Chapter 323: Remainder
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Chapter 323: Remainder
It was at this point that Sage was regretting that he hadnt yet built a pressure washer. The mess in front of him made him want to immediately install a floor grate pipe and just wash the terrible mud away. Then he thought about ordering an ant colony over to pick through it, but he was worried there might be something in her body that could infect them. That woman was loaded with horrible tricks when alive and now that she was dead, he was reminded of that soul tracking incident he ran into in the past. Since it would be rude to make them clean up the mess and then reward the bugs with death, he moved to other ideas.
A Warp Worm or pit full of Refinery Worms could make short work of it, but valuable objects might get processed back into raw materials. He put that idea aside for a final option and finally settled on doing it himself. Sage linked to a Steelsilk Centipede and matured it to the size of a large dog. He didnt have any qualms sacrificing mindless insects, he merely chose this method over an ant colony as it was far less wasteful and with his direct guidance he could be more careful with the search. Before beginning, he activated a defensive formation, part of a network hed installed in the storage warehouse. It cordoned off each of the areas between the huge stone columns, specifically for situations like this where he wanted to collect materials that might not be very safe.
The Steelsilk Centipede was inside the defensive shield and it skittered underneath the rock. A half-dozen of its legs moved with rapid speed, digging through the mess and picking out anything that wasnt made of people. He didnt have the centipede examine anything closely, instead picking through the mess for cloth, metal, paper, leather, stone, gems, and anything else that wasnt bone, blood, or flesh. Picking it up and leaving it floating in mid-air above the mess on the floor. Once it carefully sifted through the mess on the ground, Sage had the centipede flip over. Floating in mid-air and upside down, it performed the same activity on the underside of the rock, leaving a bunch of items just floating in mid-air between two layers of unmentionable muck.
Sage did a check with his Spiritual Sense before having the centipede scoop up all the items and move them away from the big mess and closer to the defensive formation wall. The glowing symbols on the ground were powering a sort of golden force field, separating Sage from the centipede and the recovered items within.
Wait a second that woman had a staff made of bone.
With the clothing searched, he had the centipede push the rest back over to the mess. The remaining items were a half-dozen bones, a belt buckle on a mangled belt, and a pair of rings. Sage immediately had four of the bones pushed away once he identified that they werent special, they just had some very stubborn ligaments and tendons. The remaining bones were unusual. One of them was quite obviously a dagger, but it had been carved down till no bone features remained. He guessed a femur or other large bone from something huge. The detail on the handle was so exquisite that it looked like it had been turned in a lathe and then engraved with tiny array symbols. The blade itself was three sided, giving it a triangular profile. He was immediately curious to find out what it did. Those symbols meant it was likely to be a magic tool, but he wasnt quite close enough to decipher them.
The other bone item looked like a large finger bone. It was also covered in array symbols, but instead of simple carving, they were inlaid with gold. There was also a tiny ring protruding from one end, where it was strung on a golden chain. Likely a necklace she had been wearing under her clothing to hide it, and another magic device.
The mangled belt was basically just a thick silk cord, and the buckle was a flat piece of jade with a hook on one side and a dragon on the front face. Wearing a belt in this age required knowing a little bit about knots, and the buckle just added decoration, though in this case it also might hold some secrets.
Lastly, the two rings were of course Storage Rings. One of them seemed to be a standard style, of a pretty large size. The other ring was a piece of peach wood, carved into a ring with a single large face. The face of the ring was slightly peach shaped and had a pair of stylized characters on it that read long life. Peach Wood was said to have the power to dispel evil spirits, a tradition stemming from an old legend of the Door Gods that protected the doorway to an evil spirit world and also the word for peach had the same pronunciation as the word for flee or run away. The ring could be a simple talisman, or there was a chance it held some secrets of its own.
Now lets see if I can remember how to check these things for marks. If that woman was part of an organization I definitely dont want to have them coming after me in the dark.
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Chapter 323: Remainder
It was at this point that Sage was regretting that he hadnt yet built a pressure washer. The mess in front of him made him want to immediately install a floor grate pipe and just wash the terrible mud away. Then he thought about ordering an ant colony over to pick through it, but he was worried there might be something in her body that could infect them. That woman was loaded with horrible tricks when alive and now that she was dead, he was reminded of that soul tracking incident he ran into in the past. Since it would be rude to make them clean up the mess and then reward the bugs with death, he moved to other ideas.
A Warp Worm or pit full of Refinery Worms could make short work of it, but valuable objects might get processed back into raw materials. He put that idea aside for a final option and finally settled on doing it himself. Sage linked to a Steelsilk Centipede and matured it to the size of a large dog. He didnt have any qualms sacrificing mindless insects, he merely chose this method over an ant colony as it was far less wasteful and with his direct guidance he could be more careful with the search. Before beginning, he activated a defensive formation, part of a network hed installed in the storage warehouse. It cordoned off each of the areas between the huge stone columns, specifically for situations like this where he wanted to collect materials that might not be very safe.
The Steelsilk Centipede was inside the defensive shield and it skittered underneath the rock. A half-dozen of its legs moved with rapid speed, digging through the mess and picking out anything that wasnt made of people. He didnt have the centipede examine anything closely, instead picking through the mess for cloth, metal, paper, leather, stone, gems, and anything else that wasnt bone, blood, or flesh. Picking it up and leaving it floating in mid-air above the mess on the floor. Once it carefully sifted through the mess on the ground, Sage had the centipede flip over. Floating in mid-air and upside down, it performed the same activity on the underside of the rock, leaving a bunch of items just floating in mid-air between two layers of unmentionable muck.
Sage did a check with his Spiritual Sense before having the centipede scoop up all the items and move them away from the big mess and closer to the defensive formation wall. The glowing symbols on the ground were powering a sort of golden force field, separating Sage from the centipede and the recovered items within.
