Chapter Eighty-Seven: Selling Yourself

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In the Arcane Academy in Giffen City, a large number of low-ranking mages gathered in an open green field, and an arcane lecture for the public was about to begin. Above and on both sides of the podium are all kinds of colorful flags, some of which are actually graffiti!

It seems that these young students are quite active.

According to Bainhalle, these lectures are held annually in most arcane academies, each focusing on a single spell and divided into three lecture series: apprentice, formal, and master. Apprentice-level spell speeches are only for Tier 1 to 3 arcane arts, formal lectures are for Tier 4 to 6 arcane arts, and master level speeches are all for Tier 7 to 9 arcane arts. These presentations are actually a special kind of communication meeting, and the speaker can be hosted by a teacher from the school or a guest specially invited from outside the school. Generally speaking, the speeches given by the school instructors are mainly in-depth explanations and explanations of the arcane courses of the academy they teach, although the spells involved in these lectures are generally classified as "beginner spell series", that is, content of tier 3 and below. As for the speeches of the higher ranks, they often imply a kind of academic "declaration of war", swearing to the outside world that one's own academy or faction understands magic.

Of course, this elementary sorcery lecture had nothing to do with those advanced things. For Toko and Bainhalle, finding a woman who is easy to have and raise is the real goal. The two of them walked around the crowd as if they were walking through the market, searching for beautiful women. made Dongzi suddenly feel like a human trafficker!

The results were quite disappointing, with basically no one who met the requirements. On her way back to the mansion from the disappointed Beinhalle, Toko suddenly sees a rush of chaos in the market. I heard that someone was selling spell equipment at a low price without permission, and he was caught.

The merchants in the bazaar gloated and said, "I guess that the guy who sells it privately is a novice, and he doesn't know the methods of Giffen City at all." Maybe that buyer is someone from Giffen City pretending to be!"

A fat merchant smiled and said, "This guy is going to be unlucky! If he is caught, he will be fined the same amount, or even a mid-level mage will be imprisoned to death." ”

Then someone came running from the noisy direction and laughed, "I saw another fool! I heard that he sold 500 gold coins worth of magic equipment, but the buyer offered 3,000 gold coins, and the old fool was caught while he was still haggling. Now it's going to be reversed, and you're going to be fined 3,000 gold coins. Hahahaha, I heard that he's still a full-fledged mage. ”

A few businessmen laughed even more happily: "These guys usually look down on us, and they look high and smelly every day. Now it's been cleaned up by his own people. It's really happy, hahahaha. I'm going to invite the three of you to a glass of wine tonight. ”

Dongzi thought as he walked: It seems that the contradictions between these social classes are still very deep, but they are just covered up by temporary interest relations. But this matter has nothing to do with me. Today, after listening to Bainhalle talk about the principles and key points of the conversion between matter and energy. Suddenly, I realized that now I just want to find a secluded place to experiment.

He hurried out of the bazaar, then turned into a puff of smoke and flew straight to the outskirts of the distance. This spell is based on the vaporization of the body, and after turning his body into a gaseous state, he is then shaped into a wisp of light smoke with the supernatural power of Lei Fadi. Originally, it was just to pretend to be a fairy and turn clouds into fire and fly for fun, but after the two cooperated, not only did the appearance change greatly, but the speed became three times that of before! Fast as a galloping horse soaring in the air, riding the spring breeze on the green fields and flying over the wilderness, it was really like a small plane touring the mountains and rivers, so uncomfortable.

When I came to the open hills of Giffin City, I saw that the grass was lush and the trees were sparse. Occasionally, deer and birds move back and forth. It's a great place to be uninhabited. He fell to the ground and restored his human form, and slapped a large bluestone more than one person high in the distance.

A hideous bright blue lightning burst out in his hand and slashed hard at the big bluestone, and the stone, which was not afraid of lightning, "banged" with a muffled sound, as if it had been smashed by a sledgehammer, and burst into several pieces!

Dongzi smiled and nodded, and then raised his hand to an ancient tree as thick as a vat next to him, and a sharp lightning flew out, hitting a thicker branch. As soon as the branch was hit by lightning, it immediately flashed with red light, and the parts it touched immediately turned into ashes and scattered. And the parts that have not been touched are not damaged!

