"It's not just surveillance! Now Fort Doom, Kemo University, and the Mercenary Guild are already the key monitoring locations of the other party, and even I don't dare to leave the branch easily. ”

President Clark smiled bitterly: "In private, there have been dozens of skirmishes between our two sides, and now we almost tear our faces and fight directly." ”

Jialan Ha laughed, and her eyes fell on the other middle-aged man next to President Clark: "This should be President Lauren Clifford of the Eternal Hammer Auction House?

President Lauren, who had been smiling silently, nodded to Jialan, but did not interject, just waited for his old friend Clark to speak, the two of them had formed a friendship since they were young, and many etiquette details could be omitted over the decades.

"I invited Mr. Jialan to come this time, because I have a few things to discuss with you. ”

President Clark's attitude was quite polite, although the young magician in front of him, although he was always wearing a magic robe of a level 1 magic apprentice, but as the president of the Coran branch of the Mercenary Guild, what happened in Corran City was almost impossible to hide from him.

So what happened to the Storm Wolf Station, he was almost the first batch of intellectuals, and even had the exclusive silver-level thieves of the branch, who specially restored the battle scene and process for him, and naturally knew very well that the young magician in front of him was not as weak as he looked.

In the process of recovering the battle scene, more than one experienced veteran mercenary judged that among the two magicians who participated in the magic confrontation, one only had the strength equivalent to the silver junior, that is, the junior wind mage of the storm wolf.

On the other hand, from the description of the Storm Wolf mercenary who had personally experienced the battle scene, it was difficult to accurately judge his strength, because he only released a total of three spells from beginning to end.

The first "Fire Arrow Technique" canceled out the opponent's "Wind Blade Technique", and judging from the fact that it was only "offset" rather than "penetrating", his fire magic strength should be equivalent to that of a "junior magician".

The second "Water Drop Technique" cracked the opponent's "Wind Ball Technique", and the low-level magic cracked the high-level magic, which in itself is a difficult thing to understand, and it can only be conservatively estimated that his water magic strength is at least equivalent to that of an "intermediate magician".

The third "Wind Ball Technique" that led to the total annihilation of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group, judging from the damage suffered on the scene alone, his wind magic strength is at least equivalent to a "high-level magician", and judging from his spell casting status, he may even be a "great magician"!

A 20-year-old magician?

Sounds hard to believe, doesn't it?

How could this make those gray-haired old magicians embarrassed?

However, in this world, there is never a shortage of geniuses, and they cannot be measured by ordinary people's standards, which is not difficult to accept.

What is really unacceptable about this young magician is that he has demonstrated the magic ability of "fire, water, and wind", and he is actually an extremely rare three-system magician!

Even Clark and those who are not magicians know very well that people with multi-lineage elemental talents are either wastes with no future or peerless powerhouses!

The problem is that even among the various legends, the most heard are only the powerful two-line magicians, the three-line...... It is too difficult to understand that there are only three lines, and that there are three systems in which the elements are in conflict with each other.

In President Clark's knowledge, although he had heard of some higher-level magicians with magical abilities that were not limited by the elements, for the young magician's age, he would rather believe that the other party was using some kind of magic item or magic scroll, which was more reasonable.

The world of magicians is too mysterious, they don't have magical abilities, it's better not to guess, no matter what, it's absolutely right to keep respect, you can't despise the other party because of their age, otherwise once you anger the other party, the problem will be serious.

Even if you don't consider the problem of strength, the identity of the other party's "mysterious magician team" agent is enough to make people maintain respect, you must know that from the beginning, this "mysterious magician team" has never appeared, everything is carried out by this young magician.

And such a young magician sent by this "mysterious magician team" already has such terrifying magical strength, as well as powerful abilities in the fields of potions, alchemy, and enchantment, so how strong does this "mysterious magician team" have to be to make the person in charge of running errands in front of him?

"The first thing is our potion business! According to your plan, the potions produced by Fort Doom will be dumped with the surrounding city-states starting from Corland City, but even if you don't consider the neighboring city-states in 'Eubrulan County' and 'Dagon County'..."

