[Bloodsucking Vine · Flower Key: Only those who possess the Flower Key can pass through areas covered by Bloodsucking Vines.]
[Belt Soft Sword: A soft sword that can be worn around the waist. Once infused with mental power, it becomes an incomparably hard sword. A rare treasure. Especially suitable as a hidden weapon.]
[Flying Cloak: After wearing it, you can ride the wind and fly. If traveling from a high place to a low place, you can fly for one hour. If flying from a low place to a high place, you can fly for at most ten breaths.]
[Spatial Ring: This Spatial Ring has been protected with curse encryption. If used by anyone other than its owner, it will activate its self-destruct function.]
"..."
When Ethan saw that the Spatial Ring was actually encrypted he was speechless.
'Was the Goblin King really that cautious? He even encrypted a Spatial Ring?'
He was really curious what was hidden inside. Was the Goblin King so determined that even in death, he wanted the Spatial Ring buried with him?
'What a pity...'
The Goblin King had already been cut in half by the Shadow Guard.
Otherwise, Ethan could have forced him to remove the curse encryption.
The cloak was nice.
Ethan directly took it out of his backpack.
The cloak was red. It looked a bit flashy. It felt slightly slick to the touch, and it also seemed a little small.
It looked just right for the Goblin King's small build.
But small was fine.
This was a cloak that let you fly just by wearing it. Compared to those wings that left aftereffects after use, it was countless times better.
Although it couldn't fly upward for very long, if he glided from high to low, it could fly for an hour.
It was much safer than a hang glider.
Whoosh!
However... the moment Ethan draped the Flying Cloak over himself... the cloak, which had originally been only large enough for a child, instantly grew to more than twice its size, becoming Ethan's size.
And with its bright red color paired with the black Dragon Scale Armor.
There was only one word for it.
Handsome!
"Lord, you look amazing!"
"That cloak looks so good! It can even grow bigger on its own, making you look cooler and more stylish! I'm so jealous!"
"This cloak isn't just for looking good."
As Ethan spoke, he infused the cloak with some mental power.
The next second, he took off straight into the air while standing where he was.
The feeling was incredibly strange. He didn't have to flap wings, or do any special running start, flapping, or gliding movements.
Ethan simply felt his mental power pass through the Flying Cloak, where it transformed into some kind of element that made him extremely light. It wrapped around his whole body.
Then he floated up.
He was really floating.
Ethan tried taking a step forward.
The Flying Cloak carried him several meters forward in a single step.
At that moment, Ethan felt incredibly light.
So light that he felt like a paper figure, as though the wind could carry him away. With the slightest effort, he could push himself a great distance.
It was an extremely strange experience.
Then... Ethan tried stepping up.
And he really did take a step in midair. There was clearly nothing beneath his feet, yet Ethan could feel as though he were stepping on the air.
The feeling of his whole body being light while the soles of his feet still felt solid was really damn strange.
To solve this mystery, Ethan focused his attention beneath his feet, wanting to see what was going on.
As he concentrated his mental power, he finally discovered that beneath his feet was a thick layer of something similar to "energy."
He couldn't see it or touch it, but he could sense it.
Whoosh!
Then, ten breaths passed in the blink of an eye.
Ethan suddenly noticed that the energy beneath his feet disappeared, and his body became heavy again.
He instantly fell from midair.
Fortunately... he hadn't been floating very high, so it only felt like jumping down from a flight of ten steps.
With his current physical condition, jumping from the height of a three-story building wouldn't be a problem at all.
Therefore, even though he fell from midair, he didn't feel much.
But this sensation of floating had given him a brand-new experience. And with this cloak, escaping from high places would no longer be a problem.
'Good stuff!'
Of course, among the Goblin King's belongings, besides this item, which Ethan liked the most, there was another item that interested him greatly.
It was...
[Curse Scroll · Object]
This scroll simply solved his problem of not knowing how to deal with prisoners.
For someone as talented as Charlie, he couldn't bear to kill him.
But if he turned him directly into one of his people, it would be equivalent to giving up most of the information about Area B. At the same time, he would have to risk Charlie no longer being able to serve as a prophet.
The risk and the reward simply didn't match.
But if he did nothing and kept someone as scheming as Charlie by his side... Ethan wouldn't dare use him.
He wasn't some emperor, saying, "Do not employ those you suspect, and do not suspect those you employ," while at the same time executing his great generals.
So turning Charlie into some kind of object would solve Ethan's urgent problem. After all, he had the Obedience Talisman. Then, if he wanted Charlie to obey, Charlie would obey. Whatever he wanted Charlie to do, Charlie would do.
There was another point as well.
He could also give Charlie hope.
As long as Charlie made one hundred accurate predictions, he would restore his freedom.
Why one hundred instead of one thousand?
Because one thousand gave people the feeling that he wasn't being sincere at all. On the other hand, one hundred gave the illusion that it would be easy to achieve. When someone had expectations and hope, that was when they had the greatest motivation.
Of course... none of that was the reason Ethan was eager to use the Curse Scroll right now.
The real reason he wanted to use the scroll immediately was because of the [Bloodsucking Vine · Flower Key].
If he wasn't mistaken, what lay inside had to be the Goblin Kingdom's treasure.
Ethan didn't want an outsider to know, what exactly he, the lord of Area A, had obtained from the Goblin Maze.
"Charlie."
Ethan didn't hide anything. He looked directly at Charlie and said, "You should understand that I can't possibly trust a traitor to stay by my side. But considering what you people did to me before, I also can't let you leave."
"And the road ahead may be even more dangerous than it is now. I don't want to set out with a burden."
"So after thinking it over, I'm giving you one last choice."
"Become one of my people, or become a cursed object?"
"Of course..."
"If you become a cursed object, as long as you make one hundred accurate predictions for me, I'll restore your freedom."
"When that time comes, whether you want to stay in my territory or return to the lord of Area B, the choice will be yours. What do you think?"
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