City of Gold!

A place of legends.

Maxwell was completely shocked by what he was seeing.

The crystal clear light reflecting off the beast cores was shining onto all the gold in the area. And the light reflecting off the gold seems to give everything a golden light, which was incredibly eye-catching.

"We have the City of Gold, so would there also be those ancient primordial treasures as well?" Maxwell said in a soft voice.

Fernando was stunned by those words and said, "Apart from the mountain of beast cores, there's nothing else in the City of Gold."

"That means the legends aren't completely accurate then." Maxwell's heart sank, and his mood deflated a bit.

If it were exactly as the legends depicted, then the City of Gold would have ancient and primordial treasures within it. At that time, who would need to unseal that damn ancient scroll? Maxwell could directly grab some treasures from here!

With him being the gnome race's hero, it shouldn't be a problem to grab a few super treasures from the primordial era, right?

Unfortunately...

There was nothing here!

That's why Maxwell's mood became a bit depressed as he mumbled, "How come there aren't any treasures?"

Fernando thought Maxwell was asking him a question, so he replied: "There used to be some back then, but during the myriad race wars ten thousand years ago, all the treasures our ancestors had accumulated suddenly disappeared one night. The only thing left was the City of Gold."

"Oh?!"

Maxwell then asked: "Then where did these beast cores come from?"

There were probably over a hundred million beast cores piled up high into a mountain, so there's no way this amount could be gathered in a day or two.

Fernando smiled and said, "Did you notice that all the spawned beasts out there are somehow obedient to me?"

"Of course I noticed."

"Didn't you say you had no idea why they were obedient to you?"

Maxwell felt this situation was very strange.

Maxwell just couldn't figure it out. Why would such powerful spawned beasts be so obedient towards a little gnome? This totally went against logic!

Fernando giggled and said, "I had actually lied to you. In fact, any spawned beast within Eden will not attack the members of my gnome race. And they will unconditionally listen to our commands! This is all because of their King, who had once requested a favour from us gnomes. We helped him, so he signed a contract with us. As long as those spawned beasts were below Platinum Rank, they had to listen to the members of our gnome race. And those at and above the platinum rank didn't have to listen to us, but absolutely cannot harm us."

"Oh shit!"

"So that's the case, no wonder it looked so freaking cool. So there's a contract involved." It was like Maxwell became enlightened as he mumbled, "If I manage to sign a contract with the Beast King, maybe he could send me 80,000 - 100,000 random spawned beasts a day for me to slaughter. Wouldn't that be freaking cool?"

Fernando smiled and said, "The Beast King is no longer in this world."

"Huh?"

Maxwell chuckled and asked while walking, "Then how did this mountain of beast cores come to be?"

Fernando continued by saying, "Spawned beasts are similar to humans, where if their cultivation cannot make any further level-ups, their life will eventually reach its end. When they know that they are about to die, they are similar to elephants, who go off to a certain graveyard to await their end. Within Eden, only we gnomes know where this graveyard is. And after ten thousand years of collecting their cores, it resulted in this Beast Core Mountain."

"No wonder!"

Maxwell was a bit shocked by knowing the truth.

If these beast cores were made known to the public, it would most likely incite a war.

Even those larger Sects would be attracted to such a large mountain of beast cores.

Unknowingly, those two had reached the base of Beast Core Mountain.

Maxwell looked while his heart became a complete mess of shock and awe. "How many beast cores are piled here? I can't even see the end of it!"

Fernando faintly smiled and said, "Boss, just grab whatever beast core you need. There's no need to be polite with me, just grab as much as you want. These cores aren't that valuable to us and are only considered a material for us to engrave arrays."

"A random three-year-old gnome would have a dozen plus beast cores on them."

Maxwell had a stunned expression while he said to himself, "A single beast core in Eden City had already caused an internal conflict in the Household. Just because of the core of the Raging Fire Bull, Sebastian had caused so many problems for me. Now knowing that a random three-year-old child would have a dozen plus beast cores on him? Their value is practically cheaper than cabbage from the market stalls!"

Anyone would be excited in front of such a large pile of beast cores.

To Maxwell, beast cores were considered mana potions.

A normal beast core is capable of giving him over ten thousand points of mana, while an attributed core would give even more.

If one were to think further...

When experts fought, one couldn't kill the other and vice versa, so the two would just keep consuming their mana. With so many beast cores at hand, who could exhaust Maxwell's energy? All opponents would only, in turn, be exhausted to death by him. And anyone who wants to fight a war of attrition or take turns to tyre Maxwell out will only be courting their own deaths.

Maxwell smiled excitedly and said, "Then I won't be polite."

Fernando replied, "There's no need to be polite with me. You were the one who saved me and my entire gnome race, and I still haven't fully thanked you for that yet."

Without Maxwell around, the gnome race might have been finished.

Fernando will forever remember Maxwell's grace!

Maxwell didn't bother saying nonsense anymore and directly pulled out his spatial ring to absorb the loot. He then said internally with excitement: "I've really struck it rich this time! I'm rich! Even if Brenda's mother is auctioned off, I have no fear anymore!"

He was originally anxious about his finances, but now any number in the tens of millions is merely a drizzle when he had so many beast cores on hand.

Maxwell was crazily throwing cores into his spatial ring and was targeting those with attributes. The attributed beast cores can replenish a higher amount of mana and cost several times more than normal ones. A single attributed beast core is equal to multiple normal ones, so he was definitely grabbing those first.

Fernando then asked: "Boss, you mentioned back then you needed beast cores of the five elements; which elements do you need?"

While still busily shoving cores in, Maxwell said, "Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. I currently have fire, earth, and gold, but am missing the wood and water beast cores. Since I'm so busy right now, you might as well help me look for them."

"Wood and water attributed?"

There was a slight change to Fernando's expression as he mumbled: "Wood attributed ones are still doable, but water attributed ones…"

"What about water attributed ones?"

Maxwell paused and looked at Fernando. His main goal of coming here were beast cores of the five elements. A mountain like this, containing hundreds of millions of beast cores, was it possible that he wouldn't be able to gather all five elements?

Fernando scratched his head and said, "Boss, we do have some wood attributed beast cores, but we don't have any water attributed ones!"

"There's no water attributed to beast cores?"

"Little squirt, you're not joking with me, right? Such a large mountain of beast cores, and there are no water-attribute ones? Maxwell was confused, while his heart sank a bit. To unseal the ancient scroll, he needed all five elemental beast cores. He worked so hard these past few days and thought success was near. Looking at such a large mountain of beast cores, Maxwell thought that, not to mention beast cores of the five elements, he would be able to find other cores with natural attributes. But now...

There's actually no water attributed to beast cores?!

Are you messing with me?!

Maxwell instantly turned bitter as he looked at the embarrassed expression on Fernando.

Without the water attributed beast core, how was he supposed to crack the array on the ancient scroll?

Oh, the tragedy!

At this time...

Fernando's brows tightened before saying, "Boss, I know where there are water-attribute spawned beasts. And they will definitely explode forth a water-attribute beast core!"

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The sky was getting dark.

A burst of rhythmic footsteps was heard in the midst of the mountain forest.

Behind them was a large group of spawned beasts. There were over a hundred of them, all ranked gold or higher!

When placing such a large army in human-controlled lands, it could definitely capture any gold-ranked city!

But this group was advancing very carefully.

They didn't dare to walk too loudly.

"We're almost there; it's just right up front."

"Boss, you just need to hide to the side in a bit, and I'll take care of the rest," Fernando said softly with an alert expression. It was as if he didn't dare to raise his voice in case of alerting someone.

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