Chapter 311: That’s Not Good

“That’s not good,” he muttered while examining his missing limb as if looking hard enough would magically make it reappear.

“What the hell was that?” Lily exclaimed.

“I think I might have lost my hand,” he said amusingly.

“Not that, I meant, how did you just teleport? Was that because of the item?” She asked, surprisingly not that concerned about his missing limb, which came somewhat as a shock considering her usual attitude of him hurting himself.

“Hmm.”

“What?”

“I thought you would react more to this,” he said while waving the offending missing limb at her.

She rolled her eyes. “You’ll survive. I know better than to freak out over injuries like that. I have seen you heal from worse.”

“So how come you got mad about me about the other stuff?” He asked, confused at her words.

“I’m more mad about your decision-making than anything else. But I have accepted that you will get hurt regardless of what I do. So it’s up to me to get used to it.”

“Oh.”

“So what is that item? How were you able to teleport?” She asked, changing the subject back to the item.

He nodded at her and at the same time, sent a quick burst of mana through [Phoenix Renewal] and regrew his hand in a matter of seconds.

However, he could not help but notice how much more difficult it was to heal the injury than a typical explosion. It was almost like something was blocking his skill. A part of him believed it had something to do with whatever spatial enchantments or magic the necklace had, but it was too hard to tell. He wasn’t exactly an expert.

“Yeah, the necklace has some type of enchantment that allows me to charge it and activate a teleportation of my choice. Although it appears there is quite a long cooldown,” he said with a frown.

The necklace, which had allowed him to accomplish something he had wanted to do for a very long time, was in a sleep mode. The inscriptions wouldn’t accept any more of his mana, and any attempt to force it led to the enchantments shaking dangerously.

He believed that if he continued to try to push it, the result wouldn’t be something he would like.

There was an unusual look on Lily’s face, which was weird in itself. He would have suspected that she had seen similar items in her experience with her family’s business.

“Why the long face?” He finally asked.

“I don’t think I have seen an item quite like that in person,” she told him with a frown.

“What do you mean? I thought your family was a merchant and a business House? Wouldn’t you have seen a whole assortment of rare items?”

She shook her head. “First off, I don’t take care of the day-to-day operations. We have specific managers and supervisors who handle the exchange of items. Secondly, I doubt I would have seen many items like that in person, even if I did. Teleportation items are scarce, and most of them are found in rifts. Or in rare cases from master crafters specialized in spatial magic enchantments.”

“Yeah, but I am sure that someone like you has one,” he said confidently.

“I have a spatial beacon that I can activate for my family’s space mages to locate my position. But no, even I don’t have an item that can let me teleport at will. The restrictions on using them are very high. I don’t have the confidence to use one like you just did. Furthermore, an item like that would likely be a valuable tool for anyone who can use it, and I doubt they would let it go easily. I don’t think many have even been sold at auction very often. Most likely, the Auction Houses will buy it at a premium for themselves.”

“Why would House Easten give me such a valuable reward then? I admit, I did a lot for them, but this sounds like it is much more valuable than what I did for them,” he noted.

She shrugged her shoulders. “I have no clue. However, I also know that any spatial travel skill or item requires a very powerful will to activate and even more to control it. Even those at Tier 4 might have a hard time with taming such a skill, which is why space magic is so revered. But they must have known that you could handle it. I don’t think you quite understand how impressive it was that you were actually able to use it on your first try.”

“I mean, I did lose a limb,” he mentioned.

“Yeah, that seemed dangerous, but if they knew about your healing skill, then I bet they were a lot less worried about you injuring yourself too badly,” she said before turning to Marcus. “What do you think about this item? Have you seen something like it before?”

“I have seen several items in the past that operate similarly. Although most of them that activate that quickly usually have a limited distance they can travel. Did you notice anything that limited you?” The man asked Julius.

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He inclined his head at Marcus. “Yeah, I don’t think the distance is that great. I would say that it’s effective around a hundred feet. But anything further than that, I don’t think it would work.”

Marcus nodded his head a few times as he listened. “That is in line with what I was expecting. It doesn’t sound like it is going to be the most valuable tool in a fight, while it is relatively quick for an item like that, anybody with some skill would be able to attack before it activates. Plus, he can’t use it more than once since it has a cooldown. At least not until it has time to reset.”

“So what are you saying? That it’s pointless unless he wants to use it as a way to save himself from walking from a to b?” Lily asked.

“No, no,” Marcus quickly objected. “I believe they gave it to Julius more as a tool to help him acquire a space-related skill or Concept focused on movement rather than something like tearing space or stabilizing it, which is what Stella focuses on.”

“I think it is going to help me, I already noticed some things that I haven’t before, just in that first teleport,” Julius added.