After a long while looting and sorting I began to frown. Nothing I've Gathered is apparently valuable enough to warrant my system to react.
Most of the Parker stuff was useless but i got an intact briefcase full of scientific papers about Spiders and the Supersoilderserum. Some Metals and the Strange cylinder i can't identify.
But nothing triggers the System.
After i frown I go back to the cockpit and continue the search.
Through Underwater volcanos and rockformation i continued to explore. Finding weird or interesting up from time to time.
But I get impatient after two days of Darkness. My room and shelfs ar full of Knick knacks. Some Weird things in surprisingly good condition...
They are now in a Lead chest until I can be sure that they aren't cursed.
I was approaching an underwater Mountain when my treasurer sense began to tingle and send out the explanation drones followed by the mining ones. Inventory is pretty nice. Not gonna lie.
But soon i get weird readings. A Radiation unlike I have ever seen and a Gut feeling that I finally found it.
Hours go by, with new enthusiasm. Until i come to a Big discovery.
This here! The Whole underwater mountain!
It a Vabrainum composited ore, from Space. My mind is blown and my mind begins to spin.
So much Vabrainum. And I'm the only person who knows that it's here. Deep in the Ocean...
I totally gonna exploit the ton out of it. As soon as i mentally claim the mountain as mine the system reacts.
~Ding!
Treasure Hunting System: Final task - Done!
Unlocked Benefit:
- Treasure nose: You can smell 'Treasure' of any kind, evey treasure has a flavour and depending on situation of the user this scent can change.
- Appraisal: Look at an object and determin the Identity lt's derails and the Worth. The longer you inspect an object the more you can see.
- Lucky-Multiplyer: Your luck multiplys a random amount each day by the formula Luck=((Fate×(+/-)Conviction(Fate))×(Karma/100))×X current luck=233 (average luck10-15) X=2.33
I slowly blinked in astonishment. Those Benefits were insanely powerful. I never had a multiplier before and then on in luck? Wait? Why do I have 100 luck and still pull shit Systems every time?
It's not important for now.
I'll definitely build a underwater lab here. Vabrainum is worth it. Quickly, i open Subnautika and begin selecting the Building i want to place and let my two dromes complete it, while i come back up.
And how long Will it take? 5 months? not too bad.
I adjust some things to maximise the space. I even lay a Cabel to a Vent that is wonderful for power generation.
In 5 months will be the base done and I can flee and bunker down here beside the Vabrainum until I have a full Vabrainum power armour!
Okay! Today is my lucky day.
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Hours later.
The cylops and the prototype I was supposed to be currently testing where parked side by side. Drones where delivering all the treasures that wouldn't cause too much of a rush.
It wasn't exactly secret that I was testing out my U-boots while treasure hunting. And I've gotten really good doing it.
I had built up a persona as an genius with an eccentric personality. Doing weird stuff that was hard to control. I already turned down lucrative offers because i wasn't interested in the project. But in reality i knew that they wanted to test me.
I haven't even used 5% of the Tier 1 Stuff i had in my brain and was already better of then 95% of Submarines on the market.
If it wasn't for Tony, would have been hailed as a prodigy.
On second thought thou... nearly lost my company to Tony the night after I slept with that cute readhead, that I apparently snatched from him. And if i hadn't cluched to get 51% of my companys shares, I would have been fired by a man child with a grudge from my own company.
The Drones where nearly done and I was ready to switch and let the Cyclops go down to my new underwater base until I had a use for it again.
I had done my Duty and finished another system to my raster.
It was now time to go back to the surface and play the ignorant fool. I still had some hours to fufill, so I gatherd the loot I wouldn't show the World.
The Cylinder with the black liquid, The Documents and research from the Parker couple, some items that smelled like magic or curses (not all but still a lot) and some thing that smelled like cylinder but still different. A bit like ozone.
Cylinder first.
I starred at it with intensey and slowly information flowed into my brain.
-Biological containment device.
-Once ownd by a scientist called Dr. Parker who worked at oscorb.
-Contains a Hybernating alien Lifeform.
-If not feed by blood in the next 1.078 Days will die of Malnutrition.
-Intelligent Lifeform, with a will
-Has a bounty in the intergalactic market of many millions of credits
-conpadabillity with the individual is 93%,
-Name of the organism: Klyntar also known as Symbiotes.
-Will try to take over host consciousnesses if the opertunity araises.
