Mixed Blessing System

Hearing his wife’s question, Lothur pondered for a moment and said. “I just feel that.”

Viktoria listened to Lothur and observed him, noting that he was not lying. And as much as she was curious about it, she did not doubt that he had a magical ability to recognize artifacts.

He was already so talented in so many different areas, so it was quite possible that he could sense a thing or two about whatever he touched.

At the end of the day, everything that existed in the cultivation world had Natural Laws at its foundation, something that could be analyzed.

Obviously, it was not an easy task to analyze this sort of thing. Still, there were people capable of doing similar things, whether because of their high cultivation or special ability.

With that, Viktoria accepted Lothur’s answer and no longer pressed him on the matter.

“Well, you have already chosen the first of the three prizes you are entitled to. What do you want to see now?” Viktoria asked as she used her hands to point out a few places in her sight where some of the artifacts in the area were.

Lothur saw this, but since he needed to touch the artifacts to get the system’s hints, he did not tell Viktoria what exactly he wanted. “I want to analyze one by one the most impressive items available in this place.”

“I think we will find the most impressive items near the area where the oldest experts of this family are buried.” He said.

Hearing this, Viktoria made a strange expression. “I don’t know what use any of the items in that area are. One of them is just an old staff that doesn’t even have spiritual energies circulating inside it.”

Artifacts were special items. When made, spiritual energy would circulate within them as it would in a living being.

Of course, this was far less complex than would happen in a living being, but it was still something that cultivators could sense with some ease.

So when an artifact lost its energy signals, it usually meant that they were no longer helpful and had ‘died.’

Since there were artifacts in this situation inside this maze, Viktoria promptly warned her husband about this problem so that he would not raise high expectations.

“All right, I want to see them even if they are junk.” He smiled.

With that said, Viktoria wasted no more time and rushed to the place where most of the strongest experts of this family had been buried.

Their graves were in the noblest area of the labyrinth, where the laws and spiritual energy were most concentrated.

Arriving there, Lothur immediately paid attention to the place that looked like a crypt, with some well-made tombs in the surroundings, each with items above where the dead were to rest.

“Viktoria, are the most valuable items inside the tombs?” Lothur asked, remembering that some ancient individuals on Earth were buried with valuables.

Some of these people believed in life that they would have to pay for passage to ‘paradise’ by traveling on a barge to the other world. So many in the past and even some at the time Lothur left for this cultivation world practiced the custom of ‘adorning’ their dead for the sake of their afterlife.

He thought it might be like that in this world, so he asked the previous question.

“Inside? Are you crazy? If the experts were buried with their artifacts, they would be destroyed by the decomposition of the bodies stored there.” Viktoria stated the ‘obvious’ to her husband.

The decomposition of a cultivator’s body was not a normal process!

Violent processes were involved in spiritual decomposition, something that could damage the laws present in artifacts.

Therefore, whenever an expert was buried in a place like this, the most valuable items the family decided to leave with the owner would be left outside the coffin.

That was a way to honor the dead but also to protect their history through a valuable item of theirs!

Cultivators usually had their favorite technique, weapon, or item. As most of them spent most of their lives in the last stage of cultivation they reached before their death, at the end of their lives, they would have weapons hundreds, sometimes thousands of years old, by their side.

So what better than something that had spent so much time at the side of such an expert to put on top of their grave as an ornament?

Lothur understood this local tradition after Viktoria’s words, quickly choosing one of those places to check the items.

Some of these areas only had one item on display. But in others, there was more than one, with the ‘richest’ having three different artifacts.

“All these places are Saints’ graves, Lothur,” Viktoria commented to him. “Some have more artifacts because their former owner died of old age, not on a battlefield.”

“Others ended up dying fighting and probably lost some of their most valuable objects before they were ‘rescued’ by our people.” She looked at where only one item was left, the staff she had mentioned earlier.

That was the place of the founder of this family, who had died over 8,000 years ago, fighting for his family in a chaotic time of the Ten Independent Regions.

Lothur paid no attention to the founder’s grave, but Viktoria continued to speak. “Also, some of the artifacts from these experts have already been used by other family members over the years.”

“Some of them were lost or destroyed in battles, so the remaining treasures of our oldest ancestors are no longer numerous.” She looked in the direction of where other individuals from her family were buried. “The younger ancestors are the ones who left the most items for us.”

“But the best items left by them must already be in the hands of people in your family or must have been lost, no?” Lothur questioned. “I wouldn’t doubt if your family had gone so far as to sell one or another of those artifacts…”

She heard his comment and blushed, knowing that this had indeed happened when her father took over the family.

As she was embarrassed by the humiliations of the Frost family, Lothur saw the information of the first artifact he touched.

[Red Gauntlet] [Rank: Silver] ｏｖ𝚕．ｃｏ𝚖

[Features: the left-hand gauntlet has two abilities; gravitational attraction and repulsion.]

After checking the first item, he moved on to the second, leaving to choose his artifacts when he had seen all of those items around him.

[Space Belt] [Rank: quasi-Gold]

[Features: can be used for short-range teleportation, using the power of the user’s soul or body controlling it.]

[Detail: teleports to any point in space within 100 meters of the user if they are at the 3rd stage. 200 meters for the 4th stage and 500 meters if they are at the 5th stage.]

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[God’s Eye Patch] [Rank: Silver]

[Features: continuously devours its user’s energy, helping to work on their stamina and spiritual power.]

[Detail: it can increase the speed of its user’s soul-spiritual cultivation.]

[Warning: it should not be used by a person who is exhausted or without soul power. Its use in such cases will lead to the user’s death.]

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