Chapter 312: Chapter 30 Ransom
“So this is what happened?”
Richard rubbed his forehead with a sowhat headache-ridden expression, looking at the two wizards who were covered with Sealing Demon Nails.
Just a mont ago, Richard was mulling over whether the roast at should be done by now. He put down the wild boar hide he was working on, planning to co out and eat.
But as soon as he ca out, he saw four Fire Lizards feasting and two wizards who had been thrown to the ground by them, half-dead.
“So why didn’t you call ?”
Richard looked at Makar, and although there wasn’t a clear leader in the squad. Among the four Fire Lizards, Makar was the most familiar to him, his nature was calr, and his combat power was stronger.
So, the other three Fire Lizards generally looked to Makar for direction.
Now that such a big incident had occurred, he naturally had to look for Makar’s trouble.
“Master, you said not to co to you unless it was an ergency,” Makar said sowhat innocently. “There wasn’t any wizard following this one, and it’s not difficult for us to get the better of him.”
Richard looked at Lai Kete, who was burning with flas, his limbs chopped off, and a mouth stuffed, and his mouth twitched a bit.
Indeed, it was just a Three Rings Shaping Wizard. What the hunting squad was best at restraining was Shaping Wizards.
That layer of Armor that could resist six thousand Energy Levels was enough to make any Shaping Wizard without enough knowledge despair.
Moreover, in Makar’s description, this wizard was very disdainful toward them.
This only increased his chances of failure.
“Then you should have let know,” Richard complained.
This made Makar even more innocent.
“Master, I did notify you twice. Both tis you gave the sa response, without even changing your tone. How can it be that I didn’t notify you?”
Upon hearing Makar’s words, Richard suddenly realized.
This guy had mistaken his recorded ssage for his actual response.
Richard chuckled wryly, “That was a recording; I didn’t even know you knocked on the door.
Sigh, never mind. This was my fault. Next ti I will give you guys an additional option.”
Having said that, Richard approached Kayang.
“Co over and take a good look, this Wizard Kayang is not our enemy. Don’t make this mistake again next ti.”
After finishing speaking, Richard lightly flicked his fingers, and the Sealing Demon Nails began flying out from Kayang’s body.
After losing the Sealing Demon Nails, a violent Magic Fluctuation imdiately erged from Kayang’s body. The bloody holes left by the nails burst open with flowing blood…
Upon seeing this scene, Richard hastily called out,
“Makar, bring Master Kayang so roast at. Look at the ss you’ve made, Master Kayang is injured so badly.”
Kayang cast a healing spell on himself, then weakly climbed up from the ground and gave Richard a Wizard’s Salute.
“Master, you needn’t do this. If it weren’t for your help this ti, I would probably already be dead.”
Richard discreetly stepped back a few paces, distancing himself from the reputedly unlucky man.
“It was a simple effort, not worth ntioning.”
Noticing Richard’s action, Kayang smiled awkwardly: “Haha, Master, don’t be nervous. According to my years of experience, every ti I suffer a great disaster, my rotten luck returns to normal for a while.
During this period, neither I nor the people around will be unlucky.”
Richard was sowhat skeptical, but out of caution, he still didn’t get any closer to Kayang.
Makar brought a large chunk of roast at to Kayang’s side. Although Kayang looked sowhat distressed, his hands did not resist.
He indeed needed sothing to repair his damaged body.
After dealing with Kayang’s situation, Richard then approached Lai Kete.
But this ti, Richard didn’t remove the Sealing Demon Nails; he rely removed the stone in Lai Kete’s mouth.
“I wonder how the Master would like to be addressed? I rember our families don’t have any deep hatred, and we didn’t target your Core Wizard Tower, so why did you co after us?”
Upon hearing this, Lai Kete instantly beca furious.
“You have the nerve to say that! Using third-level creatures as slaves and equipping them with such good Magic Equipnt.
Is that what you call having no deep hatred?”
Richard, with an unchanged expression and an even tone, said, “I think you may be mistaken about sothing, Master.
These four Fire Lizards are my personal property, not borrowed or sold to at a low price by other wizards.
I’m using them, and that’s within the rules.”
Upon hearing this, Lai Kete sneered: “You have the cheek to spout such nonsense! Who do you think you are?
On the market, a single third-level creature is worth fifty thousand Magic Essence. You have four in your possession, that’s two hundred thousand Magic Essence.
You, a Second Ring Wizard, tell , how did you get this two hundred thousand Magic Essence?
Or are you going to tell that these Aliens were tad by you, and you didn’t spend a penny!”
Richard’s expression didn’t change, and he even wore a strange smile on his lips.
“Master is truly worthy of being a Three Rings Wizard. Your insight is indeed profound, guessing imdiately that I tad these Fire Lizards myself.”
Hearing Richard’s words, Lai Kete was sowhat dumbfounded.
He was shocked that there could be such a shalessly boastful person in the world.
For a Second Ring Wizard to ta four third-level Fire Lizards was such ludicrous talk it wouldn’t even be uttered by drunken n in a tavern.
Seeing Lai Kete’s disbelief, Richard added,
“Of course, if the Master doesn’t believe , I can also say I bought them. After all, two hundred thousand Magic Essence is not beyond my ans.”
Now Lai Kete was even more shocked.
How could there be such wizards? One boast wasn’t enough; he had to add another layer just to satisfy himself?
Seeing he still didn’t believe him, Richard shifted the topic, asking a seemingly unrelated question.
“Does the Master have friends in the White Wizard Army?”
Lai Kete was a bit puzzled by the question.
“Yes, what about it?”
Richard nodded, “Then surely, the Master must have heard the na, ‘Magic Support Vehicle.'”
Lai Kete nodded again.
“I’ve heard of it.”
