"Angel."

Luya said:

"I think we should still go to the ruins. The pumice stones we see on the outskirts are enough for us to make a fortune."

"You can see that we can't buy Green Potion with the magic stones we have now."

"It's too dangerous there." Angele is the leader of the four-member team and the only senior wizard apprentice.

His body had been burned by fire, and not only was his face ugly, but his voice was also hoarse, so most of his external communications were done by Luya.

"There are ghosts haunting the ruins. They are the nemesis of knights. Even wizards don't have many means to deal with them."

"I think..." Angelet advocated a safe approach:

"You should put it aside for now."

"Brother." Ashu shook his head: "The ruins have not been discovered by others yet. We can seize the initiative. If they are discovered by others..."

"I'm afraid there won't be any place for us!"

"As long as you advance to become a formal wizard, all your investment will be rewarded."

Gray said nothing.

She had joined the team not long ago, so her relationship was not as close as the other three, and she was a newly promoted Grand Knight.

Going to the ruins is too dangerous for a knight!

"I agree with Assyria's statement." Luya said, "Those are ruins that have never been discovered. Many people will never get such an opportunity in their lifetime. If they miss it, they will definitely regret it."

"Angel, don't you want to get the Green Potion?"

“If there are materials containing the origin inside, Ashu and Gray will have a chance to become legendary knights!”

This time, Gray's eyes moved.

Becoming a legend is every knight's dream, not only to increase strength, but also to extend lifespan.

Who doesn’t want to live another hundred years?

However, compared to a wizard apprentice becoming a wizard, it is too difficult for a great knight to become a legendary knight.

"What do you think?"

Angele looked at the three people. Two of them were firm in their attitudes, but Gray was undecided.

"That's it!"

Gritting his teeth, he made arrangements:

"Since you have decided to explore the ruins, you should be fully prepared, especially items that can restrain ghosts."

"Soul-repelling powder, light seal..."

"These things are not cheap. We still have forty magic stones to use. I will give you ten more."

…………

The four of them split up into two groups to make purchases. Luya led Gray to wander around the market. Under the other party's surprised gaze, they knocked on a door. After entering, they said respectfully to the wizard in the room: "Dear wizard, I hope to borrow some magic stones from you."

"Luya!"

Gray was shocked and grabbed her: "You are crazy!"

"I'm not crazy." Lu Ya frowned: "There are too few magic stones. Do you have any other solution?"

Fifty magic stones are already a lot, but for this operation, they are still a little scarce.

The soul-chasing powder costs one magic stone for one small packet. After an estimate, I found that at least twenty packets would be needed.

Talismans are more expensive.

"oh!"

The wizard in the room raised his eyebrows, walked out from the dark corner, revealing his mummy-like body.

"So it's the lovely Luya. I like your original body, which has not been transformed by disgusting blood witchcraft."

"loan?"

"How much is the loan?"

"Fifty magic stones!" Lu Ya gritted her teeth and said, "I'll return it to you within three months."

"Fifty magic stones?" The wizard grinned and said, "You know the rules. If you can't pay back the magic stones by then, your body and soul will belong to me."

"I know." Luya took a deep breath:

"I'll pay it back then."

"I hope you can't pay it back." The wizard walked closer, and a sour smell of corruption came over.

He moved closer to Luya, leaning against her body and waving his nose, his dry yellow hair swaying back and forth, and whispered, "For a mid-term wizard apprentice, fifty is a huge sum of money. Maybe you should pay a little extra to take it from me."

"Price?" Lu Ya's face turned pale. "What price?"

"I am old, but still a man." The wizard said, "When I meet a pure girl, my heart will also be moved, so... let her stay for one night."

Speaking of.

Pointing at Gray.

The pure girl he was talking about was not the attractive Luya, but the slender Gray.

Luya's beautiful eyes flickered, and she subconsciously looked at Gray, only to see that her companion's face was pale and he kept shaking his head.

Fifty magic stones! Luya gritted her teeth and suddenly grabbed Gray's arm:

"Let's go!"

"Bang!"

The two women pushed open the door and ran towards the street outside. Luya looked panicked and looked back from time to time.

"Luya!"

Gray's voice was crying:

"Thanks!"

For a moment, she thought Luya would betray her. She would rather die if she really had to spend a night with that disgusting wizard.

"What are you thanking me for?" Lu Ya shook her head. "It's me who got you into trouble. Now is not the time to talk about this. That lunatic may not let us go."

Fighting is prohibited in the market, but as far as she knows, certain secret methods will not trigger the rules here, and ever since she left the house, she has felt a cold breath chasing her.

unless……

"Enter the shop!"

Every shop has its own owner, and that madman doesn't dare to provoke other wizards.

The two women rushed into a shop and then stopped.

"oh!"

Carl, who was cleaning the house, raised his eyebrows and looked at the two women:

"how?"

"Bringing pumice stones so soon?"