Wait a second that woman had a staff made of bone.
With the clothing searched, he had the centipede push the rest back over to the mess. The remaining items were a half-dozen bones, a belt buckle on a mangled belt, and a pair of rings. Sage immediately had four of the bones pushed away once he identified that they werent special, they just had some very stubborn ligaments and tendons. The remaining bones were unusual. One of them was quite obviously a dagger, but it had been carved down till no bone features remained. He guessed a femur or other large bone from something huge. The detail on the handle was so exquisite that it looked like it had been turned in a lathe and then engraved with tiny array symbols. The blade itself was three sided, giving it a triangular profile. He was immediately curious to find out what it did. Those symbols meant it was likely to be a magic tool, but he wasnt quite close enough to decipher them.
The other bone item looked like a large finger bone. It was also covered in array symbols, but instead of simple carving, they were inlaid with gold. There was also a tiny ring protruding from one end, where it was strung on a golden chain. Likely a necklace she had been wearing under her clothing to hide it, and another magic device.
The mangled belt was basically just a thick silk cord, and the buckle was a flat piece of jade with a hook on one side and a dragon on the front face. Wearing a belt in this age required knowing a little bit about knots, and the buckle just added decoration, though in this case it also might hold some secrets.
Lastly, the two rings were of course Storage Rings. One of them seemed to be a standard style, of a pretty large size. The other ring was a piece of peach wood, carved into a ring with a single large face. The face of the ring was slightly peach shaped and had a pair of stylized characters on it that read long life. Peach Wood was said to have the power to dispel evil spirits, a tradition stemming from an old legend of the Door Gods that protected the doorway to an evil spirit world and also the word for peach had the same pronunciation as the word for flee or run away. The ring could be a simple talisman, or there was a chance it held some secrets of its own.
Now lets see if I can remember how to check these things for marks. If that woman was part of an organization I definitely dont want to have them coming after me in the dark.
Chapter 323: RemainderIt was at this point that Sage was regretting that he hadnt yet built a pressure washer. The mess in front of him made him want to immediately install a floor grate pipe and just wash the terrible mud away. Then he thought about ordering an ant colony over to pick through it, but he was worried there might be something in her body that could infect them. That woman was loaded with horrible tricks when alive and now that she was dead, he was reminded of that soul tracking incident he ran into in the past. Since it would be rude to make them clean up the mess and then reward the bugs with death, he moved to other ideas. A Warp Worm or pit full of Refinery Worms could make short work of it, but valuable objects might get processed back into raw materials. He put that idea aside for a final option and finally settled on doing it himself. Sage linked to a Steelsilk Centipede and matured it to the size of a large dog. He didnt have any qualms sacrificing mindless insects, he merely chose this method over an ant colony as it was far less wasteful and with his direct guidance he could be more careful with the search. Before beginning, he activated a defensive formation, part of a network hed installed in the storage warehouse. It cordoned off each of the areas between the huge stone columns, specifically for situations like this where he wanted to collect materials that might not be very safe. The Steelsilk Centipede was inside the defensive shield and it skittered underneath the rock. A half-dozen of its legs moved with rapid speed, digging through the mess and picking out anything that wasnt made of people. He didnt have the centipede examine anything closely, instead picking through the mess for cloth, metal, paper, leather, stone, gems, and anything else that wasnt bone, blood, or flesh. Picking it up and leaving it floating in mid-air above the mess on the floor. Once it carefully sifted through the mess on the ground, Sage had the centipede flip over. Floating in mid-air and upside down, it performed the same activity on the underside of the rock, leaving a bunch of items just floating in mid-air between two layers of unmentionable muck. Sage did a check with his Spiritual Sense before having the centipede scoop up all the items and move them away from the big mess and closer to the defensive formation wall. The glowing symbols on the ground were powering a sort of golden force field, separating Sage from the centipede and the recovered items within. Wait a second that woman had a staff made of bone. With the clothing searched, he had the centipede push the rest back over to the mess. The remaining items were a half-dozen bones, a belt buckle on a mangled belt, and a pair of rings. Sage immediately had four of the bones pushed away once he identified that they werent special, they just had some very stubborn ligaments and tendons. The remaining bones were unusual. One of them was quite obviously a dagger, but it had been carved down till no bone features remained. He guessed a femur or other large bone from something huge. The detail on the handle was so exquisite that it looked like it had been turned in a lathe and then engraved with tiny array symbols. The blade itself was three sided, giving it a triangular profile. He was immediately curious to find out what it did. Those symbols meant it was likely to be a magic tool, but he wasnt quite close enough to decipher them. The other bone item looked like a large finger bone. It was also covered in array symbols, but instead of simple carving, they were inlaid with gold. There was also a tiny ring protruding from one end, where it was strung on a golden chain. Likely a necklace she had been wearing under her clothing to hide it, and another magic device. The mangled belt was basically just a thick silk cord, and the buckle was a flat piece of jade with a hook on one side and a dragon on the front face. Wearing a belt in this age required knowing a little bit about knots, and the buckle just added decoration, though in this case it also might hold some secrets. Lastly, the two rings were of course Storage Rings. One of them seemed to be a standard style, of a pretty large size. The other ring was a piece of peach wood, carved into a ring with a single large face. The face of the ring was slightly peach shaped and had a pair of stylized characters on it that read long life. Peach Wood was said to have the power to dispel evil spirits, a tradition stemming from an old legend of the Door Gods that protected the doorway to an evil spirit world and also the word for peach had the same pronunciation as the word for flee or run away. The ring could be a simple talisman, or there was a chance it held some secrets of its own. Now lets see if I can remember how to check these things for marks. If that woman was part of an organization I definitely dont want to have them coming after me in the dark.
