Radiant Era - Chapter 113

Chapter 113 Several Equipments

"Those things outside are not bad, indeed pretty good!" Blackbeard brought Lin Qi in a slow walk along the narrow passage. He complacently smiled and said, "But those things don't have much use. Indeed, they are all thorny goods, bringing them out will only invite troubles."

Proudly humming part of a certain Western opera aria, Blackbeard walked in exaggerated strides and said with a smile, "The truly useful things are all inside these three secret warehouses. Lin Qi, unlike the medicine warehouse you saw last time, the family's most precious things are all in here."

Lin Qi narrowed his eyes that contained greed. He kept close to Blackbeard as they entered a small square-shaped secret warehouse over 20 meters wide. Dozens of metal racks were neatly arranged; on theme were several appealing crystal medicine bottles as well as several strange containers.

"Lin Qi, Father helped you opened your meridians just now, but your meridians still aren't stable. The bowl of decoction was only an initial step in helping you stabilize your current strength. So this bottle of 'Saber-toothed Golden Leopard Pill', you have to take it. Seven pills in total, as long as you consume one daily for a total of three pills, they can help you to thoroughly stabilize your meridians, also they can make your meridians several times stronger than those of ordinary knights."

Blackbeard threw a golden crystal medicine bottle as big as a fist to Lin Qi. Lin Qi stuffed the medicine bottle into his pocket with shining eyes. The importance of meridians for a fighter went without saying, the more stable the meridians the less obstruction there would be and the more powerful the qi they could support. Regardless of training or fighting, powerful meridians could display an enormous efficiency.

Furthermore, Lin Qi only needed to use three pills to stabilize his meridians while he had seven pills. In other words, Lin Qi had four extra Saber-toothed Golden Leopard Pills, enough to let Enzo, Wei Ke, and Yu Lian gain a certain benefit.

The things stored inside the secret cave were all extremely precious medicinal ingredients. They were rare medicine the Black Tiger Family managed to seize and rob in so many years. The nobilities of every country or kingdom on the continent had always been fond of buying several precious medicine from certain distant places to nurture the young elites of the family, but they also like to transport these medicine through the sea. Hence, many medicine fell into the hands of Black Tiger Family.

Blackbeard chose two bottles of unusual medicine that could strengthen the body's quality as well as several bottles of pills and medicinal liquid that could enhance qi training rate for Lin Qi. Finally, he found a jar of pitch-black ointment for Lin Qi. He solemnly warn Lin Qi, it was a kind of extremely rare legendary healing potion. No matter if it was bone fractures or flesh wounds, as long as they were smeared with the ointment, they would recover in the shortest amount of time.

Lin Qi carefully kept these legendary potions that were worth tens of thousands, wrapping them into a bundle using a huge piece of cloth to be carried on his shoulder.

Looking at Lin Qi's appearance that was like that of a little thief at night, Blackbeard couldn't help but grin. He shook his head and brought Lin Qi into the second small-sized secret warehouse. Here, Blackbeard didn't give Lin Qi anything. He merely selected an anklet, letting Lin Qi wear it around his ankle.

It was an extremely elaborate green anklet as thin as a bean sprout. It was unknown what metal the anklet was made of, while it was much lighter compare to a feather. Lin Qi wrinkled his brows as he wore the anklet around his left ankle and couldn't help but grimace while looking at Blackbeard.

"I am a man!" Lin Qi indignantly looked at Blackbeard. Which man wore an anklet?

"You're not a man, I am a true man!" Blackbeard glanced at Lin Qi in disdain and said with ridicule, "A cucumber that never even touch a woman also dare to say he is a man? Drip your blood on it!"

Lin Qi couldn't raise his head from Blackbeard's attack. He sullenly bit his finger, dripping his blood on the anklet. The thin and elaborate anklet flashed with a faint green light before abruptly entering Lin Qi's ankle. Only a thread of extremely thin, nearly indiscernible green mark was left on his skin while Lin Qi faintly felt that there was something on his ankle that was linked with his mind.

"It is a space magic device, can fit as many things as one can fit a chariot." Blackbeard raised his eyebrows and said with a grin, "What's more wonderful is the fact that it is an anklet, no one will expect such a precious space magic device to be hidden on the foot, with valuable things stored inside, very safe!"

Lin Qi was rightly astounded. He carefully collected several medicine bottles next to his foot. Sure enough, following a flash of light, the several medicine bottles disappeared without a trace. Lin Qi could faintly feel that inside the anklet round his left foot, there appeared to be several additional things.

