Chapter 132: The Power of Gold (6K)
In Ludwig's small courtyard, the two sisters, Summer Whale and Summer Shark, were waiting for them.
The sword-wielding girl left the hint that seemed strange to them and vanished.
Xia Whale and Xia Shark are all ready to go all out to fight with the strongest emperor in this world!
Killed from the world of mermaid tragedy, they experienced Anastasia in the golden Roman world, and Margaret could not have imagined the cruel battlefield.
In order to fight against the families of the ancient gods, those weird deep divers, the intelligent races of the entire ocean world are desperately converging under the command of the strongest mermaid clan to fight for survival.
Sometimes, even if you know that the food is contaminated, you have to grit your teeth and eat it.
Many red mermaids are born in this way, and they know that they can't drink to quench their thirst, but there are very few unpolluted areas in the entire marine world, so what can be done?
If you don't eat, you'll starve.
If you eat it, there is a chance that you will mutate into a mermaid and lose your mind.
Faced with these two bitter choices, most merfolk can only choose the latter in the end, at least there is hope for life, isn't it?
In such a sinister environment, even Xia Shark, an innocent and lively girl, has become radical.
The deep divers she killed were piled up enough to fill an abyss!
And the family members of the ancient gods killed by her sister Xia Whale are more than ten times that of hers!
The two sisters are seen as children of the sea given by the gods, and both may become true gods in the future.
In the face of the incomparably ferocious deep divers, only the resistance led by them can gain a local advantage.
This is simply a miracle among the mermaids who have been defeated in successive battles and even the capital has been defeated by the army of the ancient gods.
The companion divine soldiers of the two, the Twelve Heavenly Luo of the Summer Whale, and the Whale Shark Spear of the Summer Shark, are all considered to be gifts from the gods.
In the Merfolk Alliance, they are already the well-deserved supreme military leaders.
The battle with the deep diver group, and because of their birth, finally maintained the last core area defense circle.
Since the merfolk clan's capital was defeated by the army of the old gods, this is already rare good news.
What they carry on them is the hope of saving the entire marine world.
The first time they heard the news from the spirit fish, they found a world that was large enough to accommodate all the merfolk and the intelligent creatures of the Ocean Alliance, and everyone was ecstatic.
If it weren't for the fact that only the Spirit Fish Clan could open the door to this world through the sacrificial ritual from that world, the Ocean Alliance would have rushed into this world a long time ago.
Originally, according to the plan of the spirit fish clan, at least dozens of generations of spirit fish had to multiply to a sufficient number of populations before there was a way to open the door to the sea world.
No one expected that because of the sword saint ceremony of a certain crown prince, someone braved the world's condemnation and bravely stretched out his claws to the trial of the silver concubine.
The barriers between the mermaid tragedy world and the golden Roman world have been torn open.
The difficulty of the Spirit Fish Sacrifice Summoning Array suddenly dropped by three notches.
The two sisters who are now showing their murderous aura to Ludwig together with the megalodon behind them are the "gods" that the spirit fish do not hesitate to sacrifice a generation and summon from the world of mermaid tragedy, the summer whale and the summer shark.
"Meow, how did such a big shark fit into this pond?"
Anastasia was still curious.
Why is this shark so big!
This pond is so small, why can such a big megalodon emerge!
Ludwig, this is not scientific.
"Because, sharks are extraordinary."
Xia Shark triumphantly touched his mount, there was originally a larger Mel Whale, but unfortunately it was too big to pass through the door, so it could only be replaced by a smaller Megalodon.
The child of destiny in the world of mermaid tragedy, but a good friend of all marine animals.
Compared to her mysterious sister Xia Whale, her Xia Shark is the princess who commands the most extraordinary species of the ocean in the Mermaid Alliance.
In the future, she will counterattack the position of the generalissimo of the Old God Alliance.
Sister Xia Whale is naturally Her Majesty the Queen of the Mermaid Clan.
"Such a large transcendent species?"
"This shark fin looks delicious, can you cut it a little bit?"
Anastasia stared at the megalodon's fin, which was taller than herself, and her saliva was about to run down.
"The big shark can't be eaten, it's a good friend of the summer shark."
"Comrades-in-arms who fought side by side."
The summer shark huffed in front of the megalodon who seemed to be a little unaccustomed to the air of this world, and spread out the mist around him, alleviating the symptoms of water shortage of the megalodon.
Is the water elemental realm extraordinary, both of them?
It's really an extraordinary person from another world, but its strength shouldn't have exceeded the limit of this world.
Only that sword is completely beyond the scope of this world, like a flash in the pan.
