Crossover Anime: Destroying Tokyo by One Person

Chapter 122 Harvest and the Capital (4K)

The treasure trove is vast.

Upon entering, the first thing that catches the eye is naturally the piles of gold coins.

Some of them may have come from Dawn Island.

Dawn Island has very rich gold resources.

Gold is not rare there.

To put it another way, the most commonly used currency on Dawn Island is a type of gold bar called Bella, and a village can pay a bag of gold bars to have a greatsword slay a demon.

This was unimaginable in ancient China.

In ancient China, farmers could only access copper coins and silver scraps; they would never come into contact with gold in their entire lives.

But then again, what's the use of having so much gold?

Ultimately, you can't eat gold.

If resources cannot be purchased from outside sources using gold, and the money is only used for internal circulation, the increase in the money supply will only result in devaluation.

In fact, Bella's reputation on Dawn Island has not been devalued too drastically; in fact, it has remained at a stable level in recent decades, which is inseparable from the organization.

Because the organization regularly sends large quantities of supplies to the Baird Empire, including those from Bella.

Bella will be recast into gold coins here.

The Baird Empire used gold coins to exchange for the resources it needed from its rival, the Greywood Federation.

Of course, it wasn't done through official trading channels.

Because the two sides are hostile nations, wars break out from time to time, and the Graywood Federation is not stupid.

Therefore, they used smuggling channels.

The Baird Empire trades gold coins with smugglers in exchange for resources from the Greywood Federation. The smugglers then recast the gold coins they earn into Greywood Federation gold coins, which they then use to buy resources and continue the trade.

Ultimately, the Greywood Federation not only lost resources, but also saw the emergence of counterfeit currency within its borders, leading to currency devaluation.

If the volume of transactions that can be conducted without smuggling is limited, the impact would likely be very severe.

Despite the efforts of the Greywood Forest Federation to combat smuggling, the results have been poor, and smuggling activities continue unabated.

After all, capitalists fear no profit or too little profit, just as nature fears a vacuum.

Capital becomes bold once there are suitable profits.

If there is a 10% profit, it will be used everywhere; with a 20% profit, it becomes active; with a 50% profit, it will take risks; for a 100% profit, it will dare to trample on all human laws; with a 300% profit, it will dare to commit any crime, even risking being hanged.

On the other hand, the Baird Empire, in addition to its own production, also received supplies from Dawn Island and the Greywood Federation.

This is also a key reason why it has been able to persist to this day despite being at a disadvantage on the battlefield.

Of course, this wealth refers to the wealth of royalty and nobility, and has nothing to do with commoners.

In fact, ordinary people are quite poor.

One reason is the long and protracted war.

Fighting on and off, fighting on and off.

Ordinary people are constantly being tormented.

Secondly, the royal family had enough gold.

If something happens and they run into a cash shortage, they'll start printing money and reaping the wealth of the people.

After all, it's too easy to amass wealth by printing money.

Over time, this led to the devaluation of gold coins within the Baird Empire.

Well, actually, you can consider the two countries as one.

Their overall social wealth stagnated due to years of war.

It will grow slowly when there is no war.

After some recovery, the fighting will continue.

Once war begins, resources will be depleted rapidly.

In the long run, the overall social wealth of both countries has remained stagnant, or even declined.

However, the money supply continues to grow.

Because they would mine gold, silver, and copper mines within their territory to mint coins and reap the wealth of the people.

In other words, there is excessive money supply.

Therefore, even without Dawn Island, its currency would continue to depreciate.

With the arrival of Dawn Island, the rate of devaluation will accelerate.

Because compared to the supplies flowing in from Dawn Island, more gold flowed in from there.

Xu Yuan glanced at the pile of gold coins in the treasure vault.

I estimated their purchasing power.

Well, if the Roscoe family has accumulated this little bit of wealth over a hundred years, they're actually quite poor.

However, these gold coins did remind him.

The area around Dawn Island has very rich gold resources.

With the help of modern mining, smelting and casting techniques, he can mint large quantities of gold coins for the Baird Empire and the Greywood Federation.

And it can be made to be so realistic that it's indistinguishable from the real thing.

In other words, he can print their money.

Although it's not an unlimited number of seals, it's enough.

The world is hilarious, all come for profit.

Everyone in the world is benefiting.

Money can do so many things.

