Chapter 19: Inventory bag history

The already moved Cyan, could only feel even more moved by Arlom the white, I mean, his Master actions.

This things are crazy expensive, in this world standards, they could buy you a mansion in the capital of any of the six kingdoms, six times.

But it was more than that for them, in here, it hold even more value, because it could hold your own life, and that, was priceless.

It was the most useful tool for anything that lives inside this forest, for obvious reasons, having the ability to carry on a lot of stuff with you, without affecting at all your combat abilities, was a precious thing have.

It was a matter of life and death in this forest to have potions and antidotes with you at any given moment in time and be able to use them in the precise time.

Cyan didn’t know what to say, but he didn’t dare to refuse this gift, even he wanted to, Arlom expression was of someone, that would not accept a refuse, and refusing a gift from someone that was giving it to you with the best intentions, was not something that Cyan was capable of doing.

[Cyan]: “Master… I don’t know what to say, but thank you, I will take care of it with my life, and I am totally paying you back for it when I can”

Even if this was a gift, Cyan still plans to pay it for it in the future.

Arlom could only shook his head.

[Arlom]: “There is no need for that, I already got a replacement for it with the [inventory] word you gave me, I should be the one thanking you for it”

Arlom carry on explaining to Cyan his motives.

[Arlom]: “Being that your word inventory is still sealed, it is obvious who should be holding this, just promise me that, you will take a good care of it, it has save my life more times that I can count, and I hope it saves your life too in a moment of need”

Cyan could only growl to Arlom motives, ‘Master can you be a little less honest’ Cyan could on sighed. It was a great gift, but then again he also wished for his live no to be in danger to be in the need to use the inventory bag.

He was debating if he should be happy or sad about this, while Arlom continue talking to him, without losing any time.

[Arlom]: “But remember, even if they are very handy to have, if anyone out there were to found out that you carry one of this, they will try to kill you on sight with no question asked, so you better be ready for that time”

Cyan could only nod, but he was stilling wondering if, it would be less dangerous to not have an inventory bag.

After giving some thoughts, he remember, that no matter what he does, he will become a target to everyone eventually, thanks to his medallion points, and the legend about the billion points.

In the end, Cyan conclusion was that, it was better to hold the inventory bag after all, even with all the great dangers that it comes, the advantages are just equally great too if not more.

Letting out a sigh, Cyan carry on listening his master explanation of how to use the inventory in the best way possible, and after they finished their food, Arlom took Cyan for a try run of how to use the inventory bag for real.

While they were training, Cyan could only ponder if this was the new training Arlom was talking about before, but he discarded that thought off as soon has he got it.

Arlom had said that, the new training would be a very dangerous one, and so far, the training with the inventory bag didn’t feel anything dangerous at all, it was rather quite fun to do.

Having things appear from nowhere and disappear, like a magic show, after a while it was quite entertained for the, internet deprived Cyan, not like he was giving that any thought at all.

Cyan was now exploring the functions of the inventory bag; they were quite a few.

This version has comes with a remote collection function with up 10 meters of distance, but Cyan could only use it to gather things around one meter of him, that were, of course, not glued to the ground, and everything he put inside the bag, would be perfectly stored and would not rot away, like it was freeze in time.

In comparison, Arlom could use this same function to gather items around him up to 10 meters with no problems, and he even could take out, various items at the same time, while Cyan, was only able to managed take or put, one item at any giving time.

There was another function called quick slots.

This inventory bag has come with, 6 quick slots of the 18 available slots, those normal slots could hold up to 100kg of weight per normal slot.

These quick slots could hold only 1/5 of the weight than the other normal slots could hold, but taking something out or in for a quick slot costed only 1/5 of the time of a normal one, that was only 1 second.

It was a huge difference in time, so Arlom used them mostly for things that would save his life, like potions, poisons and weapons.

Even if this was a hundreds of years old bag, it was still a quite high grade bag until this day, most inventory bag would only have 1 or 2 quick slot and 4 to 6 normal slots, with even less functions and less weight capacity per slot.

Comparing the inventory bag against the [inventory] word, the later has 25 slots, were 8 were quick slots, and there was something else never seen by Arlom before, there were 2 heavy slots.

Those heavy slots were tree times slower than the normal slots, reaching 4 seconds for using them, but they could hold 3 times more weight that a normal slot that was only of 100kg.

