When I went out of the customs yesterday, I met Hanks, and it wasn't like that.

Seeing each other again today, Ankai felt a sense of twilight from Hanks...

The reason why An Kai felt this twilight clearly was because he had just felt it in the 10 fifth-order ten-fold professionals.

It was the twilight of the approaching end of life, as if there was a smell of decaying trees, emanating from Hanks.

Gazing at Hanks, he wanted to ask, but he saw the widow Wang's eyes pleading, and shook her head slightly...

After a second of silence, An Kai smiled.

He chose to respect the choice of the king's widow.

Sometimes death is counted down to be even more terrible than death coming.

Just like the people around Ankai in his previous life, he was seriously ill and was given a critical illness notice, and he had a few months left to live...

This feeling is more painful than death.

How many people can't bear this pressure and end up depressed.

At this moment, Wayne, who had been in the underground to analyze the [Raider] transfer, also walked into the room.

Since Wayne switched to the [Scholar] profession, his bookish aura has become more and more intense. Z.br>

Like the [Wanderer], the [Scholar] could not quickly improve his strength with ordinary cultivation methods.

And Wayne's way to improve his strength is to continue to study and analyze.

It's been less than a year since I became a [scholar], and I have already become a first-order and ten-fold professional!

It's only one step away from the second order!

Wayne paused when he entered the room, looking at Hanks' state, and wanted to say something, but he saw the pleading look in the widow's eyes.

Eventually, Wayne walked up to Hanks and patted him on the shoulder: "Eat well, drink well, don't regret it."

Hanks was stunned by Wayne's reaction...

"You're a nerd, you're stupid to read, aren't you? I've got a fart... It's a pity..."

Somehow, when Hanks talked about regret, he felt a trance in his heart, as if something had not been done.

Memories flashed through his mind, and Hanks shook his head slightly...

The widow is by his side, what regret can he have?

So Hanks took the momentary feeling of nothingness as a delusion...

Seeing that Wayne had arrived, An Kai directly became the shopkeeper: "Wayne, you can give everyone statistics on the harvest this time, and how much tax those 21 fifth-order forces owe us."

"In addition, after the statistics, remember to distribute them to everyone according to the regulations."

After An Kai finished speaking, the spell elements in his hand surged, and a large bed formed by [Freezing Technique] appeared, and then he took out a few animal skins and spread them on it.

Lying down comfortably.

In this increasingly hot desert, An Kai's unpredictable [Freezing Technique] is more precious than a treasure...

Hearing An Kai's command, Wayne nodded slowly with envy in his eyes.

began to cooperate with Malken and the widow king, and counted the harvest this time.

and how much tax is owed by the 21 fifth-order forces.

When several people took inventory, they would look at An Kai lying on the bed of [Cryomy] from time to time, with a look of envy in their eyes...

In this desert, which is getting hotter and hotter and has no reason to find it, being able to use a "freezing technique" is already more precious than a national treasure.

Not to mention that Ankai's [Freezing Technique] is more varied than others, and the temperature is even colder...

It's just this color...

Why is it black? Are you saying that Ankai's heart is also black?

A few people in the inventory muttered in their hearts, but they didn't dare to speak...

At this moment, a faint snoring sound came from the [Cryomy] bed...

The few people who were in the hot weather were even more uncomfortable in their hearts, and a few people exchanged glances, and then nodded in tacit unity.

The location of the inventory began to slowly move towards the [Cryomy] bed...

…

An Kai and the others are taking stock of the harvest of the house, and they are in a good mood.

Those fifth-order forces in the city, compared to An Kai and them, are like knives...

It's just that I went to the castle in the inner city, and when I came back again, I didn't find a copper plate in the station.

Digging three feet into the ground is really digging three feet into the ground.

In the station, one pit after another is naked in the courtyard.

When several fifth-order professionals returned here, they thought they had returned to the Seven Kingdoms' power station.

Find those third- or fourth-order guards from this War-torn version of the station, and get some news.

The unanimous statement is: "A gray aura hit that night, and then they lost consciousness, didn't know what happened, and when they woke up again, they were the same ghost as they are now..."

This method made them think of the fifth order for the first time!

The fifth-order professionals who had returned to the forces muttered in their hearts, gathering towards the other fifth-order forces...

It took a day.

They confirmed one thing, the entire fifth-order forces of the House of Good were all attacked by this unknown guy...

