Jack didn't hang around for too long around the three guilds. He tried asking around so more regarding the last phase of the eting without trying to make it too obvious, but everyone was tight-lipped about the subject. It was probably because they had been bound by the Shackle of Vows. He gave up after a while and departed from the ruin.
When he was out of Starlight Ruin, he asked Peniel, "do you have an idea how Earmouth only lost one level despite being killed in the wilderness?"
"I have," she answered.
"How?"
"He was wearing the Amulet of Rebirth."
Hearing the na, he could more or less guess at the function. "I reckoned this amulet allow the wearer to reduce the penalty of being killed in the wilderness to the sa as being killed inside a safe zone or dungeon?"
"That's correct?"
"So lucky for him to get himself such a rare item," Jack comnted.
"What rare? The Amulet of Rebirth offers no bonus other than the rebirth skill, and it can be bought," Peniel inford.
Jack was walking while he was conversing with the Fairy, he stopped abruptly after hearing Peniel's last words. "What do you an? It can be bought? As in from the shops in the capital?"
"More like any city that housed the Church of Creation. This amulet can be bought from that church."
"Why didn't you inform
of this important information before?"
"What's the point? You have that Immortal Soul inherent skill, it was much better than the Amulet of Rebirth."
"Still, such information was kinda crucial…" Jack said with a helpless expression.
Peniel who heard Jack's tone, felt dissatisfied, she uttered, "I have much important information. If I have to share with you everything, I can't cover it all even if you do nothing but listen to
for an entire month!"
"Okay, okay, no need to get work out over it," Jack said, he felt defeated. "So everyone can just buy this amulet from the Church of Creation? Is there any special requirent for buying it?"
"No requirent, you just pay and you will get the amulet. Sa thod as any other shop."
"How much does this Amulet of Rebirth costs?"
"1 gold coin."
"For an item that can allow you to keep most of your level and equipnt. That was absolutely cheap. If everyone can buy it, it kind of eliminates the risk of death in the wilderness."
Peniel made a smirking sound, "1 gold coin is for the first ti purchase."
"What do you an?" Jack asked with a confused look.
"This amulet is special equipnt. It used a special thod that connected the user's soul to the church's secret magic formation. So the amulet that one buys can only be used by said person, it can't be traded. Each ti the amulet is activated, the rebirth spell was exhausted and will destroy the amulet. A new amulet with a new connection has to be established if the user wishes to be protected by the Rebirth spell again. But repeated application required double the energy from the previous application. Hence, if one buys the Amulet of Rebirth the second ti, they will be required to pay 2 gold coins. The third ti, 4 gold coins, and so on."
Jack made so calculations, if one died ten tis, they would need to pay 1024 gold coins for the next Amulet of Rebirth. That was an astronomical sum. He guessed most individuals might only afford to purchase it three or four tis. Any more would be too expensive already. For large guilds, however, the higher-ups might be able to abuse their position to use their guild's coffer to supply for this safety. But still, such a large expenditure would just cripple the guild's advancent if they spend too much to accommodate their top brass safety via this Amulet of Rebirth.
With this thought, he was not too worried about the Amulet of Rebirth anymore. If his enemies had it, all he had to do was simply killed them a few more tis. Furthermore, wearing the amulet would instead weaken the wearer. Since the amulet provided no other bonus, wearing it ant that the wearer was sacrificing their pendant slot, which will put them at a disadvantage against others who wore a pendant that increased their combat power.
"Now, before you accused
of withholding information again, I'm going to let you in on another information," Peniel said.
"Oh? What is it?" Jack asked.
"That long-range communication device during the eting which showed projection from another city, it was not a unique device that can only be found in that ruin."
"Really? But I don't find that strange. That White Death dude said he found a similar device in the ruin near his city, so there will be such devices in other ruins as well."
"No, I didn't an it like that. What I'm telling you is that the device is actually a common tool that can be found in most large cities."
"What?"
"Yes, those guilds made it sound like such a big deal. They will be dying from sha when they found out that you can simply walk to the Remote Communication Office which was a common building in most large cities, and asked to use the sa long-range communication device. Of course, you will be charged coins to use the service. These devices can also be found in so adventurer hubs in the wilderness, which supply facilities that cater to their needs when they were far away from a city. That Starlight Ruin might be one such hub in the past."
Jack chuckled after hearing Peniel's information. He did want to see the face of the three guilds' leaders when they found out about this Remote Communication Office. Nevertheless, this information about long-range communication devices was pointless to him as he did not need to contact anyone from other cities.
He spent his ti killing monsters as he made his way back to the capital. He only changed his appearance back to Storm Wind after reaching the capital to avoid clashing with the forces from the three guilds, as so of them were also traveling back to the capital. He was not afraid of them, he simply had enough excitent in one day. Clashing with those guilds again would just be tireso.
Back in the capital, he used the Transformation Box to rge the common equipnt he got from John. Combined with the leftovers common equipnt he had gotten from the robbers incident, he got eight uncommon equipnt. Out of the eight, he used four to combined with the other uncommon he had, producing one rare dium armor chest and one rare dium armor pants.
He checked on the stats of the new rare equipnt. Comparing them with the ones he was wearing, they were not better. So he just stored them back into his inventory bag.
The next day, Jack helped Death Associates on their monster hunting quests to collect coins. He could just leave them alone now since his original purpose of infiltrating the guild was done. However, he figured he might need to infiltrate the guild again in the future, so he kept up with his pretense for another day. If he just disappeared the day after the eting, people who disliked him like Bigarm would speculate bad things about him again.
He took his ti during the hunting quests, didn't try to perform too well. White Scarfs was also collecting coins to buy the plot of land for their guild base. This was the least he can do for them.
He t the other Death Associate teams as well during his hunting quests, but oddly, they seed to travel with much caution. There were also more mbers in their team than usual. After so thought, he assud this must have sothing to do with himself. He had threatened to hunt their mbers to hinder them from collecting coins, and he had also attacked their mbers yesterday. So it was safe to say that they were very much on guard against his ambush at the mont.
"What are you smiling at?" Warpath asked. This guy had been assigned back into his team for today.
"None of your business! You just focus on the task I gave. I will dock your coins portion if you annoy ," Jack replied.
"Huh!" He turned away indignantly.
They ended up doing two runs for the whole day. He passed the amount reserved for the guild before going away. He had also leveled up his Mage class after the two runs. His Mage class was level 17 now. While his Warrior class was closed to reaching level 19.
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