Chapter 1599 Greedy Jaquille
After getting some clues from Babalisa, Leo planned to go north to the Green Emerald area, but before leaving, Babalisa called him and led him to the treasure house located under the castle.
This treasure house should have been built at the beginning of the castle. It may have been used as a cellar, but now it has been renovated and a thick metal door is installed. The surrounding walls have been reinforced a lot, becoming a solid underground treasure house. Judging from the traces of the transformation, it should have been a while, but someone later repaired it. It seems that the renovation looks like it should be done by Barbarissa.
After entering the treasure house, Babalisa opened an isolated room in the treasure house, lit a torch, and pointed to it and said, "Look at whether there is the crystal you need in it?"
Leo looked inside and saw that this not particularly large room was filled with all kinds of gems. These gems emitted a tempting light under the light of fire. There was no doubt that if an ordinary person saw this scene, he would definitely be shocked, because the wealth represented by these gems was 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 controlled by Babalisa will be an astronomical figure.
This scene also answered the doubts that had just arisen in Leo's heart. What Barbarisa said was that he wanted to become the Unification King, not just talk. Just judging by the wealth and reputation here in front of him, he would definitely be able to form an army that swept across the entire Central Kingdom region in a short period of time. It would not be difficult to become the Unification King in the Central Kingdom region.
"Have you concentrated all your wealth here?" Leo asked very directly without any worries, driven by curiosity.
"Of course it cannot be all wealth." Barbarysa shook her head and said, "Most of the wealth here comes from the previous owner of this castle. Have you heard of the name Jaguel?"
"Greedy Jaguel." Leo confirmed.
"Yes, it's him." Barbalissa nodded, then pointed to the surroundings and said, "What's stored here is his wealth."
This Jaqueir is definitely the most famous figure in the Central Kingdom area in the past century, except for Babalisa, but his reputation is more of a notorious. Almost now, the name Jaqueir has become synonymous with greed in all languages in the mainland.
The reason for this name is mainly because Jaquel is a lender, and the objects of his lending include not only ordinary people, but even the royal families, true gods or evil gods of some kingdoms are his lending objects. At a certain period of time, there was even a saying that everyone in the whole world owed Jaquel's money. Although this statement was exaggerated, it was not so exaggerated that it was completely out of fact.
According to the city of Academics, when Jaquel's lending career reached its peak, even the Justice Church owed Jaquel a lot of money. Except for a few kingdoms and cities with good financial resources like the Teresa Kingdom, the other kingdoms and cities were all debtors of Jaquel.
However, just when Jaquere's career reached its peak, he suddenly disappeared. The lending dynasty he established disappeared overnight. Scholars in the City of Academics believe that Jaquere should have been assassinated by the church's forces because through some church information that could be found later, a month after Jaquere's disappearance, almost all the churches of the True God and some underground churches were carrying out some secret operations, and those secret strongholds established by Jaquere also disappeared during this period.
Jaquel's disappearance can almost be said to be something that makes everyone in the world happy, because the debts they bear are also written off, but some people are pursuing another thing when others are happy about the disappearance of their debts, which is Jaquel's accumulated wealth.
Although no one can know how much wealth Jaquel has accumulated, judging from the fact that he can lend to the whole world, the wealth he has is definitely an immeasurable huge number. However, with Jaquel's disappearance, the wealth also disappeared, because even Jaquel's closest confidants did not know where Jaquel's nest was, and it was even more impossible to know where Jaquel had stored his wealth.
In fact, until now, there are still many people looking for Jaquel's treasure. What's interesting is that the Central Kingdom area is recognized as the most unlikely place for Jaquel's treasure, because Jaquel has expressed his hatred and resentment towards the Central Kingdom area more than once under his confidants and on some other occasions. Legend has it that Jaquel worked as a slave in the Central Kingdom area when he was young and was tortured. During the period when Jaquel was in power, nearly 70% of the wars in the Central Kingdom area had traces of Jaquel's secret tricks, so until today, people in the Central Kingdom area also hated Jaquel very much.
"How did you find out that this castle is Jaquel's castle?" Leo asked with a hint of confusion.
"It's just luck," Barbarisa explained: "In the past, this place belonged to Marquis 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 garrison troops. Later, my territory expanded here, and the location of this castle was just right, so I moved it here. Later, when I was repairing the castle, I accidentally discovered this hidden underground treasure house, and then I found these treasures."
Barbarissa seemed unwilling to talk about this. After briefly explaining it, he pulled the topic back and said: "Jacquel's love for gems is well known. Some of the various gems stored here come from other places, but most of them are locally mined gem ore. If the crystal you want really exists, you can definitely find it here."
As soon as Barbarysa finished speaking, Leo said in a deep voice: "You are right. There are indeed crystals I need here, and there are quite a few."
As he spoke, he saw him raising his hand and rolling up like a mountain of gems and gem ore in front of him as if it was boiling. Then crystal ore drilled out of the gems and mountain, and flew into the air and flew outside, landing neatly on the ground. In the blink of an eye, a person was about to rise, and roughly counted about two hundred pieces.
