Chapter 570: 300 gold (ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription)
Feeling the surging magical power in the other party's body, the mage who took the lead felt a headache.
After so many years on duty in Askatra, it was the first time he had encountered such a tricky matter. Obviously, if you want to forcibly capture this guy in front of you, you need to pay a great price.
First of all, at least ten low-level masked mages must be sacrificed in order to consume the opponent's spell slots.
Secondly, this guy doesn't seem to be a character who simply relies on spell casting to eat, as a mage, this kind of person is what he hates the most, and he is difficult to die. When the time comes, I don't know how many people will be consumed to really catch this guy?
It is important to know that training an apprentice to become a full-fledged mage requires not only a responsible mentor, but also a lot of money and time.
Ten mages is already the sum of all the graduating apprentices in the union in three to five years, and this loss is simply too great. However, if they are to admit it, it is obviously not possible to leave regardless of it, once this kind of precedent is set, the consequences are unimaginable, and the mage is never afraid of consumption.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to deter those powerful foreign spellcasters!
Just as the masked mage in the lead was entangled, a voice suddenly came from the sky to rescue him.
"Stop!" It turned out that thirteen senior mages finally rushed over, and when they saw the tension on the scene, those senior mages were very relieved at the same time, but also very nervous, if they really fought, it would not be good.
Any spell-casting organization attaches great importance to the fresh blood in the organization.
The Masked Mage's Guild is not afraid of sacrifice, but if it can be avoided, of course it must be avoided. The Masked Mage's Guild is a neutral spellcaster organization, and they don't care about the lives of low-level members like those evil spellcaster organizations.
On the contrary, they care about these juniors very much, as long as they can grow up healthily, the Masked Mage Guild can grow and grow, and the Masked Mage Guild has not relied on the top combat power to deter other malicious spellcasters from the past, they rely on the ruthlessness of many spellcasters who are not afraid of sacrifice!
But no longer being afraid of sacrifice does not mean that they will accept indifferent sacrifices! In this matter, the masked mage has no reason to get involved in it at all!
In this matter, those high-level mages have seen the cause and effect from the crystal ball given by Solam, this is the shadow thief doing something! In Askatra, the various institutions of the council act independently and cannot be intertwined with each other unless ordered by the council.
This is especially true of semi-official organizations such as the Masked Mage's Guild and the Shadow Thief, where the two sides are not even allowed to interact with each other. Therefore, the Masked Mage Guild has no friendship with the shadow thief at all.
And in a sense, the Masked Mage Guild doesn't look down on shadow thieves at all.
Since this matter was the shadow thief from beginning to end, whether it was based on the rules of the council or the relationship between the two parties, there was no reason for the Masked Mage Guild to interfere!
Although there is a law in Ascatra that prohibits the incumbent casting of spells, there is one exception, and that is when the mage's life is threatened. There's no reason why your life is threatened, and you can't fight back, right?
In this case, if the mage does not have a license to cast spells, the maximum penalty is a fine and then imprisonment, depending on the damage caused, ranging from a minimum of one month to a maximum of thirty years.
If the caster has permission to cast the spell, it cannot be imprisoned, but only fines depending on the degree of destruction.
According to the evidence obtained by the high-level masked spellcaster, Soram cast the spell for a reason, because the Shadow Thief assassinated him! He was forced to fight back, so he was not among the punishments, at most a fine!
In this case, the Masked Mage's Guild has eaten too much and will confront Solam? And just by looking at Solam's appearance, you know that he is not easy to deal with, if there is a conflict between the masked mage and Soram on the spot, resulting in casualties on the masked mage's side.
Then when these high-level mages return to the organization, they will face punishment from the upper echelons of the guild!
Obviously it has nothing to do with the Masked Mage Guild, but you are full enough to offend such a master? Isn't that a disaster for the shadow thief? When did the Masked Mage Guild give a hand to the Shadow Thief?
Therefore, after seeing the tension on the scene, those high-level masked mages hurriedly appeared to stop this-for-tat situation. In order to prevent Soram from committing further misconduct, the leading senior masked law hurriedly spoke.
"Your Excellency Solam, we agree with what you have just done, and since you have permission to cast the spell, we have determined that you are not criminally responsible! Neither the town hall nor the guild will hold you accountable, but you will still be fined, after all, the damage you have caused is obvious. ”
Seeing the arrival of these high-level mages, Solam gradually put away his anger, these masked mages are also acting according to orders, which is not excessive, and more importantly, Solam is not sure about an organization like the masked mages at all, they are not shadow thieves.
If the masked mage sends out a large number of high-level mages, or simply dispatches legendary mages, Soram will only have to flee for his life, so let's be honest.
"How much?"
