Chapter 60: Chapter 60: Gift
"Actually, it’s not as bad as you think, little Lor," the blue-haired Female Wizard said with a smile, "Part of the one million contribution points you spent is directly deducted for environmental damage."
"If your environmental damage doesn’t cover an area of two thousand kilometers in diameter, you just need to apply for a note below the sales page of the Fourth Ring Scroll afterwards."
"If it exceeds two thousand kilometers, then it counts as two hundred thousand contribution points for every thousand kilometers."
"Of course, if you use it at sea, then you don’t need to worry about that issue."
"Also, I mean two scrolls combined for a total of two thousand kilometers, don’t get it wrong!"
"So, do you still want this Guardian Tree Scroll? If not, I can explain it to those above and help you get a refund!"
She didn’t mention how many ordinary people might be killed when using the scroll, since ordinary people were already considered a part of the terrain.
The high-ranking Wizards, having lived for hundreds or even thousands of years, have long had indifference ingrained in their bones.
To ordinary people, and even to the third-class Wizard Apprentices who have used up their Witchcraft Position, they don’t care at all. Anyway, a new crop will grow in a few years.
But for talents, especially those recognized by top-tier elites, they adopt a completely different attitude.
Just like Talia’s meticulous care towards Lor at the moment.
And those Third Ring Earth Element wizards, like Dadan who once gave Lor Magic Crystals and contribution points, although not as exaggerated as Talia, treat Lor with a friendly demeanor and placed him at nearly an equal status.
"I want it!" Lor made a decisive choice to take the scroll without any hesitation.
With the scroll, his life gains two layers of protection.
These items are meant to save lives. If you lose your life, what’s the use of contribution points?
Staying alive is more important than anything.
Moreover, the old woman’s act of trying to appear cute was quite awkward, thinking she could earn his goodwill easily.
"Alright then."
A hint of disappointment flashed in Talia’s eyes as she handed the two scrolls to Lor, then her face became serious as she solemnly said:
"Lor, after using the scroll and causing terrain damage, make sure you report it within a year."
"If it is discovered after the time limit, even with Speaker Yassen’s protection, you’ll have to pay at least ten times the fine. This is one of the iron rules of the Alliance."
Those who have connections with powerful figures at the speaker level have some privileges, but those privileges have their limits too.
Capital punishment may be exempted, but lesser penalties are inevitable.
The current upper echelon of the Wizard Alliance is focused on preparing adequately, planning to conquer the Abyss in a century, naturally they dare not intensify internal conflicts excessively.
Small scale enmities and killings can be ignored, but large-scale rules must be maintained within a relatively fair range.
"Understood, thank you, Sister Talia," Lor accepted the two scrolls and seriously responded.
Regarding the Alliance’s iron rules of this era, he did not know much yet. Because in the past, he simply had no access to that level and naturally couldn’t make mistakes at that level.
If he truly demonstrated enough strength, someone would come to voluntarily tell him some matters, just like now.
In the future, there is actually a similar thing named: ’Wizard Planar Alliance Code’.
Those particularly destructive individuals, like Spatial Mages, Mechanical Wizards, and others are key objects under surveillance by the Rule Legion.
As for messing with enemy territory, it’s fine, but if you mess with our territory, the Rule Legion will raid your home.
In his previous life, Lor also couldn’t touch the Alliance code, he only learned about some of it through forums.
"Um, do you have a Continent Communication Board?" Talia resumed her smiling face, "If you have one, let’s add each other as contacts. If you need any help from Sister in the future, just say so."
"I... don’t have one," Lor forcibly resisted the urge to ask for a loan, stubbornly refusing Talia.
He did need money, but if he borrowed money, with his personality, not giving Talia a hand in return would make him uncomfortable.
However, the more he said, the bigger the hole he would dig for himself.
For safety, he hadn’t even decided whether to find a reason to persuade Agular to leave Murphy Continent.
Because giving Agular the hope of becoming a Third Ring was enough to repay past kindness.
Kindness, after all, is mutual.
If Agular didn’t want to help him against Gu Lei, why should he take the risk to persuade him to leave?
"Alright then, I hope we have the chance to meet again," Talia sighed with regret and turned to leave Lor’s laboratory.
Lor’s hesitation was obvious to her, but it was useless to point it out.
Not only would it make forming good relations impossible, but it might also turn them into enemies, so she decisively gave up.
She was only regretful about her failed attempt to lay another plan for her century-long strategy for the Abyss war.
"Phew—"
Having sent away that troublesome woman, Lor breathed a sigh of relief on the spot.
"I’m still too weak, I need to be careful, careful and more careful."
He thought to himself, "Only by becoming a Fourth Ring Spatial Mage can I barely consider myself to have barely established a foothold... at least temporarily within the Wizard Alliance."
As for the path after reaching the Fourth Ring in the Space Faction, he was uncertain and had no direction.
Like ’Dimensional Fold Lowering Technique’, he only knew its name and its effect, but had no clue how to achieve it.
In his past life, only one player became a Fourth Ring Spatial Mage, and that person was indifferent and never posted on forums.
With no news on the forum, everything had to be explored by himself.
As for asking the founder of the Space Faction in his previous life for inspiration...
Whether that person would even be born in this timeline was uncertain, as the world now had his butterfly effect.
With a little flap of his wings, perturbing information bits, many dazzling figures in the Wizard World’s future might meet unexpected fates, unable to emerge.
Only those who currently exist are the ones who truly have a future.
"The road beyond the Fourth Ring is chaotic, but I might be able to create a new path myself."
Thinking of this, Lor couldn’t help but laugh and shake his head, "These things are still too far from me, better focus on the present."
He closed the laboratory door once again and entered the inner lab, continuing to deduce the intersection between the Earth Vein Perception Technique and the Lava Eruption Skill.
As long as this part’s intersection deduces successfully, he can finally perform the Small Meteor Witchcraft.
...
The twenty-seventh floor of the Wizard Tower.
Agular watched as dozens of Wizard Apprentices in the manor started their experiments one by one, his five fingers clenched involuntarily, gripping until his fingertips turned white.
This was his last hope, if it failed, there was truly no more hope at all.
One...
Ten...
Thirty...
When the forty-ninth Wizard Apprentice managed to perform the incomplete witchcraft, an outburst of joy exploded in Agular’s eyes.
It worked!
It truly worked!
His path has finally opened up, the road to the Third Ring is now smooth.
"Alright, your tasks are completed, you may all leave," Agular quickly said, suppressing the emotions that were about to get out of control.
"Yes."
"Okay."
...
All the Wizard Apprentices bowed and took their leave from the manor.
"Hahahahaha~~~"
Watching the apprentices leave, Agular finally burst into wild laughter, a tear unknowingly rolled down his cheek, dripping to the ground and shattering.
Along with it shattered the bottleneck that troubled him for over four centuries.
"My good student, just wait."
After a while, a calmed Agular gazed deeply towards the western section of the laboratory.
That was where Gu Lei’s laboratory was.
When he was a Second Ring Wizard, he had to consider the future of the Earth and Fire School in Murphy Continent, had to contemplate the consequences of a failed attempt to kill Gu Lei.
But now, everything is different.
"Look forward to it, my dear student," Agular curved a smile at the corner of his mouth, "The mentor wishes to give you a little gift."