It can win people's hearts, or it can temporarily paralyze or even destroy a country's economy when necessary.

After all, gold coins that can't be used to buy the necessary supplies are just a pile of metal that you can look at but can't eat.

Taking over the war-torn continent is not difficult.

Xu Yuan is now considering how to acquire it at the lowest possible cost and digest it smoothly.

Conducting operations behind enemy lines, controlling nobles and officials, and employing economic means—all these were aimed at eventually conquering this region at minimal cost.

"It's this kind of material again—"

Xu Yuan took a silver-white shield off the wall.

The shield is a green-quality, extraordinary piece of equipment.

It is classified as a weapon, and the materials used are the same as those for a greatsword.

According to the information displayed by the system after he restored the material using real-attribute energy, this material is called [Tsukuyomi Flowing Silver].

"Where did this material come from?" Xu Yuan asked.

Viscount Chester Rosk replied respectfully, "Your Excellency, this material is called Moonlit Silver, and it originates from the Greywood Forest Federation."

"Aren't they available within the Baird Empire?"

"The Empire has been searching, but so far there have been no relevant findings."

"The Moonlit Silver is so sturdy, how did you manage to forge it into greatswords, shields, and array plates?"

"It's said they all came from a weapons laboratory, but I'm not really sure about the specifics."

"Do you know about the experiment that created the Greatsword Warrior?"

"Know."

Do you know where the experiment is located?

"I'm not sure, but it should be at sea."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yuan seemed to be deep in thought.

It seems that lower-ranking nobles only know the general situation and are not clear about the specifics.

"Who do you think knows the truth about these things?"

"The royal family, and several dukes."

Xu Yuan nodded.

He walked to a shelf to the side, picked up a wooden box, and casually opened it.

Inside the wooden box were three exquisite crystal bottles.

The bottle contains some colorless and transparent liquid.

Upon opening and taking a gentle sniff, a faint fishy smell is noticeable.

Longevity-promoting drugs

Type: Item/Consumable Quality: Special Effect: Can extend lifespan, theoretically up to 153 years.

Comment: Ignorance often makes people happy, so it's best not to investigate the materials used in its production.

Glancing at Chester Rothko's somewhat strange appearance, Xu Yuan asked, "You've drunk this stuff?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

How old are you this year?

"102 years old."

He looks middle-aged, 102 years old.

Xu Yuan estimated that he drank it about sixty years ago.

This medicine shouldn't be too precious, otherwise it wouldn't have been possible to organize each high-ranking official to have one back then.

After closing the wooden box, Xu Yuan didn't bother to look at it anymore.

He simply used his soul power to scan the treasure vault.

Then, somewhat surprised, he raised his eyebrows and walked over to a large box, opening it.

Inside were a breastplate, a belt, a pair of boots, a longbow, and a short sword.

The Goddess's Protection

Type: Equipment/Armor Quality: Blue Trait 1: Accelerated Casting (Slightly increases casting speed)

Feature 2: Survival of the Fittest (Automatically generates a shield that can absorb one attack when encountering a fatal attack)

Durability: 34/100

Evaluation: A breastplate more suitable for mages?

Children of the Forest

Type: Equipment/Armor Quality: Green Trait: Ambient Forest (When in a forest environment, all attributes receive a moderate boost)

Durability: 66/80

Review: Wearing this belt will make you the coolest kid in the forest.

【Windtalker】

Type: Equipment/Weapon Quality: Purple Trait 1: Precision (Moderately increases hit rate)

Feature 2: Combo (Damage increases slightly when hitting the same target consecutively, stacking up to 5 times)

Feature 3: Armor Break (When hitting a target, there is a chance to reduce the target's defense, which can be stacked)

Durability: 52/70

Evaluation: A song of destruction woven with a precise rain of arrows.

Three extraordinary pieces of equipment.

These are the breastplate, belt, and longbow.

As for the boots and the short sword, they were just ordinary items.

"Where did these things come from?" Xu Yuan asked.

Viscount Roscoe said respectfully, "About a hundred years ago, there was an elder in our clan who was passionate about sea adventures."

"These are things he brought back from the depths of the ocean."

"He had been missing for more than five years, and we all thought he was dead, but he eventually came back alive."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yuan nodded slightly.

He felt that these things originally belonged to a ranger of the Elven race.

He probably died on some deserted island after a shipwreck.

