Novel Bin Chapter 447
“What do you suggest I do?” Blake asked the system.
[Nothing.] The system said, surprising Blake. [You are forgetting that you 3 have been through countless missions but they haven’t asked about your life on Earth.]
[Friendship is a 2-way effort, and every party involved are meant to understand that everyone has their own issues. In this case, you have put in way more effort by sacrificing a lot of things just for them, carrying through difficult missions, and even risking your life for them.]
[So if there is someone that is meant to be putting in more effort it should be them. That is why I said you should do nothing.] The system said.
“You do remember that on multiple occasions, they have reached out to me for extracurricular activities but I had turned them down because I was cultivating. I feel those were the chances I had to further bond with them.” Blake said.
[That is why I said both parties should understand that everyone has their own issues. Besides, the reason you guys have survived up to now is because of the countless hours you spent training and cultivating.] The system said leaving Blake speechless.
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“You are right, I won’t do anything.” Blake said as he stood up and brought out the package from his dimensional pocket.
In the package was a dimensional amulet that contained the gold coins, and what seemed to be a metallic scarab shell.
Blake first moved the gold coins to his card, before picking up the scarab shell and scanned it with the system.
[Name: Guardian scarab
Grade: Epic tier
Type: Artifact
Abilities:
Ingurgitate: The Guardian scarab absorbs all forms of precious metals to increase its mass and reinforce its strength.
Transmutation: Guardian scarab can take the form of whatever the user imagines.
Spell channeling: The user can channel spells through all parts of the Guardian scarab.]
“It’s more of a utility kind of artifact, but it isn’t bad at all.” Blake said as he poured his mana into the artifact.
Once Blake bonded with the metallic scarab, 3 legs came out of both sides and it began crawling on Blake’s hand.
“Erm...”
The guardian scarab artifact didn’t come with a manual and neither did he know what was happening. So in fear of interrupting whatever was going on, he just watched it climb up to his shoulders and then to his back.
When it was directly on the upper part of the spinal cord, all 6 legs dug into Blake’s skin.
“What the fuck!” Blake felt a sharp sting before feeling a little bit light-headed.
To enable it to transform into Blake’s imagination, it needed to be able to know what he was thinking. That was why it was connecting to his nervous system and mind.
In less than a minute, the second and last phase of the bounding process was complete and Blake had returned to normal.
“Alright, time to test it out.” Blake left his room for one of the training rooms.
“Let’s see...”
Blake imagined 6 spider legs, and immediately the guardian scarab at his back shot out 6 channels of liquid metal that instantly solidified and took the shape of iron spider legs.
“That’s incredible!” Blake was astonished by the scarab’s speed of transformation that took less than a second.
“Let’s see how responsive it is?”
Blake tried moving the metallic spider arms with his mind but it turned out to be much easier than he thought.
Just like how moving one’s body wasn’t done by actively thinking, the arms were no different. It was as if the scarab knew his next thought.
Blake began using the spider legs to start climbing the walls of the training, but that was when another thought came into his mind.
When he got to the top of the ceiling that was over 10 meters tall, Blake removed the spider legs out of the walls and began free-falling.
With just a thought the spider legs combined to form metallic wings and began flapping.
“I can believe it!” Blake screamed in shock when he saw that he was no longer falling.
Common sense told him that there was no way metal wings would be able to fly, but he felt that if it couldn’t then there would be no difference from a regular mechanical device.
For close to half an hour Blake continued extensively testing and training with the scarab.
He tested the size limit of what they could transform into, and also the durability of the transformations.
“The only problem now is that I can’t have it sticking at my back all the time.” Blake complained, but that was when the scarab turned into liquid and went into his body.
“The fuck?!” At first, Blake was shocked but he quickly understood what was going on.
He once again thought of the spider legs, and instantly the liquid scarab came out of his body and solidified.
“That’s awesome, now for the final part.” Blake said as he brought out all the silver and bronze coins in his inventory.
If it was a few years ago, Blake would have cursed the heavens for making the royal family send something that would drain his money, but things were different now.
His ‘inventions’ manufactured by his company called Science, had become so popular among both nobles and commoners that they had spread to all parts of the Synder empire.
At this point, Blake was richer than many noble families, but the best part was that nobody knew about his wealth or even the connection between him and Science.
The silver and bronze coins totaled roughly 2k gold coins which still made Blake quite uneasy, but after spending thousands of beasts cores on Ebony and Ivory he knew epic-tier weapons and artifacts were worth spending so much.
“How to do it now.” Blake thought causing the scarab to detach and roll to the pile of silver and bronze coins.
Once it was a few inches away from the pile, the coins began turning into liquid and began moving to it.
“That’s way more effective than I could ever imagine.” Blake said as the scarab was absorbing the liquid metal.
In less than 2 minutes, it was done but it hadn’t increased in size or changed color.
“I wasn’t expecting any increase in strength, but at least it should change color or do something.” Blake helplessly shook his head because things like this didn’t have progress bars like video games.
Once Blake was done, he returned to his room before taking a bath.
“What next.” Blake said as he check his to-do list but that was when he heard a knock on his door. On opening he saw it was Camilla.
“What’s up?” Blake made sure no one else was outside the door, before closing the door and kissing her.
They had agreed to keep their relationship a secret to not make things weird in their friend group. Apart from that, they had no idea how both noble families would react to the news.
“Nothing just wanted to spend some time with you.” Camilla said as she stared at the shirtless Blake who was on his bed.
“Come.” Blake said when he noticed that Camilla was lost causing her to snap out of her reverie and hug him.
“Have you made a decision about joining the ash corps?” Camilla asked as she lay on his chest with his hand on her waist.
“Yes, I have decided to take the position of a captain, but I think the question here is why are you joining the ash corps. You basically have everything?” Blake asked.
“That’s the problem. I have the potential to achieve a lot of things, so why just waste my skills doing things that won’t be appreciated by the main family.”
“Besides, since you are also the ash corps, it means we would still get to regularly see each other.” Camilla said.
Apart from that if she were to stay in her family, she would most likely get married off or be forced to marry early, but the thing was that the only person she had ever been attracted to was Blake.
“It’s good to know that you want to achieve more and that you are making such an important decision just because of me.” Blake kissed her forehead.
The main reason he liked Camilla was that she was smart and cunning. So it was nice that she remained that.
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