Chapter 60: Chapter 60 Academy Rewards
The magic stones kept accumulating, soon forming a small pile.
The Fla Giant halted its steps as a wave of ntal fluctuation was sent toward Richard.
“A penalty of 10,000 magic stones for breach of contract, 5,000 magic stones to establish the contract, and 100 magic stones each month, with a minimum contract duration of twenty years. Throughout the contract period, all of my magic power consumption is your responsibility, and I may opt not to execute orders that would lead to certain death.”
10,000 magic stones?
Richard’s expression stiffened, the figure was a bit beyond his acceptance range.
But he imdiately thought of a thod.
“I won’t pay you the breach-of-contract penalty, but I can spend a thousand magic stones to hire you to go easy in the upcoming battle, and then use this condition to hire you.”
The Fla Giant pondered for a few seconds, during which ti Holder kept issuing ntal commands for it to attack, making it sowhat irritated.
Its contract with Holder wasn’t a Slave Contract either, but a Hiring Contract.
It was a subject of Fla Lord Field, not a servant of wizards.
“Human, I want you to make a contract.”
“Alright!”
Without another word, Richard pulled out a contract template from his pocket and quickly wrote down the terms.
In this contract, Richard would pay a thousand magic stones to the Fla Giant after Holder’s death and employ the Fla Giant for the cost of 5,000 magic stones to establish the contract, 100 magic stones each month, for a duration of twenty years.
The contract didn’t explicitly state that the Fla Giant had to go easy, but both sides knew what was to their advantage.
“Philster, I command you to attack!”
Holder issued the command again, but this ti, the Fla Giant obeyed the order, albeit… very slowly.
Holder’s face turned ashen as he witnessed the scene; he didn’t know what exactly Richard had done to Philster, but the Fla Giant’s current actions were undoubtedly disadvantageous to him.
Richard gave him a radiant smile.
This was the consequence of trying to outsmart the system.
Normally, when wizards contract with elental creatures, they use Slave Contracts, which require the elental creatures to execute the wizard’s commands fully; if they disobey, the wizard can end their life with a single thought.
But the prerequisite for signing a Slave Contract is that the wizard must be stronger than the elental creature, capable of making the elental creature choose between signing the contract or dying imdiately.
However, Holder, being only an Interdiate Apprentice, didn’t possess the strength to do so. Moreover, if Holder used a wizard’s power to sign a Slave Contract, then the Fla Giant couldn’t be brought into the examination room.
The items allowed into the exam must either be made by the Wizard Apprentice themselves or purchased through legitimate ans with magic stones.
If not for this rule, Richard could easily ask Jolod to give him a wizard-level combat beast to bring into the exam room.
But that would defeat the purpose of the exam.
Therefore, the only type of contract Holder could sign was a Hiring Contract.
As is well known, rcenaries are mostly creatures of opportunity.
With a better offer from Richard, there was no reason for the Fla Giant to refuse.
Ali was sowhat confused at the mont, but she could still see that the Fla Giant was holding back.
Without the Fla Giant’s obstruction, she and Richard would be sufficient to kill Holder.
“Richard, the old thod.”
Richard understood instantly and imdiately stepped forward to engage Holder while the Fla Giant ‘swiftly’ pursued behind Richard.
Seeing the situation go beyond his expectations, Holder quickly pulled out a scroll from his pocket, deciding… to run away.
Better to preserve the green mountains than worry about not having firewood to burn.
But before he could activate the scroll, a loud explosion caused his arm to tremble.
His magic barrier was nearly cloven by Richard’s Black Sword, and the dark flas spread rapidly along the barrier, his magic power plumting swiftly.
He glanced at Ali and noticed that she too was brewing a spell.
As for the Fla Giant, the Fla Giant was still ‘hastily pursuing’ Richard.
Holder clenched his teeth and imdiately tore open the scroll in his hands. The next mont, he vanished into a beam of light.
