Chapter 91: Like a Sack of Potatoes

When Julius opened the ring, he felt a mixture of both awe and disgust. It was like a box the size of a large cabinet, filled to the brim with copper, silver, gold, and platinum coins, neatly organized into distinct piles. Julius thought the several gold coins he earned were a lot. But he was now looking at probably dozens of platinum coins alone. It was more money than Julius had seen so far in his life.

However, there was also a pile of handcuffs, whips, and other sexual items off to the side. It was kind of alarming to see how many of them there were. He had to wonder just how much time this Lagos person spent doing things like that.

There were several boxes of pills and other alchemical products, some of which Julius would not be surprised to learn were for more perverse activities. One specific red box was right next to a pile of handcuffs seemed awfully suspicious.

There was also a small area where miscellaneous items were kept, things like cores and jewelry. As well as a couple large chests with some sort of enchanted lock around them.

Once he thought he had an idea of what was inside, he willed himself to leave the spatial device. When he came out of the ring, the first thing he did was tell Declan, “I don’t think it is alright that I keep this.”

“Why’s that?” Declan asked confused.

Julius threw his hands up in the air and had an exasperated expression on his face. “There’s way too much money and then on top of it, there’s a bunch of stuff that I don’t feel comfortable holding on to,” Julius replied.

Declan held out his hand, asking for Julius’s permission to look through it. He passed it over to Declan without a second thought, allowing him to see for himself. To be fair, Julius was not that surprised by the contents of the ring. The money was the most surprising, but the other stuff was kind of expected.

He imagined that Geoffrey was not the only noble son who liked to play those types of games in his free time. He did wonder how Lord Lagos would take this. Declan made it sound like it was a normal thing for nobles in this world. As if bribery was the lesser evil or something.

Declan took some time to search through the ring. He probably saw all the money, because he said to Julius, “Oh, that’s not that much. It is mostly just platinum. A fortune to most normal people, but anyone Tier 4 or above like his father doesn’t worry much about regular currency. This is nothing to Lord Lagos.”

Regular currency, what does that mean? I thought several gold coins were nice after selling those cores, but he makes it sound like dozens of platinum is nothing. Declan is Tier 4 as well, does that mean he is also filthy rich?

Julius was thinking about what kind of currency higher-tiered individuals used when he observed Declan’s face flinch and turn to disgust, probably seeing all the special items that the young Lagos had on his person. However, Declan all of a sudden turned incredibly still and serious.

He must have found something.

Declan’s consciousness returned from the ring, and he took a deep breath, calming himself. Julius was curious as to what he might have found that caused that type of reaction.

Was it one of the cases of pills or something? Or was it something else?

Julius didn’t go through everything, but that was mostly because he had no idea what most of the items were in the first place. He could tell that some of the pills or elixirs were for healing or were some sort of life-attributed products. But other than that, he wasn’t knowledgeable enough to analyze the items within the spatial ring.

He was very interested in how the ring worked though. He knew that there were specialized enchanters and mages who worked primarily in spatial enchantments, but he had no idea how they worked. It was something that he wanted to eventually learn about. He thought it would be very insightful and practical to know how they worked.

I mean what person doesn’t want the ability to teleport at will?

There were many practical applications for spatial enchantments. For example, spatial teleportation circles were unbelievably useful for emergency travel. They were extraordinarily expensive and restricted to a very limited amount of licensed people, but the ability to travel instantly had immense value. Some companies have tried to use spatial teleportation to transport goods and materials. However, the cost of the travel was sometimes more than the goods themselves.

What was the point of having the materials and products there days or weeks earlier if you lost money in the end? That was why most merchant companies used traditional methods for supply chain management. You could fit many thousands of tons of materials on a ship, like the ones that Lord Lagos makes. On the other hand, teleporting that much weight would cost more than building a couple of ships combined.

Julius watched as Declan paced around the empty square where he had lured Geoffrey. Declan didn’t seem like he was in a good mood either, whatever he had found inside that ring must have been something bad or important.

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Julius’s patience eventually ran out and he asked, “What happened?”