Weapon seller in the world of magic

”Nope. What we want is sitting inside that thing...” Qin Sheng shook his head, and then pointed at the giant statue of Horus.

”Kiddo, this is where your eyes will be helpful.” Qin Sheng asked the intern to look for something unusual in the statue, which will be a clue to opening the secret entrance to the treasury.

Sungjun then activated his passive ability, ’Heightened vision’, and observed the statue from all sides. His vision easily penetrated through the statue and found rusty armor and treasure boxes placed at different levels from top to bottom.

”Wow, these emperors are clever. They hid the treasures in a place where no one would even think of stealing.” As Sungjun admired those ingenious plans of the builders of the temple, Qin Sheng’s voice rang out, bringing him to reality. ”kiddo, did you find the entrance?”

”Ah, Yes. I believe we can enter from there.” Sungjun pointed his finger at the beak of the falcon head. ”The switch is in the left nare. Based on the chains attached to it from inside, I think we should just push it.”

”From there?” Qin Sheng stared at the beak for a brief amount of time and then asked, ”Any traps?”

”Not sure, I can’t see any obvious booby traps,” replied Sungjun with his gaze fixed on the beak.

”Okay, good.” Qin Sheng nodded and then lightly stomped on the floor a few times to check its hardness before nodding to himself, ”Okay, then, here we go...”

He crouched down and pushed his feet against the ground with all of his strength, landing on the beak in a single jump. The beak was at the height of like 170 or 180ft from the ground. So, it is an amazing feat for a 67-year-old man to make it in one go when that guy looked more like a sick person who lost a lot of weight.

Han Sungjun looked at him in admiration, ”Wow, that’s an S-rank Hunter for you.”

Meanwhile, Qin Sheng carefully crawled on the beak because of how curvy and smooth it was.

Soon, the old man managed to push the switch as Sungjun suggested and viola, the entire falcon head split itself vertically into two, revealing the treasure inside. Meanwhile, Qin Sheng landed beside his mentee.

”Yes, you did it. Congratulations, Captain.” As Sungjun was all smiles, Qin Sheng tried to maintain his coolness and patted the young man’s shoulder, ”No, you are the one that made it possible, kiddo. Or else, who knows how long we would have taken just to find that switch. Anyway, let’s get inside.”

Roughly 30 minutes passed away;

Both of them were searching the treasure boxes to find their objective. Sungjun couldn’t help but stash diamonds, gold coins, rubies, and jewelry in his backpack while searching for the music box. After all, he was a government servant. Even though he was an A-rank Hunter and a Black Commando, he still only earned 7,000 credits per month. In comparison, in the current year, 1996, the average price of an apartment in a Tier-1 City is as high as 500,000 credits.

Sungjun came here with an emergency set of clothes and a dagger (for his protection), but now, the bag was more than 12 kilograms already, worth millions of credits. Qin Sheng didn’t even know what his mentee was doing, as he was too busy on his mission.

Finally, in the sixth-floor treasure room, the young man found a noticeable brown rusty box in the corner which looked like it hasn’t even been opened for ages. Its color clearly indicated that it is an iron-made one.

Could this be the all-important music box?

Usually, people would discard the thought away but Han Sungjun found it suspicious. After all, this place is supposed to be a secret treasury. Which idiotic emperor would keep an unimportant object in a place full of diamonds and gold ornaments?

He activated his heightened vision and observed the rusty old box, which was like 15 kilograms heavy, quite compact, indicating it was made from a heavy, dense metal and not simple iron. ”Hmm?”

A trace of surprise appeared on his face as his vision couldn’t penetrate the box. With all the rust around it, he couldn’t find any opening with his naked eyes either.

”Whatever, if this is the object we will be looking for, then we will be done here. Not to mention, I have enough to last my lifetime. Before reporting to the HQ, I should put this away in a locker.”

Filled with enthusiasm, he brought it to Qin Sheng ,who was in the seventh-floor treasure room, desperately searching for the item.

”Captain, I found something. It matches the description of the music box that you mentione,d but I’m not sure.” Han Sungjun presented it to his mentor.

Qin Sheng immediately recognized the insignia that was barely visible on the top of the box. His eyes lit up and his hands shivered, ”The three-eyed wolf with a horn on its head. This is it, the cursed music box of Horus.”

Han Sungjun didn’t understand why such an image is linked to the people of Vashia. After all, their presiding deity is Horus, right? Maybe, there is also a god with a wolf’s head?

The ancient people of Vashia used to worship the gods with animal heads. As an atheist who doesn’t believe in the old gods, Sungjun never bothered to research the mythologies of different nations, feeling that it was a waste of time. Hence, the knowledge of these myths was zero to him.

Whatever the case, Sungjun wants to quickly wrap up this mission and return, but destiny has something else planned for him.

After Qin Sheng took the music box in his hand, he tried to open it using strength but failed miserably.

He then looked at the young man, ”Kiddo, I’ll have to make sure that it is in working condition before we leave. I’ll be removing this rust, and in the meantime, pass the news to HQ. Send an audio message. Tell them to send the backup. They will pick us up by a submarine.”

Han Sungjun took out his smartphone. Luckily, there’s a reception at the place. So, he managed to send an SOS to the Black Commando’s Command Center, following the instructions given by his mentor.

After his job was done, as Sungjun started walking away from the place, Qin Sheng pushed out his Mana energy and cleansed away all the rust from the box.

Click

As Qin Sheng opened the music box, a powerful loud piece of music was spread out from it. The frequency was so high that it generated sonic booms and blasted away Sungjun and Qin Sheng.

Han Sungjun, with his weak physique, got injured heavily. Blood started trickling down his lips. And before he understood what went wrong, the giant werewolves’ statues started to come back to life.

”No, no, no... the music box has dispelled the curse on them... kiddo, escape from here...” Qin Sheng shouted at the top of his lungs, throwing a smoke grenade on the floor. ”Now...”

Back to the Present;

Sungjun, upon finishing his narration of the story to Cyro, then said, ”After I managed to escape with grave injuries, I lost my consciousness and got picked up by Special Forces. The rest is known to everyone.”

”Hmm, wait a second. You haven’t told us about how you managed to escape the werewolf lord.” The beautiful blue-eyed blonde, Xing Lin (codename: Aurora), who was also listening to his story curiously, voiced her opinion.

Sungjun took a glance at her and shrugged his shoulders, ”I don’t remember much. The memory is still hazy.”

Sun Xiao narrowed her eyes and commented, ”So, you originally belonged to Headquarters’ finance department, but you followed your mentor, Qin Sheng, who was in the Special Forces, and ended up surviving while he died. Both of you basically intruded into the temple for this music box, but the purpose remains unknown. Moreover, not onlydoes your mentor know the secret tunnel ,but he also knows that there is a curse on werewolves too. And now, the curse is lifted? Feels like something is off about this story...”

As Sungjun stayed silent, not intending to explain as the complications would only force the truth out of him, Cyro stared at him for a while but simply nodded in understanding, ”Alright. I believe you.”

After three hours of flying, the transport helicopter landed on a large aircraft carrier sailing in the middle of the Sea.