Gulman opened the door and led the two of them inside. Only then did Li realize that beyond it lay what seemed to be a massive warehouse. Yet nothing else was stored here—there was only one thing...
At a rough glance, there were perhaps thirty or forty thousand pieces. However, all of these magic crystals had been drained of their magic power, and their inherent value had naturally fallen greatly as well. Magic crystals were expensive because they served as highly efficient energy storage devices, but now they looked no different from ordinary crystals.
Gulman quickly found another door inside. With practiced ease, he lightly tapped the wall, then turned a knob. The door opened, revealing another passageway. At its end appeared to be a vast hall. Li frowned slightly. In truth, he had caught an unpleasant scent.
"This is where I have always lived, not that egg-laying chamber." As Gulman spoke, he walked inside. Azshara's face had turned pale. She was, after all, only an elf—though with one special condition: an elf who had lived an exceptionally long time. Yet when she smelled that odor, she could not help but shudder.
As the door opened, even the warehouse was flooded with Gulman's overpowering body odor—that fishy snake stench.
What Gulman called his bedroom was, in fact, nothing more than an enclosed cave.
As they strode into the cave, they saw a huge transparent container positioned in its center. Li recognized it at a glance: the container was made from exceptionally sturdy Refined Gold Transparent Steel, an exceedingly rare material in this world.
It could be said that even those great empires that dominated entire regions possessed very little of it, because Refined Gold Transparent Steel had only two useful properties: sturdiness and transparency.
Beyond that, it could not be