Xia Nan very much wanted this [Proof of Unweariedness] bracelet.
No adventurer could resist equipment that increased training speed. Especially not Xia Nan, who possessed an Attribute Panel that could quantify Combat Skill progress through numerical progress bars and let him watch every point of proficiency accumulate. To him, the temptation was simply outrageous.
With that premise, the situation was already very clear.
The [Proof of Unweariedness] was not ownerless.
It was part of the collection of Auriye Silverheart, a famous collector in Barracuda Bay.
There were only two ways to transfer ownership of the bracelet from him to Xia Nan.
Robbery and theft, or purchase and trade.
As for the former, Xia Nan had never considered himself particularly noble, nor had he ever portrayed himself as a good person in the traditional sense. Since arriving in this world, he had often acted with his own interests in mind.
Yet the sound values gradually instilled in him by the good education of his modern previous life meant that, even though he considered himself selfish enough, he still stood head and shoulders above the rotten people that filled this world's lower-tier adventurer circles.
Without sufficient moral grounding and broad, sound understanding, few people could retain their true selves after gaining Transcendent Power far beyond that of ordinary people.
To some extent, the fact that Xia Nan treated ordinary residents of passing villages almost the same way he treated the Professional Adventurers of the Oath of Vengeance Blades Fleet was enough to show how different he was from most low-level adventurers in this world.
Unless Auriye openly showed hostility toward him or committed some act of aggression, Xia Nan did not intend to go that far. He instinctively resisted the idea.
Of course, if the other man really lost his mind... Xia