Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

He too followed Simon's example and finished them without making them suffer any more pain. By the time an hour had passed, corpses of best partially and fully transformed, lined up the floor. The two of them had successfully finished all of the beasts that were in this room.

"That's weird, why isn't the abomination here? According to my evaluation, there shouldn't have been anyone among those children that was its match. After all, it was only a step away from reaching level 700".

Lucine mumbled looking all around the dilapidated room. She was looking out for any possible traps when from the corner of her eyes she saw Simon bringing the corpses of all the beasts and burying them in one corner of the room.

Lucine was astonished, even though he could just leave them lying around, he still decided to give them a proper burial. She was finally aware of why that thing had chosen him as one of the potential inheritor.

Every action taken during this trial affected the overall result thus Simon's actions was bound to be noted.

After he was finished giving them a burial, a teleportation circle appeared beneath each of their feet and swiftly teleported them to a different place. Simon opened his eyes to find himself in a closed space at the end of which was a rusty double door.

Two other teleportation circles flashed and Lucine and Denzel appeared beside him. The fact that they were teleported here could only mean that they had passed the third trial; however, there was no excitement on their faces.

DING… a window notifying them of their successful clearance of the third trial, appeared in front of them.

[Congratulation on passing the third trial, you may enter the treasure room].

Finally, they were rewarded for their efforts up until now. The room with the rusty door in front of them, was the treasure room.

Simon tried pushing the doors but to his surprise, no matter how much strength he applied, the doors did not open. Funnily enough, when he injected some of his mana into the doors, it opened as easily as if it were wooden doors.

The moment the three of them stepped inside, the numerous torches lining up the wall, lighted up illuminating the room. The brilliant shine of various kinds of ores, coins and artefacts covered their line of sight.

At a glance, the room was full of different kinds of armours, scrolls, books, mana crystals, artefacts and coins of varying grades. If a common man saw this kind of treasure in front of them, they would have already gone crazy.

The value of all of this treasure if it was brought to the auction or market, was unimaginable. 

"Hnnn~" Lucine made a nasal voice and pointed her index finger to beckon something. Immediately, that item floated up from the heaps of treasure and flew towards her.

Catching the item in her hand, she stated "This is the Return Transit Rock, I only want this item, the two of you can share the rest among you".

Simon saw the black hexagonal rock in her hand and nodded his head. He did not argue with her for having the first pick since he could see a few more of them lying on the floor.

Her disinterest towards these treasures was also understandable, with the background and realm she was in, these treasures might as well be as good as stones to her.

"Since Mister has done most of the work, how about he takes his picks first" Denzel said modestly. It was not like he was not interested in the treasure but because when he compared his achievement with the two others, he felt it was a little lacking.

Simon had practically solved most of the riddles in their trials and lead them till here while the beautiful big sister translated all of the ancient writings for them. He on the other hand helped occasionally a few times.

Denzel who was brought up in a strict environment by his master, knew when to act modestly and when to press for more.

Simon did not reject their goodwill, he used analysis on the various items. He wasn't greedy, he only wanted those items that might be useful for him in the future and left the rest for the boy.

Scrounging for treasure amidst this heap with his gaze, Simon finally noticed something that piqued his interest. It was a bracelet shining with a gentle sea-green light. Other than its unique build, the bracelet didn't look that extraordinary with a glance but Simon who read the description of the item thanks to his [Analysis] knew better.

Stone Guard Bracelet- Temporarily grants the user immunity to Tremor Magic, the intermediate tier of Earth magic. Duration- 10 minutes, cool down- 27 Hours.

Immunity was different that resistance, the former provided absolute negation of damage from the said element while the latter only made you able to take less damage from it.

Simon had resistance to fire but it did not mean that he was completely unaffected by the element of fire and only had a partial protection from it. if a high-level person used a strong novice tier fire magic, they would be able to hurt him only that damage would be very minimal.

The stone guard bracelet was an item that could very well break the stalemate and prove extremely helpful during times of need. Although he did not know if there would be a time when he would be able to put it to use, having something of a trump card was never a bad thing.

Simon unceremoniously picked the bracelet and equipped it on his right hand. He then glossed over various artifacts, ores and mana crystals before hoarding a portion of them in his space ring.

While he was glossing over the treasures, he also found some useful items such as Grimores, Transit Rocks and a few [C] tier armours. Grimores were extremely rare items that granted a particular skill to the user of the item.

Unlike the Skill Crystal, which allows one to store and use a skill or magic, Grimores permanently bestows a person that particular ability or skill. Because of this, they are extremely rare and highly sought out after.

Most of the skills in those Grimores were unsuitable for him or were something that he already had. For example, one of the Grimore bestowed a skill called [Heavy Shield Bash] a higher tier skill of [Shield Bash] that a warrior class used.

Since the skill had class restrictions, it was unsuitable for Simon who had never used a shield before. Just like the other various items and artifacts, Grimores too have their own grade. They are divided in categories based on their colours.

Starting from bronze, they go as high as platinum or even diamond. Most of the Grimores here were silver with a sparse few golden in the mix.

After filling his space ring with coins of varying grades, Simon was satisfied with his loot and kept the rest for the boy. Even with him filling up his space ring, there was so much treasure remaining that it could baffle anyone.

"This is the largest share out of all three of us. Are you sure about giving it all to me mister?" Denzel asked seeing that he got the largest portion of the treasure. Since he knew his achievements weren't up to par with them, he was hesitant to take all of it.

Simon shrugged his shoulders and indicated that he was fine with it, he got the treasure that he wanted and honestly their value was much more higher than the coins strewn here. plus he got his [Ga??????] option with him thus artefacts, armours and weapons had no allure to him.

The same went for ores and mana crystals, his dungeon would soon be able to spawn them.

"In that case I will not hesitate" Denzel did not stand on ceremony and swiftly hoarded the treasury clean. After the treasure room was emptied out by them, a teleportation circle started shining at the edge of the room. If they stepped on the circle, they would be led to the fourth trial.

"I think I would like to use the Transit Stone and exit the trial here. I have been gone for so long that my companions might be worried for me" Denzel voiced his wish to end the trial here. His mind was a little tired especially after the third trial.

Simon contemplated if they should proceed with the trial with just the two of them before looking at Lucine and asking her opinion.

"It's fine isn't it… we all have return stones with us so we can come back here any time we want. There is no harm to end the trial here".

Simon felt she was right, the trial ground was not going anywhere and since they have the return stone, they can come back here anytime. Although a part of him was curious as to who built this trial and for what reason, he could just solve it at a later time.

Currently, he had much more pressing issues on his hands, the disciple that he and Adalinda were searching for, was right next to him. He had to bring her back to the capital before the little girl goes crazy.

Simon did not know how long it had passed in the outside world since they entered the trials grounds but to his estimation, it would have already been more than two days. 

There was no guarantee what might have happened to the capital while he was gone. He must hurry and bring Luince back to her Master.

"Alright, then let us all end the trial here" Simon declared before taking out a black hexagonal rock from his space ring.