Ludwig looked up at the black moon peeking out of the moon.
Who would have thought that the "black moon" referred to in the inscription of the gods refers to this?
At a normal rate, this should be a field that humans will be able to explore in decades, if not a hundred years.
As a result, he was hit by a sword-wielding girl, and his true face was revealed in advance.
"Emperor, how did you find this place?"
"Could it be that you have the power to predict the future, and foresaw in advance that we were going to come to this world?"
Xia Whale's twelve Tianluo turned, and one of the Tianluo had completely dimmed, which meant that the killer weapon she had hidden the most could no longer respond to her in a short time.
This is a hidden hole card prepared for the war against the Old Gods, and it took her countless efforts to find the great being from the hidden records of the library.
Even if it is only a trace of the divine soul of this great existence that has reached a contract with Twelve Heavenly Luo, it is also a strategic weapon that can annihilate millions of deep divers in one fell swoop.
It's just that in the face of the emperor who fished the summer shark away, she had to use this trump card because of the completely unknown door-blocking tactics.
The opponent is the strongest emperor in this world, and he deserves this trump card.
Who would have thought that the sword-wielding girl summoned by Twelve Heavenly Luo did not attack the emperor himself, but beat the moon of this world to its original form with a sword.
The dark moon gave Xia Whale a very bad feeling, which seemed to be somewhat similar to the breath of the ancient gods.
It's just that this round of black moon has obviously not recovered, even if the disguised shell was blown off by the sword-wielding girl, it still stayed in place and remained motionless.
Amid the meteors, Ludwig stares at the mermaid sisters who have ventured into this world.
Are they enemies?
"A little, just a little, such a big shark, it doesn't matter if you eat a little fillet!"
"Anastasia exchanged the baby for you, how about the gold? I'm bidding a kilogram! ”
"Gold!"
Xia Shark shouted loudly.
"A kilogram of gold?"
Xia Whale also stared at Anastasia, showing a stunned and inexplicable expression.
"Gold?"
Ludwig wondered why the sisters reacted so much to "gold".
"Gold is a good thing, you can buy a lot of delicious food, Anastasia has money, she can eat whatever she wants!"
Seeing Xia Whale, the surprised eyes of the Xia Shark sisters, Anastasia's face was proud.
The gift she received on her sixteenth birthday gave Anastasia the confidence to buy the whole world.
Well, if someone sells, like dear Ludwig.
"Gold...... Great shark shark ......"
Xia Shark looked at his mount, his eyes a little dangerous.
"Why didn't the spirit fish report such important news...... There is a ...... of gold in this world."
"Emperor, it looks like we're going to have to go to war."
"For our people, gold is a lifesaver."
"For a kilogram of gold, we will start a war now!"
Xia Whale gritted her teeth, and was ready to burn part of her life force and make another super-limit harmony summon.
The Twelve Heavenly Soldiers of the Divine Soldier is an extremely difficult divine weapon to control, and if you want to summon a unit that exceeds the limit strength of the world, you must pay an incomparably huge price.
"For the merfolk ...... Second summoning, the same tone begins! ”
"Gacha!"
"I'll put in a thousand life points, mermaid Merlot, listen to me and open the graveyard!"
There was a certain determination in Xia Whale's eyes.
"Uh, wait, wait, it's just a kilogram of gold, it's okay not to work so hard."
"I'll give the money!"
Ludwig looked at Xia Whale's expression of "I want to use forbidden arts", and hurriedly stopped it.
One kilogram of gold is an astronomical amount that Ludwig, who recently failed at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
But now, for Ludwig, who is already the crown prince of the Holy Roman Empire, it is not worth mentioning.
Not to mention anything else, the spirit fish that Anastasia eats from this pond every day are worth far more than this amount, and they are still priceless.
"A kilogram of gold, you give?"
Summer Whale was shocked.
That's a kilogram of gold!
The alliance of marine wisdom populations led by the entire mermaid clan can't make up the numbers in a hundred years.
10,000 years ago, after the stars returned to their positions, the gold of the entire ocean world was found by the families of the ancient gods and sacrificed to the ancient gods.
After that, gold was completely extinct in the marine world, and there was no digging for 3,000 meters.
However, gold is the only material that can effectively heal the pollution of the ancient gods, and make divine weapons for the dependents of the ancient gods.
This makes gold the hardest hard currency in the entire marine world.
Later, the gold of the marine world was extracted from meteorites that fell into the sea, and how much goods could be shipped was purely a matter of luck.
Not every meteorite that falls can have gold in it.
