The Guild's Shock

Cain was caught off guard by this sudden success, and he was still stunned.

It took him two or three minutes to come back to his senses and realize that he had really made a Storage Pouch. Only then did joy slowly well up in his heart.

Cain turned the flattened stomach sac into a pouch, then tried placing a Magic Crystal inside.

The moment the Magic Crystal touched the opening of the Storage Pouch, it swiftly vanished.

Cain extended his consciousness into the Storage Pouch and discovered that the Magic Crystal was lying quietly within the space he had created.

He took it out, put it back, took it out, and put it back.

Cain was like a child who had discovered a new toy, playing with it endlessly.

Although he had made this Storage Pouch himself and fully understood its principles, he still found it fascinating.

After playing with it for a while and satisfying his curiosity, Cain put down the Storage Pouch and continued making more.

However, he was incredibly relaxed now. After all, he had already successfully made one Storage Pouch, so even if the remaining two failed, it would not matter.

But today, Cain seemed to be favored by the goddess of fortune. The Silvermoon Wolf hide succeeded, and the Space-Piercing Mouse hide succeeded as well.

The string of successes made Cain wonder whether he had fallen under an illusion spell.

He checked the magic power in his body. Mm, it was circulating normally.

He pinched his arm hard. Hiss, that was too hard. But he could feel pain, so it probably was not an illusion.

So that meant he had really succeeded.

Cain placed the three successful Storage Pouches together. The one made from Silvermoon Wolf hide looked the best, shimmering with silver light and obviously extraordinary. However, it had the smallest space.

Its capacity was only five cubic meters, perfectly embodying the phrase, "All show and no substance."

The Storage Pouch made from the Giant-Bellied Frog's stomach sac was the ugliest. It was completely wrinkled, though fortunately it had no strange smell. Its capacity was ten cubic meters.

The Space-Piercing Mouse hide pouch was quite ordinary. It was gray and dull, neither ugly nor attractive, but it had the largest space—a full fifty cubic meters.

There had been a minor mishap while making the one from Space-Piercing Mouse hide: he had not had enough Magic Crystals. If Cain had not noticed something was wrong and hurriedly taken out the Magic Crystals he had set aside—

It might have failed.

In high spirits, Cain carried the three Storage Pouches toward the guild. Naturally, good news like this had to be shared with everyone.

At that moment, the guild members were doing as they always did: drinking, chatting, bragging, and fighting.

"Everyone, I succeeded."

The sudden voice made everyone turn instinctively. Cain stood at the entrance, looking at them with a face full of happiness.

Some people had not even realized what he had succeeded at.

But Erza, Levy, Cana, and the others hurried over to Cain.

Erza said happily, "You succeeded? That's wonderful!"

Gray asked curiously, "Cain, hurry up and show us."

Cain took out the three Storage Pouches. Gray casually grabbed one, but after examining it from every angle, he could not find anything unusual.

"Isn't this just a small bag?"

"Don't rush." Cain took back one of the Storage Pouches and gave a mysterious smile. "Everyone, witness a miracle."

Cain placed a wine barrel slightly shorter than Gray directly into the Storage Pouch. Everyone watched as the barrel vanished with a whoosh the instant it touched the pouch's opening.

While everyone was still curious and confused, Cain did not stop. One barrel after another was placed into the Storage Pouch.

He only stopped after putting ten barrels into it.

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By then, everyone's expressions had turned to shock. The little pouch that held ten barrels had not changed in size at all.

Not only that, it was still light as a feather.

Gray took the Storage Pouch and pressed it with his hand. It was soft, as though there was nothing inside at all.

He pulled open the pouch and looked inside, only to find it completely empty.

Seeing that everyone still looked confused, Cain took the Storage Pouch and removed his own spiritual imprint from it.

He said to Gray, "Put your spiritual power into it, and you'll see the difference."

Gray did as he was told. As his spiritual power entered it, he discovered something different.

A space about one-third the size of a dormitory appeared before his eyes. Ten wine barrels were neatly arranged within it.

These were the very barrels Cain had put in earlier. Gray wanted to step forward for a closer look, but suddenly noticed that one barrel was missing, and his arms felt heavy.

At some point, a wine barrel had appeared in his arms.

To the guild members, Gray had simply closed his eyes, and then a wine barrel appeared out of thin air.

Gray quickly understood how the Storage Pouch worked and began doing the same thing Cain had done before, taking things out and putting them back, then putting them back and taking them out again.

Seeing Gray having so much fun, the others also wanted to try it themselves.

However, Gray was not done playing yet, so he immediately became unhappy.

As expected, a brawl broke out.

In the end, the old man could not stand watching them destroy the guild any longer and stepped in to stop them.

Makarov looked at the unremarkable little pouch in his hand and extended his spiritual power into it. However, he did not discover any space. Instead, he was blocked outside by a wall.

Cain explained, "A Storage Pouch can only be used by one person. If someone else wants to use it, the previous spiritual imprint must first be removed."

This design had actually been inspired by the ownership-recognition settings of storage rings in novels from his previous life.

Makarov glanced at Gray. Gray reluctantly stepped forward and erased his spiritual imprint, muttering, "I haven't played with it enough yet."

Afterward, Makarov extended his consciousness into it and indeed discovered a space of around ten square meters.

With Gray's earlier example, Makarov quickly understood how to use the Storage Pouch.

The old man could not help sighing. "What an ingenious idea."

After that, the three Storage Pouches were passed continuously from person to person, accompanied by repeated cries of amazement.

Everyone also discovered that the Storage Pouches had different capacities. Cain explained that this was because of the different materials used as their base.

For now, these were only first-generation products. He would continue improving them later, such as refining the magic array or improving the ink used to draw it.

Cain also said that guild members could provide their own materials, and he would make Storage Pouches for them free of charge.

For a ten-square-meter capacity, one Giant-Bellied Frog stomach sac and ten Magic Crystals were needed.

For a fifty-square-meter capacity, one Space-Piercing Mouse hide and one hundred Magic Crystals were needed.

For a five-square-meter capacity, one-fifth of a Silvermoon Wolf hide and ten Magic Crystals were needed.

When the guild members heard that Cain was willing to make them for free, they were all delighted and eagerly prepared to go out hunting magical beasts and gathering Magic Crystals.

On the way back, Cain gave the fifty-cubic-meter Storage Pouch to Erza. Erza was delighted when she received it.

That way, she could bring more things with her when going out to take commissions, and it would be far more convenient.

At first, Erza had hesitated over whether to accept it. After all, Cain had given the ten-cubic-meter Storage Pouch to Levy and the five-cubic-meter one to Cana.

But Cain later said that he could simply make more whenever he wanted, so Erza accepted it.

In truth, there was another reason she accepted the Storage Pouch: she was almost always with Cain anyway, so there was not much difference between hers and his.