What if the Terrans really are saving the world?

Chapter 28 Spark Magic Wand

As the number of corpses gradually decreased, Ragon felt a little better. He walked towards the village and then heard an old man's voice.

Not far away, an old man knelt before Terra and Mana: "We don't want those pigs anymore, Your Excellencies of the Vatican, please leave! This is the final payment entrusted by the union, it's all yours."

Then Terra's voice came: "No, the quest log shows it's incomplete. I need to deliver the quest item to you."

"The Vatican?" Lagon 1 didn't go directly there, but waited until Terra and Mana 1 left the village entrance before following them.

"Why are you here?" Mana was pleasantly surprised to see Ragon, and felt much better. Finally, she wasn't the only one who had embarrassed herself.

"I've run into some trouble and I always need your help." When Lagon said this, he was looking at Terra, not at Mana1, which made her feel a little uncomfortable.

"A new mission?" A smiley face bubble appeared above Terra's head.

"Mana, what's going on in the village?"

Mana 1 sighed and roughly told Ragon 1 what had happened.

"Papal personnel? Resurrection? Floating eyeballs? Ha!" Ragon 1 chuckled inexplicably.

"Hey, Terra, it's only been a little over a day, and you've already pulled off another big heist!" Ragon 1 glanced at the village chief in the distance, but the old man immediately ran away.

This was the first time he had ever seen an elderly human run at that speed.

"So you're going to the mountains to find the bandits' camp, right? Let me handle this."

"Ah, no need, Terra knows where the camp is," Mana1 said.

"Weren't you supposed to arrive at the village last night? How did you know the camp's location if you didn't go out all night? Did the robbers confess?"

We arrived yesterday afternoon.

Lagon1 remembered that Terra had gotten a pair of sprint boots from the ruins.

"As for the camp location, do you think any of the bandits will survive to confess? Terra said it can be seen on the big map, but I don't understand."

Ragon 1 was truly eye-opening.

Before he went to the Adventurers' Guild to find Mana and Terra, he had already told Nora, who was traveling with him, that it might take more than a day and asked her to keep an eye on the information brokers in those buildings. He even stopped by a restaurant on the way and ordered takeout, asking the owner to prepare stewed rabbit and send it to Nora.

But looking at it this way, we can go back this afternoon, which is very efficient.

The three entered the northern forest, and Terra managed to carve out a path through the mountain trail, which was not easy to traverse, using a pickaxe and axe.

The trees and steep slopes blocking the road have all been cleared.

They walked straight for a long time, and finally, a campsite appeared before them.

Several sheds made of branches and tarpaulins stood crookedly, and a campfire blazed in the center of the camp.

Several robbers were patrolling the open space.

Without saying a word, Lagon 1 charged forward, followed closely by Terra and Mana 1, and they quickly finished them off.

Then, in a large hall, they saw several tables of cold food, mostly pork belly, pig's head, pig's knuckle, and pig's trotters.

The air inside was filled with the sticky smell of grease.

Mana thought to herself, "It seems the village chief's pig is probably really dead."

In the center of the hall was Rice I, hanging there.

After waiting all night without seeing Tefrey return, and now seeing two "papal envoys" and a lizardman come looking for him, even the dumbest Rice knew what was going on.

He struggled desperately, crying out, "My lords, save me! I've been kidnapped by these bandits! Thank goodness you've come!"

Ragon 1 wanted to put Rice 1 down, but Mana 1 stopped him.

Rice 1 was overjoyed as he watched the cube messenger slowly approach him.

however.

The next second, Rice 1 saw his body torn to pieces.

He was in so much pain he wanted to scream, but without his lower body, he could only whistle poorly. He could only mumble curses at the blocky figure in front of him, until finally his eyes lost their luster.

Rice 1 is completely dead.

"This enemy was deliberately hung in the middle of the hall; I thought it might drop some good loot. It doesn't even drop money. Trash enemy."

Terra used her pickaxe to dig up the pork hanging on the tables and beams around her, which were the "quest items," and sucked them into her backpack.

You need 10 quest items to complete the task, and you have 15 in your inventory. That's enough.

Terra was also glad that he had a lot of quest items. He was the kind of person who always had a collecting obsession and would always leave some extra items in his backpack before handing in the quest items for each of these collection quests.

just.

Looking at the pork in her quest log, which was meant to be a quest item, Terra couldn't figure out where the piggy bank that the robbers had stolen had gone.

Never mind, I still have three in my backpack anyway.

"These must be the pigs the villagers wanted. Let's take them and leave." Mana thought for a moment and then packed up the cleaned bones on the table as well.