-Dreams of eating Humans
After half a hour of uninterrupted starring i gatherd a lot of information about the thing. And my guess was correct. It was a Symbiote from Spiderman. Question was, why did Peters dad have one with him?
I quickly went through the briefcase i found his recherche it
-Name: (Broken) Adamantine briefcase
-The technology that this case is using has been damaged by salt water corrosion and high pressure, but the inside also has been kept safe due to the same pressure. Was once ownd by Dr. D. Parker
-Price: 17 Million US-Dollar, High-risk Item.
This time it took only minutes before i got all the information and I was honestly impressed.
Adamentium is no Joke. Why would a Dr. Parker have such an Object? Next thing i inspected and read were the Documents in detail.
It read like a step to step to enhance animals, especially Arthropods with a "Super Soilder Serum". And it was honestly interesting. Sure it was still gambling, but over 10% of the test subjects survived the process and got enhanced.
It even talked about Ernestine and his formula. And Dr. Parker came to the conclusion that not every SSS is suited for everyone. Through his experiments on spiders and his own DNA.
It got weird at one point as he began to talk about visions he had in his dreams. About Totems, especially the Spider Totems, and that his recherche endangered the planet if it came to light.
That was the time when my System jumped in.
-Stolen recherche notes from Oscorb, compiled by Dr. D. Parker.
-They Discribe the method of creating a Animal specific Super Soilder Serum, that has still huge problems but are well ahead of their compatriots but also warns of grave danger if used recklessly.
-Price: 22 Million US-Dollar, High-risk item.
Yeah system i can see. But it was less worth then i thought. Yeah i just keep it save in my inventory for now. I looked if a other System had reacted and I found recepies in my recepie book for pet food that strengths animals with a very weak version of the SSS.
I looked at my Rat that was currently sleeping in breast pocket and got a smile. Yeah, i was enhancing my buddy and his rat harem/family with this food.
I then looked at the dozen other items that smelled like magic and began inspecting.
-Name: Cuttless of seafaring
-A Enchanted Cuttless that was the Envy of many Pirates who knew of its existence.
-Effect: Once bound to a Person this Cuttless enables them to empower their sail boat until it awakes a Will. Once done the ship will acknowledge the owner of the Cuttless as their parents/creator and Help them until betrayed by them.
-History: Has empowered a total of 13 Ships and got lost during a storm.
-Price: 10.000$ or 1.000 Spirit stones.
It took 12 minutes to identify. It's a keeper. Next Item.
Name: Enchanted Hand Mirror.
-A Silver Mirror that is obtained with beautiful jewel. It is Enchanted.
-Effect: User of the Mirror can see through illusions and deep fog while using the Mirror. Repairs itself when laid into Mercury.
-Price: 125.000$ or 15.500 Spirit stones.
11 minutes and it's a keeper.
-Name: Empty Ship bottle.
-A empty bottle with clear glass. It is Enchanted with a unused Link storage spell.
-Effect: A bottle that is able to store a Ship after conducting a ritual. Time continues while the Ship is stored but the ship will be repaired inside the bottle when given the right material.
-Price: 2000$ or 50.000 Spirit stones.
I was intrigued. I was keeping this one for sure. I looked for 15 minutes but i didn't have all the time of the world.
-Name: Ring of true Love.
-A rose gold ring made in the 16 hunders, by a Smith that wanted it to gift it to his childhood sweetheart. He made a matching pair but it got stolen before he could gift it to her. It has a pair of conjoint rubies that still have connection.
-Effect: Once both pairs a woren by two people they fate will change to meet in person. Once the rubys are in a 10 meter range of each other they start to transmit the love from one to the other wearer. But if there are no feelings between the two the ring dose nothing.
-Price: 1.200$ or 5 Spirit stones.
This was a cool thing. I definitely wanted to know more.
The next thing was a fist sized clumb of metal.
-Magic imbued bronze
-A raw material imbued with the worlds magic. Can be used to craft magic Items. Looses effect outside of Earth.
-Price: 120$ or 10 Spirit stones.
Uh i totally gonna use this stuff in the future. Magic Tech is cool. 4 minutes and I had the awnser.
Then I got to an Box that had two hour glasses in them.
It took me around 16 minutes before i got the deeds. By now my eyes began to hurt after all the starring. But it was worth it.
-Name: The Lifetime trading scales. or The Sands of Lifetime.
