Only I Am A Reader

"You only-"

"Shall we try them out then?"

As both Leo and Yeon had already made their choice, Cheon Jeong interrupted Iyeolhan's last warning. Nodding with satisfaction as she saw him giving up. Everyone left the Heavenly Treasury before separating.

Iyeolhan completely left the group as he waved his hand, while both Leo, Yeon, and their respective teachers proceeded back to their individual training rooms. It was obvious that Yeon desired to swing her weapon, again and again, seeing her distraction between it and Leo, but the same could be said about Leo.

'It's not a jackpot, but it's a great find.'

The Heavenly Furnace was undeniably a great starting point. Treasures, pills, opportunities, rewards… in correspondence to the difficulty of climbing up, all of these things were easily accessible. However, to someone like Leo, this wasn't always a great thing.

Obtaining treasures and hidden pieces were basically his greatest source of Reading Points, just remembering the Sword Garden Trial was enough to point out their importance. Unfortunately, such happenings earned him nothing here.

When receiving things that he was already bound or destined to, no event would be triggered. The road was smoothly paved for Leo, but he couldn't pick up the gold on the side. With all being said and done, interfering with his and Yeon's path still earned him a considerable revenue that made up for the possible losses… And that was also the only loophole he could exploit!

Receiving 'Scarlet Sky Breathing' or tens of Scarlet Cloud Pills was something that Baekho would receive soon or later, so Leo received nothing. On the other hand, meeting Cheon Chang that would lead to receiving two impressive martial arts was a deviation as great as being rated as special!

Venturing into the Heavenly Treasury was something that Baekho would do. However, he would have ended up picking a greatsword! Since he picked something different this time…

[ Hidden Event occurrence has been detected. Discovered Hidden Piece, 'Silver Dragon'. ]

[ You have received 101 Reading Points. ]

Through this experience, Leo got to understand another criterion of triggering. He had successfully relied on this method to pick Sword Elixirs back then, but that was partially due to luck. Not every hidden piece that he touched qualified as a trigger.

The spears and swords that he touched in the Heavenly Treasury were definitely hidden pieces. However, it was only when he picked one and obtained the ability to take it out that it was recognized as such. If Leo had lacked the ability to take the Sword Elixirs for himself back then, his detection method would have been completely useless.

Sizzle!

Under Cheon Chang's watchful gaze, Black Dragon Energy embraced the gray spear as Leo raised the output to the maximum. He couldn't confirm his guess back then, but he picked the spear since the rest of the spears weren't exactly better. In the end, the forgotten Hidden Event's trigger sealed the deal.

Fizzle…

The smell of something burning rose in the air as the spear's color darkened. As Leo gave it a spin, ash-like powder scattered down, putting a smile on Leo's face.

Silver Dragon. The name really told everything!

Although it looked like it was falling apart, the spear wasn't being ruined. Rather, a faint metallic luster shone as more ash fell down, revealing a very dark silver color.

'Though it's unlikely to be normal silver, it's greatly similar.'

Silver was simply too soft a material to be used in making a treasured weapon like this, but this was still a fantasy murim world. All kinds of strange metals like 'Thousand Years Cold Iron' existed, alloying was also a thing. The color was slightly off, but there was a reason Leo associated it with silver.

Extreme Conductivity!

Considering that some sort of rust was covering this 'black silver' coated spear, Leo's property inspection didn't pick up its advantage. After using Black Dragon Energy with it, however, everything became apparent!

Compared to the greatly conductive copper used in most electronics on Earth, silver was 105% as conductive. Leo couldn't measure something like that here, but even if this metal that he just randomly named was less conductive, this was still the spear that he had the most compatibility with!

"It's a good choice."

Though Cheon Chang's words were as little as usual, he seemed to approve. Black Dragon Energy wasn't actual electricity, but it retained most of its attributes. When used with a spear like the Silver Dragon, it would be greatly enhanced at the very least.

"It's my turn then."

Leo was ready to try out his new spear against Cheon Chang, but it seemed like he had something else in mind. Seeing him flashing away, Leo's elation with his find intensified.

'Time to complete the collection!'

He had told him to pick a spear, so now was naturally the time to…

"Unfortunately, I can't hand you down the Black Dragon as I'm using it, but you definitely deserve this as our master's student."

Removing the rag wrapping around the item he brought back, Cheon Chang revealed a colorful scabbard. The main color scheme was extremely pure white, but black stripes were artistically dancing around, this was…

Tack!

The item was thrown at Leo before he could say a word. Once he got a hold of it he could barely resist the urge to draw it out!

Shhheng!

The sound of the draw was even more pronounced. Just like the scabbard, the longsword in Leo's hand was pure white with only one black stripe along the center. It looked like the farthest thing from being metal, but Leo could feel the sharpness just by looking at it!

[ Hidden Event occurrence has been detected. Discovered Hidden Piece, 'White Tiger'. ]

[ You have received 312 Reading Points. ]

Without a doubt, the sword was definitely abnormal. The Silver Dragon had remarkable attributes, but this was just on a whole other level…

'So this is the sword once used by the Heavenly Demon?'

This was a treasure that made the items in the actual 'treasury' look lacking…