Chapter 123: Chapter One Hundred Twenty Three

Once we got down to the treasury it was even more apparent that we  had hit the jackpot. The place was wall to wall with impressive looking  stuff, though granted based on Impact a not insignificant portion of the  treasures were just mortal crap. Still, I pulled the backpack with the  spatial box off my back, ready to grab as much as we could carry. Callie  looked just as starstruck by all the loot as I was, to the point where  she was almost bouncing with glee. When she saw me pull out the bag she  grinned. "Isn't that thing the coolest?"

It  was. The idea of having a spatial container of our own was amazing.  Granted it was kind of bulky, but with the backpack it was basically  just a spatial bag with an annoying shape. "Definitely. I've been  wanting a spatial container since I heard about them, sucks the small  ones are so expensive. Even this thing is worth more than I've ever even  seen in my life, not to mention a ring or necklace. I wonder what rank  we'll be before we have enough to be able to afford to outfit everyone  with one of those things?"

Callie  just shrugged. "Depends on the planet I think. I hear they're easier to  get on larger scale worlds. On a D rank world they would be easier to  get I assume. Given the gravity on one of those though we would barely  be able to walk around. F ranks and higher on those planets from what  I've heard. The damn things are like ten times the size of a normal  planetary body and it massively increases the gravitational pull. Still,  great places to shop at least. Now, go get the Bone Goblet and Corpse  Eating Grass while I try to figure out if the rest of this is useful or  worth anything. And for the revenants sake-"

I  rolled my eyes. "Don't touch anything directly. Yes dear, I know. We've  been looting everything that isn't tied down since we got here. Also  some things that were tied down. And the ties they used to secure them.  Man, we might have a kleptomania problem. This would be really  concerning people if we weren't robbing dead people." I paused. "I'm  going to try not to think to hard about that last sentence actually.  Getting the materials for the list." I shook off that train of thought  and headed over to the pedestals with the things we needed.

Ignoring  the giggles from my girlfriend as I blatantly ignored the red flag that  was essentially becoming grave robbers, I headed to the Bone Goblet  first. The pedestal the goblet was on was a column rising up from a  massive pile of gold coins. The dark stone ended in a flat platform atop  the stone, clutched on all sides by skeletal fingers from four  different carved skeletal hands. The goblet sat unassumingly on the flat  surface, just waiting to be grabbed, and I could see why Callie felt  the need to warn me. It was pretty tempting to just snatch the thing up  and toss it in the bag.

Since  I was pretty sure that was a bad idea even if there was no security or  anything (the whole picture just screamed cursed object) I opened the  bag and the box inside and set it down next to the column before pulling  a rock from my pocket and chucking the stone at the goblet, knocking it  over and directly into the waiting bag. I silently thanked my past self  for seeing that cool rounded pebble in a creek bed and deciding to pick  it up and considered going to find it before deciding it was a lost  cause and moving on to the pot of grass.

It  struck me that trying to steal a pot of grass from a ghost castle was  something I legitimately never considered I would ever be doing and I  had to grin a bit. My life really had gotten weird. I slapped the box  down over the pot directly without touching it this time since there  hadn't been a problem with the goblet, and sure enough, no response. I  refastened the backpack and slung it back over my shoulder, heading over  to where Callie was standing next to yet another platform, staring down  at a small dark object.

As  I drew closed I was able to see it better, and I realized it was a vial  of dark liquid. The vial was capped with bronze on either end and  sealed with dark red wax. Callie was gazing at it seriously, clearly  caught up in whatever the substance was. I stopped next to her. "Is that  some kind of magic potion or poison? Maybe the Lichs one weakness or  something?Because whatever is in the looks important." My bet was on  some kind of super powerful blood potion that would make the drinker  jump up twenty points or something.

Callie  stared for a minute before jumping a bit as if she hadn't noticed me.  "What? Oh no that's blood. Just the normal kind you take from a person.  It's not valuable to us at all. The vial it's in however...it's called a  life puppet flask. You pour the blood of someone G rank or lower into  it and you can force them to rise when they sleep and follow your  orders." She shook her head with a grimace. "Necromancers. Still, might  be useful to have around, if only to make sure no one else gets their  hands on it. I think the Cult has had quite enough mind control tricks."

I  nodded and scooped it into the pack without touching it. "So, anything a  little less creepy in here? I know its a ghost castle but does  everything have to be all morbid and dark? Like ghosts can't own things  unless they look like they belong to a disaffected poet in a frilly  shirt? Ooooh skull cane!" Callie rolled her eyes at me as I bolted over  to a new pedestal, staring down in fascination at the awesome looking  dark wood cane with the silver ruby eyed skull for a head. It had  intricate carvings up and down the length. I turned to her as she came  over. "What does this one do?"

