Chapter 457.Dragon Curse
1. Piercing Damage is multiplied by 0.5
2. +20% Damage against the Divine
3. Increase all attributes by 3
The Lance Shortinus once used to strike down a great Deity and become a Legend. The craftsman’s name has been lost to time.
Item has been completely corroded by a strong curse and is filled with the dead mana of a Dragon. Whoever takes ownership of the items will be hit by the dragon curse.>
As expected from a dragon, the room was filled with epic, relic, and legendary rated items. In the hoard’s prime, the Dragon would have been able to equip a whole party with legendary equipment. Seth’s eyes sparkled like diamonds.
It was a shame he could not touch them.
Looking over the room with . All items were in a similar condition to the lance. No matter what. Weapons, armor, or jewelry, everything was corroded and damaged by the dragon’s residue and the curse.
Although not corroded, even the gold and silver coins littered on the ground and in mounts everywhere were cursed with the same curse.
The Dragon Curse Seth knew from fairy tales had the effect that someone that stole from a dragon’s hoard would turn into a dragon himself. Obviously, it didn’t work this way here. This curse was a kind of corruption in body and mind.
“One will resemble a dragon in greed and form” was what the description said. It did not specify what this corruption was any further, but this was enough for the blacksmith to know that it was not something good.
While he was explaining the results of the appraisal, everyone kept backing away from the treasure, leaving Seth as the one standing the closest.
“No wonder this stuff is still here. Not even the necromancer girl dared to take more than the corpse.” Rich mumbled.
“It’s a shame we can’t take any of this. I guess we came here for nothing.” Hubert mumbled.
“Says who? I would have expected more from you as a businessman, Hubert.” Seth scolded the dimensional merchant.
“Didn’t you yourself mention that all of this is cursed? Who would be crazy enough to mess with a dragon’s curse.” the hero asked. He couldn’t really follow.
“Well, first of all, we have the giant gates. Those aren’t cursed. Those are already worth coming here. Then there are many more passages in this tower.” Seth explained.
Several tons of was nothing to be looked down upon and they had come past other passages. The kind of treasure something like a dragon’s library could hold was hard to imagine. Only thinking of the dragon’s treasure was shortsighted.
“Lastly, me. I’m crazy enough. And I take your question as you forfeiting any shares on it.”
“F-Fine?” the hero answered huffily.
“How are you going to take it?” the dwarven warrior asked interested.
“It explicitly says that you have to take ownership of the item, to be hit by the curse. What if I do this?” he mused and used to throw a ball of soul flames at a mountain of coins.
The blacksmith kept fueling the fire as the coins started to quickly liquify. The ware no change in his status or evil curse that hit him. He had destroyed the cursed items with a cleansing fire, the difference was huge. Seth checked the puddle of alloy on the floor.
An alloy of gold and silver mixed with a small residue of a dragon’s mana. Has some affinity with dragon magic and mana. Dragons and related species will have a slight interest in items made of this material.>
It had worked. Seth’s other idea would have been for golems to take the stuff along. Since the golems did not count as living beings, they couldn’t have possessions, right?
“Did it work?” Polter asked the blacksmith interested.
“Yeah, the curse option is gone when the item is destroyed. However, I feel conflicted about destroying legendary items.” Seth lamented.
He also couldn’t “take possession” of them. It was questionable whether he could use the golems to take or move these items. They counted as items. An item can’t own things, right?
“To lift that curse it would probably take a legendary priest. A legendary priest to lift a legendary curse on a legendary item, seems fitting, right?” Polter commented.
Seth nodded. The problem was that they had little understanding of what “legend” even meant. For items, it was clear in the description, that had to be involved in someone’s rise to a legend. Not even the of his Golden Fleece was able to do anything.
The blacksmith looked over to Yvette. A saintess seemed pretty legendary to him.
“Don’t look at me like that. Nothing in my status says “legend”. Also, I serve the god of respite. Not exactly specialized in lifting curses.” she answered his pending question.