Chapter 108: The Magic Guild
Not only Daniel came to Renaissance City, but even Delonso came, because he first went to the Delis Magic Guild to visit Saiyah, and then transferred from there, so he didn't arrive in Revival City until the day before yesterday. Daniel had wanted to attend last night's celebration, but Delonso didn't like the game of war and politics at all, and Daniel, as his only student, had to accompany him.
Strange to say, Daniel has always been a heartless person, but he is terribly afraid of this crazy old man Delongso. So Higg's first comment after meeting Daniel was three words: lack of discipline!
"Crazy old man!" Higg, who had drunk high last night, arrived at Delonso's room early in the morning with Nicole and Blue Fairy, and shouted, "Your precious student is going to slip away!" ”
Delonso said angrily: "You kid, why didn't you come to me last night? Still drinking so much alcohol? ”
Higg said embarrassedly: "I can't compare to you, why bother!" ”
Delonso said angrily: "You have such a good talent, and you just gave up halfway through magic learning? ”
Higg said: "Hey, I also want to study hard and make progress every day, but you see that I have a lot of things, and I can't do without them......"
Higg said and spoke, but found that Delongso didn't pay attention to him at all, but stared at Lan Xian'er with both eyes, and didn't blink for a long time, and then he looked around Lan Xian'er in a circle, muttering only two words in his mouth: "Demon, demon......"
Blue Fairy was also very uncomfortable with Delongso's eyes, but she didn't move.
Higg said angrily: "Crazy old man, what are you doing, who is the demon? ”
Only then did Delongso come to his senses and say, "You two are demons! ”
Higg asked curiously, "What's wrong?" You said? ”
Delongso said as if he was stunned: "I can't say clearly, I can't say it clearly, it's hard to explain the evil things clearly!" ”
Higg said solemnly: "Crazy old man, I came to you today for business!" ”
Nicole couldn't find Daniel anywhere, and someone happened to restrain Delonso, and immediately said, "You guys, I'll go find Daniel!" ”
Higg ignored Nicole and continued, "I want to build a magic guild in Revival City, do you see if you can do it?" ”
Delongso shook his head, stopped looking at Lan Xian'er, and said, "You want to build a magic guild?" What do you want the Magic Guild for? Serve your war? You know that I hate war and politics the most, and if you come and ask me, of course I can't! ”
Higg smiled and said solemnly: "Master Delongso, do you know how many people my Fuxing City originally had?" Let me tell you, when I first took over, there were less than 40,000 people, and now, it's almost 600,000, do you know who they are? ”
Delongso laughed and said, "Boy, you just fooled into the sky, and I don't agree with you building a magic guild!" ”
Higg said with a sad face: "It's a refugee, it's a product of war!" I just took over here for a month, and I began to gradually accept these refugees, I thought there were only two or three hundred thousand, but I didn't expect that now they are almost 600,000, and they are still pouring in! ”
Higg sighed, and then said: "The first people who came here were in early winter, and although the cold weather here could not be compared with the Alchemy Country, it was still very wet and cold in early winter, especially the temperature difference between day and night. However, most of those refugees are single-clothed, and some even have a few rags, and most of them have lost their relatives at home, and their homes have been ravaged, so they have to leave their homes as a last resort. Some children are still feeding, some elderly people need to be carried, and some are carried on stretchers...... They had nothing, and they helped each other to come here, to this place where it was said that there would be a tomorrow. When I see a nursing child starving to death in his mother's arms because his mother has no milk, when I see a lonely old man crying out the names of his children who do not know where before he dies, when I hear sick and wounded people who have no medicine and no magician to treat them, and who have to howl all night in pain, when I see the gray-haired old man burying his skinny child with his own hands...... My heart was filled with grief, but there was nothing I could do! ”
As he spoke, Higg burst into tears, and even the blue fairy next to him left two lines of tears, and Delongso looked dazed.
"I don't have a magician, I don't have any medicine here, all I can do is provide them with some food, and during the day, they can drink a bowl of porridge in the morning and eat a bowl of rice in the evening, and have a shelter from the wind and rain. Even so, according to incomplete statistics, more than 20,000 refugees died of freezing, starvation, and disease last winter! "I think I can actually do more, do better!" This may be happening elsewhere, but you may not see much of it, because we already have a relatively sound refugee system here, with farmland, houses, clothes, and employment security for them, and I have spent a whole year doing all of this. But I don't have a magician, I can give them what they have now, but I can't save the injured and sick refugees, I can only watch them staring at me before they die, the expectant but desperate eyes slowly close, my heart is like a knife......"