Every time a meteorite falls into the ocean, the Ocean Alliance led by the mermaid clan and the families of the ancient gods will kill until the blood flows like a river.
The families of the Old Gods were to sacrifice gold to the Old Gods for gifts, and the Merfolk Alliance's Ocean Alliance was to heal pollution and build divine weapons.
In the marine world, gold is not communicated in the unit of "gram", but is a luxury that needs to be subdivided into the unit of "milligram".
Therefore, neither Ludwig nor Anastasia understood the reason why Xia Whale was about to go to war when he heard about the unit of "one kilogram of gold".
"Well, I think there might be some misunderstanding here."
"In our world, gold is also a precious metal, and a kilogram of gold is also a huge amount of money, but the normal mining volume is still dozens of tons every year."
Ludwig recalls the amount of gold mined in the Holy Roman Empire that he had studied.
It seems that it is indeed close to 100 tons a year, and according to scholars' estimates, it can be mined for hundreds of years, and new gold mines are discovered every year.
In another century, the annual production of gold may exceed 1,000 tons.
"Ton, are you talking about gold?"
Xia Whale almost thought that he had misheard, could the number "ton" be associated with gold?
Every time their mermaids and the families of the ancient gods killed rivers of blood, the gold they painstakingly extracted from the meteorite fragments was often only a few grams.
Gold is the product of the fragmentation of stars, and the gold that can be obtained from meteorites is in the form of dust, which is a veritable rarity.
When, gold will also be counted in "tons".
If so, how much the world is loved!
"The weight of a shark is gold...... Wow! ”
This time, Xia Shark was really moved, and the eyes that looked at his megalodon became eager to try.
"It's just a little bit, it should be okay."
"A kilogram of gold can cure how many red mermaids are insane!"
For the mermaids who have gone crazy and lost their minds, gold is the only cure.
About a gram of gold can bring a red mermaid back to its senses and not be affected by the symptoms of pollution for hundreds of years.
For the merfolk family, gold is such an important strategic material.
Unfortunately, there is so little gold to be obtained from meteorites, and there is no other way to get it.
On the day of the return of the stars 10,000 years ago, the families of the old gods did so much that they sacrificed the gold of the entire world to the old gods with forbidden techniques.
"Hoo ......"
The aggrieved megalodon lay flat, looking like a salted fish to be slaughtered, and the majestic domineering when it appeared was like a different fish.
"Here, here you go!"
Anastasia ran into her room in Ludwig's little courtyard, the room that had been built especially for her and Marguerite after the demolition of Bonaparte's room.
Soon, Anastasia returned with a pair of gold bracelets and a few gold necklaces.
"Well, it's about a little more than a kilogram, and I'll give it to you!"
The golden cat lady looked at the huge megalodon with greed, and couldn't wait to taste the seafood of this other world.
"Actually...... Is it real gold...... It is also real gold of extremely high purity. ”
After carefully biting and trying the weight, Xia Whale estimated the quality of the gold.
The purity, which is about 99.9999 percent, is close to pure gold and is of better quality than the gold refined by Sea World.
Weight, one thousand and fifty grams.
For the mermaid clan, this fraction is fifty red mermaids who can be pulled back, their most important clansmen.
In the face of the pollution of the ancient gods, the number of merfolk is getting smaller and smaller, and the red mermaids who were initially rejected by the mermaids are finally accepted back into the mermaid family.
At the very least, the Red Mermaid still has the appearance of a mermaid, but it has grown red scales that symbolize the ancient gods, and it has become more and more bloodthirsty and warlike, and it is still a sapient creature in essence.
Those crazy red mermaids just couldn't resist the whispers of the old gods, and their sanity collapsed.
As long as there is gold, it can save the mad mermaids, and other similar intelligent creatures.
The family members of the Old Gods may have known this for a long time, so they sacrificed the gold of the entire world to the Old Gods, making gold a legendary metal for a time.
It wasn't until a contaminated red mermaid occasionally came into contact with gold debris in a meteorite and instinctively ate it and came to its senses that the merfolk knew about this strategic resource.
Xia Whale looked at this pile of gold ornaments with complicated eyes, as well as her happy sister Xia Shark.
One thousand and fifty grams of gold can save one thousand and fifty red mermaids, and can also create dozens of divine weapons, which is a resource that can make the Ocean Intelligence Population Alliance led by the mermaid clan launch a bloody battle.
And in this peaceful world, this rare resource is used to make extravagant ornaments, and does not possess any otherworldly attributes.
"Is gold so common in this world?"
"Really, you can mine by the ton?"
