Chapter 167: Inventory Management

Charnesa wasn’t there when Will got back to the caravan, but some of her disciples of Holdna were present, and they patched him up nicely. Will spent the rest of the evening eating recovery gruel and going through his Dimensional storage, determined to organize it and make space for more than two Potions of Greater Healing.

Honestly, I could afford a few of the Supreme ones, Will thought, resolving to buy some when he hit Akul again.

Will’s Dimensional Storage had become…rather cluttered as it grew. Back when it could only contain roughly a bowlful of objects, Will only had room to put the bare essentials in it: Couple potions, a palmful of bullets.

Now Will’s dimensional space was roughly the size of a satchel, and it also shrunk items to pack more in, provided they could fit in prior to the shrinking, which expanded its effective capacity drastically.

I think I need to do some inventory management, Will thought as he brushed his mental fingertips across the items inside.

When did I even get this? Will thought, pulling a tiny tree inside a glass ampule out of his storage. Looked like an oak.

Oh right, same place I got the Clay Idol. From that shop on the 3rd Floor. There had never been an occasion to use it so it had sat there unused for half a year.

Will pulled out the Clay Idol and set both items aside before he began digging through the rest of the stuff he’d packed away:

Three cannonballs, a couple shortswords, a roll of twine…Will left the gallon of Metallic slime in there since he didn’t have a container for it.

This would be a good place to store some of it though, Will thought. The bank here had to be pretty secure given how difficult it was to steal or mislead.

I don’t need more than one cannonball anymore since the Wraith Vessal Sacrifice, Will thought, kicking two of the heavy lumps of iron away from the pile. Same with the shortswords. Do I even need shortswords at all? It was nice to have bladed projectiles on-hand, but the shortswords had been out of necessity back when he was out of cannonballs, running from the church.

If I still want bladed projectiles, I’m starting to think Loth’s idea of that circle thingy would be good, Will thought, kicking the two swords away from the pile. They’d certainly fly better than these swords did.

Let’s see what else we have in here…

Some socks I forgot about, garrote wire, the rock I thought was cool, Flint and steel, soap, wax candy wrappers I was meaning to throw away, emergency cash in case I’m robbed…

…let’s face it, the garrote wire is pretty redundant at this point, Will though, removing it from the pile, along with the neat rock, socks and candy wrappers.

The flint and steel could stay, since he might have to start a fire at some point. And of course Will didn’t remove the cash from Dimensional Storage at all, since he didn’t want anyone to know he had it.

Old habits, Will mused.

He’d just taken great pains to prove that no one could rob him, hadn’t he?

Eh. Still. Who knows when this Lordship gig is going to dry up or turn on me, Will thought with a wry smile. Never a bad idea to have some squirreled away for a rainy day.

Forget that Lordship was an until-you-die sort of job.

Wonder if I should get some armor made for me and whether I could fit it in the hand? based on total volume, he probably could, but why? Wills resistance was outpacing Floor difficulty.

What other things could benefit from being physically tougher than they would otherwise be, aside from armor and weapons? springs? A loaded crossbow? How would stored kinetic energy work when the Manifested material would have a higher flex strength? Would it be creating energy from nothing?

…What would be the point of storing a loaded crossbow when the Phantom hand can already throw stuff faster?

If Will was Loth, the ability to manifest critical trap components just as long as they were needed would be intriguing, but Will didn’t follow that path.

Will returned the cannonball, bottled tree, twine, flint and steel, Clay Idol.

I am gonna have to remove the metallic slime soon. It’s taking up a lot of space. When he was wearing full Kit, he had five Dimensional Storages to choose from but without it, it was pretty cramped.

Will levered himself to his feet, grabbed all the stuff he’d taken out of the Dimensional Storage and took care of it, heading over to his Sourdough Barrels.

He had dozens of them now.

Will hadn’t had time to experiment with Sourdough to his satisfaction in weeks, what with the 8^th floor being as hectic as it was.

Maybe…I take some selfish time to myself in Bakton’s Keep.

Will grabbed a table, folding chair and a pair of bolt cutters and got to work.

First, Will dumped out the dozens of rings he’d gotten for cheap and added them to the pile of affix-less Relics the caravan had acquired just by travelling through the Floors.

You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.

Climbers were happy to pay part of their tax with ‘useless’ relics.

Will took out the two nodules that were all that remained of his two Greater Healing Potions, finding a small barrel about the size of his head and cutting a dozen or so Kinesthetic-only Relics in half, filling the tiny barrel partway with their ash.

Will then placed the healing potion starters inside, closed the lid, and marked the date and contents with a grease pen, setting it aside.

Then he got to the interesting part.

If I’m gonna make a composite ring specifically to enhance sourdough, I’m going to need an outrageous Resistance bonus, since all of Sourdough’s effects are derived from Resistance.

Will pored through the pile of Resistance equipment until he located the 4 items with the highest Resistance boost.

From his experiments, it seemed like four was the ideal number of items to combine with Sourdough, and when he tried to go higher, it caused the effect to weaken at an increasing rate that didn’t line up with simple averaging.

There was probably some complex math behind it, but all Will needed to know was that when a 5^th item was added, effects started getting lost, and the numbers stopped increasing very fast.

Will looked at the four items: A helmet, two rings, and a belt. Each of them had the ‘Of resistance’ moniker, and only raised Resistance.

Helm of resistance, Ring of resistance, Ring of Resistance, Belt of Resistance.

8, 10, 8, 8 Resistance, respectively.

While wearing the ring of the yeast-master, Will ashed all but the +10 ring into a tiny barrel, then tossed the +10 ring in too.

Sourdough