"Indeed not bad!" Lin Qi said with a smile, "No one will take off my boots to check if there are things on my foot."

Blackbeard said with a frown, "It's a pity that your feet don't smell, otherwise it will be even safer! Hahaha!"

After making fun of Lin Qi, Blackbeard grabbed Lin Qi who was sneakily gazing at the huge number of magic devices in the secret warehouse and forcefully dragged him out. "Don't even think about these things here, they are the family's strategic reserve, unless the family faced a life and death crisis, you can't easily use the magic devices here."

Severely warning Lin Qi, Blackbeard dragged Lin Qi into the last secret warehouse.

Here, a huge number of weapons, armors and other things forged by ancestor level blacksmiths and magicians were piled up. Lin Qi's eyes shone as they swept over these glittering weapons before conveniently grasped a heavy and huge battle-ax. Its appearance was simple, its surface like a full moon while a cow horn protruded on its tip, emitting particularly eerie and desolate cold air. Several inscriptions on the ax faintly flashed, it was a magic weapon!

Blackbeard grinned widely. "A man should use this kind of big guy! Oh, choose several more, those brothers of yours, bring some for them."

Lin Qi unceremoniously chose a sharp sword that was added with tearing and wind enchantment, it was for Enzo.

A dagger added with tearing enchantment and potent poison, a pair of boots made of Wind Fox skin that could accelerate one's running speed by half and let one noiselessly fell on the ground, they were for Wei Ke.

A gorgeous fencing foil added with dazzling light and bewitching enchantment, it was for the playboy, Yu Lian.

Lin Qi himself, other than the huge ax, he also chose a light, close-fitting, flexible armor to be worn on his body. The flexible armor was made of the skin of a high level magic beast, the Poisonous Dragon Lizard. It was as thin as a butterfly wing and incomparably light, yet possessing an extremely good physical and magical defense.

After storing all the equipments into the anklet, Lin Qi clapped in excitement.

"Enough, at least for now, it's enough."

Chapter 114 Joint Visit

When leaving the family secret warehouse, it was already dawn. Blackbeard simply left, so Lin Qi went to look for Enzo while grinning from ear to ear and carrying an excitement like that of a child who just received a new toy.

Cold wind still blew while the snowfall had stopped. The sky was quite dark, to the extent that even the whistling cold wind was shrouded in a layer of desolate darkness. The wind slashed onto the ground, producing sound of air tearing. Lin Qi strongly exhaled several times. White steam was only puffed out of his mouth for a moment before being blown away without a trace by the cold wind.

Enzo, in only his underpants, was running around the main residence while carrying a huge stone on his shoulders. Boundless white steam was emitted from his body while he was drenched in sweat from head to foot, clearly he had already been running for some time. It was also a habit Enzo acquired in the Army Academy. Every morning he had to wake up early to work out, even the time when he was on the Big Maritime Windmill, he also climbed onto the deck early in the morning and sprint back and forth for more than 100 times.

While panting, Enzo gradually passed by Lin Qi. He grinned at Lin Qi before continuing to run forward. Enzo was very diligent; he always seized the moment to work out and to cultivate, while Lin Qi had never truly undergo bitter training before.

The problem was, Lin Qi who had never taken cultivation seriously, his qi improvement was always slightly better than Enzo, making Enzo extremely dissatisfied. But counting Lin Qi's family background, since he learned how enormous Lin Qi's family power was, the little bit of dissatisfaction in Enzo's heart had dissipated early ― it was a privilege the boss should enjoy.

"Hei, Enzo!" Lin Qi extended his hand into his boot before slowly pulling out a 1.3-meters-long sharp sword. The strange scene made Enzo dumbfounded. His left and right legs stumbled with each other, nealy making him fall head first to the ground. After staggering several steps forward and stabilizing his body with difficulty, Enzo threw the huge rock onto a nearby snow pile and said in shock, "How did you do that?"

"A small trick, not worth mentioning!" Lin Qi proudly created sword light as he threw the sharp sword toward Enzo, "Give it a try, it's a good stuff I got from my old man, a magic weapon, see how it is."

A magic weapon? Enzo's lips twitched as a drop of saliva dangled at the corner of his mouth. Is it truly a magic weapon? Enzo instinctively recalled Aunt Lily's terrifying Wolf Teeth Club before grasping the sharp sword that Lin Qi threw over and examining it with wild joy.