Lagong 1 didn't stand on ceremony. Since the pig had already ascended to heaven, he didn't care if the pig had a couple of bites. The villagers didn't care either.

He had run over all night and hadn't eaten breakfast yet, so he devoured the braised pork knuckle on the table in front of the head of the table in just a few bites.

"Let's go, Terra," Mana called out, carrying a bag on her back.

"There's a basement down here!" Terra stood in a corner of the hall, a smile appearing above her head.

The basement was located quite deep, so Terra dug out a block of soil in the middle of the soil layer below the hall and stuck a torch there.

The torchlight illuminated a large area, including the underground pool, where Terra could vaguely see several treasure chests.

Mana was no longer surprised how Terra knew. She tried to find the entrance nearby, while Terra dug straight down and fell to the basement floor with a thud.

Terra discovered that there were also some pieces of wood mixed in with the soil above the basement.

He wondered if the new version's setting meant that there was actually a big tree above the basement.

Mana and Ragon wondered why the basement was so deep, so they went down into the hole Terra had dug.

Upon closer inspection, the decor of this basement was completely different from the one above. This was hardly a basement at all.

Isn't this a tomb?

Mana1 said, "No wonder I couldn't find the entrance."

These robbers probably had no idea there were these things under their feet.

Terra walked into the chest, went through the motions of digging with her pickaxe to see if any particle effects appeared. After confirming that there were particle effects and it wasn't a trap chest, she opened the "chest". Terra took all the items from each of the "chests" and also took the "chests" herself.

Mana and Ragon watched helplessly as Terra lifted the coffin in the middle of the tomb and took all the burial goods, even the mummified body of the tomb's occupant.

The coffins contained very little, mostly just some purple or blue gemstones buried with the deceased.

Terra opened several coffins in this way.

Does Terra think that anything with a lid and containing something inside is a box?

Mana1 and Ragon1 weren't people with any particular interest in artifacts or history, so they didn't have any particular thoughts about Terra's actions.

However, Mana1 was still curious about whose tomb it was. The tomb didn't look like something an ordinary person could afford to build, but the location of the tomb was very abrupt, and the interior was not luxurious.

Let's ask Miss Elf after she figures it out.

She sensed that elves seemed quite knowledgeable about things like history.

Moreover, even if Terra doesn't come, this tomb will probably be looted sooner or later anyway.

Because Mana1 saw a hole in the south stone wall large enough for an adult human male to crawl through.

Did these robbers know there was something here, which is why they stayed here?

Terra checks the new items in her backpack:

[Amethyst Gemstone] *9

Hanging Skull*4

Sapphire Gemstone *2

The skull is just a decoration, what a pity, I thought I could get the bone early on.

Amethyst and sapphire gems can be used to plant trees. Terra currently has 10. Once she has 15, she can synthesize the [Gem Grappling Hook], and then Terra can fly around like Spider-Man.

Blue jade can also be used to synthesize new furniture in the magic storage.

Furthermore, once you have copper and silver ingots, you can use them to make magic staffs for NPCs.

However, Terra also found a staff in the box:

[Spark Wand (Won't this wooden staff set me on fire?)] *1

【material】

Base damage: 14 (magic)

[Repelled: 0]

[Mana Cost: 2]

Critical Hit Rate: 14%

Projectile velocity: 7

【射出小火花，射弹有5/6 (83.33%)的机率造成「着火了！」减益，持续1–2秒，有1/6 (16.67%)的机率持续 2–4秒】

Price: 20 silver coins

This is not bad.

Mana1 saw Terra pull out a piece of wood and swing it like an iron sword. A small cluster of flames appeared in front of Terra and shot forward a distance.

So this thing is a staff? When she was watching Terra "unpack" earlier, she was wondering why the tomb owner would put a tree branch in the coffin as a burial item, but that tree branch definitely wasn't a staff, right?

The twig that seemed like it would break at the slightest touch was transformed into something brand new in Terra's hands, with even a small leaf still attached.

This is truly bizarre.

It feels strange to say such things in a tomb.

But at least Terra finally has magic that Mana1 can understand. That's really something.

These tiny sparks of magic are basic courses in the academy; at most, they only cause a small burn to the skin and have no practical use, but they look very pretty.

The three of them searched the tomb for a while, and after confirming that there was nothing left, they decided to return to the surface.

Because Mana and Ragon couldn't get through the hole Terra dug, Terra dug another slanted passage next to it to get up.

The three returned to the village, but Mana refused to go back. Only Terra went to turn in the quest.

Mana1 didn't know what Terra said, she only saw the village chief kneeling on the ground, surrounded by pig parts.

