Chapter-64: targeting the protagonist Robert
Then he shared this inheritance to others of his group except for Ratika and killed those three men that caused lot of trouble in the future and took everything from them all. At that time Robert becoming shadow lord is the most powerful buff he has.
With this he was able to really live well in the dungeon cultivation world. He snatched many things with stealth and killed many others with the unexpected assassination skill he got. He developed new 12 shadow guards under him and even formed a killing organization.
Ratika doesn't want this to fall into the hands of others. It is especially so for the protagonist like Robert. Ratika wanted it all for self and she would become the shadow lord. Even if she could not become one, she would not let others become one.
After all she cannot be sure to be selected as the shadow lord by the inheritance. She can make another choice that is to bring in a group of woman or men that fell in love with her and let them practice it.
Then she would get a group of women and men that are perfect shadow guards and even the shadow lord would be her wife or man. She is not like those C country people or country-A people where she would call the main wife and concubines or mistresses or lovers.
All of them are equal in her eyes and if she wants them to be with her, she has to be strong enough to support them and stand on equal footing with them. Also she has to be able to satisfy them to tie them to her side.
For that she has to work hard to get a special skill to make her womanhood beautiful and manhood the best and most powerful one. That is one of the important things he is collecting so many dungeon coins for.
As long as the initial conditions are good she can slowly improve them step by step. Slowly she picked up the lock and finally it is open. But this time she intuitively thought that there is a problem with the treasure chest. Ratika felt that opening it with metal spear is not a good idea.
This intuition is like a flash in her mind and the cause of it might be one of her skills like identification or her sense stat points or the mapping skill that has a critical hit or something. Since these things are very low they did not show what the problem is.
But the warning bells are ringing continuously and she knows the problem clearly. So she directly stopped opening the treasure chest with her metal spear. In her mind she thought of something as there is only one thing that can cause trouble with her way of opening a treasure chest.
That is actually the trap of lightning that is electricity of high voltage. Knowing this Ratika did not dare to open it and looked at the people behind her. Then her eyes fell on Robert and a smile appeared in her heart.
"Since Mister Robert wanted a part of the things in the treasure chest, you have to come open the treasure chest to see if there are any traps. After all you and your teammate did not kill a goblin and I have to save you instead." Ratika said in sarcastic tone.
Robert's face darkened and looked at Ratika deeply. He knows better than anyone how dangerous the traps in the treasure chest are. Every time Ratika opened a treasure chest he saw how Ratika escaped from those trap one by one.
Now Ratika has dropped the big bomb on his head and asked him to open the treasure chest as contribution. Martina did not say anything for this as if accepting it silently. Others in the group looked at Robert with dangerous eyes.
If Robert did not open the treasure chest they would not let him have anything in the end and they might even attack him to get the things on his hand. Robert felt that Ratika did this because he has pushed Ratika before and robbed her things before.
Robert is not a good natured person to begin with and now he looked like a sneaky viper that got its tailed stepped on and ready to want to get revenge on the one that stepped on its tail. Ratika did not care about the thoughts of Robert.
As a cannon fodder, Ratika's life is very close to death and even if she did not seek death, it would come to seek her. So she is not that fearful. She has enough means to escape and protect herself.
With her words Robert looked conflicted for a while staring deeply at Ratika for a few moments and finally walked forward. But he did not directly open the treasure chest instead he cut off the hand of a goblin monster on the side and used it.
"Zzzzz…."
When he opened the lid a little there is this sound of strong electric current. He immediately let go of the hand of the goblin that was used just in time. The hand of the goblin trembled more and more and slowly started to burn on the spot.
"Tung…"
Others took few steps back and soon and the hand of goblin has turned completely into ash and the opened lid of the iron treasure chest directly closed with a big sound. Everyone was frightened without knowing if there is a problem with the iron treasure chest.
That is they don't know if the trap is solved or there is still the trap present that is not completely solved. Robert did not dare to go over to check. He was lucky enough to let go of the hand of the goblin just in time to escape.
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