Laughter resounded in the forest. Below a giant tree, a small and dirty girl was holding a small item soaked in mud and dirt. Taking a water skin Emma left for her, she cleaned what now looks like a ring. Small runic engravings can be seen on its exterior.

"I knew I would find one!"

In a happy mood, she ordered her system to search for a method to access the ring.

*Commencing search*

3 options found

1. Input your energy and bind the ring

2. Break the spatial lock

3. Rewrite the runic lock and register yourself as the owner

*option one recommended, no owner registered*

Seeing the recommended option she instantly infuses a single unit of her energy into the ring and notices how the energy is automatically guided through the runic system inside the ring. The runes on the outside light up and turn blue.

????? ???? ????? ????? ???? ????? ??"? ??? ????

The runes were mysterious. They contained power. Very limited but they were powerful. She knew by instinct that someone more powerful could use them to an unimaginable extent. Right now she was helpless. She had some Mana and Qi but couldn't yet use them for spells or runes.

Feeling slightly frustrated, that she could not explore the runes she decided to check the interior.

The previous pulse of energy is fully absorbed by the ring and now serves as a form of reactivation for the ring. Sending another pulse into the ring a flood of information enters her mind.

Various weapons and armor, some potions and herbs, three pouches with coins and a necklace with some gemstones.

Feeling ok about the loot, she decides to check the size. One of the runes on the ring should be an indicator for the size. Carefully checking the runes she notices,

(Fuck! I can't read them! System, check for knowledge pertaining to runes and glyphs and sort them into two folders.)

*Commencing search and sorting*

Folder [Runes] created

Folder [Glyphs] created

Sorting Information

13%

38%

67%

87%

100%

Finished transferring and sorting of Information.

*Folder finished*

(Open the folder for [Runes])

*Opening Folder [Runes]*

Stage 1 Runes - available

Stage 2 Runes - locked

Stage 3 Runes - locked

Stage 4 Runes - locked

*Further information is hidden*

(As I thought. Most of the information is locked. The basic runes for small spatial objects should be available. System. Scan the runes on my ring and compare them to the Stage 1 Runes Sub-Folder.)

*Commencing Scan*

Scan finished

Comparing runes

Match found

*Spatial object - 15 m3 of space | 5m3 occupied*

(15 cubic meters should be sufficient for now. I'll need some for the flowers and in case I find something valuable during this week. The leftover space will be filled with the belongings of those skeletons.)

Deciding to plunder the skeletons of all their possessions, she makes short work and orders Idan to gather whatever she digs up or finds somewhere and order it by class and occupation.

Weapons to weapons, herbs to herbs and whatever else to whatever else.

Getting to work, the first thing Idan does is to sort the stuff she previously dug up. Finished with that he witnesses how crazed she is digging up the ground. Dirt is flying around and her body is full of mud. Before getting to work she took of the dress. She did not want to dirty it.

Along the path of holes and gorges, small mounds of coins mixed with scraps of metal and unidentifiable objects align the road of destruction.

sighing and thinking about a pay raise, Idan gets to work and sorts the objects. the doesn't know the use for most objects but he can identify that there are quite a few rusted and broken weapons. Swords, spears, maces, and hammers. Some broken bows and crossbows. Something that is made of metal, round and has a dull but pointy tip. The back is interlaced with glass and a blue, dried fluid is contained below it.

Sorting it to the weapons, he continues his work. Over the course of an additional 4 hours both of them completely dug up the surroundings. Her back hurt from the hard work and constantly bowed posture. Her strength helped a lot but constant use was straining. They had 2 small breaks in between in which they ate a few fruits. They boosted their recovery rate and helped them advance a slight bit. She reckoned that she could advance in about two or three days.

Finished with her work she checked Idans work. Four small hills made of objects with varying sizes could be seen. Idan himself could be seen lying on the side, utterly exhausted. His strength was limited and he had to take more breaks in between.

"I have to admit. Looting is exhausting by my ancestors are right. It is hella fun and rewarding. You can sleep for a bit Idan, I'll store these and wake you once we go back."

With these words, she was already hurrying to the pile of weapons. Taking each one into her hands she tried to get a feeling for one of them. She knew how much of an advantage a weapon could give you once you're proficient with it.

Maces, Swords, Spears, Claymores, Axes, Fouchard and Sabers.

These weapons were too big. With her current hight, they were inappropriate to use. Despite that, she felt the most comfortable and familiar with the Spears and Bows. Bows have rapid fire capabilities and can shot over long range. Spears have one of the longest close range capabilities and are good to keep the enemy on distance and gain the time to deploy a spell or hidden weapon.

Based on the information from her Ancestor from Earth she would design a spear and bow with much better quality. The combined knowledge and the unimaginable resource from Earth and this world will give birth to amazing weapons.

Choosing two daggers to use, the leftover gets thrown into the storage ring. Before throwing everything inside, she checks for things she cannot identify and separates them. Most of the herbs are withered and unusable. Some are barely alive and she rather throws them away to make sure she doesn't get sick.

Three objects are things she does not recognize. The small thing Idan found, a plate with small pictures and a stick made of wood and metal. The small thing Idan found is swiftly identified. It resembles the fountain pens that exist on Earth. Upon checking with the System she knows that it is a basic pen for the engraving of runes on metallic objects. The Plate is rather weird. The System simply identifies it as a plate made of silver with pictures of a religious history. How their God descended and so on.

The stick is more problematic. There are runes engraved on it and the corresponding runes are currently locked. With the limited amount of information, she can currently decipher she knows that it is some sort of an amplifier. Once she evolves she should be able to decipher all runes and at that point, she'll know what it is. Without a second thought, she throws it into the ring, following the Pen and Plate.

Stretching her limbs and back, she looks over to Idan. He is peacefully asleep and is curled into a ball. Smiling she notices that the sorting, identifying and storing took over an hour of her time.

Deciding that Idan rested enough she walks over and picks him up.

Idan instantly awakes and frantically looks around.

"We can go. I have everything stored and sorted. After we got the flowers we'll make the last tour around my birthplace and then go and hunt. This time we'll find prey!"

Giving a confident nod to each other, they proceed to the barrier closing them off from the outside. Stepping outside the storm is mostly over and they unhurriedly walk towards the hole they previously climbed out from.