It was just a pity that this involved the concept of "space" after all.

Don’t be fooled by those spellcasters’ low Levels and their ability to cast all kinds of summoning and Teleportation type Spells; that’s only them pouring Spiritual Magic Power into pre‑memorized Magic Models. It doesn’t mean they’ve done any real research into the concept of "space" itself.

It’s like a veteran who has fought on the frontline for many years: he might be able to use and even disassemble a gun with incredible Skill, but if you tell him to create a qualified gun from nothing while standing in front of factory machinery, few people could actually do it.

The difficulty of using Spells involving the concept of space and the difficulty of making space‑type items are worlds apart.

Under these circumstances, even though the number of spellcasters on the Aifala Continent is very large, space‑type Tools have never become common.

On the contrary, this Type of Equipment is usually Rare and expensive, and tends to get snapped up and bid up the moment it appears on the market.

Back in River Valley Town and at the Auction House in Suo Yu Bay, Xia Nan had in fact seen Tools of this Type, and he’d even thought about joining the bidding at first.

But when he actually sat down confidently in the auction hall and heard the starting price announced by the host, which was already higher than all the savings he had in the bank combined, he instantly gave up on that idea.

Until now...

Holding the delicate little Silver Pocket Watch in his palm, Xia Nan stared at it over and over, the emotions in his heart quietly surging.

In this moment, deep down he felt almost the same as when he had just experienced Transmigration and searched that Bear Goblins corpse to find his very first Enchanted Equipment, the [Dead Line] ring—something hard to put into words.

Of course, at the same time, he didn’t ignore the information shown on the Equipment’s attribute panel.

Unlike the "Space Ring" or "Space Pocket" storage Equipment he’d seen in the anime and novels of his previous life.

This metal pocket watch before him, named "White Pot," did not store items in terms of cubic volume, but used a "by piece" system instead.

It could only store a total of twelve items.

But the panel didn’t explain how exactly something counted as being stored, or how to define a single item; he would need to figure that out himself later.

Using the sort of things Xia Nan usually carried as a few simple examples.

A single bottle of Healing Potion—calling that one item was of course no problem.

But if he added a few rolls of bandages and some splints for immobilization, and put them together with the Healing Potion, then in Xia Nan’s view, that could also count as one "treatment kit."

And if that idea worked, then on top of the "treatment kit" above, if he added a tent, food, drinking Water, and adventuring tools and packed them into a bulging backpack, could that be considered a single "survival travel set"?

He didn’t even know whether [White Pot] itself imposed any limits on the volume or weight of a single item.

Otherwise, even if he stuffed an entire mountain or a small demi‑plane inside, that would still only be "one item."

Reality obviously wouldn’t match Xia Nan’s exaggerated hypothesis, but it still meant he’d need to spend some time later defining the storage scope and conditions of the pocket watch.

By comparison, the other passive effect of the [White Pot] pocket watch was very straightforward.

—+25% healing speed.

Speaking of which, Xia Nan actually had quite a few healing abilities by now.

[Tear of Spring Breath] alone provided him with two Healing Spells he could actively cast.

Strictly speaking, when he used [Embers Resonance] to enter the residual fire state, his Life Force would be increased by a percentage, and barring any surprises, that should also passively trigger the effect of the [White Pot] pocket watch.

This ability could further increase his Combat Ability and versatility to some extent.

Besides that.

"Adonis Pope..."

Xia Nan’s gaze swept over the Introduction column on the [White Pot] attribute panel and recognized this extremely familiar name.

As for "Spiritual Guardian" and the "Silver Radiance Healer Award," he didn’t really know what those were, only guessing they were some kind of medical prize in the other world.

And [White Pot] was probably a gift from the organizers to the award recipient.

But the name "Adonis Pope" was one he had already seen more than once.

This professor of psychiatry was the main point‑of‑view character in this Secret Realm, and the mentor of the doctor "Mande" at the Royal Medical College.

If he remembered correctly, Mande in the Secret Realm had written quite a few letters to him; in the end, Adonis even personally visited Mande’s residence in Hookfish Town to confront the man, who by then seemed to have completely fallen into madness.

Unfortunately, the Secret Realm had cut off abruptly at the moment of their confrontation; otherwise, Xia Nan would have been quite curious to see what kind of Power System that world—dominated by the Doctor Association—actually had.

Recalling that final scene in his mind, of the two of them in the underground chamber, Xia Nan shook his head and dispersed the stray thoughts.

The Secret Realm, in a sense, was after all just a spatial fragment from another world—like a meteor that had accidentally fallen onto the Aifala Continent, not a complete fusion of two worlds.

There was a high probability he’d never run into this so‑called "Doctor Association" again; thinking about it more was pointless.

Clutching the pocket watch in his palm, Xia Nan straightened up and carefully searched the operating room on top of the Altar once more, making sure that aside from the operating table and the suitcase, there was nothing worth taking.

Only then did he walk down from the Altar, pocket watch in hand, and return to stand in front of the others.

Since Lorin had been so fair and open about it and told him to search for loot, Xia Nan felt he had no reason to hide anything, so he directly showed everyone the pocket watch he had taken from the suitcase.

The experience inside the Secret Realm looked earth‑shaking, but in reality only Xia Nan—who had touched the suitcase that served as the core of the Secret Realm—had seen the concrete images.

For the Sword of Vengeance squad under the Altar, the time they felt pass was just an instant, and they hadn’t noticed anything unusual at all.

From their perspective, Xia Nan had simply climbed onto the Altar, opened the luggage, taken something out, then searched around a bit and come back down.

"A space‑storage type Tool; it may have some extra effects but also a few restrictions."

Holding the [White Pot] pocket watch in his hand, Xia Nan explained frankly to Lorin and the others.

To minimize the chance of exposing his attribute panel, he naturally didn’t state the specific effects of the Equipment that he knew, but he did clearly identify the pocket watch as a piece of space‑storage Equipment.

As expected, the people lying or sitting on the ground in front of him were very surprised that Xia Nan had found such an item.

After all, even as adventurers who had roamed the seas for many years, none of them had ever owned a space‑type Tool.

But after that initial surprise, their expressions were at most envious or amazed; they did not show the malicious greed Xia Nan had half‑expected.

On one hand, this was because of who Xia Nan was: a teammate who had fought at their side and shared life‑and‑death moments with them.

If it had been some random stranger, they wouldn’t have been so "nice."

On the other hand, it was also due to Xia Nan’s strength in battle and the contribution he had made to the team.

They were all adventurers who wore their heads on their belts and knew the value of life.

Faced with a piece of Rare, expensive Equipment that didn’t belong to them and the very real fresh air they were breathing, they knew which they should choose.

With some effort, Lorin turned around and swept her gaze across the faces of the team members, seeing that no one had any objections.

Then she leaned back against the broken wall, lying half‑sitting on the ground, looked up at Xia Nan in front of her, and smiled:

"If you want it, then keep it. It’s your loot."

Without refusing, Xia Nan nodded and put the pocket watch away.

"Then I won’t take part in distributing the other loot from this mission."

"This one piece is already enough."

Judging by the total value of the loot and the contribution each person had made on the journey, it was still within the bounds of fair distribution for him to accept the [White Pot] pocket watch.

If he wanted more... even if Xia Nan insisted, Lorin and the others would hardly deny him.

But since his teammates were being so considerate, Xia Nan—now in possession of a space‑storage Equipment—was also willing to earn a few dozen Gold Coins less, so that when the team got back to Suo Yu Bay, each member could enjoy a comfortable and secure vacation.