God-Level Game Developer System: I Brought In-Game Items To Real World - Chapter 168

Chapter 168: Midas Authority, Ghost Fire Sapphire
In the hidden treasury, there were countless gold bars and jewelry placed haphazardly on the floor. The more valuable ones were stored in reinforced glass cases.

There was an eye-catching golden stone showcased inside a reinforced glass case. It was shimmering with golden light as it showed its exaggerated luster.

It was none other than Midas’ Golden Stone. It was said to be the first stone touched by King Midas after he obtained his golden touch.

Touching the Midas’ Golden Stone will grant the Midas Authority. However, if one isn’t compatible with the Midas Authority, touching the golden stone will turn oneself into gold.

JordanPlayz had touched the Midas’ Golden Stone in the previous game session before and he failed to obtain the Midas Authority. Because of that, JordanPlayz became a golden statue in the previous game session.

The second one among them who touched it was GoldMiner. Unlike JordanPlayz, GoldMiner was compatible with the Midas Authority so he didn’t turn into gold.

Their team entered the hidden treasury just to obtain the Midas Authority contained within the Midas’ Golden Stone.

Seeing the Midas’ Golden Stone displayed inside the reinforced glass case, GoldMiner walked forward and was about to take it out.

However, he realized that it was stored inside the reinforced glass case so he couldn’t get it out.

“Damn, I also realize that it was Illya who devoured the reinforced glass case in the previous game session.”

Hearing GoldMiner’s frustration, Winston facepalmed, “Aren’t you all relying too much on Illya?”

Kayden shrugged, “I own her.”

Winston felt that Kayden’s words sounded so wrong but he couldn’t retort it since it was also right.

After cursing about the reinforced glass cases, JordanPlayz informed them again, “Don’t look at me, my Water Authority can’t cut it. My water blade might be able to cut it, but you don’t have to risk destroying the treasure along with the reinforced glass case.”

Weiss sighed, “You guys rely too much on me. It seems I have to take action again.”

Kayden apologized, “Sorry, Weiss. We owe you a favor in assisting us in this game session.”

The rest of the team members nodded and agreed with Kayden’s words.

They had indeed been relying on Weiss. And if they weren’t, they were relying on Illya.

After all, their authorities weren’t as convenient as Illya’s Gluttony Authority, Weiss’ Barrier Authority, and Game Over Retry Authority.

In response to their apology, Weiss waved his hand as if it was just something trivial, “Don’t take it to heart. Us beta testers don’t want to take action on weak otherworld monsters so we want you players to complete the game and become as strong as possible.”

“It is within our interest to let the players become as strong as possible so that the otherworld monsters can’t take over Blue Star.”

After assuring them, Weiss used his Barrier Authority to create a circular saw again.

This time, Weiss used the circular saw to cut open the reinforced glass case. Afterward, he gestured to GoldMiner to take the Midas’ Golden Stone.

Noticing Weiss’ gesture, GoldMiner moved his hand towards the Midas’ Golden Stone.

When GoldMiner’s hand came into contact with the Midas’ Golden Stone, the Midas’ Golden Stone shone a bright golden light that prompted Ayame and the rest of the team to close their eyes.

The only ones unaffected by it were GoldMiner, Weiss, and Alice.

After GoldMiner touched the Midas’ Golden Stone, the golden properties of the stone seemed to have been transferred to GoldMiner as it soon degraded into an ordinary stone.

“I have obtained the Midas Authority! I can now transform everything I touch into gold and even create gold out of nothing!”

“I can also manipulate gold and use it to attack my enemies. However, I haven’t mastered it yet so my control is as shit as JordanPlayz’s.”

Hearing himself being roasted by GoldMiner, JordanPlayz clicked his tongue, “Leave me out of this.”

After GoldMiner became the user of the Midas Authority, he used his Midas Authority on the ordinary stone.

The ordinary stone soon transformed into gold with just GoldMiner’s touch!

Afterward, the golden stone soon transformed into a small carving knife.

Using his authority again, the small golden carving knife soon expanded until it transformed into a golden dagger.

