Chapter: 513
As they walked along the passage, they passed by some large stone tubs filled with loose rocks and earth, some of which had flecks of gleaming violet colours reflecting in the light.
Grabbing one, Jay inspected it closely and used his analysis skill – yet no notification appeared.
“I guess it’s useless?” he shrugged, putting it back into the storage receptacle.
He looked at the gleaming rocks once more, and then decided to take one with him, thinking it might look cool in the sunlight.
[Sparkling Ore] x 1
“Hmm, so it tells me what it is when I add it to my inventory…?” he squinted at the stone tub of ore before him.
“I wonder why the analysis didn’t show anything? Is my analysis skill not good enough?” Jay picked up another rock and looked at it, attempting another analysis.
“Perhaps I need a prospecting ability or something?” he wondered, though his thoughts were quickly interrupted.
*GURRR~*
A deep groaning sound resounded from somewhere below the floor of the room and suddenly an opening formed in the wall behind the receptacle.
A thick orange glow came from the wall opening and without warning, the stone container flipped backwards – all the ore was dumped into the wall opening, leaving an empty stone box, right before the wall closed again as if it all had never happened.
“Uhh… ok then.” Jay turned his head to the side, a little confused as he held a chunk of the ore before adding it to his inventory.
[Sparkling Ore] x1
“I hope it wasn’t a mistake to let all that stuff go.” he thought as he scratched his chin.
“Hmm, but maybe it is just a useless sparkly rock,” he shrugged.
As they walked, they passed by more and more of these empty stone tubs, all of them empty.
“It’s getting warmer.” Anya said.
“Yeah. It feels nice.” Jay said, keeping the mood positive.
Soon, they saw a faint glow in the distance at the end of the passage; it was small and appeared as if a floating ember in the wind.
As they proceeded towards it, they heard some faint rhythmic sounds in the distance.
*doon… doon… doon… doon…*
As they got closer though it became a bit clearer, sounding like metal banging on metal – Jay didn’t need to guess to know what it was.
“Why is there a blacksmith here… it doesn’t make any sense. All of the soldiers’ weapons are made from stone.” he thought, curious as they walked quietly.
He could clearly hear the distinct sound of metal hitting metal, so Jay could only guess why none of the statues used any metal weapons. Surely they would be better than stone?
Getting closer to the orange glow, they came to the entrance of the room. Two large stone twin doors stood before them; each of them ornamental with an engraving of a hammer and anvil on one door and a sword on the other.