Goblin Heavy Dependence

Chapter 483 [The White Pot]

There hasn't been time to check it carefully yet.

Almost the instant after his consciousness left the secret realm, the silver ring on his right ring finger, which had been transformed from the [Dream Corridor], began to vibrate slightly in a way that only he could feel.

The familiar mechanical prompts echoed in his mind.

"Ding!"

"Energy-generating material detected, replenishing itself..."

"[Remaining Energy] +0.3%"

"[Remaining Energy] +0.5%"

"[Remaining Energy] +0.6%"

"..."

"Charging complete!"

"【Dream Corridor - Neural Roaming Terminal】—【Remaining Energy】: 6.2%"

"..."

The reason Xia Nan was so interested in the secret realm was because of the immense value it contained.

He had acquired combat skills, specializations, equipment, and even attribute points in the secret realm.

To some extent, Xia Nan's ability to grow to the point where his actual combat strength far surpasses that of other professionals of the same level is largely due to his experiences in those secret realms.

Since he obtained the [Dream Corridor] equipment, the Secret Realm has become even more attractive to him.

Xia Nan didn't know the exact principle behind it, but after many practical tests, he also noticed the pattern.

The secret realm, or rather the core items within it, can provide valuable energy to the [Dream Corridor].

Since he used the pastel gems from Goat's Horn Town to charge it up, and then used the [Lucky Coin] to enter the key to open the [Dream Corridor] and enter the simulated dream, and upgraded [Gravity Etching] to the maximum level, the [Dream Corridor]'s originally abundant remaining energy has been reduced to a pitiful 0.12%.

Even if he obtained the key, this amount would be far from enough to unlock the dream world and improve his combat skills.

But now, after the Twin Valleys Secret Realm ended, he has gained a little over six percent more energy.

It seems like very little, less than ten percent.

But you should know that when he pulled [Gravity Etching] from level 3 to level 5, it only consumed about 9% of his energy.

For [Chongchao], the 6% charge from [Dream Corridor] is definitely enough to level up no matter what.

This means that as long as Xia Nan can find the key at the Moonlit Feast in two months, and raise the progress of [Re-Tide] to mastery, the reduction will be greatly reduced.

At that time, he will be promoted again, transforming from a lowly, ordinary adventurer into a level 4 senior professional in just two years.

Thoughts raced through Xia Nan's mind, her eyes gleaming.

But since it was still early and his proficiency level with [Chongchao] still needed to be improved, he buried these considerations for the future deep in his heart, thinking he would make plans after returning to Suckerfish Bay after the mission.

His gaze returned to the leather briefcase on the sofa in front of him, which he had already opened with both hands.

What appeared before Xia Nan was a gleaming, calm metal pocket watch.

Its main body has a warm and understated white gold color, as if it has undergone a fine brushing process. You can see countless fine lines on its surface that shimmer like satin under the sunlight.

The overall outline is a clean and full circle, about six centimeters in diameter and two-thirds the thickness of a palm. It looks delicate and small, but when held in the palm, you can feel its heavy metal weight.

The dial is a flawless white, resembling the walls of an operating room, with the markers outlined in deep, clear black, making them stand out against the pure white dial. They correspond to "3", "6", "9", and "12" respectively. The four markers on the top, bottom, left, and right are slightly thicker, while the center is surrounded by small, precise markers.

Although the pocket watch is made of white gold that looks exceptionally expensive, and the lines and details are clearly carefully designed, it has no superfluous embellishments, is not flashy, and is simple and clean.

The only thing that could be considered decoration was the vertical stethoscope embossed on the back of the pocket watch, symbolizing the "Medical Association".

Xia Nan reached out and held the pocket watch in his palm, feeling its warm and slightly cool touch, as well as the slightly raised metal engraving on the back of the watch. The semi-transparent attribute panel quietly appeared in the void.

……

White pot

Type: Medical pocket watch / Space storage item
grade:/
effect:

1. Item storage (12 items);

2. [Accelerated Healing]: +25% Healing Speed ​​(Passive/Constant)

Introduction:

In commemoration of Professor Adonis Pope’s pioneering contributions to the field of psychiatry and his great achievement in restoring order to broken hearts—the “Guardian of the Mind”—the 216th Silver Healer Award.

