Chapter 12: The Map

Stroph was thinking for quite a long time. His eyebrows frowned heavily, and he constantly chewed his nails. Ten minutes later he looked into Anthony's eyes and resolutely replied: "Well, I will go to the slums and try to get this incredible type of Spirit. But I have a question, who are you? An ordinary branch manager of the Phantom Association can't have such kind of information. "He was very impressed by what he had just heard.

Anthony nodded a little and said: "If you come back alive, maybe I will tell you."

"Shit. Well, where will I go?" Stroph was interested in the place where he would have to go. The slums were a giant territory, there was a great variety of dangerous places.

Anthony brought a hologram with a map of the empire in front of him and pointed to one place where a bright red dot immediately appeared. "Right here, this is the southeast of Slums, quite close to the sea. The city in which you will go to is called "Efliford, it is the closest city to the border of the slums and our empire".

There was an inscription above the map - "The Empire of a Flaming Heart".

The empire was located near the huge sea, its territory formed some kind of semicircle. The closer it was to the sea, the richer the cities became. From the Slums to the Outer Circle, and from the Outer Circle to the Inner Circle. The capital itself was by the sea and it was the most important and rich city in the whole empire.

"In Efliford, there are constant battles with monsters, this is a really good place." Charles was the one who was talking, he didn`t dissuade his friend from this idea. He could not deprive him of such a dangerous, but still the opportunity to become much stronger.

"All right, as I see, there are no objections. I think it's time we went to the arsenal. For the sword, my gift for Stroph, and at the same time I will see his skills. Stand up and follow me. "

After these words, Anthony hurriedly stood up from his chair and quickly headed for the lift. All the others followed him. They got to the arsenal of the Phantom Association branch quite quickly. A huge titanium door was waiting for them just before the entrance to the arsenal. Anthony went through many procedures before he was allowed in.

The arsenal was also accompanied by a gym for training. The room was incredibly large. There are hundreds of dummies for close combat and several shooting ranges in the size of a soccer field.

The arsenal itself included several thousands of pieces of various weapons, both simple and very valuable. From small darts and poisonous needles to swords and poleaxes of enormous size.

"Don't be surprised, all you see is a simple garbage for our ordinary employees, we are going to another place. Saying this, Anthony pointed to a high white door in the distance.

Approaching this door, Anthony entered a special code and then the door opened. There was another arsenal behind it. There were much less weapons here than in the previous one, but the quality is noticeably higher.

<How rich is the Phantom Association if even its branch in Outer Circle city full of equipment? So many weapons are, probably, not whole city!> Charles was stunned by what he saw.

<Why are we still going? Isn't it the arsenal with cool weapons?> Stroph didn`t understand why they didn`t stop and where they were going.

After a couple of minutes, they came up in a small black door. Right in front of this door there was an invisible barrier, which only Anthony could turn off. AI responsible for this door checked Anthony's identity for a few seconds and then they were able to enter the door.

"Here all the most precious treasures of our branch are stored. Be extremely careful." Anthony warned them in advance.

Stroph, Charles and even Richard were shocked by the picture that appeared before their eyes.

In front of them were 4 transparent capsules with different cold weapons. Many wires and pipes were connected to them, and the objects inside were in a special solution.

In each capsule there was only one weapon. There was a one-handed sword, a spear, a poleaxe and a two-handed sword.

"Here is it!" In one of the capsules, Charles saw the same sword that Anthony showed him.

"Yes, this is the sword that I promised you. Now I will pass it on to you." Anthony went to the capsule and entered the code, a couple of seconds later the sword was in Charles' hands. "As I said, now it belongs to you, its name is " The Ripper". For your information this is a second rank weapon".

<Bookmark, can you give me any information about this sword?> Stroph wanted to know how strong was this sword, in terms of his system.

[You need the skill of "Evaluation"]

<And how much does it cost?>

[The skill of the common level - "Evaluation", it costs 200 wish points and 1500 history coins.

<Hm, 350 2810 at the moment I have common points and history coins, it will be quite expensive, but think may worth it. I`ll buy> Stroph decided to buy this skill almost instantly.

[I understood. I'm running the operation]

[Congratulations, you have bought a skill of the common level - "Evaluation"].

[To use it, you just need to look at the item and wish to see information about it].

<It's worth a try> Stroph immediately looked at the sword in Charles' hands and all the information about it flashed up in his head.

[Two-handed sword - "The Ripper"]

[Rarity - rare]

[Damage - 17]

[Skills - no]

<Incredibly, the same quality as my "Last Light", no skills, but damage is just some kind of abnormal. Bookmark, how many strokes with this sword it takes to kill Demonic Armored Ogre?> Stroph wanted to compare his revolver and the new Charles` sword, of course, it is not quite correct to compare a completely different weapon, but still, they have one goal - to kill.

[With Charles` physical parameters, one swing at full strength is enough to cut off the arm of the Demonic Armored Ogre. The blade is sharp enough to cut the plates of such a strong monster]

<I see, Charles has received a real treasure, I hope something will fall to me too, although none of these items don`t need> Stroph transferred his look from Charles` sword to 4 capsules, one of which was already empty.

"I think you will be satisfied with this sword, it is the best two-handed sword in this branch. Stroph, now it's your turn." Saying this, Anthony looked at Stroph slowly.

"But I don't need a sword, not to mention a poleaxe." Stroph didn`t understand what Anthony meant, there were no things suitable for him here.

Anthony didn`t answer at once, he was looking at Stroph for a while and then quietly said: "You are right, all this is not suitable for you. You are the shooter and there is no automatic rifle or a sniper rifle of "Ripper" `s level here, but in that room, in addition to these four capsules, there is something else".

He turned and went to the eastern wall. Charles and Stroph thought that he would now enter another code and open a secret door, but everything happened a little differently.

Behind the wall it was really a secret room, which only Anthony knew about, but there was simply no entrance.

The next thing they saw amazed them. Anthony knocked once on the wall, and then the whole room shaken violently and from the place where he knocked, a lot of cracks began to come, crowded half of the room.

Anthony's power stunned them as the walls were incredibly strong.

Walking down the aisle they soon reached a small simple room hidden behind the wall. It was full of cobwebs and dust. And in the middle of the room there was an old coffin, black like a coal.