Chapter 106: You Can Always Trust Triss
"This is a magically enchanted pouch. It has been imbued with a permanent expansion spell by a high-ranking sorceress. Even dimeritium can only temporarily disable it, not make it ineffective."
"The material of the pouch is mainly dragon hide. Feel it carefully, it's very tough, right? Even swords won't leave scratches..."
"I'm just saying, don't actually try to scratch it with a sword. It would look so ugly if it got scratched."
"Ahem, let's get back to the point. The space inside this pouch is about the size of a villa, and you can set up the internal areas yourself as you wish."
"That way, when you need to use something, you won't lose it."
Triss placed one hand on her hip, carefully explaining to Lynn.
Lynn was silent.
No one had ever given him something so valuable.
He said hoarsely, "I... I don't know what to say."
The sorceress smiled.
"Then don't say anything. Feel it with your heart and accept it with gratitude."
Lynn took out the contents of the pouches on his belt and put them all into this magically enchanted pouch, then hung it back on his belt.
He said solemnly, "I will, Triss, thank you."
The simple and unadorned words made the sorceress's cheeks flush.
...
A few minutes later, Lynn brought Triss back to the camp and found Professor Dijkstra.
After receiving Professor Dijkstra's personal confirmation that if there was indeed treasure inside, a share could be given to Triss, Triss asked Lynn to take her to the magically protected door.
The two passed through the corpses and wreckage scattered throughout the ruins.
Half an hour later, they finally arrived at the magically protected door.
Triss first asked Lynn to step back a few paces.
Then she chanted a spell and cast a detection spell.
Lynn stood aside, waiting quietly.
He didn't have to wait too long before Triss turned to face him and said,
"You were right to be cautious, Lynn. The purpose of this magic isn't protection, but destruction. As soon as it's attacked, the magic will trigger the mechanisms in the vault."
"At that time, whatever is inside will be reduced to ashes."
No wonder in the other timeline, Professor Dijkstra and his group's only gain in these ruins was those three elven weapon diagrams.
It was likely because Kiyan, who was responsible for clearing the ruins, broke down the magically protected door directly with brute force without saying a word, leading to all the treasures inside being destroyed.
Lynn wiped the non-existent cold sweat from his forehead.
"Then do you have a way to解除它 (jiěchú tā - dispel it)? Without triggering the mechanisms."
Triss placed one hand on her hip and proudly puffed out her chest.
"Of course. Who do you think I am? Although this magic is very complex, it's not difficult for me. I'm not some wild sorceress, but someone who graduated properly from Aretuza Academy."
"You absolutely can't imagine how much suffering Margarita, Keira, and I endured under Tissaia when she was still the rector."
"But thanks to her, we also know much more than ordinary sorceresses."
"Alright, enough about that. You didn't ask me here to chat."
"Give me some time, and I'll be able to解开它 (jiě kāi tā - unravel it) for you soon."
Lynn nodded.
He knew that trusting Triss was definitely the right thing to do.
"Is there anything I need to do?"
"No, just stand there."
Twenty minutes later.
The magical glow on the door flashed and disappeared.
The light shattered like broken glass, dissipating into the air.
"Alright, we can go in now."
Lynn stepped forward and pushed open the door.
This door was much lighter than the door at the entrance of the ruins.
After the door was opened, he didn't immediately walk in but made an inviting gesture. "Ladies first."
"How gentlemanly."
Triss walked into the vault and recited a spell.
A ball of light floated from her hand, flew to the ceiling, and clearly illuminated the interior.
"This is..."
Both of their eyes lit up.
They saw five chests neatly arranged in the center of the vault. The glittering gold coins piled inside were even overflowing out of the chests.
But Lynn quickly thought of the illusion in the coffin they had encountered earlier.
"No, wait a moment. Triss, can you use magic to detect if these are illusions or real?"
Triss nodded.
She cast a detection spell towards the chests filled with gold coins. "No problem, not illusions. These are real."
Lynn stepped forward and grabbed a large handful.
He let the glittering gold coins cascade like water from between his fingers.
Only then did a smile appear on his face.
"So much money? This is conservatively estimated to be at least several thousand... no, tens of thousands of gold coins, right?"
Lynn still had one elven gold coin left in his palm.
He weighed it in his hand.
The elven gold coin was heavier, even heavier than an oren.
It was probably equivalent to a Novigrad crown.
"Lynn, if you've changed your mind, even if you secretly grab a handful, no one will notice," Triss said playfully, winking at the witcher from behind him.
Lynn threw the gold coin back into the chest and shook his head.
"No need to say anymore, Triss. Let's go out and call them in."
...
When Lynn led Professor Dijkstra and his students into the vault and they saw the glittering treasures, they were immediately so shocked that they couldn't speak for a long time.
Even Misia, who came from a good family, had never seen so many gold coins piled together in her life.
One had to know that these were all gold coins, with no silver or copper coins mixed in to make up the numbers.
Professor Dijkstra swallowed hard.
He slapped his face hard a few times, forcibly pulling himself together.
Then he began to call out to his students, who were also in a state of great shock, to start estimating the value.
After Professor Dijkstra and the others busied themselves for a while, they calculated that:
Each chest contained elven gold coins worth approximately eight thousand crowns.
In other words, there was a total of roughly forty thousand crown coins worth of treasure here.
This once again caused everyone to exclaim in amazement.
Even Triss, who was a royal advisor, was surprised by this figure.
One had to know that forty thousand crowns was not a small amount.
Even a Temerian count might not have so much money in his private vault.
The assets of the privileged class were never just money, or rather, not just money.
It was the influence in the kingdom, the power that the count's title brought him, and a piece of land that allowed him to do whatever he wanted, and the people on this land who obeyed him.
The reason why the privileged class was the privileged class was because on this land, they could use various pretexts to flaunt their privileges and arbitrarily command all the poor people on this land.
This was actually the biggest advantage of the privileged class.
It was also the "power" of the privileged class.
If they lost their land and lost their power, it was equivalent to losing their "power."
Even if they could run away with the money to another place, what use would it be?
A privileged class without "power" was no longer a privileged class, but merely meat on the chopping board, also fat sheep in the eyes of the privileged class in other lands.
This was also why his V never considered the Tower ending.
(End of this chapter)
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