Chapter 118 - Shock

"Even if it means that I'm the only one who had this treasure, it means nothing since I'll probably never be able to carry it," Julius complained.

"Don't worry about that, let me introduce you to the storage ring. It allows you to place anything inside of it and as long as you have this ring, you can just pull anything out of it when you wish or put anything inside of it," the robotic voice explained like a hero that had come to save the day.

"Wait so if you mean anything, does that mean that it had no limitations?" Julius asked with a surprised tone.

"Well, most of these rings in the greater heavens have a limit as to how much they can store and many of them wouldn't be able to store all this much. However, lucky for you, I'm willing to bet everything on you. Please take this ring," the robotic voice said as a silver ring with a red gem in the middle of it feel from the sky and made its way to Julius' index finger.

"What do you mean?" Julius asked as he didn't understand what the voice meant by betting on him.

"This ring allows you to store and endless amount of objects inside it. All you have to do is point the ring at an object and wish for it to be in the ring and it'll happen. Try it if you don't believe me," the robotic voice told Julius.

"Sure…" Julius said as he pointed his ring towards the mountain of gold coin pouches, blades and other weapons.

"I wish for these objects to be in my ring," Julius said to himself. Just as he was told, the ring's gem began to glow before absorbing all of the gold and weapons like a vacuum.

"Wow it really worked!" Julius announced as he watched all of his treasure go inside the the ring and once that had happened, the red glow on it disappeared.

"How do I take stuff out of it though?" Julius asked.

"All you have to do for that is just to point the ring forward and wish to see a hotbar which is a small screen at shows you 4 of your objects per row. Since the ring I gave you is a very special one, there is an infinite amount of columns. To scroll up and down from it, just use the triangles beside the hotbar. The triangle pointing up makes you scroll up while the triangle pointing down leads you down. You get all that?" the robotic voice explained which Julius nodded.

"Now, I'm pretty sure to close it all I have to do is just wish for it to close," Julius said to himself and he followed through with that which actually worked.

"Good job, you managed to learn how to close your hotbar without any help," the robotic voice congratulated Julius.

"Thank you for all you've done to help me. I have one more question though, what exactly did you mean by you were betting on me to win?" Julius asked in a curious tone.

"Don't worry about it," the robotic voice had changed to be that if a gentle young woman's voice which had startled Julius. After those words, their conversation ended and Julius didn't bother to speak anymore as he was confused and didn't want to deal with a scare like that.

"Wow! I finally cleared the dungeon! I can finally go home to the guild and relax. I'll be able to see Ozel, Jun, Cece, everyone in the 10th continent and even, Liz…" Julius said to himself before drifting off. Even though he had grown in the past 3 years, some things never changed.

"I think I remember the way back to the kingdom, I mean, I didn't study all the geography for nothing," said Julius as he began to sprint towards where he believed the kingdom which hosted the 'Battling Barbarians' guild was.

…

"I'm back!" Julius yelled out as he opened the doors of the guild building expecting there to be a big celebration for him.

"Huh? What are you doing here you loser? Are you drunk of something?" one of the guild members asked.

"Why are you so quiet? Do you want me to punch your teeth in or something?" the guild member continued to taunt Julius.

"What are you talking about? I'm Julius, don't tell me you all forgot about me," Julius said in a confused tone.

"And where's guild master Ozel? I was hoping to see him on my first day back," Julius said casually which made everyone remember the over powered kid who had taken the mission which had caused Steven to be trapped inside for 10 whole years.

"Oh it's you Julius! We didn't recognize you. You've grown so much and your hair is long too… and you stink," one of the guild members made a joke.

"Haha very funny," Julius replied.

"Don't worry about guild master Ozel, he just went off to do an errand, he'll be back soon," Cece lied as she approached Julius.

"Something is off, I can feel it," Julius thought to himself and began to look around very closely.

"GET HIM!" one of the guild members yelled out as about 20 people jumped on top of Julius as they tried to secure him in place. Seeing what was happening, Julius prepared to kill all of them but decided to calm himself down so that he could gain more information.

"Why are you doing this?! Please let me go! I thought we were friends," Julius lied as he tried to make thing believable.

"Sorry Julius but things are different now. They aren't like how they used to be so get used to the changes. We'll soon be going to war and we need you on our side so we'll do everything on our power to make sure you join us," Cece explained as she tied Julius which some sort of glowing chain which probably meant that it was a monster core infused chain.

"War?! With who?!"