MTL - A Necromancer Who Just Wants to Plant Trees-Chapter 159 Do you want to borrow money from me?
Chapter 159 Do you want to borrow money from me?
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After seeing the details on the list, Matthew immediately understood that this was Suriel's conspiracy.
put in front of oneself.
It is not a consumption trap.
And pies falling from the sky!
It's just that the pie is too big and the quantity is too much.
If you eat it in one breath, you will easily stretch yourself to death.
Spell ability.
This is an opportunity that every mage dreams of. As Margaret said earlier, it would take a very high price to solidify a certain spell into an ability through regular training.
First of all, it is time cost. A training cycle is 14~24 days, usually 2~3 training cycles to achieve initial results.
That is to say, it takes one month at the fastest and three months at the slowest to achieve the initial goal.
At first glance, it doesn’t take much time, but the time here refers to day and night training.
Every day during the training period, the caster must drain his mana and mental power, and cast the same spell repeatedly.
This will also cause a great loss of a person's will and mental strength.
The second is the cost of materials. Training needs to be combined with specific potions to be effective.
The most important of these is the potion that breaks the limit on the number of spells cast per day.
Take "Spell Knowledge" as an example.
The material cost of this spell is around 25,000 gold coins.
Compared with the completely automatic Suriel construction technique, the price is only half cheaper.
Third, because in the process of spell empowerment, it is necessary to take potions that break the limit on the number of spellcasting times every day, so the trainer will have a certain probability of contracting "spellcasting addiction".
The follow-up treatment of this problem is very expensive, and there is no special treatment method within the alliance.
So there is usually a period of time between each training cycle, so the time cost is increased in disguise.
However, this method is already a manifestation of the great progress of the magic civilization.
Before that.
A wizard can usually only enable one spell in his lifetime—
And most of them are common spells such as Mage's Hand and Illumination.
But now it's different.
The spells on the list in front of you, you only need to spend money to get them at your fingertips.
50,000 gold coins for each "counter-spell".
Matthew didn't think it was expensive at all.
He even thought it was ridiculously cheap!
At the moment, Matthew took a deep breath, and his heartbeat gradually calmed down.
During this process.
There has been no wave in the field of temperance, and there is no tendency to call the police.
This is enough to explain Matthew's current state.
His brain is actually pretty cool.
It's just that Suriel's bright card is too tempting, and there is a certain physiological reaction.
No wonder Suriel is so confident that she dared to say in advance that she would squeeze you dry. It turns out that she is sure that no one can refuse what she offers!
Matthew looked up at Suriel:
"The price you give to everyone is not the same?"
Suriel said with a smile:
"You're pretty smart."
"If you are a fourth-tier mage, the price of this price list will generally be doubled;
For the fifth level, it will be tripled.
Legend is another price tag. Not only does it require money, but it also owes me a lot of favors. "
"To be honest, I didn't intend to earn money from little mages like you at all. The money will be returned to me barely, and my labor costs are all given away for nothing."
Matthew took her word for it.
Suriel did not intend to earn his money.
Her purpose is completely public—
She simply wants to be everyone's creditor, including Matthew!
Therefore, she gave different prices for different groups of people. Anyway, the purpose is to squeeze your pockets dry and make you in debt.
Matthew secretly smiled bitterly.
He is actually a person who hates owed money.
"Don't worry, take your time."
Suriel’s voice was very gentle. She sat across from Matthew, with her knees slanted together, holding a cup of coffee elegantly in her hand. Her movements and demeanor were very similar to those of a tutor who was making up lessons for students.
Matthew bit his lip and began to think about what he really needed.
After a while.
He fetched a pen and started ticking off the list—
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「-Spell Rebound-
man of Steel-
Spell Nullification Barrier (with yourself as the center, create a spherical space with a radius of 18 meters, in which all non-legendary spells cannot take effect)
Price: 100,000 gold coins-
Spell upgrade (all the spells you cast except for summoning and prophecy, their effects will be upgraded by a major level)
Price: 100,000 gold coins-
Spell instant casting (when casting a spell of the same level, your spell effect will appear synchronously with your singing;
When casting spells lower than the second level of your own level, your singing time is shortened to 0.02 seconds. )
Price: 100,000 gold coins-
Any door (you can open a portal within your field of vision, the other end of the portal must not be more than 150 meters away from this door, and your brain must have a strong enough impression of the space at the other end of the door.
Warning: The accident rate of any door is 100 times that of the wall penetration technique, please try to use it within the range of your vision.
Available 20 times per day)
Price: 100,000 gold coins」
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Each of the spells he chose was carefully considered.