Remarks:

"Calibrate time, heal wounds."

……

Spatial storage!?
Xia Nan's gaze paused involuntarily.

To be honest, he had thought about this type of prop since he transmigrated.

After all, when going out on adventures, you have to carry just too many things in your bags.

Tents, food supplies, medicine, various simple tools...

Especially for someone like Xia Nan, who is relatively cautious and considers all aspects, she would like to stuff all the useful things into her backpack before going out, for fear of making a mistake due to insufficient preparation when going on an adventure.

When faced with a "choose one of two" situation where you have to decide between supplies, you'll be incredibly conflicted and spend a long time considering it.

In this situation, he naturally longed to have his own space storage item.

It doesn't need to be very big; one cubic meter is enough to save him a lot of trouble.

Unfortunately, it involves the concept of "space".

Don't be fooled by the fact that those spellcasters, despite their low level, can cast various summoning and teleportation spells. That's just because they infuse their mental magic into spell models they've memorized beforehand. It doesn't mean that these spellcasters have much knowledge of the concept of "space."

Just like a veteran who has fought on the front lines for many years, he may be able to use or even disassemble a gun with great skill, but few people can actually create a qualified firearm out of thin air and stand in front of a factory machine.

Using spells involving spatial concepts and creating spatial items are worlds apart in terms of difficulty.

In this situation, even though there are a large number of spellcasters on the continent of Aifara, spatial items are not abundant.

On the contrary, this type of equipment is usually rare and expensive, and is often snapped up and its price driven up as soon as it appears on the market.

Xia Nan had seen this type of prop before in the auction houses in River Valley Town and Suoyu Bay, and had even considered participating in the bidding at first. But when he sat confidently in the auction hall and heard the auctioneer announce a starting price that was higher than all his savings in the bank, he lost all interest.

Until now...

Xia Nan held the small, exquisite platinum pocket watch in his palm, looking it over again and again, his emotions subtly rising and falling within him.

The feeling deep within him at that moment was like when he first transmigrated and found his first enchanted item, the [Death Line] ring, on a goblin's body—it was hard to describe in words.

Of course, at the same time, he did not ignore the information revealed on the equipment attribute panel.

Unlike the storage equipment types such as "space rings" or "space pockets" that I had seen in anime and novels in my previous life.

The metal pocket watch in front of us, named "White Pot," does not store items in the traditional sense of how many cubic meters, but rather in a "piece-based" manner.

It can only store twelve items in total.

However, the specific storage method and how an item should be categorized are not explained on the attribute panel, and we will need to explore them on our own in the future.

Let's take a few simple examples of the items Xia Nan usually carries.

A bottle of healing potion can be considered an item, that's perfectly fine.

However, if you add a few rolls of bandages and some splints for fixation, and put them together with the treatment solution, Xia Nan believes that it can also be regarded as a "treatment kit".

If his idea is feasible, and he adds a tent, food, drinking water, and adventure tools to the "treatment kit" above, turning it into a fully packed backpack, could it also be called a "survival travel kit"?

He didn't even know if the White Pot itself had any size or weight restrictions on the items it could store.

Otherwise, even if you stuff an entire mountain or a small plane into it, it would still just be "an item".

In reality, things are unlikely to be as exaggerated as Xia Nan imagined, but that also means he will need to spend some time defining the scope and conditions for the pocket watch's storage.

In contrast, the other passive effect of the [White Pot] pocket watch is quite simple and easy to understand.

— +25% treatment speed.

In fact, Xia Nan possesses quite a few healing abilities these days.

The single [Tears of Spring Breath] provides him with two healing spells that he can actively cast.

If I had to say, after using [Ember Echoes] to enter the Ember state, my health will increase by a percentage. If nothing unexpected happens, it should also be able to passively trigger the effect of the [White Pot] pocket watch.

This ability can further enhance Xia Nan's combat capabilities and overall strength to a certain extent.

Besides.

"Adonis Pope..."

