After holding a military meeting for most of the day, Claude, who did not return to Covenbelen Manor until late at night, felt exhausted and dizzy. Sheila, who had learned about his return, did not sleep either and kept sitting in the hall waiting.
When he saw Claude getting off the carriage, Sheila came up to him and kissed him. This time Claude went to the Kingdom of Hicks, but Sheila did not go with him, and the two of them had not seen each other for nearly a year and a half.
Sheila was very excited to meet again after a long absence.
"My dear, why are you so happy today?" Claude was a little strange and found that Sheila seemed too enthusiastic and excited.
After Claude took a hot bath to regain some energy, and Sheila served him the food that had been prepared for him to enjoy a feast, the happy Sheila finally explained why she was so happy: "
Claude, do you know that in those magic books collected by the Hicks royal family that you asked people to send, I found information about the promotion of magicians..."
Claude finally understood why Sheila was so happy. She wanted to find someone to share her discovery with, and this secret could only be told to Claude. Now is the Age of Ending Law, and the once glorious magical civilization in this world has become disappearing history.
and folklore. Even now, you can still learn magic knowledge and become a magician, but no matter you are talented or ordinary, there is a ceiling above your head. The five-ring mage is the ultimate pinnacle of all magicians.
After Claude had just traveled to this world and come into contact with magic, his biggest dream was to become a magician, carefree and carefree. But the wheel of fate cannot be deflected by human will. So far, Claude has and
His boyhood dream took a completely different path. Even after reuniting with Sheila these years, under Sheila's supervision, he practiced slowly and finally advanced to become a five-ring mage. But he was used to it.
During his military career, magic has become dispensable to him, and he has no need for magic in ordinary days...
Among the magicians Claude knows, his sister Anna is now concentrating on raising her son and the twins left by her brother Blovik. In her free time, she is resuming her study of pharmacy knowledge. Master Bird and Lady Sonia
This father and daughter are also considered rune mages, but they use magic in experiments that interest them. Master Bird studies mechanical power, and Lady Sonia develops various weapons and ammunition.
Although his younger brother Blovik's magic talent is not as good as Claude's, he has become a five-ring mage faster than Claude. It's just that Claude doesn't know how to define his younger brother Blovik now, because he regards magic as
Used in combat, using spells to assist his special operations, he can be called an alternative modern battle mage. As for Claude, who is in a high position, he doesn't know what applications of the spells he knows. Magic experiments
I don’t know how long I haven’t done it. For him now, it doesn’t really make any difference whether he has a spell or not...
Only Sheila is a pure magician who has been pursuing knowledge and progress in magic. She has always wanted to go further, break the shackles of the five-ring magician, and be promoted to an archmage. Her mother did this for the same reason back then.
Purpose, he abandoned the young Sheila and teamed up with other magicians to excavate magic relics, hoping to find a way for magicians to be promoted, but unfortunately died. When Sheila grew up, she also went to search for magic relics and found her mother's
Corpses, but there was nothing she wanted in the magic ruins.
Although Sheila, who had gone through many hardships, later reunited with Claude in the Dominion, Claude knew very well what Sheila longed for. Fortunately, even if Claude could not help her with magic, he went out to fight, conquer cities and territories, and was invincible.
It can still bring many unexpected surprises to Sheila from the trophies.
For example, the Nasseri Kingdom was destroyed by him, the King of Hicks and Saint Hyprian City were captured, the books and materials on magic knowledge collected by the Nasseri and Hicks royal families for hundreds of years, as well as many precious magic items
All the classics fell into his hands.
For Sheila, the books and materials brought back by Claude from the expedition greatly increased her magical knowledge reserves and insights, and broadened her horizons. Especially those precious magical classics, many of which were left over from the era of magical civilization.
Any of the books that came down can make a magician go crazy. It is a pity that these magic books were locked in the palace treasury by two royal families and never saw the light of day, and did not fall into the hands of magicians who really needed them.
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Sheila discovered the detailed information about the promotion of magicians from a magic book collected by the Hicks royal family. After reading the information, she understood that in the late years of magic civilization, she knew how to be promoted to an archmage.
There are many masters, but the difficulty is that they cannot collect the huge magic materials and resources needed for advancement.
At that time, magic materials and some magic mineral resources were basically controlled and monopolized by those magic families, and ordinary mages had no place to collect them. Therefore, any unexpected appearance or discovery of magic resources or materials would lead to countless competitors.
, and are likely to start bloody fights and battles until the final winner appears...
Sheila marveled at the scarcity of magic resources and materials and the fierce competition at the end of the magic civilization recorded in the magic books, but she was more concerned about the knowledge, procedures and steps for the advancement of magicians recorded in the magic books.
There are also the magic resources and materials needed for the huge promotion ceremony. What makes her happy is that, after thousands of years, although many magic resources and materials have been renamed artificially or unknowingly, the names in this magic book
There are also detailed records and verification methods of these magic materials and resources...
