Chapter 289 - 176: Ring of Space
’Now that I’ve chosen an Evolutionary Path and increased Flash’s range to ten meters, maybe things will be different?’
Lin Mo decided to give it a try. He looked ahead and recited the word in his mind.
’Flash!’
He set the Flash distance to the maximum of ten meters. The next moment, his vision blurred. When it cleared again, Lin Mo had returned to the original Secret Realm.
To the side stood Shefilya, her brow furrowed and her face filled with worry.
"What on earth happened?"
Seeing him finally emerge, Shefilya let out a breath she’d been holding, relieved.
Lin Mo thought for a moment before asking a question of his own. "Shefilya, you didn’t enter that space?"
"What space?"
As expected, Shefilya looked completely lost. She had no idea what he was talking about.
"After we walked into the Secret Realm’s entrance together, I think I saw a flash of white, and then I was right back here. But you had vanished."
’Just as I thought!’
Lin Mo instantly understood. He was the only one who had entered that space. Even though Shefilya had been grabbing the corner of his clothes, she hadn’t been able to follow him in.
’It’s because that faded, blank Scroll was the entrance to the Land of Trial! It might have even been the space itself, sealed inside a Scroll by some unknown means!’
Lin Mo felt his chest. Sure enough, the Scroll was gone.
The Trial Gate that had been before them was also gone.
In its place, a small box floated in mid-air.
The box was small and made of wood, not gold or silver, but it looked incredibly exquisite and gave off a faint, pleasant fragrance.
"Purple Rosewood!"
Shefilya’s face was a mask of shock. This type of wood was extremely expensive. Because of its durability, resistance to rot, and pleasant aroma, it was highly favored by many high-ranking nobles.
Just this small piece in front of them was worth a fortune.
’That expensive?’
Lin Mo was stunned by Shefilya’s introduction, but on second thought, it made sense. Everything about this Secret Realm indicated that its creator was no Ordinary person. Their power in life must have been immense.
It was normal for an expert who had mastered Space Magic to be wealthy.
In fact, the Secret Realm’s creator’s mastery of Space Magic was likely even greater than Lin Mo imagined. Take the blank space he was just in, for example. Judging from the final solution, the space was actually far smaller than he had thought, with the edge less than ten meters away.
The fact that he had walked for so long in that space before mastering Flash, yet could never escape, meant that the blank space had been continuously compressed and folded to create such an effect.
After learning Space Magic, Lin Mo knew exactly how difficult this was to achieve. It wasn’t just the blank space from before; the Secret Realm they were currently in had also undergone numerous spatial folds and transfers.
Compared to the creator’s power, this Secret Realm almost seemed too simple.
Compared to building this Secret Realm, the difficulty of clearing it was like a drop in the ocean.
’So, according to what Shefilya said earlier, this little box made of Purple Rosewood is the reward, or gift, for completing the trial?’
He had no idea what kind of gift a master of this level would leave behind. With a heart full of excitement, Lin Mo slowly opened the small box. Inside was a ring that glowed with a silvery light.
’Could it be a piece of equipment? But I’m already wearing two accessory-type items, and the limit for active Accessories is two. If this Ring is also equipment, I’ll have to make a choice and take one of them off.’
With this slightly uneasy feeling, Lin Mo tried to appraise it. His eyes immediately lit up.
It wasn’t equipment after all. It was the one thing he wanted most right now—a magic storage device.
[Ring of Space]: Uses Space Magic to fold a large area of space and seal it within the Ring for storage.
Lin Mo tried infusing Magic Power into the Ring. He was shocked to find that the space inside the Ring of Space was astonishingly large. Ordinary Magic Storage Bags sold on the market were expensive, yet typically only had a capacity of one to two cubic meters. The Magic Storage Bag that Feney carried had five cubic meters of space, which was already considered extravagant and worth more than 3,000 gold coins, perhaps even much more.
But the Ring of Space in Lin Mo’s hand had a full 100 cubic meters of space, a whopping twenty times larger than Feney’s Magic Storage Bag. Setting aside everything else, the value of such a Ring of Space alone had to be tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Gold Coins!
Of course, even so, Lin Mo would never sell it. A storage item of this size was simply too rare. If he sold it, he would likely never be able to buy another with the same capacity, no matter how much money he had in the future.
This gift was truly amazing. Lin Mo chuckled happily as he slipped the Ring of Space onto his finger, then moved all of his belongings into it.
’What a relief,’ Lin Mo thought. He also discovered that the weight of the items placed inside the Ring simply vanished. More accurately, it was transferred—transferred into an Alternate Space.
Without a doubt, the technology behind this was countless times more advanced than that of an Ordinary Magic Storage Bag.
That was why Lin Mo was puzzled. Why would a master this powerful build such a simple Secret Realm?