Holding the golden dagger in his right hand and feeling its weight, GoldMiner was satisfied, “It looks like my Midas Authority is working quite well. Even if the golden stone lacked size, I can expand it but at the cost of consuming my energy.”

To further test his Midas Authority, GoldMiner stomped his foot on the floor. The stone floor under his foot had transformed into gold but not all of it. Only the area near his foot was transformed into gold.

GoldMiner didn’t transform the entire floor of the hidden treasury into gold since he didn’t want to waste his energy needlessly.

“It seems I don’t have to directly touch the object with my skin for it to be transformed into gold. As long as it’s near my range, I can transform it into gold.”

While GoldMiner was practicing his usage over his Midas Authority, Kayden started rummaging through the piles of gold and jewelry.

Soon enough, Kayden discovered the game item he was looking for.

The game item was a sapphire gem and it was none other than the Ghost Fire Sapphire.

The Ghost Fire Sapphire could allow the user to burn their target with the ghost fire contained within the sapphire gem as long as the target was a ghost.

Furthermore, holding the Ghost Fire Sapphire could allow someone to see the existence of ghosts, granting them the so-called “Third Eye”.

However, that was only temporary since it also needed for the Ghost Fire Sapphire to be touched by the user. Moreover, the Ghost Fire Sapphire was only a one-time-use game item.

It was similar to the Red Purification Pill and the Eternal Beef of Satiation since it could only be used one time. The difference was that it couldn’t be eaten.

The Ghost Fire Sapphire would shatter after the ghost fire inside it was released to burn the targeted ghost. Nonetheless, it was quite powerful since it was those game items that had insane stats due to only being available for one specific use.

However, Kayden and the rest of the team members had yet to encounter a ghost on Vacation Paradise Island. The only ghost that they have heard of was the ship spirit of the luxury cruise ship.

But then again, only JordanPlayz had encountered the luxury cruise ship’s spirit and even his encounter was when he was asleep. When they had asked him about his experience of being thrown out of his room and into the ocean in his sleep, JordanPlayz had told them that it was a horrifying experience.

That was also the reason why JordanPlayz didn’t mind drowning in the swimming pool. After all, he had already drowned in the ocean before and it was even dark at that time. The ocean waves were also strong that night so he felt as if a huge weight was being constantly being slammed into his body.

Compared to that horrifying experience, JordanPlayz preferred drowning in the swimming pool since his near-death experience there was much calmer, as morbid as it sounded.

After Kayden obtained a Ghost Fire Sapphire from the heaps of gold and jewelry lying haphazardly on the floor of the hidden treasury, Kayden didn’t stop looking as he kept on looting the hidden treasury, attempting to find something valuable from it.

Noticing that his teammates were only looking at him, Kayden complained, “Stop looking, come and lend me a hand guys!”

Just several seconds after Kayden complained about that, a severed hand was thrown in front of him, frightening him!

“Oh fuck holy shit!”

Out of reflex, Kayden tightly held the Ghost Fire Sapphire as he started looking around his surroundings to find if there was a ghost.

But to his surprise, Kayden only saw Weiss’ left arm which was bleeding profusely.

Seeing Kayden’s surprised look, Weiss snickered, “Didn’t you say you wanted us to lend you a hand?”

From their perspective, Weiss seemed to not be feeling pain as he could even make a joke despite his left arm bleeding like hell. If they were in Weiss’ shoes, they might have already screamed like a bitch.

Ayame facepalmed, “Brother, you often go far with your jokes.”

In response, Weiss activated his Game Over Retry Authority and reset it back to when he hadn’t used his Barrier Authority to cut off his left hand and hadn’t thrown his severed hand at Kayden.

Because of that, the severed left hand he previously threw in front of Kayden had now disappeared and returned to where it came from. The only difference was that they remembered what happened before the reset.

Looking at Weiss’ unsevered left hand that was back to normal, Kayden sighed with a hint of envy in his voice, “Your authority sure is very convenient. You can even use it to make dark humor.”