"Spell Rebound" and "Steel Man" are pure instant combat power. The former, together with Spell Counter and "Spell Invalidation Barrier", constitute the three qualities of Matthew's ability to deal with mages;
The latter, together with the "immortal body", made Matthew's physical body safer.
"Instant Spell Casting" and "Spell Upgrade" are options with great potential, and their effects will increase with the improvement of Matthew's strength.
Even if it becomes legendary in the future, these two abilities will be of great use.
As for "Spell Nullification Barrier" and "Anywhere Door".
They are also well-known magic spells, and early learning can always come in handy.
With this set of combat spells as a foundation, Matthew only needs to make up the foundation a little bit, and then he can devote all his energy to the exploration of necromancy spells and domains.
Finish the last tick.
Matthew only felt a little tightness in his wrist.
He glanced at the spell list on the list again, his eyes slightly reluctant.
But Matthew still resisted the urge to keep ticking.
Krypton gold is a bottomless pit.
He doesn't want to work for others all his life.
Suriel's construction technique is indeed one of the channels for quickly becoming stronger.
Matthew is willing to use this shareholder style to further strengthen his own shortcomings.
But he also knows.
I am not Fei Capital, not Suriel, not even Margaret.
This road belongs to them, not their own.
Matthew has his own path to walk.
He joined the alliance to learn from each other's strengths, not to completely abandon his own legendary way!
"After this period passes, it's time to settle down. The knowledge of spells in the alliance has disturbed my eyes."
"I should return to the ordinary woods and cemeteries."
"Nature and immortality, that is my path!"
Matthew's will gradually became firmer.
"Have you chosen?"
Suriel's gentle voice rarely changed a little:
"Are you sure you only need these six?"
Matthew nodded:
"My money should be enough, right?"
Suriel puts it bluntly:
"Not enough, you only have 470,000 gold coins in your storage items, you need to pay 500,000 here, and you need to borrow 30,000."
Matthew hurriedly said:
"I don't need to borrow 30,000 gold coins. I can go back to Rolling Stone Town to collect some and send them to you soon."
Suriel did not make things difficult for him:
"Can."
"But are you sure you don't want to choose more? You only have this chance. Next time, even if you kneel at the alliance headquarters and beg me, I won't serve you for free."
Matthew has calmed down now.
He was still in the mood to smile:
"For me, these are enough, and I will talk about the future."
Suriel looked at him with interest:
"You are the most reserved mage I have ever met."
"Margaret was already in debt of more than two million yuan when she was your age.
As a result, she herself transformed from a very ordinary little mage into a champion of three consecutive battle mage competitions.
This is the charm of Suriel's construction.
Let me remind you one last time, once the list is confirmed, it can no longer be changed.
If you choose more spells, you can make yourself stronger.
And being strong is the foundation of making big money.
Look at Margaret, she repaid more than one million yuan at a young age. She only needs to work for me for a few decades before she can repay the remaining interest.
If she didn't have the courage to burn the boat back then.
I'm afraid that I don't know which corner is being used as a human battery by some intermediate mages. "
Suriel's words are very straightforward.
The advice she gave was also very sincere.
But Matthew still chose to decline.
"Very well, it seems that you really resist making me your creditor."
A trace of displeasure flashed in Suriel's eyes.
Matthew hurriedly said:
"You are willing to help me solidify the spell for free. I am very grateful for this. I will always keep this favor in my heart. As long as you need me, I will not dare to refuse."
His words reached Suriel's heart.
She probably just likes the feeling that others owe her—whether it's favors or money.
Suriel smiled, stood up and greeted Matthew:
"Okay, let's go to the studio with me."
said.
A portal appeared in front of the two of them.
Matthew walked in.
Came to a place surrounded by glass, suspended under the feet, and the sky above the head.
He looked around, and suddenly found a huge city floating in the sky on the left.
The architectural style on that floating city is very fashionable.
From time to time, there is a streamer flying over it. It seems to be a small aircraft?
The composition of the whole scene gives people a taste of a sci-fi blockbuster.
"Don't be nervous, you can't see in from the outside."
Suriel said softly.
Matthew asked curiously:
"Is that the alliance's floating city?"
Suriel shook his head:
"That's Cyberdragon, inhabited by a group of paranoid artificers."
Matthew was shocked:
"Your residence is next to Cyberron?"
Suriel nodded:
"No way, someone has to keep an eye on Cyberron, lest artificers blow up the world. It just so happens that I am the best mage in the field of enchantment and protection in the alliance, so this job is my turn."
"Quick, take off your clothes, I want to check your body."
Matthew instinctively wanted to take off his shirt.
But his movements froze instantly:
"Why take off your clothes?"
