Chapter 91: Hanged Rope And Endless Growth

[After hearing your words, Jade and Scarlet nodded. Especially Jade, as she started spamming her time skip ability.]

[Since the power difference between Jade and the gangster was high, she didn’t even need to meticulously choose a good future since there was almost no future where she’d lose against them.]

[After time was skipped multiple times, a few minutes passed, and the Steel Sword Gang’s base was littered with corpses.]

[All of the spirit crystals, spirit manifestation cores, and spirit artifacts were taken by Jade and Scarlet. As for you, you didn’t want to waste their corpses, so you stored them in the system inventory.]

[You still haven’t forgotten about your plans of nurturing a Blood Fruit Tree, so these corpses and blood shouldn’t be wasted.]

[After the three of you looted everything in the Steel Sword Gang’s base, you led them to the black market’s treasury.]

[The Steel Sword Gang’s treasury didn’t have anything noteworthy. They were mostly spirit artifacts obtained from killing other spirit avatar masters, as well as spirit crystals and spirit manifestation cores.]

[However, none of those were at a relatively high grade. Those that were had already been used by Alejandro or sold to wealthy buyers. A few were even stored separately in the black market’s treasury.]

[The item you had needed according to the Hint Prompt was stored in the black market’s treasury.]

[With that in mind, you, Jade, and Scarlet didn’t stay long here. As soon as you finished taking away all their corpses and blood, you then dug out their base and stored it in the system inventory before leaving with Jade and Scarlet.]

[After giving Scarlet the coordinates of the black market’s treasury, Scarlet slashed the void using Void Tear and created a void passage.]

[Entering the void passage, you and Jade entered first and arrived at the black market’s treasury, with Scarlet entering last to close it.]

[The black market’s treasury wasn’t anything special. The materials used to build it were of a grade inferior to the ones used when building the Spirit Avatar Master Association’s treasury.]

[However, as someone who knew the black market treasury well due to Hint Prompt, you warned Jade and Scarlet, "There’s a spirit artifact stored in the black market treasury. These gang leaders use it to kill intruders."]

["That spirit artifact is called Cursed Guardian. The spirit avatar ability derived from it was related to killing anyone who steps into the area around it."]

["To prevent being attacked by it, one must step inside its area with both of their feet, essentially jumping towards it."]

[Hearing your information, Jade looked at the vault in front of her warily while commenting, "They truly are insidious. If I’m not mistaken, even they aren’t exempt from the Cursed Guardian’s killing rules?"]

[You nodded, "Yes, and that’s why they are confident that even if someone manages to steal the three keys from them, those who do so could forget about stealing the treasures alive."]

["Since even they aren’t exempt from that killing rule, they have great trust in the Cursed Guardian. Even Lightning Wolf, who owned the Cursed Guardian, isn’t exempt from its killing rule. At most, he was the one who set up the Cursed Guardian’s killing range to be within the black market treasury."]

[Taking out the three keys, you inserted them into the three keyholes in the treasure vault’s door.]

[Afterward, you used Hint Prompt to figure out the password to the combination lock.]

[With a clicking sound, the vault door opened, and you, Jade, and Scarlet immediately flew as you entered it, landing inside with both of your feet touching the ground at the same time.]

[Just as three entered, a hanging rope appeared in the middle of the vault’s interior.]

[You pointed your index finger towards that hanging rope and explained, "That’s the Cursed Guardian, the Hanging Rope. Anyone who enters its killing range will be hanged to death by the rope it summons."]

["From what my Hint Prompt talent can discern, even Platinum rank Spirit Avatar Masters will die if they trigger its killing rules. The downside of this spirit artifact is that while it’s very powerful despite being an initial gold-grade spirit artifact, its weakness is also obvious."]

["As long as the killing mechanism isn’t triggered, it won’t take the initiative to attack anyone who enters its range. It’s also due to that reason that the Hanged Rope Spirit Avatar Master eventually got assassinated from afar since it required entering its attack range before it would kill its target."]

[The hanged rope spirit artifact was one of the items you planned to take from the black market treasury. However, this cursed guardian wasn’t the main item that you truly needed.]

[Heading to the left corner of the treasury, you followed the absolute compass’s magnetic needle and ignored the spirit crystals and spirit manifestation cores laid haphazardly on the ground.]

[When you arrived at the corner, you found a Platinum Chest, which surprised you. Even the Spirit Avatar Master Association’s treasury only has two Gold Chests.]

[But if you were to think about it, if no one knew the killing mechanism of Hanged Rope, then all Train Conductors who went here would undoubtedly die. Moreover, even the Gold rank Spirit Avatar Masters from the association would die here if they triggered the killing mechanism.]

[The Spirit Avatar Masters from the Association, such as Pearl, were unaware of the killing mechanism, only knowing that there was a Cursed Guardian stationed at the black market treasury. It was due to this reason that none of them dared to raid the black market treasury.]

[After all, only two Gold rank Spirit Avatar Masters were stationed at the Spirit Avatar Master Association building every month, with their shifts changing monthly.]

[’A Platinum Chest sure is unexpected. However, that’s not what I came here for.’]

[You looked at the side of the Platinum Chest where two items were placed inside.]

[Those two items were none other than a peak gold-rank spirit artifact called Endless Growth and an item called Train Crew Summoning Scroll.]