These two spells were not spells such as "chain lightning", but supernatural thunder and lightning launched by Lei Gong Seal, and then he used the elements he learned to control his knowledge and change his inner characteristics. Therefore, the first blow is like thunder and lightning, but in fact it is used as a force to convert lightning, and the second blow is used as a flame. The effect of these two ground seems to be the same as the original "Thunder and Lightning Whip", but the principle of launching is completely different, the electric whip is based on its own true power as the core, attached to the thunder method, and the current palm thunder is completely composed of thunder law. It can only be done after having a certain understanding of the application of Leifa in this world.

Although it is far from the ability of Beinharley to arbitrarily transform the earth elements, his purpose was to find a new operation mode of the inner and outer five elements with the help of thunder law research, and now he has finally achieved something. So he slowly returned to the mansion satisfied. While enjoying the scenery of green grass and young leaves, while enjoying the dark luck Xuangong refining body.

In this way, he returned to the mansion quite slowly, but he heard several women talking in Danila's house, and when he listened carefully, one of them was Danila's sister, and the other was actually Lelin!

Curious, he walked back to his room. Sitting on the bed again, secretly using the technique of hearing and hearing the world, eavesdropping on the conversation of the three women.

First, Danila's voice was slightly desperate: "I'll just say he's bragging." What did he say about his classmates sending him money. This time, it's a good thing, I was caught selling spell equipment at a low price without permission, and I will be fined 3,000 gold coins at once. What kind of dream of family revival are you calling me there, and now it's the debt of Boss Desmond and the fine of Giffen, and it's really killing yourself!"

Her sister asked, "But where did my father get the magic equipment?" if he had these things at home. Then why didn't he sell it before? Why didn't he hurry to sell it when he was in debt, and disaster was coming?"

Danila's words were full of resentment: "I just heard him in prison that our grandfather was buried in a nearby field. When the grandfather saw that the family was in the middle of the road, he buried a few better spell tools for use in the future when he urgently needed money and land, or left them for gifted children and grandchildren. He also used some riddles to cover up the buried place to prevent unscrupulous descendants from digging it up and selling it casually. My father had only solved the riddle two months earlier, thinking that he would be able to get something good. When I took it and dug it out, it was all medium-sized equipment. And because of the time it has been, the potency has decreased a lot. He had to sell it at a low price. But the picket mages in Giffen City insisted that he was deliberately buying and selling at a low price. Disrupt the order of commerce and damage the rights and interests of mages. So they locked him up. To put it bluntly, don't you want to make a few dollars so that they can have the funds to continue learning arcane? I can see through what mages are the guardians of humanity and the pillars of human society. They're all vampires!" she sobbed softly, forgetting that she was a mage too.

"Sister, don't cry, there's always a way. Why don't you sell this house first? Danira's sister whispered comfortingly, "Or let me go and tell the boss first, use this mansion to pay off part of the debt, and don't use the power of the contract casually." Jeleka was working under him, and maybe he could be accommodating. ”

"Didn't you say that Boss Desmond was leaving in two weeks?" and he had forced his father to pay his debts when due. How could he be willing?"

Le Lin next to her asked aloud: "Otherwise, what's the matter? What is the contract signed by your father? I listen to you." It seems to have terrifying powers?"

These days, Le Lin has a good relationship with the two of them, and often helps to coax the children. Invisibly narrowed the relationship between each other, Danila hesitated for a moment and then said with some six gods: "It's all come to this point, I won't hide it from you." My father's long-aspiration was to become a high-level mage, but his talent was really limited, just like me, he was always limited to second-order arcane arts and could not be improved. Later, in order to learn higher arcane arts, he first sold his ancestral property and family belongings, and then borrowed money everywhere, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't go up. In the end, no one was willing to lend him money! I took out a loan from my brother-in-law, Mr. Desmond, the owner of Jelleka. He had sworn to me that he had given up his dream of becoming a High Mage, but the only dream he had in this life was to become a full-fledged mage who mastered the 3rd Order Arcane, and at that time he would give up his Arcane studies and no longer be a burden to his family. He also said that he already had a good foundation, and he would be able to master the 3rd order arcane in less than a year. Who knows if it's all a nonsense! This money is borrowed for four years, and it is renewed every year. Although I can live a small rich life with the money from my business, I can be so disturbed by him that all the money I earn every year is used to pay interest! Just like that, there is still a debt of 2,000 gold coins. And that contract, that contract, is a fair contract with the devil! Once it is due, he cannot pay his debts or tears up the contract. Then the devil who issued this contract will take away the soul of the person concerned. My father will only have two weeks to live," he said, and began to cry.

