chapter 74 - Hidden storyline mission

<p>Sheyan stopped and looked at the wall in front of him.<br/><br/>"A hidden room?" Sheyan asked although he was already sure of it.<br/><br/>"Yes my lord, this wall is enchanted by magic, it opens only when I or my husband drops our blood on it." Sally spoke and took out a small dagger from her back.<br/><br/>She unsheathed the dagger and made a small cut on her finger.<br/><br/>After doing this, she placed her finger on the wall and made a strange symbol on it with her blood.<br/><br/>Rumble!!!<br/><br/>A loud voice rang in the hall and the wall started to tremble slightly.<br/><br/>"It's opening my lord." Sally stepped back and stood beside Sheyan before speaking.<br/><br/>Rumble!!! Rumble!!!<br/><br/>After trembling for a minute, the wall finally parted into two parts and revealed an opening in the middle.<br/><br/>"Please follow me inside my lord." Sally bowed and spoke to Sheyan.<br/><br/>Sheyan nodded with a smile and gestured for her to continue walking.<br/><br/>Sally walked ahead while Sheyan and Sheryll followed behind.<br/><br/>After two turns they came to a big hall.<br/><br/>Sheyan looked around and found the room filled with chests.<br/><br/>"All of these chests are filled with gold coins my lord, there are a total of 68 such chests stored here," Sally explained dutifully.<br/><br/>"Except these, there are five more chests containing materials for black magic, Caterly said that they are very precious and that they are more precious than all the gold stored here." Sally continued.<br/><br/>"That's good, but I remember that Caterly Fokke got a magical pouch. Is it here?" Sheyan asked after looking around.<br/><br/>"Yes my lord, that pouch is also here, let me bring it to you." Sally nodded and walked to the very end of the hall.<br/><br/>A wooden chest was laying there, completely isolated from other chests in the hall.<br/><br/>Sally walked to the chest and opened it easily as there was no lock on it, none of the chests here were locked, after all, if someone managed to enter this room then it didn't really matter if the chests were locked or not.<br/><br/>She took out an antique patchy purse from the chest and walked back to Sheyan.<br/><br/>"This is the magical pouch, my lord," Sally spoke and presented the purse in front of Sheyan.<br/><br/>Sheyan took the pouch and inspected it.<br/><br/>It was an ash-brown colored pouch. This pouch looked similar to any ordinary pouch, however, its appearance radiated a layer of glow, as though a clear river covered it.<br/><br/>Sheyan used his insight ability on the purse to check its property.<br/><br/>[ Endless Gold Pouch (weakened) ]<br/><br/>[ Equipment Rarity: Gold Storyline ]<br/><br/>[ Ability: It can generate 2 pounds of gold every day. ]<br/><br/>[ Description: The first and most valuable treasure of Cortes, This magical pouch could produce 50 pounds of gold daily at its peak. However, the time has eroded the mysterious power it had when it was made and now it can only produce 2 pound of gold daily. ]<br/><br/>[ Pointer: The gold it produces can be exchanged for 20000 utility points or 20 Potential points or 2 Achievement points. ]<br/><br/>When Sheyan saw the ability of the pouch, he dismissed it since he wasn't interested in gold and found it odd that this pouch had the equipment rarity of Gold Storyline grade but when he saw the pointer at the end, his eyes glowed.<br/><br/>'Damn, this thing really deserves the gold storyline grade, for normal contestants, 20 potential or 2 achievements daily without doing anything is something they don't even dare to dream about, no not just normal contestants even for me it's a big thing.' Sheyan thought to himself.<br/><br/>'And this is the weakened state, If it was at its peak and produced 50 pounds of gold daily then I could exchange it for 500 potential points daily, one potential point is worth 4000 utility points in the nightmare realm. 500 potential points would be 2 million utility points.' As Sheyan thought of this, the hand holding the pouch tightened and he carefully stored it inside his system storage.