Monster Integration

I took the token, before focusing on my injuries, which are very heavy. The saber had cut through the bones in my chest, reaching close to my heart.

The same thing had happened in my stomach. It is complete, held together by the formations.

Buzz!

Thankfully, I had stopped the bleeding and had activated the healing formations in my core.

I sat down on the ground and closed my eyes before starting to move the healing energies to the wound. While this is automatic, controlling them had a greater effect.

My eyes remained closed for twenty-five minutes before I had opened them.

My injuries have not healed fully, but they have healed enough that I could now walk and even fight. In half an hour, they will heal fully, till then, I will have to take things a little slow.

Thank God, the golem had not sent the energies into the wounds, or it would have made things a little difficult.

I did not immediately get up, instead; I took out the token and looked at it carefully. It is green and round, bigger than a button. It had an emblem of a palace and a numeric three below it in a universal language.

It made me happy, ecstatic even.

I could use it three times to go to any place I want. Even a one-use token would have been enough, but I have got the three-use token.

I put it back into my core and got up and looked around the hall. Thankfully, nothing had got damaged. It would have been to see things damaged, after fighting a life-and-death battle in fighting for these things.

I walked, but I did not walk toward the things, but toward the bones closest to me.

They are everywhere in this hall.

Soon, I reached the first skeletons. It is one of the few which are relatively intact. All the flesh on it had disappeared, but tattered clothes have remained and so are the artifacts.

I am quite happy to see there is storage, and it is intact. I collected it with the rest of the artifact and, after some thought, the body.

I will bury it in some place. It is the least I could do after taking their artifacts and storage.

I walked to the other bodies, collecting them along with their artifacts. While inside, my clones open the artifacts and sort the things inside. Some had a good thing, while others did not.

In more than half of them, many of the herbal resources. Only those who were in packaged rooms, and had long shelf-like had remained.

They have been here for thousands of years. Some are tens of thousands of years. Even spatial storage couldn't keep things good for so long.

Soon, I am finished with all the bones and turned to the hall. It had statues and paintings and a small bookshelf. Seeing the bookshelf, my eyes lit up, and I appeared beside it.

It is a small blackwood bookshelf, divided into three parts. I touched the knob and pulled down it and it, without even the slightest resistance. Seeing that, I pull out one book after another.

This is a mixed collection. There is history, romance, and even three books, that belong to metallurgy.

It is a nice find, not great, but still good. I opened the second glass cover and took out thirteen books. It had one more than the first shelf. After emptying the second shelf, I turned to the third.

Hun!

When I tried to pull out the glass cover, I got a surprise. It did not pull away and instead, two things appeared on it. One is a round token image, and the other is a runic puzzle.

I did not have to think about what they were about. I already have information about them.

The glass cover would not open and I could not forcefully, but I do not need to. I could have the token to open it or solve the puzzle. Using the token had a price. It will take one travel privilege away.

So, of course, I will not spend it on this. Especially when there is something runic beside it.

I looked at the puzzle, and for nearly ten minutes; I did not move. Before finally, I moved. My finger begins to dance across the runes and a minute later stopped.

Buzz!

The runic puzzle buzzed, and I opened the shelf. Inside it is a thick book. There is only one and when I took it and looked at its title, a smile couldn't help but appear on my face.

I opened and read it for a few pages before putting it into my storage.

It is a method, a body method, and quite an interesting one. Though, I could not practice it. Is not suitable for me, but I could definitely use it to study.

After taking the books, I took the bookshelf itself. It is made of rare wood. I am sure there are many people out there who would like to use it.

With the bookshelf inside, I turned to the statue closest to me. It was of the beautiful, winged women, and looked amazing. More than that, the white stone it is made of is valuable, and I might break its hands or feet for the resources if it did not give me the right price.

I turned to the painting after the statue and found it locked. Like the shelf, it could be only opened through the token or runes.

I choose the runes and ten minutes later; the painting is in my core.

One by one, I take the stiff from the hall. I am leaving behind nothing, as everything is valuable here. If I had been in the native world, I wouldn't have spent much time taking these things, but here, I am poor and I will take every sellable thing.

Soon, I had scourged through more than half of the hall before reaching a table. It is a round table and on it is a small jade box, half the size of my palm.

Buzz!

I picked up to take it, but like many things here. It is restricted. So, I turned to the runes. Six minutes later, I opened my eyes and moved my finger around them, and a minute later; the restrictions disappeared.

I took the delicate jade box in my hand. It is a really a work of art and hasnian jade is very expensive.

It is used in storing precious resources. I am not going to sell this thing. 'I am sure I will find something precious to store soon.' I thought and put it back in my storage.

Gasp!

A second later, a gasp came out of me. My clone opened a small jade box, and it was not empty as I thought it to be.

The jade box appeared in my hand and this time, it is opened and inside it. Silver-red dust.

"Ruvian Dust," I said with shock present in my voice. It is very precious dust and the thing; I very much need.

It is precious to the alchemist and the artificers. With this, I will strengthen the breakthrough formation further. A tiny pinch of it will upgrade the quality of any formation ink.

These two are just examples, as there are many more uses of it.