The old priest stared blankly at Mu Wei for a while. Helplessly glancing at the sky, he quickly pulled the carriage toward the heart of Chaos City. As they proceeded, ahead of them, beyond an iron fence thick with patrolling soldiers, lay a vast, orderly square paved with black stone. The ground was pleasingly clean, polished until not a speck of dust remained; it even reflected the starlight from the sky.
Several well-dressed, elegant noblemen stood at the fence entrance, smiling as they watched the old priest and the battered carriage.
With a stern face, the old priest walked to the entrance and said in a low voice, "Our lady wishes to find a clean place to rest!"
One nobleman smiled and nodded to him. "My apologies, but we must verify your assets before allowing you in. By Lord Diogo's order, anyone with less than one hundred million gold coins in assets is not qualified to enter this core district."
Mu Wei shouted in a low voice, "Then what about this magic gemstone? How much is it worth?"
A red gemstone the size of an infant's fist flew out of the carriage and hovered before the noblemen. The ruby was pure and translucent, its quality already at the flawless grade. It also radiated dense fire-element magic fluctuations. The fire-element mana within was so concentrated that it had even condensed into the phantom of a thumb-sized crimson running wolf with wings growing from its back.
A supreme treasure—no, an exceedingly rare Saint-grade, perhaps even Demigod-grade, magic gemstone. It had already formed the rudiment of a magical spirit. Given enough time, it could absorb sufficient magical elements and turn that winged crimson running wolf into a natural magical beast.
Such a magic gemstone could not be valued in gold coins. But if