That was 800kg of storage capacity combine in two slots, even if slower, this was already enough for half the stuff Arlom had in his old inventory, Arlom could only let out a sigh when he understood the function of the heavy slots.

Of course Arlom did not told Cyan anything about the [inventory] word capacity and other functions, this was because Cyan doesn’t need to know about this right now. Nor, he wanted to made look, the great inventory bag, which has save his life hundred’s if no thousands of times, like a cheap toy in Cyan hands.

Arlom could only let of a sigh inside his mind, where his [inventory] word has always being since the beginning.

Not noticing the hidden regret in Arlom face, was Cyan looking after the final function.

Finally, the best function that was present in both inventory bag and the [inventory] word, was, of course, the weightless function, no matter what you put in, the weight of the bag would not change at all for Cyan.

Nevertheless, for Arlom this was not entirely true. Even if the inventory was filled to the brink, it would almost-always have the same weight, but, after years of holding onto this inventory bag next to him, Arlom has memorized its weight, which is why, he could took notice of even the smallest of changes in the weight of the inventory bag, that would definitely occur in rarer occasions.

But in the end, he could never found out, why some times the weight would had a small change, even so slightly, that was almost imperceptible, and the cause still remained a mystery for him to this day, when he was passing out this bag to Cyan.

Arlom could only feel helpless about this unresolved mystery, but just shrugged off that thought of his mind, as he started explaining Cyan the history of the inventory bags.

Cyan had listened very carefully to the history of that bags and he could resume it as such.

The inventory bag has always being shrouded in mystery since they were created, and even after hundreds of years later, the name of inventor still remains unknown to everybody, these bags just appeared into the world one day… one thousands of them.

Even it was not a small number for Cyan, but for an entire planet, of course they were not enough of them, but luckily or unluckily.

The humans were the ones that had found all of the one thousand known bags, that’s why everyone thinks the inventor must also be a human too, why else all the bags would be in human hands since the beginning?

Cyan thought it was a little unfair for the other races but, he has no say in a matter that has happen a long time ago, when he was not even alive, and maybe the inventor had his own reasons? Or the human stolen them all? Witch ever may be the case, it was something that has already happen in the past.

Nevertheless.

This little bag, had played a huge role, throughout history for setting the humans, as the dominant race of the continent, just because, they were the holders of all the one thousand inventory bags.

Being at wars or personal fights with other races, everything ended in the human race victory after they conquered the continent.

After all, the humans hold a huge amount of advantage against everyone else, being able to transport thousands of kilograms of food that would not rot to their armies, was the turning point in history.

All the current wars at that time ended in victories for the human.

With just the functions to compress space and being weightless, was enough of advantage to make all of the other races in the continent submit to the humans.

The human race that was the only one race, that had the inventory bag in their power in the beginning, and they could only be considered as the most powerful race in the continent, even with all their problems and weakness as well internal conflicts. What other races don’t have those conflicts in them too?

In the end.

Even if the humans killed each other, for the inventory bags, they still remained at hands of the humans at the end of the day; if was not after a lot of suicidal missions, that, the other races could steal some of the inventory bags from the humans, but most of the time the humans would rather have them destroyed, that being in the hands of other races.

And become of the human were their never ending curiosity and thanks to them holding most if not all known inventory bag, they were the first to start the development in what is now known as, one of the principal item of the human race, the one that allowed them to keep in power for so many years after, the inventory box.

Even if the other races would catch to them eventually in this field, due the slow progress in the development of the inventory box, the humans still hold supreme to this day, even after hundreds of years, this continent is still known as the human continent.

Today, there are only a few dozen of bags in each of the six humans kingdoms, and they are under the strict control of their kings and queens; while other races got their hands in a few of the original, one thousand bags, they could not develop as fast as the humans, that could use a lot of bag for the development of their inventory box.

And because of that only less than a hundred bag or so, remain to this day.

A lot of them, were destroyed just to prevent wars between human, or to prevent them to being stolen away by the other races, but, most of the bags were destroyed, in the name of research for the inventory box.

Only a few escaped this fate, and were just lost in time, without anyone knowing about their whereabouts, probably in the hands of other races, or waiting for someone to find them.

