Clark looked at the enshrined mage "Lao Shan" in front of him, and his heart was very uneasy.

"Old Mountain" was keenly aware of Clark's nervousness, and just looked at Clark with contempt and didn't say anything more.

From the outside, "Lao Shan" is just a rather gloomy-looking middle-aged man, who may be a little mean, but by no means terrifying, the black robe he wears is also decent, and there are no strange summons around him, and the human remains used for research and other things look more like a scholar than a powerful mage.

But Clark, as a mage apprentice, is very aware of the strength of the middle-aged man in front of him, even without arcane vision, Clark can distinguish the negative energy that lingers around "Lao Shan", almost condensed into substance, and Clark concludes that "Lao Shan" is a necromancer who specializes in necromancy.

Although the necromancer is feared and discriminated against on the continent of Faeron, it has not reached the point of being surrounded and suppressed by the righteous people of the whole continent with all their might, necromancer is only one of the eight arcane factions, and it is not evil in itself, and the fear and discrimination of necromancers are mostly spontaneously formed by the people in the lower classes, and have nothing to do with those in power.

There are some reasons why the general public hates necromancers, and mages who study necromancers inevitably have to be often accompanied by corpses, and have long contact with corpses of the same kind, coupled with too much negative energy, so that necromancers are more or less withdrawn and unsociable, and even have some quirks that are difficult for ordinary people to understand, and some raunchy necromancers are quite unhygienic, and sometimes they will be contaminated with a trace of corpse stench, which greatly reduces people's perception.

The necromancer who is accompanied by the dead corpse, has a withdrawn personality, and is very in line with the imagination of the general public for the evil magician, and some necromancer apprentices will go to the cemetery to steal the corpse, even if it is a law-abiding necromancer, they will also make agreements such as signing an agreement with the poor, providing money to the poor, and obtaining the corpse of the poor after the death of the poor, so the necromancer in the Feren continent has a very bad impression in the eyes of the general public.

Of course, the big businessmen of Sambia will not be like ignorant civilians, in their eyes, power is power, it doesn't matter if they are evil or not, not only the Edric family, as far as Clark knows, there are not a few big merchant families in the group of twenty-two who have necromancers, after all, necromancers can control a large number of undead creatures, which is more cost-effective than mercenaries.

These necromancers who serve the merchant family spend all day with ghouls, ghouls, and skeletons, but there is no trace of weird smell on their bodies, these necromancers of the merchant family are quite aristocratic, and they will always spray expensive perfume on their bodies, and they also use aromatherapy handkerchiefs, while on the "old mountain", Clark does not smell the messy perfume and aromatherapy smell.

As far as Clark knew, the unknown origin of the "Old Mountain" had served the Edric family when his father was a child, and he was likely to be a legendary mage, an existence that Clark needed to look up to on the Arcane Path, and every business family in Sambia had powerful mages, and it was not surprising that the strongest ones had legendary mages.

The relationship between the powerful mercenary mages and the business family of Sambia is very complicated, the most secure relationship is to hire the mage to join the family in the form of commercial shares, the family usually provides magic materials and research funds for the mage, and the mage protects the family and makes the family stronger, under this relationship, the family cannot drive the mage, everything can only be discussed, usually the mage will serve the family for his own heart, but once the family really has any real crisis, the mage will immediately withdraw.

A small number of legendary mages in Sambia have recovered the family to their own power, and the so-called business family is actually to serve the mage alone and his apprentices, and in case of crisis, the mage will fight tenaciously until the last moment, after all, the entire family is his own property.

The rise of a family requires foundation and time, and the same is true for the cultivation of mages, families often use all methods to recruit children with arcane qualifications, let their parents join the family's chamber of commerce or other industries, train these qualified children to become magic apprentices, sign magic contracts with them, or let them repay the cost of learning magic according to the amount after learning, or directly serve the family for many years, this training process often takes more than ten years, and the trained mages are also very loyal to the family。

The qualifications of these cultivated mages are not high, and they are often at the level of reaching the fourth and fifth layers of the magic net, but they can also be regarded as the backbone of the family, and if you want to train an ordinary child to become a high-level mage who can touch the sixth layer of the magic net, it is really hard to find, so the high-level mages of various business families are mostly foreign hired mages, with the mages cultivated by the family themselves as a containment, and the foreign high-level mages will not be anti-guest-oriented, if the legendary mage asks the family to work, it is too late for the family to agree, where will it be opposed。

Clark is a little unsure of the relationship between "Lao Shan" and his family, "Lao Shan" is the pillar of his family, but he is definitely not the kind of mage who is very loyal to the family cultivated since childhood, although Clark usually has little contact with him, but he can also find a trace of clues, "Lao Shan" is not cultivated by his own family, it should be certain.

Like Clark's teacher, he was raised by the Edric family since he was a child, and owes a lot of debts to the family, and his parents are now living in the family manor, and they used to be the heads of the Chamber of Commerce and the Workshop, although Clark's teacher has been able to touch the fifth layer of the magic web, but he still respects Clark's father, which is obviously not visible in the "old mountain".

To say that "Old Mountain" signed a contract with the Edric family, Clark doesn't feel very like, before coming to Bow Valley, Clark's father also brought a few words to "Old Mountain", which was completely instructive, and when Clark just relayed it to "Old Mountain", he also looked like a matter of course, and according to Clark's investigation, "Old Mountain" has always acted after being instructed by his father, and he has not acted like other family mages at all.

Confused about the relationship between "Lao Shan" and his father, Clark sent a message to "Lao Shan" according to his father's previous instructions, and gave him a dimensional bag containing magic materials and other materials, in the process, Clark seemed to inadvertently reveal the exquisite iron armor bracers he was wearing on his wrists.

"Lao Shan" showed a glimmer of essence in his faint gaze, and said in a steady tone: "Your bracer is very interesting!"

Clark was overjoyed and took the bait!