While Claude was eating and drinking, while (⊙v⊙) nodded in response to Sheila's words, Sheila took out a list of more than ten chapters recording the magic materials and resources needed for a magician to advance.
These dozen pieces of paper are more than two meters long together.
Claude looked at the beaming Sheila in shock. He was really wondering, is it necessary to be so happy? Even if you know these magic materials and resources, can you collect them? Many things were gone and extinct thousands of years ago.
At that time, even the magicians couldn't collect it. Now it's just a luxury to collect it...
Of course she was happy. Sheila answered Claude's question categorically, because Claude forgot one of the most important premise. At the end of the magical civilization thousands of years ago, countless magicians were collecting the magical resources and materials needed for promotion, and also
They often spend their entire lives collecting them, and even before they die they are unable to collect enough magic materials to advance.
To give a simple example, if the magic resources and materials at the end of the magic civilization can still satisfy the advancement of a hundred magicians, then there will be a total of 10,000 magicians collecting these things, and the collected magic materials and resources will be
Those magicians were hidden deep in the secret room, unknown to the public. As a result, the one hundred magic materials and resources that were enough to meet the magician's promotion were collected by those magicians in various places, unable to collect them all. In the end, no one could
Don't even think about advancing, this is the fairest...
However, due to the emergence of muskets more than 600 years ago, countless magical knowledge was destroyed with the rise of muskets. The ordinary people of Farea continent used muskets to drive away those magicians who were above them and regarded them as ants.
, happily ushered in a new oppressor. The fact that the magicians were driven out of the Farea continent did not allow the people of the mainland to obtain the peaceful and tranquil life they yearned for. On the contrary, the next three hundred years of darkness began.
Curtain.
Countless lords, big and small, used muskets to ignite beacon fires all over the continent. They launched wars for revenge, to compete for territory, to expand their power, and for financial gain, and drove the young men in their territories to become cannon fodder on the battlefield. Nearly three
Hundreds of years of bloody wars reduced the population of the entire Falea continent by almost two-thirds. This finally determined the distribution pattern of the continent's countries and continues to this day...
For more than six hundred years, magician has become a taboo word in the Farea continent. No magician can appear publicly in front of the people anymore. Even if there are royal families in many countries who secretly collude with magicians, they are basically hidden in the public.
In the dark. After all, the traditional folk custom for more than 600 years believes that magicians are evil. The so-called harmless spells introduced by the Kingdom of Ovelas are only limited to a very small number of people. Most of the people regard these registered magic spells as evil.
The teacher sees him as a magician, the kind who plays tricks.
Time has passed, and the current Farea Continent is no longer a world of magicians. Many of the precious magic materials and resources that could have caused countless magicians to fight for and bloody fights thousands of years ago are now ignored. Although there are many in the Farea Continent.
There are still magicians in the wild, but they all hide in the wild or in the market and live in obscurity.
Many magicians do not know how to advance due to incomplete inheritance. Some lack practical spells, some lack knowledge of magic materials and resources, and more often they are hindered by the monopoly of magic knowledge and the lack of communication.
The practice of magic has gone astray. Just like the knowledge of advancement a thousand years ago was known to almost all magicians, but now it has become the reward of adventure that needs to be explored at the cost of life...
Sheila told Claude very seriously and clearly that being promoted to Archmage was not a dream, because she found that many of the magic materials and resources on the list are now easy to collect. For example, the Dominion Military District attacked the Kingdom of Hicks this time.
Many of the things brought back from the royal treasury are magic materials and magic mineral resources needed for advancement. The important thing is that these magic mineral resources have been carefully refined, saving a lot of trouble...
The material warehouse personnel of the Dominion Military Region did not understand that these items were extremely precious magic materials. They just transported these things back to the Dominion Military Region because they were the inner treasury collection of the Hicks royal family. Sheila went to the Dominion Military Region Warehouse.
The department inspected these magic materials, and she was surprised to find that the ore ingots extracted from these magic materials and resources were marked by the warehouse management personnel as pharmaceutical test materials and metal forging test additive materials...
So Sheila immediately spent the loan amount of nearly half a million gold crowns in Claude's account to buy all the magic materials and resource refining items from the Dominion Military District Warehousing Department, which were used to test potions and Sonia for her sister Anna.
In the name of my wife doing the metal strength test of the gun barrel. This is a win-win deal for the warehousing department of the Dominion Military Region. It not only gives Marshal Claude a face by selling it, but also vacates several warehouses. This large batch will easily become unsalable.
All the valuable test materials were sold out, adding 500,000 gold crowns to the Dominion Military Region's financial reserves.
Only Claude knew until now that he already owed a huge personal loan debt of 500,000 gold crowns to Overseas Minsheng Bank. This was really a big surprise for herself by Sheila. But since she bought everything, forget it.
Especially for Sheila Hua, Claude has no temper at all. Even if he doesn't have any extra money, with the profits and dividends from the various assets he currently holds, Claude can pay off the loan in two or three years.
"My dear, will purchasing these magic materials worth half a million gold crowns be enough for you to advance?" Claude asked.
