Emma listened carefully, then suddenly had a thought. In a low voice, she said, "Could the Golden Kingdom have collapsed because of this?"
Dark abruptly looked at her, deeply startled, because he suddenly realized that Emma's guess was not without reason.
The legendary Golden Kingdom was so rich that even "gold covering the ground" was an understatement. Every document describing it seemed determined to portray everything in the entire Golden Kingdom, other than its people, as being made of gold.
Yet whenever he had read those documents, he had instinctively treated them as a rhetorical exaggeration.
But now that he had seen this golden sand, he suddenly felt that those records might all have been true.
The Golden Kingdom of old—every city in the entire nation, down to every brick and tile—had been forged from gold!
But if that account was true, where had all that gold come from?
The Golden Kingdom surely had gold mines, but with the manpower and resources of that era, could they really have mined enough gold to build an entire nation?
Dark had always believed that was absolutely impossible.
If so, then attributing all the impossibilities to "alchemy" was indeed a good choice.
Dark picked up the bottle containing the golden sand and said, "Get in the carriage. Now that we know the Golden Horse Knights can create golden sand, we can obtain some for research anytime."
Emma filled a bottle as well and nodded. "We should catch up and take a look. Don't let that compass get away."
Then she turned to Malt and said, "Stop filling bags. This golden sand might turn back into sand at any moment."
Malt, who had already filled an entire sack with golden sand, immediately said smugly, "Whether it turns back into sand or not, I don't