Creaack!
Grizel opened the treasure box cautiously, wary of any hidden trap but nothing changed in her surrounding, she sighed in relief.
The small treasure box made of the worn-out wooden has only one thing inside of it, a plain ring in the corner of the box.
Any other people who accidentally found it without the guidance of the treasure map would think it was trash or some poor commoner's ring.
'Athena, should I drop my blood on this ancient storage ring and formed a soul contact like usual'
'Yes Master, ancient item is such a sucker of blood'
'Well, though I don't need any more spatial ring, I will always welcome free items'
'as expected of my Master, your greed is second to none'
Grizel grinned while ignoring the annoying Athena.
Drop!
Her drop of blood pour onto the ring, a sudden light flashes for a moment and the ring shape has changed into a beautiful silver ring warped with red ruby snake carvings.
'The craftsman surely has a good taste'
Grizel thought while putting the ring on her left index finger to feel the treasure inside it.
She can feel it, the number of treasures equal to the ones at the First Emperor's tomb, but it wasn't what she was aiming for.
"Found you!"
Grizel shrieked in excitement and took out a box from the ring, she opened the flashy box coated with gold and decorated with a ton of jewelry, who knows inside the plain ring is a mountain of fortune, even this box alone can be sold to buy a small mansion.
Creaack!
Grizel opened the flashy box.
"One, Two, Three... Hahahahaha"
Grizel laughed loudly while counting the number of Stone of Gods inside the box.
"This is crazy!"
The stone of Gods are considered legendary items, yet she is holding 3 of those national treasures now.
"No wonder the temple in the novel reaching their peak of golden age after finding this treasure map"
This treasure map contains the coordinates of several hidden treasures in the world, this enormous treasure located in the Northern region of the Azure empire was one of them, but she needs to grow a little bit older to travel the world and looting her treasures, for this time being she decided to visit the nearest hidden treasures which have the most suitable stone of God for Lucy and Levi.
Grizel takes one of the Stone of God, the emerald green stone, she has memorized all the colors and the blessings due to the odd detailed explanation in the novel.
'Because of the wind barrier, I took more of the storage mana than expected, I couldn't lose any more of it to activate the magic circle and descend from this high cliff'
'Master, do you want to use the blessing of this stone to get down?'
'Yeah, I have no other choice but to use it'
'But your body is still affected by the ancient magic you absorbed earlier'
'It's alright, I will take a high potion before absorbing the stone'
Grizel devoured the light green liquid in a small glass bottle called high potion.
'Ugh... I still couldn't get used to this strange taste'
After feeling refreshed, she used her artifact ring to absorb the emerald green color stone in the flashy box.
Just like when she absorbing the stone of Solomon, an emerald green color enveloped her pitch-black artifact ring.
Grizel smiled in satisfaction staring at the notification.
"It's a shame that in the novel the Temple didn't know how to use it properly and deemed the elemental type blessings as trash"
She sneered mockingly, but Athena abruptly adding a comment.
'Precisely they couldn't use it'
'Of course, even though blessings didn't require any mana to use unlike the magic circle or spells, it was hard to control the elements of nature'
'It wasn't hard but mostly impossible Master, to control it they need to make the elements to obey their command, but since the beginning, a human can't control the nature'
Grizel nodded in agreement, unlike the magician who created their own elements through mana and easily controls it, the wielder of elemental blessing who didn't use mana couldn't create any element, instead, they use the natural elements exist.
In short, they couldn't control fire in a place where the fire didn't exist, and even if it does exist, it would be hard or mostly impossible to control even the small amount of fire, thus, they thought magic will be more convenient to use instead. That's why they deemed the elemental type of blessings as trash.
'I think it's time to test your theory Master'
Athena chirped in the excitement of new knowledge.
It was said to be impossible for mere humans to make the elements of nature obey their command because humans didn't have the authority to rule over nature even with the blessing, and the blessing to control the elements wouldn't force nature to follow their command, it's up to the element itself to obey or not.
'If the elements of nature have personality, I would say they are arrogant and defiant'
'Exactly Master'
'I wonder if they could withstand a command of another blessing'
Grizel activated the full power of the blessing of Solomon, unlike the cold silver aura, this golden one is an aura of a Supreme Monarch.
The ground beneath her feet started to tremble in the presence of the majestic ruler, the fierce wind envelopes the cliff stopped to respect the sovereign, and the wild animals keep their breaths in silence.
Grizel walks toward the cave entrance and looks down, the fog has disappeared and she can clearly understand why it's called the death-fence.
While maintaining the golden aura, she started to activate the blessing of Hermes, wind control.
'As expected, the wind obeyed the blessings of Solomon'
Grizel grinned inwardly, without any command needed, the wind submitted to Grizel's desire.
Swoosh...
Grizel's body floating in the air flawlessly, her silky silver hair flutter by the breeze beneath the moonlight as if a graceful Angel descend from heaven to greet the ground.
Flop!
The wind disperses once Grizel's feet touch the ground slowly.
'Master, what was that? Why does it feel different from flying magic?'
'Of course, the concept was different. Flying magic use the help of magic to float, a messy hair and the inconvenient caused by the wind while flying is unavoidable, but in my case, I was gracefully carried by the wind itself'
'Is that why you look heavenly stunning?'
'Oh my~ it was quite unexpected to hear it from the insensitive Athena'
'Master, you don't forget that the variety of my emotions gradually increase along with your strength, do you?'
'I know, I know. Let's go home and give a little gift to Lucy and Levi'
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Knock! Knock!
Lucy opened the window for her lord and Grizel hopped into the room.
"Welcome back, My Lord"
Lucy and Levi are kneeling to greet their master in low voice, while Grizel walked straight to the bed and sit, she was quite exhausted after stealthily dashing back to the inn.
"Lucy, these are for you"
Grizel took out a black-purple stone and an ancient weapon from her unlimited storage.
"And Levi..."
She handed over a smoky brownstone and the empty ancient spatial ring which she didn't need to Levi, she has moved the contents of the ancient ring into her unlimited storage and break the soul contract with the ancient ring before giving it to Levi.
"What are these, My Lord?"
Levi asked innocently while Lucy looks like a broken robot with her wide dropped jaw the moment she got her new weapons and stone.
"This is a Stone of God and an ancient magic item for you, you need to be stronger to stay with me"
To be continued...