Chapter 1599: Greedy Jaquille
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The Mysterious World Under Steampunk
- Jiu Cheng Jun
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- 2022-06-23 01:39:35
After getting some clues from Barbarisa, Leo planned to go north to the green emerald area, but before leaving, Barbarisa stopped him and led him to the treasure house located under the castle.
This treasure house should have been built at the beginning of the construction of the castle. It may have been used as a cellar in the past, but now it has been remodeled. A thick metal door has been added, and the surrounding walls have also been reinforced a lot. It has become a solid underground treasure house. Judging from the traces of the transformation, it should have been a while, but someone has repaired it later, and it seems that the repair should be done by Barbarisa.
After entering the treasury, Barbarisa opened an isolated room in the treasury, lit a torch, and pointed to it and said, "Do you see if there is the kind of spar you need?"
Leo looked inside and saw that this not-so-big room was filled with various gems. These gems exuded a seductive light under the light of the fire. There was no doubt that if it was an ordinary person Seeing this scene, you will definitely be shocked, because the wealth represented by these gems is enough to buy the land of a small country.
And that's not all, because in this underground treasure house, there are more than a dozen similar isolated rooms. If the wealth stored in each room is the same as the one in front of him, then the wealth in Barbarisa's hands will be would be an astronomical number.
This scene also answered the doubts that Leo had just created in his heart. Barbarisa said that he wanted to become a unified king, not just talking about it, but only based on the wealth in front of him and his reputation. , he can definitely form an army that sweeps the entire Middle Kingdom region in a short period of time, and it is not difficult to become the unified king of the Middle Kingdom region.
"You gathered all your wealth here?" Leo asked very directly, driven by curiosity, without any worries.
"Of course it can't be all the wealth." Barbarisa shook his head and said, "Most of the wealth here comes from the previous owner of this castle. Have you heard the name Jaquil?"
"Greedy Jaquil." Leo confirmed.
"Yes, it's him." Barbarisa nodded, then pointed around and said, "Here is his wealth."
This Jaquille is definitely the most famous person on the entire continent in the Middle Kingdom in addition to Barbarisa in the last hundred years, but his reputation is more notorious, almost now the name Jaquille It has become synonymous with greed in all languages in the mainland.
The reason why it has such a name is mainly because Jaquier is a lender, and the objects he lends not only include ordinary people, but even the royal family of some kingdoms, the true gods or the church of the evil gods are his. The object of the loan, at a certain time, even had a statement that everyone in the whole world owed Jaquille money. Although this statement is exaggerated, it is not exaggerated to the point of being completely divorced from the truth.
According to the records of Academic City, when Jaquille's lending business was at its peak, even the Church of Justice owed Jaquille a large sum of money. Except for a few financial institutions such as Teresa's Kingdom, the entire Old World Except for the good kingdoms and cities, all other kingdoms and cities are Jaquil's debtors.
However, just when Jaquille's career was at its peak, he suddenly disappeared. The lending dynasty he established disappeared without a trace overnight. Scholars in the academic city believed that Jaquille should have been taught The forces were assassinated, because through the analysis of some church materials that could be found later, in the month after Jaquier disappeared, almost all the churches of True God and some underground churches were carrying out some secret operations, and Jaquille established Those secret strongholds also disappeared during this period.
Jaquille's disappearance was a joy to almost everyone in the world, because all the debts they had on them were written off, but there were people who rejoiced at the disappearance of debts while others rejoiced. But in pursuit of another thing, this thing is Jaquille's accumulated wealth.
Although, no one can know how much wealth Jaquille has accumulated, but judging from his ability to lend to the world, the wealth he has is definitely an incalculable huge number, but with the disappearance of Jaquier, this wealth It also disappeared, because even Jaquier's closest cronies did not know where Jaquille's nest was, and it was even more impossible to know where Jaquille kept his wealth.
In fact, there are still many people looking for Jaquille's treasure until now, and it is interesting that the Middle Kingdom area is recognized as the least likely place to have Jaquille's treasure, because Jaquille has been under his cronies more than once. The hatred and resentment towards the Middle Kingdom region has been expressed and on other occasions. It is said that Jaquille was a slave in the Middle Kingdom region when he was young, and was tortured. All of the above wars have traces of Jaquille's secret manipulation, so people in the Middle Kingdom still hate Jaquille to this day.
"How did you find out that this castle is Jaquier's castle?" Leo asked with a hint of doubt.
"It's just luck." Barbarisa explained: "In the past, this place belonged to the Marquis of Cann. After he was defeated by me, the castle fell into my hands as an indemnity. In the past, this place was only used as a stronghold for the garrison. Later My territory expanded here, and the location of this castle was just right, so I moved here. Later, when I was repairing the castle, I accidentally discovered this hidden underground treasure house, and I found these treasures."
Barbarisa seemed reluctant to say more about this. After a brief explanation, he brought the topic back and said, "Jacquier's love for gems is well known, and some of the gems stored here come from Other places, but most of them are raw gemstones mined locally, if the spar you want really exists, you can definitely find it here.
As soon as Barbarisa's voice fell, Leo said solemnly: "You are right, there are indeed the spar that I need, and there are quite a few."
As he spoke, he saw him raise his hand and wave, and the mountains of gems and gem ore in front of him rolled as if they were boiling, and then a piece of spar ore was drilled out of the gem mountain, and it flew in this way. It flew into the air, flew outside, and landed neatly on the ground. In the blink of an eye, it piled up about a person's height, roughly two hundred or so.
