Chapter 23: A Fantastical Sight in the Treasury!
It was only after Lin Yi specifically asked about the Elf Capital’s treasury that Old Tree told him about it.
It wasn’t that Old Tree intentionally wanted to keep it a secret.
But because when the Elf Empire fell, the entire capital was plundered, let alone the national treasury. It would be Lin Yi’s good fortune to find even half a gold coin inside.
Therefore, Old Tree didn’t proactively mention the treasury.
He thought Lin Yi would be making a wasted trip.
Lin Yi was thinking about the treasury, hoping to try his luck.
Even though he knew the treasury might be cleaner than his face, he wouldn’t feel at ease without taking a look.
“Old Tree said the treasury is beneath the City Lord’s Mansion.”
“Now it’s buried under the ruins…”
Lin Yi released his mental consciousness, searching the B*ne Palace and the surrounding ruins.
After a long time, he found nothing.
“It must be buried quite deep.”
“No matter, I’ll dig three feet into the ground today to find the entrance to the treasury.”
As he spoke, Lin Yi waved the magic staff in his hand.
Immediately, a fireball with a diameter of nearly ten meters flew towards the B*ne Palace ahead at high speed.
Now that Lin Yi had advanced to the King Rank, the power of the magic he wielded had also become stronger.
As the fireball hit the B*ne Palace.
A loud roar suddenly erupted.
And a terrifying wave of fire surged in all directions.
Wherever the fire wave passed, whether it was building ruins or bones, everything was burned to ashes.
Lin Yi then released several more fireballs in succession, quickly destroying the B*ne Palace and burning the surrounding ruins clean.
When the flames died down, what appeared before Lin Yi was a scorched black earth.
There was no entrance to the treasury at all.
However, Lin Yi didn’t give up. He waved his magic staff again.
In an instant, fiery dragons, each over twenty meters long, appeared in the sky.
Although these fiery dragons were products of magic, their appearance still exuded a majesty that was difficult to describe.
Under Lin Yi’s control, several fiery dragons swooped down from the sky and crashed into the scorched ground.
Suddenly, the earth shook, and roars echoed.
A terrifying wave of fire, mixed with smoke and dust, instantly swept across a radius of several hundred meters. Even Lin Yi was not spared, engulfed by the scorching flames, his figure completely disappearing.
It was a long time before the flames finally died down.
And at this moment, Lin Yi’s figure reappeared.
Unharmed.
Even the robes on his body were completely unscathed.
When the flames were still a few meters away from him, they automatically parted.
Lin Yi walked to the place where the fiery dragons had struck, where a huge pit with a diameter of over two hundred meters had appeared.
He carefully searched inside the pit.
After a long time, he finally found a sunken spot.
Clearing the rubble from the sunken area, a dim passage appeared in his vision.
The passage was several meters in diameter, clearly excavated by hand.
Not only were there steps leading directly into the passage, but there were also extinguished copper candle lamps on both sides. Now, the candle lamps were covered in cobwebs and dust.
“This is it.”
Lin Yi waved his magic staff.
A fireball half a meter in diameter appeared at the tip of the staff, illuminating the path ahead.
He followed the steps and entered the depths of the passage.
The passage wasn’t long, only about a hundred meters.
Passing through the passage, a slightly larger space appeared before Lin Yi. Directly opposite was a stone door. One side of the stone door was completely open, while the other side was shattered.
“This is the real gate of the treasury.”
Lin Yi walked forward and reached out to touch the open stone door.
He could faintly see a glimmer of light on the surface of the stone door.
“This is the Elven magic restriction. It can resist magic attacks and verify Elf bloodlines… Unfortunately, the magic restriction is already broken and dilapidated, its power almost completely gone.”
At this moment, Lin Yi seemed to have thought of something.
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He communicated with the system and asked, “How many energy crystals would it take to repair this magic restriction?”
——【This magic restriction was jointly set up by multiple Demigod-level experts. Repairing it would require 300,000 energy crystals. 】
“…”
Lin Yi immediately rolled his eyes.
He had originally thought of repairing the magic restriction to see if he could learn something from it.
After all, he had the system. He didn’t need to use his brain to learn things.
But upon hearing the system’s response, he immediately dismissed the idea.
A magic restriction set up by Demigods must contain a vast amount of “knowledge”, but he would wait until he had money later.
Right now, he couldn’t afford it!
He then passed through the stone door and entered the treasury.
This was an extremely vast underground cavern. Lin Yi summoned over a dozen huge fireballs and placed them above the cavern, but they still couldn’t illuminate the entire cavern.
“Back then, this place must have been filled with the treasures of the Elf Empire.”
“With countless gold coins, gems, magic metals, gold and silver wares…”
Lin Yi murmured as he walked through the dim treasury. Every time he moved a certain distance, he would summon a giant fireball to illuminate the surrounding area.
Under his perfect control, the fireballs all hovered above the treasury.
As long as his mana didn’t run out, these fireballs wouldn’t extinguish.
After an unknown amount of time.
Lin Yi finally finished exploring the entire treasury.
Just as Old Tree had said, he couldn’t even find half a gold coin.
Everything inside the treasury had been looted clean, so clean that even a mouse would cry if it came here.
“D*mn demons and evil races.”
“Even leaving me a few broken fragments would have been good!”
Lin Yi complained. With the system backing him up, as long as he could afford the energy crystals, anything could be repaired.
But the entire treasury, except for the dust on the ground, was truly cleaner than his face.
Unwilling to give up, he searched again, not even letting the corners of the treasury escape his scrutiny, but in the end, he still found nothing.
“As expected, it’s not so easy to get rich quick.”
“I’d better go back and honestly develop my territory…”
Lin Yi adjusted his disappointed mood and prepared to leave the treasury.
Not finding the “legacy” of the Elf Empire left him feeling somewhat disappointed, but it wasn’t too hard to accept. Old Tree had warned him beforehand, and he had prepared himself mentally.
But at this moment.
Lin Yi suddenly noticed that, at some point, specks of starlight had appeared before his eyes.
These starlights didn’t have the slightest fluctuation of magical power.
He tried to touch them with his magic staff, but it passed right through, as if they were illusory.
Gradually, more and more starlights appeared around him, all coming from the ground beneath his feet.
Rising from the ground, they floated in mid-air.
“What is this?”
Lin Yi was puzzled, and his body honestly moved towards the stone door.
If there was the slightest abnormality, he would immediately flee.
Moments later, under Lin Yi’s astonished gaze, the starlights floating in mid-air began to merge with each other, gradually revealing illusory figures.
These figures included beautiful and pure elves, treants tens of meters tall.
There were colorful fairy dragons and snow-white unicorns.
And even giant birds burning with golden flames.
“That giant bird…”
“Should be the Phoenix Guard that Old Tree mentioned.”
“Also an intelligent race belonging to the Elf Faction, with super strong combat power!”
Lin Yi took a deep breath. The scene before him was too fantastical.
And as time passed, more and more figures appeared, all from the Elf Faction. He also saw Elven Dragons, Forest Giants, Elemental Elves, Flower Elves…
