Early this morning.

In Mondaniya, the new capital of Weilan, a striking reward notice was posted on the bulletin board in front of the government building.

"The Citizens Bank of Weyland is about to launch a new bank deposit certificate, but the Duke is worried that counterfeit certificates will appear in the market again, so he is offering a large reward."

"If anyone can successfully forge the deposit slip in the sample and pass the inspection of a testing group of 100 merchants, they will receive a reward of 10,000 Oggs."

"This bounty will be issued throughout the Natural Alliance. If no one can successfully copy it within three months, the Weilan Citizens Bank will try out a new bearer small deposit certificate."

Along with the announcement, there were five beautiful new deposit certificate samples.

As soon as the reward was issued, it immediately attracted huge social attention.

This is a bounty of 10,000 Oggs!

On Earth, that's a whopping 15 million yuan in bounty. In the Natural Alliance, where money is almost outrageous, this amount of money is enough to drive countless people crazy.

In less than a few hours, everyone in the city of Mondania knew about the reward.

The relevant bounty content was not only released in Mont County, but also throughout Vilan, and even in front of Vilan's embassies abroad in Aaron, Kao, and Levinder.

The power of gold coins is enormous.

In less than five days, almost the entire Natural Alliance knew about Weilan's high bounty.

Of course, the great nobles of the Natural Alliance looked down upon the money of ten thousand Oger, but the common people and the lesser nobles were envious.

As a result, countless printers and wizards who thought they were capable began to find ways to imitate it.

Naturally, this matter also spread to the royal families of various countries.

Aaron.

King Danger and Rosen argued for more than half a month, and even ran out of words several times, and finally set the compensation amount at 18 million Ogg.

Dange was also very straightforward. He directly shipped 180 tons of Lion gold coins to Weilan by ship and exchanged them for 40,000 naval generals and 40 sailing ships.

Naturally, Aaron and Weilan reconciled and resumed normal trade.

At this time, he took some time out of his busy schedule and took the new deposit certificate sample given by the Weilan Embassy and looked at it over and over again.

"It looks beautiful, can we copy it?"

The person he was asking was Sir Leop, the director of the Lion Mint and a master of magic who was born a commoner.

He used to be the deputy director, and when the director was dismissed, he was naturally promoted.

Leop had already done sufficient preparation.

He shook his head. "Your Majesty, printing paper is not difficult. If we are really willing to spend money, we can do even better than this."

"The difficulty lies in the three-color mark. This thing contains extremely sophisticated magical knowledge. All the magicians in the bureau have tried their best but have not been able to decipher it."

Eye of the Storm Sanchester was also there. He took the sample handed over by Danger, carefully examined the magic mark, and then drew a conclusion.

"It looks like a mixture of natural divine power, iron divine power, and a very strange pure water power. It must have been designed by Duke Weilan himself."

The underlying meaning of this statement is that if you want to crack it, you must first have sufficient perception ability.

In other words, the mana strength must reach the same seventh ring as the Duke.

There is no seven-ring strongman in the Aaron Kingdom, the highest is only five rings.

Danger shrugged, "It seems there's no need to bother."

Sir Leop was worried: "Your Majesty, we cannot forge Weilan's deposit slip, but Weilan may be able to forge ours."

"What if, I mean what if, Duke Weilan is the same as Levender, then Lion Bank may suffer heavy losses."

Upon hearing this, everyone present frowned.

The collapse of Weilan Chenxi Bank was still fresh in people’s minds, which directly drove Duke Reid to a deserted island to grow potatoes. If the same thing happened to Aaron, Danger couldn’t even imagine the consequences.

He tapped the desk gently and was silent for a while before he said, "Can we not use the deposit slip and only use gold and silver currency of full value?"

Sir Leop immediately shook his head: "Your Majesty, this won't work. It will greatly hinder market transactions. Duke Weilan saw this and was in a hurry to launch the new deposit certificate."

Sanchester whispered, "Perhaps we can use political means to negotiate with Duke Weilan and make him promise not to do this."

Danger shook his head: "It may be useful in normal times, but if the two countries become enemies again, or if he is short of money, he will definitely use this trick on us in secret."

So, the three people in the study became worried again.

In the end, it was Sir Leop who provided a barely acceptable way out.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to worry too much."

"After all, bank deposit certificates are parent and child certificates. The bank holds the parent certificate, while the child certificates are kept outside."

"As long as the bank strictly controls the original order, it won't help even if the Duke makes a perfect imitation, right?"

