undisturbed for a while so any books that were around probably held information on the past that he would like to read even if it all probably outdated the time that Laka had been here in this world. "I guess Mizzly wasn't much for reading." Being led to a sparse bookshelf, Lake took all of them and decided it was time to go.

He still had plenty of time to go after the next closest thing on his list but he was hoping to get at least two more so standing around looking for items that were much lower level than him was a waste of time.

On the way out Lake started looking through the new effects the two new items inside Inner Vault were having on him.

Inner Vault

Contents

Lv.35 Health Potion (High Grade) X4

Lv.45 Small Juice Based Poison (Perfect Grade) X3

Lv.39 Credglin (Enchanted Mace)

Lv.54 Mizzly's Bow (Filled Soul Vessel)

Lv.46 Diadem Of Dripping (Uncharged)

Bonuses

+36 Health

+29% Natural Healing Rate

+Poisoned Effect (65 damage a second)

+40% Weight

+10 Strength

+10 Agility

+48 Perception

+32% Skill Range

+17% Water Affinity

+15 Intelligence

+Spell Raindrops

Seeing how high the bonuses from the two new items were, Lake was happy before even remembering neither of them were stolen. This meant this was actually only half of what the effects would be. "I guess I'll be selling them after all."

That would come later though since he was already setting Detector to look for the next closest item on his list. Once the arrow was spinning, Lake took out the core he had retrieved from Mizzly's body to see if it held anything he would actually want. After a few seconds of holding it in his hand Lake felt like maybe there was something more than just some experience or a few stat points and happily put it back into his bag to deal with later.

He was sure Lucas could help him with what he would need to do to get the skill or whatever out of the core and into his body because it was probably something Alchemists did. "This went a lot better than expected." He knew a lot of people would think it was bad luck to say something like this out loud but he was only a little over two hours in and already had two new items for Inner Vault.

"I can't believe I didn't guess that there could be more than one thing in each location." If this trend continued he would probably end up with dozens of things that didn't really match him well that he could sell or give to the guild or temple to make his bosses happy.