Chapter 72: The Contract of the Mage Apprentice

After leaving the demiplane, Richard returned to the Mage Tower. He quickly made a list and gave it to Anna, asking her to contact someone to buy supplies. Before leaving, Richard suddenly said, "Anna, the prices in America are a bit high. Let's buy basic materials such as steel directly from the country across the Pacific."

"Okay, boss." Anna looked at the list and started to prepare in a swift and decisive manner.

Repairing the demiplane requires a lot of materials, and he also needs to prepare materials to upgrade the wizard tower. The second phase of the wizard tower will be built directly to the ninth floor, which is also the final form of the wizard tower. As for the third phase of the tower spirit, the eye of arcane magic, the magic particle railgun, the artificial magic net, the astronomical device, etc., these belong to the internal decoration.

Richard planned to wait until the vampire factory was completed before starting to prepare for the second phase of the Mage Tower project. At the same time, he planned to go to the welfare home to find some qualified children and bring them back to the Mage Tower for training.

Even if there are a large number of tower spirits to help manage the floating city in the future, it still needs a lot of mages. He plans to adopt some children and train them, but of course this training is not without cost.

These wizard apprentices must sign a contract, and the contract will not be released until they reach the legendary level. If they do not reach the legendary level before they die, then I am sorry, even death cannot escape the contract, and Richard will thoughtfully help them reincarnate as corpse wizards.

As for why they didn't reincarnate as a lich, it wasn't that Richard didn't want to, but that they were not qualified. To reincarnate as a lich, one must at least be a legendary wizard.

Although the cost of reincarnating into a corpse wizard is not as high as that of a lich, it still requires a considerable amount of resources, so the contract period will naturally be extended. As for how much it will be extended, we will talk about it when the time comes. Anyway, the life of the undead is very long.

After all, at the end of every contract, there will be a sentence written in Hell Language: "The final right of interpretation of this contract belongs to Richard."

To become a mage, you need qualifications. In a world without the magic network, the threshold for becoming a mage is 16 points. After the magic network, the intelligence attribute will drop to 12 points. However, under normal circumstances, it is difficult to advance to an intermediate mage with this intelligence. Of course, if you use it for some low-level and medium-level work, it is still possible.

There may be very few children with an intelligence of 16 points, but there should be some between 12 and 15. If you can meet someone with an intelligence of 18 or above, it is basically equivalent to the probability of winning five million in the lottery. If nothing unexpected happens, he or she can reach the legendary level.

Richard was going to donate some money to orphanages to adopt children. Of course, he would not only go to orphanages in America, but also to orphanages in other countries. Richard did not have time to travel from city to city, so he planned to let the company screen some people, and then gather them together for another screening.

Only children who pass the screening will sign the contract and then be sent to school, where they will also begin to learn various magical knowledge.

While Richard was dealing with various matters, the mark he left on the demon's followers suddenly sent a reminder. Richard was immediately overjoyed. Could it be that another gift from nature had come to him?
Richard did not delay and directly opened the portal and came to the vicinity of the church.

As expected, as soon as they arrived here, a space crack appeared in the church, and a huge and ferocious demon came across the plane. As soon as this demon arrived on Blue Star, it directly swallowed the soul of the demon believer who was used as a sacrifice, and seemed very impatient. At the same time, he also ate the remaining demon believer who summoned it.

This demon had bat wings, goat horns, cow hooves, and flames wrapped around its body. It looked even more powerful than the goat-headed demon. But Richard knew that it was not as strong as the goat-headed demon. The stronger it was, the stronger it was under the suppression of the Blue Star rules. It should be a high-ranking demon or a secondary demon lord.

Li Jue felt that there was nothing to communicate with the devil, so he just took the guardian golem and dealt with it.

——【Time stands still! 】

Having restored his level 18 spellcasting ability, coupled with his Time Dragon bloodline, Richard found it easier to cast time spells, and he was able to cast Time Stop very skillfully.

A force of light and shadow quickly enveloped the entire church. Everything in the church, including the demon, froze at this moment, motionless. The auxiliary system also assisted in the battle at this moment.

[Time Standstill is activated successfully! The spell lasts for 6 seconds, the spell's extreme effect duration is 6 seconds, and the spell duration is 12 seconds. ]

——【Space Gate! 】

A space gate suddenly opened next to the demon, and the guardian golem that had been prepared long ago passed through the space gate and appeared there.

At this time, the guardian golem had already pulled out the magic energy particle high-frequency oscillation blade, and the silver energy light blade was flickering slightly.

——【Weakness broken! 】

——【Rapid attack!】

——【Decapitation strike! 】

The silver blade of light slashed down in an instant like mercury pouring down on the ground. The demon floating in the air did not react at all. The blade of light swept across, and a blood mark appeared on the demon's neck. The blood mark quickly expanded and finally split into two.

Even as time seemed to be standing still for a long time, the guardian golem simply chopped a few more times. In an instant, the demon had seven or eight more blood marks on his body.

After casting [Time Standstill], Richard took out a pure magic gem and quickly cast [Soul Binding], [Soul Shock] and [Soul Deprivation]. After the time standstill effect passed, he directly cast the three spells on the demon.

The demon, who had just regained the ability to move, had not yet reacted when he felt a sharp pain and his huge body instantly broke into pieces. Then his soul was bound by golden chains.

A ray of light instantly hit the demon's soul, and the confused demon's soul shattered instantly. The core of the soul was kicked directly back to hell by the plane consciousness, and the remaining soul fragments and soul power were sealed in the magic gem.

A large amount of soul power and soul fragments entered the gem, directly dyeing the magic gem purple.

A demon was sent back to hell before he could even see what was happening. The entire battle lasted no more than thirty seconds. With his spellcasting ability enhanced, Richard's strength increased several times. If he encountered the goat-headed demon again at this time, the battle would be over within thirty seconds.

Richard waved his hand and collected the demon's body, then took the soul crystal that he had just made. This demon was quite weak, and killing him only dropped a high-level soul crystal.

In hell, this kind of demon is at most at the level of a secondary demon lord.

After finishing the work, Richard very considerately restored the church to its original state, without even a piece of floor damaged, then opened the space door and left with his spoils.

(End of this chapter)