The Insider System

Chapter 89: Making Money Pt.3

Going through the sounds words could start with, Lake saw the formation finally do something new. It seemed whatever the password was it started with a "CA." sound. Looking at the amount the Ca sound had activated the password formation before failing, Lake would say Ca was a seventh of the word or phrase that was the password.

Lake started running the test again by following Ca with every letter of the alphabet, finally seeing progress when he said "Can." Now that he had a word, he wanted to know if this was a completed word, or if this was just the beginning of a longer word like Canada. He knew Canada probably wasn't a word here but he still said it.

With Canada not working Lake went through a few more words he knew that started with Can. "Cannon Canoe Cancel Cancer." With this method not really helping, Lake just went back to adding a letter at a time. It didn't take long for him to say "Cand." Lake could only think of one word with Cand in it. "Candle."

Seeing he was exactly halfway through the password now Lake said. "Candlewick Candle Light." After he said candle light the black metal door flashed a bright golden color before parting. Lake was really lucky the first word and the second word had to do with each other, because if they didn't it would have taken a lot longer.

Lake also realized how cheeky the password was. If he was a normal person he would have probably used a candle to light his way, and the door going from black to a golden light was the same thing that would have happened to the passage as the candle lit it.

Lake was a little surprised they had picked this password though, because someone using a candle might say Candle light by accident and open the door without meaning to. Of course it was unlikely someone would say "Man, this candle light is sure doing the trick." They would probably say "Man, this candle is sure doing the trick." and since they wouldn't know candle was half of the password it wouldn't matter.

Lake knew hiding something in plain sight could work very well in certain situations, so he couldn't really call it a dumb password, just a cheeky one. Before he stepped in he took a second to check where the owner was.

Seeing they were still miles away Lake was relieved, even though in a world like this some people could cover that distance in a second, it was still nice to know they weren't heading home yet, or at least not quickly.

Now that he was planning to go inside Lake activated Mana Vision he wanted to see if he could gather information on what could be inside. This also gave him time to regenerate some mana, so he wasn't really wasting time doing this because he might need all the mana he could have depending on what was inside.

Looking through the doorway Lake saw there was still a lot of mana coming from inside and it seemed this vault was blocking some because he could definitely see more now that the door was out of the way. There were 23 strong sources of mana and they were all glowing the same golden color.

Lake took this to mean they were the same element, and from all the elements he knew only one was a golden color. Taking a step inside Lake saw on the walls there were weapons mounted in protective cases. There were weapons of every type on the walls and on the back wall there were three swords.

Lake thought the swords were awesome, but there was a dagger in one of the cases on the left wall he wanted more. It was really thin, almost like a needle, and if he could steal it it would solve his knife woes. He also liked the golden glow it gave off. With how much he seemed to like gold now it really satisfied his urges.

Walking over to its case Lake was about to inspect it to see how to open it when it opened all on its own. Lake thought maybe the fact he hadn't blown the door down meant the cases thought he was allowed to be here. If that was the case he had actually saved himself some time by guessing the password.

Picking up the dagger Lake felt that it was very enchanted and inspecting it he found it was also a vessel like his ward ring was. That meant it had an ability he could use if he was to fill it with his mana. Lake didn't do it right away though, he had a limited amount of mana, and maybe one of these other weapons would be better suited for him.

Going for the bow next Lake felt the Insider stop him. Once it stopped him it showed him a vision like it had done a few times in the past. 23 different warriors using their Holy weapons to kill giants. Lake could tell the 23 holding the weapons weren't normal because they were using magic at the same level as the giants.

It seemed the weapons were possibly a secret weapon the Temple had hidden in the city in case it was attacked by the Demon Lord or at least that was what the Insider thought but it seemed its main point was he should only take one for himself and leave the rest for the people who actually needed them to fight the war.

Lake knew Holy weapons were hard to come by now that the Holy Goddess was dead and they also happened to be the bane of undead. That meant they were probably perfect for killing the giants Lake had seen yesterday. Grabbing the sheath for the dagger Lake put it in his bag.

Of course he put it in the secret space he could store stolen items in because his bag was already full of junk. Mainly gold actually Lake really needed to find a place to keep his gold because he couldn't just keep carrying it around, It was starting to get heavy. [New Quest: Acquire one million gold]

Lake was stunned, was the way to unlock this mission really to just think he couldn't carry all his gold. At least he had been right about gold being the way forward. Lake had realized the Insider seemed to subtly nudge him in the right direction so that was what had caused his recent obsession with gold.

It was trying to help him unlock the mission by making him like gold, so he would eventually have too much and unlock the mission by thinking. "I can't carry all this gold." It was very roundabout and a weird thing for something that had just told him what to do with a vision to do.

Why hadn't it just shown him a vision of him getting gold. Lake guessed it was possible the Insider couldn't control when the visions happened so it had to just do what it could the rest of the time.

Realizing he was in a very dangerous place to be just taking his time to think, Lake started to leave when he looked back at one of the swords. He thought it was a real shame he could only take one. Maybe in the future he would come back and switch if he ever wanted to try something new.

The Insider should have no problem with him trading them out as long as he didn't take more than one at a time. It was kind of like how a library made you return the books you had before you could take more.

Once he was in the tunnel Lake said the password again and once the door was sealed he walked up the tunnel and crawled out from under the chair and into the living room of the fake house.

Lake wondered if the people who lived here were also the ones who were supposed to wield the weapons if the city got attacked, and if so why aren't they here, and why didn't they have beds in their house. Also this place was big but 23 people was a stretch.

Maybe there were 23 people in the city somewhere who all had normal lives until they were needed. It could be like the secret protectors of light, or something. Looking out towards where the owner of the house was, Lake thought maybe that was where the war was being fought at the moment, and maybe they hadn't busted out the big guns yet, which was why all the weapons were here and not there.

It was pretty common for wars to escalate, so the fact they had hidden weapons wasn't that surprising. Opening the door out onto the street, Lake moved as fast as he could to get away. What he had just done really only hit him once he opened the door.