Hard-to-be dug into the ground...

And what made them panic was that the nine fifth-order professionals who had returned to the outer city and the inner city suddenly disappeared...

He is still a fifth-order fourfold mage!

Among the nine of them, his strength can be regarded as a good fifth-order professional!

This made the hearts of the remaining eight fifth-order professionals even more panicked...

It's just that the house was stolen, and now even its own safety is in question.

Suddenly, they had the idea of leaving the house of goodness...

Although their homes were raided, their foundation was not damaged, and they carried some important resources with them.

After a short period of time, the eight of them made a plan to go out of the city together, and after discussing five days, they would leave the House of Good Kindness together, and wait until the [Spiritual Secret Realm] opened a year later, and then returned...

It's just that they want to leave, and some people don't want to let them go.

…

"Teacher, the inventory is over, can you take a look?"

Wayne held a booklet in his hand and leaned into Ankai's ear, who was snoring slightly.

An Kai, who was asleep, opened his eyes suddenly.

Visible to the naked eye, there is an impatient emotion in the eyes.

Seeing this, Wayne hurriedly repeated what he had just said.

An Kai's eyes softened a little...

He took the booklet in Wayne's hand and flipped through it quickly until he reached the end.

"Coins: 3,521."

"Item Value: 4,612 gold."

"Philosopher's Stone: 1013."

At a glance, this was expected by Ankai.

This group of fifth-order professionals was more cautious than the other, eager to bring all the resources with them.

"Wayne, those damn moths, how much do you owe us in taxes?"

Wayne put away the booklet and pulled a new one out of his bosom.

It clearly records the taxes owed by these fifth-order forces every month.

Under the instructions of Ankai and the idea of gathering everyone, the taxes collected by the House of Good are very varied.

Of course, it's more about the taxes that are set in line with the House of Goodness.

For example, robbery tax, "fishing" tax, accidental income tax, murder and treasure tax, etc., are suitable for the desert background and generate taxes.

In addition to these practical ones, what remains is some ordinary houses, shops, sales and other regular taxes.

Wayne had made calculations at Ankai's suggestion.

With these taxes he collected, although the residents of the city felt painful, they would not be swept away.

Equivalent to ten cents, Ankai takes eight cents through taxes, and the remaining two cents of profits, although they will be resented by these residents, they will not let them be destroyed

Hope.

After taking out the booklet, Wayne coughed lightly, cleared his throat, and began to introduce the 21 forces with fifth-order professions one by one, and how much tax they owed.

After Wayne spoke, Hanks and Widow Wang also showed expressions of interest.

After all, there is still their 10% in the tax.

And the fifth-order [assassin] Malken, seeing the current Wayne, felt a little strange...

I don't know when, His Royal Highness of the Shak Kingdom has perfectly assumed the identity of the "finance" and "steward" of the House of Goodness.

"Shaq Kingdom, fifth-order [heavy armor warrior] Milton, a total of 13,652 gold coins in taxes."

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…

It's not that I don't know, but it's really shocking.

There are a full 21 fifth-order professional forces.

The tax owed alone is as high as 200,000 gold coins.

If you change it to a low-grade magic stone...

It's red!

Ankai's eyes are completely red!

Before, he didn't have any concept of gold coins, nothing more than numbers...

"Hanks, just say it, can you change the low-grade magic stone?"

If you can exchange 200,000 low-grade magic stones, it is no exaggeration to say that An Kai can lie down directly...

Hanks has dealt with Ankai for so many years, how can he not understand Ankai's thoughts.

But he also has a problem.

After pondering for a few seconds, Hanks slowly shook his head: "It's gone, it's gone..."

"Only medium-grade Philosopher's Stones are left..."

Hearing this, An Kai snorted coldly and scolded directly, "An old thing that doesn't work."

At the same time, I took Donglin's old immortal with me and scolded him all the time.

If it weren't for Donglin closing the desert, even if Hanks no longer provided low-grade magic stones, An Kai could still find a new way to exchange magic stones through the Seven Kingdoms Caravan or the rest of the Seven Kingdoms.

Even if it cost more gold coins, he didn't panic.

After all, the current Ankai lacks everything, that is, there is no shortage of gold coins.

In addition, if the desert is not closed, the foreign caravans can still conduct a steady stream of trade with the House of Goodness.

For Ankai, it's driving his tax revenue.

However...