Even if, the inventory bags, were considered at one time, priceless treasures that, were worth the equivalent of kingdoms, the current human race could disregard them as a priceless treasure, thanks to the years of studies done to the inventory bags in the past, that ended producing a lower grade inventory, called the inventory box.

However, nobody was ever able to replicate the weightless function for completely, only reaching as far as weight reduction, with a max out of 50% weight reduction, in the more expensive models.

This was accomplish by using a spell over the bag that needs constant refueling of refine mana, for the spells inside it. On the plus side, the compressed space in the inventory box, can sustain itself with no problems after being created, that’s thanks to the surrounding mana pressured of the world.

After the first year that the consumer grade inventory box was put into the market, every year, there would be a new generation of inventory box, in each of the six kingdoms, were it would become a huge festival, which celebrates the human conquest of the continent.

And with each year, new features and small improvement were added to the new models of the inventory box, varying in a range of capacity, and functions, and mana consumption, with this year being the anniversary 93 of the first generation of inventory box.

It was not only until the last 5 generations that, humans have managed to replicate the frozen slots of the original inventory bag, with only 1 slot preventing the food from rotting in the high end models, nevertheless this was a downgrade version that could not preserve the food for ever, only make them last longer.

But in actual fact, they had stopped seriously improving their product a long time ago, only presenting a few minor improvements since the first generation.

The inventory box, had a lot of problems to be solved, and the researchers, could only hit their heads against the wall, while trying to solve these problems, and even if they wanted to dismantle more inventory bags to understand how they worked and to solve the problems that, the current generation of inventory box’s still has, they couldn’t acquire them.

That was because, the inventory bags were growing sparse throughout time, and all the kingdoms, suspended their utilization as material for the research and improvement, of the already existing and functional inventory box, that they considered, that was good enough, and there was no point in wasting more inventory bags for improving something that already works fine, and that can be develop without the sacrificing more bags.

This was known to everybody, but, what was not known, was the silent rule of the kingdoms, to not improve the consumer grade inventory box any further.

There was not wars to be fought right now or in the future anyway, and if they improve too much the inventory box, that in the end, could only bring them more problems into the future that the one it solves.

Maybe, it was an intelligent move of their part; would not that be a poetic thought? Cyan was thinking to himself.

The same item that has made the humans the dominant race in the continent, after being discovered by them and then develop to the upmost limits, would then, bring the humans to their down fall or extermination.

Of course, it seems the humans can understand the bigger picture here, they were not that stupid after all. In this world of ironic fates, human were very aware of the dangers an inventory bag holds inside it.

Something that has make them the most powerful race of all, could also destroyed them in the end, so, they choose not to push their lucks any more.

But for magicians that were researching and developing the inventory box, this could only mean that, now they had to come out, with clever ways to improve the inventory box, even so slightly each year, without anyone noticing anything, at least if they can most people, everything would be fine.

Even with all those problems, in each year show, the clever humans ‘somehow’ managed to do it, they manage to come out with a new and improved inventory box generation, you could only give to them, your thumps up each year.

At the end Cyan could understand one thing, and that was Arlom important messaged.

Even if inventory box is filled with holes in their development, it was actually equally priced at the current price of an inventory bag, which Cyan thought was weird at first, but he understood the reason after Arlom explanation.

The only reason the inventory bag was priced so ‘cheaply’ now on days, was because, there was too much risk involved in having one, and it was not worth it.

You need to be a lot stronger yourself at the level of a kingdom, to be able to hold onto one of those bags for long, I mean, who can be stronger than a kingdom, that are the ones that would come after you wherever you are, if they find out you with one of those bag?

Most people would just pick the less dangerous but equally expensive options available.

And the kingdoms could not let anyone that was not authorized by the king or queen to have one those, it was as simple as that, no matter who you are or how much money you have.

Cyan could only let out a sigh after understating this, this was a gift but it was also something very dangerous to have.

And the second lection of Arlom was.

Somewhat similar to the first, it involve the dangers of the inventory bag holds. The same inventory bag that marked the rise of the human race, could also become their end if they were not carefully enough.

This was like saying to Cyan even if something can make you powerful it can also destroy you in the end.

While Cyan was thinking about the things Arlom has teach him, Arlom itself could not help but to wonder once again about the mysteries of the inventory bag.