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That  got me a glare. "I'm not an encyclopedia Shane, I can't just tell you  what every random artifact does and where it came from. Just because I  did some research doesn't mean I'm a convenient source of info for every  time we come across something useful. It's a cane covered with weird  symbols. Just put it in the box and move on, we don't have time for  this." That was a fair criticism, I just shrugged and stowed the thing  away. She was probably right anyway, I needed to start reading up on  this stuff myself instead of expecting her to do it every time.

The  rest of the columns we didn't bother with talking about, we just shoved  everything into the box. We still avoided touching anything of course,  but Callie was right about not having much time. The pedestals were all  covered with some weird stuff. An hourglass, a glass box with a hand in  it, a dagger, a red crystal butterfly, a rose made of black rock, a pair  of gaudy emerald earrings, and a small wooden hammer like a judge would  use. We stuffed everything inside, a bit bummed there was no other  herbs to take and then grabbed a couple of H rank weapons from the gold  piles until the box was full.

I  expected it to get heavier when we put all that stuff in, but in the  end nothing happened. Probably for the best because I wasn't entirely  sure I could have managed to keep the bag from breaking under any more  weight. While I had the Might to carry all that stuff, having to hold it  in my arms would have really screwed with our exit plan. Once we were  packed up we headed to the column and back up to the balcony. "Ok, we're  down to twenty one things on the list right? Anything else we can score  in this place or are we good to go?"

Callie  just shook her head. "No, we can leave. I officially want to get the  hell out of here. Now that there's no treasure left to take this place  is starting to get creepy." Which was fair. I wasn't a huge fan of the  decor either. The blue flames of the torches were flickering eerily  across the dark stone, and knowing there were literal ghosts around  didn't help. It wasn't scary or anything, but it was consistently  unsettling and honestly it was starting to make me a little queasy. We  made it back down to the entry room easily enough, taking the door to  the catwalk and then heading back down the column to the secret door in  the back corner of the room.

We  had to sneak out of the room to avoid the Dullahans standing guard, but  we made it to the hallway easily enough from the back corner. Once we  were outside we looked around slowly to confirm our exit and started our  trek out. The sneaking was slow and boring, but it saved us from having  to engage the enemy, so we weren't complaining. I drew close to Callie.  "Ok, we should try to rush it a bit. Even if they didn't see us go in  there's no way someone won't go in there eventually. It's obvious that  things were taken, so don't want to be around when they notice."

She  nodded solemnly and we picked up the pace, still moving slow enough to  be stealthy but completely unwilling to go at less that the fastest  speed possible. It was thirty minutes later and three quarters of the  way back to when we came in when we heard a series of rattling bangs  coming down the hall. I was about to use Seek Hidden, but it became  unnecessary when the lumbering forms of four massive Dullahans came  barreling around the corner, followed by a veritable parade of ghosts.

The  paused at the entrance to the hallway and I froze in place. "I'm pretty  sure this answers the whole 'can the Dullahans see us question. Run!" I  grabbed Callie's hand and we broke stealth, taking off full speed down  the hall. Full speed for us was...fast. I expected to lose them quick,  but those Dullahans were pretty stacked in Might, and despite their huge  size they moved pretty fucking quickly, not to mention the ghosts who  could pass through walls and were hot on their tails. I looked at  Callie's eyes, relieved to see she still had the green glow of life  energy. They couldn't see us, but they could follow the Dullahans that  could.

We  used the turns to our advantage, and I activated Afterburner exploding  out with power to keep up with my girlfriend so she didn't have to wait  up for me. Finally we made it back up to the roof, where a ghostly wail  had tipped off the gargoyles, who were even now turning to stare at us  menacingly. As we approached the wall I screamed. "Do you trust me?"  This next part wasn't exactly optimal but I at least wanted to make sure  she had some warning. "Because this is going to be pretty crazy."

Her  eyes widened. "Yes of course, but Shane, you were supposed to lower us  down with the rope before we jumped. Even with the reduced falling speed  the impact of the landing might break our legs!" I didn't have time to  respond as I grabbed her and swept her up into a princess carry,  activating Leaf in the Wind as I hurled myself off the edge of the  castle and into open air. Callie screamed and clung to me as I activated  the skill, pushing it to cover us both. I wasn't worried though as we  started to plummet, albeit at a reduced rate. I had a plan.

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