The Merchant looks down at the chest Darius is holding “So, how much to purchase this from you?” He asks with a slight smile. Darius shakes his head as he looks at the merchant “Sorry, it’s not for sale, yet at least. Like I said I want to study it, especially now that I know what it is.”

The Merchant starts to frown as he looks at Darius “Are you sure you want to do that boy?” Darius frowns as he nods “Yes, I am sure, let me put it this way. If I can understand how to make these, then I can make more, and you could sell them then.”

The Merchant thinks for a few seconds before he nods “Very well, that seems acceptable to me, just keep that chest somewhere hidden.” Darius nods while he says “Right, I do need to know if there is an interaction when putting a spatial item in a spatial item?” The Merchant looks at Darius confused as he shakes his head “No, I’ve never heard of anything like that.”

Darius nods as he says “Right, perfect, then I have a place I can hide this, thanks.” before he turns and starts to walk away from the merchant. Darius walks behind a few of the wagons before he pulls off his backpack and puts the chest into it. He then goes to help with unloading the wagons now that there shouldn’t be anything attacking any time soon.

It takes a few more hours, but the wagons get unloaded, at which point the villagers start to prepare for the celebration, with a few of the people from the caravan helping them. Darius heads a little way out of the village, starting to move around in a circle to patrol the area around it to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Darius continues to patrol for a while, and eventually right before he blinks to his next section he watches at he sees something approaching from the northeast. He frowns as he looks towards it, reaching down and grabbing the hilt of his sword while he waits for whatever it is to get closer. It takes about a minute for the figure to get close enough for Darius to see it’s what looks like a gnoll with dark fur and a knick in its ear riding a horse towards him. Darius continues to wait as it gets closer, ready to cast a spell at it the second it shows any hostile intent.

Once the gnoll on the horse if 10 metres away Darius calls out “Hold there, who are you and what are you doing out here?” The gnoll looks down towards Darius before huffing and saying with a grave voice “I’m Ocek Crackscrap, I come from the Crackscrap tribe, we are in need of help.”

Darius frowns as he says “Tell me what’s happening?” “We are under attack by the undead,” Ocek says as he looks down at Darius who frowns and says “Right, we’ll probably need a couple of the other adventurers from the village.” Darius turns as he says “I’ll be back as soon as possible, just wait here.” before he blinks back to the village as quickly as he can.

Darius gets back to the village quickly and starts to blink around it to look for the other adventurers. He finds them inside one of the houses breathing a bit harder as he appears in the doorway. Darius looks at them as he says “Undead are attacking a gnoll tribe.” Folred stands when he hears Darius, frowning “That is bad, very bad, we need to find and stop it.” The rest of the group stands, nodding “Good, I was hoping I wouldn’t have to convince you all to come deal with it.” Darius says as he turns to leave the house.

“It’s undead. They could sweep over a nation in a matter of weeks,” Folred says as the party follows Darius who nods and leads them out to Ocek as quickly as he can. He introduces everyone before Ocek turns the horse around to lead Darius and the party of adventurers to his village.