Chapter 1050: Chapter 249: Audrey’s Advancement Trait_2

"How’s it going, have all the debts been paid off?"

Caroline nodded and said, "All cleared. The transaction amount within the territory reached over 60 billion Spirit Crystal Coins, plus Presto’s property tax. After settling the debts with them, the territory still has a surplus of over 20 billion."

Lin Rui asked enthusiastically, "Is there any treasure among Presto’s assets?"

The taxation on Presto wasn’t targeted specifically at him by Lin Rui; it was a popular movement for a property tax on the wealthy.

This sentiment is supported by some of the wealthy as well, which might seem surprising. In fact, when the gap between rich and poor is drastic and public sentiment is strong, many world and national billionaires support government legislation to increase taxes on the rich.

Moreover, taxing the wealthy is something that a normal government inevitably does during its development.

Only some governments can achieve it, while others cannot.

The interest entanglement is quite complex, involving all sorts of struggles.

But there’s no such issue in the Golden Pansy Domain; no one in this territory can challenge Lin Rui’s will.

Therefore, under popular pressure, the new tax law was smoothly implemented.

This was not solely targeting any individual; every class needs to pay taxes.

With so much wealth, it has to be put to use. Lin Rui asked, "Was the 20 billion all stored in Lu Wenbo’s Secret Place of Enormous Wealth?"

Lu Wenbo’s Secret Place of Enormous Wealth is a special product sold to Lin Rui by the Wizard World.

[Semi-Divine Artifact: Lu Wenbo’s Secret Place of Enormous Wealth]

[Attributes: Territorial Item]

[Lu Wenbo was a powerful wizard long lost to the river of history, renowned for his unparalleled wealth and magic knowledge. It is said that to store his vast wealth, he created this magical semi-divine artifact. It allows anyone to invest wealth into it to gain his immense mana.]

[Knowledge is wealth, and vice versa!]

[Trait 1 Skillful in Financial Management: The territory can store wealth in this building, gaining a 0.035% return every cycle.]

[Trait 2 Gate of Wealth: Special gates of wealth allow you to invest and gain the ability to enhance your combat power.]

[Trait 3 Wizard Enslavement: All units within the territory’s influence can be captured and forcibly enlisted as soldiers by investing resources.]

[Trait 4 Divine Enlightenment: Anyone investing above 100 Spirit Crystal Coins will receive an enlightening opportunity, gaining wealth or power growth chances. (Note: This Spirit Crystal Coins will be split 9:1 between Lu Wenbo and the territory)]

[Price: 20 billion Spirit Crystal Coins!]

This is a semi-divine artifact, and in absolute terms, it stands alongside the semi-divine artifact Audrey took away, the Praying Maiden Statue, as the territory’s largest source of wealth.

It can help the territory uncover all hidden treasures, secrets, and opportunities within its domain.

Under Trait 2 Divine Enlightenment, the territory’s people, Explorers, and Soldiers can gain various opportunities, going to hidden caves, groves, caverns, or even Underground Cities to find various commodities, items, and strengthening goods.

This effect may seem weak, but as the territory expands, this is truly a divine skill!

It’s equivalent to everyone obtaining a golden finger, with the system telling them which direction to go, how many miles, turn left/right a few steps, to encounter a treasure chest, or pick up an artifact.

The key is not just this; if enough Spirit Crystal Coins are invested, it might enlighten you on when and where to possibly encounter an injured wild troop, and even tell you the weaknesses of a dragon or where to find a weapon to kill the dragon.

This makes it practically as if every inhabitant of the territory gets a protagonist template.

Moreover, the abilities of this divine item can be activated more than once.

For Lin Rui, its ability is even more significant as it can reward himself!

Others invest their money to become stronger, while he obtains their investment wealth.

But what Lin Rui focuses on the most is Trait 1 [Skillful in Financial Management].

The 0.035% gain per cycle, actually converted to annual rate, is not negligible. The annual rate is 1.82%.

From this rate, it can also be seen that this semi-divine artifact is a legitimate transaction entity, much like a bank.

But there’s a problem, and that is time is the most potent weapon in the world! Anything, any normal attribute, once combined with the dimension of time, will refresh everyone’s perception.

Lin Rui previously calculated that investing 20 billion Spirit Crystal Coins into it would yield a compounded return of 3.93 billion over ten years.

And ten years for the Golden Pansy Domain is just a blink.

Because as of yesterday, all regular Territorial Essence has been invested.

Now it’s time to invest the small Territorial Essence, to activate the Historically Significant trait for 20 cycles at once, nearly half a year’s return.

And Yurik alone sold Lin Rui 100 small Territorial Essences.

Hence today is actually another busy and lively day in the territory, with the distant thunder of warfare, and the scattered sounds of firearms, Spiritual Energy, and magic explosions.

Lin Rui still finding time to pay attention to Presto’s assets is entirely due to his capable subordinates.

Caroline immediately replied, "Presto focused more on personal strength, most of his collection comprises items to enhance personal power, all distributed to the soldiers."

Lin Rui frowned slightly and asked, "Doesn’t he possess any strategic treasures?"

"Yes, but most of it is with him. He is a hero, currently assembling his army, so he retained this part."

Lin Rui was instantly intrigued and asked, "He’s assembling an army? Where are the members from?"

"Yes, he’s assembling the Giant Dragon Legion, mainly sourced from... his offspring, which are the siblings of Death’s Wings."

Lin Rui suddenly recalled that this guy had quite a few dragon eggs in his Dragon Nest.

Under the reinforcement of the Territory Essence, these dragon eggs should be hatching.

These are high-talent dragons, and with the territory’s trait reinforcement, almost all of them can assure their tier and level, maybe they’re all Legendary-level.

This guy, moving over, has made a huge profit, securing his offspring’s future.

Lin Rui asked, "How many dragons have hatched?"

"Nine, and without worrying about their talent, within the territory, once they mature, they are guaranteed to be Legendary Giant Dragons."

"Another nine dragons." Lin Rui first sighed about the Radiant Hourglass’s activation conditions needing an upgrade.

Nevertheless, this is a boon for the Golden Pansy Domain. Even with the Golden Pansy Domain’s military strength, an additional squad of Legendary Giant Dragons raises the power by nearly one percent.

A daily 1% power increase would double the strength in a month.

Lin Rui pondered and said, "Let Presto hand over half to Commander Wutong to upgrade quickly; I need them to join the Desolate Domain World’s exploration today."

These juvenile dragons should stop arrogantly loafing around and go train alongside the Aries Saints.

Let them witness the territory’s robust foundation, aiding them in maintaining humility.

Caroline also said, "We’ve already transferred over 8 billion Spirit Crystal Coins to Wutong to remove the Command Value, striving to complete the reorganization of the Legendary-level troops before you enter the Desolate Domain World."

Spending tens of billions of Spirit Crystal Coins to assemble a Legendary-level army under a Holy Spirit-level hero is undoubtedly worth it.

Once Wutong completes the reorganization, the power of this army might even astonish Lin Rui.

Even if the Desolate Domain World is a Divine Kingdom, Lin Rui dares to venture inside with Wutong. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

The Blessing of Luck’s Guardian Spirit is waiting to be activated inside, and it’s clear there are various opportunities inside.

Lin Rui doesn’t believe that a large team of Legendary-level troops entering would face challenges. Especially with the commander being a Holy Spirit-level hero.