Shifting his gaze away from the rune puppet, he surveyed the entire room.
Gray discovered that the room in front of him should be a place similar to a large hall.
The surrounding walls were carved with beautiful patterns, but it was extremely empty. Apart from some flower vases, stone carvings and the like, there were no other decorations placed in the corners of the walls.
At the same time, on the inner walls of the room, as well as the walls on both sides, there were a total of three doors that were one meter wide and two meters tall.
Gray and the other two first entered the leftmost room.
There was also a rune lamp on the ceiling of the room, but compared to the one in the hall, it was much smaller. Moreover, it wasn't hung, but stuck tightly to the wall.
There were many black wooden cabinets in the room.
These black cabinets were of different sizes, with some being tall and some being short. However, they weren't like the ones they'd seen in the castle before, where they were completely rotten. Although the color was mottled, there were no signs of decay.
These cabinets had obviously been rummaged through, because the cabinets' doors had been opened. Some places were locked, but the locks had been pried open by force.
Gray and the other two checked the cabinets one by one, but found that they were all spotless. There wasn't even the slightest bit of residue left behind. After searching through all the cabinets, the three of them didn't even know what these cabinets were used for.
One could only imagine how clean the people in front of them had been.
After leaving this room, the three of them entered the room against the wall.
The ceiling was also lit by a rune lamp. Rows of brackets were placed against the walls of the room. The wooden planks of the brackets were slightly slanted, and there were rows of wooden strips arranged vertically on them. There were obvious slots on the wooden strips.
Fergus Castle also had such a structure. They were brackets used to store weapons. For example, the ironwood sword that Gray had used in his battle with Bernal had been taken from one of those brackets.
If he wasn't mistaken, these racks used to be used to store weapons as well. However, they were probably of a much higher grade than the ones in Viscount Fergus' castle. Perhaps there used to be magic weapons as well. However, they were all empty now, leaving only the racks here.
Leaving this room, the three of them came to the last room, which was the one against the right wall.
"Wow …"
After entering the room, Bernal couldn't help but exclaim. Gray and Viscount Fergus were also stunned.
Gold, dazzling gold.
In the room, at the innermost wall, there was a small mountain shining with golden light. It was as tall as a person and was completely made of gold coins, making it difficult for people to take their eyes off it.
"How many gold coins is this?"
Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Gray looked a little sluggish.
Three million? Or five million?
They were too big and there were too many of them. It was difficult to estimate the number of gold coins in front of him with just his eyes.
In this world, ordinary civilians might not be able to earn a single gold coin in their entire lives. However, there were millions of gold coins in front of them. If they were used to pay ordinary civilians, they could hire millions of people to work for a lifetime. One could imagine how shocking the amount of gold coins in front of them was.
"It would be even better if it's from the Purple Moon Kingdom …"
Bernal had already walked up quickly, grabbed a handful of gold coins and looked at them in the palm of his hand, and sighed slightly.
Gray also walked over, grabbed a few gold coins and spread them out in the palm of his hand.
There was a portrait on the front of the gold coins. In the portrait, there was a dignified middle-aged man. Even through the gold coins, the other party's dignified image jumped out.
At the bottom of the portrait, there were the words "Palmer III".
Something that would appear in the ruins of the Empire naturally couldn't be something from the Purple Moon Kingdom. Moreover, the Purple Moon Kingdom didn't have a person like Palmer III.
Therefore, this person called Palmer III must be someone from the Empire. Gray guessed that this person was very likely to be a king of one of the Empires. This was because the person printed on the Purple Moon Kingdom's gold coins was the founding king of the Purple Moon Kingdom, William I.
On the back of the gold coins was a huge and magnificent palace. There was a deep moat, high city walls, and a steeple building that was like a mountain peak. It was extremely spectacular, but there was no description. He didn't know what this palace was called, and he didn't know if this palace still existed.
It was worth mentioning that Gray could actually recognize the words on the gold coins. Obviously, the words of the Empire were the same as the words of the continent now. There were no new words that evolved.
"Does this mean that the Empire has some kind of relationship with the Four Kingdoms now?"
