122.Chapter 122: Winning the hemp
Chapter 122.
Although for the many knights of the Eternal Dawn, dealing with the disasters brought about by the various outbreaks of dead air was a routine.
However, the tragic situation of Eagle Wing City still made them a little heartbroken.
It came too fast and too strong.
The people of this city were also defenseless.
Only roughly one-fifth of the entire city’s population survived.
And most of those who survived were upper class people with good families.
They had all installed boundaries in their homes that filtered out special energies, or were in settings that had similar facilities.
This was also the first time Bedwell had been involved in a complete rescue.
Unlike those who arrived at the scene a week after the outbreak of the disaster to “clean up”, this time he came in time.
Although it was the same as following Lord Gawain’s ass and doing odd jobs, the feeling was a bit more profound.
Gawain seemed to have become numb to it.
He spoke words set in stone.
Short, subdued, but powerful.
It was as if his words also carried a sun-like glow that could not help but convince and stabilize people.
After roughly walking in a circle and watching the concentration of holy light in this place grow higher and higher, Gao Wen was also ready to leave.
One of his men was puzzled, ”My lord, aren’t we going to preach the doctrine of holy light? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
Gao Wen shook his head.
“Although the death aura has disappeared, it has ushered in a flood of holy light, and the locals don’t have much heart to listen to the so-called teachings.
“Besides, most of the work was done by that ‘Skeleton’ Knight, and that honor does not belong to us.”
“You don’t really believe in some skeleton that can absorb holy light, do you?” Someone half-joked, “I reckon that’s just a new type of mechanical golem, and it’s 80% a contraption that the gang from the Veritas Yard purposely teased Bede with.”
“Can even a golem release a four-meter radius of consecrated holy flame.”
Gawain squinted at him:
“What level are you each at?”
The two men lowered their heads in embarrassment.
It was still possible to weasel out, but there was little need to do so.
Seeing that Gawain believed him, Bedwyr was excited:
“My lord, is it related to the Holy Sepulchre? Should it be reported to the Archbishop?”
“Don’t ask me, I don’t know.”
After saying that, Gawain looked at the three people warningly.
“Now that a Ying Soul that has wandered outside the Holy Sepulchre has appeared, either someone has mastered the means to desecrate the Ying Soul, or someone has desecrated the Holy Sepulchre.
“Either way, it’s a sensationalized event, so make sure to keep your mouth shut until the matter is investigated.
“And aside from these vain speculations, there is another matter that we must focus our investigation on.
“Who built the Holy Light Storage Well here? And when? Was Eternal Dawn involved?”
Smelling the flavor of intrigue, the three of them were silenced.
Especially Xiao Bei, whose eyes lit up.
In normal times, he would not have been involved in such a big event!
Gao Wen continued: ”I will personally investigate this matter, you two recently, in addition to the escort work of the Dead Claw Mountain, there is nothing to run to this side more often, from the local population to probe for information.
“As for you, Bede, you temporarily leave Dead Claw Mountain, and go to a trip to the McCalla Mountains.”
“Me? Go to the McCalla Mountains?”
Bedwyr was startled.
Gawain: “Yes, you are the only one who can go there, we are all barred from entering. You go and investigate the Cornu settlements, it’s the only lead we’ve gotten from the natives.”
Bev nodded blankly.
There was a mission to be accomplished, though he didn’t want to leave Deadclaw Mountain at this juncture ……
“So …… when do I leave?”
“Three days from now.”
Gawain looked at the light golden mist around him.
“We need to suppress the flood of holy light as much as possible before that group of Northerners come here in their floating city, go back to the camp and ask a few clerics to come over.”
……
Ship.
Looking at the huge skeleton that was as crystalline as jade and glistened in the sunlight, Heine slowly sighed in relief.
This journey was finally over.
It was time to take stock of the loot.
Let’s look at the material side first.
Goldtooth’s possessions moved aboard include, but are not limited to, gold nuggets, energizer stones, rare metal materials, collectibles, and more.
After Simon’s accounting, it totaled roughly 300,000 gold coins. One-third of them could be taken out and spent directly.
