Chapter 769: Chapter 487: Gemstones Piled Mountain High
Zong Shen came to the pile of gems and stretched out a hand to gently brush over them.
He was using the Lord’s ability to store items, quickly probing the situation of these gems.
The total number of gems in this pile was not small, with gems of various colors, large and small.
Zong Shen spent a full fifteen or sixteen minutes to sift through them all.
Through deliberate counting, he arrived at the final number.
There were a total of 379,272 gems here.
Among them, more than seventy percent were ordinary gems.
These gems did not possess any magic properties, but for Zong Shen, they were not completely useless.
At least among those finicky native nobles, such gems were still very valuable.
Especially those large, round, and pure-colored ones, which were excellent materials for crafting jewelry, capable of being exchanged for valuable Dinars or other equivalent resources in any Giant City.
The role of Dinar is actually significant, known as the Chosen Currency, it possesses peculiar abilities.
In some metal smelting processes, adding some Dinars would yield additional attribute enhancements.
However, even in this world, where the foundation of wealth has accumulated to a massive number, no one would casually forge with Dinars.
This currency was not issued by any force but emerged after the Era of the End.
At that time, overnight, Dinars became the standard currency in circulation among various forces.
To the indigenous people, it seemed as it should be.
Only an omniscient and omnipotent dominator of the entire realm, like the Lord System, could achieve this degree.
These were also some miscellaneous studies Zong Shen had queried when he had nothing to do before.
In short, Dinars represent wealth, as long as you have enough Dinars, you can buy everything.
Population, resources, materials, even various armors and crossbow arrows regarded as contraband by the great Kingdoms.
Recalling the days before the Knight Order was born, forging a solid full-body armor required the strength of the entire village.
Now it’s very different, as long as you have enough Dinars, there will be plenty of black market merchants or goblin merchants trying every way possible to get these contrabands for you.
In this batch of gems, the number of ordinary gems reached 272,075.
The number of magic gemstones reached 107,197.
Ordinary gems were further divided into various grades, including irregular inferior products full of impurities.
There were also upper-grade ones, as large as goose eggs, with beautiful color, and flawless inside.
All these require further sorting.
Magic gemstones were the same, even with more categories.
Arcane Magic System, Space System, Time System, Thunder Element, Wind Element, Water Element, Fire Element...
Apart from classification by element, they were further subdivided by the amount of magic power contained, size, and number of impurities, into six qualities: Basic, Intermediate, High Level, Special Level, Top Level, and Super.
These roughly corresponded to the six tiers from Ordinary to Epic, with higher quality being fewer in number.
A more detailed induction and classification are still needed.
This is no easy task, including now when even Zong Shen’s storage grid cannot hold all the gems.
To collect this many gems, he would need Hoy to come with the Hiking Merchant Badge.
Relying on the storage space provided by the badge, it would take about a dozen trips.
Mainly because these gems have not undergone precise processing, the stone skins on them take up quite a bit of space.
Perhaps due to the Griffin being a wind attribute magical beast, there were quite a few Wind Spirit Gemstones among the magic gemstones.
In the six tiers from Basic to Super, the total number of Wind Spirit Gemstones reached 27,291.
This accounted for more than 25% of the total number of magic gemstones.
This batch of gems was the accumulation of the Griffin over countless years.
Picked up bit by bit over the years.
Zong Shen was also seeing so many gems for the first time, and the large number made him somewhat numb.
Given the current strength of the Lord, it would be very difficult to take down this Griffin’s Nest.
Not to mention capturing the king first, like he did, turning the overlord level Dragon Vein Griffin into a pig’s head.
Seizing the entire Griffin’s Nest without a single soldier.
It was a sudden windfall.
In fact, at the current stage, not everyone could make such a windfall.
This indirectly proves that this world is not only vast but also rich.
If the strength is great enough to attack a Giant City, the treasure vaults in those cities and the private goods of those nobles and wealthy merchants would certainly be an extremely large number.
Thinking about the generally tight days of the Lords now, Zong Shen couldn’t help but sigh.
In the short term, the strength of most Lords will still progress uniformly.
However, one day, the Lords will be able to arm wrestling with the indigenous people.
Then it will be the time of full-scale war and conflict eruption.
After all, nothing is faster than war.
A battlefield not only allows for quickly plundering the opponent’s population but also acquiring the opponent’s accumulated wealth.
But this also requires the balance of power to reach a certain equilibrium.
Lords just landed, the balance of power is unequal, with the indigenous people holding absolute dominance.
This is because the native forces have accumulated thousands, even tens of thousands of years of heritage.
However, as time goes by, the weight of the Lords in the balance will become greater and greater.
Because each Lord receives support from the Lord System, they can experience various challenges, and earn points.
They can also explore relics and open treasure chests, with various recruitment scrolls being entirely a variable.
