140 The First Story Part 1 (2/2)

The entirety of this floor in the magic tower was like a treasure vault. Various types of valuable materials had been classified into different compartments and stored into the crystal cabinets, making people feel the pain of envy.

Since there was no danger, Nailisi’s mental power became very powerful as well, and she surveyed the entire floor. The magic array in the magic tower had stopped functioning as the magic nuclei in its core area had long since been exhausted.

”It’s safe.” Lex also heaved a sigh a relief. She did not bother looking at the objects in the crystal cabinets. She merely gave a deadly stare towards the mechanical alchemy tree in the center of the room.

If she had a way of moving it to the Myers Mainland, she would be able to create another Alchemy City. The material used to build a mechanical alchemy tree had gone extinct on the Myers Mainland long ago. This material was part metal and part plant, and it only grew in certain dimensions. This material was hard to acquire and even harder to refine.

Tens of thousands of years ago, humans had collected a lot of it and had wanted to cultivate it on the Myers Mainland. Unfortunately, the plants withered in about ten years and had not bore fruit, so humans were unable to obtain their seeds.

The material that was extracted from the plant was only the size of a finger. So in order to produce such a big mechanical alchemy tree, an astronomical quantity of the material must have been required.

The tree could definitely be stored in the god’s ring. However, there were some restrictions with using the space to store equipment. Lex could break down the tree and store it in smaller pieces in the god’s ring.

Breaking down a mechanical alchemy tree? Even if Lex had been a Grade 9 sorcerer, she would not have had the means to do it.

Saleen felt regretful, as the space in his Ring of Gifts and demonic ring were too small. Nailisi’s bracelet had a larger space, but it would also not be able to fit everything in this room.

Those crystals were not elemental, and their values were not any lower than the items in the cabinets. Howeer, just like the mechanical alchemy tree, the crystal cabinets could not be stored directly into the space of their equipment as it was too large. If the cabinets were broken, then their value would depreciate.

What could be worse than being unable to keep the treasures that one had seen?

Saleen took a deep breath and said to Lex, ”Do we go up, or do we split the loot first?” Saleen tried to maintain his composure. The crystal cabinets and mechanical alchemy tree could be left here for now, but the items in the cabinets could be split among themselves. Saleen kept reminding himself that he should already have been satisfied with such a harvest, because in most cases, such a situation would not have occurred at all.

In most cases, the remains would not have been so valuable. But in this case, just one fully constructed puppet alone would already be worth a huge fortune.

”Let’s split the items first,” Lex replied, composing herself. Though the mechanical alchemy tree could not be brought with them as a complete item, it could also be broken down into smaller pieces and then stored in the god’s ring. Perhaps Lex would not be able to replicate this set of alchemy equipment when she returned to Myers, but the value of these materials had already exceeded the total net worth of a duchy.

”How will we split them?” Saleen was not going to be passive. He had opened the magic tower, so he was not going to let Lex take the big piece of the pie.

”Since there are four of us, each of us will take one share,” Lex replied decisively. In any case, the most precious item could not be taken away, and the remaining items could not be found on the Myers Mainland.

When Saleen saw Lex’s generosity, he rubbed his fingers together and said, ”Since the Qin Empire is at war, I will only take two of these fully constructed puppets. If you manage to discover their production method, you can give the remaining puppets to me.”

Saleen knew that these fully constructed puppets were more useful than grand swordmasters on the battlefield. There were twenty fully constructed puppets in total, and he and Nailisi could only control one each, so it would not be meaningful for him to take more.

”Alright, thank you,” Lex replied, but she did not say much. Everyone began moving items out from the crystal cabinets and categorizing them.

Lex put away ten fully constructed puppets first. On the other hand, Nailisi took out the beast skins from her bracelet and threw them away. Then, she put away the other two puppets. Even though the space in her bracelet was big, it was not as big as that of the god’s ring. Those beast skins were obviously less precious than the items in the crystal cabinets, and Nailisi was a petty person, so she did not want to get the shorter end of the stick.

Lex laughed and said, ”Don’t throw them away. Those are good materials.” As Lex spoke, she removed a bracelet from her wrist and gave it to Nailisi, saying, ”Here, use this.”

Nailisi looked at Saleen and Saleen nodded. According to their equal allocation, Saleen was supposed to have received nine puppets, so he had actually given seven to Lex. The research value of these puppets was tremendous, not to mention the cost of their production. Lex had ten fully constructed puppets, and if her luck was not too bad, she would only need to disassemble five puppets at most to conduct her own research.

When she saw that Saleen had nodded, Nailisi then accepted the bracelet joyously and put it on her wrist. This bracelet had been carved out of anonymous tremolite, and the value of this tremolite was not any less than those ten fully constructed puppets.

(Notes: Tremolite, also known as nephrite, has many variants. It is used in many alchemy tools, and is the most expensive stone in the amphibole family of minerals.)