The yearly tuition fee for a student in the Buried Bone Land was 5 gold coins, calculated based on two hundred students.
This amount of money was enough for these two hundred people to attend school for 300 years.
As for letting him sell buns to earn this money ……
He no longer dared to think about it.
Besides, gold coins had more purchasing power outside the Makara Mountains than inside them, which meant that they were worth more.
Just to analyze things around him: the cost of arming each of Goldtooth’s personal guards was over 300 gold coins.
One alone was almost the total value of a roaring mercenary group.
Intermediate enchanted equipment started at 30 gold coins, while large items like chests and legs started at 50 gold.
The weapons were clear level 4 standardized cannons.
The name was quite fitting, “Heart Fire”.
Each one of them was priced at 80 gold coins.
In other words, with the money he spent to get them on board, he could arm more than a thousand level 4 combatants.
Below level five, kryptonite was indeed faster than cultivation.
In addition to these, Heine had also captured two airships.
The retail price of the medium model one was 4000 gold coins.
It was reasonably expensive, but for Heine, who had just seen 300,000, this thing was ridiculously cheap.
Of course, this was based on the premise that this assembly line chain in Eagle Wing City was still around, and this was the factory price.
Private airships were not expensive in turn.
After all, it’s just a private modification of the Body Pocket+Golden Tooth, with no innovations in functionality.
The airship itself, at 2000 gold coins, is on par with two fixed artillery pieces of fourth level +++ caliber.
The six level four ++ mechanical golems cost an average of 300 gold coins.
It was only then that Heine realized that the Charging Stones were divided into models based on the energy they provided per unit volume.
The original name was rather awkward, and it was still the player’s name that matched his perception.
For example, he had bought a nail cap-sized energizer called “Battery No. 7”.
The retail price was 5 gold coins, but the price increased by 20% in the Silver Bazaar.
The mechanical golem used the fist-sized “Battery 1”, which was also the largest type of energizer.
It is worth 15 gold coins a piece, which is three times as much as a #7 battery.
As for the three magic rings in front of them, they all had notches the size of a grain of rice on them.
This is where the “grain of rice battery” should be used, 10 gold coins a piece.
It’s true that when it comes to magic, one earns more and spends more.
Gold Tooth had a total of four pieces of bound magical equipment with him.
Three rings and a pistol.
According to Simon, the rings were for shielding, binding, and short-range flight effects.
Protection, control, and escape, all in one.
It was fortunate that Mr. Xia had stuck a shield, directly killing the possibility of Golden Tooth taking off with the shield propped up at the source, otherwise a real fight would have messed things up.
As for the gun, it is a revolver-like musket called “Goodnight”.
He simply called the four brothers over and explained the equipment’s attributes to them, and then used psychic magic to make sure they all understood.
And then-
“I’ve explained all the effects.”
He held up the shield ring.
“Who wants this?”
…
Guardian Iris: “Say, can a brother use this ring?”
Catch the Goat: “I don’t know yet, no one has tried anything above level 5 until now, and it’s soul-bound, so is it bound to us or to Heine?”
Mr. Xia: “We definitely can’t be bound if we count as summons, otherwise the hunters would have taken off a long time ago, wouldn’t they, Mr. Sa? I don’t mean to attack you, I’m saying that Hunter generics don’t work.”
Mr. Sa: “Damn you, have you hardened your mouth in my absence?”
Sheep Catching: “You two should either go to the side and argue, I’ll finish dividing the equipment with Wei and forget about it.”
Teacher Xia: “That won’t do, I have to watch Wei take this shield ring away before I can feel solid in my heart, no one needs this more than him.”
Wei Temple Iris: “Eh, wait a minute, you’re starting to back off, aren’t you? I think the one here who needs the shield ring the most is Brother Yang, no one is as dangerous as him.”
Chief Sa: “Then I disagree, my Xia is the most dangerous one, have you forgotten that he got his butt stuck by the White Bone Thorns last time?”
For a while no one even raised their hands, making Heine strangely embarrassed.
Sorry for being late, the computer is finally fixed!
(End of chapter)