Gray couldn't help but think about the relationship between the Empire and the Four Kingdoms. However, in the end, he could only shake his head helplessly. Just the same words didn't prove anything.
"If they were melted into gold and sold, the value would be reduced by more than half."
Bernal's voice pulled Gray back to reality. Bernal was already calculating how to convert these gold coins from the Empire era into money.
"Brother Bernal, there's so much, we can't take it all away."
Gray answered helplessly.
He roughly understood why the other rooms were empty, but only this room was piled with so many gold coins.
There were simply too many of them, and they were in the Red Leaf Forest where blood fiends ran rampant. It was impossible to get a carriage or something like that. Simply put, it wasn't that the people in front of them didn't want it, but that they couldn't take it all in one go.
"What a pity."
Bernal obviously understood this point, but he was shocked by the amount of gold coins.
"There's actually a book here …"
Looking away from the gold coins, Gray discovered that at the top of the gold coins was a book with a purple leather cover. He had been so attracted by the light of the gold coins that he had neglected the existence of this book.
Picking up the book, Gray looked at the title on the cover.
"'Bloodline Catalog'."
Gray softly muttered the name, but he couldn't deduce the content of the book from the name. Thus, he flipped the cover open and looked at the title page.
"If you trace the origin of any low-level blood fiend's bloodline, it can be traced back to a powerful blood fiend. The reason for this phenomenon is that the bloodline has a tendency to deteriorate. There is a chance that a high-level blood fiend will deteriorate into a low-level blood fiend."
"This book arranges the common blood fiends according to the concentration of their bloodline. Many of them have been verified by blood studies, and some are the author's conjectures. You are welcome to discuss them together, Porsis."
The Porsis at the end should be the author's name. Looking at the title page, Gray couldn't help but think of the book "The Origin of Species" that he had read before.
Although the arguments were not the same, and were even completely opposite, one was a conjecture based on the deterioration of species, the other was based on the evolution of species. However, they had the same effect.
Both proved that there was a bloodline connection between high-level blood fiends and low-level blood fiends.
"Gray, what is this book about?"
Seeing that Gray had actually found a book, Bernal asked curiously.
"It's about blood fiends."
Gray handed the book to Bernal, but Bernal handed it back after reading it. Clearly, he wasn't that interested in books.
He would rather spend an hour on cultivation than spend an hour on reading books. This could be seen from the fact that he didn't know about the "Imperial Ruins".
Although there was very little information about the Imperial Ruins, the books in Fergus Castle's library did mention the Imperial Ruins. However, he didn't know about it. Clearly, he didn't read these books carefully.
"Father, what do we do with these gold coins?"
Having lost interest in the book, Bernal was once again concerned about the gold coins.
Although they were gold coins from the Imperial Era and could no longer be circulated, they could still be smelted into gold and sold.
Hearing the question, Viscount Fergus frowned. If they could take away all these gold coins, the Fergus family would definitely make a fortune. They could get at least one or two million gold coins, which was more than what the Fergus family had accumulated for more than a hundred years.
Unfortunately, there were too many of them and they were in the depths of the Red Leaf Forest. It was impossible to take them all.
Without affecting our movements, the three of us will each take a portion and abandon the rest. "
He decided on the spot.
"Abandon?
Father, do you mean that you don't plan to come again? "
Bernal frowned after hearing the meaning of Viscount Fergus's words.
"Yes."
Viscount Fergus nodded affirmatively.
"Father, are you worried that the group of people in front of us will return again?"
Bernal wasn't a fool and immediately guessed Viscount Fergus's worries.
"Yes, I'm afraid that they will return. Pack the gold coins and leave this place as soon as possible."
Viscount Fergus ordered.
"Yes."
Gray and Bernal nodded. They each took out a large leather bag from their backpacks and began to pack the gold coins.
However, in the process of packing, Gray couldn't help but have a guess. These gold coins might have been abandoned by the group of people in front of them.
However, after guessing, he immediately denied it. The Marquis family probably wouldn't let go of one or two million gold coins. Logically speaking, it was impossible for the group of people in front of them to give up on the gold coins.