BXBX NOVEL Chapter 531
I sat up, the burning pain in my back finally starting to diminish. After everything, I didn’t earn any dungeon points. No Reset. I was still stuck with Meteor and two Portals as my only skills granted from the store. In the future, my DP would be shared with my girls as well, although I was supposedly earning more? I figured that would just about even everything out then. I shouldn’t see it as less for me, but more for my team as a whole.
However, in this particular dungeon, whether it was because I destroyed the dungeon entirely or because of the unique nature of the blessing, they saw fit to give all of my points to the girls. It was good that the girls got enough points to get started, but it was unfortunate that after all that, I had made no progress.
That wasn’t true. I hadn’t come here to earn points. I had come here to earn money. The large pile of treasure sitting in front of us was more than enough to pay off the shipwright and provide more funds for Chalm.
“My… my… friends… you killed them?” A shocked voice caught my attention, and I turned to the shady guy who had led us here.
“Ah… you’ve finally admitted you had plotted to get me killed?”
“You… you knew?” His face turned ugly. “You killed all those people!”
“Nonsense… the dungeon has clearly been destroyed.” I gestured to the complete absence of a dungeon. “Their souls only get damaged with time in a dungeon. Since the destruction of the damage coincided with their deaths, then they are fine. You should be able to resurrect them without too much difficulty.”
“Res- resurrect them?” He said in wonder and then shook his head. “No! You think we have that kind of money?”
“Haven’t you been stealing it?”
“You! If we had it, we wouldn’t need to steal it!”
“I see…” I scratched my chin thoughtfully, then walked over to the treasure, grabbed about ten gold coins, and walked back and held it out. “This should just about pay for the resurrections as well as a little extra for being our guide, kind of.”
He looked down at the coins, and greed glinted in his eyes before he looked back at me defiantly. “We agreed on 10%!”
“The nerve…” I shook my head. “First off, you were trying to kill me. Secondly, the agreement was transport to the 39th floor. You never did your job, so I don’t owe you anything.”
His greedy expression turned ugly and pulled a knife. “I’m going to have to insist!”
I raised an eyebrow. “I just blew up a dungeon with the wave of my hand, and you’re going to pull a knife on me?”
His mouth fell open, his eyes turning back to the ledge, which had lost about 200 meters into the ocean after the impact. He then lunged out with his free hand, grabbed the coins from my open palm, turned and ran. I rolled my eyes as the girls approached me. We watched him run off into the distance. Then, I turned back to the pile.
“Ah! Lucky!” I noticed a ring sitting on a pile of coins.
It was a storage ring. I checked it out with Identify, and made another noise of contentment. It wasn’t a time stop ring, but it did slow time down by 4X. I wouldn’t need to work as hard to keep things fresh. The space wasn’t as good as my last ring, but it was still considerably better than Inventory. By the way, I had never tested if Inventory had a time stop function. It’s because I only kept things in inventory that really mattered, and perishable food that I could preserve indefinitely never made the cut.
“Do you think that guy will resurrect his team?” Miki asked.
“I doubt it. He will probably keep the money and spend it.” Terra sniffed.
“Well, they are probably undesirables the priests would refuse to resurrect, so he might not even if he wanted to,” Shao added. “They’re all probably dead.”
Don’t say that kind of stuff around me, ladies. I really don’t want to feel like a murderer here. Well, I did everything I could. If they died, then they should have made better life choices. Deep down, I wondered if maybe my mindset was starting to change thanks to this world.