Magic: My equipment slots have no restrictions

"You're so knowledgeable and thoughtful, senior."

Looking at the fresh ink on it, Victor knew that Laura must have written it not long ago.

While checking the labels on the various materials, he took out his black scroll and began searching for matching material names.

"This is what I should do as a way of repaying you."

Laura remained silent, communicating only through telepathy.

Although her tone was relatively calm, a slight smile appeared on her face.

The so-called repayment refers to Victor bringing her back to life, albeit in a way that was not quite that of a living person, yet she was still extremely grateful:

"Then I'll help you organize the other ring's things first."

Seeing that the senior student had come to his side and extended her hand, Victor could only smile:

"Didn't we agree to go together?"

As he spoke, he took the ring out and placed it in Laura's palm.

Laura accepted the ring, a glimmer of light seemingly shining in her unfocused eyes under the candlelight.

However, the other person quickly turned around, and Viktor was unable to confirm it.

However, it seems there's no need to confirm anymore.

The emotion transmitted from the other end of the heart connection shifted from calm to joy, proving that the senior student was very willing to take on the sorting work.

"This shouldn't be considered child labor, right?"

Viktor muttered a curse to himself, then let the other person go, and immediately turned his attention back to the materials in front of him.

A bottle of indigo powder in a transparent jar didn't seem to have any special effects.

Viktor shifted his gaze slightly to the note card below.

"Glimmering dust?"

As a byproduct left behind after a mage releases a sleep spell, it is of little value.

However, it reflects light like gold dust when it moves, which would be quite useful if it could be used to break stealth methods.

Another function is to be used to cast certain first-level spells.

"It's a bit of a shame that I don't seem to need magical materials to cast low-level spells."

Victor stroked his chin.

Even excluding the daily three free spellcasting attempts without cost, incantation, or staff provided by the [Magic Storage Ring],

He can also continuously absorb magic power through the mechanism of the [Magic Storage Ring] itself, combined with the "magic affinity" brought by the [corroded skull fragment].

Reaching a level approaching that of a magical genius manifests itself in the following ways:

Swift incantation, lightning-fast spellcasting, and spell power exceeding the original design.

"From now on, I should focus on improving my intelligence and try to make myself capable of killing my opponent within three moves."

Viktor muttered to himself, confirming that the luminous dust wasn't in the black scroll, and then put it into his inventory to gather dust.

Then he looked at the other materials:

"Cave bat wings"

"Glowing mushroom spores".

"Slime slime".

"..."

After looking at several items, including spores and slime which were recorded in potion recipes on black scrolls, Victor couldn't help but nod in approval.

My supervisor assigned me to collect materials from the scroll, and on the first day, I've already collected eight out of the twenty-six materials.

"A full two weeks is enough."

Thinking this, his gaze subconsciously turned to the right, wanting to see the next materials, but he only saw an empty display stand.

He was stunned for a moment before realizing that Miles had mainly given him two types of fluorescent grass, terrestrial and aquatic, and had only given him a little bit of the other materials.

The real prize was in the ring he gave himself later.

"This area is truly wealthy; they even managed to unearth such a rare artifact!"

Just then, Victor heard Laura's slightly surprised voice in his mind.

He turned around and saw Laura writing something on a piece of paper with a white quill pen.

In her other hand, she held a palm-sized crimson stone covered with golden runes, which looked extraordinary.

Especially under the [Magic Affinity] vision, this crimson stone releases an extremely subtle vortex of fire magic.

"What is this?"

Victor, holding the candlestick, slowly approached Laura and looked at the handwriting she was writing, only to discover that she wasn't simply writing a name.

Instead, he was using his knowledge to speculate on the origin of the stone.

Among the other party's elegant handwriting, Victor discovered the years 200, 213, and "Southern" among other things.

Victor watched as Laura turned the stone over and over until she wrote the last word, put down the quill, and then let out a sigh of relief.

"Fire, element, secret technique, stone."

She turned around, spoke somewhat stiffly, then realized what she had done and smiled.

Her voice immediately echoed in Viktor's mind:

"According to my calculations, this stone is a fire-type secret technique stone produced by the Volcano Clan in the southern part of the continent about 213 years ago."

"However, there is one detail that I find regrettable."

As she spoke, she reached out and grabbed Viktor's wrist.

"..."

Viktor's mind was on the stone, so he slowly bent down, following the gentle force.

"Look here."

Laura flipped the arcane stone over and placed it on the table, then pointed her index finger at the center of it before removing it.

The golden rune that had been pressed emitted a faint flame.

"It seems like I've resonated with it, right? But that's not the case."

She reached out and touched the other runes on the arcane stone, but it didn't elicit any response from the arcane stone, not even a trace of flame.

"The place I touched before was the 'lock' of the magic stone. I poured magic into it, but it refused to let me in."

"So no matter what I do after that, it won't pay any attention to me."

Upon hearing this, Victor raised an eyebrow, already understanding what Laura meant:

"You mean, this is a stone that has come to claim a master, and it holds some secret that only its owner can access?"

"More or less."

Laura lowered her eyes slightly, all the initial surprise she had shown when she first discovered the stone gone.

"It's likely that only the descendants of the Volcano Clan can decipher this secret stone. We don't know what kind of secret technique is sealed inside."

"..."

Hearing this, Viktor felt a little itchy inside.

If it's an antique from two hundred years ago, and especially a precious treasure sealed with secret techniques, then if I could unlock it, I might be able to obtain a powerful spell.

In addition, Laura's intense reluctance also reached him, making him even more curious about the mystical stone.

"Senior."

Just as Laura was feeling down, she heard Victor calling her again and slowly turned around.

"Besides the descendants of the Volcano Clan, is there any other way to break this mystical stone?"

"The secret stone, of course, needs a key."

Laura turned her head, her tone full of helplessness: "Unless our magic is delicious enough that it can't forget it after just one bite."