The two walked along the passageway leading to the treasure vault, chatting casually:
"Madam, if the Bloody Baron finds out you brought me in, won't he be angry?"
"It's alright. Actually, this is just the outer vault, storing equipment and items below level 30. Only Master has the key to the core vault..."
Linda nodded, "I understand, equipment above level 30 is extremely valuable."
Once he has his own core treasury, he will also control the keys himself. He doesn't quite trust people like Kaphni or Monica, let alone a sickly third wife like Belinne.
"Can I take anything from the outer vault?"
"Yes, anything is fine, but only one item. That's the most I can do."
"Of the master's three wives, I'm the least favored," Bellini said wistfully. "In ten years, the master has only had relations with me once..."
Linda stumbled, her face showing some embarrassment.
This lady seems to lack common sense, or rather, she's a big roast chicken...
Why does she always have to bring up that thing between her and the Bloody Baron to a hot-blooded young man like me?
Linda changed the subject: "Since that baron only touched you once every ten years, why is Leah already eighteen?"
"Oh... Leah is the master's illegitimate daughter. We were brought home when Leah was eight years old."
Belline's brows darkened as she recalled their impoverished past: "It was the master who provided us, mother and daughter, with comfortable conditions, but Leah resented him, believing that he had left us outside all this time, which led to me being harmed by the witch and becoming weak..."
"No wonder Leah sometimes seems so unsophisticated," Linda thought to herself.
Compared to a proper young lady like Eko, Lia is a complete mess except for her bad temper; she doesn't understand any noble etiquette.
Upon entering the treasure vault's main hall, Linda put aside her thoughts and began to carefully select items.
If you can only choose one item, you have to be careful.
At first glance, the shelves directly in front of you are full of weapons.
From the long and short staves used by mages, to the greatswords and one-handed swords of swordsmen, and the shields, axes, and armor of warriors,
It also has thieves' daggers and strange weapons from other professions, all available in a dazzling array.
Each piece emitted a pale blue light, while some of them glowed with a purple light.
Linda couldn't help but gasp.
The entire contents of the treasure vault are probably worth close to one hundred million gold coins!
Magical equipment filled an entire wall, with items on both sides, including some rare skill stones.
Linda walked around, looking at the items and using the system to determine their value.
[Equipment: Shining Staff]
[Level: 15]
[Quality: Rare Purple]
...
[Equipment: Lightweight Wrath Chainmail]
[Level: 19]
[Quality: Rare Purple]
...
[Equipment: A shadowy, serrated dagger]
[Level: 27]
[Quality: Rare Purple]
...
Linda read a lot and became indecisive.
There are so many excellent purple-grade equipment items that it's hard to say which one is definitely better than the others.
"No rush, take your time choosing," Mrs. Bellini said gently, noticing his furrowed brow.
Just then, something flashed on the shelf to the right.
Linda glanced at it subconsciously.
In one of the compartments, there was a silver, transparent test tube-shaped liquid.
"Huh, what is this...?"
His expression changed slightly, and he quickly went over.
Upon getting closer, he focused his mental energy on the bottle of silver potion.
A system message popped up:
[Item: Metal Destroyer]
[Effect: Greatly increases hit rate against metal-type monsters, lasting 10 minutes]
Improve hit rate...
At first glance, this bottle of medicine doesn't seem special.
While accuracy is important, most metal-type monsters are clumsy and cannot dodge adventurers' attacks.
But Linda knew of a metallic monster with smooth skin that could evade almost any attack.
Unless you are dozens of levels above it and can crush it, adventurers of the same level can only stare helplessly as they run away when they encounter such monsters!
The reason for 'letting them run away' instead of running away on their own is that those monsters have no offensive power and are timid by nature. Their only purpose is to be killed by adventurers and drop massive rewards.
This is something that doesn't exist in reality; it can only be encountered in the World Tree Secret Realm.
These are monsters bestowed upon lucky adventurers as a gift by the World Tree Goddess.
Its name is: Metal Slime!
A special mutation, suspected to be a rare slime inspired by Dragon Quest.
Linda had tried to defeat Metal Slimes many times in the game, but most of the time the Metal Slimes escaped.
It's only possible to kill them if you're extremely lucky.
At that time, Linda's adventure team had reached an average level of 50, while the metal slime they faced was only level 20.
Even a level 50 player might not be able to kill a level 20 Metal Slime. After several missed attacks, the Slime simply runs away.
Therefore, when Linda led Xueyan through the first level, she did not unlock the hidden level to search for the metal slime.
However, using this magical potion called "Metal Destroyer" can greatly increase the hit rate.
Metal Slimes have low HP, but the challenge lies in their annoyingly high evasion rate.
Once the enemy is successfully killed, the adventurer's party members will receive a massive amount of experience points and rare magical equipment!
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