Chapter 259 - The Two Explorers(2)

Osira thankfully didn't gesture at any more animals or beasts or anything similar, nothing alive at least. She walked towards the fourth cell and pointed, "There is a gem encrusted necklace over there."

What she pointed at, was at a Snow Ignite skeleton, who has died with this necklace around his or her neck. Without fear she just hit the lock with a Fireball and dragged the door open, there is so much rust on it that the entire cell door fell off in the process. These Dungeons won't hopefully have to be used, but they look quite repairable.

She approached the skeleton, slipped her hand behind its back lightly and pulled the necklace out with aims of not ruining it. "What's so special about that necklace?" Asked Eric, a bit confused how she considers jewelry more interesting than a Ratbug who could bend metal with its pure newly given strength.

"I think you are under estimating the value of this little necklace here." Osira stated, and of course had more to say about in hopes of convincing him to help search for more. "See the gold part that hold the necklace together barely costs a hundred gold coins, but the gem you are looking at is a Mountain gem."

"So this... mountain gem is more important?" He was still confused, expecting that it is heavily magically enchanted.

"Well it doesn't have any magical value but the gem alone costs 300 Gold Coins, so this little trinket here can get us 400 Gold Coins worth of food!" Well at least now her intend is made pure.

As a sign of trust, she tossed the necklace at Eric and explained. "Put that in your pocket, we will search every corner of this Dungeon, grab anything valuable." Trusting him is the least she could do to show a sign of apology, even though being direct about it isn't her cut of beef.

She afterwards gave the fire in her palms a bit more power and managed to illuminate half of this entire dungeon, it was made clear that this place is small. The fact that intruders getting up here is rare also explains why there aren't any big dungeons.

But space management is important too considering the mountain wall is just a few meters away, which is why the snow Ignites made this left wing follow the main tunnel with just a 65° forward, they had to make space even though they almost reached the second section with it.

However, once Osira illuminated the place further she spotted a couple of rings on this skeleton's finger. One of them is made from silver and the other is made from gold, together they just cost around 100 gold coins. Small compared to the first one but this is considered a whole salary for many people.

"I think this cell is clear." She pointed out as she walked in to check the third cell and anything before it!

Twenty minutes later, they started counting their loot. Eric had to hold a flaming torch over her head while she counted the loot on the ground trying to calculate, repeating. "These Snow Ignites sure fancy jewelry, I wonder why these of the richer ended up in the Dungeon."

"Yes it is a bit weird." He replied, feeling a bit happy that there is barely any more awkward silence now.

They have found 10 rings, 4 necklaces and a golden dagger too. Gold is a terrible idea for weaponry, it bends easily. Hard Iron is always the best idea, but it appears a bit clear that he or she used this dagger as a fancy way of showing off gold. Touching Skeletons wasn't the best experience it but it was sure worth it!

"I can't be absolutely sure, but these should cost 2,500 Gold Coins, 3,000 at max." She finally told, it is a very good find. Depends what they would buy really but if they would settle in for wheat grain, they would get around 7 tons! But transportation is the biggest problem here, they can't go down to the low lands to buy so they have to depend on the neighbouring kingdoms here in Septemtrionis Ignis.

They've walked out with gold and silver on their pockets, and since the day has still an hour of daylights in it they went ahead and checked the left wing on the first section. If they are lucky enough, it won't just be a room leading to more and more rooms, that would take a lot of time to explore.

The right wing had a considerably long tunnel after thinking about what they found after, a bad idea actually. It first stretched 65° forwards for 20 meters along with the main tunnel, almost reaching into the second section before it takes a sharp turn completely to the right for another 20 meters.

When they walked in the room, they saw a lot of cobblestone slabs elevated a foot above the ground, and on the walls close to them there were also some more beds. Considering that this place is only 5 meters wide and 7 meters long, only 12 beds fit here.

It was hard to figure out for what it is for, but they saw Iron weaponry here and there on the walls between the beds, bad idea since the weapons could have fallen any moment while the people here were sleeping but considerably good space management.

Since this room is the second closest to the exit, it has to be a Guard room. Osira was the quickest to figure out. Eric was surprised and dared to ask. "How did you figure that out?"

"The rusty Swords, they are all over the place and there are a lot of beds here. Easy to figure out." She specified, showing off her rate of perception.

These rusty weaponry are basically useless, they will be thrown away and this room will be refurbished but at least something valuable came out of it. On the beds there are a couple of golden rings and another necklace, likely placed under the pillow but the fur decomposed after a year or two and this jewelry was left exposed.

"Oh I think we can easily sell all of our jewels for 4,000 Gold Coins." Spoke out Osira with a lot of enthusiasm on her tone and with her face smiling, adorable to watch really.

Feeling a bit of loss for words once he took a glance at her smile, he just gave out a short reply. "Well maybe there is more, lets search."

There also several Demon skeletons in here, the Guards likely fought a lot of them here especially since a lot of the weaponry is knocked over. There some fractured human skeletons and a Demon still has a Iron Sword through its ribcage.

"Looks like a big battle broke here, I think this race really under estimated how much enemies could get up here." She started another conversation, there is obviously a lot to talk about here.

"Yes, I'm surprised how there are just 12 beds here. Considering all those rooms on the Second section there should at least be 50 Guards." Now he showed that he has some knowledge when it comes to managing such cases, he spend a bit of time with King Michael. He constantly talks about ideas and he picked some of them up, not to mention Lan Zhe used to have 55 Guards even after considering the hundreds of Lava Controllers.

"My point exactly, I'm glad that you can at least catch up in this topic." She joked around, with no intention to offend this kiddo but to tease him instead.

Taking the contents of this room as an example, he took a little deep breath and said. "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm very used to talking about Demons, it is very clear." At this point he was being sarcastic, Mogranius had a huge contribute to this little attitude.

"Wow, you do know how to talk." She continued with another joke, her entire face still remained smiling and it is not just because there is jewelry in her pockets.

Trying to avoid that question he looked at a skeleton and asked, "Are these sets of armour useful?"

Taking a glance at the skeletons who were apparently fast enough to put their armour on, she specified as she tapped on a few spots on the armour. "It looks like the Demons roughed this guy up really bad, do you see the armour literally torn here and here on the chest."

"Yes..." He replied as he too bent down to see the skeleton, eager to hear her out more. She clearly sounds like a battle expert until now.

"Well this would he hard to repair, it is a waste of Iron. Not to mention all the rust." You would think that it is weird for her to know so much about Iron.

Eric found it a bit weird too, so he asked. "How do you know so much about Armour?" Well, he meant to say Iron but got his words mixed up a little bit.

"My father was a blacksmith, I learned everything from him. At least I did until he sold us to attain a bigger position."