Hearing that this man had a plan, all the others present in the cave got curious, even the other S ranker. He was also the first one to ask him about his plan. And in answer, he started to tell everyone how he had lost his hand as this was related to the plan that he had.
Actually all the S rank powerhouses of the radical Dhanos group had special treasures that were gifted to the race by their Great Ancestor himself. Most of the items here were extremely useful but some among them were so mysterious that no one was sure about how that item was supposed to be used.
This man who had now lost his hand had one such mysterious item. He had done a lot of research and investigation on this item but he was unable to find a way to use this item at all.
But after the disaster, he coincidentally found the way how this item was supposed to be used. Actually he would not have been able to find the method if his hand was not separated from his body by the guild master of the city of Imenhawk.
He had somehow managed to retrieve his hand that was cut off and was planning to find a potion to re-attach it to his body again. But before he could do that, the special item suddenly activated all by itself and devoured his hand. At the same time, the information about the item was finally sent to his mind.
Hearing so far, all the people present in the cave became excited. The grade of the item that this one handed man had was very high.
So far this item was useless because no one had managed to ever activate it. But now that he had managed to finally activate it, everyone was sure that it was definitely a powerful item. So they quickly asked the man to tell them about the ability of this item.
After hearing about the ability, all the people were first dumbfounded and then became happy. It turned out that this item was able to replicate the power of other powerful items. And it could replicate not just one item but seven of them. The only restriction was the fact that the holder of the item needed to have a good idea about the item which would be replicated and the replicated item should have a lower grade than this item.
This was truly a marvelous ability specially because this mysterious item was the highest grade of items that these people had seen. So all the other super amazing items that they knew about, this item should be able to replicate all of them as those items had a lower grade.
But to activate this ability, one needed to sacrifice something. The man needed to sacrifice one his hands to activate it for the first time and if she lost any more of his limbs then his fighting strength would plummet. That was why he told his comrades about the item as now he wanted them to make some sacrifices to this item.
But before this man could tell them anything more, the other S ranker asked him a question. As the handless man had already sacrificed his hand to this item, she should be able to already replicate an item. So he asked if had already used that opportunity.
In answer the handless man replied with affirmation. He had actually already used this item to replicate an item called Shelter of Dependency. This was actually the second highest grade item that this man had. He had used this item as the target of replication as this was the item he was most familiar with so failing in the replication process was unlikely.
He also told the people that after being successful, he had set his real Shelter of Dependency up in a remote location. If it could successfully take root there, then they would be able to get a stronghold for themselves. But he was also planning to set up the replicated version somewhere too as there was a high chance that the first one would be stopped if a S ranker came across them.
He wanted to set that up in a better and more secretive location. But because of the size of the item, it was extremely hard to hide. At the same time, after losing his arm, this man was also in a hurry to reach a safe location. So he was not able to set it up with enough time. But still he was planning to check it out after a few days.
So after telling everyone about his plan, all five of them started to think about which items should be replicated as they had a limited slot and what they should sacrifice as the cost of the replication. It looked like these people were going to create a lot of chaos with this mega powerful item.
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While the five runaway Dhanoses were busy coming up with a new scheme, Elena had already returned to the guild and had informed Kaska about her plan. Kaska had also agreed to Elena's plan and had even suggested that she should team up with the guild master who was also a S ranker.
Elena had not rejected the idea and had told Kaska that she would discuss it after the guild master was back. Then Elena had left the guild again to complete her last remaining mission.
For this mission Elena needed to find the whereabouts of an item. This was not a powerful or rare item but just a simple token hand crafted by someone. But the person who had given the mission was attached to this token and it had a sentimental value to that person.
As for why this mission was assigned to a S ranker, that was because of the location where this item was lost. That location was one of the special areas that Dorothy had told her about. Elena was interested in checking that area out so having the mission to fulfil was just more fun for her.
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This special area was located a little bit away from the city and from a distance it did not look anything special. But still no one would make the mistake of entering it unknowingly as the powerful monsters living there were always giving off a terrifying aura.
The area was a rocky highland which had a very high density of mana. That was the reason why so many strong monsters had started living in that location. But there was a mystery related to this location. All the surrounding areas around this highland had regular magic density.
Even the S rankers of the surrounding areas had not managed to find the reason why this highland suddenly had such dense mana. Even after investigating that highland thoroughly, no one had managed to find anything special that could be responsible for this sudden spike of mana density. That mystery had made this area to be even more famous.
Elena was also interested in this mystery. The mine had already turned out to be a very amazing find, so Elena was looking forward to what kind of surprise she would be able to find in the Ompu highlands. The difficulty of this mission was also hard as finding a small token in that vast highland was almost impossible.
So how would Elena be able to overcome this challenge without using her broken abilities ?
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