The City Lord's Private Treasury

"City Lord, this is Wuguang Island... Ah, no, this is your private treasury. If there is nothing else, this subordinate shall take his leave first."

After bringing Shen Feng to the location, Huo Ge tactfully departed.

Now that this entire city belonged to Shen Feng, it was the private property of the new City Lord. How could a subordinate like him pry into it? Obviously, he couldn't. Having spent many years in officialdom, Huo Ge would not make such a foolish mistake.

Shen Feng shook his head, not paying mind to Huo Ge. At this moment, his entire attention was focused on the private treasury of the Tianyuan City City Lord.

The treasury was located in an underground palace beneath the City Lord's manor. The entrance was blocked by a massive, tightly shut door made of refined iron.

Shen Feng took the treasury key from his bag and inserted it directly into the lock.

"Creak... creak..."

The sound of gears turning echoed as the refined iron door slowly opened. The scene before him almost blinded Shen Feng's 24K titanium alloy eyes.

An underground treasury of about fifty square meters appeared before him. Though the space wasn't large, it was packed with all sorts of things.

The first thing that caught his eye was twenty large, uncovered wooden chests, filled to the brim with glittering gold coins.

"My god, so many gold coins."

Shen Feng's eyes shone brightly. As expected, his guess was correct. This City Lord was definitely a highly corrupt official, daring to hide so many gold coins in his private treasury.

Shen Feng used his Panlong Ring to collect the twenty chests of gold coins one by one.

"Ding! You have received 200,000 gold coins. Triggered X100 Reward: you receive 20,000,000 gold coins."
"Ding! You have received 200,000 gold coins. Triggered X100 Reward: you receive 20,000,000 gold coins."
"Ding! ..."

There were forty chests in total, each containing 200,000 gold coins. After being multiplied a hundredfold, Shen Feng collected a total of 800 million gold coins.

Dealing with the Tianyuan City Lord this time was indeed a massive windfall.

Compared to only receiving 20% of the gold coins on an NPC's person after defeating them, searching for the NPC's treasury directly was the most efficient way to make money. After all, with the former method, 80% of the wealth did not fall into the player's hands, whereas the latter allowed them to receive 100% of the rewards.

However, this required the player to find the NPC's hiding place, and not every NPC was this wealthy.

A City Lord of a main city, if not corrupt, would find it hard to amass such a massive fortune even after working a lifetime. But the City Lords of these small nations were different. The legal systems of these kingdoms were inherently loose, allowing the City Lords of small nations to operate like feudal lords ruling their own territories, which was why they could accumulate so much wealth.

…

He went deeper into the secret chamber.

At this moment, Shen Feng saw that the shelves in the secret chamber were lined with various pieces of equipment of different colors and shapes. At a glance, there had to be over a hundred items, along with over fifty skill books of various types neatly stacked on the shelves.

In addition, there were many blueprints, materials, and precious medicinal herbs.

Shen Feng only glanced at them before sweeping all the items in the treasury into his Panlong Ring.

"Ding! ..."

A series of system notifications rang in Shen Feng's ears.

A few minutes later, Shen Feng opened his inventory to take stock of his harvest after it had been multiplied a hundredfold.

Regarding equipment, this time he received fifty Dark Gold-grade items, thirty Diamond-grade or higher items, thirteen Legendary-grade items, five Epic-grade items, and various other pieces of gear.

Regarding skill books, there were twenty-three Dark Gold-grade books, fifteen Diamond-grade books, five Legendary-grade books, and one Epic-grade book.

The rest consisted of countless medicinal herbs, materials, and blueprints. Because there were too many, Shen Feng didn't examine them one by one, intending to sell them to NPCs when he returned to the main city.

His luck wasn't bad this time; the two pieces of equipment and the Epic-grade skill book were all usable by him.

Shen Feng took out the two pieces of equipment.

**[Dark Mist Shadow Pants] (Epic)**
Defense: +300
HP: +2,600
Intelligence: +160
Slot: Pants
Level Requirement: 50
Applicable Classes: Mage, Priest, Summoner.
Special Effect 1: Releases black smoke, causing enemies to fall into a Blind state for 20 seconds. Cooldown: 300 seconds.
Special Effect 2: (One-time use) When taking damage greater than 30% of maximum HP, a dark mist protective shield is triggered. The shield value is equal to 30% of the user's maximum HP.
Description: ...

**[Shimo Spirit Spaulders] (Epic)**
Defense: +280
HP: +1,500
Intelligence: +150
Constitution: +100
Slot: Shoulders
Level Requirement: 50
Applicable Classes: Mage, Priest, Summoner.
Special Effect 1: Skill casting speed increased by 50%.
Special Effect 2: Maximum MP increased by 30%.
Special Effect 3: Reduces all resistances of surrounding monsters by 10%.
Description: ...

These two Epic-grade items had very good attributes. The pants were a life-saving gear; the Blind effect on enemies was highly effective for both fleeing and chasing, though it didn't have much effect on high-level creatures.

The second item had an excellent special attribute, increasing the maximum MP that he needed most. With the 30% bonus MP, Shen Feng could summon two more rounds of summoned beasts.

However, both items required Level 50 to use, so he had to store them back in his Panlong Ring.

Finally, he looked at the Epic-grade skill book.

**[Summon Necromancer - Nicholas] (Epic-grade Skill Book)**
Learning Requirement: Level 50 (After Second Class Advancement)
Learning Class: Summoner
Skill Effect: Consumes 500 MP, chants for 5 seconds.
Summons a Necromancer - Nicholas (Epic-grade summoned creature) to assist in battle.
- Level 1: Possesses the skill **[Summon Skeleton Warrior]**: Revives all corpses within a 1,000x1,000 meter range into Skeleton Warriors. The Skeleton Warriors' level is equal to the summoner's level, with strength equivalent to normal monsters of the same level.
- Level 10: Possesses the skill **[Vampiric Aura] (Passive)**: Allies within a 500-meter range will have a 30% lifesteal effect applied to their melee attacks.
- Level 20: Possesses the skill **[Mass Frenzy]**: Can be cast simultaneously on 10 friendly units, increasing attack speed by 50%, movement speed by 50%, and casting speed by 50%. Affected units lose 500 HP per second.
- Level 30: Possesses the skill **[Summon Abyss Corpse King] (Epic BOSS)**: Summons an Epic-grade BOSS of the same level as the user. The summoned creature's attributes scale with the master's strength. The creature exists for 500 seconds and disappears upon death or when the duration ends. Cooldown: 500 seconds.

"Excellent! Another Undead-type summoned beast, and it's even a Mage type."

Carefully examining the attributes of the skill book, a bright smile appeared on Shen Feng's face.

Undead-type summoned creatures were usually not strong in terms of individual power but won by overwhelming the opponent with numbers, making them extremely suitable for large-scale battles. This was also the reason why the human race was always wary when facing Necromancers.

Normally, they would always find a way to eliminate the Necromancer first. Otherwise, a surviving Necromancer could bring an endless undead army sweeping over, which was incredibly terrifying.

Shen Feng recalled a battle in his past life where the Scourge army had deployed a high-level Necromancer. That guy simply hid within the massive army and continuously cast magic, summoning an endless undead army. In the end, the human side had to dispatch many elite experts to surround and eliminate him, paying an extremely tragic price to defeat him.

He hadn't expected that he would also obtain the skill to summon a Necromancer now. Unfortunately, he had to reach Level 50 and complete his second class advancement to learn it.

Helplessly, he had to store the skill book back in his ring.