18: Green buds and crescent moon

After the system informed me that I could be teleported out, I wondered:

In what state would I be teleported?

Like the last time I transmigrated? Would I be teleported naked?

Or could I be teleported back with my weapons and equipment?

If I were naked, the difficulty of surviving bare-handed in the forest would be hellish. If that were the case, I would just have to accept my fate.

What if I could be teleported back with my weapons and equipment? Could other supplies also be teleported with me?

In the coming days, I must try my best to make thorough preparations.

What items should I use today's three "Item Identification" skills on?

I laid the two short knives flat on the worn leather pad.

The blades were as bright as mirrors. The day I got this pair of knives, I used them as mirrors.

I finally knew what kind of face I had.

Aside from a pair of pointed ears, the rest of my face looked somewhat like my childhood self, only the details had become more perfect.

Fortunately, I didn't turn into some monstrous form.

The pointed ears combined with this face looked quite handsome, which was not unacceptable.

As my fingertip brushed over the gem on the hilt, a firefly-like green light once again illuminated inside the gem, as if Alton's soul fragments were still guarding his Relics.

Below is the information about the hunting knives identified by communicating with the system's energy and using the "Item Identification" skill:

【Green Bud +1】

This is a short hunting knife named “Green Bud” custom-made for Alton by Milo Liangtong, a famous weapon forging master in the Green Field.

This short hunting knife is similar to a short sword, but it is only single-edged, with a sharp tip and a blood groove on the left side of the blade. The entire knife is heavier than an ordinary short sword.

The hilt is engraved with two leaves, inlaid with tender green broken gems.

In Alton’s final battle against the Meat Golem, this short knife seemed to have integrated Alton’s obsession with life, allowing it to have a chance to trigger a rejuvenation healing spell in future battles.

This short hunting knife and another short hunting knife named “New Moon” are a pair. When the two knives are combined, they can be used as a heavy short knife.

This knife is now inherited by his disciple, Ryan.

Data:

Equipment Ability:

- Agility: +1

Combat Ability:

- 10% chance per round to trigger a rejuvenation healing spell, restoring 1 hit point per second to the wielder for 6 seconds.

Base Hit Chance: +1

Damage: 1d8+1 (Slashing)

Weapon Proficiency Category: Short Knife

Usage Category: One-handed

Requirements:

Strength: 5

Weight: 3

【New Moon +1】

This is a short hunting knife named “New Moon” custom-made for Alton by Milo Liangtong, a famous weapon forging master in the Green Field.

This short hunting knife is similar to a short sword, but it is only single-edged, with a sharp tip and a blood groove on the right side of the blade. The entire knife is heavier than an ordinary short sword.

The hilt is engraved with a magic rune, inlaid with dark green broken gems.

In Alton’s final battle against the Meat Golem, this short knife seemed to have integrated Alton’s obsession with death, allowing it to deal greater damage when facing Golems in the future.

This short hunting knife and another short hunting knife named “Green Bud” are a pair. When the two knives are combined, they can be used as a heavy short knife.

This knife is now inherited by his disciple, Ryan.

Data:

Equipment Ability:

- Magic Resistance: +10%

Combat Ability:

- Deals an additional 1 point of damage to Golems, and an additional 2 points of damage to Meat Golems.

Base Hit Chance: +1

Damage: 1d8+1 (Slashing) (Treated as a +2 weapon against Golems: 1d8+2, treated as a +3 weapon against Meat Golems: 1d8+3)

Weapon Proficiency Category: Short Knife

Usage Category: One-handed

Requirements:

Strength: 5

Weight: 3

These two knives actually possess such powerful magical energy. Can a person's obsession also imbue magical weapons with special powers?

I couldn't understand it, but I had to marvel at the wonder of this world.

I combined the two knives into a single heavy short hunting knife.

【green moon +2 short hunting knife】

This is a short hunting knife named “green moon +2 short hunting knife” custom-made for Alton by Milo Liangtong, a famous weapon forging master in the Green Field.

This short hunting knife is similar to a short sword, single-edged, with a sharp tip and blood grooves on both sides of the blade. The entire knife is a bit too heavy for a Halfling.

The hilt is engraved with two leaves and a magic rune, inlaid with green gems.

In Alton’s final battle against the Meat Golem, this short knife seemed to have integrated Alton’s obsession with life and death, allowing it to have a chance to trigger a rejuvenation healing spell and deal greater damage to Golems in future battles.

This short hunting knife can be split into two, forming a pair of short hunting knives named “Green Bud” and “New Moon”.

This knife is now inherited by his disciple, Ryan.

Data:

Equipment Ability:

- Agility: +1

- Magic Resistance: +10%

Combat Ability:

- On a critical hit, the target has a 10% chance to be affected by Dispel Magic.

- 10% chance per round to trigger a rejuvenation healing spell, restoring 1 hit point per second to the wielder for 6 seconds.

- Deals an additional 1 point of damage to Golems, and an additional 2 points of damage to Meat Golems.

Base Hit Chance: +2

Damage: 2d8+2 (Slashing) (Treated as a +3 weapon against Golems: 1d8+3, treated as a +4 weapon against Meat Golems: 1d8+4)

Weapon Proficiency Category: Short Knife

Usage Category: One-handed / Two-handed

Requirements:

Strength: 8 / 6

Weight: 6

The merged and more powerful short knife was too heavy for me to use with one hand at my current state, though I could barely grip it with both hands.

But even if I dual-wielded single knives, the improvement for me was enormous.

“Alton, my teacher, I will make good use of this pair of hunting knives,” I thought silently to myself.

From that day on, I identified 3 unknown items every day.

Deep in the cave, near the fork in the road, I also bravely went over and began to scavenge the various potentially useful equipment and supplies left on the corpses and bones.

On the morning of the fifteenth day, fully armed, I was ready.

All the boxes and packages in front of me were tied together with ropes and leather straps found in the pile of supplies, as well as cloth strips twisted from blankets and clothes.

I carried several important bags in my left hand and tightly gripped the rope binding all the other boxes and packages in my right hand.

Finally, I took one last look at the cave where I had lived for over 3 months.

Farewell, Siren, farewell Golems, farewell, my six teachers.

“System, activate sub-dimension.”

The process of teleportation was indescribable, like floating in the air, yet also like being in the middle of a vast ocean.

A sensation of weightlessness arose from the depths of my bones.

I saw my left hand collapsing into a star cluster, while my right hand expanded into a galaxy.

Time flowed like a fluid through my fingers, and all perceptions were compressed into an infinitely small singularity.

It felt like a very long time, yet also like an instant.

I stood on a patch of grass somewhere in the forest.

I’m back!