I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 540 Someone's Here (Second Update)

"Ow!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang..."

Fang Yu casually launched an arcane missile, shattering the low-level abyssal creature that suddenly lunged at him, and arrived at the vault door.

Once you get here, you can see the huge gap in technological strength between the Abyss Demons and the Arcane Alliance.

If the defensive structures in Lorraine Tower were like the American NMD, then the rudimentary defensive structures here were like the cellars of an African tribal chief.

Although there are powerful abyss traps inside, they are almost easy to break.

At this moment, Fang Yu realized why Youzi had said "it's pointless" when he asked Youzi why the Arcane Alliance didn't eliminate all the Abyss Demons.

It really is meaningless.

Although the abyss has some unique resources, its environment is completely unsuitable for human survival.

Even if humans conquer the abyss, they won't be able to develop it on a large scale. It would be better to reach a trade agreement with them and purchase the resources they mine through trade.

Moreover, the nature of the abyss dictates that demons cannot be completely eradicated.

Even if they are all killed, new demons will emerge in just a few years, and these demons may not be as communicative as the previous ones.

With a rumbling sound, the bone doors of the Maw Vault slowly opened.

Right in front of you is a mountain of gold.

As expected of the Abyss Lord!
A golden mountain at least 30 meters long and wide, and 15 meters high!

The room was mostly filled with gold bricks and bars, as well as a lot of gold jewelry and various other gold items.

Fang Yu couldn't help but gasp.

How many horses collapsed?
Could it not be more than 100,000 tons?
The gold reserves of all the countries on the entire planet Earth probably don't even amount to this much.

Wait, is it gold?
Fang Yu waved his hand, and a foot-long gold brick flew into his hand.

This weight is indeed like gold.

After testing, it was confirmed to be gold.

But this feels... like it's cursed?

After Fang Yu picked up the gold brick, he felt a faint but persistent malice emanating from it.

This malice was so subtle that it could evade the detection of spiritual power, but when the curse tried to attach itself to Fang Yu, Fang Yu's enhanced spiritual senses still detected it immediately and quickly expelled it from his body.

Hehe, just a trivial skill.

It's just a minor curse, not worth mentioning.

After obtaining the Eye of Omniscience, all I need to do is send a dream to all the members of the Omniscience Society who were once corrupted by Nabasu, and replace their daily prayers with the Mantra of Aizen Myō-ō. I estimate that it won't take more than a month, and I can reach level nine before New Year's Day.

He had a premonition that this time, when he upgraded, he would definitely grasp the essence of basic spells.

Then these clumsy curses will be easily banished.

Even if you haven't mastered the essence of basic spells, it doesn't matter. You can just use the "Remove Curse" effect from the third ring. It's just a matter of a few Kross puppets.

The Level 8 Boundless Messenger's storage space already exceeded 10,000 cubic meters. Just as Fang Yu was about to use the Boundless Messenger to store the gold, he heard Youzi exclaim in surprise.

"Master, this isn't gold! It's cursed pseudo-gold!"

Cursed Pseudo-Gold?

Fang Yu looked at the gold brick in his hand, and with a slight squeeze, the gold brick broke in two like a piece of chocolate.

Look at the cross-section, it's definitely gold.

But that faint sense of malice still lingered. "I just recognized this thing myself," Yuzu exclaimed in amazement. "This thing is one of the biggest hoaxes of the Great Arcane Era. I never imagined that Pazuzu had so many."

"The Cursed Gold is not real gold, but it can be identified by an appraisal technique and is extremely deceptive."

"The biggest difference between cursed gold and real gold is that it is naturally cursed. Intelligent beings who carry it will attract envy and greed, which will inevitably lead to the plundering of the holder, and in severe cases, it may even cause death."

"In addition, certain spells that use gold as a casting material will have a higher chance of spell backlash when using Cursed Gold as a casting material. Alchemical items that use gold as a raw material are also more likely to fail during the crafting process."

"The most effective way to determine whether a cursed pseudo-gold is actually gold is to use the Curse Removal Technique of the Pyromancy School."

"Once the curse is removed, the Cursed Gold will immediately turn into mercury."

"It is said that this thing was accidentally created by an ancient alchemist when he was trying to turn mercury into gold."

"For the next ten or twenty thousand years, the Cursed Pseudo-Gold continued to appear in various planes without interruption. There were quite a few during the Great Arcane Age as well. I never expected that there would be so many in Pazuzu."

"Oh, right, back in TR1278 there was a rampant fake gold, made from cursed gold. Could it be that all of this fake gold was made by Pazuzu?"

After the curse is removed, it turns into mercury?

Is this some kind of counterfeit money from another world?
Could this be some kind of radioactive gold isotope?
After its half-life, does it turn into mercury? (Note 1)

But this pile of things has existed for 16,000 years.

The longest half-life of the radioactive gold isotope, 195Au, is only about six months. Moreover, 195Au decays into platinum, while 198Au decays into mercury, but 198Au has a half-life of only 2.7 days.

We'll use a Geiger counter to measure the radiation level later to see if there's any radiation.

After thinking it over, Fang Yu used the Boundless Messenger to collect a portion of the Cursed Pseudo-Gold.

After putting it away, Fang Yu looked at the other items in the collection.

There are 5,000 Snake Shadow Crystal Coins, each worth 1000 Magic Crystals, and each Snake Shadow Crystal Coin contains the agonizing cries of 10,000 dying people.

A "lie whip" sewn from the tongues of 53 fallen sorcerers.

The Gluttony Orb instills in any contact with it the desire to "devour everything," and the more it devours, the hungrier it becomes.

The wearer remains forever young, but their senses are gradually replaced by "memories of others," a mercury-covered skin that leads to a loss of self...

But whenever someone says "I need some money," it will randomly spit out a Demon Coin, but the source of this Coin will always be an Abyssal Spiral Coin Box from which someone urgently needs to pay...

The "Your Mom Doesn't Love You" necklace series can cause wearers to feel "my mom doesn't love me," potentially leading to a mental breakdown...

66 "pure-blooded succubus remains" that can be used as alchemical materials...

Endless bricks of flesh fat pressed from the remaining fat of a demon's body...

Things that are invisible to the naked eye but perceptible to consciousness, and are considered "forbidden colors"...

What the hell are all these things?
Fang Yu wandered around twice, but still couldn't find any treasure worth taking.

Are Abyss Lords really that poor?
But considering that Pazuzu lost half of her family fortune, it all makes perfect sense.

Wow! This box is beautiful; it looks like it's full of good stuff.

What does the label say?
What was Ramashtu's dowry?

Fang Yu carefully opened the box, only to curse his bad luck inwardly.

There were only three quilts inside.

Even if, after the appraisal, it is discovered that these three quilts are woven from 122 layers of spider web plane, they are still not worth much money.

Just as Fang Yu was about to leave with No. 12 and Youzi, his ears suddenly twitched.

somebody is coming?

(End of this chapter)