Undying Warlord

[<Bronze> Grade treasure can be exchanged with Bronze Essence crystal of ‘Level 9 War Krendel’!]

Dilan had no idea why this message suddenly popped up in front of him when he picked up the Essence crystal.

Nevertheless, it was quite interesting.

But the same could be said about the fact that the huge Krendel he fought and defeated before, was at Level 9, and known as a War Krendel.

Taking a look at the crystal once again, he was pretty sure that he would get, at the very least, a total of two whole status points by absorbing it.

But before he absorbed the Essence crystal, he retreated a few steps backward while thinking.

However, a treasure should be of more use than a few status points.

Going out to hunt various mutated animals on the mountainside, or other fantasy creatures, which he liked to call Mythical beasts, would provide him with status points, and essence as well.

A treasure could be a gamechanger.

Thus, he was fine with exchanging the Bronze Essence crystal to receive the treasure.

But it was just at this moment that the notification disappeared.

When that happened, he frowned for a second as he began to wonder if there had been a time limit.

Yet, after he took a step ahead subconsciously, the notification appeared once again.

This confused him a little bit.

For a moment he hesitated, making him step back and forward several times.

After a minute, his gaze landed on the blueish glowing Gate, a thought emerging in his mind.

“Are you the culprit?” He asked while looking at the gate, not expecting an answer._-.

However, when he accepted the exchange of the Essence crystal with a treasure, another notification popped up.

[Insert the Bronze Essence crystal inside the ‘Permanent Gate to the (Krendel’s Underground Valley)’!]

‘So it is like that?’

Nodding at the notification in front of him, Dilan proceeded to follow the instructions.

He threw the Essence crystal inside the Gate without giving it much thought.

A faint smile covered his eyes as he awaited the result. To distract himself he read the information of the Permanent gate.

[Permanent Gate to (Krendel’s Underground Valley). Requirements to enter the Gate are not met! -All Stats <4+>, Tierless Level [10]-!]

Both requirements were too high for the current Dilan, and he simply nodded his head in understanding.

While waiting for a few seconds to receive his treasure, Dilan secretly hoped to receive a storage ring or something similar.

It would be great to be able to carry around lots of stuff without letting others see that he carried around a lot, or what it was.

But he had not really expected it, which was why he was quite calm when a pair of gloves dropped out of the Gate.

Picking them up, he first ignored the notification that popped up in front of him as he wore them.

Dilan didn’t even notice that his right hand was still aching a bit as his focus was on the brownish, scaled gloves.

If not for the scales, one could accidentally mistake them as gloves made of the finest cloth because they were simply too comfortable to wear.

His fingers and hand movements were not restricted by them, which was quite decent, and they increased his strength by quite a bit as well!

However, it was then that he sensed something at the tip of his fingers.

A moment later, the scales moved, connecting with his fingertips, which seemed to have enlarged by two or three centimeters.

‘Combat gloves?’ Dilan began to wonder, before averting his attention to the notification.

[[Clawed Gloves] <Bronze Treasure>

Can cut through the hide of monsters up to Tier-1 Level 0!

The Claw’s sharpness and endurance can be enhanced. Uses up 0.1 Mana unit per 5 seconds!

[+1.5 Strength]

Initially, Dilan had planned to use the War Krendel’s claws as his choice of weapon.

As such, when he first realized that the Clawed Gloves ought to be used for combat purposes, he was a little bit disappointed.

But this quickly subsided when he realized that the gloves were quite powerful.

‘Maybe I was rewarded handsomely because I nearly lost my life fighting the War Krendel?’ he wondered, just to shake his head.

Either it was his good luck that gave him the opportunity to procure such a good treasure, or it was just an ordinary drop but he wasn’t sure of that!

Both were possible scenarios, but Dilan was fine with it, even if clawed gloves could be considered a pretty unique type of weapon.

Spreading his fingers wide, he slashed a few times, making his hand transform into a knife before he thrust out.

