Goodness Home.
A new announcement stirred the city's residents into action.
Residents streamed out of the outer and inner cities toward a newly built five-story building at the entrance to Goodness Home, named the Demon-Slaying Tower.
This was the resource-gathering method An Kai had devised with everyone's help.
The five-story Demon-Slaying Tower served just one purpose: helping residents exchange magical beast hides, flesh, and Magic Cores for gold coins or "points."
An Kai supplied the gold coins. He lacked all sorts of things, but gold coins were not among them.
The gold value of a magical beast varied according to its tier.
Naturally, An Kai deducted taxes in advance during each exchange. First, he collected a tax on behalf of the Demon-Slaying Tower, then taxed the gold coins received by the person making the exchange.
Both taxes were calculated on the full value of the goods, not the gold coins the resident actually received.
However, Wayne and the caravan from the Seven Kingdoms had run the numbers. Even with taxes collected at both ends, An Kai's gold coins would not last long.
All the residents of Goodness Home combined possessed over a million gold coins, of which fewer than two hundred thousand were in circulation.
Under An Kai's approach, residents with no source of gold coins would soon drain his little treasury dry.
So, to make An Kai's treasury last longer, Wayne offered another suggestion.
Near the castle in Goodness Home's inner city, they built a Spirit Infusion Tower with five floors aboveground and five underground.
The many Tier One through Tier Four professionals did not understand why it was called the Spirit Infusion Tower.
But they understood one thing perfectly well: inside the Spirit Infusion Tower, they could spend the Demon-Slaying Points accumulated at the Demon-Slaying Tower on High-Level