"No, it's not." Lu Ya smiled awkwardly, thought about it, and suddenly gritted her teeth and said:

"Dear wizard, we have a way to get the pumice stone you need, but it requires some support."

"If you can support us, we can sell you the pumice at the lowest price."

"Heh..." Karl understood: "You want to ask me for a loan? And you want to use the uncertain future income as collateral?"

"..." Luya laughed dryly: "We will get the pumice stone, and I can sign a contract with you and witness it in the name of God."

"Interesting." Carl narrowed his eyes. "For a wizard, it is not a wise choice to provoke a god, even if it is the God of Contract."

"You reminded me!"

He touched his chin and took out a piece of magic paper from the storage magic device. As soon as he thought about it, lines of words appeared on the paper.

At the end of the text is a Tai Chi symbol.

God, so is he! It's a good time to do an experiment.

"Sign it, and I can lend you a hundred magic stones."

Luya's eyes lit up. She took a step forward and took the magic paper. The densely packed agreements on it made her frown.

The Magic Forest is very primitive in terms of business form, far inferior to the Eastern Kingdom continent which has already developed capital.

What's more, Carl has a more complete business contract in his memory.

"One hundred magic stones. If you don't return them by the agreed time, everything you have will become mine."

"remember."

Carl's voice became serious: "It's everything you have!"

"Half a year, interest of twenty magic stones?" Lu Ya finally understood the contents of the contract, her eyes moved slightly:

“The interest rate is not high.”

Not high indeed.

It is nearly half lower than other places.

"I'll sign!"

"No."

Carl waved his hand:

"It's you two, and don't use a pen, sign your names with your blood."

Gray clenched his hands, glanced at his companion with a complicated expression, nodded suddenly, stepped forward and said:

“I’ll sign too!”

“Okay.” Seeing the two of them signing their names one after another, Karl also showed a smile on his face: “As a party to the agreement, I should let you stay here undisturbed.”

"so……"

"roll!"

He opened his eyes and glared at a corner of the house, and his mental power, as if it had substance, turned into lightning and stabbed out.

"Cry!"

The air in the corner trembled, and a shadow quickly rushed outside.

Lola and the other girl felt their bodies relax, and the aura that had been lingering on them not long ago disappeared.

"It looks like you guys are in some trouble."

Carl shrugged.

“Hopefully my investment won’t fail.”

As he spoke, he took out a hundred magic stones and placed them on the table. At the same time, he took the contract and put it into the fragment of the divine domain.

Two faint auras appeared in "Perception".

There is a way!

Although they are not as devout as devout believers who can look through the other person's memories at will, they can still achieve a certain degree of intrusion.

* * * For Carl's concentrated life potion, almost all of the hundreds of thousands of people in Rapids City were mobilized.

Materials exist in another world.

The key is that several of the materials are extremely rare, only a few strains or copies can be found, and it is difficult to purchase them in large quantities.

Fortunately, it is only supplied to Carl, so even if the quantity is small, it can be accepted as long as it can be collected continuously.

The other side.

Old Brin also brought news.

"A wizard who is not willing to reveal his name came to me privately, hoping someone would help him kill his enemy."

"As a thank you, he gave me his half-finished wizard tower."

"That wizard tower has a star-shining disk and a complete tower base, engraved with two control-related magics."

"Enemy?" Karl asked, "What strength?"

"A wizard in the middle stage of the first ring." Old Brin replied, "Don't worry. Although he is in the middle stage of the first ring, the target hasn't fought anyone for nearly twenty years. He lacks vigilance. With your strength, if you approach and suddenly attack, there is a great chance of success."

"Hmm?" Carl raised his eyebrows: "You think highly of me."

"It is precisely because I lost my eyes that I can see more clearly." Old Brin chuckled, "There is an amazing breath of life in your body. This is the sign of a 'Legendary Knight'."

"Awesome." Carl praised, "But even if I'm a legendary knight, it's still too risky to fight a mid-level first-ring wizard."

"You can find help." Old Brin suggested: "With the connections in the Six Ring Tower, it shouldn't be difficult to find one or two wizards to help, or spend some magic stones to find a killer..."

"That's the wizard tower!"

With a complete tower base and star disk, you only need to obtain the Eye of Insight to get the most basic wizard tower.

It's worth spending a few thousand magic stones for this.

"never mind."

After thinking for a moment, Carl finally decided to give up:

"I am a kind-hearted person. I cannot kill someone for no reason. You should find another way."

?

Old Brin was speechless.

What he saw in Carl was not only life energy, but also murderous aura that was so strong that it was tangible.

This is the murderous aura that comes from killing countless people, and now you tell me that you can't do it?

"Oh well!"

Sighing, knowing he couldn't force it, Old Brin nodded: "I'll ask for you again."

"Thank you."

Carl stood up and said goodbye. Just as he returned to his shop, his eyes changed and he flashed to the fragment of the divine realm.

In his perception, the breath that originally belonged to Luya suddenly became very weak.

As soon as the thought came to his mind, his consciousness fell on Gray with the help of the fragments of the divine realm, and a scene of a certain place came into view.

