Under Jiang Hao's questioning gaze, the city lord of Jinling City took out a golden skill book.

Jiang Hao immediately cast a detection spell.

It really is the [Soul Link] skill!

Jiang Hao refused to believe it and quickly opened the professional shop, searching for a long time, but he couldn't find any more information about selling [Soul Link].

"This, this is what you bought from the professional store?"

"What do you mean 'bought'? I sold it. The only one in the world!"

Seeing Jiang Hao's dumbfounded expression, the city lord of Jinling City rarely showed a smug expression.

"The listings you see on the professional marketplace are ones that I put up."

"So? Are you tempted?"

Jiang Hao was indeed tempted. But considering that Archmage Willy's heroic spirit could easily break Oron's God-Slaying Curse, the value of this skill far exceeded Jiang Hao's previous expectations. Judging from the skill's description, if he could split his soul into many parts and store them within summoned creatures, then when encountering a powerful and strangely skilled mage like Oron, he wouldn't be as helpless as before. At worst, he would only lose one part of his soul.

"Between Archmage Willie and Archmage Oron, who is stronger?"

"Your question is impossible to answer. Archmage is a general term for legendary mages. Their strength is unimaginable to mages of other levels. If their luck is extraordinary enough, they can become gods."

If we absolutely have to make a comparison...

The city lord of Jinling pondered for a moment.

"Skill-wise, the [Godslayer Curse] can even kill a true god, making it incredibly powerful as an offensive skill. However, the [Soul Link] can counter most attacks targeting the soul, making it relatively more versatile. It's just a coincidence that the [Godslayer Curse] is countered by the [Soul Link]..."

"Go away, go away, only a fool wouldn't go."

"If you're unwilling to go, then I'll just put it back on the professional item auction house..."

"Why?"

"Don't sell it, keep it for me, I'll go. It's just a remote mountain pass, I'll take it back for you."

"Don't push yourself too hard, after all, the skeleton army is not easy to deal with."

"No forcing, no forcing at all, not forcing at all."

"In that case, let's wait for Commander Jiang's triumphant return."

"Excuse me, may I ask what you need career points for?"

The city lord of Jinling was a little confused, not knowing what he was talking about.

"I saw you put this skill book on the profession shop, priced at 2000 profession points. Aren't you just doing this to get profession points?"

"Oh, no!"

Jiang Hao was somewhat surprised.

"What would I do with profession points? Only adventurers have any use for them. The price I listed is 20 million gold coins."

The city lord of Jinling added another sentence.

"It's 20 million gold coins after deducting transaction fees."

"The professional points you mentioned should be the prices that the Lingxu Administration Bureau has recalculated. For us, only gold coins are useful."

What can you do with 20 million gold coins?

"It has many uses, such as recruiting high-level mercenaries in other realms, purchasing energy crystals, purchasing other military supplies, and issuing missions to adventurers, etc. Anyway, 20 million gold coins are enough to help me resist the invasion of the skeleton legion."

"Why do I feel like gold coins are omnipotent in your hands?"

"Isn't that just bullshit? As long as you have enough gold coins, even if..."

The city lord of Jinling lowered his voice.

"Even if you wanted to be emperor, it wouldn't be impossible."

"Really?"

"Do you know how the Human Emperor of Realm 6528 became the Human Emperor?"

“Long ago, Realm 6528 was just an uncivilized realm. It is true that the Human Emperor was exceptionally talented, but what did he rely on to win the War of the Gods?”

Jiang Hao asked the question knowing the answer already.

"What did they rely on?"

"It's a steady stream of gold coins borrowed from the Black Dragon Empire at low interest rates!"

Jiang Hao felt that the city lord of Jinling City was going too far off track, so he quickly ended the topic.

"There's a skill book in the career shop. Should I buy it? It also costs 2000 career points."

The city lord of Jinling City became interested.

"Oh, tell me about it."

"This skill book is called [Summoning Space]. The description says that it is an alternate dimension opened up by the archmage Mondstadt with his supreme power."

The city lord of Jinling frowned and pondered for a moment.

"I haven't heard much about Archmage Mondstadt, but my advice is that you should buy him as soon as possible."

"Why?"

"Any skill of a great mage is never bad. Especially a skill that sounds unique, its value is immeasurable."

"Let me tell you this, the price of this skill book is definitely more than 20 million gold coins. It's likely that the person involved encountered an emergency, which is why they put it up for auction."

"Take my book, [Soul Link], for example. If Jinling City hadn't been desperate, why would I have so easily put it up for auction? Offering it to the Prince of Heqin in exchange for a hereditary princely title, and then living a life of idleness, wouldn't that be better?"

"Then why don't you become a prince and instead auction it off?"

"Everyone has their own ambitions."

"Hey, where did you get this skill book?"

"It's a family heirloom, you have a problem with that?"

The city lord of Jinling City is being irresponsible again, and Jiang Hao is too lazy to argue with him.

I opened the professional shop and found the [Summoning Space] skill book.

"Purchasing the skill [Summoning Space] requires 2000 class points. Do you confirm the purchase?"

confirm.

"2000 career points have been deducted, and the skill book [Summoning Space] has been added to your inventory."

Opening his backpack, Jiang Hao saw a golden skill book lying quietly in the first slot of the first row. After confirming that it was the skill he had seen before, Jiang Hao clicked on it again.

"Your second skill is currently empty. Would you like to confirm learning the [Summoning Space] skill?"

Jiang Hao selected "confirm".

After a flash of white light, Jiang Hao quickly activated his professional skills.

In the second skill bar, a black icon has appeared where the skill bar was originally gray.

The skill descriptions are also provided below.

Summoning Space (lv1): Can summon 1 skeleton to assist the summoner in battle.

(Upgrading this skill requires 1000 skill points.)

Below that is more detailed information about the skill.

This is an alternate dimension opened up by Archmage Mondstadt with his immense power. You can choose any skeleton summon you like from within, until you are satisfied. Of course, you can also place your own skeleton summons into this alternate dimension to recuperate at any time. Rest assured, this alternate dimension is vast!

Looking at the skill he had acquired by spending 2,000 career points, Jiang Hao almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

Damn it, I can only summon one creature! Are you kidding me?!

And the skill points required for this upgrade, 1000 points?

Do you think I'm playing Monopoly?

Can I not use this skill?

Refund!