Xia Nan's gaze swept across the description section of the [White Pot] attribute panel, and he recognized this extremely familiar name.

He had no idea what the so-called "Guardian of the Soul" or "Silver Glow Healer Award" were, only guessing that they were some kind of medical award in the other world.

The "white pot" is likely a commemorative gift given by the organizers to the winners.

But he had seen the name "Adonis Pope" more than once.

This professor of psychiatry is the main perspective in this secret realm, and is also the mentor of the physician "Mand" at the Royal Medical College.

I remember that Mand in the secret realm wrote several letters to the other party. In the end, Adonis even came to Mand's residence in Fishhook Town in person to have a face-to-face encounter with the other party, who seemed to have completely fallen into madness.

It's a pity that the secret realm ended abruptly when the two were facing off, otherwise he would have been quite curious about what kind of power system that world dominated by the Physicians' Association was.

Recalling the last scene in his mind, the two people in the underground dark room, Xia Nan shook his head and cleared his mind of distractions.

To some extent, the secret realm is merely a fragment of space from another world, like a meteor that accidentally fell onto the continent of Aifara, rather than a complete fusion of the two worlds.

I'm unlikely to encounter this so-called "physician association" again in the future, so there's no point in thinking about it anymore.

Holding the pocket watch in his palm, Xia Nan straightened up and carefully checked the operating room at the top of the altar again, confirming that there was nothing else worth taking, including the operating table and the suitcase.

He then stepped down from the altar, holding the pocket watch in his hand, and returned to the crowd.

Since Lorraine had acted so fairly and honestly, allowing him to search for the spoils, Xia Nan felt he had nothing to hide and directly displayed the pocket watch he had taken out of his suitcase to everyone.

The experience in the secret realm seemed to involve earth-shattering changes, but in reality, only Xia Nan, who touched the suitcase that was the core of the secret realm, was able to see the specific scenes.

For the "Blade of Vengeance" team below the altar, the perceived time was only a moment, and they did not notice anything unusual.

From their perspective, Xia Nan climbed onto the altar, opened his suitcase, took something out, searched around, and then stepped down from the altar.

"I tried it out briefly. It's a spatial storage item, and it may have other effects as well, but it also has some limitations."

Xia Nan held the [White Pot] pocket watch in his hand and spoke frankly to Lorraine and the others.

To minimize the possibility of revealing the attribute panel, he naturally wouldn't disclose the specific attribute effects of the equipment that he knew, but he did explicitly state that the pocket watch itself was a type of spatial storage equipment.

As expected, the people lying on the ground in front of him were quite surprised that Xia Nan had found such a piece of equipment.

After all, even adventurers who had roamed the seas for many years had never possessed any spatial items.

But after that, the expressions on the faces of the people on the field were perhaps envious or surprised, but there was no malicious covetousness or greed that Xia Nan had imagined.

On one hand, it's because of Xia Nan's identity; he's a teammate who fought alongside them and went through life and death together.

If it were just any random passerby, they wouldn't have acted so "friendly".

On the other hand, it was also because of Xia Nan's strength in battle and his contributions to the team.

They were all adventurers who risked their lives, and they knew the value of life.

They knew which to choose: a rare and expensive piece of equipment that didn't belong to them, or the fresh air they could actually breathe.

He turned around with some effort, his gaze sweeping over the faces of the members, knowing that they had no objections.

Lorraine turned around, lay down on the ground, leaned against the broken wall behind her, looked at Xia Nan in front of her, and smiled:
"If you want it, keep it for yourself; it's your spoils."

Without refusing, Xia Nan nodded and put the pocket watch away.

"Then I won't participate in the distribution of the other spoils of this mission."

"This one is enough."

Considering the total value of the loot and his personal contribution during the adventure, his acceptance of the [White Pot] pocket watch was a reasonable allocation.

If Xia Nan really wanted more, Luo Lin and the others wouldn't be able to refuse.

But since his teammates were all so understanding, Xia Nan, who had acquired the spatial storage equipment, was willing to earn a few dozen less gold coins so that the team members could have a comfortable and secure vacation after returning to Suckerfish Bay.

(End of this chapter)