A Serpent's Tale-Chapter 376: Impromptu Organising Session

Looking much closer at the petals though, I couldn’t help but feel like I’d seen them before. I racked my brain for what it is that looks so similar to these, but it just kept on escaping my mind. I knew it was in there, but it was always gone a fraction of a second before I could figure it out.

Deciding that it would probably yield better results, I started to go through my [Multi-Dimensional Storage] to see if either it’s in there, or it if anything in here could help me think of what I’m looking for.

A bit of a gamble this idea, but I have nothing else to really do at the minute, nor do I have any better ideas either.

Going through my storage space made me realise that despite me trying to keep things organised, I had failed miserably. Even with over three quarters of a million layers of space to put thing, I had done a pretty piss poor job of sorting it all.

With a begrudging sigh I started to take out everything I had in there so that I could properly organise it this time.

Might as well do it whilst I’m feeling it or I’ll never get round to doing it until it’s too late.

I started by taking out like two entire piles worth of clothes, none of which I’d ever actually worn mind you. I only took them because I wanted to and they looked pretty. Also, I didn’t just toss them into an actual pile, just a neatly stacked pile. They deserve to be treated with respect.

The next thing I got out were a handful of maps, a few of which I had actually gotten use out of. The others not so much, but that was because I never had a need to really use them. I only bought the others because I thought they might come in handy. And although that hasn’t been the case so far, I think they’ll become useful in the future.

After the maps came my Gold Pouches, then the last potion I got from the Lust dungeon. What did this do again? I think it was something bad? I don’t remember. Not going to drink it though.

I also had all of my tools that I had from my [Smithing] Class, still need to ranks that up to the next tier, and my [Enchanting] Profession.

The next thing I pulled out were some sex toy’s that I hadn’t used in a while. Some of them were still soaked in fluids.

Blushing, I laid those to one side carefully and continued, with the next thing that I pulled out being Lily’s Demon Core...

’Shit, I need to call her soon. Wait, can’t I just contact my father now? Or can I not do that? Considering he hasn’t done the same, it’s probably that... I’ll summon Lily tomorrow after I get home.’

With that decided, I took the next thing out, which was a katana, then a fancy sabre, and lastly, out of this pull, a... ’What is it called again? It’s a bigger katana... At- No that’s not it... Oookkaaaanni? No not that either. Uu- Nope. That second guess seemed close. Oorrachi? Odachi! That was it! It’s an Odachi.’

After extracting my weapons, I then pulled out, or I was going to until I realised what it was that I was grabbing.

It was all the talismans that I had yet to get rid of. Maybe I should give them all to the church. I’m sure they can make use of them. Or maybe I can give them to David to sell them? I could probably do both given how many I have.

Anyways, after transferring all of that to the eleventh layer, I next pulled out the healing potions I just snagged from the floor up above. I could drink them now, but I’m not going to. I’m saving these for another emergency situation like with what happened earlier where my regeneration was inhibited.

The next thing to come out were the masks I nicked from the Aristocrats. I then pulled out the weird Sarcophagus thingy. I still have no idea what this thing is for or what it does. I don’t even know why I took this thing with me.

Still, I had it for a reason, even if I didn’t know or remember what it was, so I was going to keep it. No real reason to let others have it. It was in the Inheritance for a reason after all.

Now, there were just a few things left in here, and the next thing I grabbed was something that made me reminisce a little. I carefully put them down atop the clothes stack and pulled out the next few items.

Mana Cores. I had a surprising number of these, each just as big as my boobs. Fire, Space, Demonic and my most recent acquisition, Destruction.

That left just two items to go, that being the weird [Space] attributed egg, and the [Space] attribuuutted... Scale...

Oh my Goddess I know why those ’petals’ look so familiar now, because they’re not petals, they’re scales.

’Fuck! Why did it take me this long to realise it?’

I spent the next few minutes berating myself for my ignorance. When I was done with that, I took a deep breath and calmed down.

’Whatever, nothing I can do about it now. Suppose it’s a good thing because now I can properly organise everything, and actually do it right this time.’

Now that everything was out, minus the paper scraps, it was time to put it all back in again.

Starting with the first layer, I put in there, the precious things. Those being the two vials of Astraa’s blood and Lily’s core. I considered putting the Mana Cores in there also, but decided against it.

The next layer I filled with all my clothes, the maps and the sex toy’s... No, that’s a bad idea. Take the sex toy’s out and move the maps to the third layer alongside the gold pouches and put the masks in the second layer along with my clothes.

For the fourth layer... Looking at what’s left, I decided to put all of my supplies in there, from my tools, to my school stuff, which I completely forgot about till now, to potions all the way to my tools.

Finally, I put the Mana Cores away into the fifth layer, my weapon in the sixth, the sex toys into the ninth and the sarcophagus into the tenth.

That left me with the weird space rock egg thingy. Still absolutely no clue in regards to what, why, where or how. I just bought it because it was [Space] attributed. As well as the scale.

Not entirely sure why I didn’t use either of these before. Probably because I didn’t exactly know how to do so. I hadn’t the faintest idea on how to best use any of it.

But now, I actually had an idea of how and what I should use the scale for at the very least. The rock egg... I’m sure it’ll come to me eventually. For now, I’ll just put it into the fifth level along with the other cores as that seems like a good idea.

Anyways, with my storage now properly organised and having found the scale, I hesitated to put it in.

It obviously belonged in that last space, but I was worried about what would happen after I put it in. I picked one of the others off with a light pull, causing it to snap off quite easily. I then put it back and it snapped back into place.

That was good, but I was still hesitant about completing whatever this thing was meant for.

Nothing leading up to this gave me a good feeling. From that fact that this place was so far removed from everything else, to the weird candle placement, which I had ruined after sorting my shit out, to even just looking at it with the last scale in hand.

All of it made me feel nervous throughout my entire body. And yet, something else within told me to do it.

Neither of these voices were particularly loud. It was tantamount to having a devil and an angel whispering to me. Pretty ironic considering I’m a demon myself.

For a while, I just sat there and contemplated what I should do, trying to figure out what exactly it was that was driving both these feelings of dread and not quite encouragement, but something similar to it.

Eventually though, my curiosity got the better of me, and I took a deep breath before I reached out with the last scale in hand and inserted it into its rightful place in... Whatever this thing is supposed to be.

The moment it clicked into place however, I felt something change in the air. Or more rather the Mana that laced it. It was transforming, or warping it into something or someplace else.

It didn’t feel like it was a physical change, more of a visual one as it manipulated the shape of my surroundings into something else entirely, yet I could still feel the stony floor beneath my tail despite it looking like it was crumbling away, giving way to a vast image of huge nebulae all around me.