……

"Let's put it this way, Matthew, the Rolling Stone Kingdom is about to be established, and there are many places where you need to use money."

Rhaegar looked at Matthew with a deep groan.

A hint of disappointment flashed in Matthew's eyes, but he nodded anyway:

"I can understand that."

Rhaegar spoke again:

"So I can only give a third at most, which is about 300,000."

"This 300,000 can be simply regarded as my personal investment in this spell guild, I don't expect to make a profit, as long as it can be used."

Seeing that things had taken a turn for the better, Matthew's mind became active, and he couldn't help but continue to persuade:

"Invest a little more, Rhaegar, another 300,000."

"I'll figure out the remaining 300,000 on my own."

Rhaegar bared his teeth:

"I don't have a lot of money lately......"

Yet in Matthew's immensely longing gaze.

Still hesitantly, he nodded:

"Well, I promise you."

"A total of 600,000 gold coins have been invested, but in addition to the conditions you promised before, I would like to get an additional place as an initial guild member."

Matthew thought for a moment and asked:

"Who?"

Without hesitation, Rhaegar replied:

"It's Siv."

Matthew showed a sudden expression, and then he smiled and nodded:

"Yes."

The initial slots for the Spell Guild are actually quite valuable.

Unless Matthew is able to upgrade the level of the magic network and guild in the later stage, the maximum number of members of the first-level spell guild is twenty.

This deal is definitely not a loss for Rhaeggar.

Seeing that Matthew agreed so happily.

Rhaegar became suspicious instead:

"The one you mentioned earlier is that the function that members can transfer to each other is real, right?"

Matthew smiled:

"Absolutely."

"However, this function requires a second-level spell guild to achieve, in the early stage, if you want to find Sif, you can use me as a transit, I will be happy to help."

Rhaegar pursed his lips, seemingly dissatisfied with all this.

But under Matthew's good words.

He finally agreed to maintain his previous investment plan.

600,000 gold coins in place.

Two-thirds of the cost of building a miniature magic network is covered.

The remaining 300,000 is also a lot of money for Matthew recently.

He found that with the increase in strength.

Although my earning power is increasing day by day, my ability to spend money seems to have soared even more!

Before, after purchasing the Magic Siwen.

Matthew's cash was a little insufficient.

If you want to make up 300,000 yuan of liquidity immediately, it is not enough to embezzle some from the Oak Chamber of Commerce!

But the Spell Guild was extremely high on Matthew's mind.

In order to raise funds as soon as possible.

He went on a trip to the Moonlight Glades.

With the help of Ella and the other Nature's Spirits, Matthew dug three feet into the Moonlight Glade, eventually collecting a large amount of Blue Moon Grass and Broken Gold.

These are two types of alchemy materials that can be sold at a relatively affordable price.

Matthew then found 177 and cleared the materials at a price slightly lower than the market purchase price.

This fills the funding gap.

After doing all this.

Matthew began ordering raw materials in the Alliance Mall and the Crucible House.

The materials used to build the miniature magic net are actually not particularly advanced.

It's just that Matthew got a lot of the materials mentioned in the spell book that can't be found in this world.

He had to look for alternatives based on the function of those materials.

So it takes a lot of effort in the process.

For this.

Matthew also consulted with two alchemists in the enchantment realm.

After paying a lot of money for the consultation.

He's become a complete pauper.

But there's no end to it.

While wandering around the Crucible House, Matthew stumbles over Isabel's Spell Vault.

His heart moved.

When he returned, he copied two copies of the magic book.

Matthew found the staff at the Spell Library with one of the copies in his hand, saying that he wanted to contribute a little to the Alliance.

At first, the staff didn't pay much attention.

But after Matthew revealed his identity.

He quickly assessed the copy, and soon realized the novelty and peculiarity of the Spell Guild.

Because it's just copies.

The staff gave two acquisition options -

One is a one-time payment of 550,000 spell buyouts;

The other is to pay 50,000 yuan in the treasury, and if someone wants to learn or buy the spell book, Matthew can get a spell rental income.