"Okay, these spar is what I need." Leo picked out the last spar that could cause the reaction of the stone throne, and said: "You will continue to look for these spar in the future, if you can find these spar Mined…
"You don't need to continue searching, I can tell you the origin of these spar stones now." Barbarisa interrupted Leo, then picked up a spar and looked at it seriously, and after a while, said: "These spar stones It should be the Narnia Waterstone."
"Can you tell the spar?" Leo was stunned and asked.
"Don't forget, I'm from Rorohill. Although the ore mined by Rorohill is mainly iron ore, mining gemstones is also one of Rorohill's livelihoods. Almost all Rorohill's After a child is sensible, he must learn the most basic gemstone discrimination ability." When Barbarisa mentioned his origin, his face was self-deprecating and disdainful, as if he did not like his origin, and then he continued: " I don't know why you want this spar, because this spar is not a gem at all, it can only be regarded as a decorative stone, because the interior of this spar is extremely turbid, no matter how you polish it, the final effect It is ugly, so this kind of spar was only used as a decorative stone inside the house in the past, but now because the mining difficulty and cost have increased a lot, it has no value, so this kind of spar is rarely circulated in the market. Even if there are, they will be sold as gems by some profiteers.
Leo asked suspiciously: "If this is not a gem, then why did Jaquier collect so many and store it in the gem vault?"
Barbarisa said inexplicably: "I don't know that, maybe he has discovered the unusual features of this spar like you."
Leo did not deny Barbarisa's speculation, but thought about it seriously, and felt that Barbarisa's words were not impossible. After all, if he didn't have a clear understanding of the value of this spar, Jaquer would be Never mix this spar with those more expensive gems.
Leo didn't care too much about whether Jaquier really knew the specific value of this spar, and instead asked Barbarisa about the origin of the spar, saying: "Is this spar called Narnia water stone? What does it have to do with Lake Narnia in the Emerald Region?"
"This kind of spar is produced in Lake Narnia." Barbarisa explained: "The earliest this kind of spar can be excavated on the shore of Lake Narnia and the surrounding hills, and later the spar on these shores are all After mining is completed, if you want to mine new spar, you need to dive into the water to mine. The difficulty of mining has become a lot more difficult, and the cost is also much higher, so no one will mine this spar anymore. If you want more This kind of spar can be found at the bottom of Lake Narnia, and it is said that the entire bottom of the lake is made of this spar."
Hearing Barbarisa's words, Leo couldn't help but have an urge to go to Lake Narnia to find out, but in the end he resisted the urge in his heart and planned to wait until he was completely determined. Whether the influence of the spar on the stone throne is good or bad, and after finding a way to use this spar, I decided to go to Lake Narnia.
"Continue to help me collect this spar." After thinking about it clearly, Leo used his spiritual energy to lift the man-high pile of spar into the air, while instructing Barbarisa.
"Okay." Barbarisa nodded in agreement.
The two walked out of the underground treasure house one after the other. After they came out, Barbarisa closed the door of the treasure house again and locked it, and Leo couldn't help but ask suspiciously when he saw this scene: "You just close this door at will. If you don’t send any more guards to the gate, don’t you worry that someone will steal the contents inside?
"The rest of the castle has already deployed enough people," Barbarisa said flatly: "If these people don't work, and someone sneaks in here, or intrudes here, then I will be stationed here no matter how much more. people are useless."
After speaking, the two left the underground treasury and returned to the ground. Barbarisa then led Leo to the guest room of the castle.
On the way, the two encountered many soldiers, servants, etc. in the castle. After seeing the spar suspended in the air, they all showed shocked expressions. Some believers even couldn't help reciting their belief in gods. name.
However, even though they were curious about the spar suspended in the air, they didn't talk about it in a very regular manner, but after Leo and Barbarisa left, they seemed to have forgotten, didn't say anything. Everything went.
After Barbarisa led Leo to the guest room, he instructed the housekeeper in charge of the guest room and left.
And Leo did not rush to study the spar, but temporarily put the spar aside, and then took out a few sets of previously made rune magic circles and wizard wonders, put them in front of him, and seriously thought about how to put them together. These things combine into a runic circle that can amplify the spar effect to the maximum.
According to previous experience, Leo had an estimate on the impact these spar stones could have on the Stone Throne, and in his estimation, even if the number of these spar stones increased by a hundred times, it would not bring the Stone Throne. The effect is very obvious, so what he needs to do now is to use his knowledge of the rune circle to create an amplifier, so that the effect of the release of the mysterious power in the spar can be amplified to the limit. It can make him clearly feel the changes and reactions of the Stone Throne under this influence, and then judge the pros and cons of this external influence.
For Leo, it is not difficult to create a rune magic circle with magnifying effect, but it is a little difficult to create a rune magic circle with the magnifying effect to the extreme. It took him a full day to create it. A slightly satisfied rune magic circle, and I can't wait to try it.
The result made him both satisfied and disappointed. Satisfaction is that his purpose has indeed been achieved. Through the enlargement of the rune magic circle, the influence of the unknown power in the spar on the Stone Throne has been enhanced many times. In terms of it, it is still small, and the Stone Throne still has only a little abnormal movement, but there is no change in the whole.
Even if Leo used more than 200 spar stones at the same time, the abnormal movement generated by the Stone Throne was still not large enough to cause significant changes to the Stone Throne itself, but even so, Leo relied on this abnormal movement when the Stone Throne was The performance of the spar, judged that the influence of these spar on the stone throne should be positive, because after the influence of these spar, Leo felt that the stone throne exuded no longer the kind of unreal atmosphere. , but a special energy that actually exists.