<br/><br/>'For others, it might be impossible to bring this pouch back to its heyday but with my ability, I still have a chance.' Sheyan fantasized about the possibility of getting 500 potential points every day without doing anything and upgrading his abilities to level 10 daily.<br/><br/>Ding<br/><br/>Suddenly his nightmare Imprint rang and Sheyan opened the notification.<br/><br/>[ You have completed the milestone 'Treasure hoarder' ]<br/><br/>[ You have received the title 'Treasure hoarder' ]<br/><br/>'Okay, one more milestone achieved.' Sheyan smiled after reading the notification.<br/><br/>"Should we go back and call those subordinates to bring these chests outside sir?" Sally asked lightly from the side.<br/><br/>Sheyan came out of his thoughts and looked at Sally.<br/><br/>"Oh, you won't be going back Mrs. Fokke," Sheyan replied with a smile.<br/><br/>"My lord, I told you just call me Sally please." Sally didn't pay attention to the strange words of Sheyan and only noticed the way he called her.<br/><br/>"Well, whatever you want, anyways it's time for you to thank me, Sally." Sheyan smiled and slowly a gun appeared in his hand.<br/><br/>"Wha- what do you mean my lord?" Sally finally noticed the strange atmosphere and stepped back in fear and apprehension.<br/><br/>"I will help you to meet your husband and your numerous lovers once again, shouldn't you thank me for such a good thing," Sheyan spoke lightly and aimed the gun at Sally's head.<br/><br/>"My- my lord, did I do something wrong? Please give me one more chance." Sally stepped back once more and begged.<br/><br/>"Nah, actually I just don't like you. Bye-bye Sally, have a safe trip." Sheyan waved his left hand and pulled the trigger from his right hand.<br/><br/>BANG<br/><br/>A gunshot rang and Sally fell down on the cold floor with a bloody hole in her head.<br/><br/>"I hope you won't mind the little drama Sheryll." Sheyan turned to Sheryll who had been silent and spoke with a smile.<br/><br/>"No no, it doesn't matter to me whether she dies or not." Sheryll waved her hand.<br/><br/>In truth, she has already known all the things about Sally while Nick's party was collecting information about her since the mission objective of their hidden mission is supposed to be on this Sally. Nick's party found out that Sally has a cunning and loose character. She had numerous lovers and if any person she sets her sight on doesn't listen to her, she kills their loved ones or even the involved party themselves sometimes and that's not all, if one of her lovers becomes too clingy with her they get the same outcome which is death.<br/><br/>Sheyan bent down to pick up the blue key dropped by Sally, but when he bent down he touched Sally's corpse and a crimson key came out of her body, which Sheyan quickly stored inside his storage.<br/><br/>Sheryll didn't see the crimson key since Sheyan's back was blocking her view.<br/><br/>Sheyan got up and moved around the hall, wherever he went, the chests closer to him disappeared<br/><br/>Sheryll looked at this scene with wide eyes.<br/><br/>"Just how big is your interspatial storage sir?" She couldn't help but ask this question. This is her third world and her interspatial storage can store at most two of the chests lying here but Sheyan stored all the chests inside the room.<br/><br/>"Just a little bigger than yours" Sheyan came back to Sheryll after he stored all the chests and replied with a smile.<br/><br/>Sheryll didn't know what to say, if that was just a little bigger she also wanted this type of little bigger for many things.<br/><br/>"Let's go back to the main hall," Sheyan spoke.<br/><br/>Sheryll came out of her speechless state and nodded.<br/><br/>"Let's talk about the reason you attacked the castle since we are alone now," Sheyan spoke as he started to walk beside Sheryll.<br/><br/>"Yes sir, the thing is Nick's party managed to receive a hidden mission somehow. This hidden mission is not some normal mission but a chain mission and the reward one can get after completing the final stage of this mission is said to be a very hefty sum. Let me share the mission with you directly so you can see the details easily." Sheryll replied to Sheyan and talked with her nightmare imprint to share the mission with Sheyan.