Chapter 80: Mayor's secret stash

Following the voice, as the Mayor and a soldier saw a stranger aiming the bow towards them, the soldier spoke raising his guard up, "who are you? Are you interfering with his majesty's decree?"

Honestly, Wil can actually solve this by simply taking out his King's medallion but he didn't do so. Instead, he replied coldly, "If there are any soldiers waiting outside, call them now before you end up like him. If not, you are free to run away."

As the soldier glanced at the charred body, he felt fear and shouted, "Soon, all of you will be hunted by the Kingdom" before trying to run away from there.

Just when he ran two to three steps and almost reached the exit, suddenly, a huge pressure dawned upon everyone and all of them were forced to kneel on the floor.

"Argh... What's happening?"

The soldier and mayor shouted at the same time as they felt something is pushing them on to the floor and they were helpless against it.

While the low-level servants weren't able to hold on and fainted right away, the soldier and the mayor were stuck on to the ground and struggled to move with everything they got.

But, how can they rise... After all, it's an absolute suppression. Glancing at Wil, Mayor Brier spoke with extreme difficulty, "please, he... help me..." 

Wil ignored his plea and looked at the soldier coldly, "you could have lived if you just run away silently. I don't like threats you see, whether it's a real one or an empty one. Now, you shall die with everyone…"

As the colors on Brier's face was drained upon hearing Wil's judgment, Wil's words resounded the hall, "Heavenly push."

As soon as he spoke his strongest move, the system asked how much mana he intends to put into the attack.

Selecting mana as high as 50, Wil unleashed the attack and a huge gust of air erupted from his body in all sides pushing away everyone else away from him.

After that…

Well, there's no more after that. Everyone was dead including the mayor and his servants. Once again he found himself before the portrait.

Borris and Dessie also returned to the real world, although Wil found them lying on the floor, instead.

"Hmm, probably because they fainted even before they died." 

Turning his attention towards the portrait that was broken, Wil mumbled, "I don't need to know your worthless story and the following quest. Even I know that Lions are considered scared inside this kingdom because it's the symbol of the kingdom. That's why there are no Lion beasts inside the wild zone or dungeons.

Unless it's corrupted, you cannot kill a Lion. And as a Mayor, you dared not only hunt it but also make a portrait out of it... You really deserve to be arrested."

Then, he looked around the room to see if there are any other objects like these. He threw the portrait, clothes, and things on the floor as if he was searching for something.

After throwing away all the clothes from the wardrobe, Wil finally found a palm-sized silver box embedded with gems on top.

Oriole's box

Description: It was filled with money she saved secretly without telling her husband.

As he tried to open it, the box opened easily, and found gold and silver coins inside of it. "Sigh... only 23 gold coins and 36 silver coins in total? I guess I expect too much money from these poor.

Let's hope, I find at least a decent amount in Mayor's safe. Usually, every higher official of a kingdom is a corrupt one. But, the important question is where is it that he hid? It must be somewhere here..."

After rummaging around all the room for 10 minutes, Wil finally gave up and decided to look elsewhere.

Before leaving the room, he woke up Borris with a good slap on the cheek and ordered him to throw away everything inside the room and buy new things.

Borris nodded dumbly while a nice red print is on his right cheek.

It's not because Wil lacked water to sprinkle to wake him up but when he saw both of them made him work hard to bring them out for a mere 12 silver, Wil flared up in anger for a second and thought he should at least gave a light punishment.

Because the cleaner was a lady, he didn't bring himself to slap her for such a little mistake. So, Borris took the slap instead.

Leaving the lady in his care, Wil came downstairs and roamed the first floor, which has a mini library, although it is more like a couple of bookshelves with normal books; There is another bedroom that's as big as the one from the second floor.

Unlike the room on the second floor, it doesn't give any exp. It's just a normal bedroom with a king-size bed, a mirror, a bathroom, a wardrobe, and a couple of normal paintings on the wall.

"Hmm, if they have a bedroom here, then, what was the box doing in that room? Did this guy steal it and hid it there or something?" Wil started to think while a frown appeared on his face.

The first thing he did is to walk towards the wardrobe and search it.

Just as he thought, he has found a huge safe in a hidden compartment inside the wardrobe.

After clearing out the wardrobe, Wil looked at it closely and saw there's a dent on it just like the table in the Mayor's office. Upon inspecting it, he found…

Mayor's safe

Description: A safe of Mayor that is used to store the town funds and personal money.

Current owner: Time Traveler

"It looks like this isn't a personal item of past mayor but an official Safe. Let's open it and see if I can find something."

As he inserted the mayor's badge, he turned the handle and opened it to see a few documents on the top shelf. The middle row and the bottom row were filled with gold coins.

"What the f***"

While the middle row has a lot fewer gold coins, the bottom row is completely filled that more than 10 coins dropped on the floor the moment Wil opened the safe.

Looking at gold coins, Wil cursed out, "you f*****g Mayor, just how much corrupted are you? The entire town tax only has a mere 26 gold per week after paying the contribution to the palace and yet, you amassed such a wealth…"

"Either way, I lucked out," Wil grinned and started collecting the gold dropped on the floor into his inventory. Just when he tried the same with the middle row, the number didn't increase but a separate pouch has been created and occupied a space in the inventory.

Wil was taken aback seeing the situation, "is this also corrupted gold or something?"

As he inspected one of the coins, Wil didn't found anything different. It's just that all the coins he absorbed from the middle row were stored into a pouch while it was fine with the bottom row.

After realizing that the number of coins in the pouch matches with the town funds that's shown in the Mayor panel, Wil came to the conclusion that all the funds and tax will automatically get collected inside the safe and get stored in the middle row.

As for the bottom row, it was past Mayor's personal stash.

After absorbing all the gold, he looked at the top of the inventory and gasped after seeing the number.

Gold: 8156

Silver: 26

Copper: 59

Augment stones: 78

Inventory space: 126/5000

"Damn… After spending 800 gold and getting 1500 gold from Flame Emperor, Originally I used to have around 5200 gold. Now, it's 3000 gold further increase. If a mayor of a town has such a high amount, I wonder how much city mayor has… and those Dukes and Duchess have in their vaults."

"It really makes me wish to go on an expedition to conquer everything," Wil grinned as he takes a look at the documents on the top row.

Wil didn't touch the documents believing they are worthless after seeing a big X mark on all of them and closed the safe. 

"I guess the Kingdom took back all the lands he possessed after arresting him."

90 minutes later;

In the dining room, along with Aster and Wil, nine members sat together while Ciara, Borris, and Dessie were bringing the dishes and placing them on to the table.

After finishing the feast, Wil smiled, "as everyone knows, today's agenda is about crushing Resistance. Let's start it, shall we?"