Chapter 110 - Confounding discrepancies
“Well done, both of you,” Scarlett told Fynn and Shin after what remained of their target scattered away with one last blast of her pyrokinesis. She walked up to the center of the spacious chamber they were in, kneeling down to pick up a rusty old key that was nestled inside a pile of slightly glowing iron chains.
[Chains of beleaguerment (Rare)]
{The chains shaped by one cursed by the burden of their loyalty}
She looked up at Fynn, gesturing towards the chains. “Place those inside the bag.”
The chains weren’t an artifact per se, but they had been a crafting component in the game. Not anything she was likely to need, but if it could be sold, it was useful.
The white-haired young man walked over and picked the chains up, corralling them into the [Bag of Juham] hanging over his shoulder.
Scarlett stood up and scanned her eyes across the room. Their fight had left a small mess, but nothing too bad. The [Custodian] they had been hunting down had proven an easier target than expected. Not only had Fynn been able to locate the ghost with relative ease, but the fight itself had also turned out rather anticlimactic. Fynn had—of course—been part of the reason for that, as had Shin, but what had surprised Scarlett the most was how effective her own magic had shown to be against the ghost.
In fact, it had been unexpectedly powerful against most things they’d encountered in this mansion, really. It also helped that none of the enemies up till now seemed to have passed the level 50 breaking point that made her [Charms of Apperception] ineffective—although she imagined they were all close—which meant she could see their weak points.
Still, she supposed that [Superior Pyrokinesis] was the main reason why this time, things differed compared to some of her previous experiences. She thought she’d already gotten a decent handle on the skill’s power before coming here, but clearly, that wasn’t completely true. Although there might be something else behind it as well. It did seem as if both her hydrokinesis and pyrokinesis were particularly strong against the ghosts in this place—the dolls they’d encountered could take a bit more damage from her—so perhaps it was related to some weakness she was unaware of? While undead were weak against fire in the game, that did not go for ghost and their kin, so maybe it had something to do with the ‘true’ variants of pyrokinesis and hydrokinesis that she apparently had?
It was hard to know for sure, considering she hadn’t had much time to understand that part of her magic yet. It was something she was planning on delving deeper into when she returned to Freymeadow, though.
But whatever the reason was, she wasn’t going to complain. She also wasn’t going to let it get to her head. The real dangers in this dungeon lurked in the later section.
“What are we doing next?” Shin asked. The young Shielder walked up to her, giving the key in her hand an inspecting look.