Seeing that Solam's momentum gradually calmed down, the group of high-level mages also breathed a sigh of relief. They are also afraid that Solam will not give up, they are not unseen turtles like Solam, just now they saw clearly from the crystal ball that the person pursued by Soram was the legendary assassin Edward of the shadow thief!
A legendary assassin had been chased by him like a dog, and of course they were apprehensive, but now that Soram had eased up, they were naturally relieved.
"Not much, 300 gold coins are enough!"
"300 gold?" Solam almost heard it wrong, it only cost 300 gold coins, Solam had seen the greed of the masked mage, and his heart was ready to bleed, but he didn't expect to hear this number.
"Hmm!" This group of masked mages wanted more, but the problem was that the strength that Soram was now exposed was not at all something they could knead at will, and it was too much, who was it to provoke Solam?
Besides, this is a slum, even if Solam burns it all down, how much is it really worth? Anyway, the city hall doesn't care about this place, otherwise it wouldn't let the private port be so rampant.
As for the ruined private port, what does it matter to their Masked Mage Guild? Even the council doesn't care that those private ports are destroyed, they don't pay taxes, and in the official documents of the town hall, those areas that are private ports are wasteland at all! There were not even people on it, and it was flooded by the sea.
Is it also a loss of money? That's not a joke!
So these masked mages happily offered a very fair price.
"You're not kidding?" Soram looked earnestly at the masked mage in the lead.
"Of course! You may not know that we and the Shadow Thieves are two different things, and we don't care about their business! In fact, if we had known that all of this was caused by the Shadow Thieves, we wouldn't have come at all. Of course, you're making too much trouble, or we'd not even bother to ask for a fine! ”
Soram kind of understood, there is such a thing as feelings, no wonder Martin would say that Soram is looking for trouble with the shadow thief in private, except for the revenge of the shadow thief, there is no consequence.
Hearing this, Soram was a lot more relieved, and he was really not afraid of the shadow thief, but if he was against all the forces of Askatra, Soram was still a little muttering.
"Okay!" After saying that, Solam poured out a bunch of gold coins from the dimensional bag, about tens of thousands. "The fine of 300 is here, and the rest will be given to you to drink tea, in the middle of the night, no one is easy!"
Solam's temper is more irritable, but it doesn't mean that he is really a dumbfounded, he has many friends and many roads, and he has a lot of money!
Seeing a large pile of gold coins shining on the ground, the eyes of those masked mages were straight, mages are not poor ghosts, but every mage is short of money, this money is divided into points afterwards, and everyone can get a lot.
Mages like them who go out in the field don't have much oil and water in the first place, but today they can be regarded as encountering local tyrants, what reason do they have to refuse? So they all have a good impression of Solam's generosity!
"You're so kind, that's what we should do! How embarrassed are we to do that? The leading mage said so, but this guy's eyes were already glued to the pile of gold coins.
"Hehe, what is a little money, many friends and many roads, it depends on whether you are willing to make me a friend!" Although Soram doesn't like this kind of scene, he doesn't know how to say it at all.
"What do you say, to be friends with you, it's too late for us to beg, you can speak out if you have something! If you can do it, I'll do it for you! "Although the wealth is moving, the leading mage is not completely dizzy, and still keeps a hand.
He was also afraid that Solam would find them to deal with the Shadow Thief on a whim, although they also looked down on the Shadow Thief, but the problem was that they couldn't deal with the Shadow Thief either, and the Council of Six could watch from above!
"It's not difficult, it's just that I'm going to get a batch of spell scrolls! But the spell scrolls sold in the city are too expensive, and the amount I want is a bit large, and the higher the level, the better, and I met you today, so I thought, you should be able to get cheap and good spell scrolls, right? ”
This was actually Solam's temporary idea, and he really had a spell scroll, the spell scroll he got from Mavis had already run out, and if it weren't for the Radiant Church to support a batch of magic scrolls, Solam's scroll bag would have been empty.
Next, they need to control the slave crew, and McCarthy doesn't know how busy he will be to write the scroll alone, as for Soram, he can write, but the problem is that when there is no pressure, Soram has never been interested in this kind of writing and drawing.
Now that he has encountered this opportunity, of course Soram must take advantage of it, anyway, a large spellcaster organization like the Masked Mage Guild will definitely not lack scrolls!
And, as Soram said, the price is cheap. The price of the scrolls sold to the inside members is naturally different, and it is much cheaper, if it weren't for the lack of this benefit, these mages would have eaten too much to join the organization.
As for letting insiders toss the scroll for takeout, it is not a taboo, of course it doesn't count! You know, most of the people who open secret shops outside are members of the Masked Mage's Guild, and they don't do this business because they can buy scrolls and resell them at their own internal prices?
This kind of thing is so normal!