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Chapter 1378 12. Who destroyed the temple?

Olmedo didn't lie. The ones she gave to Annan were indeed the easiest to deal with. If Martin was brought in, he could handle it with "yes" or "no". As for how they were handled, don't worry about it.

After doing all this, Annan, who felt that he was doing it again, stood up and found the first week's report of the savings bank.

In the first seven days, a total of 40,000 deposit certificates and 187,000 Kinnars were issued.

The vast majority of them were contributed by businessmen who had seen the “Three Businessmen” advertisement. It can be said that Annan’s advertisement hit the spot that they cared about most.

As savings banks are built in various places starting from the second week, the data is expected to grow exponentially.

Rather than worrying about whether he could collect 750 million kinaars in days, Annan needed to worry more about ensuring the safety of the savings banks in various places.

After all, if the bank was stolen or looted, the local lord would never compensate.

No one else can do the job of guarding except the Punishment Legion. Even the Hellfire Legion, the leader of the three major legions, has to admit that the Punishment Legion is the strongest legion in Liberty City.

Olmedo chose to send them out to protect the bank deposits that would definitely have problems, and Annan equipped each bank with five knight golems and five guardian golems.

Just having the Golem standing at the door can discourage many scoundrels from having such ideas, and it may even be able to boost sales of the Golem whose sales growth is about to stagnate.

Currently, golems are mainly "sold" to the Kingdom of Rikanel and the Kingdom of Dimon. The quotation marks are for the Kingdom of Dimon, which never pays.

The catch elsewhere was at best Laila's - two or three small fish.

There was no way around it. The high cost and lack of durability of golems were always a big problem. Even Liberty City couldn't afford to have golems patrolling 24 hours a day, let alone other places.

New Magic Image to film "I, Robot"?
As soon as the idea came to his mind, Annan dismissed it.

Isn't this just causing trouble for yourself? And if you want to promote it, you should also promote the savings bank - it would be best if you can promote it at the same time.

So what kind of magic image can have both a puppet and a bank, and a positive image...

Annan felt that he needed a better spell than the "Memory Thread Extraction Technique", preferably one that could sort the things in his head by keyword search.

Well... let's try our luck in the Mage Tower.

Annan went out and arrived at the Mage Tower responding to the greetings along the way.

Lilith appeared as he reached the door, like a fragment of light coalescing and forming around Annan.

"Good morning, Lilith."

"Good morning."

After saying hello, Annan got down to business: "Lilith, I need a spell similar to 'Memory Thread Extraction', but it must allow me to freely browse my memories, just like... I want to find the memory of 'wrestling', then the memories of my own wrestling and seeing others wrestling will automatically appear."

"There is no such spell."

"There's none……"

Annan still believed in Lilith's knowledge. Are there tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of spells in Allen Continent? It seems that there are still not enough.

Create your own spell?

Annan asked Lilith to introduce him to a great wizard who was good at creating spells, but she said she was currently busy.

"what are they doing?"

"Observe the temple fragments."

The debt of 750 million Kinnars almost made Annan forget about bringing this thing back. Now that he remembered it, he wanted to go and take a look.

A magical light flashed, and Lilith brought Annan to the side of the temple fragments in an instant.

The mages surrounding the fragments looked back and continued to study the temple fragments.

Lilith is the tower spirit and also the mage tower.

As a tower spirit, the stronger the Mage Tower is, the stronger she will be. After the third floor is built, she can already deliver an epic attack. When the fifth floor is built, Lilith's strength will be almost as strong as an epic, right?
The only regret is that there are only 24 hours in a day. Even if skilled workers work around the clock, it will take half a year to build a floor.

So is there any way to speed up the construction?
Annan was troubled by the pile of problems and the lack of solutions. The fragments of the temple were still where they had fallen. They had no way to get them out, so they just let them stay underground, supported by the orichalcum.

"Have we deciphered what the runes mean?"

"not yet."

Annan guessed that he would have to wait until the archbishop arrived to find out what these runes meant.

"So what's new?"

The atmosphere of the mages affected Annan, and he couldn't help but lower his voice.

"There is some power in the runes."

Annan looked at the silent temple fragments in surprise: "It still has power?"

"No."

Annan was slightly startled: "Didn't you say..."

"The power is the rune itself."

Who taught Lilith to talk like that?

Annan had no time to pursue the matter and continued to ask, "You mean, these runes, like the runes on the Mage Tower, represent some kind of power?"

"Ah."

Annan suddenly realized that there was actually no essential difference between the temple and the wizard's tower - both were the residences of important figures, both had countless servants serving them, and both were extremely solid fortresses.

But none of this matters. What really matters is that runes can be imitated.

The source of rune knowledge is Wilhelm, the arcanists and the ancient wizards. The tower that inherited the rune knowledge is very strict about this aspect. Even the rune seeds that need time to cultivate can easily cost tens of thousands of gold nars.

So what could the runes engraved on the walls of the goddess's residence be?
Not to mention the goddess of wealth who is famous for her wealth.

Annan's eyes lit up.

No wonder the usually stingy Wilhelm merchant offered 1.5 times the price of the same weight of mountain copper for it.

I can sell it to him at a high price after I finish studying the runes...

No, Olmedo said that the bigwigs of the Church of Wealth are rushing to Liberty City. Maybe, probably, possibly, maybe... they will not refuse to buy the fragments of the temple of their own god?

Out of his fantasy, Annan asked the question that mattered to him most: "Can we decipher the rune?"

“It’s demanding and requires time, money, and people.”

Annan smiled confidently: "Is this a problem?"

This is not a problem.

Their coffers will soon be filled with savings, and people from Liberty City who have received basic education are constantly leaving school. No force is more vibrant than Liberty City.
You can laugh at the current Liberty City as a group of upstarts with no background, but you must never laugh at the future of Liberty City.

The fact that Annan was able to sit in the sacred temple the moment he became lord says it all.

He thought that the mages present would have the same expectations for the future as he did, but Annan only saw the heaviness, depression and pain on their faces.

Why is this happening?

Annan looked at Lilith inquiringly, and she replied, "The mages have been thinking about a question."

“Why are all the gods trapped?”

"Who destroyed the temple?"

"Is it really a god who is responding to you?"

(End of this chapter)