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Chapter 80: The little white egg

While Ye Yan was getting the loot from the boss' corpse, he was trying to ignore two ghosts rolling on the ground. For him, it didn't look like a fight between enemies but another kind of fight.

They look so suspicious in that position, like when you see a photo of MMA fighters on the ring taken from a weird angle in which one of them is laying on the floor and the other is between his legs with his pants a little down. You know the truth of what is happening, but the picture is too much.

When Ye Yan entered the chamber, he went straight to the spider's corpse and didn't even spare a glance at the emperor's ghost but it wasn't the same for the astronomer ghost. After Ye Yan stored the five magic source crystals that the boss dropped, the astronomer ghost entered the room, and as soon as he saw the other ghost, he rushed at him, ready to punch and kick.

For some reason, the emperor is immune to the magic power and can stay there without a problem.

After a few seconds of a catfight, the two started rolling on the ground. For Ye Yan, that looked like a catfight because he never saw men fighting like that. The astronomer even pulled the emperor's hair and tried to scratch his face. 

In truth, the women Ye Yan know can fight much more mainly than them.

After he spared a glance at the two rolling on the ground, Ye Yan shook his head and resumed gathering the loot.

Besides the witch's powder, Ye Yan got some good items and materials from the boss. 

From the Sorting Hat Spider, Ye Yan got three spider's legs, a spider's spinneret, two venom glands that the spider didn't use because it prefers to use magic, two spider's eyes, one spider's fang, one piece of equipment called Witch's Sorting Hat that is a smaller version of the hat-like thing on the spider's back, and some pieces of the carapace.

Besides the spider's body parts, Ye Yan got one cobweb that can be used to trap enemies, one magic scroll of the Arcane Balls Spell, and a Weapon Mod recipe.

When Ye Yan looked at the recipe, his eyes started to shine. It was a recipe that can be used to modify a weapon in specific ways that can't be attained by using only the players' or NPC's creativity.

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[Spider Web] (Weapon Mod Recipe)

Description: You can modify your weapon, making it be able to shoot Spider Webs to immobilize a target for a few seconds.

Items Required: 5 Silk Glands, 1 Spider's Spinneret, ...

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Ye Yan looked at the mod and became excited but soon he calmed down after seeing the items required for creating the weapon mod. From all the items required, he only has the Spider's spinneret, the others he has no idea how to get. 

He will have to leave the information gathering to his mage friend. After he found out about how a mage can get experience reading, he would always throw any research work for Spell Bound.

Luckily, Spell Bound contracted mages to exclusively do this kind of work, or else he would do nothing else in the game besides gathering information. And Spell Bound has no vocation to be a slave. He has to manage the guild and Ye Yan definitely wouldn't pay him for it.

After storing everything, Ye Yan went in the direction of the ghosts. He still has more than 15 minutes to do what he needs in the chamber, which is looting the room and complete the astronomer's ghost quest.

After getting next to the coffin, Ye Yan looked at the two ghosts that continue to fight on the ground. 

It looks like the astronomer has the upper hand in the fight. He keeps smashing the emperor's belly uncontrollably with a rhythmic movement of both hands. And suddenly, the emperor tried to get the upper hand, changing their position and pressing on the astronomer ghost's body, he was kneed in the groin by the astronomer.

The emperor lived a life full of extravagances in which he only knew how to eat, drink and visit his concubines' rooms. Thus, he is unable to fight even a frail scholar like the astronomer.

After being hit on his weakest part, the emperor was paralyzed from pain, laying on the ground with both hands covering this little friend.

The astronomer ghost wasn't satisfied by just this, so he started to kick the emperor with all his strength while cursing and saying things that a child would in a situation like that.

Ye Yan looked around the coffin and the room and found nothing but wine vessels of all kinds, so he decided to stand by the side, waiting for the astronomer ghost to finish his business[1].

After two minutes, Ye Yan started to lose his patience. It looks like the astronomer doesn't have the intention of stopping soon, so Ye Yan decided to remember him of the promise he made.

Ye Yan wants his reward and not stay there, wasting time seeing two ghosts fighting.

"Now that you are already here and vented a little, it's time for you to give me the reward for clearing the mausoleum from magic sources and bringing you here." Ye Yan said while reaching out his right arm with his hand open for the ghost to hand his reward.

The astronomer ghost looked at him as if he have seen a ghost, which is really strange, as he is a ghost himself.

Looking at the ghost expression, Ye Yan got the sensation that he was fooled by the ghost.

When Ye Yan thought of taking a magic source crystal from his space bag to expel the astronomer ghost from there, the ghost started to speak.

"Wait! it's not like I will not give you anything but that I'm a ghost, so how can I carry something with me?"

After listening, Ye Yan took a deep breath, trying to control his temper, and threw a murderous look at the ghost.

"As I said, I will give you something, but it is information. I know where you can find the powerful artifact Silk Atlas of Comets. With it, you can reach new heights." The astronomer ghost said before Ye Yan does something to him.

After the ghost says the location of the artifact, he resumed kicking the emperor. It looks like thousand years of ressentiment cannot be vented in a short time.

After getting the information about the artifact from the ghost, Ye Yan remembered the greenstone he got before in the mausoleum.

He looked around one more time, trying to find anything that could resemble the greenstone. 

When he thought that maybe, he can just use it in another room or that it has no other function, Ye Yan noticed that in front of the coffin, there is a place different from the rest. There is a kind of shallow hole on the floor that you can only see if you look carefully. It looks like the greenstone can fits perfectly on it.

Ignoring the astronomer looking at him and the emperor ghost still laying on the ground with a pained face, Ye Yan put the greenstone in the hole on the ground. After that, the greenstone shone and a place in the lower part of the coffin opened, showing a white egg measuring 100 cm in length and 6 cm in width.

Ye Yan readily took the egg in his hands and examined it. The egg looks like any normal egg, just a little bigger and oblong.

As Ye Yan understands nothing about eggs, thus he will look for an NPC that can identify the egg because no scroll he has shows information about it.

After storing the egg, Ye Yan looked at the astronomer ghost that looked satisfied now, as if he had done everything he wanted and left nothing behind.

A few moments later, the astronomer's ghost shone a white light, and he disappeared from the world to be reincarnated.

As the only thing left in the chamber is the emperor rolling in pain on the ground, Ye Yan left the room, going back to the first room entered in the mausoleum.

The room has one entrance and three passages. Ye Yan entered in just one to get to the end of the mausoleum. The other two kept unexplored until now.

He chose one of the passages and entered it but in the end, there was only a dead end. Except for three Agra Cadabras, there is nothing else. At least he got the magic source crystals from them.

The other passage was the same, the difference is that he almost died there and it just to explore the room. It was not with it at all. It not only was full of deadly booby traps, but it also didn't have even a monster or some treasure.

After he makes sure he had explored everything, Ye Yan left the mausoleum and went in the direction of the abandoned palace nearby, where is not only the Silk Atlas of Comets but also the stardust that he needs for the potion.

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[1] Bronze ceremonial wine vessels were found in many ancient Chinese tombs in various shapes, as with a human face, in the form of an elephant, and others.