Chapter 9 Our Cause (II)
"Our two churches can't do it openly in their own name, lest it cause a backlash from the syndicate. So the main force is still the manpower you arranged, they should all be in place, right?"
Duke Maligaro immediately interjected, "My eldest disciple, Ori Lines, has already dispersed and infiltrated the city with the others. When the time comes, the city of Sarn can easily change hands. ”
As he spoke, he gave the old priest another affirmative look.
Maligaro said again, "You're right, even if Supreme Wizard Griff calculates our intentions, he will only be attracted to people on our side. would never have thought that his own dogs had already betrayed him!hahahaha~ But in order to calm down the turmoil as soon as possible afterwards and reduce the losses in the city, I am afraid that during this time, I am afraid that you will need your church to move around in all directions and match each other~"
The old pastor has been working as a messenger for so many years, and he is all old and fine. At the moment, he laughed and said: "Hehehe, that's natural~ Your children are about to hold the 'engagement ceremony', but we have hired the Goddess of Wealth Church to handle it." We must let all the forces that can be united in the future participate in it, and it will definitely be extremely lively! On that day, I am afraid that even the 'ceremonial flowers' in the city will bloom in purple and red, just like the blood red of my robe—a rare occurrence in the world!"
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"Oh ~ Oh my God! cough cough cough cough ......"
A strange and strong abyssal aura mixed with the smell of stinky salted fish that had been fermented for dozens of days, mixed with the smell of sulfur, permeated a three-hundred-square-meter underground enclosed space full of rune arrays, and even people's vision would be affected by some by-product of summoning - some kind of black and yellow suspended particles with a heavy taste.
Exhausted, Andrew opened the ventilation circle in the underground laboratory and channeled fresh air into the dreary space, and he and a few classmates sat down tiredly despite the sweaty and embarrassed image, and relaxed to take a few deep breaths of fresh air.
They suddenly felt that they had come back to life from the shroud of inhuman taste.
As a matter of fact.
Summoning can only roughly control the type and level of the corresponding summoned demons from the number of sacrifices, quality, and variety selection, but there will be many unexpected situations in the past, resulting in the summoner ...... Pay a terrible price.
So thankfully.
They had just successfully completed the training work of summoning canine demons again.
This can be seen from the things on display in the storage room of the laboratory.
Various rune crystal troughs more than one person high stand in the corners of the walls on both sides, and they are soaked in the bodies of hellish creatures such as little devils, sheep demons, and hellhounds.
These were all sorts of intact embalming tanks from which souls had been extracted, and they had to be sold to professional corpse collectors to dissect and dissect the materials before they were sold on the black market - how could a noble academic wizard have such filth on his hands, and only those butchers would do such a shitty craft.
In order to achieve his career as soon as possible and raise enough capital for his girlfriend Patyusa to live a good life, Andrew recently joined the [Summoning Spell Research - Business Project Team] privately established by his mentor Ulysses.
Though.
On the surface, the project team said that it was researching new summoning spells and the rules of the heterogeneous plane, but in fact, it was to summon the creatures of the heterogeneous plane, and then separate their souls from the body materials to make full use of ~ value.
In layman's terms, it is - extracting and selling the souls of intelligent creatures, as well as physical scraps.
But this is openly and harshly resisted and condemned by human society and various churches, even if ~ it is used against some evil creatures.
But.
In fact, everyone knows that bluffing and summoning creatures from other planes, and then extracting their souls in their entirety and selling them to the devils of the nine layers of hell or other needy alien forces, is definitely a lucrative deal.
There is only a little bit of uncontrollable sudden risk of legal morality and summoning, but the profit is comparable to buying war bonds, futures, and funds issued by other more developed continental countries.
In Sarn City, where the Cult is not very powerful, these external risks will also be greatly reduced, and as long as you don't openly claim to summon evil creatures, other picket wizards won't trouble their colleagues for no reason.
Maybe people have a lot of friends in the system, but they still have to let people go when the time comes, and in the end they offend people in vain for ~ this little thing.
Some people.
In some large countries, they even dare to directly abduct and sell a large number of young men and women who are alone, and even the mildly mentally handicapped, especially those in backward, remote and poor areas, in the name of organizing laborers to make a fortune in other places.
They are sold to blackheart mines, sweatshops, coerced out their labor by force, and then their organs are cut off and sold to underground hospitals, and their souls are sold at high prices to demons, devils—and illegal puppet factories that need to be the core of puppet golems, evil spellcasters, etc.
Hundreds of thousands of people on the main plane become missing every year, and most of them stem from this.
What, you ask me, why hasn't anyone investigated it?
No kidding, those black-hearted mines and sweatshops are all owned by local aristocrats, bureaucrats, merchants, and gangs.
Without these high-level umbrellas, how can they operate without a license for many years, and everything will be safe.
But summoning an alien creature and extracting souls for sale is different.
After all.
The scourge is all other heterogeneous races, and they are not protected by human social morality, law, and human rights, how many people will confront the privileged class of spellcasters who master violence for the sake of these unprotected heterotope groups.
At most, like some bureaucrats and consortia in need, they are looking for a batch of literati gunmen with no discipline and no lower limit~
It is used to occasionally pick on similar flaws with rival groups and rival wizard forces, and verbally fight and splash some dirty water.
Those unlucky people who are really burned at the stake for crimes such as [collusion with the devil] and [evil and degenerate], which seem to be in line with the tastes of those who occupy the moral high ground, are just victims of the failure of the political struggle behind them.
Only the foolish people will go around shouting all day long - this is a sign that justice is manifested and proclaimed.
Moreover.
In fact, even those churches that are superficially upright are not necessarily clean under the buttocks.
Otherwise, why do the gods want so many souls of believers every year?~
Is it in captivity?
After Andrew and Mentor Ulysses signed a fair~ secrecy soul contract with a confidentiality clause under the command of the Archduke Tehasselton, the Lord of the Seventh Hell, he and the other two classmates will receive 10% of the project's profits in the future.
That's a huge amount of money that can make an average wizard live a very nourishing life for years.
They needed to start preparing the materials for their next official calling, and in order to be successful, they had to acquire more than sixty materials and more than thirty kinds of equipment.
But now he is very mentally exhausted, and now he just wants to lie down and sleep.
But the huge psychological pressure forced him to rest in peace, and he suddenly thought that the next time he officially summoned the Abyss Demon to draw his soul, he would have to retreat with his mentor for more than half a month, and he had to talk to his Patyusa first, otherwise she would definitely be very unhappy if she couldn't find herself.
He took a deep breath to dispel these anxieties, and after saying hello to his companions, he put on his coat and walked out.
After walking all the way out of the inner city, the number of pedestrians on the road began to increase, and some civilians living at the bottom of the society saw the four-star and fourth-order wizard logo on their bodies, and they avoided it with awe.
Andrew suddenly realized.
These people at the bottom are cowardly and humble and ignorant, and they may think that a wizard like himself who has mastered the 4th order of spells must live a very rich and happy life, and even think that the toilets and utensils we use are pure gold.