Chapter 107: New Secret Hideout
At a Ruined City of Valyrian Empire
POV of Domeric Bolton
He looked at the magical wardstone on his chest and he saw that it was still dark grey. He still had more than enough time on his hands.
So, he took out another magical bag that he had prepared for situations in which he had to carry something very heavy.
And then with another wave, the gold flew up in a line and started falling inside the magical bag.
It was a slow and tedious task, and he had to maintain a little concentration throughout the whole process.
By the time all of the gold coins entered his bag, he felt that one-tenth of Merlin's Saphire's magic reserve was depleted. He closed the mouth of the magical bag and dangled it from his side belt along with the bottomless pouch as well.
The patronus charm was the size of a normal stag by this point. He gave a nod and both of them left the vault, though not before he closed the vault with transfiguration.
The chaotic and dark magic flowing through the city made it dangerous for him to use his portkeys so he had to go out of it before he could even think about using it safely.
Another patronus charm cast and the stag took him safely out of the dark fog.
And once he was out, he used the return portkey. Three magical trips later, he was back home.
And by back home, he meant that he was in the underground base inside a large room that he had made for the sole purpose of containment and quarantine.
After all, Valyria was filled with all manners of magical anomalies, any one of which could have stuck to his suit. Not even mentioning the magical and mundane diseases that could cause a plague to spread in his lands if he brought it back with him.
So as soon as he came inside the room, the runic arrays in the walls activated at once, and white gas started to emerge from four different facets at the top corners of the room and filled the room.
He quietly let out a breath and started to remove everything from the bottomless pouch and box. The items he brought from Valyria also needed to be cleaned as they were also contaminated with the atmosphere in that magically destroyed area.
The gold was in too large a quantity and he would have to find some other time to clean it. Right now, he was still feeling a little exhausted due to his constant vigilance back in Valyria.
After taking out everything and putting them in the white fog, he sat down on the ground and waited.
After an hour of waiting, there was a 'ding' sound, and the white fog retreated to the facets they came from, and the door of the room unlocked with a hiss.
He let out a sigh, put all the items back in their respective bags, and left the room.
He entered a long corridor and after crossing the corridor, he came across three doors on the left, right, and front. He opened the one on the left and found himself in a room so large that it could fill a whole stadium inside it.
Half of the room was filled with gold. So much gold that in fact, if he introduced it to the world then the economy would collapse.
The gold he had brought in this run would be added to this pile as well. Once it was clean.
For now, he went to the place where Valyrian weapons were kept. There, he could see hundreds of Valyrian weapons hanging on the wall. He levitated the 5 new swords he brought from this run and used a permanent sticking charm on them to stick them to the wall.
Then he went to the next section where a dozen or so Valyrian steel armors were kept and added the newest armor to the pile.
Then he went to the next section where various trinkets made of Valyrian steel were thrown haphazardly in a large pile. Valyrian steel glass, plates, mirrors, cane, bracelets, crowns, rings, etc. He took out his newest bounty and added it to the pile.
Then he did the same with the gems, jewelry, dead dragon eggs, and magical artifacts. However, he did keep a Valyrian staff that had runes carved and embedded in its body and held a white stone at the top.
If his guess was correct, then this was a magical staff that was currently in an inactive state. He would have to study it carefully before he even thought about using it because powerful magical artifacts like these usually have a bloodline restriction on them and anyone without the proper bloodline who tries to use it usually suffers a harsh backlash from it.
He put it back into the bottomless pouch before he finally left the room and entered the room that was on the front.
Well, it was less of a room and more of an incubation chamber where he had kept a total of 23 eggs.
The temperature and magical saturation in the area would eventually bring out the dragon eggs from their petrified stasis form.
Of course, he had no plans to hatch any of the dragon eggs until he had studied enough about them from the magical tombs he brought from Valyria and had a way to control them.
After all, the adult dragons in this world were 3-4 times larger than the dragons in his world and he was not sure that he would be able to stop such a dragon if it got out of control.
He put the 2 new dragon eggs in the empty slots and then closed the glass.
With that done, he went out of the room and entered the room on the right.
It was a library. A library filled with magical books that he found in Valyria. Later on, he planned on traveling through and learning all kinds of magic that could be found in the world.
But for now, he was going to learn from the magic of old Valyria.
He took out the new books and added them to their own sections. Books regarding dragons went to that pile. Books on magical runes went to that pile. Books on ritual magic went to their own pile and so on.
Then he plopped down on the comfortable chair in the center of the room and looked at the large desk in front of him that was filled with books on ritual magic as well as half-completed runic arrays.
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