Each rental income is about 50,000 gold coins.

Both of these plans are priced slightly lower than Matthew had imagined.

Considering the complicated conditions required to build a spell guild, it is estimated that no one will read this magic book.

But Matthew chose option 2 anyway.

He pondered.

There are still a lot of legendary mages in the alliance, even if they are curious about new spells, it is estimated that there will be bigwigs who will buy them and take a look, and they only need to pay knowledge points, but Matthew's hand is real money.

As long as the number of people looking at the spell is more than nine.

Option 2 is more profitable than option 1.

"Understood, after signing this contract, your spells will be officially stored."

The staff are very dedicated.

The whole process took only half an hour.

It didn't take long to follow.

Matthew found his own spells on the new list in the arsenal.

Then he rolled his eyes and said to the staff:

"I'm going to buy this spell."

"Let's buy ten times first."

The staff was slightly stunned:

"You?"

Matthew smiled and nodded:

"Buy with knowledge points."

As he spoke, he handed over his spell license.

The staff suddenly realized after seeing the balance on the license.

He took the plunge and said:

"Something doesn't seem right......"

Matthew's attitude is still very mild:

"What's wrong?"

"Can't I buy my own spells myself?"

"Does the Alliance have such a rule?"

Sweat on the forehead of the staff:

"There's no such rule, but according to common sense, a spell only needs to be purchased once."

"If there were ten purchases, I could be held accountable......"

Look at the way he sweats.

Matthew couldn't help but sigh softly:

"Forget it, I won't embarrass you, then buy it once."

"Yes, that's for you!"

The staff wiped a handful of sweat, and their hands and feet were unusually diligently scratched off the knowledge points on the spell license.

Soon.

He handed over a brand new copy of the spell to Matthew, along with the 100,000 gold coins he was entitled to.

The purchase of this money slightly eased Matthew's financial chain problems.

At the same time, he also found a way to make money.

He can use this spell to convert knowledge points into alliance gold coins reasonably and legally.

Although the staff said that a single person is not allowed to buy more than once.

But Matthew can find other mages to buy it!

Just give people a little benefit.

"However, this method can only be used when you are nervous, and it is not good if you use it too much and the teacher knows about it......"

Matthew knows it.

Isabel gave herself a large number of knowledge points to make it easier for her to obtain all the spell knowledge in the Alliance.

It's not for yourself to play and cash out.

Occasionally alleviate the economic pressure, and no one cares.

If you get too much, it's probably self-defeating.

……

Before I knew it, it was the middle of March.

Rolling Rock is in the season of ice and snow.

Spring is coming.

Matthew also notices that the "Chill Fury" buff on his body has disappeared.

This means that the tree planting plan has been re-added to the daily tasks.

And right in the tail of winter.

Matthew also found time in his busy schedule to complete the production of the two bone dragons.

The soul strength of these two bone dragons was far inferior to that of the Wild Boar King, so the grade of the formed bone dragon was also a little worse.

Matthew appointed the two-headed bone dragon as the little brother of the Boar King, and the three-headed bone dragon lived on the fourth floor of the cemetery with the skeleton prince Li Rick.

Recently, Matthew has been going to the third or fourth basement floor more frequently.

Making a bone dragon is certainly one thing.

The output of the Skeleton Knife, Axeman, and Flame Burners is a more important factor.

The Skeleton Prince didn't brag.

Batches of skeleton knife axemen were continuously trained by him.

Matthew soon felt the fighting power of these axemen.

The same is true for the fire-mourners.

It's just that there are a lot fewer of them than the axemen.

Meanwhile.

The fifth floor, which was personally supervised by the White Ghost Ali, is also in full swing of development.

It can be said that the entire cemetery has not been affected by the harsh winter, and the cemetery has been under vigorous construction throughout the past winter.

And in addition to the increasingly lively cemeteries.

Matthew also got a new piece of good news at the beginning of spring -

The "Fairy Veil", a ceremonial arena supervised by the formation mage Lele himself, has been built.

Unlike the rain or shine of the cemetery.

