Witcher: I Can Extract Everything - Chapter 319

Chapter 319 Treasure Chest

In front of the mountain-like Giant, the Gehrus, who were climbing on him, were as small as an ant. The reaction they caused was naturally negligible.

The journey was smooth. The Gehrus climbed to the Giant’s chest. Most of the hemp ropes with the key had been cut by Heath, leaving only a few threads that were still connected.

The Gehrus began to open their mouths and bite at the threads. For a moment, there were only faint cracking sounds, and the remaining threads were also broken one after another.

After the last thread was broken, the key fell straight to the ground with a whoosh.

Heath, who had been waiting below for a long time, hurriedly took the horse stance and opened his hands to welcome the fall of the key. The key hanging on the Giant’s chest was just a small key, but in fact, its size was equivalent to the size of a carriage.

The impact caused by such a fall from a height of dozens of meters was not to be underestimated.

Bang!

The key fell on Heath’s hands. Heath immediately felt a numbness in his hands and his entire body sank down.

As a Grand Knight, his own strength was far from what ordinary creatures could compare with. After a moment of destabilization, he quickly stabilized his body and firmly grabbed the key.

“Phew!”

Heath heaved a sigh of relief and was delighted.

He turned around and waved at the Gehrus above him. The Gehrus also jumped down from the sky one after another. Compared to the huge key, it was much easier to catch these small things. Heath put them back on his body without much effort.

With the Gehrus and the key in his hands, Heath quickly left the room.

He rushed out of two corridors in a row and did not stop until he came to a remote corner of the castle.

Looking at the key in front of him, Heath was in a great mood. After all his efforts, he finally got the key in his hands!

Now he was only one step away!

Heath quickly asked the Gehru, “Until where is the treasure chest of Giant Luff?”

“I don’t know! I don’t know!”

“Gehru has never been to the castle. Gehru doesn’t know about the treasure chest.”

Heath frowned.

He had been completely focused on the key just now, but he had neglected the treasure chest for a moment. It had to be said that this was indeed an oversight.

‘Where could this treasure chest be?’

Heath looked at the crisscrossed long corridor and rows of huge rooms, and he could not help but frown.

At this moment, the Gehru suddenly said:

“That is the treasure left by the Sea God to Giant Luff. The Giant carefully kept it.”

“I heard that Giant Luff regarded it as a treasure and has to hold the treasure chest every night to fall asleep.”

Heath’s eyes lit up.

He suddenly understood where the treasure chest would be.

He immediately said: “Let’s go!”

The Gehru was stunned. “Go where? Go where? Where is the treasure chest?”

Heath said, “It’s very likely in the bedroom.”

The Gehru’s previous words reminded Heath that he had heard of similar legends in more than one of the legendary stories about Areos. For example, ‘The treasure chest will play wonderful music every night’, ‘Giants have to listen to music to fall asleep’, and so on.

Judging from the previous situation, these legends were not completely separated from the truth. It was very likely that these legends had really spread out from here.

Bringing the Gehrus, Heath quickly shuttled through the corridors and opened rooms one by one.

“Not this one.”

“Not this one either.”

“Not…”

Here, Heath encountered trouble again.

This castle was too huge, and there were too many rooms inside. Without any clues, Heath could only search through the rooms one by one. Heath felt like a gray mouse running around in the castle.

“Huff! Huff!”

Running around in such a place to search for rooms, Heath could not help but gasp for breath. It was thanks to his super-strong physique as a Grand Knight. If he were an ordinary person, he would probably have collapsed from exhaustion by now.

As time passed, Heath’s breathing became heavier and heavier. However, he did not have any intention of stopping to rest. Instead, he ran faster and faster, looking very anxious.

His anxiety was not without reason, because time was running out.

Although the sleeping potion had been strengthened to its limit by Heath, Heath could not guarantee how long it could sleep when facing a high-level life form like the Giant. Once the Giant woke up and found the missing key on his neck… Then it would not be just a matter of failure…

“The bed! I see the bed!”

“It’s this one. This room must be the bedroom!”

Finally, in a room in the corridor on the bottom floor of the castle, Heath finally found the bedroom.

Looking at the huge bed, Heath was very speechless. D*mn, the idiot built this castle and actually arranged the bedroom on the bottom floor. It was really like meeting a ghost…

According to the hierarchy, the room of the master of the castle was usually on the top floor, so Heath also went straight to the top floor to look for it. He did not expect that this place would not take the usual route. The dark and damp ground floor that should be reserved for the servants to live on was taken as a bedroom.

“Treasure chest… Treasure chest… Where is the treasure chest?”

Walking into the bedroom, Heath did not delay at all. He quickly searched for the treasure chest. Under the bed, on the table, and in the cabinet, it was like a gray mouse sneaking into the room to look for bread crumbs.

“Under the pillow! I see it! I see the chest!”

“Oh! It’s real! It’s really there!”

“The chest, the chest!”

At this moment, the sharp-eyed Gehrus pointed at the bed and shouted. Heath looked up and could clearly see that under the huge pillow was an exquisite wooden box.

Heath’s eyes lit up. In no time at all, he climbed up the corner of the table and jumped onto the bed. Heath came under the pillow and pushed the pillow aside with both hands. Then, he picked up the key and inserted it into the wooden box.

Before turning the key, Heath paused for a moment.

‘There won’t be any danger, right?’

Leaving traps in the treasure chest was the most common thing in this world. After all, no one liked their treasure being stolen. Because of this, most Wizards would make careful arrangements before opening treasure chests to ensure that they would not be harmed by the traps or magic restrictions in the treasure chests.

‘Forget it. So be it!’

After thinking seriously for a while, Heath decided to open the treasure chest regardless of the consequences.

For one thing, there was not much time left. After delaying for so long, the Giant could wake up at any time. In addition, he could not use magic. It was not realistic to make any effective arrangements, so it was better to take a gamble.

‘The Giant has to hug this thing to sleep every day. There shouldn’t be any traps, right?’

Thinking about this, Heath decisively grabbed the key and twisted it to the side.

Click! A soft sound was heard.

The lid of the treasure chest slowly opened up…