Chapter 118: Where there is money, there is a market
Kuran is one of Samuel's younger brothers, the kind that is very clever on weekdays, and luckily, he is also a mage.
Unlike his classmates who dream of one day owning their own mage tower and becoming a mage on the side of the famous town, Kuran has a clear vision of his future.
Or rather, on this road, he can't see the future.
So he doesn't go to the truth or anything, he gets drowsy when he sees those symbols and words, and he meditates for enough time every day to maintain himself at the level of the Three Rings without regression.
So he didn't plan to join the Mage Guild after graduation, or go to other white-robed mage towers to cultivateβhe hadn't even thought about graduating.
He wanted to be a real nobleman, a lord, marry a bunch of beautiful women, have a bunch of children, and live a happy life.
So he knows very well that in order to realize this cheesy but real dream, he needs money, a lot of money, and only those who sleep on money will not fall into a situation of lack of money.
So, when he heard the news of Samuel, he knew his chance had come.
Because he is better at using his brain than others.
Samuel has a pretentious mage brother under his hands, and this group of brainless guys will definitely go to Seraf to try their catties as soon as they hear the news. But he's different, he thinks it's too inefficient, and the success rate is too bad, and if the newspaper is right, who can have a stout guy like Barry for long? It was the size of a humanoid monster, and even the group of panting wastes who climbed several floors under Samuel's hand couldn't move a few times on a woman.
Therefore, his thinking is very simple, since he can't do it himself, isn't it okay to buy the future list at a lower price?
Anyway, Samuel's notice was only sent to a dozen people, including himself, who was as smart as himself could count it with one hand, since he offered 1,000 gold coins, then he offered 500, or even lower, and when the time came, everyone would earn 500 gold coins, and there were 50 people on the list, if Barry was squeezed out, and the rest were his own people, wouldn't it be a net profit of 75,000 gold coins!?
Although reason told him that Samuel would not be able to give him that much money by then, another shred of reason also told him, wake up, you can't rule the leaderboard either.
So after all, there is a profit.
Besides, Samuel's ultimate goal is to squeeze out Barry, not to really occupy the list - he will always earn a reward if he achieves this goal, and the ones who set their sights on the magic indoctrination list are the real fools, the fools who sacrifice their roots.
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Roy Shewin is an ordinary mage, very ordinary, and he adheres to the solitary nature of traditional mages, rarely dealing with the opposite sex, so he is still a virgin at the age of fifteen.
Of course, very few people knew about it, and no one dared to believe it was true.
After all, most of the mages are nobles, and everyone has tasted the taste of women in the personal maids arranged by the elders at an ignorant age...... But Chloe is different, he doesn't like women.
He saw that women had no desire at all, and even when he was twelve years old, when his father had arranged everything, he felt sick to his stomach because of the naked, quiet-looking little maid.
But he couldn't talk about it, because he would be treated as an outlier and even judged, so from that day on, he moved to Jialan Academy and began to live alone for three years, which made him more and more withdrawn.
On this day, at the end of the lecture, he smoothed the wrinkles on his robe, and was about to leave, but was suddenly stopped by a person.
This is one of his few friends, Hillman.
The two became friends entirely because Hillman was also a - but unlike him, Hillman's father became rich because of the thick legs of the Toure family, so Hillman had a half-elf poet at home who was also a, and his life was much more comfortable than his.
Faggets don't attract each other, just like men and women don't mate as soon as they get close, so he and Hillman met for other reasons, and only later did they get to know each other.
Of course, it didn't go that far.
"Have you heard?" Hillman asked him, "That gossip about magic indoctrination, as long as you can appear on the list in three days, you can get 500 gold coins, if you are at the top of the list, you can get more, aren't you short of gold coins?" β
"I think that's bluffing." "That's stupid," Roy said, "and I don't have the skills to do that." β
"I kid you not, everybody's saying that!" Hillman was so excited that he winked at him: "Ipwin (his half-elf boyfriend) told me that the newspaper statement is wrong, that magic infusion has nothing to do with that ability, and that elves have long since discovered that pure flesh can last longer, because the essence of magic infusion is 'filtration', filtering you know, using the mage's body as a filter to gather the elements escaping from the air, just like drawing dirty water from a river, passing through a sieve and finally pouring it into a water tank!" β
Roy frowned.
