Darius looks down into the darkness of the basement before casting light and sending the small floating ball of light down into the darkness. He then starts to climb down the ladder now that he can see the floor. Once down at the bottom of the ladder he steps off it and looks around the small room, seeing it looks to be a spot to hide in the case of attack, with a plain wooden chest in the corner.

Darius walks over to the chest, looking over it as he mutters “What do we have here?” He activates his mana sight, frowning as he sees that it is covered in magical lettering. Darius examines it, and is unable to find anything that he thinks would lead to this chest being a trap. Darius shakes his head as he goes to open the chest, finding no lock on it.

He looks inside, seeing that it is far larger than it should be ‘So, maybe that magical writing is for extradimensional spaces? Something I need to study for sure.’ He looks inside, finding a few books, what looks like a wand, some strange tools, and a pile of pieces of metal and leather. Darius reaches in and pulls out a couple of the books, the first being Advanced Engraving, and the second being Magic Item Crafting For Beginners.

Darius sets those books to the side before he reaches in to pull out the last two, finding them to be Basic Spatial Magic and A Treatise on Spatial Engraving. ‘Well, this is interesting, it looks to me like a spatial mage or enchanter lived here, but how did this place end up abandoned?’ Darius shrugs as he takes off his backpack, starting to put everything from the chest into it before he stands and puts it back on.

‘Might as well take it with me to either study or sell.’ He then picks up the chest, finding it weighs less than it should, carrying it back to the entrance to the basement and carefully carrying it up the stairs. Darius manages to get it out of the hidden trapdoor, setting it on the floor to the house before he climbs up and out. He closes the trapdoor before picking up the chest and walking out of the house.

Darius looks around as he walks outside, not seeing anything he needs to worry about he starts to blink his way back to the village he had come from, leaving the homestead behind quickly. It doesn’t take him long to get back to the village, finding that people are still in the process of unloading the supplies from the wagons. Darius looks around for the village head, soon finding him. “I’ve dealt with the bandits, you should be safe for a while, at least until another group pops up,” Darius says as he walks up to the village head “You have? Oh, thank you, good sir, thank you.”

Darius shrugs as he says “It’s the least I could do, and remember, no need to pay me for this.” “Of course, of course, though we were planning on having a celebration tonight, I do hope you will join us.” The village head says as he looks at Darius hopefully. Darius sighs quietly before he nods “Yes, I’ll join your people for the festival.” Darius then turns and starts to look for the merchant.

Darius finds him directing the people who are unloading the wagons. He looks towards Darius as Darius approaches, saying “There you are, where the hell have you been?” Darius frowns a little, still holding the chest as he says “Dealing with the bandits that have been attacking this place. Now they won’t have to worry about them.” The merchant nods a little saying “Right, that was a good idea, so what do you have there?” while he looks at the chest Darius is holding.

Darius shrugs as he says “Just a chest I found that has an interesting enchantment on it. I plan to study it for a while, see if I can understand it better.” The merchant looks at it as he says “And what does it do?” “Oh it’s just a basic spatial enchantment, that’s why I want to study it,” Darius says as he looks at the merchant whose eyes widen as he looks at the chest “A-a spatial enchantment? On a chest? How? That’s not possible.” The merchant says as he reaches towards the chest. Darius takes a step back as he says “Not possible? What do you mean?”

“Well, spacial enchantments only work with cloth, I don’t fully understand why, but something about cloth being soft and able to bend makes spatial enchantments work.” The merchant says as he continues to look over the chest. “Huh, so this is quite important then,” Darius says while he uses Identification on the chest.

Spatial Storage Chest

A chest created by a master spatial engraver who discovered how to enchant spatial engravings on regular objects.

Oh how interesting, you found something that shouldn’t be possible. Be careful or you’ll lose it.