Starbound: A Space Odyssey 76 Entering The Ceremonial Hunting Caverns 3

John unsheathed the dagger.

The moment the dagger left the scabbard it gleamed with the dark, eerie, reflection of the sunlight coming through the window of John's room.

The dagger was pitch black without the slightest decoration or fancy form; it was completely simplistic.

The dagger was apparently built to be used to kill and had already seen its fair share of blood.

John moved the dagger around, admiring its beauty, even though it was rather simplistic.

He really liked it at his first sight of it.

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Name: Dark Wraith

Type: Tier 4 Melee Weapon, Dagger

Fabricator: Hephaestus

Durability: 89%

Ammunition: None

Energy per shot: None

Fire Rate: None

Augmentation: None

Upgrades: None

safe Ability: (???) Unable to read this information.

Special Ability Energy Cost: (???) Unable to read this information.

Additional Description: There are no additional information available for this weapon. But the surpa.s.ses was made by the famous blacksmith Hephaestus. No one knows his real name, origin, or if he's even still alive. All his melee weapons are considered a piece of art and hugely sought by warrior from all across the universe. They are embodied with a mysterious power that only enable a few users to use the weapon's Special Ability. The needs is made of the Tier 4 Metal, Durasteel.

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[Unable to read the information...?] John glance at the weapon's information in his PIPS. [My PIPS and SAIL are unable to read the information about such mysterious weapon...it really should be good stuff.]

John admired the dagger for a few seconds before he sheathed it once again and placed beside the pistol.

[What's this?] John took something that looked like a chip from the pile.

"SAIL what's this?" John decided to ask SAIL since he doesn't know what was the chip he was holding.

"That's a Barrier Tech Ability Chip, Protector." SAIL's emotionless voice sounded right beside John's ear. "The Barrier Tech Ability enable the user to make use of his UE to create a forcefield around himself that is able to block any type of attack against the user. Of course after every hit the barrier suffer it is going to cost UE from the user to keep him safe. As long as the attack surpa.s.s the strength that the user's UE could support, the forcefield will be destroyed. The Tech Ability cannot be used multiple times in a roll, it needs time to cooldown so that the Chip doesn't overload and explode."

"That's a lot useful..." John played around with the golden chip on his hand while he listened to SAIL's explanation. When she finished speaking John took the chip and placed it in socket that was right beside the PIPS.

The chip easily entered the socket, and soon John heard SAIL's voice once again, "Barrier Tech Ability Chip detected. Now starting installation...done. The Tech Ability is now ready for your use, Protector."

"Thanks, SAIL." John thanked SAIL and then when to the middle of his bedroom to test out the Tech Ability.

He concentrated and then activated the Tech Ability by only using his thought.

*Whommm*

The moment he thought to activate the Tech Ability, it activated instantly.

A fine layer of transparent screen appeared around John.

[So this is the Barrier?] John tried to touch the screen. It was cold and surprisingly flexible.

John looked down at his PIPS and searched for how much UE it took to activate the Tech Ability.

[100 UE!?] John almost jumped from the scare he just took. [100 UE just to activate the Barrier? The expenditure of this thing is huge.] He frowned. He wanted to have something that could be used at his will and save his life whatever it was needed, but from the looks of it, he needs to be careful when choosing to activate it or not.

He deactivated the Barrier and tried to activate it once again.

"Warning! Cooldown is set to be 30 seconds. Using the Tech Ability before the cooldown is done might cause irreparable damage to the Tech Ability Chip." John heard SAIL's warning coming from his PIPS.

[Beside the huge expenditure, I still have to deal with the cooldown.] He thoughtfully stared at his PIPS. "Looks like I have to think very carefully whatever I need or not to activate the Barrier if the situation seems grim..." John mumbled silently.

John then went back to roam through the items in the pile.

Apart from some medical resources, nothing else was going to be useful for his venture into the Ceremonial Hunting Caverns.

He decided to store everything once again into his PIPS.

John took the pistol, placed it on the holster of his belt in the left side, then he took the dagger and set it on the right side.

With the sheath on the right and a holster on the left, he almost looked a proper soldier, what was really lacking was the primary weapon, such as a.s.sault Rifle, Rifle, or something of sorts.

He doesn't want to to use such weapons despite having them because he want to avoid accidentally killing a Floran by using such heavy weaponry.

John walked out of his room and went to find Peri.

He found her seating on the sofa of the living room that he, Peri, and Akna were discussing about the Great Hunt.

She was solely focused on cleaning her grey spear. She was very careful with every movement she made.

John stayed at a safe distance, far enough that she wasn't able to detect, and admired the sight.

After a few minutes of carefully cleaning, Peri finished what she was doing. "What do you want, John?" She turned her head to the side and asked John that was hiding behind a pillar, watching her.

"You knew I was there?"

"I felt you approaching in the first moment, but I didn't want to get distracted while I was doing something that requires my full attention." She simply said.

Peri had felt John the moment he had spotted her. She just decided to ignore him and finish what she was doing before speaking with him.

John embarra.s.sedly scratched his nose and shyly sat the opposite couch from where Peri was seating.

Peri's eyebrow lifted up as she questionably stared at John. "What do you want?"