Suppressing the pleasant surprise in his heart, Gray put away all the blood and magic potions. Withstanding the pressure, he arrived at the inner side of the room, where there were five purple wooden chests.
Opening the first chest, a sea of red entered his eyes. It was a chest full of red gems. They were top grade rune materials, blood gems. This was a rune material that was far more precious than purple gold stones.
Opening the second chest, a frost-like color entered his eyes. These were frost gems, a top grade rune material that was no less precious than blood gems.
The third chest, the fourth chest, the fifth chest … In the end, all five chests were opened by Gray. They were all precious rune materials.
"All of them are precious rune materials. Could the owner of this secret room be a Rune Master?"
Although he didn't get any gold coins or magic coins, Gray didn't feel that it was a pity. These were all extremely precious top grade rune materials. If he sold them, twenty to thirty million gold coins wouldn't be a problem. One could imagine how high their value was.
However, he was a little puzzled. Why did the owner of this secret room collect so many rune materials? Could it be that the owner of this secret room was a Rune Master? Was the rune mechanism outside also arranged by the owner?
With such doubts in mind, Gray put the five chests into his purple ring and walked towards the bookshelf on the left.
The books that were placed in the depths of the secret room were definitely not something that the books in the library outside could compare to. He was a little curious as to what kind of books were on these shelves. Would there be extremely precious blood spell books or blood skills?
Arriving next to the bookshelf, Lin Yun casually took out a book. The cover of the book was leather, and the pages were also leather. Even after a thousand years, the pages were still undamaged, and the words on the book were still clearly visible.
"《Sharp Wind Rune》."
Seeing the words on the book, Gray had already expected the contents of the book. Sure enough, after opening it, his guess was confirmed.
The book was full of large sections of cryptic text records, as well as pages of extremely complicated runic arrays.
This was a high grade wind rune book. It was extremely precious. If a Rune Master saw it, he would definitely be wild with joy and be willing to exchange his wealth for it.
However, it wasn't very useful to Gray. Without any foundation in runes, he couldn't understand this book at all. It was like a primary school student reading a university function textbook. It was too difficult to understand.
Gray took out another book to read.
《Frost Rune》, an ice attribute rune book. It was also an extremely high grade rune book that Gray couldn't understand.
Putting it away, Lin Yun picked up another book to read. It was also a rune book.
After looking through several books in succession, he found that they were all books of this type. Their value was indeed extremely high, but to Gray, they were not very practical.
He could tell that these books were all rune books. Now, he could basically confirm that the owner of this secret room was a Rune Grandmaster. Otherwise, it would be impossible to collect so many rune materials and rune books.
Gray checked the 20 or so books one by one and found that all of them were related to runes. They were all extremely valuable and highly specialized books that weren't very useful to Gray.
Gray looked past the bookshelf and looked at the weapon rack.
There were a dozen or so magic weapons on the rack. There were sword-type magic weapons, saber-type magic weapons, axe-type magic weapons, and spear-type magic weapons.
They were emitting colorful halos. Just from their appearance, Lin Yun could tell that these magic weapons weren't simple.
"I wonder if there are any silver grade magic weapons here?"
Looking at the dozen or so magic weapons, Gray's heart was filled with excitement.
Shi Feng pulled out a sword-shaped Mana Weapon and infused it with Blood Power. Suddenly, a cyan light attached itself to the weapon, causing it to grow to three meters long. At the same time, an ear-piercing buzzing sound came from the weapon.
Coming to the outside passage, Gray slashed the purple-gold stone wall with his sword.
Boom!
The purple-gold stone wall was intact. Although the runic circle had been destroyed, the reinforced lines were not damaged and were still working.
"Its power is about the first level of the desolate grade. This is a pinnacle bronze magic weapon!"
Gray judged after feeling the power of the attack.
He was now at the second level of the barbarian grade. Infusing it with blood energy, it could exert the destructive power of the first level of the desolate grade. This meant that it was a pinnacle bronze magic weapon.
After testing the dozen or so magic weapons, even the non-sword-type ones, Gray found that these magic weapons were all pinnacle bronze magic weapons.
Pinnacle bronze magic weapons were only inferior to silver grade magic weapons in terms of quality. Generally speaking, only a few count families, the Marquis family, and the Duke family owned them, and they were extremely rare.
There were more than a dozen pinnacle bronze magic weapons here, and their value was definitely very high.
He had never bought them before, so he didn't have an accurate understanding of the specific price.