…………

Relics and ruins.

The four-member team stood back to back, looking nervously at the enemies gathering from all directions.

There was chaos all around them, and it was obvious that they had suffered a fierce attack.

Luya and Ashu were covered in blood and could only stand up with the help of their companions.

"Hall!"

Angele looked at the young man in front of him with a surprised look on his face: "Why are you here?"

They discovered this relic by accident, and judging from the surrounding conditions, no outsiders had been here before.

Now that they had just started exploring, they were ambushed and killed by someone they knew.

There's a traitor! Angele's heart moved, and he subconsciously looked at his three companions, especially Gray who had just joined the team.

"It's not me!"

Gray gritted his teeth:

"I have never mentioned the ruins to anyone else."

"Haha..." Hall laughed, "I thought it was just a joke, but I didn't expect there really is an undiscovered ruin."

“Ashur, thanks to you!”

Assyria?

Angele's face changed drastically, and Luya and Gray retreated hurriedly, isolating Ashur.

"It's not me!" Ashu's face turned pale and he shouted at the other party:

"Hall, I haven't seen you at all during this period!"

"I believe you." Angele said in a muffled voice, "We have been together for so many years. I don't believe anyone would betray us. Don't fall for his trick."

"Brother!" Ashu was excited, and then glared at Hall:

"How on earth did you find this place, asshole?"

"Tsk tsk tsk ..." The young man named Hall shook his head and sighed:

"What a deep friendship, trusting each other like this, but Ashu... your vision for finding a wife is not as good as your vision for finding a friend."

"Lina?" Ashur's face was stiff.

"Yes." Hall put his hands behind his back and walked out slowly: "Your beloved wife told me this secret in my bed. I thought it was a joke..."

“I can’t believe it!”

"Assyria!"

He looked at Ashu with a sincere expression, "I really should thank you for not only raising my son for so many years, but also telling me such a big secret. When I become a formal wizard and the pillar of the family, I will definitely mourn you."

"Son?" Ashur's body was shaking, his face was pale, and his eyes were full of despair.

"Of course!" Hall shrugged.

"Neither you nor Lina have wizard talent, so the possibility of giving birth to a son with wizard talent is extremely low."

"But I'm different."

"My ancestors gave birth to a three-ring wizard, and they have a strong bloodline. Even if the bloodline is thin now, there is still a great possibility that I will give birth to a son with wizard talent."

"Assyria!" Angelet shouted in a low voice:

"Don't listen to him, he's trying to irritate you."

"Intentionally?" Hall laughed. "Ashu, you should know clearly whether what I said is true or false, but it's a pity that you can't see it clearly."

“…”

Assyria gritted its teeth.

Of course he knew! His wife's impatience with him every day, the inconsistency in his son's appearance, and all kinds of unusual details in life kept coming to his mind.

He thought he had not done enough, so he worked hard to cultivate and make money in order to improve his family conditions and relationship with his wife.

In order to earn magic stones for his son's future training, in addition to following Angele to hunt ferocious beasts, he also did odd jobs to supplement the family income.

In order to reassure his wife, he told her about the ruins, wanting her to understand that he would soon become rich and the family would no longer have to suffer.

result……

"ah!"

With resentment, anger and despair rising in his heart, Ashur roared to the sky and rushed towards Hall with a knife in his hand.

“Go to hell!”

“Go to hell!”

"Humph!" Hall showed disdain on his face and waved his hand: "Kill him!"

“Swish!”

As soon as he finished speaking, several wizard apprentices around him took action at the same time, and streams of wizardry blasted out one after another.

In just a moment, Assyria, who had defensive magical weapons and wore hard soft armor, was pierced with holes.

His body was stiff, his life force extinguished, he still glared at Hall, and roared with all his might:

"Let's die together!"

"boom!"

Ashur's body suddenly exploded, and a rich breath of life burst out, attracting the ghosts wandering in the ruins.

“Oh no!”

Hall's face changed.

For unknown reasons, this relic is surrounded by many ghosts, some of which can even threaten official wizards.

Fortunately, ghosts have no intelligence and are just wandering around based on instinct, but they will quickly come over if attracted by the breath of life.

really.

“Woo…”

Along with the howling of the cold wind, phantoms appeared one after another, pounced on Ashur's body, devouring the dissipated life energy.

However, there were too many ghosts rushing over, and their life energy was relatively limited, so the other ghosts naturally focused their attention on other people in the field.

"Walk!"

Angelet suppressed the sadness in his eyes and waved at the two women:

"Let's go now!"

…………

The connection was broken and Carl shook his head slightly.

Because of Hall's obstruction, Angelet and the other two could only flee into the ruins, and the outcome was likely to be disastrous.

"If the person who signed the contract is injured, the connection between the fragments of the divine domain will be interrupted..."

"That man named Ashur is so miserable!"

"It seems that my one hundred magic stones will probably be wasted."

(End of this chapter)