Chapter 340 - Battle Trophy
Chapter 340 Battle Trophy
After killing Prince Adolf, Abel took all the items he looted into his personal storage box. Since Prince Adolf was such an important figure, he didn’t dare to have a good look at them when he was inside the Double Moon Forest. These items might have a tracker on them, so there may be a chance that someone could figure out his whereabouts.
Abel knew how frightening Grand Duke Edwina could be. From that alone, he could tell how strong Grand Duke Francisco must be. To be honest, Even Wizard Cliff couldn’t be compared to those two right here.
Just to be safe, Abel did hide away Arvid’s corpse at the time. He wasn’t sure if this was going to slow down those who were trying to find him, but if anyone was trying to look for Arvid, it would most likely take them forever to do it.
When Abel was trying to sort out Arvid’s corpse, he did take his time to examine the items he had. The man had a lot of small objects that were hidden on him. There was a dagger, a pair of knuckle braces, some poisoned darts, a bottle of poison, poisoned needles, thin lines, some lockpicking tools and many, many other tools that were capable of killing a person. It’s a shame that it was a spiritual guardian knight that killed him. If it was a human, maybe he could’ve done something with all this stuff that he was carrying
As Abel laid out the objects on the ground, he realized that something went missing. He just threw a hoodie on the ground, but that hoodie was now gone.
He couldn’t see the hoodie with his eyes, but by scanning with his power of the Will, he could sense that it was still there. When it was on the grass, its colors changed to form a camouflage. But when he picked it up, its invisibility ability was gone.
The hoodie was grey when its ability was not activated. Abel thought that it was a magic item, but he rejected the thought very quickly. There was not a single trace of mana to be sensed from it. There weren’t any rune patterns to be seen on it, either. With a closer look, he could see that the hoodie was made of thin, grey threads.
These threads were moving microscopically. It was like the hoodie was a living being. When Abel placed it backed to the ground, it blended into the grass once more. After a few more testings, he discerned that the invisibility ability was created by camouflage, kind of like when an octopus was trying to hide from its predators.
This hoodie was a mystical item, a mystical item that was made for assassins. Abel did hear about mystical items before. He didn’t know much about it, but apparently, it was a naturally-created item that had some sort of special ability to it. In fact, one of his carving blades was also a mystical item.
He didn’t expect Arvid to have something this precious on him. After putting the invisibility hoodie into his portal bracelet, he decided that nothing else was worth collecting. Arvid’s magic gold card had thirty-three thousand gold coins in it, but it wasn’t like that money could be withdrawn.
To get rid of everything that he didn’t want, he threw Arvid’s corpse and the items on him towards the super oak tree. Once he did, the super oak tree took everything away with one of its roots. All the unwanted “evidence” was now taken away.
Now, then. It was time to sort out Prince Adolf’s items. Technically, Abel did strip Adolf off when he killed him. All he left on him were his underpants because everything else that he had on himself was probably something valuable. He was a prince, after all.
Abel didn’t have the time to look when he killed Adolf. He just took everything away and placed them into his personal storage box. From what he could see now, there was a coat, a pair of shoes, a portal bag, a necklace, a headband, a belt, and a few signs that were hung on the belt.
The coat was sown with multiple images of different animals. It was a leather piece, and from studying elven culture for a very long time, Abel could tell that it was a traditional costume made for hunting. It’s supposed to be a set with a pair of shoes. If he sold it to elves, he could probably buy anything with the money he would get.
It’s a shame. This coat was now evidence of the murder he committed. After throwing it away, Abel moved on to the headband.
The headband was made with mithril. It didn’t have any special function to it, but its weight said a lot about its worth. There were a lot of carvings on it, too. The carvings were actually thinner than hair. Just by holding the headband, he could feel the wave of mana that was being sent out.
Still, when he scanned it with his power of the Will, he couldn’t find any description for this item. He was educated by the human nobles, and not by the elven nobles. If he was properly educated on elven culture, he could probably figure out the origin of this piece.
Or, he could know more about this headband by wearing it himself. When he placed it on his head, a refreshing sensation spread throughout his body. His brain, especially. His thoughts were starting to become a lot clearer.
Abel tried to interact with the headband using his own mana, but there wasn’t any reaction. How could it be? Was this headband a magical piece designed to relieve stress? That couldn’t be it. There must be more that it could do.
Without giving up his search, Abel tried to look into the headband using his power of the Will. Unlike when he was putting it on his head, the response that occurred was completely different. It’s like the vision he saw with his power of the Will just became many times larger.
This was a magical item that could “expand” his power of Will. Right now, Abel’s power of the Will point was 70. With this headband, his range would be extended to a total of 140 meters. That was excellent news for him. Apart from having a big enough mana capacity, the second most important thing for a wizard was to have a strong enough power of the Will.
What did it mean to have a total range of 140 meters with your power of the Will? Take Abel’s “telekinesis” spell, for example. Before, he could move objects and knock out enemies within a 70-meter radius. Now, that range was doubled.
More importantly, once Abel became an intermediate wizard, or, if he got himself a magic staff with the “instantaneous movement” spell, his range of casting would be 140 meters. The number would double, no matter what his total POW point was. His teacher, Wizard Morton, could perform “instantaneous movement” at a range of only 100 meters in radius. For wizards, it was the best defensive move they could pull off. The further you can move in an instance, the safer your life would be in a fight.
Abel wanted to wear this headband wherever he went. He really did, but the decorations on it clearly showed that it belonged to the elves. If he was wearing it in front of everyone he saw, it’d be the same as confessing to having murdered Prince Adolf.
But it had such a broken ability! Abel was starting to feel sad because he couldn’t get to use this headband. He tried to scan it with his POW a few more times. To his satisfaction, the headband wasn’t labeled with anybody’s name. It also didn’t have any trackers or anything that would prove that it was owned by someone else.
Here’s what Abel could do. He could have this headband as a part of the same set as his invisibility hoodie. If he was using his invisibility hoodie, no one would be able to see him anyways. And since he would be wearing the headband underneath his invisibility hoodie, the chance was that no one would really realize it.
After taking out his invisibility hoodie, Abel used his craftsman’s skill to staple the headband to it. This way, whenever he was wearing the hoodie, the headband would be automatically worn on top of his head. And if he was wearing the hoodie, the hoodie would become invisible after blending with his clothes. It was a surefire way to hide any items that he could have on him.