Suriel urged:
“Because it is necessary to select the site where the constructing spell is implanted, the human body is very mysterious. Every organ has a different function, and the same is true for the skin.
Although the Suriel structure is buried in the subcutaneous fat layer, it rarely affects the human body itself, but if the best part can be selected for curing, the effect will be better. "
As she spoke, she seemed a little impatient, and flicked her fair index finger.
Matthew's clothes were swept away immediately!
"Raise your hands, open your thighs, don't cover them, let me take a good look."
Suriel's tone didn't fluctuate.
Matthew told himself repeatedly that all this was to obtain spells.
Gradually, his slightly restless heart calmed down.
Suriel walked around him for a week and asked suspiciously:
"Is your body unhealthy?"
Matthew thought for a while.
Turn off moderation field.
After a while.
Suriel nodded in satisfaction:
"Well, it looks healthy."
"Next, I will conduct a round of magic tests on you to determine the final implantation site."
During the conversation.
Circles of colorful magic runes surrounded Matthew's body, wrapping him tightly like a huge silkworm chrysalis.
five minutes later.
The brilliance of magic dissipated.
Suriel took a magic pen, first grabbed the wrists of Matthew's two hands, and drew a cross on each of them.
Then she turned Matthew over and drew a cross on the inside of his back shoulder blade.
Then she opened Matthew's thigh.
Draw three crosses in a row on his inner thigh.
Matthew could feel the skin touched by the magic pen, as if it was being burned, there were bursts of pain.
But the pain didn't last long.
He felt some mischievous magical energy getting in, but the existence form of this magical energy was something he had never seen before.
The nature is also more stable than normal magical energy.
"It's done, that's it."
Suriel said.
The clothes that had been stripped off suddenly appeared on Matthew.
"Pay the money, I have already reserved a spell curing hole on your body. After three days, come here with the remaining 30,000 gold to find me, and I will perform the spell curing ceremony for you."
Suriel issued an order to evict the guest.
Matthew reluctantly paid the money.
Then with the help of Fat Cat Aggie, he left Suriel's Crystal Castle.
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"Reminder: With your own willpower, you resisted the temptation from Suriel's construction technique.
In return for getting involved in the field, you can choose one of the following three abilities—
1. Deception meal (Every ten days, you can choose a day to practice in the temperance field in the form of self-deception. On that day, no matter how indulgent you are, it will not affect the accumulation of elements in the temperance field, and instead have may speed up the progress of domain exploration)
2. Ascetic Monk (You can choose to eliminate a worldly desire to obtain a more powerful attribute bonus)
3. Flexible bottom line (restraint or indulgence, this is a question. After obtaining this ability, you will have the opportunity to gain a very low probability of getting involved in the indulgence field through behavior in the temperance field.)”
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"Spend 500,000 a day, is this considered a success in temperance?"
Matthew was a little surprised.
He looked at the three abilities.
First of all, ascetic monks are excluded. It is estimated that even Li Weiqi will not choose this thing.
He hesitated back and forth between "cheat meal" and "flexible bottom line".
Finally chose the former.
Matthew is very confident in his "talent" in the field of development. Even if he wants to master the field of indulgence, there is no need to use this ability to develop it.
On the contrary, the cheat meal can make him less self-restraining sometimes.
Occasional indulgences contribute to well-being.
Even if you don’t need it now.
It will definitely come in handy in the future.
Then.
The temperance field of the second exploration also blessed Matthew with a permanent state.
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「Absolute Concentration: Your Concentration is permanently +1」
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Instructions are simple.
The effect is powerful.
All the gains related to "focus" that Matthew obtained before are almost temporary.
Permanent focus is really delicious for mages!
"It seems that as long as you face one temptation and complete one restraint, you can smoothly enter the temperance field and ask for it. Isn't this another kind of tauren?"
"It's a pity that there are too few temptations that can trigger domain judgments."
Matthew left the Crystal Palace thinking wildly.
He intends to return to Rolling Stone Town as soon as possible to find someone to borrow money.
But in the teleportation hall in the Crucible Room.
Matthew accidentally ran into Ekmond and another old mage with a kind face and a little out of focus eyes.
Ekmond smiled when he saw Matthew:
"Back from Suriel?"
Matthew nodded.
Ekmond looked at the old mage gloatingly:
"It's said that you are slow. Suriel has been eyeing this kid for a long time, and specially arranged for Margaret to be his teacher, so she went ahead without any trace."
The old mage shook his head and sighed:
"No one in the league is better at making money than those two women. I thought I came fast enough."
