The Appointed King

In Banbei City, the Imperial Legion began a disciplined campaign of mass looting under the pretext of eliminating the evil god's followers, sparing almost no noble or wealthy family.

At Rayne's suggestion, the Imperial Legion did not engage in wholesale slaughter.

However, the Imperial Legion showed no mercy to nobles and wealthy merchants who refused to hand over their wealth or even tried to resist violently, making them pay with their lives. Soon, the nobles and wealthy merchants of Banbei City discovered that they could live as long as they handed over their treasures, and the vast majority obediently complied.

Rayne did not take part in it.

It was not that he looked down on those treasures. He was short of money himself, but he had brought only one hundred people this time. Although they were the strongest overall, looting a city required enough manpower, and even if the Extreme Legion was deployed, they could not seize much.

However, Rayne had not given up on this excellent opportunity to make a fortune.

The richest person in the Gupta Kingdom was not any noble, much less some wealthy merchant, but the king!

Vikramaditya II had ruled the kingdom for more than two hundred years and amassed countless treasures. He was the richest person in the Gupta Kingdom, or even on the entire Subcontinent.

Many people had thought of this as well and rushed straight to the Shivaji Royal Palace, which had already been reduced to ruins.

However, they were destined to return empty-handed.

Before the war began, Vikramaditya II had secretly moved his treasures and the gold in the royal treasury away. His family had been moved as well—more than a hundred children and descendants. The entire Gupta royal family had fled.

The matter had been extremely secretive, and almost no