Building My Empire in the Frozen Apocalypse (Riley Carter) novel Chapter 146

Chapter 146 The Long Journey

Chapter 146 The Long Journey

“So, about those sealing spheres… Could we get first dibs?” BigMountain asked.

Riley paused for a moment. Instead of agreeing straight-off, she shot a question back.

“Tell me what you need them for, then I’ll decide.”

BigMountain looked surprised at first, but then shrugged-it wasn’t exactly classified information.

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“Sealing spheres let you trap magical creatures. Doesn’t mean they’re tamed once you catch ’em, but our guild camp is still being built. We need a lot of manpower, so we figured we’d take the chance. One sphere catches one beast-we’re aiming for strong ones that can haul and work, then bring ’em back to the snowfields.”

Riley nodded slowly. That made sense.

She pointed to the seven spheres still lying on the ground.

“I’ll take one. The rest are yours.”

Without waiting for their reaction, she crouched and popped open the chest right in front of them.

Inside was a stack of “Refined Cloth”, eight “Basic Healing Potions”, three “Intermediate Healing Potions”, a “Blueprint: Forest Ranger Leggings”, plus a handful of “Precision Gears” and “High-Strength Springs”.

“So… for the rest of this stuff, do you still want to pick first?” BigMountain swallowed and asked carefully.

Riley skimmed the items and made her call fast.

All her current gear was blue-tier, rare quality. That green schematic was basically junk to her-but for a team like BigMountain’s, still piecing their kits together, a green set piece was a solid upgrade. She might as well throw them a bone.

“I’ll take the mechanical parts from the chest. You guys can have the potions and the gear schematic. We’ll split the potions fifty- fifty.”

BigMountain’s head jerked up, his eyes locked on Riley.

“What, not good enough?” Riley raised a brow.

“No-this is more than fair!” Snowy blurted out, covering her mouth.

“Then it’s settled.”

Riley waved a hand and scooped up the crystalline armor and the pile of mechanical components.

Truth was, with this split, she still came out ahead. Yeah, these three probably couldn’t have dropped the boss without her, but she wouldn’t have had an easy time soloing it either. They’d pulled their weight.

Besides, crystals were rare mats–not something you could just grab off a vendor. Sealing spheres were one-time use. And those mechanical bits? She was saving them to eventually fix that “Damaged Mechanical Core” she’d been lugging around.

Everyone walked away happy.

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Chapter 146 The Long Journey

After dividing the loot, the mood relaxed noticeably.

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BigMountain pulled out a piece of hardtack and offered it to Riley. “Thanks. Seriously, we wouldn’t have pulled this off without you. You’re not guilded, are you? With skills like yours, any guild would be lucky to have you.”

Riley accepted the hardtack, muttered something politely noncommittal, and didn’t give much away.

“Oh, hey,” she said, like it was just small talk. “Isn’t dungeon entry supposed to be random teleport? How’d you guys group up so fast?”

She still hadn’t figured out a reliable way to track down TartKing or PineappleBeer. If there was some kind of locating method, it’d make everything way easier.

“Ah, that.”

Dravor, who’d been standing nearby, puffed up a little and pulled a yellowish piece of parchment from his pocket.

“This nere’s our guild’s head cartographer’s masterpiece-the “Magic Pathfinding Scroll (Consumable)”.”

Riley leaned in to look.

At first the parchment was blank, but when Dravor channeled a bit of energy into it, ink bloomed across the surface. It swirled like something alive, finally settling into a bold arrow in the center.

“Current target locked: Nearest Rocky Forest biome.

“Distance: Oft (Arrived).”

“Now that’s a handy item,” Riley said, her interest visibly piqued.

“The idea’s simple. It can’t lock onto exact coordinates, but it can lock onto terrain features,” Dravor explained. “Say you want a swamp-it’ll point you toward the nearest swamp. The three of us agreed to head for rocky forest terrain, and that’s how we linked up. Our guild’s set up different chat channels based on member tiers. We were in the same squad channel, described our surroundings, realized we weren’t far, and used the scroll to meet up.

“But it’s a consumable. See that mana bar in the bottom corner? The farther or more precise the route, the quicker it drains. This one’s got about twenty percent left. Once it’s empty, it’s just trash.”

Riley’s mind started turning.

This could work.

She knew the kind of terrain TartKing was in: deadwood, thick growth, lots of hollow trees.

With a guide like this, she wouldn’t just be wandering in the dark.

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