However, Gray estimated that if these dozen or so pinnacle bronze magic weapons were to be sold, they should be worth at least forty to fifty million gold coins. Moreover, these things were extremely rare. They were basically priceless, so he didn't have to worry about not being able to sell them.
"It's a pity that there are no silver grade magic weapons!"
The only thing that Gray regretted was that there weren't any silver grade magic weapons among these weapons.
"I'm greedy!"
Gray smiled. His harvest today was already big enough. If all these things were to be converted into gold coins, they would be worth hundreds of millions of gold coins. His harvest was extremely huge.
As for the silver grade magic weapons, these things were extremely rare even during the era of the Empire. It was normal that he didn't get it.
After putting away the dozen or so weapons, Gray looked at the skeleton of a Magic Light powerhouse leaning against the innermost wall.
If there was the most precious thing in this room, it would definitely be on this Magic Light powerhouse.
Withstanding the pressure, Gray walked step by step towards the skeleton of the Magic Light powerhouse.
As he got closer, the pressure from the skeleton of the Magic Light powerhouse became stronger and stronger. Fortunately, his current physical strength was extremely strong, and he successfully withstood it. He came to the side of the skeleton and sized it up.
As a top-notch powerhouse, the clothes on the skeleton were naturally not simple. Although it looked like a casual aristocratic attire, the material was extremely unusual. Even after a thousand years, it still wasn't completely damaged.
"He once suffered a very serious injury when he was alive!"
Gray looked at the skeleton's chest. There, the aristocratic attire was cut open, and he could see the jade-like ribs inside.
And these ribs, without exception, were all broken in two at the chest. The skeleton's chest was almost cut in half.
If Gray's guess was correct, this should be the skeleton's fatal wound.
Gray thought of the ruins of the Empire that he, Sophia, and Teresa had explored. They had encountered the skeleton of a powerhouse suspected to be of the Magic Light rank. The other party should have died from a punch to the heart.
And now, this powerhouse suspected to be of the Magic Light rank was almost cut in half.
"What exactly happened a thousand years ago?
Why did two powerhouses suspected to be of the Magic Light rank die so miserably? "
Gray held his chin with one hand, his heart full of doubts.
A thousand years ago, the Empire suddenly disappeared in an extremely short period of time. Some guessed that it was destroyed by the Four Great Kingdoms and replaced it. Some guessed that it was destroyed by the mysterious ghost merchants, and some guessed that it was met with a powerful external force.
Now, it seemed that the possibility of it being destroyed by the Four Great Kingdoms could almost be eliminated. The strength of the Four Great Kingdoms was simply not enough to destroy the Empire.
And the possibility of it being destroyed by the ghost merchants could not be eliminated. After all, Gray had seen the power of the ghost merchants. They could create an illusory space that filled an entire city. Such a method was simply unimaginable and indescribably powerful.
However, in his heart, Gray felt that the Empire was not destroyed by the ghost merchants. There was no basis for this, and it could only be said to be a kind of intuition.
From the rules of the Ghost Merchant's barter, it could be seen that the Ghost Merchant was a very principled person. Would such a principled person do something to destroy an empire?
In Gray's view, it was not very likely. Even if they really had a grudge with the Empire, they should have killed the first and not implicated the entire Empire.
Therefore, in Gray's view, it was more likely that it was the work of a powerful external force.
This force came to this continent to do something or to search for something. Because of this matter, they had a conflict with the Empire, which ultimately led to the destruction of the Empire.
And this force left this continent after the Empire was destroyed, which led to the rise of the Four Great Kingdoms. If this force was still around, the Four Great Kingdoms would not have had the chance to rise.
Gray's gaze searched the skeleton and the surroundings, wanting to find something valuable.
"A saber?"
Soon, he found an outline on the ground. Judging from the shape of the outline, it should be a saber.
After a thousand years, a lot of dust had accumulated in the secret room, causing a lot of dust to stick to the surface of this saber.
He happily brushed away the dust and grabbed the saber in his hand. If the weapon used by a powerhouse suspected to be at the Magic Light rank was below the Silver rank, Gray would not believe it. It was even possible that it was at the Gold rank. After all, the other party was a powerhouse suspected to be at the Magic Light rank.
But soon, the expression on his face turned into deep regret.
"It's actually broken!"
This was a silver-white battle saber with a bronze hilt. The hilt was carved with a giant beast that Gray did not recognize. The hilt was the upper and lower mouth of the giant beast, and the blade seemed to be spat out from the mouth of the giant beast.
However, the silver-white blade was only one meter long. At the tip, Gray estimated that about one-third of the area had completely disappeared.
This was a broken saber!