Alien Knights

After the three-hour palace meeting ended, Todd, with his tired body, walked along the corridor to the bedroom under the guidance of Huggins.

"How is the board and lodging arrangement for Henry the Griffon?"

Huggins was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "The war beast you are talking about? According to your instructions, we arranged it in the stable of the Knights, and prepared barbecue and bread, but the trouble is..."

Todd stopped in his tracks, turned his head and said, "Is it attacking humans?"

"That's not true, but all the horses in the stable were bitten and kicked by it, refusing to stay in place; also, many people ran to the headquarters and tried to climb the wall to enter the stable, just to see the war beast. The guards tried to disperse them, but the effect was not great."

Todd waved his hand indifferently: "In two days, when the freshness wears off, everything will be back to normal."

Huggins nodded yes.

After walking another hundred meters, Todd looked at the endless corridor and asked Huggins, "How much longer do we have to go?"

"It's another fifteen minutes' walk."

Todd asked in surprise, "How big is this castle?"

"Two main buildings, five watchtowers, twelve sentry towers, thirty-six corridors, and two royal gardens, one front and one back."

"So big?!"

"The whole palace is only half built. Muxi College is designing the largest, most complex and most gorgeous fountain; Muxi Artisan Association is building a full-body bronze statue of you; the commercial union has purchased a variety of rare and exotic animals from various places, and plans to build a hunting ground in the backyard of the palace. In addition, there are observatories, vineyards, and racetracks..."

"Wait, wait!" Todd looked at the carpet laid all the way along the corridor, and then at the famous oil paintings hanging on the wall, and asked rather troubled: "It will cost a lot of money to build this palace, right? If I remember correctly, there is not so much money in the holy treasury!"

Huggins looked at the king with strange eyes and sighed: "Your Majesty, please follow me."

After saying this, Huggins changed the direction of his feet and walked towards the depths of the palace.

Todd followed behind him, through a wide slope below the palace, into a heavily guarded underground hall similar to a bank counter.

The king's appearance made everyone in the hall stop what they were doing and bowed in Todd's direction.

Nodding and smiling, Todd asked in a low voice, "What exactly is this place?"

"You'll find out soon enough." Huggins walked on.

After passing through a few more checkpoints, Huggins stopped in front of a group of people with heterogeneous marks on their chests, and said to Todd: "Your Majesty, they need to verify the identity of the visitors to ensure that the entrants have not used abilities such as transformation, charm, and possession. Even you must be checked, please bear with me."

Todd expressed his understanding. After all, Clarence's ability almost caused the collapse of the Muxi Kingdom. It is only natural to strengthen inspections in this area.

After passing the inspection, the two headed deeper into the underground of the palace, passed through a strange corridor, opened a door made of heavy lead plates, and finally came to a labyrinth-like underground corridor.

"What exactly did you put XZ in the underground of the palace?"

Huggins walked to a room, took out the key in his arms, opened the hidden lock in the door, and gently pushed the door open. The dazzling light inside made Todd, who had just adapted to the darkness, squint his eyes in discomfort.

"This is?!"

The room is not big, the length and width are no more than seven meters, and the height is no more than three meters. There is a deep pool dug in the center of the room, and all kinds of gold coins in the room have overflowed the side of the pool and are close to the roof. The flame rising from the wall shone on the surface of the gold coin, diffusing a bright golden light.

Todd stepped into the room, looked at the room full of gold coins, and didn't react for a long time.

Huggins glanced at the register outside the door, and said to Todd: "There are 87,435 gold coins stored here. There are currencies used by the southern empire and coins used by the northern barbarians. According to weight and purity, they are converted into parish currency, which is almost equivalent to 90,000 gold coins."

Todd finally came back to his senses. He turned his face to Huggins and asked incredulously, "You mean, all the money belongs to me?"

The latter smiled helplessly, and while leading Todd out of the room, continued walking along the corridor: "Your Majesty, I don't think you have figured out the situation yet."

Huggins led Todd into the labyrinth corridor outside the door, walked forward for a further distance, pointed to the countless doors on both sides, and said to the latter: "Please find a door at random and look at the sign on the door."

Walking to a door at random, Todd looked carefully at the sign on the door, which said such words.

"On October 13, 1172, it was boxed and sealed, with a total of 170,000 gold coins. 』

Changing another door, Todd looked at the sign again.

"The warehouse was closed on October 16, 1172, with 7,625 grams of super gemstones, 162,580 grams of first-grade gemstones, and 55 boxes of other gemstones. 』

Todd took a deep breath, pointed to the door and asked Huggins, "How many rooms like this have been repaired?"