About a hundred years ago, members of the Rothschild family went on an adventure at sea and accidentally arrived at that island.

Then they discovered the body, along with these items.

In short, we did find something good.

After scanning the area with his soul power and finding nothing else, Xu Yuan left the Rosk family.

When he left, he took all the extraordinary items from the vault with him.

Because the crow's flesh buds are not indestructible.

Extraordinary items are quite valuable, so it's best to take them with you to be on the safe side.

As for the gold coins, he only took a portion of them, using them as operating funds for his work behind enemy lines.

After all, money is needed to keep the family running.

If he takes all the gold coins, the Rosk family will likely be in immediate trouble.

That would render it worthless.

Back in the temporary housing near the mountain stronghold, looking at the purple longbow in his hand, Xu Yuan considered advancing to the [Dai Zong] level.

But after thinking it over, I gave up the idea.

Well, when it comes to things like this that depend on luck, without the system around, I always feel like I'm not very confident.

It would be better to acquire more equipment in this world.

He'll be brought back to the real world through the dimensional gate; let's see if the system can help him out, like opening a loot box.

Xu Yuan stayed in the mountain stronghold for almost a month.

During this time, he learned a great deal of intelligence about the Baird Empire through the Rosk family.

This includes the current political situation, as well as some key personnel.

For example, royalty, nobles, and officials.

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In addition, there is information on the distribution of domestic topography, mineral resources, ports, and grain-producing areas.

Then they were all sent to Dawn Island.

A month has passed, and I've asked around about almost everything I could.

The training of workers behind enemy lines has also gotten on track.

Xu Yuan then set off again with Xiao Ya, Theresa, and the three siblings, Avina and her brother, towards the capital.

Theresa wore colored contact lenses to cover her eye color.

There's no need to dye your hair, because there are plenty of ordinary people with blonde hair in the world.

As for Avina and the other two, they used magic to conceal their elven features and transformed into human forms.

According to Avina, this was a magic that the elves developed long ago to make it easier for them to travel to the human realm.

It only applies to the Elf race and is not universally applicable.

Moreover, it cannot change one's appearance.

It only changed skin color, hair color, and ears.

Even so, Xu Yuan still managed to obtain this old-fashioned magic that required chanting incantations.

I'll study it when I have some free time someday.

After leaving the former Rosk family territory, the five people and one bird did not head straight for the capital.

Instead, they took a much longer route.

The crow was given control over some selected targets.

Controlling granulation tissue in crows carries risks.

It means there's a chance someone will find out.

For example, those greatsword warriors.

While it's true that you can control all the greatsword warriors around the target, there's no guarantee they won't come into contact with other greatsword warriors later.

The more targets you control, the greater the risks you expose.

Of course, they can avoid contact as much as possible.

But sometimes you can't avoid it just because you want to.

In addition, having too many control targets can also lead to a decrease in control effectiveness.

Therefore, granulation tissue control cannot be expanded indefinitely.

After obtaining a large amount of personnel information from the Rosk family, Xu Yuan informed Wen Anguo and the others.

After much discussion, the group finally selected some suitable targets.

Xu Yuan's journey to the capital was circuitous, all part of his covert operation.

During this time, he also gained some benefits.

It's a bit of a shame that they only have greatswords, shields, defensive arrays, and life-extending potions.

The previous good fortune did not repeat itself.

As expected, there are still too few traces of the extraordinary on the war-torn continent.

If it weren't for the emergence of the Dragon's Descendants, we would probably still be just a society of mortals.

However, it seems that the descendants of the dragon are deliberately blocking information about the extraordinary, preventing related information from flowing into the war-torn continent.

In addition, there is the current state of dormancy of magic.

This makes the development of extraordinary technologies here difficult.

Unlike the elves, who all have equipment.

No wonder it was once home to a magical civilization.

Xu Yuan speculated that the descendants of the dragon and the elves should have come from the same place.

I just don't know where it is or how to get there.

Perhaps we should go and take a look at the Greywood Federation.

After planting the last hidden stake, Xu Yuan flew back to the mountain stronghold with the extraordinary items he had acquired along the way.

They hid the items in that escape tunnel.

Then they returned.

After all, the next stop is the center of this empire.

Going in with a bunch of extraordinary equipment that can't be stored in your inventory? That would be crazy, wouldn't it?

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