Higg wiped away his tears and continued, "I don't want any large-scale magic guilds, as long as these innocent people can stop being so helpless, as long as they can not let those expectant eyes turn into the last despair." Master Delonso, you say that I am serving the war, refugees, or even myself, but what I tell you is true, and I really need to build a magic guild! War, if it is a war that ends with war, is not necessarily not to reduce the misery of these people! ”
Seeing that Delongso was silent, Higg was about to continue speaking, but was stopped by Delongso, and said on the lantern: "I saw it on the way here from Dilis, I believe what you said is true, and I am very grateful that you can do this for the common people, but building a magic guild is not an easy task, it requires a lot of resources, and if these resources are used on refugees, I think it will be even more useful!" ”
"Master Delonso!" Higg stood up and said, "I don't agree with you, don't you yourself want to promote the civilization of the wizarding world?" You say that building a magic guild is a waste of resources, so it's better to spend resources on refugees, hum, it's just a rat's eye! ”
"Boy!" Delongso was furious: "You dare to say that I am blind? You waste so much money on building an interior hall, a port, buying warships, and saying that it is for the refugees, and if you use these supplies on the refugees, how many refugees can you save? ”
"Hahaha!" Higg laughed and said: "Crazy old man, you have indeed been in the mountains for a long time, what happened to me to build the internal affairs hall, what happened to the construction of the port, what happened to the construction of workshops and the purchase of warships, if I don't build these, what can I do for the refugees to work and work to support themselves?" If I don't build these things, if I don't buy them, what can I do to protect them, do I save them by letting them eat and drink enough, and then wait for others to come and slaughter them, and become refugees again? ”
Delonso was silent and did not refute.
Higg continued: "It's the same with building the Magic Guild, that's to let more people get treatment, so that more people can have the ability to protect themselves and others, this is a major event that is beneficial in the present and in the future, you keep saying that you want to promote the magic world, where do you promote it?" Relying on you, a magic mage, can you save tens of millions of Li people? ”
Delongso thought for a long time before he raised his head and said, "Do you have so many materials to establish a magic guild?" ”
Higg said, "I don't know what the materials will be needed to build the Magic Guild, but if I can collect them, I will be able to do it." ”
"The first floor requires 10,000 gold coins, plus a lot of wood and stone; The second layer requires 100,000 gold coins, a large amount of wood and stone, plus jewelry, mercury, crystal, and sulfur, each with a box; The third layer requires a million gold coins, needless to say stone and wood, and ten boxes for each of the four mines; The fourth layer is ten times as large as the third, and the fifth is ten times as large as the fourth! ”
Xige and Lan Xian'er were both taken aback: "The fifth layer needs 100 million gold coins, and 1,000 boxes of each of the four types of minerals?" ”
Delonso said: "That's not all, the purchase fee for the magician's hut, portal, and magic skill copyright is also a big expense!" ”
Higg muttered, "Where did I get so much money to build? ”
Delonso sneered and said, "Don't think about it if you don't have money to burn!" ”
Higg was speechless, a fifth-level magic guild can buy several current revival cities, what else can he build?
Suddenly, Higg had a flash of inspiration and said with a smile: "Crazy old man, I have an idea, do you think it will work?" ”
"What do you kid want to do?"
Higg said with a wicked smile, "The Magic Academy on Rainbow Island owed me a promise when they bought my Higg Lost, saying that they would do their best to help no matter what!" ”
Delonso said: "Then it depends on what, with so many resources, can people agree, do you want other people's magic academies?" ”
Higg smiled: "To build this magic guild, I will go out of the place, they will provide financial resources and copyrights, and we will only build four floors, we will be enough, there is no need to pit those old men too much, hehe!" This magic guild has built a branch of the Rainbow Island Magic Academy, and all property rights and income belong to the Magic Academy, I just need them to help me train 200 magic apprentices every year, that is, in three years, so it's okay, right? ”
"Four hundred! I want two hundred! Delongso said without thinking.
"Four hundred, will they agree?" Higg asked, confused.
"They'll agree, with me, a magic mage, in charge of this magic guild, and they'll agree if you want more! I'll go tell them about it, and save the promise they owe you! ”
"You're going to be in charge of this magic guild?" Higg couldn't believe it excitedly.
Delonso smiled: "I have nowhere to go when I go out recently, and it is not interesting to go to other places when you are not around, it is too lonely!" ”
"Then why do you want two hundred magic apprentices?"
"Sell it to you, I don't want to eat rice here!"
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