"A total of 120 rooms have been built, and 109 rooms are currently fully sealed, with gold coins, gems, utensils, antiques, everything..."

Todd felt that his brain was not enough: "Have you calculated the total value of these properties?"

Huggins thought for a while and said, "Only Lady Mary knows the specific figures and lists. But all the inventory is roughly equivalent to 4 million to 5 million Jinxu, which is 40 to 50 million silver moons, and this number is still growing rapidly."

"I've only been away for half a year! What did you do?! Did you rob the Holy See's treasury?!"

Hearing the word "robbing", Huggins said with a look of disdain: "Your Majesty, I used to think that robbery was a good job. Back then, the Muxi Knights in the territory of the Silver Ring Kingdom worked hard to plunder those nobles from dawn to dusk. After a lot of hard work, not to mention the dead and wounded soldiers, the money was only a few hundred thousand Jin Xu. Look now, you are sitting in the castle, and the wealth is like flowing water, flowing into your treasury continuously."

Todd leaned on the wall with his hands, his head was buzzing, and he asked in a low voice, "Then where did the money come from?"

"Part of it comes from the operation of the royal family's property, part of it comes from the royalties of registered patents, and part of it comes from your previous holy treasury, and the rest is taxes and donations."

Huggins raised his eyebrows at Todd: "Your Majesty, you may need to think about how to spend the money when you come back this time..."

The eastern suburbs of Muxi City, the immigrant area.

A knight in old armor was sitting in the corner of a shack with a drafty wall, and a simple long sword was placed beside him.

The knight carefully opened the cooking pot above the firepit, glanced at the steaming oatmeal inside, smelled the food aroma mixed with soil and wild vegetables in the air, and swallowed unconsciously.

Standing up and slowly opening the door beside him, the knight whispered to the elder lying on the bed, "Lord Gordon, the meal is ready."

The bearded elder got up from the bed and said weakly, "Harry, are you the only one here? Where are the others?"

"The tavern in the city is short of a security guard. I heard that they will pack a lunch, and Nelger plans to earn some extra money. As for Kaponodas and Diz, they both went out early in the morning. Before they left, they said that they had found a good way to make money..."

The elder grabbed the knight's wrist and said anxiously: "Then did you tell them...?!"

The knight Harry patted the elder's arm lightly, and comforted him, "Master Gordon, please rest assured. Before they go out, I have specifically instructed them to take off their badges and keep their weapons, and not to claim that they are from the envoys of the Holy Acropolis."

Gordon nodded vigorously: "That's right, when we are away from home, as a member of the mission, we have to take into account the image of the Holy Acropolis."

Seeing the impassioned appearance of the head of the mission, Harry reminded him in a low voice: "My lord, we are out of money again."

Gordon asked in surprise: "Didn't we just sell that mule and horse carrying luggage yesterday?!"

Harry snapped his fingers and made a calculation for the head of the group: "We have lived here for a week, and the landlord asked us this morning to charge the rent for next week; the horses in the group need fodder, and one of them had to find a veterinarian because of illness; the grain store at the entrance of the village needs to pay off the previous credit, and..."

"Hey, just tell me, how much money is left?"

"Three silver moons, plus seventeen bronze stars."

"Well... Five Bronze Stars can buy a piece of rye bread, and two Bronze Stars can buy a handful of fodder. In this case, we can still..."

Harry interrupted Gordon's calculations: "Captain, that's not how the accounts are calculated. Although the prices here are not as outrageous as those in the city, they are definitely not cheap. A piece of rye bread costs twelve copper stars."

Gordon, the head of the envoy, opened his mouth, which eventually turned into a long sigh.

At this moment, the door of the shed was pushed open vigorously, and a tall young man with callused hands rushed into the room and shouted loudly: "King Muxi is back! King Muxi is back!"

Hearing this, Gordon opened his eyes wide, jumped from the bed to the ground, grabbed the shoulder of the visitor, and asked excitedly: "Neljie! King Muxi is really back? Did you hear me right?!"

"It's true! People in the city are celebrating the king's return, and the royal family has even issued an announcement, saying that a grand dinner will be held the night after tomorrow to receive the missions from the Holy Acropolis!"

Gordon laughed loudly and said, "We will see King Muxi soon! Our mission can finally be completed!"

Regarding the digestion of this news, the focus of Knight Harry and Captain Gordon is very different.

The former pulled Neljie, walked to a corner of the room, and confirmed again: "It is really stated in the announcement that it is a 'grand dinner'?"

Neljie's eyes lit up, and he nodded desperately.

"Wine and meat?"

"There is wine and meat!"

After wiping the drool off his mouth, Knight Harry said to Captain Gordon, "My lord, I have a proposal."