"Okay, these crystals are what I need." Leo picked out the last crystal that could cause the reaction of the stone throne, and said: "You continue to look for these crystals in the future. If you can find the mining site for these crystals..."
"Don't keep searching, I can tell you the origin of these crystals now." Barbarisa interrupted Leo, then picked up a crystal and looked at it seriously. After a while, she said: "These crystals should be Narnia water stones."
"Can you tell the crystal?" Leo asked in a daze.
"Don't forget, I'm a native of Roloshire. Although the ore mined by Roloshire is mainly iron ore, mining gem mines is also one of Roloshire's livelihoods. Almost all Roloshire's children must learn the most basic gem recognition ability after becoming sensible." Babalisa mentioned his origin and showed self-deprecation and disdain on her face, as if he didn't like his origin. Then he continued: "I don't know why you want this crystal, because this crystal is not a gem at all, but can only be regarded as a decorative stone. Because the interior of this crystal is extremely turbid, no matter how polished, the final effect is very ugly. Therefore, this crystal was only used as a decorative stone inside the house. However, now because the difficulty and cost of mining have increased a lot and no value, this crystal is rarely circulated in the market. Even if there are some profiteers, they will be sold as gems."
Leo asked in confusion: "If this wasn't a gem, then why would that Jaguel collect so many of them in the gem library?"
Barbarysa said in confusion: "I don't know this. Maybe he discovered the unusualness of this crystal like you."
Leo did not deny Barbarysa's speculation. Instead, he thought about it seriously and felt that Barbarysa's words were possible. After all, if he had not had a clear understanding of the value of this crystal, Jaguar would never have mixed this crystal with those more expensive gems together.
Leo did not care too much about whether Jaguel really knew the specific value of this crystal, so he asked Babalisa about the origin of the crystal, saying: "Is this crystal called Narnia water stone? What does it have to do with Lake Narnia in the Green Jade region?"
"This crystal is produced in Lake Narnia." Barbarysa answered his question: "The earliest crystals could be mined on the shores of Lake Narnia and on the surrounding hills. Later, these crystals on the shore were mined. If you want to mine new crystals, you need to dive into the water to mine them. The mining difficulty has become much more and the cost has been much higher, so no one has ever mined this crystal. If you want more crystals, you can find them at the bottom of Lake Narnia. It is said that the bottom of the lake is made of this crystal."
Hearing Babalisa's words, Leo couldn't help but have an impulse, wanting to go to Lake Narnia immediately to find out, but in the end he resisted the impulse in his heart, intending to wait until he was completely sure whether the impact of this crystal on the stone throne was good or bad, and after finding a way to use this crystal, he decided to go to Lake Narnia.
"So you can continue to collect this kind of crystal stone for me." After Leo thought it through, he used his psychic energy to lift the pile of crystal stones in front of him into the air, and ordered Babalisa.
"Okay." Babalisa nodded and agreed.
The two walked out of the underground treasure house one by one. After coming out, Babalisa closed the treasure house door again and locked it. Leo couldn't help but ask in confusion when he saw this scene: "You just closed the door casually and didn't send more people to guard it. Are you not worried that someone would steal the things inside?"
"There are enough personnel in other places in the castle," Babalisa said calmly: "If none of these personnel play a role, and someone sneaks in, or breaks into it, then no matter how many people I have to station here, it will be useless."
As they spoke, the two left the underground treasure house and returned to the ground. Babalisa then led Leo toward the guest room of the castle.
On the way, the two met many soldiers, servants, etc. in the castle. When they saw the crystals floating in the air, they all looked shocked. Some believers couldn't help but recite the names of their belief in the gods.
However, even though they were curious about the crystals floating in the air, they did not talk very regularly. Instead, after Leo and Babalisa left, they seemed to have forgotten, and said nothing, and went to do their own things.
After Babalisa brought Leo to the guest room, he ordered the butler in charge of the guest room and left.
Leo did not rush to study the crystal, but temporarily placed the crystal aside, then took out several sets of rune magic arrays and wizard magic objects that he had made before, and put them in front of him, thinking carefully about how to combine these things into a rune magic array that can amplify the crystal effect to the largest.
According to previous experience, Leo has an expectation of the impact of these crystals in front of him on the stone throne. In his prediction, even if the number of these crystals increases by a hundred times, it will not have a very obvious impact on the stone throne. So what he needs to do now is to use his rune array knowledge to create an amplifier, so that the effect caused by the release of the mysterious power in the crystal can be increased to the limit. This may allow him to 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 array with amplification effect, but it is a bit difficult to create a rune magic array that pushes the amplification effect to the extreme. It took him a full day to create a slightly satisfied rune magic array and couldn't wait to try it out.
The result made him both satisfied and disappointed. Satisfaction was indeed achieved. Through the amplification of the rune array, the influence of unknown power in the crystal on the stone throne has increased many times. However, this degree of enhancement is still small for the stone throne. The stone throne still only produced some abnormal movements, but there was no change in the overall situation.
Chapter completed!