Lele and his assistants and apprentices will still be affected by the harsh winter.

Therefore, the construction progress of the fairy veil is actually much slower than Matthew expected.

But the good thing is that as soon as the coldest days are over.

The progress of this ceremonial field was immediately pulled up.

Ultimately.

Lele handed over to Matthew a comprehensive ritual arena that covers the entire territory of Rolling Stone, focusing on the core area of Rolling Stone, the Graveyard of the Dread, and the oak forest and its surrounding areas.

Under the action of the fairy veil.

The entire territory of Rolling Stones has its own Fog of War effect, which means that the gods or other powerful people cannot spy on it through prophecy spells.

Furthermore.

The Fairy Veil also has its own anti-espionage and anti-evil mob effects.

Any creature with malicious intent entering is likely to be perceived.

Designated by Matthew.

Lele also built an observation platform next to the negative energy fountain on the first floor of the cemetery.

There were more than a dozen floating crystal balls on the observation platform.

Through these crystal balls.

Matthew can spy on every corner of Rolling Stone!

It's the equivalent of a monitoring room.

Of course.

A small number of areas required by the Lord's Mansion and the official post house are blind spots for monitoring.

The privacy of the lord must still be guaranteed.

Furthermore.

There is also a similar sub-observatory on the Lord's Palace.

Rhaegar can use that observatory to monitor the situation in Rolling Stone, except for the Lord's Palace, forests, and cemeteries.

This is the respect and sincerity that Matthew showed to Rhaeggar!

After all, he didn't forget.

Fairy Veil, the ceremonial field, also gave half of the money.

Generally.

Both Matthew and Rhaegar were quite satisfied with the effect of the fairy veil.

The only downside is.

When Lele delivered the ceremonial venue.

The Southern Legion has already started a major construction project on the northwest side of Rolling Stone.

Look at their fiery genius building efficiency.

Matthew suspects that it won't be long before he has to ask Lele to upgrade the fairy veil again in order to cover more areas.

But now.

He really didn't have that money.

I'm too embarrassed to ask Rhaegar for money again.

A few more days passed.

Previously ordered magic materials are arriving.

Except for the "Gathering Stone", the core material of the Gathering Technique, which needs to be transferred from the Roderick factory in the north, everything else is already complete.

Theoretically, Matthew is ready to go.

But he wasn't in a hurry.

Because Matthew is now encountering a more urgent problem -

The number of undead registered in the cemetery is almost exceeded.

As everyone knows.

There is a limit to the number of summons a Necromancer can make.

The same is true of cemeteries, which serve as ceremonial grounds.

Matthew has summoned a lot of undead these days, but whether it's an axe hand or an archer of extreme cold, they are essentially skeletons and zombies.

The summoning quota for these two types of himself has long been full, and if a new batch is summoned temporarily, a batch of old ones must be terminated.

Previously, he was able to put some of the skeleton zombies in the cemetery roster.

But now the cemetery list is almost full.

This is a serious problem.

Matthew had to find a solution.

He consulted some related books and found two ways that seemed more feasible -

The first option is to increase the strategic level of the cemetery.

Increasing the strategic level of the ritual field can effectively increase the upper limit of the roster.

The maximum number of summons of the same type in a first-class cemetery is 480, and the total number of summons cannot exceed 2000.

This number is too small for Matthew, who is sitting on a large number of corpses.

If you can upgrade to a second-level cemetery.

Then the registration limit of the same type of summon will come to 2,400, and the total number of summons must not exceed 10,000.

This will greatly alleviate the demographic constraints faced by Matthew.

However, the increase in the level of the cemetery is not an overnight achievement.

In addition to the expansion of the area and the construction of functional buildings, the ceremonial arena itself also needs to usher in a new round of renewal.

This requires Matthew to put a lot of effort into the arrangement.

He had already made a rough plan, and he would definitely implement it gradually, but this method did not work so quickly.

Matthew estimates that raising the strategic level of the Graveyard of Dreador to LV2 by this summer is already quite optimistic.