-A curious Object that got lost in the 19 Hunders that was used by a Doctor that heald people with magic in exchange for their life time. The Enchantment was blessed by a God of Time. But their User wasn't able to find it's out it the full effects of the Item. And died during a Storm where this item got lost.
-Effect: This item has many effects
--Measure lifespan.
--Trade lifespan in exchange for goods and service.
--Be a catalyst for Time based Spells and rituals
--Be a ankor for a Time. be it God/Elemental or against Time minuplation.
--Close and create time Anomaliy with enough dive.
--Can be used as an enforcer of Contracts that have a time component.
--Used to restore objects by reversing their Time
--Can be used to look into the past of a person or object. When put under a Crystal Ball.
--Can be used to locate time related objects.
--Can send a person into an alternative
--Change size to the users preference once bound.
--Passive: Conseal the User from prying eyes. and/or deviation up to a high level.
Timeline with a extensive Ritual.
-Price: 3.000.000$ or 5.000.000 Spirit stones.
Recalling everything made me grin with a wide smile. I hit the Jackpot with this one. I feard that the Ancient one or the TVA was gonna bust my butt for meddling with the Timeline. But with this baby I was save from time meddling a-holes.
I was thinking about giving the people a cliffhanger but thought f-it and continued once my eyes weren't hurting anymore.
The Next thin was a Diamond like Crystal that hat a smell of magic on it.
-Name: Soul seeing Gem.
-A beautiful Jewel made by a white witch to see the soul of things. It's reflections are especially mesmerising.
-Effect: Hold it in front of an Eye or scanner to see the soul and magic of objects in its reflections.
-Price: 600.000$ or 670 Spirit stones.
I instantly used it and began looking around through it and was astonishing on what I saw. The magic items had a Aura around them that was sparkling in bright colours. And Buddy had a white ball inside him that had a connection to my own body. Following the connection i saw my own Soul. Radiant and glimmering like a Christmas tree.
It took minutes until i could look away. It was beautiful.I was definitely keeping this Gem.
Sorting the Gem into a safe place (my inventory) I looked at a golden amulet with an Runes and symbols on it. And the more i looked at it the stranger i felt.
-Name: Key-Amulett, Relics of the lost goddess.
- An Object once worn by a Pristress that hid the Treasures of her Tempel from Invaders. But before she could flee she was captured and enslaved. The Object got corrupted by Hatred as the priestess drowned in a storm, humiliated defiled by her captor's. It holds the clues to find the hiden Temple but be ward because it is cursed.
-Effect: "May the wearer of this Amulet be witnesses of Thier own downfall."
--This Amulet amplifies Greed, Lust, Aggression and tempt them into acts that would end in the downfall of the wearer. Especially in men.
-- Wearing this amulet let you dream about the location of the Treasure it is hiding. But for most people those dream are akin to nightmares.
- Price: 6.000$ or 300 Spirit stones.
After i got what i was looking for I quickly put it away. I was shaken, for unknowninhly was about to wear it before my Appraisal warend me.
But heh. now that i know it's spiel I know what to do. Only wear it before going to bed.
The next thin looked like a Helmet that was coverd in long dead corals. And ot took only 3 minutes before I got this info. I was getting better at this.
-Name: Ancient Turtel Shell Helmet.
-A Helmet Ancint seefearer wore while diving. It was enchanted by the Ocean over time and became a magical Item.
- Effect: Once worn you can dive into deeps around 5.000 meter without any other Equipment. But you'll need to get new air after an Hour or the effect wears off. Can be turned into a powerful Potion that grants near in unbelievableity, strength and regeneration, but makes you incredibly slow in the process.
- Price: 120$ or 570 Spirit stones.
Deacent. Not Bad. Nothing i really need but who knows. Can be potentially useful.
The next thing looked at was a another bottle. And again it took me only 3 minutes to identify it.
-Name: The Endless bottle of rum.
-A bottle of 300 year old rum whos taste only refined since then. The Gem on the Bottle neck is Enchanted with a boon and Curse.
Made by a captured with for a Concisedire Pirate, who Sunk his own ship in a drunken stupor.
-Effect: The gem slowly syphons Rum from barrels and water in a 1 km surroundings and condenses into a Space of 10 cubic meters. The Liquid can be extracted from the bottle or be poured into a glass, as long the bottle is open. Once close it recolects all the unused rum.
It also it hinders the holder of the bottle of dieing their thirst or getting drunk, until they let go of the bottle. Can be filled with another liquid once emptied.