"So your so-called purity is ......"
"No copulation, no defilement!" Hillman grinned, with that "you know" look.
Roy understood, and he sighed.
"Well, I believe you, if I succeed, what do you want?"
"Don't want anything, Roy." Hillman patted him on the shoulder, "We're one kind, I don't want to see you live in such misery." β
With that, he left.
Roy thought for a moment and left for Seraf.
Hillman was right, he did need money, or rather, there was no one in the world who didn't need money.
As a four-ring mage, although he has the ability to keep himself from being short of money, Roy has a withdrawn personality and is difficult to communicate with people, which reduces the trouble and distraction for him, but also reduces the opportunity to make money.
After all, the red-robed mage is not at the level of someone who comes to the door to deliver money while sitting at home, especially in Jialan.
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Triangle block.
There were more people at Seraf's door than ever, and there were unusually many mages.
From the entrance, you can see that almost all of Jialan's mage students have come......
It turned out that everyone was just as short of money as me, and Roy couldn't help but smile.
Or were they all deceived by the news in that newspaper, couldn't let go of this pitiful self-esteem, and decided to wash away the humiliation?
Who knows, it's sad to live in other people's opinions. He thought.
The truth was the same as he thought, the mage group was divided into two parts, and some of the civilians who learned about the gossip were coming for money, after all, money was very important to mages. The other part is driven by public opinion, most of them have friends who joke, or even girlfriends, who are pouted to test their abilities from the side, or to verify whether the truth is accurate......
There is no doubt about that rumor in the newspapers.
But this rumor is very special, those who understand are roasted on the fire by those who don't understand, and in the end they can only pretend that they don't understand, and there is no room for explanation......
Speaking of which, this is also mentioned by a friend Mu Yan met in the game, who used to be a professional player in a certain e-sports, known for his treacherous marksmanship and reactions against the sky. Coincidentally, during that time, a scientific research institution claimed that the faster the reaction, the easier it is for premature ejaculation, and now the professional circle can be turned upside down.
The development of things is just like Jialan today, regardless of whether she believes the rumors or not, the parties concerned have been pushed by the good deeds to do the test, and even made a lot of scandals and gossips in order to refute the rumors, all of which were told to Mu Yan by the friend as a story.
Although Jialan's public opinion is not so developed, and in the small circle of Jialan, there is no news that spreads in less than a day, and to some extent, it can be regarded as a public opinion circle.
Having said that, when Roy entered a dark room, he was quite curious about everything in front of him, and he had little desire for it, and he had never experienced Seraf until today.
The dark room was pitch black at first, but as he stepped in, a vast cosmic background began to rise.
It seemed to be the scene at the beginning of the birth of the universe, at first there was only a ball of light fluctuating violently in the darkness, and suddenly, the ball of light exploded, and then the galaxy surged, the sin shattered stars scattered, and countless stars flew at high speed, almost grazing his cheeks and flying, gradually spreading into the vast universe.
Eventually, a star seemed to fall from the sky and fell in front of him.
It was a fist-sized stone, round as jade, with an incomparably flat surface, emitting a faint glow as soft as a golden moon.
Roy reached for touch, but passed through the stone. Only then did he realize that it was just a magical image.
"Please wrap the crystal in both hands."
Crystal? Referring to this stone?
He sat down on the cushion and gently clasped his hands together, wrapping the crystal inside.
This action seemed to trigger some kind of formation, and a trace of suction gently licked the palm of the hand, like soft aquatic plants scraping in the hand.
He slowly relaxed and began to empty his mind as he meditated as usual.
Before falling into an ethereal state of mind, Roy felt the suction in his palm intensify.
How strong will it go? I can't stand it?
But he lost consciousness before he could feel the limits of the suction...... In a state where his brain is completely empty, he cannot feel the passage of time at all.
By the time he came back to his senses, an hour and a half had passed.
Glancing up at the time, Roy couldn't help but be a little confused.
I heard that the best score in the last period was only 44 minutes, but I ...... Isn't it a little too shocking?
Could it be that it is because of the so-called "pure flesh"?