<br/><br/>[ Contestant no. 2004 has initiated a request to share a hidden mission. ]<br/><br/>Sheyan accepted the request and a mission panel appeared in front of him.<br/><br/>[ Hidden story mission 'Mermaid's resurrection' ]<br/><br/>[ Mission summary: Long ago, a mermaid managed to live past 1000 years and gained the blessing of the sea but she fell in love with a man, the man turned out to be a cunning black magician who somehow learned about the power the blessed mermaid had, he wanted mermaid's power so he used the ancient black magic. He trapped the mermaid, killed her and diced her body into countless pieces to perform the black magic but suddenly the whole sea shook, countless black clouds appeared in the sky, a never before seen ferocious storm appeared all over the sea, all the pieces of the mermaid fell in the sea and got lost. ]<br/><br/>[ Stage 1 of the hidden story mission: Find the golden scale of the mermaid. ]<br/><br/>[ Mission hint: A jeweler found the scale of the fish and turned it into a gorgeous necklace. ]<br/><br/>[ Mission hint: The lord of Tortuga Port bought the gorgeous necklace from the jeweler and gifted it to his beloved. ]<br/><br/>[ You have seven days to complete the first stage of this mission. ]<br/><br/>[ Your stay period in this world has been increased by 7 days. ]<br/><br/>"Ohh this mission really doesn't seem ordinary," Sheyan muttered to himself.<br/><br/>"Yes, we have collected the information before, that necklace made out of golden scale should be on that Sally, and since you just killed her that necklace should appear in the loot when you use the key dropped by her," Sheryll explained.<br/><br/>"That means we can complete the first stage anytime we want then there is no hurry, let's do it later," Sheyan spoke.<br/><br/>"Okay," Sheryll replied.<br/><br/>Ding!<br/><br/>Suddenly Sheyan felt a sound ring in his head, this sound didn't come from his nightmare realm but from his own system.<br/><br/>Sheyan stopped and closed his eyes to check.<br/><br/>Sheryll also stopped in her tracks and stood beside Sheyan in silence.<br/><br/>Sheyan looked at the system interface in his head and checked the notification he just received.<br/><br/>{ Random ability snatching opportunity has been refreshed. }<br/><br/>'Oh after waiting for 30 days it's here once again.' Sheyan thought and opened the main interface once again.<br/><br/>{ Name - Sheyan }<br/><br/>{ Current world - Pirates of the Caribbean (Nightmare realm) }<br/><br/>{ Random ability snatching opportunity - 1 }<br/><br/>{ Mission - Achieve a SSS rank score for your second-world experience. }<br/><br/>'Use the random ability snatching opportunity' Sheyan spoke to the system in his head.<br/><br/>{ Random ability snatching opportunity is being used..... }<br/><br/>{ Random ability has been found }<br/><br/>{ Random ability has been snatched }<br/><br/>{ You have snatched a D rank ability 'Invisible hand' }<br/><br/>'Just a D rank ability.' Sheyan thought in disappointment.<br/><br/>'Let's check the details.' Sheyan thought and opened the details of the ability.<br/><br/>{ Invisible hand (D rank): You have one extra invisible hand behind you on your back, it can stretch up to 5 metres and can be used just like your regular arm. }<br/><br/>{ Invisible hand has met the condition to be upgraded }<br/><br/>'An invisible hand? This seems familiar. Wait it can be upgraded?' Sheyan thought as he checked the information.<br/><br/>'Upgrade it.' Sheyan spoke to the system.<br/><br/>{ Invisible hand has been upgraded to invisible hands. }<br/><br/>{ Invisible Hands (C rank): You have three invisible arms behind you on your back, they can stretch up to 15 meters and can be used just like your regular arms. }<br/><br/>{ Ability can be upgraded when your spirit and intelligence reach 50 points each. }<br/><br/>'Three invisible arms that can stretch up to 15 meters and work just like my regular arms, although it's just a C rank ability but the practicality of this ability is very high.' Sheyan thought and exited his consciousness.</p>