The second way is to make a special Horcrux -

"Roll call".

In a sense, this Horcrux is a movable ritual field.

You can transfer the undead under your name to the roll call.

These undead are then indirectly manipulated by controlling the roll call.

The roll call is the equivalent of a medium and a workbench between the necromancers and the army of the undead.

Necromancers only need a small amount of focus and mana to harvest an army of necromancy.

As far as Matthew knows.

A general roll call can only control 100~500 undead.

Only the most advanced roll call - this level of roll call is often called the "Necronomicon ", which can control 1000~5000 undead.

Matthew's need for a roll call or a book of necromancy is urgent!

On the one hand.

They relieve Matthew's summon count stress.

On the other hand.

This kind of Horcrux is highly in line with Matthew's next strategic layout and money-making plan-

Considering that the number of undead in the cemetery is close to overflowing.

Matthew is going to make some deals around the roll call!

The roll roll is not an artifact for necromancers.

It's a prop that anyone can use.

It just so happened that on this trip to the Arun Inland Sea and the Gold Coast, Matthew successfully caught the line of Yukama and Sumi.

The Gold Coast is not expected to be too peaceful.

Yu Yao can't rely on those devils forever, right?

As a promise to invest in his Matthew.

Naturally, he wants to share his worries and solve problems-

Selling some of the undead to him can not only relieve Matthew's financial pressure, but also provide Yu Yao with loyal combat power.

Matthew is well aware that Yu Kao is not short of money.

The coolie zombies, fireburers, archer marksmans, and skeleton knives and axes in his hands are all very useful undead units.

As long as you can make a roll call list yourself.

This lord of Cordor City will definitely pay a high price for this!

In fact.

It's not just the sickle.

Almost all the lords of the entire Aindo would not refuse an obedient secret necromantic army.

The reason why this thing didn't catch on.

Purely because necromancers are really too poor.

It's too late for them to get the elite immortals to use it themselves, and it's rare to see someone like Matthew with a stable output.

In Matthew's plan.

The promotion of the strategic level of the cemetery and the production of the roll call must be two-pronged.

can be at the executive level.

Matthew unexpectedly discovered -

Isabelle's Spell Library and the Alliance's Great Library don't have any way to make the Book of Names and the Book of Necromancy!

After some inquiry, Matthew found out.

This matter has something to do with White Rock City.

The original founders of White Rock City briefly joined the Alliance, but soon withdrew, and since then, successive White Rock City lords have held a position in the Alliance, but no other necromancer in the city will join the Alliance.

The addition and withdrawal of that city lord at the beginning must have involved a lot of exchange of interests between White Rock City and the Alliance.

One of the conditions for the two sides to finally reach a tacit understanding is -

Only the necromancers of White Rock City are qualified to master the creation of roll calls.

As a result, there is no record of this in the Alliance's arsenal of spells and knowledge.

This was artificially deleted.

Of course, this kind of thing can't be done directly to the teacher.

Matthew thought for a moment.

Decided to take a trip to White Rock City.

By the way, visit the current lord of White Rock Castle.

Do what you think.

After Matthew made a little preparation, he took Peggy and Bing and flew all the way to the northeast on the magic carpet.

……

Geographically, White Rock City is an isolated island.

It sits in a narrow valley east of the Resting Badlands, northeast of Rolling Stone.

It has a mountain range in the north and south that stretches for hundreds of miles.

To the north is the Eternal Song Forest, where the haughty Night Elves have built barriers above the mountains to protect them from the infiltration of evil necromantic creatures;

To the south is Apple Boulevard, which is lined with a large number of manors and mines, which provide logistical support for many prosperous port cities on the east coast, and the owners of the manors here are also very disgusted with necromantic creatures, and from time to time there will be claims that there are zombies to steal their fruit or horses to eat, but because the mountains to the south are higher, the related interests of Apple Boulevard do not set up too many defenses in the north;

The eastern part of White Rock Castle is considered to be an extension of the Resting Wasteland, and is also known as the Eastern Resting Wasteland.

The East Rest Wasteland is actually much larger than the Rest Wasteland.

