Chapter 29: What is Investment?
The annual Southern Regions Magic Exchange Conference finally ended on the third day.
Although it is a regular meeting every year, the world of magic is changing with each passing day, the Southern Region is so big, and the year is so long for 365 days, some new magical ideas and theories, even rhapsodic ideas, can make every exchange meeting never fall into dullness and boredom.
Not to mention, this kind of grand event, which is held at Noah Academy every year and is basically attended by important figures in the magical world of the Southern Regions, has brought many wealth and business opportunities to Noah City.
Whether it is buying or selling, the shots of these big names are enough to make the big and small merchants in Noah City laugh from ear to ear, and the city lord of Noah City, just sitting on the ground to collect taxes, can also count the money with both hands until cramps!
This is the root cause of the most unwillingness of Venice Academy, the "second child" for many years, to be unwilling to accept the status quo.
Because, the Southern Regions Magic Exchange Conference will only be held in the First Academy, as long as Noah Academy still occupies the first position for a day, Venice City, where Venice Academy is located, will not have anything to do with these astronomical wealth.
This is something that makes Carlos sad every time he thinks about it, because the city of Venice, the lord of the back garden of Dean Carlos Enders, is a member of the Enders family.
The Southern Regions Academy of Magic is the first, this is a false name, but the wealth brought by the false name is a real astronomical amount.
Noah Academy, with more expensive tuition than any other college, is the first choice of almost all those who like magic when recruiting students every year, but this is only a drop in the bucket of the wealth brought by false fame, and the real wealth is in Noah City.
If he can rank first in Venice Academy, Carlos is absolutely willing to pay any price, even if Venice Academy does not charge a penny of tuition fees in the future or even subsidizes the tuition fees, Carlos will not hesitate to agree.
In this exchange meeting, in addition to some new ideas and concepts in the wizarding world, there were heated discussions, debates, and opinions, and some people put forward a new idea.
The idea came from Noah's Academy, but it was unanimously opposed by the wizarding community, including Dean Raleigh.
This proposal came from Frank of Noah's Academy, the only person who is not even a great magician, but attends every year.
Frank's proposal is to hope that the Southern Regions magic world can start to pay attention to the research and development of magic warrior equipment, to be precise, I hope that all the bigwigs in the magic world can set up a research project - the research and development plan for the level 6 and above magic source equipment!
However, as soon as this proposal was put on the table, it was immediately resolutely opposed by all the archmages present.
The arguments against it are quite high-sounding.
If every magician can easily use magic above level 6 through the magic source equipment, and there are still people who need to be fortunate to cross the threshold of magicians and great magicians, which makes countless capable people break their wings?
If the sixth-level demon source equipment is studied, the impact on the Great Magician will become a meaningless thing, and after a hundred years in the Southern Continent, how many Great Magicians will remain?
If the high-power demon source equipment above level 6 is manufactured in large quantities, if it falls into the hands of people with bad intentions, will the end of the world be far away?
Of course, there is also a reason under the table, that is: Lao Tzu relied on his talent to excel, and he became a great magician after a lot of hardships, so he has today's status, if the sixth-level magic source equipment is flying all over the sky, Lao Tzu, the great magician, is still a fart!
If Lin Lei was present, he would understand that this was the same reason as his previous world, when a certain country possessed nuclear weapons, and would prevent other countries from possessing them for various grandiose reasons.
The magic exchange is over, but that doesn't mean it's over, in fact, the real excitement has just begun.
In recent years, the magic exchange meeting has made no achievements in promoting the development of magic, and everyone is used to it, and the program that is really expected by everyone is in Noah City after the meeting, which is also an annual "Southern Regions Magic Category Trading Festival".
The actual combat exchange competition of the major magic academies in the Southern Regions can be regarded as the opening ceremony of the "Magic Category Trading Festival".
This kind of actual combat friendly match called "academy test", the rules are very simple, each academy, send a fifth-level magician student as a representative, in the form of a lottery for one-on-one combat, the loser is eliminated, the winner enters the next round of lottery, there is no special break in the middle.
This kind of game rules that don't even give rest time, simple and rough game rules, there are too many uncertain factors that affect the outcome of the game, and the strength is sometimes not as important as the order of appearance...... Gambling is the essence of this kind of competition.
The annual "hospital examination" has always been a grand event in the entire Noah City, especially those poor and boring aristocratic children, who are even more eager for this kind of peripheral gambling, and even make a bank themselves.
In the north of the city, next to the "Magic Show", at a peripheral betting point, it is close to the time to close the betting, and many people are still rushing to place last-minute bets.
The two teenagers struggled to squeeze into the crowd, grabbed a card representing the object of the bet, stuffed it into their pockets, and handed it to the dealer who was betting.
The dealer took the bag and read it out casually: "Lin Lei, 200,000...... 200,000 Lin Lei?"
The banker, who was so thin that he only had three tendons left, with an expression of disbelief and the eyes of a super idiot, carried the bag and stared at the teenager in a daze.
"That's right, it's to buy Lin Lei's 200,000 gold coins, imperial purple gold tickets, all deposit and exchange, do you need to verify?" The young man who placed the bet had a cold expression on his handsome face.
The Purple Gold Ticket is a substitute for gold coins, which can be exchanged for physical gold coins from the official treasurer of any city in the empire, with a minimum denomination of one hundred and a maximum denomination of ten thousand, all of which carry the royal exclusive magic seal, which cannot be easily forged even by a level 10 magician, and is the favorite convenient payment method of the big people.
There was an uproar all around......
"Lin Lei, the first-level mage, the one who pays twenty for one?"
"No, someone really dares to buy him? The first level is against the second level, and I heard that Arobes has actually secretly rushed to the second level of intermediary. ”
"It must be crazy, 200,000!"
"Are you sure you bought Lin Lei? Didn't you get the wrong brand?"
The thin dealer swallowed his saliva hard, and couldn't figure out why there would be someone in this world who was so handsome but so stupid.
"Hey, can you stand it? "It was a small man who came with the teenager, and he didn't look like an idiot.
"Accept, accept, specially, who is not raised by the turtle son...... the thin dealer stared at the round eyes, and hurriedly opened the bet list, and shouted in his mouth: "The No. 26 store under the Robles family is bet, Lin Lei is 200,000, everyone to testify, it is this master who voluntarily bought Lin Lei, and absolutely no one confuses him." ”
The young man pulled the bet sheet, ignored all the strange eyes around him, and with the support of the little man, he left the bet station, and went to the magic show with many people.
In half an hour, the college exam will begin, and the first warm-up match will be Lin Lei, who is considered an idiot to bet heavily on the teenager.
"Your Highness, are you sure we won't ...... Is it worth losing all your money?" The little man looked like he had just died of his parents: "That 200,000, but your cultivation funds for a whole semester, if we lose it all, we can't even afford to buy spiritual pills!"
These two teenagers are none other than Dismond, who had a gambling contract with Lin Lei before, and his entourage of Louis.
Dismond glanced at Louis and said angrily: "Louis, let me teach you a little more thing, how to weigh the pros and cons of a thing, and what is called investment." ”