Unconsciously, Xia Whale terminated the use of the summoning forbidden technique, lifted the card drawing action on the Merlot mermaid, and the incomparably sharp temperament of the whole body became calm.
This is the savior of the mermaid clan, the summer whale princess who calmed down after judging the value of this world.
"Yes, there's no need to lie to you."
"I heard the voices of those water-streaked fish, so I knew you were going to be in this world tonight."
"These inscriptions of the gods prophesy your existence and the black moon."
"Perhaps, we are not really enemies."
Ludwig could feel the drastic changes in the summer whale after receiving a kilogram of gold from Anastasia.
"Actually, our world had a large-scale gold mine a long, long time ago."
"It's just that after the day the stars return, everything changes."
Perhaps sensing Ludwig's sincerity, Xia Whale's tense body gradually relaxed.
As for the summer shark, he was already with Anastasia in the side of the crying megalodon to which side of the shark fin to cut.
"I want to hear it in detail, besides, I am not the emperor of this world, and I am only the crown prince at present." Ludwig put away his Roman dagger.
The inscriptions of the gods reveal part of the truth about the origin of the world.
Seven worlds, corresponding to seven princesses - well, there may be differences in numbers, for example, there is always a fifth place among the four heavenly kings or something.
The two sisters of Xia Whale and Xia Shark are undoubtedly the "princesses" of the water striped fish world, and the children of destiny depicted in the inscriptions of the gods.
correspondingly, it is probably Princess Anastasia of this world, a person like Her Majesty Queen Margaret.
The wisdom he received from the golden catcat beyond this world gave Ludwig insight into this.
Judging from the data observed by the absolute time sense, they do have "absolute zero time" protection, that is, a physique that will not be affected by the distortion of time in this world.
"Crown Prince, that's no different from the future master of this world."
"You are very strong, if you come to this world by yourself, you will definitely eat a tendon like shark."
"She's too innocent."
Realizing that Ludwig could negotiate, Xia Whale made a choice based on his own judgment.
"Okay, it's on the right!"
"It looks delicious here."
Anastasia happily raised her knife and cut about three kilograms of shark fin from the tearful megalodon.
The megalodon looked at its owner, Xia Shark, as if in silent protest - no trade, no killing.
"It's okay, big shark, I'll heal you right away from this little injury."
"A kilogram of gold, the materials that can be bought are too important to the sisters of the mermaid clan."
"Everyone of the red mermaids is waiting for this gold to save their lives."
Xia Shark comforted her mount, she was not a money fan who saw money, but gold was a lifesaver for the red mermaids.
Wielding the Whale Shark Gun, Summer Shark directly began to heal the Megalodon.
She even hummed the merfolk love to sing, the ballad of the great gods.
"Sing for me, my children."
"Even if you're clumsy, you're going to work hard."
"I'm willing to keep watch, so small and gentle of you."
"I am the sand of that time, eternal and immortal, constantly flipping and falling, sprinkled around you."
"You are the treasures of my fingertips, growing up with the years, disappearing, and finally awakening again in this little courtyard."
"All your dreams, day after day, fragile and strong, sometimes are always invincible to the ravages of reality, not long enough, full of regrets."
"Even so, you hold fast to your faith and move forward."
"I'm at the bottom of the hourglass, looking at your past, looking at your present, looking at your future."
"Because of me, immortal."
After several times in a row, the Megalodon's eyes softened little by little.
Hey, forget it, forget it.
It's just a little bit of the edge of the shark's fin, which is roughly the size of a fingernail on a human's chest compared to the huge body of a megalodon.
When fighting with the relatives of those ancient gods, it is much more serious than this, and even the tragic injuries of half of the body being cut open are commonplace.
The Whale Shark Spear held by Xia Shark can quickly heal the injuries of the Ocean Transcendents, so the powerful Transcendents are willing to fight alongside her.
The wound that was cut by Anastasia, Xia Shark wiped it lightly with the whale shark gun a few times, and then disappeared without a trace.
"Ludwig, roast it for you!"
Anastasia rightly took the freshly baked shark fin slices and asked Ludwig to fry them.
"Why don't we have a meal together?"
Ludwig extended his hand to the summer whale and invited the princess from the mermaid land.
In the past, Ludwig, a student of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, would probably never have extended such an invitation to women.
I have never seen a place for women in the black and white absolute sense of time in the world.
Ludwig thought he would be like that for the rest of his life.
When the colors of the world came, the doors of a new world opened to him.
At that time, when he encountered an invader from another world, he probably drew his sword and fought without hesitation.