Crossing this uninhabited land, it took another three hundred miles to the east to reach the territory of the Lion City.

If you look down from above.

This special valley sandwiched between two mountain ranges is like a narrow eye embedded in the southern land.

And the eyeballs of this eye are the White Rock Mountain dotted in the middle of the valley and the White Rock Castle built on the mountain.

When Matthew once again came to the outskirts of White Rock City.

The first thing that catches your eye is still the chains that hang from the heavens.

These chains originate from the ruins of an ancient floating city.

Its source points to an artifact called the "Chain of Human Desire".

This artifact is the root of the founding of White Rock City, and it provides additional power and foundation to necromancers, making it easier and more harmonious for ordinary people to get along with the undead.

But it is also said to have some unknown negative effects.

Matthew rides a magic carpet over the densest levels of the chains.

Suddenly gray-brown snowflakes drifted in the sky.

Some of the snowflakes fell on his clothes.

He looked down.

It's bone meal congealed together!

"Hit the "gray snow" again......"

Matthew muttered inwardly.

Gray snow.

This is a unique but rare climatic phenomenon in White Rock and its suburbs.

It is often believed to bring good luck to necromancers.

It's not Matthew's first time in White Rock.

The last time he was in White Rock City.

It seems to have hit gray snow as well.

Looks like a good sign.

But Matthew wasn't really interested in these gray-brown bone meals, because they had a high content of impurities.

These bone meals are enough to ignite phosphorus fires, and they are almost useless.

The scenery of White Rock Castle seems to remain the same throughout the year.

What happens outside seems to have no effect on this place at all.

When passing by the city gates.

Matthew saw a similar scene to the last time he came-

He saw a skeleton soldier and a human soldier talking about something;

After paying two bones of average quality as an entry fee.

Matthew bumps into Abomination, who is pushing a cart of snacks and is selling his snacks to people walking down the street.

These snacks range from hunting for the undead's eyeballs and hair, to normal snacks for humans.

But the Hate Boss put all these things together.

Matthew could only politely refuse the other party's enthusiastic outcry.

Walk along the middle of the road.

The scenery on both sides comes into view——

There is no uniform style of buildings of different heights, and each house seems to be built in a unique way.

The entrance to the tavern.

A skeleton is dancing with a human beauty.

Matthew took a few looks.

It was found that the skeleton jumped a little better than the beauty.

Of course.

Skeletons may also be great beauties during their lifetimes.

in the alleys.

Two human children each hold a thigh bone and wield it to hunt and hunt, as if they are simulating a sword duel.

There was a fight at the door of a blacksmith shop.

A well-dressed mage-apprentice frustrated the fat dwarven blacksmith and reasoned:

"Your bear kid stole Doug's bones!"

The fat dwarf seemed to have drunk some wine and spoke a little drunk:

"Dao...... Case...... Who is it? ”

The mage's apprentice was so angry that his teeth itched:

"Doug is the skeleton dog I summoned!"

"It took me a lot of bones to summon it!"

"You're going to have to pay for my bones!"

The fat dwarf scratched his head:

"Who are you?"

The mage apprentice was stunned for a moment.

Soon.

The apprentice of the mage began to argue with the other party with red faces.

Eventually, the two scuffled.

It attracted countless undead human onlookers.

Matthew walked past the crowd and was not surprised.

White Rock City has the largest number of undead with independent personalities in the entire world of Aindor.

The origins of these immortals are quite mysterious.

At one point, they even became a sight to behold in White Rock City to attract other mages to visit.

But with the passage of time.

Everyone is not surprised.

Matthew had done some homework on this before he came.

He knew that the undead inhabitants of White Rock City were part of the chain of human desires.

They are the guarantee that this artifact will function properly.

And the chains of human desire will also provide protection to these immortals.

There are quite a few necromancers in White Rock City who will make contracts with these undead.

This contract is similar to Matthew and Peggy's or Xiao Boil.

Relatively equal.

And many necromancers will also become one of the undead after death due to the power of the human desire chain.

