Zac bent down and grabbed a pouch attached to his belt.
“Wait, check within his clothes as well. Rydel was the unofficial leader of the invasion and a scion of the Azh’Rezak main branch. He should have more than one pouch,” Alea interjected.
Zac nodded and, with a grimace, started reaching around within the corpse’s clothes. After a while, he actually found another pouch.
Zac inspected the two and was shocked by their quality. The one Rydel wore on his waist was quite large, comprising roughly ten by ten meters of space, far larger compared to his own, which only had two to three meters of space. It mainly contained daily items, such as some foods and clothes. It also contained a couple of thousand crystals and a few other assorted items.
However, the inner one was on another level completely, to the point that Zac suspected that it was an E-grade pouch rather than F-grade. It had a cubic space of roughly fifty meters across, meaning it had a whopping 125,000 cubic meters of space. He would be able to fit a small airplane in it if he found one.
The pouch was mostly empty, but there was a small mountain containing tens of thousands of F-grade crystals. There were also neatly stacked weapons and a huge supply of food. There even were a few siege weapons, looking far more sophisticated compared to the ones the demons built back at Port Atwood. Another corner held a bunch of vials containing pills, labeled and ordered. There also were a couple of ornate boxes, and Zac guessed those things held the real prizes.
The inner pouch held the backup resources of the whole demon invasion, Zac realized as his heartbeat sped up. It was a huge amount of wealth, even for him. He recognized a few of the pills by now, and many of them cost tens of thousands of Nexus Coins per pop. There were over a hundred of each type of those pills.
Zac took out the various boxes and things one by one and together with Alea categorized them. There were certain fruits that could improve the constitution far more efficiently compared to the medicinal bath, and Zac gave a few of them to Alea after seeing her hungry eyes. He didn’t need them for himself and felt it was a decent reward for having fought two horde bosses with him. He put aside most of the rest for Janos and the others, though.
The contribution board clearly was an effective method of motivating people, and Zac was thinking of establishing something similar after the beast hordes. If people contributed to Port Atwood, they’d gain contribution points, and with those points, they could buy various things from him.
He immediately consulted Alea about it, and to his embarrassment, learned that such a thing was pretty standard in the Multiverse, and not some novel new idea he concocted. Many of the things in the huge pouch were likely even meant for just that purpose during the invasion.
Done with the looting, they started heading back toward the camp. The amount of wealth he collected was enormous, and including all the armors and tools, Alea and he estimated the value easily surpassed a hundred million Nexus Coins. It was no surprise that war was so common in the Multiverse, as it was extremely lucrative.
Finally, all preparations were done, and Zac prepared to set out. During the return, he transferred most of the wealth to the large pouch, which he now carried hidden under his E-grade robe. He left some of it to Adran so that the warriors could get new gear. Many of the demons were starting to look pretty ragged after battling two beast hordes, so they needed to swap out some of the broken items.
He actually brought a total of ten of the smallest Cosmos Sack with him as well, which he hid in a small travel bag. The reaction from Selas when he realized Zac possessed a Cosmos Sack was quite large, and Zac thought he might be able to sell them for quite a nice profit in a human settlement.
He learned from Calrin and Alea that these smallest Cosmos Sack were worth roughly a million Nexus Coins. Most people in the Multiverse possessed at least one, unless they were young and still needed to spend all their money on medicinal baths. They weren’t overly difficult to create for an experienced inscription master. The higher-grade ones required insight into the Dao of Space to create, though, making them far more expensive.
Emily was still angry with him, but she still tried helping out in the end. On her insistence, he carried a large backpack to make it look less suspicious. Zac also wore a new pair of boots, which was actually starting to feel a bit uncomfortable after having adapted to the free feeling of nothing trapping his feet.
Zac gave some final instructions to Adran regarding the scouting missions and some other details before he walked toward the teleportation array. He inserted the crystals and paid the fee, and once again, he disappeared from the island.
From the distance, a pair of eyes was observing everything before receding into the shadows.
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