I ate my meal in a hurry before setting off for the seventh floor. I always intended to go to the ROR but after my injury and hospital stay that had been delayed. Now however I had three free days to myself before I had to go to classes like a normal student and I refused to waste them laying about. I earned several looks from other students as I walked through the halls but soon I was alone on the seventh floor. I found the moving tapestry of Barnabus the Barmy trying to teach trolls ballet easily. -
'I need a place to hide things.' I repeated in my head three times.
The wall opposite the tapestry shimmered as a wooden door with iron bands appeared. I pulled the handle and walked into the vast room filled with what appeared to be random things. I grinned however as I knew that this was the room of hidden things, the configuration of the ROR that held generations of items tossed in here by students. Most of it was junk but I knew there was treasure here as well. Just here at the entrance for example was several broken pieces of furniture and cloudy expired potions but there was also a hat that I picked up the magic from with my haki.-
'The rest of this can be ignored for now but I need to find that diadem.' I thought seriously and focused and moving through the barely large enough paths in between the piled up items.
Of course I didn't just totally ignore these many treasures as even while I moved through the paths looking for Voldemorts Horcrux I was appraising anything and everything that looked intact. Most of it held little value since it was merely lucky but I found several treasures that I righteously plundered. -
A magical monocle that revealed hidden runes at whatever it was looking at. A students spell crafting research journal from three hundred years ago. A cursed necklace that made boobs bigger at the cost of the wearers reproductive ability. A phoenixes eggshell and finally a scarf that constantly radiated warmth. I sold the necklace for a solid thousand system coins and put the rest away. The rest of the stuff I saw were either barely worth anything or so cursed that even touching it would have been a VERY bad idea.-
'Forget the room of hidden things. This place should be called the room of cursed or broken nonsense.' I thought with a scoff as I kept going.
I had to admit that the soul fragment in the diadem was a sneaky thing as I almost missed it before it made a mistake and retracted it's presence fully. Unfortunately for it spotting a void in my perception was a whole hell of a lot easier than a weak magical presence. It was pretty obvious the soul fragment didn't understand how observation haki worked or it would realize the instant it chose to "vanish" I locked onto it.-
Observation haki worked by blanketing an area in your range of perception like a sort of extra layer of understanding. It didn't fully rely on your bodies normal senses though so it also included the areas you couldn't reasonably perceive like directly behind you. What this meant was that by withdrawing so fully like that the soul fragment actually created an area of "blindness" in the observation haki field, incredibly conspicuous. The soul fragment seemed to figure this out when my eye narrowed right on it sitting on the head of a dressing mannequin.-
"There you are." I said with a smirk.
The fragment switched tactics from hiding to trying to tempt me to put the diadem on. Whispers of endless wisdom, knowledge unlike anything the world had seen before, power, the works. I frowned and unleashed my conquerors haki at this causing the soul fragment to recoil in pain as my will pressed on it. Against a normal person or animal conquerors haki would at most knock them out when used like this but this was not a normal person. This was part of a person's soul and a raw exposed part at that.-
In this case it was the full power of my complete soul pressing down on this mere fragment of someone elses, the winner was obvious. I didn't let up with this pressure even as I lifted the diadem off the head of the mannequin. I only stopped when I safely stored the cursed thing in my inventory. Once that was done I breathed out a sigh of relief. In truth I was quite worried that something might go wrong when I took this thing. Thankfully it went off without a hitch and I could finally focus on selling the contents of this room without care to my system.-
Even the broken things were worth at least a single coin and with the sheer amount of stuff here I was looking at quite the pay day. I only needed to be touching something and technically owning it to sell it to my system and since all this stuff was technically abandoned I could claim it with a thought. I went back to the beginning of the room and started my selling spree. Five coins, two, seven, ten, two hundred. I sold everything I could get my hands on safely and didn't want to keep myself.-
Since I was moving at the speed of thought and touch the rooms content was shrinking at a visible rate as I sold and sold and sold. Or so I'd like to say but in truth there was so much stuff I was barely denting the front edge of the mountain of stuff. I was also finding stuff hidden inside other stuff that fell out when the item was sold. For example inside a broken vase was a bag of thirty galleons or inside a dresser drawer a silver engagement ring thrown away after some betrayal.