Chapter 170 Treasure Distribution and Adaptation
At this time, an ordinary card appeared in Alka's hand, but it was covered with pink mist and was thrown away by him.
The card drew an arc in front of it, leaving a long trail of pink smoke.
When the fireball hit the pink smoke, it became dim, then heavy, lost power and crashed into the sea below.
This is a new ability that Alka has recently developed.
Through the pink dream mist, inanimate objects are also infected with dream attributes.
Although it cannot really make the object fall asleep, it can obviously slow down the speed of the object itself.
It is most appropriate to use it at this time.
The water temperature had dropped to freezing point and heavy snow was falling from the sky.
As the sword was swung, one icicle after another shot forward and froze the sea water in front of them into ice.
These ice blocks seriously hindered the Lava Snake's pursuit, and the distance was getting farther and farther.
The lava snake's body has been broken into several sections, and you can see that the snake's size has shrunk.
As the surrounding temperature gets lower and lower.
Its movements became slow and another icicle hit it. It stopped helplessly and did not continue chasing.
Looking at the ship getting farther and farther away from him, he opened his huge mouth and roared angrily.
And it kept spraying balls of lava fire at the ship to vent its anger.
However, these fireballs were frozen by the cold in mid-air. Although they did not turn into ice cubes immediately, they lost their kinetic energy and fell into the sea, turning into small pieces of stone.
"It looks like it has given up." Alka said as he looked at the giant lava snake that was no longer chasing them and could only roar in place.
Julia then exhaled, and the gas she exhaled turned into ice chips in the air.
He controlled the treasure in his hand and put it into the box next to him.
The temperature in the sky dropped immediately, and the cold was fading away quickly.
"You can no longer use this treasure. The magic power in the circuit has begun to undergo serious changes."
The characteristics of Frost Nova are too strong. After only using it a few times, Julia's magic power has been transformed into frost attributes.
If you use it a few more times, it will really go to extremes.
Unlike the Dreamcatcher, which was gentle, it took half a year for Alka's magic to slowly begin to change.
It may also be related to the dream catcher's weak magical properties.
This seems to be a common problem with elemental treasures, but of course this is only according to Lucelia.
Without the giant lava snake chasing them, they were finally safe. The ship began to slow down and sailed at a normal speed.
"Pororo, help check if there are any signs of damage around the ship, and the rest of you check the deck mast."
Alka said as he began to check the entire ship.
There was no way. After all, this ship was just a relatively low-level spell ship and had no so-called quality inspection system. They needed to take a good look at it after the battle.
Once a problem is discovered, it must be solved. You cannot be careless when sailing at sea.
After all, there are only six of them on this ship, and the range of activities is very wide, so there will always be places that are not taken care of.
After checking and making sure there were no problems, everyone gathered on the deck.
Looking at the rectangular block of metal in front of them, the surface was polished smooth like a mirror.
Alka looked up at the people in front of him.
After thinking for a while, he said, "Xia Dai suggested that you come and try it."
Since he possessed the spell when he touched it, Xia Daiti should be the person on the ship who is most difficult to possess the treasure at this stage.
After possessing the treasure, she should be the first to touch it to see if it is suitable.
Xia Daiti nodded when he heard it, stretched out his hand and touched the surface of the metal, and the magic power flowed through the palm of his hand.
However, the magic power had just been integrated when it was immediately repelled. The power of the repulsion was quite strong, and Xia Daiti was shocked to retreat again and again.
Seeing this, Alka couldn't help but stretch out his leg and kick the treasure in front of him.
A bully who only fears the strong.
Why wasn't he so strong when he input his magic power just now?
Since Xia Daiti couldn't do it, Alka turned to look at Pororo.
Seeing Alka's gaze, Pororo nodded, walked up, and reached out to touch the mirror-like metal surface.
Magic power surged out like a stream of water, and this time it was still repelled, shaking Porro's hand back from it.
"What's going on?"
This phenomenon left Alka a little confused.
Logically speaking, it shouldn't be like that.
It is understandable that Xia Daiti was excluded. After all, she understood the spell when she became a toucher. In the eyes of many treasures, she was just a person who possessed other treasures.
But this is not the case with Polo. Polo is just an ordinary toucher and should not be rejected by the treasure.
That's really strange.
After hearing what Alka said, the others also didn't understand.
"Lucelia, are you aware of this situation?"
Hearing Alka's question, Lucilia on her shoulder shook her head: "I don't know, I haven't seen or heard of such a situation."
Well, even the most knowledgeable person on the team doesn't know either.
It seems that the mystery of the treasure is quite deep.
