Chu Xun left nothing – absolutely nothing in the vault remained when he finished.

If only Louis knew. If only he would know that after everything he'd done, such wealth amassed through ages and millennia across various generations of the Holy Temple would only end up as bounty for Chu Xun. Somehow Chu Xun wondered morbidly if he would spring out of his grave with rage.

But while Chu Xun's plunder went on smoothly in peace, outside, the citadel was in a state of ...