Ekmond introduced to Matthew with a smile:
"This is the Guardian of the North, Mr. Roderick. He is famous for divination spells, the manufacture of magic items, and the imitation of ancient artifacts. Of course, he is even more famous for the high-quality imitations that come out of Roderick's factory. You Should have heard of it."
Matthew hurriedly saluted.
Eckmond said again:
"Roderick heard that you made a lot of money, so he came here from the north to sell you a batch of products. Unfortunately, it seems that his high imitation semi-artifacts may not be sold."
Seeing Roderick sighing.
Matthew was very surprised.
Are these legendary mages engaged in some kind of competition?
Do you have to squeeze out the newcomers who have recently got a lot of money?
And what about Eckmonde?
It is said that?
Who else knows that I made a fortune but you?
secretly slandering.
Matthew smiled along on the surface, and by the way gave him the gold coin that he lost to Ekmond.
"I just said, within three days you will definitely spend that money."
Ekmond said with a smile.
At this moment, Roderick suddenly said:
"Ekmond, let's make a bet."
"This kid just came out of Suriel, let's bet how much Suriel's debt is on him?"
"Both of us don't use divination. How about seeing who can guess more accurately?"
Ekmond looked at him with a smile, then glanced at Matthew, and suddenly said decisively:
"I bet he owes at least half a million!"
Roderick shook his head and said:
"You're too conservative, I think it's at least a million!"
"You and I both understand Suriel's ability. Before that, the lowest debt record of a mage who came out of the Crystal Palace was 300,000."
"It seems that you want me to win."
Watching two legendary bosses bet in front of their faces.
Matthew's forehead was sweating immediately.
He asked cautiously:
"What if the actual number is far from what the two guessed?"
Ekmond suddenly became serious:
"You don't owe more than two million, do you?"
Matthew didn't know what to say.
Roderick immediately grabbed him:
"Don't follow the child's words, just say what to do."
Eckmond said casually:
"If the real answer is really different from what we guessed, then put our two bets on him."
Roderick nodded to express that he had no opinion.
Under the common eyes of the two.
Matthew said with difficulty:
"I temporarily owe 30,000 yuan on credit, but I haven't borrowed money. I can pay it off when I go back and collect a little."
The two legendary mages looked at each other, showing expressions of disbelief.
"Silly boy, how can you let go of the opportunity to reach the sky in one step?"
"Do you know how many people begged Suriel to cure her, but they couldn't even see Margaret because they had no way out?"
"Although we always tease not to be in debt with her, it's just teasing. Even Teacher Isabel will encourage you to solidify a few more spells with Suriel. This is a rare opportunity."
Ekmond looked a little anxious.
He seemed to genuinely feel that Matthew wasted a great opportunity.
Matthew could only keep smiling at this, and explained in a low voice that the matter was a foregone conclusion.
finally.
In the regretful eyes of the two legendary mages.
Matthew also received bets from two legendary mages—
Those are two spell gold coins with their faces printed on them.
Gold coins contain unique magic power.
The two didn't say how to use it, and Matthew could only put them in his pocket as ordinary gold coins.
After bidding farewell to the two legends, Matthew was finally able to return to Rolling Stone Town.
He rushed to the Lord's Mansion in a hurry.
"Rega, I have something to do with you."
He entered the door and went straight to the point.
Rega, who was reading a newspaper in his pajamas, didn't look up:
"No need to talk about practicing spells, and no need to talk about borrowing money."
"I need 30,000 gold coins, urgently."
Matthew said.
Seeing his serious attitude, Rega didn't make any jokes, he just frowned and said:
"Didn't you just get a sum of money a few days ago? You squandered it so quickly?"
"It's not impossible if you want to borrow money, but we must write it clearly in black and white. In addition, I will charge you some symbolic interest. After all, I am using Kujin from Rolling Stone Town."
Matthew asked in a little surprise:
"Didn't you just get a sum of money a few days ago? This is a waste of money?"
didn't wait for Rhaegar to answer.
A cute little head popped out of the corridor:
"Matthew, do you want to borrow money from me?"
"I got a lot of pocket money recently."
"I don't charge you interest."
Sif looked at him with big eyes shining brightly.
Behind the desk.
Rega's expression suddenly became painful.
…
Got his wish and got a 30,000 interest-free loan from the Lord's Mansion.
Matthew's steps back to the oak forest became brisk.
He finished planting today's oak trees happily.
Kacha Kacha made the tombstone again.
Noon.
A little black cat jumped into the cemetery.
He came to Matthew and turned into a human form.
"Eli?"
Matthew looked at the other party in surprise. He looked around, but found no trace of the little white cat.
Eli said to him with a complicated expression:
"Matthew, I have to tell you something."
"A very important thing."
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(end of this chapter)
