157 Crystals
During the competition, Lin Mu received a message from the Great Sage Ritatian.
"Lolita, missing...
As a powerhouse specially cultivated by the Soul Family, Lolita was once the most suitable successor to the "Soul Eternal Hunter" profession, and her talent can be imagined how powerful it is. Especially in terms of the soul strength required to take up this legendary profession, Lolita can be said to have surpassed the soul walkers of the same level by too much. But even that wasn't enough, and the great sages didn't want to see tragedy happen to Lolita again, so they dragged it off until now.
However, even without the class attribute bonus of "Soul Eternal Hunter", with the special cultivation of her by the Soul House for many years, Lolita's strength improved by relying on the [Soul Seal] is enough to put many geniuses to shame.
Otherwise, it would not make Shalina, the commander of the front line of the future war, jealous.
Such a strong man with rich combat experience and many years of wandering on the mainland actually disappeared so suddenly, and he didn't even have time to release the distress signal of the Soul House, which is not normal no matter how you look at it.
"So... Lolita, could she have deliberately stopped contacting us for some reason? Lin Mu asked with a frown.
Lolita is the aboriginal with the highest friendship level in Lin Mu's list, and emotionally speaking, he also likes this friend who was at odds with General Balzac of Centburg for his sake. So he very much does not want to see that one day in the future they will meet in a hostile position.
"The soul tells us not to doubt any of your friends easily, trust is built slowly through countless accumulations, and it only takes one time to destroy it." The Great Sage replied in a low tone.
Just don't doubt Lolita, she should still be our friend, at least not an enemy. Lin Mu silently translated the words of the Great Sage in his heart.
But then Lin Mu thought that with such a long time of cultivation and getting along, Ritatien can basically be regarded as half of Lolita's father, and the great sage with this relationship still looks like he is not in a hurry and is not angry, so he knows where Lolita has gone, what is the reason and purpose.
In this way, is he a pawn who doesn't know anything? Lin Mu said that he was very depressed, and even wanted to pick a child.
As if seeing Lin Mu's dissatisfaction, the great sage threw "food" to Lin Mu in time.
"Child, this is a credential that will allow you to earn your fortune at any of the Spellcaster Guilds in the world, and this is the House of Souls' reward for your outstanding performance in Senteburg." As he spoke, Ritatien handed Lin Mu a crystal clear stone tablet with a six-pointed star. The entire stone shard is only the thickness of a palm's big finger and is hexagonal, and if you look closely, you can even find that there is a magic circuit inside, and from time to time it flashes with a light unique to magic power.
"I'll go, tea coaster!" Lin Mu looked at this stone piece with bright eyes, and pinched it the moment he touched it, refusing to let go.
The scientific name of this stone chip is called, Hexagram Locator. It is a positioning device developed by the Spellcasters' Guild.
At first, these research maniacs just wanted to make a coordinate point that would allow them to explore and record the different dimensions. Who would have thought that a spellcaster with a special talent for space magic, in a chance experiment, created a spell loop model that can be stable and transmitted to another space.
Despite the drawbacks of the Loop model's large amount of mana and the fact that it can only transmit small amounts of dead objects, it is definitely an epoch-making spell for spellcasters.
You must know that there are different spaces, but all kinds of strange phenomena will appear. On the other side of the space you open, there may be places with extreme climates, such as magma in the center of the earth, extremely cold ice caves, etc., or it may be the body of a huge xenomorph creature with spatial attributes, or there may be nothing, no creatures, no air, no light, just nothingness.
The only way for spellcasters to study these spaces is to observe, and if it's a dynamic space, it's okay to always be able to collect some data. However, if the space is stationary, or if the space changes extremely slowly, it will be troublesome, and the casters will have to find ways to induce the space to change, which will naturally be accompanied by unknown dangers. While the odds aren't high, the number of casters who die and go missing for this is not a small number over the years.
But now that this spell can be transmitted stably, the casters can collect specimens from different spaces through various means, and the research that can be done is not known how many times more! During that time, the development of magic can be described as changing with each passing day.
However, this is all an internal matter of the caster, and has little to do with anyone outside of the wizarding world. What really had a huge impact on these non-casters was the ensuing addition of another feature, a stealthy and secure stash that could be kept in different locations.
There is no financial custodian like a bank in this world of the New Era, after all, the hostility between the races, and the sinitiation between many high-ranking gods, there is simply no one god who can win the trust of the whole race.
The Spellcaster's Guild is different, it is the only neutral organization that has a global presence and is not protected by gods. Because it is powerful enough in its own right, the Spellcaster Guild is a loose alliance of multiple spellcaster classes, with almost 90% of orthodox mages like the Arcane Association and the Elemental Association being members of the Caster Guild, as well as some of the more partial, such as Wrath of Nature, the Warlock's Gate where Mopti Burundi is located, and even the House of Souls is also famous in the Caster Guild.
It can be said that as long as you have an organization that is related to the occult, whether you have faith or not, good or evil, you can join the Spellcaster Association.
Therefore, there are many factions and fights within the association, and even large-scale civil wars occur from time to time.
But none of this affects the strength of the Spellcaster Association, and no one knows what the reason is, just that even the upper gods have acquiesced to the status of the Association.
Therefore, when the Spellcaster's Guild introduced a different space that could store belongings and could be withdrawn from any branch of the association, it quickly became popular among the rich of all races around the world. They've had enough of the coin deposits, and it's great to have such a powerful, credible neutral organization to provide depository.
But they soon discovered that not everyone was eligible to use the service. Because the depository service provided by the association is for only one currency, crystals!
This is a kind of currency made of ore spar with its own magical power, the spar itself has great research value, and the caster's experiments often need this ore as a raw material, and the magic inside the ore can also become a pure power source, and most importantly, it can make the transcendent enter the cultivation state faster.
For players, it's a buff that increases the experience of fighting monsters, so it's a hard currency! And it's still being consumed in large quantities.
Therefore, it can be considered an exclusive currency for the use of the transcendent.
The conversion ratio of crystals on the black market is 10,000 gold coins = 1 crystal.
Only the truly rich will own this currency in large quantities, which directly rejects the small rich who only have gold coins.
Because the purpose of the Spellcaster Association is to obtain a large number of crystals through storage fees, they have a shortage of crystals in the association due to their rapid exploration of different dimensions.
Because of its particularity, crystal coins have an innate advantage in the transmission of different spaces, and every time they explore different spaces, they first use crystal coins to explore the way, which has become the norm for spellcasters, or how can these arrogant spellcasters be willing to provide services.