The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

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 under the castle.

This treasure house should have been built at the beginning of the castle's construction. It may have been used as a cellar in the past, but now it has been remodeled. A thick metal door was added, and the surrounding walls were also strengthened a lot. It turned into a solid underground treasure house. Judging from the traces of transformation, it should have been a while, but later someone repaired it, and the appearance of the repair should be done by Barbarisa.

After entering the treasury, Barbarisa opened a separate room in the treasury, lit a torch, and then pointed to it and said, "Can you see if there is the spar you need in here?"

Leo looked inside, and saw that this not-so-large room was filled with all kinds of gemstones. Under the light of the fire, these gemstones exuded a seductive light. There is no doubt that if 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 this is not all, because in this underground treasure house, there are more than a dozen similar isolation rooms. If the wealth stored in each room is the same as the house in front of you, then the wealth held by Barbarisa will would be an astronomical figure.

This scene also answered the doubts that had just arisen in Leo's heart. What Barbarisa said that he wanted to become the unified king was not just talking, but only judged by the wealth here and his reputation. , he can definitely form an army that sweeps across the entire Middle Kingdom in a short period of time, and it is not difficult to become the unified king of the Middle Kingdom.

"Have 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 of the name Jaquil?"

"Greedy Jaquil," Leo confirmed.

"Yes, that's him." Barbarisa nodded, then pointed to the surroundings, and said, "Here is his wealth."

This Jaquil is definitely the most famous person on the whole continent in the Middle Kingdom except for Barbarisa in the last hundred years, but his reputation is more of a notoriety. It has become synonymous with greed in all languages ​​in the mainland.

The reason for this name is mainly because Jaquil is a moneylender, and the objects of his loan include not only ordinary people, but even the royal family of certain kingdoms, the Church of True God or the Church of Evil God. For a certain period of time, there was even a saying among the lenders that everyone in the whole world owed Jaquil money. Although this statement was exaggerated, it was not so exaggerated that it was completely divorced from the facts.

According to the records of the City of Academics, when Jaquil’s lending business reached its peak, even the Justice Church owed Jaquil a large sum of money. Except for a few financial institutions like the Kingdom of Teresa in the entire Old Continent, All kingdoms and cities other than the good ones are debtors to Jaquil.

However, just when Jaquil's career reached its peak, he suddenly disappeared, and the money lending dynasty he built disappeared without a trace overnight. Scholars in Academic City believe that Jaquil should have been taught The power was assassinated, because through the analysis of some church materials that can be found later, almost all the Churches of True God and some underground churches were conducting some secret operations one month after Jaquil disappeared, and Jaquil established Those secret strongholds also disappeared during this period.

Jaquil's disappearance was an event that would make almost everyone in the world happy because all their debts had been wiped out, but there were some who, while others rejoiced that their debts were gone, were happy. But he is looking for another thing, which is the accumulated wealth of Jaquil.

Although no one can know how much wealth Jaquil has accumulated, judging from his ability to lend money to the world, the wealth he has mastered is definitely an incalculable huge number, but with the disappearance of Jaquil, this wealth It also disappeared, because even Jaquil's closest confidants didn't know where Jaquil's lair was, and it was even more impossible to know where Jaquil kept his wealth.

In fact, until now, many people are still looking for Jaquil's treasure, and what is interesting is that the Middle Kingdom is recognized as the least likely place where Jaquil's treasure exists, because Jaquil has been killed by his cronies more than once. And some other occasions have expressed hatred and resentment for the Middle Kingdom region. Legend has it that Jaquil was a slave in the Middle Kingdom region when he was young, and he was tortured. More than 100% of the wars have traces of Jaquil's secret manipulation, so even today people in the Middle Kingdom hate Jaquil extremely.

"How did you find out that this castle is Jaquil's?" Leo asked with a hint of doubt.

"It's just luck." Barbarisa explained: "It used to belong to the Marquis of Kann. After he was defeated by me, the castle fell into my hands as compensation. In the past, it was only used as a stronghold for the garrison. Later, My territory has expanded here, and the location of this castle is just right, so I moved here. Later, when I was repairing the castle, I accidentally discovered this hidden underground treasure house, and then discovered these treasures."

Barbarisa seemed unwilling to talk more about this aspect. After a brief explanation, he brought the topic back and said, "Jaquel's love for gems is well known, and some of the various gems stored here come from Other places, but most of them are raw gemstones mined locally, if the spar you want really exists, then you can definitely find it here."

As soon as Barbarisa's voice fell, Leo said in a deep voice: "You are right, there are indeed crystals I need in here, and there are quite a lot of them."

As he spoke, he waved his hand, followed by the mountains of gemstones and raw gemstones rolling up as if they were boiling, and then one after another, the raw gemstones came out of the mountain of gemstones, flying like this They flew into the air, flew outside, and landed neatly on the ground. In the blink of an eye, they piled up to about the height of a person, roughly around two hundred yuan.

"Okay, these spars are what I need." After picking out the last spar that can cause the reaction of the Stone Throne, Leo said: "You continue to search for these spars in the future, if you can find these spars Mining place..."