Because the desert was closed by Donglin, Ankai now has empty gold coins, but he can't exchange them for low-grade magic stones.

After going through the 21 forces with fifth-order professionals in the previous family, and secretly trading magic stones with these forces in a year, An Kai understood a truth.

Lower-grade philosopher's stones are really precious, like the kind of guy before Hanks who made a four-figure shot at one time, there are very few.

At the very least, these 21 fifth-order professional forces are not willing to do this.

An Kai estimated that more than 20 gold coins in taxes, and 20,000 low-grade magic stones could be regarded as burning incense.

And now he comprehensively improves a spell, and the skill points required are 5400 skill points!

That's 5,400 low-grade magic stones!

After all, Ankai now has eight spells and one forging skill.

If there are really 20,000 low-grade magic stones, even if all of them are exchanged for skill points, it will not be enough to support An Kai to increase all spells from [Lv26] to [Lv30]...

At that time, even if he didn't want to, An Kai could only choose to give up some spell upgrades and use them to improve the more important ones.

For example, improve [Meditation], [Fireball Technique]...

A one-year retreat can be said to exhaust Ankai's resources.

Thankfully, he has a summon that he can summon once a day.

The third-order magic core can also be exchanged for 3 skill points.

Although it is not much, it can be regarded as supplementing part of the skill point gap.

In the room, sitting on the ice bed, An Kai glanced at his remaining resources...

Skill points: 21

First, second, and third order magic cores: 0

Inferior

The Philosopher's Stone was still because of the copying of the family, and he obtained 1013 pieces, and before the copying of the house, he did not have a single low-grade Philosopher's Stone.

There are not even the low-grade magic stones needed by the [Beast Meat Refining Platform], if it weren't for the raid, An Kai could only wait for the [Summon] to refresh, use the third-order magic core, and activate the [Beast Meat Refining Platform]...

Therefore, at present, there are several urgent problems that need to be solved in front of Ankai.

If you can't solve it, you want to get out of Donglin in ten years and give him a surprise, I'm afraid there will be some surprises...

1: Solve the source of the Magic Stone of the lower grade.

2: Solve the source of the next grade magic stone!

3: Or solve the source of the next grade magic stone!!

Strength, Ankai has now.

His own strength could already easily suppress the fifth-order [assassin] Malken, and it only took time for his strength to continue to improve steadily.

Bottlenecks or something, for him there is no such thing.

As for his subordinates, Ankai also has them.

Among them, there are 43 fourth-order horse boys who are controlled by Malken's drugs.

They were also the main force that Ankai used to collect taxes from the city.

As for the Fifth Order, An Kai now has two Ma Tsai Fifth Order, one is Malken, and the other is the Fifth Order Quadruple Mage from last night, and he has just signed a contract with him.

There is also Widow Wang, a fifth-order powerhouse who can fight against Chrissy without falling behind, and he has a cooperative relationship.

Coupled with the city of the House of Goodness that Ankai currently controls, it is no exaggeration to say that Ankai has become a huge force in the desert.

Just like the bounty building in the former Chaos City, Ankai now has enough power to subvert the power of a principality.

The premise is that the desert is not closed.

The time and place are favorable, and Ankai has them all.

The only thing missing is the lack of resources, that is, the "east wind"...

After thinking about it, An Kai didn't find a good way.

After pondering for a few seconds, he was ready to go and get the taxes he could get his hands on.

It's a pity that there are 10 fifth-order ten-fold professionals who have entered the [Soul Secret Realm]...

Standing up, and was about to say hello to the outer city, when he found those fifth-order professionals one by one, An Kai paused.

Just now.

There was a message from the spell [contract] that the [contract] he signed with the fifth-order ten-fold professional had expired.

It's not that the other party breached the contract, but that the other party died in the [Soul Secret Realm]...

"It's a pity, I died there, and I don't know if I have a chance to get the storage ring."

Muttering, Ankai led Malken out the door.

The widow Wang explained to Hanks, and with reluctance, followed Ankai's footsteps.

Next.

Late at night.

Located in a vault beneath the castle of the House of Goodness.

An Kai is holding the [Brute Force Staff], and behind him is the fifth-order [assassin] Malken, the fifth-order professional widow king, and a fifth-order four-fold [elemental mage]...

Opposite An Kai, a total of 8 fifth-order professionals with their hands tied and hanging in the air wailed in pain.

"Dog, even dare you evade my taxes?!"