-Price: 160.001.800 $ or 7 Spirit stones.
-Bottle: 1.800$ or 6 Spirit stones
-300+ year old rum. 1.000.000 liters with an estimated price of 160$ per liter.
I was astonished but also impressed. I was impressed by its function and uses. And Astonished by the amount of Alcohol i suddenly had. I'll definitely keep this bottle.
Only two magic treasure we're left befor the last mystery object. It was a canon that once was mounted on a recked ship. Again it took me just some minutes before i knew what it was.
-Name: Bronze Cannon of Fire
-A Canon made in 14 hunders by a Byzantine Sorcerer on contract with the kind. It is made from a absurd amount of Magic bronze imbued with a lot of spells. It was rediscovered by pirates in the 17 hunders. It is bearly decorated.
-This canon transforms flammable ammunition into a various forms of Fire balls by porly enchanting said munition. It also self repairs all damage done over Time.
-Price: 780$ or 18 spirit stones.
Okay that's the first thing i really don't want or need. So, should I sell it? Sure. Might as well. Would be suspicious to not sell some odd treasures. From my adventures.
The Last Thing I had in front of me was a Chest that was extruding a Deadly Aura though the Soul see Gem. It was a Chest.
And looking at it for around 5 Minutes finally resulted in a satisfying result.
-Name: Dead men's Treasure, or " ¥%#@!'s Hemitide Crystal Chest of the Lost."
-A Egyptian made Cristal cheast and blessed by ¥%#@!. It has a Deadly Aura but doesn't seem cursed.
-Effect: Blessed by ¥%#@!, always weighs 40kg Stops, l Deacy of a corpse once placed inside, can 'trade' fresh corpses for Treasure occasionally. Attracts the souls of Dead who get purified exorsised by ¥%#@! into the Egyptian afterlife in exchange for their values as a tole. Chest may move places if not Watched. A make a minor pact with the Chest until it the Chest is reclaimed by the Avatar of- or ¥%#@! himself.
-History: This chest was once Stolen from a Old Egyptian Temple around 2000 years ago. But thanks to that it got speard a fate of distraction. So it made a deal with it's thief. The thief would provide freshly decaded body that had no time to get sent to the afterlife and in exchange it provided Treasure. From there on forward this Chest history is filled with Riches and Bloodshed through Africa. But once slavers found the Chest it got send to sea their owner becoming pirates. Turning people into riches. In the end the crew slaughtered each other leaving one Survivor who feed the ceast all the pirates body before sinking the Ship and leaving it on the bottom of the Ocean.
- Price: 7.900.000$ or 160.000 Soul Stones.
This was again a Jackpot. My luck today was through the roof. Opening the Cheast I looked inside and found a Handel i pulled.
Out came a muck dirtied Chest full of Gold, Gems and Jewelry. I identified Ancient gold coins and pearl necklaceses and Even a beautiful Silk Shirt.
I smirked. For Hunderds of Year those treasures lay the treasures unclaimed and now they were mine! So I continued and pulled two more chest out with the same kind of content. All Treasures, all of the no magical variety.
And suddenly the gold and Silver wasn't that appealing anymore. The Magic Items were probably worth more to me. I mean 'yes' still was appealing, but it wasn't like i needed it. I already was rich...
Now i was sorting and looking for something nice. There were Old Jolly rogers in prestine condition, Old Sea chats that were drawn by Hand and Small ornamental wappons made from Ivory
They were cool... But I knew that i couldn't keep most of the stuff, the US government would make a huge storm about it.
Better to use it to futher my goals. Go to the press and announce that my prototype is functional and action off the treasures I found while testing it. Like i usually do. Only this time its gonna be big.
I looked back at the Hermtide Chest and concealed it with the other treasures.
The Last thing to do before surfaceing was to identify the Artefact that didn't smell like magic. So I looked at it.
-Name: Blackbox of long lost Kree recerch notes on Human genom and X-gens.
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Author note:
Thats enough. Around 3,500 wasn't the plan when started writing, but it just keet writeing.
Why did i write that he found a Donzen Magical Treasures and then gave him a Appraisal ability? I could have cut it short but then i would have wondered what treasures he found. Now i have it black on white and done with.
Next time we get to see New York, right around the corner of modified events of Iron Man 1.
How would a Jonny Deep Iron man look like leave your thoughts here.