That's true.

One of the reasons why Chenxi Bank was exploited was because there was an insider.

This traitor was particularly cunning. It was said that he escaped during the chaos and has not been caught until now.

Dange felt relieved that his biggest worry had been solved, but new doubts arose.

"This deposit certificate seems to have a small denomination. It's not for ordinary people, right?"

Sir Leop nodded immediately: "It should be for ordinary people."

Danger didn't quite understand: "Ordinary people can just use ordinary coins to trade, why would they have to go through so much trouble to get such a fancy deposit certificate?"

The other two people present also didn't quite understand what Duke Weilan was up to.

Finally, Sanchester said: "Let's wait and see, the answer will soon surface."

. . . . . . . .

Naturally, the news also reached Kaa's palace.

The Queen and the Three Sages also gathered together to discuss, and their conclusions were similar to Aaron's. They were all difficult to imitate, and they were also somewhat confused about the Duke's tactics.

So I decided to take a cautious step and wait and see.

Finally, the news reached Levinder.

When little King Sheila of Levinder saw the new deposit slip, his eyes lit up immediately.

"Ahaha, Weilan suffered such a great loss, yet she still dared to do this. Someone, bring the sage to me."

Soon, the frost messenger Lafeng arrived.

He bowed slightly to the little king with a cold expression and called him "Your Majesty".

Xila had long been accustomed to La Fengge's cold and frosty appearance, so she directly pushed the deposit certificate sample on the table over.

"Sage, Duke Weilan is the most hateful. Let's continue to forge his deposit receipts and ruin his business!"

Lafenge shook his head. "Your Majesty, the reason it worked last time was because no one had done it before. Now that banks in all countries are carefully guarding against this move, I'm afraid it won't have any effect."

But Silla shook her head repeatedly: “It is precisely because everyone thinks so that there is an opportunity.”

Seeing that Lafengge's expression did not change, he immediately pleaded: "Sage, just give it a try. It doesn't matter if you fail. What if you succeed?"

"Besides, we in Levender are so far away from Weilan. Even if he wants to cause trouble, he won't be able to find us. He will just take it out on some lowly merchants."

"Sage, our main trading partners are the Glorious Nations. There is no need to worry about the ideas of the idiots in the Alliance."

"If they come to cause trouble, the worst that can happen is that we will surrender to the Glorious Empire. By then, those idiots from the Alliance might even beg us not to leave."

Lafengge listened silently and looked down at the new deposit certificate sample on the table.

He only glanced at the printing technology, and then all eyes were cast on the three-color spell seal.

The seal is very beautiful and precise, and you can tell at first glance that it is not an ordinary thing.

"It must have been done by Duke Weilan. He claims to be a seventh-ring peak mage, but his real level is probably eighth ring, about the same as mine now."

"I want to see what extraordinary means this young guy has to dare to offer a huge reward to the All Natural Alliance."

"Yes, yes, sage, you are so kind to me, just like a father."

Lafengge thought to himself: "Little thing, you are my son!"

Of course, he had suffered from talking too much, so he was much more cautious at this moment: "Your Majesty, please be careful with your words."

After saying that, he picked up a few deposit slip samples and turned back to his magic laboratory.

In the following days, he conducted research behind closed doors in the laboratory and tried various methods.

I spent about half a month like this, but still couldn't solve it, and couldn't even find a clue to solve it.

"This seal is really interesting."

Lafeng was a little frustrated, but he was a tenacious person. He gritted his teeth and worked hard for nearly two months, but there was still no progress.

He had to give up and do it himself.

After all, it's just a three-color seal. The other party might have simply created a completely unsolvable spell lock, so he would have been wasting his time during that time.

But after all, it took nearly two and a half months, and I still feel a little unwilling.

After thinking for a while, he came to the secret magic laboratory in the underground again.

Just like last time, he summoned those mysterious silver eyes.

"Great Omniscient One, I have encountered a very difficult problem in magic."

"That's the right question, tell me about it."

Lafengge handed over the deposit slip sample and pointed at the three-color seal and said, "There is a constant spell lock on it, and I can't crack it. Do you have any good ideas?"

As soon as I saw the deposit slip, an impatient voice came from the other side.

"Master, why do you always like to get entangled in these meaningless math games? Didn't you have enough of that last time?"

It took him a long time to untie it last time.

Lafenge had communicated with this mysterious being many times and had a rough idea of ​​his character. He immediately asked, "Omniscient, don't you know the answer too?"