The sword blade was slim and long, precisely the proportion a top-notch sharp sword ought to have. The metal used to forge it was a certain special alloy, utterly different from ordinary steel. Narrowing one's eyes near the sword blade and looking at it along the sword edge, there was a layer of well-distributed decorative design like that of a dragon scale. On the surface of the steel-colored blade, the dragon scale design emitted a layer of faint blue color.

Among the decorative design, three pairs of inscription patterns were faintly discernible. Unless one neared the blade, the existence of inscription patterns was otherwise simply impossible to see.

Grasping the hilt and swinging it lightly, regardless of the length or the weight, they were just right. What made Enzo particularly astonished was that when he brandished the sword, unexpectedly, there wasn't the slightest sound of air tearing. Like a fish swimming in water, the air didn't create any obstruction in front of the sharp sword.

"Very good, very good!" Enzo smiled to the point his eyes narrowed. He looked to the left and right, wanting to find a target to test the sword against.

Lin Qi straightened his chest and suddenly shouted, "Aunt Lily, is there any calf available in the kitchen? Throw one out for me to test a sword!"

The door of the kitchen in the distance was opened with a 'bang'. Following which, Aunt Lily carried a bull roughly over 500 kilograms in weight under her armpit while walking over in large strides with a chuckle. From a distance of around 30 meters, Aunt Lily used both arms to smash the young bull head first toward Enzo.

Enzo was startled for a moment before he quickly welcomed it, his right hand stabbing the sword forward at great speed. His qi was also automatically poured into the sword, the surface to the fine and long blade suddenly emitted a layer of faint yellow halo. Surrounding the yellow halo was a layer of faintly-discernible cyan wind energy.

In a split second, Enzo made 18 stabs in a row. Every stab penetrated deeply into the bull's body. Skull, backbones, ribs, abdomen, all 18 stabs pierced through. Even the bull's skull, which was the hardest part of its body, was also effortlessly pierced through. What made Enzo even more pleasantly surprised was that when he pierced the bull's body, he simply didn't detect any resistance.

Without a doubt, if he used the sword to kill someone, he also wouldn't feel any resistance.

Laughing toward the sky, Enzo stepped aside, avoiding the bull that was bleeding all over its body while fondling the mystical magic weapon in admiration. The 18 consecutive stabs he did just a moment ago was two times faster that his quickest stabbing speed. Undoubtedly, it was the wind enchantment added on the long sword that aided Enzo greatly. Making 9 more stabs within the same period of time, was Enzo's increase in fighting strength limited to one fold? Two to three fold was also not out of reach.

Aunt Lily strongly applauded and exclaimed in admiration, "Young man, the way you wield the sword is not bad, hahaha, oh, it's just your qi is a little weak!"

Shaking her head, Aunt Lily affectionately hugged Lin Qi. She picked up the young bull with one hand before strutting back to the kitchen. Enzo was struck speechless by Aunt Lily's words, his qi was a little weak? For Enzo's age, already possessing the strength of an Earth Knight was still called weak?

Lin Qi moved to Enzo's side while laughing before pulling a small medicine bottle from his boots. Inside the bottle were two Leopard Pills.

After lowering his voice to tell Enzo of the mystical effects of the Leopard Pills, Enzo's eyes abruptly shone. He immediately grabbed the medicine bottle before hurriedly putting it into his pocket. A pill that could expand and stabilize meridians, even in the imperial capital auction house, this kind of medicine was something belonging to the legends that had a price yet no market. The value of these two pills absolutely couldn't be lower than that of two large-scale manor, it could even be higher.

Looking gratefully at Lin Qi, Enzo was about to say some sappy words when sound of disturbance could suddenly be heard from outside the gate.

Very quickly, Tu Dao could be seen rushing over like a ghost. He glanced at Lin Qi and Enzo before saying in a low voice, "Go change your clothes and get ready, three important people of the same status as the Lord in the Night Union have visited at the same time."

Enzo blankly looked at Lin Qi. 'What is this Night Union?'

Lin Qi's expression slightly changed. He naturally knew what the Night Union was. The so-called Night Union was precisely an alliance formed by all the underground power in the northern coastal region of the continent. Lin Qi's father, Blackbeard, was one of the 13 Black Deacons of the Night Union. People of equal status as him were naturally tyrants with illegally-occupied territory like Blackbeard.

The joint visit of three such people, even Black Tiger Family had to take it seriously.