Chapter 38: Nonsense
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Robb had expected them to come and ask him questions. Fortunately, he had already thought of a plan. He was not in the least flustered now. With a splash, he took an arm out of the bathtub.
The movement startled El, and she thought Robb was about to come out of the bathtub. She didn’t want to see a man’s naked body, so she quickly closed her eyes. “Hey, talk nicely. Don’t jump out of the water all of a sudden.”
Robb laughed. “I didn’t jump out of the water. I just raised my hand. Don’t make a fuss.”
“Oh, that’s good.” El opened her eyes again, but she was still too embarrassed to look at him. She glanced sideways at Robb, who was clenching his fist in the hand he had taken out of the water. He was obviously holding something in his palm.
“What are you trying to do?” she asked before she could stop herself.
“I want to explain why I was so powerful just now. I’m holding something that can explain my sword technique just now.”
Now El’s curiosity was truly piqued, and she no longer glanced to the side, not even bothering to avoid the boundary between men and women. She took two steps forward, her eyes locked on Robb’s clenched fist.
The Baron felt the same way. He was even more curious than El. Robb’s trick had been the ultimate pursuit of Berserkers. It had been so brilliant that the Baron had been envious. If only he could be as powerful. Now that he had heard that the secret was in Robb’s palm, his breathing quickened, and he took two steps forward.
Robb slowly opened his palm. The gesture was so slow that it made the Baron want to rush up and open his fingers. After a few seconds, Robb’s fingers completely relaxed. What appeared in his palm was a red gem. This gem was obviously not ordinary. It shone with a bright red light. This was the favorite color of Berserkers, the color they believed in the most, just like the believers of the God of Light in gold.
“What… what… what is this?” The Baron’s tone became abnormal. “I like its color. Oh, I even feel power from it.”
El also looked at the stone without blinking. She was different from the Baron. The Baron was a Berserker. He knew almost nothing about magic. His sensory ability was very weak. Most of the time, he could only judge things with his naked eyes and instinct.
But El was a priestess who dealt with magic all year round, and her training in it allowed her to sense far more than the Baron. She sensed great power in the ruby, that overwhelming surge of power.
El’s cold expression could not help but collapse. She could not help but ask, “What exactly is this? Although I don’t understand, I feel that it’s very powerful.”
Robb shrugged. “I picked it up in the mountains. I didn’t know what it was when I picked it up. I just felt its power, like you all feel about it, so I kept it with me. I was furious when the ogre threw a rock at my house, and then this stone in my pocket suddenly poured a lot of power into me. Then my brain went blank, and when I woke up, I found the ogre cut to pieces. Oh, I swear on my devotion to the God of Light, I really don’t know anything.”
For a priest to swear by the God of Light was a serious matter. El instantly believed Robb’s words, and the Baron no longer had any doubts. Both of their eyes were locked on the ruby in Robb’s hand. After a long time, the Baron said in a difficult voice, “Father, do you mean that as long as you hold this stone, you will be as strong as you were just now?”
Robb said matter-of-factly, “Maybe, perhaps.”
The Baron swallowed and asked with difficulty, “This… this is really… amazing. What is it?”
At this moment, a cry of surprise suddenly sounded from the side. Then, a figure flashed past. It was the red-haired mage, Snow Dew. She pounced over from the side and pointed at the ruby in Robb’s hand. “Oh my god! It’s a cursed ruby. You actually have this thing. No wonder you were so powerful just now.”
Robb looked like an Oscar-winning actor. “What the hell is a cursed ruby?”
The baron and El were really dumbfounded. “What cursed ruby?”
Snow Dew cleared her throat and said in a mysterious voice, “Speaking of the cursed ruby, I have to tell a story. When I was still an apprentice Mage, my teacher locked me in the library and asked me to memorize the book ‘Encyclopedia of Common Fire Magic Incantations’ before letting me out. Then, I found a few books in the library…”
As soon as she said this, El could not help but complain coldly, “Since you’ve already been grounded by your teacher, quickly memorize the book that your teacher mentioned. Why do you still have to flip through other books?”
Snow Dew spread her hands. “Mages are not like you priests, who follow the rules. We are full of curiosity and personality, and we never follow the rules. Is it strange for a Mage to finish reading half a shelf of books between books?”
El: “…”
She really didn’t know how to rebutt back.
When the Baron heard that the two of them had instantly digressed, he could not help but say anxiously, “Ladies, can you get to the point? We’re talking about that gem now.”
Only then did Snow Dew resume her storytelling. She continued, “Alright, let’s continue. At that time, I flipped through a book called The Encyclopedia of Cursed Secret Treasures. There was a page that happened to depict the ruby in Mr. Robert’s hand.”
“Oh, oh!” The Baron was excited. “What is it? Tell me, tell me!”
Snow Dew chuckled and continued, “The cursed ruby is a secret treasure left behind by the great but unknown Berserker ancestor, Doraemon…”
“Doraemon?” the Baron asked curiously. “Why haven’t I heard this ancestor’s name before?”
Robb barged in. “Do you think you know enough to know everything in the world? Do you know the names of all your ancestors?”
The Baron looked embarrassed and quickly lowered his head. “Sorry, I was too arrogant. Please continue, Mage.”
Snow Dew secretly gave Robb a thumbs-up with her hands behind her back and continued, “The ancestor of the Berserkers, Doraemon, was seriously injured in a battle with the enemy. He was unwilling to die like this, even though his life was flashing before his eyes. Therefore, before he died, he asked an Archmage to seal his soul in a ruby with a secret technique, waiting for the day when he could use someone else’s body to continue fighting.”
She pointed sharply at the ruby in Robb’s hand. “That’s the ruby! It’s just like the one in the book.”
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