So now only Jason and Julia are left.
"Jason, you try it first."
Hearing this, Jason couldn't help but rub his hands together, and stretched out his hand a little nervously, covering the metal surface of the box.
At this time, the metal surface is still warm, not as cold as real metal.
He channeled his pale magic power onto the surface of the metal.
As the magic power poured in, the box did not return the magic power as Xia Dai had mentioned before, but instead became silent.
It seems like he is tasting it?
I don't know why Alka feels this way.
"He's not very capable and he's quite picky." Alka next to him couldn't help but complain.
Everyone looked at Alka strangely, not being able to understand what he meant.
Alka explained briefly.
Then he saw the metal box reacting, and Jason smiled when he saw this.
Lines appeared on the originally mirror-smooth metal surface, emitting a red light like magma, spreading across the surface.
It seems to be forming some kind of pattern.
The magic power also began to feed back into Jason's body.
Jason closed his eyes, and a faint orange-red light emanated from his body, as if flames were burning on his body.
Seeing this situation, everyone had some experience and stepped back slightly and stopped disturbing them.
Seeing everyone's actions, Juanlu quickly took a few steps back.
I feel like I have used up all the shock of my life on this ship.
After a while, Jason opened his eyes. He already knew the power of the metal box treasure in front of him.
But looking at Jason's expression, it was no longer the joyful one before, but a little stiff.
He seems unable to be happy.
This expression made everyone feel a little strange, as it was not what he should show at this moment.
According to Jason's habit, he should be smiling now.
Seeing this, Alka asked nearby: "What's wrong Jason? Is there something wrong with this treasure?"
After hearing what Alka said, Jason had a strange expression on his face. He seemed to not know what to say, so he could only pat the metal box under his feet.
"Well, you can see for yourself."
After saying this, a crack suddenly appeared in the middle of the mirrored metal that had been fitted together so tightly, as if it were a whole piece of metal.
The gap went around and divided the entire metal into two parts. The upper part, which seemed to be the lid, slowly floated up.
Revealing the true appearance inside.
This thing is indeed a box.
And as the box was opened, the space inside and outside the box became distorted and finally reversed.
It took a long time before they were completely combined together and the strange phenomenon disappeared.
Regarding this abnormal phenomenon, Jason explained: "The inside of this box can block time and stop the flow of time inside the box. So when it is opened, it will have a different effect than when it was closed, because it needs to reconcile the time inside with the time outside."
"Besides, there's something in this box."
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look inside. Due to the distortion of space, they couldn't see the situation inside clearly.
Now it's clear.
Inside the box is an egg-like object.
The overall color of the egg is a gradient of red and blue intersecting and blending, which looks quite handsome. The surface looks very smooth, and you can see the lines that look like hexagons.
It looks more like a piece of art made of metal, with the surface polished to be as smooth as a mirror.
Jason walked over, squatted down, reached into the box, and gently took out the egg.
The egg gently stuck to his body and floated up gently.
"Are the egg and the box one and the same, or are they..."
Alka asked from the side, he might actually have guessed the reason for Jason's strange expression.
Hearing Alka's question, Jason looked up and shook his head helplessly.
"No, this box was made for this egg. Although the box is a treasure, its function is only to stop the time in the box."
After hearing this, everyone fell silent for a moment.
"Just stop the time in the box? It can't bring you any abilities?" Xia Daiti couldn't help asking.
In this case, this box can only be classified as a powerful magical item and is not even close to being a treasure.
But his ability is indeed outrageous, after all, he can stop the passage of time.
Even though it's just in a box.
But this box isn't big enough to hold one person.
Hearing Xia Dai's question, Jason nodded heavily.
"Really, this is the only ability."
In other words, this box was really made for this egg.
"That shouldn't be the case. It shouldn't be possible for just anyone to input magic power to open it. It should require a special key or something."
After all, the box had behaved like a treasure before, repelling some people but accepting others.
Although he rejected Pororo, he easily accepted Jason's magic and allowed him to control the box.
If it was to protect the eggs inside, this would be too easy.
It doesn't seem to have a protective effect.
Everyone looked at Jason, waiting for his answer.
However, magic power is growing in Jason's body, and the amount of magic in his body is increasing rapidly.
It only took a short while to reach the triple spiral.
Feel the magic vacuum around you.
"It seems that this box is not useless. At least it made Jason mention the triple helix."
Alka said with a smile beside him.
This box still has this basic ability.
Even though this box didn't have much effect, it elevated Jason to triple helix.
As long as Jason meditated a little harder during this period, he would be able to stabilize his strength at this stage, even with the lost treasure.