“So quick to chicken out.”
Richard let out a cold laugh, then switched his view to Wuni.
“Five hundred ters east, Ali, let’s go!”
…
Five days later, Holder watched in despair as a terrifying fireball flew towards him. Without the Fla Giant, he was just a slightly stronger Interdiate Apprentice, not much different from Richard and Ali.
As Holder turned to ash, his contract with the Fla Giant also ca to an end.
Richard, according to the contract, paid the Magic Stone to the Fla Giant and signed a twenty-year rcenary Contract with him.
Thanks to Holder and the blind Apprentice’s suicidal actions, Richard and Ali’s points soared. Richard, having killed the blind Apprentice and Koguk, firmly topped the leaderboard, while Ali, having killed Holder, climbed to seventh.
The initial Mosquito Monster, due to their pursuit of Holder, was unknowingly picked off by so Apprentice. If they could have also killed that Mosquito Monster, Ali’s points could have reached the top three.
However, Ali had no complaints about this.
Getting into the top ten had already fulfilled her goal.
The five-day chase left both of them exhausted, both physically and ntally. No apprentice of a Wizard was diocre, and the Wizards’ thods were manifold and varied. If they couldn’t win a fight, they always had a way to escape.
“Let’s rest for a couple of days; it will all be over soon,” Richard suggested.
Ali, also weary, agreed:
“Okay.”
Nine days later, the examination ended.
As the Magic Airship descended onto the center of the exam field, the surviving Apprentices were in tears.
It was over; they were still alive.
Back at the Academy, the first thing done was to tally the marks.
More than four thousand Apprentices participated in the exam, but only over a thousand survived.
More than half of the Wizard Apprentices beca the stepping stones for other Apprentices and Wizards’ paths.
Richard had sixty-two marks, which equated to six thousand two hundred Magic Stones. Including the Magic Stones, materials, and Magic Equipnt obtained from killing others, Richard’s earnings from this exam were close to ten thousand Magic Stones.
But Richard was quite calm about it.
The reward for the leaderboard was soon announced to the top ten Apprentices, as ntioned before, the reward was to explore the Great Wizard’s Secret Realm.
However, due to so urgent matters of the Great Wizard, the ti to enter the Secret Realm was postponed by two years, which caused Richard so disappointnt.
…
Ninety-ninth floor of the Central Black Tower.
“The Great Wizard’s Secret Realm is really a great place,” Jolod handed the Magic Stone reward distributed by the Academy to Richard. “Though the Great Wizard’s Secret Realm is not as vast as those from the old Academies, it is still a Secret Realm that has separated from the Wizard World, and it is definitely a blessing for you.”
Beside him, Chax, who also finished the exam, looked enviously at Richard.
He was just short of points from making the top ten, and thus he missed out on exploring the Secret Realm.
“Teacher, what exactly is this Secret Realm?” Richard asked in confusion.
He had checked many books in the library, but the explanations about the Secret Realm were fragnted and hazy, leaving him puzzled.
Jolod cleared his throat and explained:
“Richard, the planes we usually talk about can fragnt into so Space Fragnts at certain monts. Most of these fragnts disappear shortly after they split, but a small portion will continue to exist for a long ti after the split.
These fragnts are what we call the Secret Realms.
The eras of these fragnts often differ from the current era of the plane, the environnt likewise. For example, we are now in the Pioneering Age, but inside a Space Fragnt that has separated from the Wizard World, it might be the Enlightennt Age, or even the Dark Age of the Wizard World.”
As he spoke, Jolod’s eyes flashed with fervor.
“Can you imagine, in so Great Wizard’s Secret Realm, so creatures that have gone extinct in the current Wizard World might still exist. These creatures went extinct before we were born, but we can still find them in the Secret Realm. To understand their habits, structure, and even their effects.
That kind of experience is sothing you can’t buy with any amount of Magic Stones.”
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