President Clark said with a bitter face: "In the 'Gilargo County' alone, there are our Colan City and Tolan City, Zoran City, Talliston City, Talandor City, Suribal City, Osquilo City, Genses City, Raven City, Lugowen City, Quesk City... and so on a dozen large city-states and dozens of small and medium-sized city-states. ”

"Through the channel of the Mercenary Guild, I sent the news that I could supply potions to the city-state branches of the Mercenary Guild in Gilago County in batches, and these large metropolitan city-states have placed huge orders of 30 million potions per year to our Coran Branch!"

He looked at Jialan and said embarrassedly: "The Remley Potion Workshop in Fort of Doom, with its current scale, has an annual production capacity of only 73 million potions, which is just enough to meet the orders of our three city-states, such as Kolan City, Tolan City, and Zolan City..."

"Do you think you can find a way to add some more equipment? Otherwise, it will not be able to meet the demand for potions in the whole of Gilago County! If the news of the Colan branch being able to supply potions in large quantities had not spread, perhaps there would not have been such a difficulty. ”

President Clark said with a headache: "But now the branches that have received the news have gone berserk, if they don't supply them with potions, I estimate that their branch leaders will take all their registered mercenaries to form a mercenary army to attack our Coran City!"

Jialan, who was listening and drinking tea at the same time, almost squirted milk tea, put down the teacup in surprise and said in astonishment: "30 million potions per city-state? Are they going to drink potions to replenish water? Potions have a shelf life! What is the use of them hoarding so many potions?"

President Clark smiled bitterly, "Imagine the reaction of a farmer who is always hungry when he suddenly finds a large field of wheat, and you can tell what kind of mood they feel!"

Jialan was speechless for a while, although he had expected a similar situation, but he did not expect it to be so crazy, as President Clark said, he may not die if he is hungry for three days without eating, but if he is injured for three days without treatment, he will die.

It's really hard to imagine how the high-risk profession of mercenaries survived under the strict control of potions by the Apothecary Guild in the past, no wonder the casualty rate of mercenaries is so high.

It's not just mercenaries who need potions, adventurers, and city-state armies are all big consumers of potions, so considering it, the order of 30 million potions a year for a large city-state is not too exaggerated.

Jialan expects that this kind of panic hoarding will occur in the first year, and from the second year onwards, as long as they can continue to provide potions, the annual order volume of these large city-states will drop to one-tenth or even less.

"New equipment is still being studied, so the output of the drug cannot be increased in a short period of time. I will try to speed up the research of the pharmaceutical production equipment, but it will take at least two to three months before it can be fully operational. ”

Frowning and thinking about it for a while, Jialan shook his head and said: "The other party's order can be followed, after all, it is impossible to deliver all the potions at once, so it will be delivered according to one percent of the order demand of each city-state, I believe it is enough to appease them." ”

"The duel between us and the Apothecary Guild has reached a stalemate, but the forces behind the other party have begun to intervene in the conflict between us. Although I've tried to find some allies, such as Clifford and the leader of the Adventure Guild..."

It seemed that the matter of potions could only be like this for the time being, and President Clark could only nod helplessly in agreement, and then said the second thing: "But in the Civil Council, our strength has never been able to compete with the Golden Power Society, which controls the majority of the voice. ”

"The Golden Power Society is a powerful organization hidden behind the scenes of the major city-states, and their organization includes members of various upper classes. Their history can even be traced back to the ancient times before the Apocalypse Calendar......"

He looked at Jialan, worried that the young magician did not know the origin of the Golden Power Society: "Although the current Jin Power Society has no substantial connection with the Golden Power Society before the Apocalypse Calendar, the methods and organizational structure they adopt have inherited the style of the previous civilization. ”

"Gaining power by controlling huge amounts of wealth, and obtaining huge amounts of wealth by manipulating rights, this is the most fundamental mode of action of the Golden Power Society. The Golden Power has infiltrated almost all of the city-states in County Gilago, and each city-state has a large number of its members in the city-state councils, which is why some people call them the 'Dark Council'. ”

President Clark frowned and said, "Now that they have begun to put pressure on our Mercenary Guild through various channels, we can still find a way to solve the small problem of banning the sale of weapons, equipment and resources." ”

"But they manipulate the laws of the city-state and create all kinds of unfavorable situations for our mercenary guild, such as tax increases, personnel restrictions, weapons restrictions, behavior restrictions... And so on, the purpose is to force us to submit to them, and leave the pharmacy business to them to take care of..."