Wood Heart

Although he often fights, Aldric is not a bully.

He didn't show any special expression when he saw them.

He even threw a potion in a small bottle to each of them.

"Recover yourselves and follow me immediately," he said.

Of course, the potion was from their Storage Artifact.

He was not sure what the potions were, yet they also had an extraordinary aura of life.

They even made him suspect that they actually contained several liters of solidified Honey of Life.

As far as he knew, the Honey of Life could produce better effects after being turned into a potion with the addition of some ingredients.

The two immediately drank the potion and the effect turned their bodies green for a while.

Their recovery happened in no time.

Within a few seconds, they were finally able to stand up.

"Tell us your name or nickname?" Aldric asked them after they stood up.

"I'm the Demon Horse!"

"I'm Dead Fish!"

Both answered simultaneously, looking very obedient.

Their cowardly souls were fully awakened now.

Hearing their nicknames, Aldric wanted to roll his eyes, making him wonder what was wrong with their brains.

"B-boss, we'll follow you," the Dead Fish said after saying his name.

He started calling Aldric boss.

It was probably the most appropriate nickname for him given their current status.

Without saying anything, Aldric took a step while asking them to follow him.

They followed him with wry smiles, sometimes still looking worried.

When they followed him, they put on their masks again.

Perhaps they were too worried about anyone seeing them.

Occasionally they looked at each other, as if wondering where Aldric would take them since they were not returning to the city.

Of course, it would not be a good thing to follow him into the city now.

The other players could guess their identities if they followed Aldric.

(Eliot: Dark Crow!)

Suddenly, Aldric received a message from Eliot. The man was apparently back online.

(Dark Crow: What's wrong?)

(Eliot: Did you just defeat two famous robbers in White Wind City? Some players were talking about it and they made a painting of you. I didn't expect you to become so powerful in one day. You seem to have awakened an extraordinary talent.)

Reading the message, Aldric couldn't help but knit his brows.

(Yeah, I seem to have good luck in this game even though I don't really understand it.)

(That's great. By the way, I heard that there were some players who went to the city lord's residence to tell the city lord that you had defeated those two robbers. You may not know, they once stole a very valuable treasure from the city lord's residence, therefore, the city lord is eager to capture them. If they are with you, the city lord will definitely look for you. Although he rarely appears, the city lord is a Senior Magician. He is very powerful, it would be problematic if you had problems with him before becoming a Senior Magician.)

Aldric read the message carefully before looking at the two men again.

"What did you guys steal from the city lord's residence?" he asked.

There were too many unknown objects in their Storage Artifacts.

He could not even guess which ones were valuables and which ones were not. Naturally, he could not tell what objects they had stolen.

Hearing his question, they couldn't help but be stunned, not expecting him to know that.

However, then they looked at each other with unsure expressions.

"What's wrong?" asked Aldric.

"Mmm!!!" The Demon Horse scratched his long hair.

"I kind of forgot, it seems that what we stole was heart-like, made of very hard wood, but we didn't find the magic of that thing. We then forgot about it," he said.

"Something heart-like?" Aldric didn't think they remembered much.

He observed their Storage Artifact silently.

With so many things inside, it took him quite a while before he found the one they said it was.

Fortunately, it really existed.

An instant later, it appeared in his hand, something that indeed looked like a heart but was made of wood, very hard and cold and very heavy.

It was heavy enough to surprise Aldric because with his strength, he needed power to lift it.

"What is this?" He wondered.

It looked so ordinary that he doubted it was a special treasure.

Why was the city lord looking for it?

'Or is this a treasure that needs a catalyst to activate?'

He didn't think the city lord was looking for that thing if there was no secret.

As far as he knew, in this world there were many treasures that were in a dormant state and needed a catalyst to activate them.

Such treasures were from a distant ancient era, said to be more powerful than treasures of later eras.

What was the catalyst?

Aldric couldn't guess, but he released the aura of his white body, the green aura of the Forest of Life, and the aura of the Nine Star Wheel of Life that emitted a bright aura with stars in it.

Each aura was unique, giving off a mysterious flavor.

Together, they enveloped the wooden heart.

The auras of one SSS Class Body, SSS Class Wheel of Life, as well as the SS Class Wheel of Life.

Aldric was not sure there was anything better than those three auras to use as a catalyst to activate the dormant artifact.

The two men just watched in silence while observing the three auras they saw with curiosity.

Fighting Aldric personally, feeling his power easily oppressing them, they were naturally filled with question marks about his strength.

Unfortunately, just observing like this did not make them understand anything.

However, then they were astonished, including Aldric himself.

The three auras suddenly disappeared. They did not disappear because Aldric's aura made them disappear, but because they were absorbed into the wooden heart at high speed.

"They are absorbed, haven't we sent out a lot of aura but it was never absorbed by this heart," said the Demon Horse.

The Dead Fish did not blink anymore, continuing to stare at the wooden heart.

At this point, he knew that something amazing was about to happen.