Chapter 47: Copy Successful

Chapter 47: Copy Successful "What do you want?" The old man’s raspy voice croaked out as his gaze locked onto the Soul Crystal like it was his last hope. "Hitus Spirit Undergarment..." "No way in hell!" Before Carlos could finish, the old man slammed down the Soul Crystal with a stubborn look. "That’s a precious gift Mansha gave to this old man! Forget light red Soul Crystal—even red quality Soul Crystal is off the table! Unless you can find..." The old man then rattled off a huge list of precious material names. Some could be gotten with enough cash; Some were in dangerous places requiring tons of time to collect; Others had been extinct for ages... Carlos wasn’t about to agree to the old man’s demands. Forget just wanting to borrow it—even if he wanted to actually own it, he wouldn’t agree. Raig’s collection quest was known by players as one of the ten worst quests, with absolutely terrible bang for your buck. Plus, this old man’s character sucked. In the original timeline, some player busted their ass collecting all the materials and gave them to this old man, thinking that would be the end of it. Who knew the old man would try to back out of the reward, pissing off that player so much they nearly had a stroke. "Shut it, Raig. I only want to borrow the Hitus Spirit Undergarment for 5 minutes, right here where you can watch, returning it right after 5 minutes." Carlos impatiently cut off the old man’s endless rambling, stating his purpose. Old Raig looked totally confused: "Borrow? Five minutes?" And right under his nose—what kind of weird request was this? "You don’t want to? Then pretend I was never here." Seeing Raig’s hesitation, Carlos made a move like he was calling off the deal. The goal was to stop the old man from overthinking and make him decide fast. Seeing Carlos didn’t seem to give a damn about this transaction and really planned to bail, Raig couldn’t be bothered to figure out why Carlos knew he needed Soul Crystal or that he had the Hitus Spirit Undergarment. He quickly said: "Deal, deal, this old man agrees to the trade!" Soul Crystal was super important material for bringing his wife back. For old Raig, the more the better—how could he pass up this chance? Carlos stayed totally cool, pulling out a black box: "Put the Hitus Spirit Undergarment in this box. I’ll give it back after five minutes." "Can this old man check..." Raig carefully suggested. "Nope. I guarantee with the Valois family name that your spirit equipment won’t have any problems!" As he spoke, Carlos pulled out a seal carved with the family crest, placing it in front of the old man. "Valois family..." Old Raig heard the word Valois and repeated it several times, finally sighing. "Take it, but remember—only 5 minutes!" He waved his hand, and a white undergarment appeared on the counter. Woven from pure white threads of unknown material through complex craftsmanship. Then a powerful arcane master had carefully inscribed reinforcement runes on it, finally nurturing special bonuses. Just from looks alone, you could sense this white undergarment’s mysterious extraordinary nature. After Carlos got it and confirmed it was indeed the Hitus Spirit Undergarment, he immediately placed it in the sealed black box. Then he mentally controlled the Fantasy Equipment placed ahead of time at the box’s bottom. "Start copying!" Inside the black box invisible to outsiders, black fluid started from the bottom, rapidly covering the Hitus Spirit Undergarment until it was completely wrapped. About 1 minute later, the black fluid pulled back from the Hitus Spirit Undergarment, gathering again and starting to transform... Soon, an identical Hitus Spirit Undergarment appeared in the black box! Under old Raig’s intense staring at the black box, 5 minutes flew by as Carlos reached into the box. "Copy successful!" He was pumped inside but showed nothing on the outside. Quietly storing the copied Fantasy Equipment in his storage space. Then he pulled out the original Hitus Spirit Undergarment from the black box and put it on the counter. Raig immediately grabbed the Hitus Spirit Undergarment, his withered hands creating hidden detection arrays. After confirming the undergarment was still his original piece, not switched out, and without any damage, he looked really weird, extremely curious about the masked man’s purpose and what strange use that black box had. "Deal’s done, Raig." Carlos put away the black box and turned to leave without any intention of sticking around to chat. "Creak!" Watching Carlos walk out the wooden door, Raig shelved his confused thoughts. He immediately went to close the wooden door and hung a "temporarily closed" sign outside. Then clutching the Soul Crystal, he impatiently headed down to the tavern’s secret basement... Outside, after leaving the tavern, Carlos looked back with some mixed feelings. "Raig, I hope next time I see you, your research worked out. Though it’ll only be half successful..." Raig used supreme alchemy human transmutation trying to bring his wife back. In the original timeline, he ultimately succeeded, but only halfway. After huge costs, he successfully created his wife’s body—a form identical to his memories. But that body was empty inside, missing humanity’s most important part—the soul, like a mannequin. After that, Raig used all kinds of forbidden experiments trying to make the doll develop a soul... The result was obvious—like most who chased forbidden research, he ultimately attracted extremely terrifying dimensional monsters’ attention. No surprise, he mutated into a monster and was finally killed by human powerhouses. Knowing everything, Carlos didn’t try to stop Raig’s research. Because researching his wife’s revival was Raig’s only remaining reason for living—only death could stop him. In theory, Carlos was mentally prepared for cleanup duty later. After thinking it over briefly, he turned and left for home. ... Back in his room at the Valois estate, Carlos immediately equipped the successfully copied Fantasy Equipment. [Hitus Spirit Undergarment (Fantasy Equipment)] [Quality: Light Gold (Fantasy)] [Durability: 45] [Equipment Requirements: Carlos Only] [Special Bonuses: Skeleton Revival level +3, Bone Shield +3] [Bone Shield Level 3: Consume Psionic Energy to create a hard bone shield that can block physical attacks. Toughness improves with level increases.] "The original truly deserves light gold quality—a full 45 durability points! This can tank most Mid-tier attacks! Even High-tier attacks would get seriously weakened!" The most important reason Carlos decided to copy this spirit equipment was this undergarment’s super light weight. Even with Carlos’s current stats, he could easily handle it. "Unfortunately, light gold is the copying limit for Fantasy Equipment." With this undergarment, Carlos’s safety got way better, though it unfortunately only covered his upper body.