"That should conclude the commission, right?" Mana 1 breathed a sigh of relief. She then casually asked Ragon 1 beside her, "What was it that you asked us to help with?"

Ragon1 said, "Nora1 and I went to the black market to find the dealer who sold me the fake information. We hadn't been looking for long when we saw him chatting with a group of adventurers on the street. We saw him, and he saw us too. Then he turned around and ran away. Judging from his expression, he probably didn't expect us to come back alive."

"We chased after him and finally saw him enter an inconspicuous little trading house. A few of us surrounded the trading house and were wondering how to get in. We wondered if we should send someone to knock on the door and negotiate. But then a sorcerer attacked us from the window on the second floor of the trading house."

"Everyone around here has run away, but Nora and the others are still standing there."

Mana1: "Making such a big fuss? Are you sure surrounding the trading post will work? What if there's a secret passage?"

"That's why I went to find Terra. He can see through walls, right?" Ragon 1 looked at Terra, who was walking over from the village.

"If there really is a secret passage, then it's not something we can investigate. If he really escapes, we can always find him if he's still in the city. If he's outside the city, then he's really capable. I'm betting that the trading post doesn't have a secret passage, and I think I'm right."

"If the person staying at that trading post was a normal, unrelated merchant, they would definitely send someone over to ask us what was going on. They wouldn't even be angry with us; they would just try to get rid of us with money, not wanting us to interfere with their business. This kind of selling of false information isn't a big deal."

"After all, it's the black market. Because the leaders don't go there, everyone makes a living on the edge of the law, and those guys actually have their own rules."

"They couldn't possibly not see that we are adventurers. Many of those black market merchants obtain their goods through adventurers. At least on the surface, they wouldn't deliberately make a big fuss just to avoid future business."

"Not to mention that someone who can build such a small trading post on the black market wouldn't be so brainless as to damage their own interests."

"But no one came out of the trading post. This can only mean that there is definitely something wrong with the trading post, and a big problem at that. It is definitely not a simple case of false information. They must be unilaterally believing that we know something deeper."

"Either that information broker is the secret owner of this trading post, or the owner of this trading post has a vested interest in him and is willing to break ties with us to protect that guy."

Just then, Terra returned. She then hoisted the two of them onto her head and raced towards Mi City.

Inside the Adventurers' Guild, receptionist Stella was writing her monthly work report for the guild master when she heard the parrot at the door say, "Welcome!"

"Thank you for trusting us... Mana1? How come you're back so quickly? Wait, did that old man owe us any money?"

Mana recalled the village chief kneeling and trembling: "Well, he didn't owe any money. He paid very readily. In fact, the old man gave him quite a bit more."

"It seems the cleanup was done so quickly. The villagers are very grateful to you! I bet those pigs are happily eating their feed in the village right now."

Stella clapped her hands, tilted her head, and smiled at Terra. "Terra is the one!"

Stella decided to include this commission in her monthly report later, explaining how she accepted the commission and how she brilliantly got Terra to help her, hoping to earn a higher bonus.

"Pigs probably can't laugh, haha, they don't even have that part anymore," said Lagon1.

Stella understood the lizardman's joke: "It's normal to lose a pig or two; the robbers just need to clean it up."

Mana glanced at Terra and thought to herself that there were three pigs in this hall right now.

As for the robbers, she chuckled dryly twice: "The robbers did clean up very well, but the villagers were also kept quiet... but at least those villagers are all alive and well."

"Alright, the handover is complete. We'll be leaving now."

Stella placed the guild's mission reward on the table and gave it to Terra: "Lagon1, you're really taking it easy. Isn't Nora1 still over there?"

"That's a strategy too. A siege tactic like that requires slowly wearing down the enemy inside. They're the ones who're anxious, anyway. Enough said, we're leaving."

*

North of the village, in the bandit camp.

Trevor dragged his badly injured body back here.

He had fought his way through several of those disgusting eyeballs last night before managing to pry them out. He hadn't been this disheveled in years. Seeing the ransacked camp, he smiled, and the heart he had when he first became an adventurer began to stir again.

Even though the robbery gang is gone, these things don't matter.

As long as the things under the camp are there, those four bodies are still there.

He slowly walked into the hall and immediately saw the square entrance that was dug out diagonally into the ground.

He frowned and went down the passage into the tomb chamber.

In the dim torchlight, he saw a tall woman dressed in a black fitted dress with her back to him. The four stone coffins that had been in front of her were gone.

She slowly turned around, her long, silvery-white hair gleaming, her pointed ears trembling slightly.

"You really have a good thing hidden away."