If he wanted to have the most use of this weapon, he would require more Strength and higher Agility.

Or he could just use the War Krendel’s claws as well after turning them into daggers.

Nobody restricted him from owning multiple weapons.

Thus, he just nodded his head to himself before he thought about something.

‘If I can get treasures at the Bronze rank by exchanging Bronze Essence crystals at the Gate, will I get Trash treasures like the Reinforced Stone Spear and Dagger by exchanging normal Essences with it?’

Excitement coursed through his body and he couldn’t prevent grinning foolishly.

The more he thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.

He was not sure how the Gate exchanged the Essence crystals with treasures, but somehow it was possible.

In the end, the logic behind the Gate’s exchange system didn’t matter right now, either way!

Taking this into consideration, he first focused on the War Krendel’s claws.

Hitting hard using the flat of his hand, he tried to break the claws clearly.

This worked okayish on the first claw.

Because it was not perfect, he used 0.1 units of Mana to enhance the Clawed gloves’ sharpness for five seconds.

When he pierced out again, it worked much better.

As such, after he used up 0.2 units of Mana, all eight claws were stored in his backpack.

He entered the bloody hallways afterward and walked through them once to check if he was safe.

After reaching the end of the hallway, he passed by the last monster corpse.

Picking it up, he used his clawed gloves to open the monster corpse’s skull before he pulled out the Essence crystal.

Once done, Dilan tossed the corpse behind him without another backward glance.

‘If the others want their rat horns, they should come up and take them all by themselves.’

Continuing to work, an entire hour passed before he was done with the last corpse.

He was a little bit exhausted but forced himself to get up from the ground.

This allowed him to see several small mountains of 50 Essence crystals in the resting room.

It was the exact number he needed to receive a Trash grade treasure!

[<Trash> Grade treasure can be obtained in exchange for 50 Essence crystals of the same type!]

By the end of the day, he had procured a total of 245 Essence crystals.

63 of them were obtained from Krendels, while 182 were from horned rats.

Thus, he could get a total of four Trash Grade treasures, one from the Krendels’ Essence crystals, and three from the horned rats!

The remaining 45 Essence crystals were not enough to boost him enough for a level up.

Dilan was fine with that as he could always receive more Essence crystals.

He was close to a level up, but chose to receive more treasures right off the bat because they might come in handy and even save his life in the near future!

Even if not all of them were useful to him, Dilan knew that Oliver and Ailee were good people.

They were ready to fight as well, which was why he was willing to gear them up with good weapons as well.

If he were to think about the others, maybe Sarah would slowly become more reasonable with her demands, and change for the better just like it had been the case with Bianne.

Dilan knew that Bianne was sorry for shooting him, and he had long since forgiven her.

The unique circumstances had made her fingers twitch and shoot him as she had been under the impression that he killed a human, instead of a recently turned zombie.

Ignoring the pain that was still bothering him, he joined his palms together as if he was scooping water before throwing an entire batch of 50 Essence crystals inside the permanent Gate.

After waiting for a few seconds, a trash grade treasure popped out, telling him that it was time to make use of the remaining 150 Essence crystals as well.

In a matter of minutes, the four piles of Essence crystals turned into treasures, which Dilan inspected with slight interest.

[Ring of Yarad]

[Tierat Dagger]

[Cold-metal Bow]

[Backpack]

The last Trash treasure astonished him a little bit because it was literally a brand-new backpack.

It had no use, at all!

This caused him to smile at the irony of the word ‘trash treasure’, just to ignore the descriptions of the Dagger and the Bow.

The dagger was comparably worse than the War Krendel’s claws, which were slightly better than the Goblin’s Reinforced Stone Weapons.

Meanwhile, the Cold-metal Bow was just that, a bow with a pulling force of over 100 lbs!

As such, only the [Ring of Yarad] was quite interesting because its use was different than one might imagine, but it was certainly useful.

In Dilan’s opinion, the Ring of Yarad was far from being a trash treasure!