"Hmph~ One last time!"

With these words, the mysterious Omniscient One fell silent.

Time passed by minute by minute. After about half an hour, Lafengge's magic power was a little exhausted: "Omniscient, how about we communicate next time?"

"Okay, I'll give you the answer next time."

"How long exactly?"

"Five or ten days from now."

"good."

After the conversation ended, Lafengge chuckled in his heart: "It seems that the ability of this omniscient person also has its limits. I thought he really knew everything."

But then again, the other party's knowledge about breaking through the ring wall was really effective, helping him easily break through to a level of magical power that he had never dared to think about before.

The only drawback is that this method has some side effects.

Perhaps it was because he had ingested too many alien souls, some messy thoughts would always pop up in his mind unconsciously, and sometimes they were even difficult to control.

For a sage who focuses on magic, ten days is just a blink of an eye.

Ten days later, Lafengge stood in the underground magic laboratory again and opened the communication circle with the mysterious omniscient being.

When a pair of silver eyes appeared behind the black mist, the other party spoke first.

"The magic lock on this three-color seal should be unsolvable. No normal mathematical method can unlock it."

"However, I can use some tricks in magic to forge a three-color seal that looks very similar. Unless you are a high-level magician above the sixth ring, it will be difficult to detect the difference between the two."

"Finally, this forgery method is more complicated. Do you want to know?"

"Of course, the Great All-Knowing One."

The mysterious omniscient one told Lafeng the method he had thought of.

Lafenger listened carefully, and after hearing it all, he commented: "It is indeed quite cumbersome, and the cost of memorizing a single seal spell will be very high."

He estimated that it was at least 50 gold sheila.

The mysterious omniscient also admitted frankly: "It is indeed a bit expensive, but if it is used on a large scale, it should be able to spread the cost a little."

"Don't look at me like that. Of course I know what you mean. This happens all the time in my world."

"But I think you should focus on increasing mana power instead of playing these meaningless fake games."

Lafenge thought this was right: "This is the last time, great omniscient one."

After closing the connection, he found his king son with the deposit slip sample: "I found a way to forge it perfectly."

"Oh, sage, I knew you could do it."

"But it's a bit troublesome to forge it. It may cost 50 gold sheila to forge it once. So, we can only make money if we forge this kind of 100-denomination deposit certificate."

As he spoke, he noticed that his son looked a little strange, and he was immediately puzzled: "What's wrong, Your Majesty?"

The young king looked embarrassed and said, "Sage, according to the latest news, this 100 is not in gold coins, but in copper coins."

"This one is only worth 100 copper klei."

If you use 50 gold sheila to forge a deposit certificate of 100 copper sheila, you will lose 500,000 if you make 1,000 of them, and 5 million if you make 10,000 of them.

Even a mountain of gold can't stop this.

La Fengge's heart was suddenly shocked, and he felt that the past three months had been a complete waste of his time.

Suddenly I heard a voice laughing: 'Ahahaha~ this fool~~'

He subconsciously thought that the king was laughing, and frowned: "What did you just say?"

The young king looked puzzled. "Sage, I didn't say anything."

Lafeng was shocked, and he immediately realized that he was hallucinating.

"You should have told me this key information earlier."

After a pause, he said, "Then there is no point in forging it. Your Majesty, please don't do it."

After saying this, without waiting for the king's response, Lafeng immediately turned around and left in a hurry.

When your mood fluctuates drastically, the thoughts in your mind will become very chaotic, and it is very easy to have auditory hallucinations that are difficult to distinguish between true and false.

He had to return to the laboratory quickly and stay alone to avoid being discovered of his abnormality.

Lafengge was mentally prepared for this situation.

He kept repeating the words of the mysterious omniscient being in his mind.

'There is a price to pay for wanting quick power, but it is only temporary. Over time, your soul will regain its stability.'

'So, be patient, everything will be fine.'

"I hope this guy didn't lie to me."

Lafenge wasn't sure whether the other party was lying, but he had no choice.

Because of what he is doing now, he must obtain the most powerful force possible.

Eight rings are still not enough, you need nine rings or even ten rings!

As various countries were busy, the headquarters of the Weilan Citizens Bank in Weilan's new capital, and its first branch in the sub-capital Dawn City, issued announcements almost simultaneously.

The announcement stated that the two banks will soon launch a new bearer small deposit certificate service.

(End of this chapter)