Chapter 89: Fantasies about Casting Magic Coins

“The Old Fox?” Ferdinand explained, “That’s a nickname. His real name is Angwa. He was appointed by His Majesty as head of the kingdom’s intelligence agency, responsible for gathering intelligence inside and outside Celt. Because of his cunning and vigilance, along with his naturally white hair, the nobles in the capital gave him the nickname Silver Fox. Since he had uncovered many of the nobles’ private secrets, most people disliked him, so they secretly referred to this intelligence chief as Silver Fox or the Old Fox instead of using his real name!” After hearing this, Donald laughed and said, “What an interesting character!”
“Interesting?” Ferdinand smiled. “Donald, you’re the first to say that. Several nobles lost their reputations after he exposed their scandals and were forced to go into exile abroad! It’s better not to offend such a person.”
“Well, those nobles brought those scandals upon themselves. Who else is to blame? I consider myself upright and honest, so I’m not afraid of anything!”
“You might not care, but who among those who become nobles doesn’t have some secret? For a while, the name Silver Fox was feared throughout the capital. Fortunately, for some reason, His Majesty removed him from his position and exiled him to the North Counties. Over the past decade or so, he’s reportedly been inactive, and everyone thought he planned to spend his days there. But our Ansel family has learned that he’s still working for His Majesty. I’ll need to ask my mother for more details.”
“No need. This is enough for me! I’m currently cooperating with this old man. Asking you these questions is just to learn more about my partner.”
“Cooperating?” It was Ferdinand’s turn to be puzzled.
“There’s no need to hide it from you. I guess you’ll find out soon anyway! It’s because of His Majesty’s health issues—he needs my Moon Essence. That’s why he came to me on his own!” Upon hearing this, Ferdinand immediately understood and said, “It seems our family has implicated you as well! But since the medicine you provide can help His Majesty, my mother surely won’t bear to see my uncle suffer from that illness!” Donald wasn’t dissatisfied with this.

“There’s no such thing as dragging others down; anyway, I need Anguwa’s intelligence too. It’s a win-win situation!” After discussing the deal and this issue, Donald thought of the plan in his mind and said to Ferdinand, “There’s one thing I’d like to discuss with your family. Let me ask for your opinion first!” Seeing Donald’s seriousness, Ferdinand became interested as well.
“Please go ahead!”
“I have specific information about an ancient arcane relic, but I lack enough people to explore it. So I need at least two helpers of the silver rank or above. With my teacher added, we should have enough strength to explore that relic. So please convey my message to your family and ask if they’re interested in participating.”
“An ancient arcane relic? What’s the situation? Are you sure?”
Ferdinand asked, greatly interested after hearing this.
“The details can only be revealed after we start working together. But I can tell you that it’s at least a relic left by a great archmage lord. As for its value, I’m sure Lady Edwina knows!” After hearing this, Ferdinand realized he couldn’t make a decision right away, so he immediately bid farewell to Donald.
Having received two bottles of Moon Elf wine, Ferdinand was very happy. This meant that, if everything went well, he could train at least one mage for his family. Although the Ansel family had always had few members, there were still related branches. The direct members of the Celt royal family were only a few, but the total number of royal family members numbered in the hundreds—a common measure taken by ancient families to prevent the extinction of their lineage.
According to Donald’s understanding, it was the same principle as not putting all one’s eggs in one basket.
With the Ansel family’s influence, it would be easy to find one or two candidates with talent for becoming mage apprentices among their relatives. Once they took those two bottles of Moon Elf wine, it would surely greatly enhance their potential.
However, compared to the Moon Elf wine, another proposal from Donald was clearly more important.
So Ferdinand rushed back to his family to discuss it with his parents as soon as possible.
After Ferdinand left, Donald went to see his teacher.
Unlike his cautious attitude toward Ferdinand, Donald revealed the ancient map to his teacher without any hesitation and explained in detail all the information he had gathered to Messel.

