Mixed Blessing System

After saying goodbye to Elke, Lothur arrived at an area outside the built-up part of Peters City, near a stream that ran between the valleys of that region.

In that place with trees far away from each other, where one could easily observe the starry sky, Lothur was finishing eliminating the contents of those three bags.

He had made a small fire not far from that stream and burned the remains parts of those people that were easiest to identify. As for the larger and more difficult to trace pieces, he had simply thrown them into the stream, hoping that the animals or beast of that region would finish his work.

Anyway, after he had finished putting those pieces of meat to burn and had thrown away the rest, Lothur sat down not far from that fire with the spatial rings of his enemies in his hands.

This time he had not made the mistake of leaving behind the 'prizes' of his efforts. Instead, he had saved them in order to check his winnings at this time when he was waiting for that fire to burn out.

'Let's see what these people left for me...' He thought of this as he began to scan those rings.

Spatial rings, as said before, were items capable of storing items in folded spaces created by formations. And like every formation, anyone could manipulate such artifacts, as long as some conditions were met.

At first glance, spatial rings were items supposed to keep their owners' wealth safe. Because of this, these items had the functionality to connect with the spirituality of their user, something that basically made it complicated for other people to access such storage items.

It was possible to break such a security protocol. Still, to do so, the person attempting such a thing would need to be a formations master of a higher degree than the one who produced such an item. Otherwise, it would be impossible to do this without destroying the inscriptions on the ring's body.

However, Lothur did not have to worry about this since the former owners of these rings had died, and now the connection of these items with their owners had dissipated.

That way, those rings were in their condition of maximum accessibility for him!

"What?" Lothur counted the number of coins in the six rings and almost jumped in surprise, as he did not expect to find that number of bronze coins.

'80,000 bronze coins!' He looked at the bags of coins he had gathered from those six spatial rings.

But while that seemed surprising at first glance to this young man who had just over 50,000 bronze coins in his ring, that was not significant.

After all, six people were in that group, and each was much older than Lothur. That is, they were more numerous and had the opportunity to accumulate coins for longer than him.

Bronze coins were also the lowest value currency in this world, so tens of thousands of them were no big deal.

In fact, one could say that the amount he had just collected was a disappointment. Such people probably spent most of what they earned, so there was only that amount.

But still, Lothur was happy to more than double his currency reserves!

'Besides those bronze coins, there are also some common items in those rings, low-level formations, and various potions and pills.'

'Finally, they left some daggers, a chest armor, and medicines...' He placed those things in front of him, looking at the system information.

[Chest Armor] [Classification: Iron]

[Feature: increases the user's defense in the chest region by 5% when used.]

...

[Wild Root] [Rank: Iron]

[Feature: root with 30% poison, 25% medicinal compound, and the rest of the nutrient composition are commonly found in common roots.]

Lothur looked at the description of each of the items in those rings, finding some of those medicines interesting.

Most of them had poison in their body. And that soon caught Lothur's attention. 'Were they preparing to use poison on someone? Or crude medicines usually have small amounts of poison in their body?'

But with no knowledge of either subject, Lothur soon put those questions aside, remembering that he had to learn the profession of poison masters.

'The society of this world does not so well regard poison masters because they are usually related to murders and things like that. But still, there are places with such professionals in Peters City.' Lothur pondered this matter of extreme importance to him.

Poison masters could do more than just produce poisons to kill. They could also cure certain diseases and even improve the quality of bodies. For example, what had happened to Lothur the times he had been poisoned, his sudden increase in his Constitution, could be provoked by poison masters therapy!

But not everyone knew or valued these characteristics of poison masters as it was not easy to achieve these results, and poisons' reputation in assassinations was widespread.

Consequently, it would not be as easy for him to start studying this profession as the area of formations masters.

Lothur had asked about the local 'poison masters association' during his earlier dinner with Jacob and Elke. But there was no such thing in Peters City, and if he wanted to learn that profession, he would have to approach a poison master directly!

Thinking of these difficulties, he sighed as he watched the flames in his vicinity. 'Looks like it won't be long before I can return...'

"Sigh!"

"Anyway, I also have to worry about getting a secondary attack technique!" He muttered in a low voice, remembering how useful the ax could be for surprising enemies with throws.

But since, unfortunately, he could not 'pull' back his weapon, such a feature was a problem, or rather, his way of using that weapon up to a moment still had to improve a lot.

Thinking about how dangerous this world was, that he had to be prepared for everything, he could not help but think of adding one more offensive technique.

That way, he could at least use two fighting styles during his fights, varying depending on the general conditions in his surroundings!

'Hmm, now that I've gotten a few more coins, I'll be able to buy one more technique in that store without running the risk of going bankrupt...' He laughed, finally getting up from where he was standing and walking over to the fire's ashes.

After that, Lothur took no time to erase the traces of that fire, having buried the ashes there and then scattered leaves around the surroundings.

With that, he quickly returned to the built-up part of Peters City, heading directly to the Frost family estate.

...

Hours passed, and the day was already dawning when Lothur left alongside Annaliese for the Morning Star Academy.

The two chatted a bit on the way, talking about their plans for the auction that would take place on Friday and the weekend training scheduled earlier.

After that, the two went on to their affairs at that institution, with Annaliese going to one of her classes and Lothur to Elke's room.

After arriving in that place, as that beauty was already waiting for him, Lothur did not have to wait and was soon locked in that comfortable place with just that redhead.

"Lothur..." Elke stopped beside the entrance door, looking at Lothur's handsome face as her hands went down into her clothes.

Seeing that woman currently wearing a pink silk robe, Lothur looked at her hands, slowly undoing the knot at her waist.

He readily understood what she was about to do and looked her in the eyes, noticing that she looked a little different as if she had used some beauty product.

But since Lothur did not understand anything about this sort of thing in the cultivation world, he just appreciated how attractive she looked. Then, finally, that robe fell to the floor, revealing Elke's naked body.

Seeing the look in the eyes of the man she desired, Elke felt an even more fervent heat, already imagining what it would be like to satisfy this person.

Her heart beat faster, and her breathing slowly began to emit certain sounds as she slowly approached Lothur, intending to remove his clothes.

"I want you to make me yours, Lothur..."

"I want to give you everything I have." She said in a nervous tone before kissing him and unbuttoning his trousers.

After a while, the two of them went to bed...