The Author's POV

341 Taking the initiative [1]

Halting his steps in front of a large metallic door, the guard paused for a moment.

Placing his small blue hand by the side of the door, the metallic structure rumbled and slowly opened up.

Rumble-

Once the door was halfway open, the guard started talking.

"This over here is the artifact testing area. As you're probably aware, this place is dedicated to testing artifacts and their power."

"Oh? I've heard of this place."

Walking into the room, I pretended to be unamused by what I saw.

In truth, I was beyond shocked. With all sorts of complex machinery around the room, duergars could be seen testing all sorts of artifacts.

BANG-

Covered in sophisticated equipment, the duergars tested weird-looking artifacts against some sort of odd machinery. Displayed on the machine was all sorts of data which other duergars looked at by the side, taking notes on their holographic- looking devices.

Some of the artifacts were so powerful that I could sense the mana in the air convering towards it.

Keeping a straight face had never been more difficult for me.

'...I wonder if I can steal them.'

I thought to myself.

Oddly enough, that was the first thing I thought as I looked at the artifacts. I couldn't be blamed though.

Each one of the artifacts present would sell for astronomical prices back in the human domain.

To be honest, the probability of me being able to steal them was low, but a man could dream, right?

'Mhm... Actually, it's not impossible for me to steal them...'

A wild thought suddenly entered my mind.

If everything proceeded as planned, then, perhaps, I may be able to take some of the stuff here.

next to me, the guard patted

the facility are made of Rhimestone, ensuring some

"Rhimestone?"

raised my brow

Rhimestone was an incredibly sturdy rock that

was also ridiculously

finger across the wall,

made of Rhimestone. Because of it, we don't have to worry about the facility if the artifacts ever do malfunction. The walls over here can withstand

they didn't do this

responded, trying my best to memorize the layout of the

might turn out to

isolated from the other

probably make up

a matter of greed. This place could

fluctuations and the like reach

"Yea."

this

the corner of

density reaches a certain level, it will

the ones stuck inside? Do they have a chance to flee? I assume

at the duergars working on the artifacts in the distance before shaking his head. "They'll be sealed inside, and probably die. We don't want to take any risks. For better or worse, everyone here knows how the system

he

system will deactivate as soon as it judges that the mana density in the room

"...I see."

ruthless

threat would not go outside of the room, they were

happened to the people here, I did feel that Inferno had taken some

to sacrifice

pity to lose so

the information was actually quite

had previously envisioned became

to the next

to me, moving

last glance at the

"Yes."