"You don't need to keep looking, I can tell you the origin of these crystals now." Barbarisa interrupted Leo, then picked up a crystal and looked at it seriously, and after a while, said: "These crystals It must be a Narnia Waterstone."

"Can you distinguish the spar?" Leo asked in a daze.

"Don't forget, I am from Rorothir. Although the ore mined by Rorothir is mainly iron ore, mining gemstones is also one of the livelihoods of Rorothir. Almost all Rorothir After children are sensible, they must learn the most basic ability to distinguish gemstones." When Barbarisa mentioned his origin, self-mockery and disdain appeared on his face, as if he didn't like his origin, and then he continued: " I don't know why you want this kind of spar, because this kind of spar is not considered a gemstone at all, it can only be regarded as a decorative stone, because the interior of this kind of spar is extremely cloudy, no matter how you polish it, the final effect will be It is ugly, so this kind of spar was only used as a decorative stone inside the house in the past, but now because of the increased difficulty and cost of mining, 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 that Jaquil collect so many and store it in the gem vault?"

Barbarisa said puzzledly: "I'm not sure about this, maybe he, like you, has discovered the unusualness of this spar."

Leo did not deny Barbarisa's conjecture. Instead, he thought about it seriously and felt that Barbarisa's words were not impossible. After all, if he did not have a clear understanding of the value of this spar, Jaquil would Never mix this spar with those more precious gems.

Leo didn't care too much about whether Jaquil really knew the specific value of this spar, and instead asked Barbarisa about the origin of the spar, saying: "Is this spar called the Narnia Water Stone? What does it have to do with Lake Narnia in the Emerald Country?"

"This kind of spar is produced in Lake Narnia." Barbarisa explained: "At first this kind of spar could be excavated on the shores of Lake Narnia and the surrounding hills. After the mining is over, if you want to mine new crystals, you need to dive into the water to mine them. The difficulty of mining has become much higher, and the cost has also increased a lot, so no one will mine this kind of crystals anymore. If you want more This spar can be found at the bottom of Lake Narnia, and it is said that all the bottom of the lake is made of this spar."

Hearing Barbarisa's words, Leo couldn't help feeling an urge to go to Lake Narnia immediately to find out, but in the end he resisted the urge in his heart, intending to wait until he was completely sure of the situation. After deciding whether the hedron has had a good or bad effect on the Throne of Stone, and finding a way to use it, decide to head to Lake Narnia.

"You continue to help me collect this kind of spar." After thinking clearly, Leo used spiritual power to lift the pile of spar in front of him into the air, and ordered to Barbarisa.

"Okay." Barbarisa nodded in agreement.

The two walked out of the underground treasure house one after the other. After coming out, Barbarisa closed the door of the treasure house again and locked it, and Leo couldn't help asking in doubt when he saw this scene: "You just closed this door at random like this?" Don’t send people to guard the gate, so don’t you worry about someone stealing the things inside?”

"The rest of the castle has already deployed enough manpower," Barbarisa said flatly, "If none of these manpower is effective, and someone sneaks in here, or breaks in here, then no matter how many people I have stationed here." people are useless."

After talking, the two left the underground treasure house and returned to the ground. Barbarisa then led Leo towards the guest room of the castle.

On the way, the two met many soldiers, servants, etc. in the castle. After seeing the spar suspended in the air, they all showed shocked expressions. name.

However, even though they were curious about the spar suspended in the air, they did not talk about it very politely. Instead, after Leo and Barbarisa left, they seemed to have forgotten, did not say anything, and went their separate ways. All the things went.

After Barbarisa led Leo to the guest room, he ordered the housekeeper in charge of the room and left.

And Leo was not in a hurry to study the spar, but temporarily put the spar aside, then took out a few sets of rune magic circles and wizard wonders made before, put them in front of him, and seriously thought about how to put them together. These things are combined into a rune circle that can amplify the crystal effect to the maximum.

According to previous experience, Leo has an estimate of the impact these spars will have on the Stone Throne, and in his estimation, even if the number of these spars increases by a hundred times, it will not bring any impact to the Stone Throne. It has a very obvious impact effect, so what he needs to do now is to use his knowledge of the rune circle to create an amplifier to amplify the effect caused by the release of the mysterious power in the spar to the limit, so that he may be able to clearly feel it. 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 circle with magnification effect, but it is a bit difficult to create a rune circle with the magnification effect to the extreme. It took him a whole day to create it. A slightly satisfactory rune circle, and I can't wait to try it out.

The result made him both satisfied and disappointed. The satisfaction was that his goal had indeed been achieved. Through the amplification of the rune circle, the influence of the unknown power in the spar on the Stone Throne was multiplied. It is still small, and the stone throne still only produced some abnormal movements, but the overall situation has not changed at all.

Even if Leo used more than two hundred crystals at the same time, the abnormal movement produced 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 to make the Stone Throne Judging from the performance of these crystals, the influence of these crystals on the Stone Throne should be positive, because after the influence of these crystals, Leo felt that the Stone Throne is no longer the kind of illusory aura , but a trace of real special energy.