Roy couldn't help but laugh, this is also too funny...... I don't feel any fatigue at all now, and the suction from the palm of my hand seems to have reached its limit, no longer intensifying, and is still within the acceptable range.
He could even perceive that the elements around him had poured into his body too quickly, forming a tidal wave visible to the naked eye......
"It seems that the concentration of elements in these 'moon chambers' is higher than outside?" He muttered to himself.
Each of Seraf's dark rooms is called the Moon Chamber, a name that comes from the Dark Moon Workshop.
After ten more minutes of thought, Roy felt a little tired, so he decisively stopped.
"Forget it, if you continue like this, you'll be treated as a monster."
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In the evening, Mu Yan looked confused with the new list compiled by Cha Cha.
"Anyone else can magically instill a full hour and forty minutes? Is he a monster? β
Amacer couldn't help but laugh: "This reminds me of a fallacy of pure flesh, and an hour and a half is far from the limit of this guy." β
"What is pure flesh?" Mu Yan, who claimed to be a master of elvenism, had never heard of this thing.
"The erroneous theory put forward by an elven mage is just because of this gimmick that many people regard as the truth. The master had never interacted with anyone in his life, and his magic was so pure that he was only one step away from being legendary. And he also has a special ability, that is, the flesh is pure enough to be used as a transit point for magical power...... You should know about the Moon Well, right? β
Mu Yan nodded.
The elves' moon well is a special building used by the elves to store their magic power, and their morbid pursuit of aesthetics allows them to imprison their magic power in the magic circle, so that its concentration reaches a certain value and then liquefies, becoming a magic pool that naturally fluoresces even at night, which can be found everywhere in Silvermoon City.
This beautiful liquid between silver and blue, though seemingly holy, is as poisonous to a mage as pure oxygen is to humans.
Therefore, although the moon well water can restore a large amount of magic power in one go, the low temperature and irritable power contained in it will make the mage fall into a period of weakness for a period of time, and few people will use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
"That mage can even swim in the moon well, and you can imagine how 'pure' his body is......" The elf laughed, "so he extended his own special case, saying that after an individual comes out of the mother's womb, the body is the purest, and every time it is contaminated with filth after that, it is a blasphemy." Pure flesh has a natural attraction to magic, and polluted repels it. Hence the term 'pure flesh'. β
"This is the first time I've heard of ...... So that's why there are so many elven mages? You are born with a cold nature, and for the first hundred years or so, you were almost pure flesh, and the body of a child is more conducive to the cultivation of magic......"
The elf rolled his eyes.
"You and the madman's thought process to substantiate his claims is almost identical, and he argues as well. Later, it turned out to be a rumor, and the output of magic power was only related to the person's mentality and emotions, and the so-called 'pure body', to a certain extent, also represented the absence of evil thoughts, and there was an overlap between the two, but there was no obvious supporting relationship. Falling on the elves naturally has nothing to do with it, most of us are peaceful, unlike humans, who spend our lives busy. β
Mu Yan shrugged, "This is really the privilege of the immortal seed...... Where is it possible for humanity to calm down completely. β
"Not necessarily," the elf said, "that Professor Dawn, if he is a mage, may be a person with no distractions, and the 'Roy' in your hand is probably the same." It's not about the level of mana, it's just a matter of mood. β
"Is that so......"
Mu Yan was thoughtful.
"What about you? How many seconds can you last on the magic infusion? Amatho smiled and asked, "If I'm not mistaken, the amount of time you stick to when the magic is instilled is inversely proportional to the pressure a person is carrying, you have hidden so many things in your heart, have you tried it yourself?" β
"Hah...... Nice weather......"
Mu Yan snorted and ran away.
Looking at his back, Amath sighed softly.
In fact, he knew.
A crystal ball will appear in the moon chamber where the magic is instilled according to the person's state of mind, and the smoother it is, the more unwavering the person's heart is.
This was designed by Glazer and Teacher Zha while Mu Yan was away.
He didn't know what kind of smooth, crystal-clear crystal ball the boy named Roy had seen...... But he knew that the explosion of the stars and the initial scene of the universe that he could see as soon as he entered the moon chamber were caused by Mu Yan.
In other words, it was the scene he saw when the crystal ball exploded when he first entered.
"How much stress are you carrying......"
The elf muttered.