GENESYS

SIXTEEN

Ganiyu Village is in complete turmoil as houses all around the village burn and a foul stench of monsters inside fills the air. Series of screams can be heard as the villagers cry for help but because of the ongoing battle happening outside, the villagers have no choice but to fend for themselves. 

Admiring his work, Leon can’t help but be amazed by what a simple gastric gland and combustion rock can do if properly mixed. The flammability of monster acid combined with a little spark creates a perfect Nepal bomb.

[Gastric Bomb]

An Ingenious creation created by an experienced alchemist. 

Effect: When lit leaves a fire that is very difficult to put out.

Note: Smells really bad.

“My son, save my son!”

“Water! Where is the water!”

“My nose, it burns!”

“No! My life works!”

Leon sneakily moves around the villager using the commotion as a camouflage. After making sure that he wasn’t followed, he approaches the Village chief house.

He then retrieves the iron spear in his inventory and equips it.

[Iron Spear]

Attack 90-105

A spear made by a dwarf using common iron even though it was made using common minerals due to the forger's incredible skills the weapon manages to break this world limit. 

A magnificent creation of a blacksmith who loves his craft. 

Effect: [God's blessing] 

Requirement: None

[As you are recognized as the enemy of the world, God’s blessing has been revoked.]

‘F*cking title!’ Putting the notification at the back of his head, Leon uses his spear to cut open the door.

The village chief house looks normal, it has one bed, a kitchen, a table, and a chair. A typical house for an old man. 

‘Is he not have some sort of safe or something?’ Leon though mumbling to himself.

He is pressed on time and can't carefully inspect every nook and cranny of the village chief house. A loose player might stumble in his direction or a villager might notice something amidst. Every second pass is an unknown variable for him. 

Deciding that the fastest way to find the village chief’s treasure is to turn the whole house upside down, Leon started wrecking the place using his spear. He was sure that there was something in the house. NPC in Genesys unlike players didn’t have an inventory. They needed an actual place to store all their items. He already toured the village two times and was pretty confident that the place the village chief would likely store his item is in his own house. 

From the very beginning, he had planned to use the LZT guild as a distraction so that the village chief would leave the comfort of his home, and then he would burn the whole village to cover up his tracks. He has estimated that by the time the village chief returns, he already robs him of all his riches.

But fortune decided to frown upon him.

‘Where is it?’ He already flipped the house upside down but still found nothing.

‘This is driving me insane, where is that old man hiding his treasures?’

‘Am I wrong? Maybe is not in the village?’ Leon is in dismayed, he has been pretty lucky so far and his plan has gone perfectly without a hitch. LZT guild even performs better than he expected. It's just that he can’t find the damn treasure. If he can’t locate it all his effort and LZT guild voluntary sacrifice will all be for naught.

‘Oh,f*ck it! If I can’t find it, so be it. I’ll just burn everything. In this way, at least that old man will be homeless and I somehow get some satisfaction.’

Fed up with everything, Leon retrieves another vial of monster fluid and he sprinkles it all over the village chief house like gasoline.

“Damn, Hell’s company!”

“Damn, Village chief hiding his treasure!”

“Damn, Genesys!”

“Damn, World!”

After moving outside, he retrieved a combustion rock in his inventory and tossed it.

“Burn!”

Leon looked expectantly for the whole damn place to burn together with his troubles but to his surprise, the fire that was supposed to spread around the house got absorbed by something under the village chief’s bed. 

‘Tsk! I can’t even burn my troubles away.’ Leon though shaking his head.

He walked closer to the village chief bed and immediately realized what it is.  

‘A magic formation, clever bastard no wonder I can’t find it.’

Magic formation is a series of magic incantations put together in a certain pattern and when endowed with mana can produce some amazing effects. In some instances, it can heighten regeneration, amplify magic, or even summon creatures. In the game Genesys, magic formation is the ex-machena of mages that can literally do anything. You just have to know the proper pattern and it can be done. Even the spell mages use can be considered as a magic formation of some sort.

Leon slowly approaches the magic formation although he is a holy knight in his past character and not a mage, he was pretty knowledgeable in magic formation as he worked very closely with Merlin, a legendary mage.

‘Mhmm, this is a concealment formation over a locked formation. This is gonna be tricky.’

Concealment formation is as its name said is used to conceal things, due to the fire this formation is luckily broken. Locked formation on the other hand is tricky as it cannot be broken forcefully, for there will be severe consequences in doing so. 

“Let see here, you have to turn this mana nod here, then this here. Oh, that and that. Ahmmmm. I guess this is it. “

“Click!” As Leon twists the final magic nod. The whole formation lit up opening a secret passageway.

“Oh, that was easy.” Leon once again got lucky that the village chief is not adept in any kind of formation other than offense if it was any other mage. It would be impossible for him to c***k its magic formation due to his low level, there is even a high possibility that he would lose his life. 

Seeing the entrance to the passage leading to the treasure, Leon didn’t immediately go down. He retrieves another vial of monster acid in his inventory and inserts an overcharge combustion rock on it. 

He then tosses it into the passageway.

The vial of monster acid hit the ground and the combustion rock exploded, setting the whole passageway on fire. 

As the passageway burns, various traps get triggered. 

“Plack! Plack! Plack!”

“Boom! Boom! Booom!”

Hearing the series of explosions coming from the passageway, Leon's body shiver. If he had hastily entered and didn’t control himself he would already have been blasted to thousand pieces. 

Fearing that there are still a few more traps remaining, he threw another vial of monster acid for good measure.