Seeing Lai Kete’s reaction, a smug smile couldn’t help but curl at the corners of Richard’s mouth.
“Then, Master must surely know that the Magic Support Vehicle is very popular among the White Wizard Army, and all the White Wizard Army orders are coming in, right?”
Lai Kete began to catch on:
“What are you trying to say? Are you telling that this contraption is your work? Are you that Richard from Richard Jolod’s Comrce?”
Richard nodded with satisfaction.
“The Master’s wisdom is indeed as vast as a sea of smoke, having guessed correctly.”
On the side, Kayang stopped in his tracks with the roasted at when he heard this.
Holy shit, is my luck turning? Not only did my crisis get resolved, but I also ran into such a big shot.
His alchemy skills were pretty decent, too.
Lai Kete looked at Richard with a sneer, wanting to see how long Richard planned to fool him.
But as ti ticked by second by second, Richard never declared it was a joke.
Lai Kete’s face stiffened a bit. After all, Richard was a guild president, why would he be sent on such a dangerous…
His gaze suddenly shifted to the aliens eating at voraciously beside him.
With these few creatures, the mission wasn’t really dangerous.
But he still found it hard to believe.
“You say it’s yours, but do you have any evidence?”
Richard didn’t say much, just pulled out a black scroll from his pocket and unfolded it in front of Lai Kete.
This was the Comrce Scroll given to Richard by Jolod back in the day, and for all these years, this was the first ti it had co in handy.
Seeing the Tower of Truth’s Magic Seal on the scroll, Lai Kete had no choice but to believe.
In the Wizard World, no one dared to forge the Magic Seal of the Tower of Truth.
Fuck, the only Second Ring Wizard in this war who posed a huge threat to a Three Rings Wizard, and he ran into him as soon as he stepped outside!
Richard asked with a grin, “What, I wasn’t lying, was I?”
Lai Kete nodded sowhat gloomily.
Richard hadn’t broken any rules. Though he was Second Ring, he was richer than so Three Rings Wizards.
Such a figure among Second Ring Wizards was like a dinsional reduction strike.
“Since the Master also admits it, then our little misunderstanding is cleared up. What cos next is the real business.”
With that, Richard rubbed his hands together, the smile on his face almost shining with a golden light… the golden light of gold.
“Master, what price do you plan to set to ransom yourself?”
Lai Kete was slightly stunned, and then he understood Richard’s intentions.
Three Rings Wizards were the backbone of any Academy. Normally, these Three Rings Wizards managed the Academies, and in tis of war, they were important central forces.
Right now, without any deep-rooted enmity between the two sides, it was okay for so One Ring and Second Ring Wizards to die. But once a Three Rings Wizard died, that would inevitably drive the situation of the war towards an uncontrollable direction.
What had been a tacit war becoming a at grinder would just be too stupid.
Of course, this didn’t an Lai Kete could be complacent.
Richard might not intend to kill him, but putting him in confinent was still possible. With Richard’s strength, returning to Black Tower Academy wouldn’t be difficult, and then they would hand him over to the wizards of the Black Tower Academy.
Not to ntion anything else, the face of the teor Star Academy would be completely lost.
Lai Kete’s brain was racing. He definitely had to bleed out a bit right now.
And the Richard in front of him was clearly not lacking in Magic Stones, so using Magic Essence as ransom was obviously out of the question.
Moreover, he hadn’t been a Three Rings Wizard for long and had a bunch of research projects that needed Magic Essence.
He couldn’t afford to pay a lot of Magic Essence in ransom.
In this case, he could only pay with knowledge.
For wizards, knowledge and Magic Essence were both hard currencies.
After thinking for a long ti, sothing suddenly flashed in Lai Kete’s mind.
Then he confidently said, “I have a blueprint for a Tesla Type 7 Shield Guard Alchemy Puppet on hand. This price should be enough.”
“…”
Looking at the silent Richard, Lecter’s heart skipped a beat.
“Hmm? Is the blueprint for this Puppet very common?” Richard asked curiously.
“What do you an?”
Richard said indifferently, “I have a blueprint for a Tesla Type 9 Shield Guard Alchemy Puppet on hand. Master, you might want to offer sothing else.”
Now Lai Kete was having a hard ti.
Those results he had worked so hard to research, he really didn’t want to give them away. But the knowledge he had inherited was sowhat inadequate.
After thinking it over, Lai Kete said with a somber voice:
“What do you want? I have a lot of inherited knowledge on hand; I might have sothing you want.”
“What I want?”
Richard stroked his chin, pondering for a mont.
He didn’t seem to want any particular knowledge at the mont, but if he had to say, the thing he needed the most was a cheap, stable Power Furnace.
Stave’s Vengeful Ghost Power Furnace would definitely be used as the Power Furnace for high-end Armor in the future, after all, it involved rules, and with Richard’s technology, it wouldn’t be possible to mass-produce this kind of Power Furnace until he beca a Great Wizard.
But Richard also planned to make Armor cheap and assembly-line produced.
In this situation, a cheap and stable Power Furnace beca very important.
“Does the Master have so knowledge like a Power Source, preferably the simpler kind?”
After hearing Richard’s needs, Lai Kete imdiately started rummaging through his own mory.
Being well-read and having a strong mory is a basic quality for a wizard, and a Three Rings Wizard like Lai Kete could do things like morize an entire book after one reading and not forget it for over a century.
He had read all the inherited knowledge in his hands, so there was an impression left in his mory.
After thinking for a while, Lai Kete suddenly looked up and said:
“I have sothing. I have a study on Yuris Black Crystal on hand.
Yuris Black Crystal is a special ore produced in the Black Mountain World, containing imnse Energy inside.
After processing, this ore can be used as a stable Energy Source.”
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