Alien world

Chapter 1369 3. Ready
Joan is gone.

She can either become a powerful but scarred warrior, or become the background of Liberty City.

After all, on the battlefield with the ratmen, preserving the remains is a luxury.

Annan was not too pessimistic - because he saw Elimoas secretly hiding a dragon scale in the armor she gave to Joan.

Although I don't know how good the relationship between the two of them is, judging from the fact that Ilimayas was willing to carry her to fight, she will not sit idly by and watch Joan go.

Spend the first night of the journey home in the moonlit Liberty City.

A new day has arrived, and the incredibly efficient machine called Liberty City has begun to operate.

The corner buildings with the busiest traffic in the commercial street were requisitioned, and the tenants and residents received a considerable amount of compensation. Then Eli Crushed Stone came with his drawings, and in just half a day, he turned the mansions that could be seen everywhere in the city into a grand building with a wide hall and solemnity.

This is visible, but what is invisible is that a passage leading directly to the treasury was dug underground in the bank.

The sign of the savings bank was also hung up amid the curiosity of residents and tourists.

Annan personally went to the School of Life to give lectures to outstanding students selected from the six major colleges, teaching them the purpose of the "savings fund" and what they should do.

But these are just the surface.

The bank’s philosophy is easy to understand. Anyone can build a house, and even how to attract customers is not the key - the most important thing is how to avoid loopholes.

What if a legend walked into a bank with a forged deposit slip and tried to withdraw money, bewitched the teller, and took out a large sum of kinaar that did not belong to him?
So Annan also gave Lilith the title of deputy minister, and let her personally supervise the savings bank.

Be on guard against both external thieves and internal enemies.

But this only solves the security problem of Liberty City. A savings bank that can only be opened in Liberty City is meaningless.

The deposit certificates of the savings bank must be available in Liberty City, not elsewhere, cannot be copied, and can be mass-produced.

Annan went to ask Bronzebeard, who was most likely to tinker with this thing, and the female dwarf politely told him to get lost.

So what is something that you have uniquely that others don’t have?
Charm? It's hard to visualize this kind of thing...

Magic image? The pirated version of "The Fall of the Mage Tower" even showed Jack sleeping with a female rat man.

Mixed with orichalcum? A deposit certificate of 1 kinaar can't cost 10 kinaar, right?

Annan asked students to help come up with ideas.

Some of them said the devil's contract, and Annan said it was like forcing a cake into the devil's mouth. Some said the dragon's contract, and Annan said it was no different from the former. Others said the leaves, because each leaf was different - you could tell at a glance that they were good students who listened attentively.

However, the speaker may not have intended it, but the listener took it to heart, and Annan did have an idea.

What could be more suitable as a deposit certificate than the leaves of the other world tree?

Ever since the gate to the other world in Strange City was completely blocked, Allen's world lost contact with the dying world behind the gate, and even merchants found it difficult to travel there.

Therefore, there is almost no other source for the leaves of the Otherworldly Tree, and they are unique to Liberty City.

"Which college are you from?" Annan asked approvingly.

"School of Life, Your Majesty!" The student showed the enthusiasm only of new recruits.

"Call me Lord and you'll get 10 extra points from the School of Life!" Let them continue studying on their own. Annan went straight back to the City Lord's Mansion and picked a leaf from the tree in the other world.

He had studied it many times in the past few months. Within the scope of the Different World Tree, the leaves can be connected to each other. In addition, they are also like the World Tree, never withering.

It is easy to eliminate the connection function. It can be done by destroying the leaves, such as cutting them into the shape of paper.

However, if it is to be used as a deposit certificate, more experiments are needed.

Once we decide to use the leaves of the Other World Tree as deposits, the hundreds of thousands of leaves we have now may not be enough...

Annan still understands the principle that if you want the horse to run, you must first let it graze. They need more humanity and more death row prisoners!
It's just that Liberty City is in the middle of nowhere right now, and even if we go back to Gem Bay, the security in the entire Gem Bay area has increased by 99.8% due to the previous actions. Unless we catch petty thieves and sentence them to death, it's really hard to catch death row prisoners.

After much thought, Annan contacted the Golden City again on the first day after leaving the Broken Mountains, and asked Wilson not to rush to execute the death row prisoner if he was caught, as he had some use for him.

Wilson could not believe that Annan contacted him for this kind of thing for the first time. He said murderously, "The Broken Mountains lack everything except coal and nobles who refuse to give up!"

Just a Broken Mountain Range might not be enough. Annan wondered if he could "buy" a group of death row prisoners through the two hundred commercial streets outside?

Those towns probably wouldn't object to the opportunity to get free money, and not arresting innocent people would be considered merciful. The only question is, will this damage the reputation of Liberty City?

……

As an excellent subordinate, it is Adoni's responsibility to share his lord's worries.

When Dwight, who was in charge of Diagon Alley at Stortovice Commercial Street, learned that Annan wanted the death row prisoners but didn't know how to ask, he took the initiative to go to City Hall and said that he wanted to collect a batch of death row prisoners and transport them to Montreal.

The deputy city lord who received Dwight did not suspect anything and just thought that His Majesty on the Mount Montreal was up to some new trick.

For example, shows like the fight between death row inmates, the building of a new Beijing opera house, and the raising of man-eating monsters are popular among the people of the Empire.

As for why they let people from Liberty City go instead of official channels... maybe it was the action of our ancestor's faction?

The deputy city lord said that he would do it right away. Not only did he not ask for any money, he also specially asked the city guards to make a circle in the city and capture more than a dozen people.

Although it is the "city of innocence", there are always some dark things happening in the corners.

When other commercial streets found out, they followed suit and also asked local officials for death row prisoners, using the excuse that the empire needed them.

When the news reached the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, officials were confused.

How come they didn’t know that His Majesty was going to host a new event?
In any case, the Liberty City Prison was overcrowded for the first time in a long time. Just in case, the deputy warden Yingge checked these people and took them away to be used as fertilizer for the Otherworld Tree after confirming that they deserved to die.

The style of the deposit certificate was also finalized: a palm-sized piece of parchment with a leaf the size of a fingernail glued to it.

After all, using a whole leaf as a deposit slip is too extravagant, and a leaf of the other world tree can be made into at least 30 deposit slips after cutting.

The principle of anti-counterfeiting is very simple: the leaves of each deposit slip are photocopied in advance. When customers need to withdraw money, they present the deposit slip, and the bank checks the authenticity of the leaves and then compares them with the photocopied pattern. If they match, they can withdraw money.

The principle is similar to that of a key, but it is a key that cannot be copied.

Even though the Other World Tree is still very young, the difficulty of imitating it is no different from imitating the World Tree.

(End of this chapter)