Dongzi sighed in her heart, thinking that she would be indifferent to her father's life and death because of her resentment. Who knew that at the last moment, I still couldn't let go of my flesh and blood affection. It seems that he is also rigid on the outside and soft on the inside, and his feelings for his father are still quite deep.

Le Lin hurriedly asked, "Why don't the servants of the Earth Mother Temple and other righteous gods take care of it?" She lived underground, thinking that only the Drow would have close contact with the devil, but who knew that it was in broad daylight. This kind of thing happened in the place where the mages gathered, and he asked indignantly, "Even if they don't care." Are the mages of Giffin just left to their feet?"

Danila suppressed her crying and said, "Sister, you are too kind. How many mages in Giffen haven haven't been with the devil? At least half of them have dealt directly or indirectly with the Devil! Even Boss Desmond has several mid-level mages in contract! Because the cost of arcane study and research is so great that sometimes it takes a huge amount of money to study and study at a critical moment. And he happened to have no money, so he could only find someone to take out a loan. Because these studies and studies are very risky, and if they fail, they will lose their money, so most people are reluctant to lend money to mages. Unless you are a rich man or a nobleman, you can only find a money lender like Boss Desmond. But behind them are all demons big and small. She let out a long sigh and continued, "Unless you are too talented, just like the Navia Mage in Giffin City, who has been very smooth in his studies all the way, and has mastered the 6th order arcane at a young age. Otherwise, no one will be exempt. As for the servants of the good gods. How dare they mess around? These moneylenders have made a fair contract with the devil. Tied to the fate of those mages, and everyone will die together, so those mages will secretly protect the lenders, or give protective spells to avoid the detection of faction magic. Without the support of a special background and forces, those good priests or holy warriors would not dare to do it. ”

Le Lin was greatly surprised, and said a little angrily: "The mage actually protects these guys who are trapping themselves? Are they crazy?"

Danila's sister replied, "Of course they are not crazy, and they know that they are in a trap, but you need to know how much temptation there is to become a middle mage and a high mage! A high mage has privileges and great wealth, some of them richer than the kings of small countries. The status is higher than that of the dukes of the great powers. What's more, whether it is a nobleman or a king, it depends on blood, and the path of a mage only depends on ability and not blood, how many people have to climb up with their heads broken. You see, the nobles can carry out heinous conspiracies, rebellions, assassinations, and riots in order to compete for power, not to mention the more competitive mages, and it is an open secret that they associate with the devil. This is not only the case in Giffen City, but I heard that the Arcane Federation and the Golden Demon Federation also have this phenomenon. Only the atmosphere of the Three Towers Demon Ring Federation is better, and it resolutely draws a clear relationship with the devil. ”

Le Lin hesitated and asked, "What if it fails? The souls of these mages will also be taken away by the devil?"

Danira's sister said, "This is usually the case, but if a mage has the help of a powerful friend, he can be spared the disaster." It depends on how powerful the devil who issued the contract is. I listened to my husband. Normally, people who violate the contract will be cursed with a strong blood, and their souls will be aroused alive. If the curse fails, then the devil himself will manifest himself. Even if you kill its clone on the main physical plane, it will come back with the help of a lender or someone else and find an opportunity to kill you. But if you're too good, there's nothing he can't do. ”

Le Lin said: "That means that as long as you are strong enough, you can get rid of the devil's account?"

Danila's sister replied, "Yes." I've heard of some people who practice both arcane and divine arts. But these are very few people, and how can our father be the devil's opponent? I heard that eight years ago, a high mage in Giffen City who suddenly died was killed by the devil behind Boss Desmond!"

At this time, Danila suddenly said in a firm tone: "If it really can't be done, I will marry that country viscount! At least I can pay off the boss of Desmond, lest that bastard old man die Woo Woo Woo" The cry was very sad.