There is a very different ecology here.

It's also a necromancer's paradise.

People have always felt that the place where the necromancer and the undead gather must be filled with a strong negative energy, a terrible dull atmosphere, and an extremely oppressive atmosphere.

But perceptions other than negative energy are indeed stereotypes.

In Matthew's eyes.

White Rock City is even livelier than many city-states.

This may be a huge tomb.

But thousands of dead spirits dance on the graves every day.

……

Ten minutes later.

Matthew made it to the outside of the Lord's Mansion and informed the guards of his origins.

The current lord of White Rock City is a member of the Reze family.

According to unwritten rules.

The lordship of the city usually only moves between the three great families.

Matthew had heard such a joke before-

It is said that after the original founder broke away from the Alliance.

Each generation of White Rock City lords has tried to return to the Alliance, but they have all failed.

The reason for this is that they will be strongly opposed by the other two families.

And the other two families are strongly opposed.

It's because they all want to be able to reintegrate White Rock City into the Alliance.

The joke is similarly full of prejudice against necromancers.

But it also confirms from the side the great power of the three major families in White Rock City.

Matthew didn't wait long at the door.

Soon a butler came out and led him into the city lord's mansion and into the city lord's study.

But what Matthew didn't expect was that.

Waiting for him in the study was not the Lord of Rez that he wanted to visit today.

Rather, it was a woman dressed in an exaggerated style of mage robes.

The lady in front of her is about thirty years old, she looks sexy and hot, and she has a very amorous eyebrow.

Matthew glanced at the robe that was split to the waist on both sides, as well as the waist and hips looming in the robe, and silently calculated how much partial armor such a robe could provide......

When Matthew came in.

The lady seemed to be rummaging through things in the study, and she said with some absent-mindedness:

"My name is Ai Xue. Rez, my father isn't in White Rock, you can talk to me about something. ”

Matthew couldn't help frowning when he saw this.

This is not the attitude of the other party.

So he raised his chin slightly:

"Maybe I'll come back someday."

Unexpectedly, the lady named Ai Xue suddenly stopped Matthew:

"Wait!"

"You can't go!"

Matthew was a little puzzled:

"Huh?"

Ai Xue also seems to realize her gaffe.

Two flushes quickly appeared on her face, and then she said with some embarrassment:

"Sorry, I was just looking for something I left behind......"

"I've heard of your name, Matthew, right?"

"If you really need to tell me, you will know later that my father is not as good a talker as me."

There seemed to be some apology in her eyes.

Matthew thought about it and said bluntly:

"I want to find out how to make the Necronomicon book."

Ai Xue was a little surprised:

"Are you in the name of the Alliance or in the name of Rolling Stone?"

Matthew shook his head:

"Neither."

"I'm just representing my personal needs."

Ai Xue looked embarrassed:

"I'm afraid it won't work."

"The way the Necronomicon is made is only open to necromancers in White Rock City, and it is impossible for outsiders to get it."

Matthew asks:

"Isn't there any leeway?"

Ai Xue said categorically:

"There's no room for anything!"

"It's not something I or my father can decide alone, and even if we agree, the other two families will oppose it."

Matthew nodded expressionlessly:

"I see."

This result was actually expected by him, and he had already conceived several countermeasures in his mind.

But the next second.

What Ai Xue said in a joking tone was unexpected by him:

"There are two other ways you can get what you want."

"The first way, promote the merger of White Rock City into the Seven Saints Alliance, as long as you succeed, White Rock City will become a part of the Seven Saints Alliance, and the previous constraints will no longer exist, of course you can obtain the way to make the Book of Necromancy through the channels of the Alliance."

"But it's a tricky way, you have to have strong enough wrists and enough energy."

"The second one is much simpler."

"As long as you can help me kill my father and my brother, I can succeed as the lord of White Rock City."

"I can tell you how the Necronomicon was made in a private name afterwards."

When it comes to the last sentence.

She had a nonchalant expression on her face, as if she was really joking.

Matthew read a hint of nervousness in her eyes.

……

(End of chapter)