After learning this information, the old mage immediately praised Donald, saying, “You didn’t choose just one person to go on the adventure—this was the right decision! The ruins of ancient mages are generally extremely dangerous places; even those of the Golden Rank dare not enter them alone. As for the Ansel family…”
“Teacher, don’t worry. Their family’s reputation is still reliable. Besides, their relationship with me is quite good at the moment. As long as the benefits are divided fairly and you accompany me, there shouldn’t be any major problems!” …“Hmm! Since you think so, then let’s go ahead with it! But those are the ruins of the Great Archmage Lord—perhaps even something as magnificent as the Sky City. The rewards there are enormous, so it’s best to be cautious. We can bring Chris and the others along too. Their combined strength is no less than that of two Silver Warriors. If the Ansel family head, who is a Golden Sword Saint, doesn’t get involved, we should be able to match their strength.”
Donald nodded in agreement after hearing this, then talked to his teacher about the Silver Moon Coin from the ancient Arcane Empire that he had auctioned off. That Silver Moon Coin had run out of energy. After obtaining it, Donald poured magic power into it every day, and it took a full month to recharge, allowing him to cast spells at any time. This was also why Donald didn’t want to waste its energy reserves—otherwise, using a magic core or elemental crystal to recharge it could be done in a short time.
After scanning it with the Book of Truth, the magic attached to it gave him a huge surprise: it was the long-lost spell, Spell Disintegration!
With this powerful spell at his disposal, Donald became even more confident about exploring the ruins of the ancient great mages.
The function of Spell Disintegration is to cancel out magical effects, including spells, barriers, and magic arrays. It can easily destroy powerful magical items below the Golden Rank, and even items of the Golden Rank lose most of their effectiveness when faced with it. There’s even a chance it can affect divine artifacts and anti-magic fields.
Since it’s a support skill, Spell Disintegration cannot attack living beings directly, but it can be used to undermine an enemy’s defensive forces, thereby securing victory.
It is said that there exists a higher form of Spell Disintegration, one that transcends the ninth level and belongs to the legendary realm. Even if hit by a true god, it can disrupt several of their defenses. In the mortal realm, legendary spells are among the few forces capable of harming true gods.

“It is precisely because I discovered that this Silver Moon Coin comes with the Art of Disintegration that I gained confidence in this expedition to the ruins. That’s why I extended an invitation to the Ansel family; otherwise, without sufficient gold resources, it would be very difficult to break through the defensive barriers set up by the Archmage Lord.”
Only then did Messel truly feel relieved. It seemed his disciple wasn’t the kind of reckless person who would act rashly without certainty.
After returning from his teacher, Donald came up with a new idea. This idea stemmed from that Silver Moon Coin. After learning about the ancient Arcane Mage civilization and the era of the Ancient Magic Empire through the books in the Mage’s Association, Donald had long admired the strength and prosperity of these two civilizations. Now, having experienced the magic and convenience of ancient arcane coins, he conceived the idea of creating his own magical currency for his domain.
Only nobles of rank equal to or above count could be entitled to mint their own currency. In the era of ancient human city-states—when there was no concept of a nation—the earliest noble title was count, and such a count was considered a ruler in his own right, with a status akin to today’s grand dukes and kings.
Although there were no laws explicitly prohibiting nobles from minting currency in this era, it was because the kingdom’s standard currency was of high quality and the cost of private coinage was high that no one bothered to mint gold or silver coins to circulate within their domains.
Still, many nobles enjoyed collecting gold and silver, melting them into gold and silver coins, imprinting their own marks on them, and keeping them as collectibles. But these were for personal collection only, not as currency for circulation.
For this reason, Donald specially handed over the two magical coins from the Banai Empire borrowed from his teacher to the Book of Truth for scanning and analysis.
The first one was a standard Banai magical coin, made primarily of gold mixed with 1% Blue Veined Gold. A trace amount of mercury was used to create a magic storage array, whose sole function was to store the caster’s magical energy.
Blue Veined Gold was the best known medium for storing magical energy to date, capable of storing most types of magical energy with almost no loss. Its yield was second only to mercury.
The second magical coin had an increased mercury content and served as defensive equipment. In addition to the basic magic storage array, it also contained a spell array for Fireball. Once charged, even a mage apprentice could use this coin to cast a third-level offensive spell that only high-level black iron mages could master.

After extracting the spell pattern structure and properties from two magic coins, the Book of Truth could also manifest such magic coins and endow them with the capabilities of various spells below level three for which detailed information was already available. It was even possible to combine the principles of the arcane spell patterns from those silver moon coins to create magic coins with attributes lower than those of arcane coins but far stronger than Banai magic coins. However, the key materials for crafting magic coins—rare magical materials like refined gold and secret silver—were extremely difficult to create out of nothing, as it required a massive amount of energy reserves to do so. Comparing the cost of creating magic coins, Donald realized that the effort required would far exceed the benefits, so this idea was temporarily set aside. “It seems I still need to find rare magical metal mines to carry this out successfully! I really hope my territory can have a magical metal mine too!” Donald muttered unconsciously, not realizing that his wish would actually come true not long after.