“BOOOOOM!” A gigantic explosion shook the whole passageway causing even the village chief house to tremble. If not for the battle outside and the fire happening all over the village occupying everyone. This place would already be swarmed with players and NPC alike. 

“s**t! That was way too overkill, that old man is insane.” 

After waiting for a while, Leon retrieves the water he already prepared beforehand and pour it in the secret passageway.

“Time to look at the harvest,” Leon said, finally stepping into the secret passageway.

The whole place is filled with burn debris. Several magic formations can be seen in the wall and on the floor but unlike the magic formation in the entrance, this magic formation already lost its luster. There are also a lot of burn arrows scattered all over the place.

‘This place is a complete death trap.’ Leon thought traversing the place. 

There are no more traps to hinder Leon so he quickly arrived at the end of the passageway.

What he saw at the end made him worried. 

“Dragon language!” Leon exclaimed. 

‘I can’t believe Explorefreak would miss this.’

What is written on the wall is a simple magic formation made by a dragon to safeguard his treasure. Dragons are lazy and seldom leave their lair so they don’t make complex magic formations for their treasure, believing that they themselves can handle any intruder. 

The magic formation is easy to c***k. Someone only needs to answer the question using a dragons' tongue and the door would open but if they answer incorrectly they will be burned alive in dragon's fire. Other players might have a hard time with it as there are only a few players that know dragon language but it’s just a simple matter to Explorefreak and Leon.

Explorefreak is well versed in almost anything in Genesys as he was a freak who explored almost every culture of this world while Leon is a former closed aid of a legendary mage who invokes most of her spell using dragon language.

“What is the most important thing in the world?” 

"Mhmm." If Leon answered truthfully, his answer would be money. Come on what's more important than money. Although the obvious answer to the question is money, Leon knows that this is not the right answer. He has to answer it from the perspective of dragons. 

‘This is way too easy. I’m afraid Explorefreak might have already ransacked this place.’.Leon thought worriedly.

Everyone that knows a single thing about dragons knows that they love collecting treasure. No Dragon in history didn’t have a cave full of treasure, that's why Mt.Serenide became so popular when the humor of a dragon spread among the players.

Without hesitation, Leon spoke using dragons' tongue. ”Treasure”

The wall shakes and splits apart, opening a path. Leon walks in and immediately smiles from ear to ear. ‘Hahahaha stupid Explorefreak, thanks for the treasure.’

The whole room shone in silver light. Leon didn’t even need to check the status of the items to know that this is all dwarves forge items, just the aura they’re radiating is enough for him to know that there are all amazing items. 

‘A room filled with dwarves forge items.’ Leon can’t help but lose his breath.

There were thousands for each type of weapon and armor. From Iron spear to steel armor.

“Wow! It's no wonder conquering villages is deemed impossible. The reward is simply unbelievable.” Leon smiled.

If the LZT guild knows that Leon stole the fruit of their labor, they will all vomit blood with rage.

Leon is dancing while picking up loot left and right when a particular short sword caught his eye. The sword is different from the rest of the item as it was radiating with orange light.

Dregnat Sword [Epic]

Attack 500-760

A sword made by the chief of the Ironclad clan with all his effort. Using the best materials available at the clan disposal. It was a weapon made by the chief of the Ironclad as a gift for Geshi Khan’s birthday but because of unforeseen circumstances, the Ironclad clan had to flee Mt.Serenide. The village chief then acquired the sword and decided to keep it in the village treasury, intended to present it to his master when the latter returned.

 It was a weapon that managed to break this world limit. 

A magnificent creation of a blacksmith who loves his craft. 

Effect: [God's blessing] , Strength 250, Agility 300, Thunder strike(Passive), Lighting Blade(Active).  

Requirement: Level 200, Strength 500, Sword Mastery (Intermediate) Lv. 5

‘OMG!’ Leon stared at the sword bewildered, The sword alone was worth all his effort, even if he didn’t factor in the whole room filled with dwarves' forge items, he would still make a killing.

Leon immediately put the sword in his inventory, afraid that it will suddenly fly away. He then continued to pick up items until his inventory filled up. After that he ran towards the hole he dug at the back of the village and dumped the items there.

After several trips back, he finally cleared out the entire treasury.

“Finally done, now it's time for me to disappear.” As Leon was about to walk away he found an unassuming stone in the corner of the room.

[Dragon Essence] 

“Good stuff,” Leon said, plugging his nose as he stored the Dragon Essence in his inventory. Dragon Essence in a sense is just a dragon waste but as it came from a dragon, it can be used in many things such as materials in alchemy, forging, or magic engineering. Alchemists will pay good bucks just to get their hands in some of it.

Leon walks out of the secret passageway with a satisfied look on his face. 

‘For a day of work, this gain is mind-blowing.’

Retrieving a bow and arrow he looted in the treasury. He applied monster acid in the tip of the arrow and set it ablaze.

He then aimed the burning arrow in the locked formation. 

“Booom!” When the arrow tip hits the formation a gigantic explosion occurs blowing the village chief house to kingdom come. Even though he was at a good distance, Leon still got swept up by the blast. The explosion was so strong that it even shook the entire Mt. Seranide.

“The f*ck is that?”

Knowing that this will surely catch some unwanted attention, Leon immediately leaves the scene of the crime, blending right into the crowd of wailing villagers.

When he was far enough from the village, he used Genesys message function and entered a name [Moneybugs].

[Moneybugs]

Subject: Greed is good

Mt. Seraneid, weapon, sword, sell, tomorrow, midnight, real-world time.

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