The other two in the room fell silent. Only the crying sound whimpered.

After a long time, the baby girl woke up and began to scream: "Cat cat cat"

At night, when Dong Zijia was sitting on the bed and concentrating on refining, he was suddenly awakened by a burst of thoughts from Badbe, and he looked out of the fixed realm. It turned out that Lelin sneaked in.

Badbe, who had been created, snorted at her unhappily. Because when Dongzi entered the refining process, there was a subtle connection between the two. Therefore, the true power in its body will also be activated slightly, and it will get a little benefit. Now it is natural to be interrupted and not happy.

Le Lin didn't take it seriously at all, and said directly to Dongzi: "Teacher, Danila is very pitiful, can you help her?"

Dongzi pretended to be stupid: "Poor? I see that she can make a lot of money every day, where is the pitiful?"

Lelin pouted and said, "Don't pretend, I know you eavesdropped on our conversation today." ”

Dongzi was surprised: "How do you know?" He had never mentioned the "Heaven and Earth Audio-Visual" technique to her, how could she know that she was eavesdropping?

Le Lin chuckled: "Didn't you teach me the relationship between the principle and the strengthening of internal organs? And the Nine Turns of the Pulse has a method of strengthening the perception ability with changes, I just tried it in the past two days, and I can faintly hear other people's conversations while sitting in the room." I think you're more capable than I am, so you must be able to hear more clearly than I do. ”

It turns out that it is not the art of hearing and hearing, but relying on hearing. Dongzi had just relaxed, and suddenly found that something was wrong, Le Lin's alchemy was still shallow, and she was only practicing the inferior "Nine Turns of the Yi Pulse, how could she change her physique to Cheng DΓΉ, who was close to herself, in such a short period of time, so she ordered her to come over, probe the Xiaguan acupoint on her cheek with her own hand, and sense the structure of her ears with real power.

This inspection actually found that the subtle structure of her ears was different from that of ordinary people, and because of the different directions of alchemy transformation, its function was similar to that of a beast! In other words, the structure of her ears had already changed before practicing alchemy, beyond the scope of ordinary people, and then it was improved by alchemy, so she had this ability.

This change is similar to a genetic mutation. Dongzi asked Le Lin in confusion: "Did your hearing also improve when your body became violent?"

Le Lin nodded, "Of course, everyone is like this." Not only the sense of hearing, but also the sense of sight and smell will be improved. But the improvement is not large, so it's useless. ”

Dongzi was secretly shocked in his heart, if it was a genetic mutation, it should be a special case, how could everyone be like this? Could it be that the material body of this world is not completely controlled by genes?

Thinking of this, Dongzi suddenly felt that his mind was broadened: if it is not controlled by genes, then the physical characteristics of this world are fundamentally different from the earth, although it seems that there are sunsets and water flowing downward, but it just happens to be similar to the earth?

Maybe isn't this world made up of physical particles such as atoms and molecules?

So should there be a difference when using the Nine Turns of Xuangong to transform the body? Maybe copying the old method may not be suitable, but where can we find the new method?

For a while, all the questions and associations came to him, and he was still thinking about it carefully, but Le Lin asked again: "Why don't you lend some money to Sister Danella?" ”

Dongzi waved his hand and said, "Whoever wants to borrow money, who will borrow it himself." I'm not a boy who scatters money, so how can I say that I can borrow it. Besides, 5,000 gold coins are enough for most of a poor family's expenses, and what will she borrow and return to me? Besides, we are only living here temporarily, and we may leave in a few months, and we don't know when we will be able to return. Do you want her to live on her debts for the rest of her life?"

"Fortune boy?" Le Lin's tone was slightly surprised: "This statement is quite fresh. Or you'll help Sister Danilla kill that devil."

Dongzi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Stop! Stop! Stop! Whoever wants to kill the devil will kill it himself, don't pull me! Didn't you listen to them? Even the high-level mages have been killed, what can I do as a druid with no equipment and no rank? Don't mention this again! Anyway, there is no free lunch in the world, and I won't borrow money unless she comes up with something suitable. ”

Le Lin suddenly said happily: "Otherwise, you will let her sell herself to be your servant! She is still a third-order mage, much stronger than Grimm." ”

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