As the vacuum disappeared and magic filled it, Jason opened his eyes in a sweat.
The originally stiff face finally showed a smile.
"At least there is some gain."
Alka pointed to the blue and red egg next to him and said, "Since a treasure was made specifically for this egg, this egg must be very powerful, or have some function?"
Hearing Alka's question, everyone looked curious.
Since there is nothing special about the box, this egg must have some story.
Otherwise, it would be too exaggerated to create a treasure specifically for protection.
Jason nodded when he heard this, and gently took the eggs that were sticking to him with both hands.
"From the information given in the box, this egg was left behind a long, long time ago, and the box was specially built by the parents of this egg to protect their children."
"As for the process and why, I don't know, but the reason why my magic power can be infused into it is because this box has a screening process."
"He will eliminate the unqualified protectors and select a qualified protector to open the box. The moment he opened the box, I signed a contract with this egg."
At this point, Jason's face couldn't help but become sad again.
Anyone who encounters this situation would be frustrated.
I originally thought it was a treasure and happily got it in my hands. It turned out to be a treasure, but an almost useless treasure.
It was useless, and it caused a lot of trouble, as I had signed a contract with an unknown thing.
"contract?"
Hearing this and looking at Jason's gloomy expression, Alka couldn't help but frown.
"What kind of contract is harmful to you?"
This is what he is concerned about, if his teammates are put in a dangerous situation because he found the treasure.
This is not worth the loss, and Alka must solve it.
Jason looked at the slightly worried eyes of the crowd, smiled and shook his head: "It's okay, don't be so nervous, this contract is fair."
“Protect this egg to the best of your ability, and help it grow into its own warrior. When it hatches and grows, it will also give me feedback.
There are pros and cons, but it doesn’t tell me what will be hatched.”
Everyone nodded when they heard the requirements of the contract. That was good, because we were worried that there would be some unequal requirements.
This contract sounds okay.
"But the contract says that your strength will increase as the strength of this egg increases, which means that the creature in this egg should be relatively powerful."
Alka thought for a moment and said.
If the object in the egg was not a powerful species, there would not be such a clause in the contract, because this clause was clearly granting a benefit.
Hearing this, Jason nodded. He felt the same way, so although he was a little frustrated, he could still accept it.
Thinking of this, he raised the egg in his hand.
"I just wonder what kind of thing will hatch out of this?"
Xia Daiti walked up and patted him on the shoulder.
"Congratulations Jason."
Hearing Xia Daiti's words, Jason turned and looked at her, confusion in his eyes.
"Congratulations on what?"
"Congratulations on becoming a father, hahahaha..."
Having said that, Xia Daiqi couldn't help but reveal a gloating smile on his face.
Hearing this, the others couldn't help but laugh.
Indeed, what hatches from this egg should at least be a baby.
Isn't Jason, who has signed a contract with this little baby, the equivalent of a nanny?
Maybe this is how the contract came about.
After hearing what Xia Daiti said and looking at everyone's smiles, Jason couldn't help but turn his head to look at the egg in his hand with a strange expression on his face.
He is still young.
How did it suddenly become like this?
The expression on his face couldn't help but become distressed.
After everyone finished joking, Alka squatted down and looked at the metal box.
After thinking for a while, he asked, "Jason, is this box useful to you? Or to your baby?"
"It's useless. And don't say he's my baby. I just signed a contract with him."
Hearing Jason's words, Alka waved his hand casually and didn't listen at all.
Instead, I started thinking alone.
This box is a gift that comes with an egg. Its function is extremely simple and it cannot even be called a treasure.
If the box is big enough to hold one person, its value will be greatly increased.
For example, if a person is dying, putting him in this box can save his life.
But the problem is that the box is too small.
It's okay to use it to hold things, but it's obviously , not even a child.
Because the space inside is too small.
From the outside it looks to be 1 meter long, 0.5 meters wide, and probably around 0.3 meters high.
But if you actually look at the internal volume, you will find that the thickness of the box accounts for almost half of it.
After all, it is a treasure chest used to protect the egg. As long as it can hold the egg, the other places must be used to increase the thickness to protect the safety of the egg.
Naturally, it is not of much use.
No wonder he is much weaker than his own Dream Catcher. Alka feels that it is questionable whether he can make someone become the Toucher.
Of course , this is just an exaggeration, but the number of people he can touch is definitely not large, this is inevitable, and it is estimated that there may be less than 100 people.
And the most important thing is that although he is a treasure, he cannot bring any benefit to Jason.
In addition to Jason being forced to reach the triple helix because of his own high energy.
