[The Art of Language · Skills of Heart-to-Heart Communication]
[Self-heating Gloves Blueprint +1]
[Self-heating Insole Blueprint +1]
[Split Arrow Crafting Blueprint +1]
[Dragonbone Bow Crafting Blueprint +1]
[Skill Book · Precision +1]
[Treasure Map Fragment +1]
[Spirit Stones +100]
[Platinum +10]
"Really not bad!"
Seeing the rewards, Ethan nodded in satisfaction.
He had been dozing off, and a platinum treasure chest came along to deliver a pillow.
Especially the long-range weapons, the Dragonbone Bow crafting blueprint, plus the Split Arrow and the skill book · Precision.
These three were practically a full matching set for ranged weapons, not only afraid he wouldn't have a weapon, but also afraid he wouldn't shoot accurately.
Although Ethan himself could already hit a hundred shots out of a hundred.
But the soldiers under him couldn't.
So, this skill book was especially valuable.
Not only that, there was actually a treasure map fragment inside the platinum treasure chest. Ethan quickly took it out and glanced at it.
It was half a piece of tattered parchment, but perhaps because it was only a fragment, aside from the scratches on the leather, there were no other markings at all.
[Treasure Map Fragment 1/2: This is a fragment of a treasure map. If you can find the other half, you can combine them into a complete treasure map, and then you'll be able to see the true appearance of this treasure map.]
'This thing…'
Ethan rubbed his chin.
He remembered that he already had one. Last time, when he was selling kerosene lamps, there was a girl who wanted to trade a treasure map fragment for two kerosene lamps, but Ethan rejected her.
The reason was: anyway, if you can't find the other half of the treasure map, it's garbage.
Later, he got it with just one kerosene lamp.
At the time, Ethan didn't expect to find the other half either. He just treated it like buying a lottery ticket. Maybe one day he'd win when it opened.
He didn't expect that he would actually open another one from a treasure chest.
But the remaining half was still back in the villa.
Ethan immediately felt his heart flying home.
Mounting the bone horse, Ethan galloped madly toward the villa.
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[Villa]
When Ethan rode back on horseback, the residents and scarecrows who had been planting vegetables in the garden all looked at their lord in confusion.
Cook Four, hearing the sound of hoofbeats, rushed out of the kitchen even faster and shouted, "Lord, is there anything you need my help with?"
"No, carry on with your work."
Ethan didn't even slow the horse down. He just waved his hand and shouted, "I just came back to grab something. You don't need to worry about me!"
After saying that, Ethan had already rushed into the villa.
Only then did he jump down from the horse's back and stride quickly into the warehouse.
Inside the warehouse were rows upon rows of neatly arranged shelves, along with many small drawers for storing small items.
But Ethan knew that although those small drawers didn't look big, inside they were like black holes.
You could stuff almost anything into them.
For example, stones.
This thing, Ethan had once tried taking out a portion. Its volume was about one cubic meter, and it wasn't even regular.
Some portions of stone even contained three to four rocks of different sizes.
Although the quantity and size of each portion of stone were different.
The weight, however, was roughly the same.
So Ethan guessed, the system probably divided them by weight. How much weight counted as one portion was fixed. This was actually a fairly reasonable model.
But wanting to find a treasure map fragment in a warehouse piled with nearly a thousand different types of items, Ethan admitted that he couldn't do it.
Scratching his head.
In the end, he took out the magic book and directly used his mind to search, "Treasure map fragment."
Whoosh!
The next second, Ethan saw a drawer high up in the corner of the warehouse suddenly pop open.
A treasure map fragment flew out from inside, and outside the drawer, a white light actually lit up. The parchment scroll of the treasure map fragment flew straight into the white light and completely disappeared.
The next second, it directly appeared in Ethan's backpack.
"So every time I take something out of the warehouse, it flies into the backpack like this?"
Ethan was stunned by the scene before his eyes.
That white light looked very similar to the white light outside the Gray Ore Mining Area. It should be something like a spatial rift, allowing items in the warehouse to directly enter the backpack.
'This is no longer something that can be described as black technology, right?'
'It is already close to magic.'
'Could it be…'
'That this is the upgrade path of this world?'
But now wasn't the time to study the world background. Ethan quickly took out the treasure map fragment from his backpack.
[Treasure Map Fragment 1/2: This is a fragment of a treasure map. If you can find the other half, you can combine them into a complete treasure map, and then you'll be able to see the true appearance of this treasure map.]
"Exactly the same!"
Ethan was overjoyed.
He quickly placed the two treasure map fragments together.
[Two treasure map fragments detected. Merge?]
"Yes!"
The next moment, the two treasure maps were actually set on fire directly.
A line of flame rapidly burned upward from the bottom of the treasure maps, until the maps were completely reduced to ashes.
Ethan originally thought that within the ashes, there would be a new treasure map.
But after he swept the ashes aside, he discovered, there was nothing inside at all.
"What's going on?"
Ethan was dumbfounded, desperately sweeping away the ashes and trying to find the treasure map, "Where did my treasure map go? Don't tell me there's actually a certain chance of failure after merging?"
"Damn it! How is this any different from upgrading equipment in World of Warcraft?"
Every time you upgrade equipment, there's a certain chance it'll blow up.
This is the shady money-grabbing move used by game developers.
But in this world, nobody even needs to spend money, so what's the mastermind behind the scenes trying to get.
[System Prompt: The damaged treasure map has been merged into the regional map. You can view it within the regional map.]
"Whew! So that's how it is!"
Seeing this, Ethan finally let out a long breath. He had thought it failed and blew up.
Turns out it was just merged into the regional map.
He quickly took out the map and took a look. Ethan discovered that the location of this treasure map was actually behind the eastern Ruins Land. About ten-plus kilometers away, in a large grassland area, an extra treasure icon had appeared.
'Behind the ruins?'
Although it wasn't close, if he rode the bone horse, it would probably take about half an hour to get there.
'How about…'
'Taking a look?'
Ethan glanced at the time on the magic book.
It was now 10:25 in the morning. There were still 3 hours and 35 minutes before sunset. Today's daylight was relatively long, about six hours in total. If he just went to take a look and came back, there should be enough time.
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