Sheila shook her head regretfully: "Not enough. These magic materials can only be counted as half at most. In addition, you are wrong. This batch of magic materials and resources is not worth half a million gold crowns as you thought. If it were placed in the underground magic market
If it is for sale, if it is discovered by a magician who knows the goods, let alone two or three million gold crowns, even if it is doubled ten times, someone will rob it if the price is five million gold crowns.
You don’t know that many of these magic materials are precious materials that are very difficult to find and collect. For example, fine gold and earth crystals are almost extinct magic mineral resources, which are mineral-based resources like the Kingdom of Hicks.
It is possible to collect them only in countries that focus on development. These are rare and rare magic items that are usually hard to find and cannot be found by just digging in a mine.
Speaking of which, it is mainly because the warehouse management personnel in your military region do not know the goods and regard them as auxiliary materials for pharmaceutical testing and additive materials for metal forging tests. This is why I took a big advantage. Do you know what he marked the fine gold on? Hardness
An extremely high copper alloy, the earth spirit calls it an earthy yellow crystal block. I almost bought these two treasures for the price of potatoes..."
Claude suddenly felt chilled. He did not blame the warehouse management personnel in the Dominion Military Region for not knowing the goods and selling the gold as dirt. Those price negotiators and evaluators were not magicians. It was understandable that they did not know the magic materials. Claude was just very sensitive.
Thinking of it, Sheila got a big deal this time, buying precious magic materials and resources worth five million for only five hundred thousand gold crowns.
But the problem is that the materials she purchased this time are only enough for half of her promotion. In other words, if there is no advantage to collect the other half of the magic materials and resources, Claude will have to pay nearly five million gold.
The price of krona. Those precious magic materials have always been priceless in the underground market. It not only costs money, but also requires a lot of energy to collect.
Even if Claude now has a lot of assets on hand, he still earns one or two hundred thousand gold crowns every year, but five million gold crowns is still a huge amount of money that he cannot afford. This is already equivalent to the former king of the Kingdom of Ovelas.
The total annual revenue of the kingdom during the heyday of Lin X's reign was less than that. Last year, I heard that the kingdom's annual tax revenue was less than 1.2 million gold crowns.
You must know that Claude is not His Majesty King Frederic I. He got tens of millions of gold crowns from the nobles of the kingdom just by relying on the promotion and land selection fees to grant a title. When he thought of these five hundred
The huge sum of money made me feel panicked. This time I understood why so many magicians risked their lives to get some magic materials and resources thousands of years ago. They couldn't afford to buy them, so they could only use violent means to rob them.
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It’s just that the Dominion Military Region has just conquered the Kingdom of Hicks. Which country can they target next? I wanted to say that it’s better not to bother and advance, but looking at Sheila who was beaming with excitement, Claude said no.
Exit. After a long time, I couldn't help but interrupt Sheila: "Well, um, dear, how much money do you think we need to purchase the remaining half of the promotion materials and magic resources?"
"Uh..." Sheila was interrupted by Claude's interruption. She looked at the frowning Claude for a moment, finally understood what he meant, and immediately smiled with joy.
: "Claude, didn't you listen to what I said just now?"
Claude nodded with a grimace, thinking that just now he was thinking about how much money he had left in his family that could withstand the abuse of a bitch like you, so he didn't care enough to listen to what you were saying.
"Didn't I just say that the treasures in this batch of magic materials I purchased from the military region's warehousing department are enough for three people to advance. The remaining half of the materials on this list are quantity, not price. Most of them contain magic
Materials and mineral resources are commercially available. White root powder, for example, is very common. There are also many medicinal materials that are now used in pharmacy. These can be purchased in the market.
What is really difficult is to have a suitable magic tower in the place required for promotion. I plan to transform the interior of the cornice observation building in our manor into a magic tower. It will take time and energy to redraw the entire internal structure of the magic tower.
runes and set up magic talisman arrays. So in the next three years, I will lead the low-level magicians trained by your family to renovate this cornice observation building. A lot of magic materials need to be purchased here to apply...
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Don’t forget that we are now in the continent of Nubisia, which itself produces a lot of magic materials and resources that are very rare for the continent of Farea. I have calculated that after collecting the magic materials and resources produced in the continent of Nubisia,
There are only a small part of what is needed for promotion. When the magic tower is renovated three years later, I will take these family magicians to the central highlands and western wasteland of Farea continent. The magic books indicate that
The remaining magic materials and resources are produced there..."
Claude breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that the other half of the magic materials and resources needed for promotion were mentioned by the prodigal woman in terms of quantity rather than price. He finally felt relieved this time, so he took care of everything and said: "This way
Well, give me the list of magic materials and resources produced in the central highlands and western wastelands of Farea continent, and I will find someone to collect them. I don’t worry about letting you go and search for them yourself. It’s a wild place and it’s not safe...
..."
Sheila was very enthusiastic and proactive this night, and Claude enjoyed it very much but also very tired...