The Lord of Ashes

"Do you think that child will be able to fulfill his wishes in the future?" After watching the magic flying carpet leave, Thain suddenly asked the fat man next to him, Boss.

Bos also heard the little boy's inquiry just now. Faced with Thain's words, Bos didn't know how to answer for a while.

Also looking at the magic flying carpet that was constantly moving away, Bos seemed to have returned to more than a hundred years ago.

He was also the same age as the little boy just now. After he was tested to have the learning talent of a magician, he stayed away from his parents and went to a big city for further study.

The long and far distances that require aerial boats are obviously not something that apprentice-level guys can travel at will.

Not to mention, the tedious and heavy academy tasks and life pressure are enough to completely separate these little guys who plunge into the magical world from the secular world.

Bos thought of himself. He went to the Imperial Public Magic Academy to study since he was a child. However, it was not until he was in his thirties that he was promoted to an intermediate magic apprentice. Just after a long-distance college mission, I stopped by and went home.

Bose's parents were already in their fifties at that time, which was very different from his childhood memories.

Including the so-called younger brothers and sisters in the family, and even nephews and nieces, it is difficult for Baos to have too close feelings for them.

After all, we haven't seen each other for decades. The so-called blood relationship is not so hard to remember for magicians who are determined to explore the truth.

After leaving a large amount of money and two very low-level magic gadgets to his family, Boss set out to leave home again.

The second time Bowes came home, he was in his nineties.

At that time, Bowes didn't have much confidence in being promoted to the first level.

The reason why he wanted to go home and have a look was because when Bos looked back on his past life, it seemed that except for the truth of magic, he didn't seem to care about much.

Returning to the family was also where Bowes had nowhere to go at the time.

At least with the magic books, money and magic props he took back, his descendants can live a better life in the future.

Even if someone with the qualifications to learn magic emerges again, he can have a higher level than Baos and explore the truth.

But I have to admit, and it can be attributed to regret, that when Bos returned home for the second time, his parents had already passed away, and almost none of them, including his brothers and sisters, were left.

After a magic apprentice reaches an advanced level, relying on their knowledge of elements and the help they can use in the surrounding environment, it can be said that it is easy to extend their life by two to thirty years.

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Ordinary people are not so lucky, let alone the lower class civilians.

Once you step into the magical world, it marks your separation from the secular world.

Baos, who rarely recalled the appearance of his parents in his memory, chose to use a long sigh as the answer to Thain's question just now.

The road to truth is a long search.

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After bribing Boss with magic coins, Thane, led by the fat man, visited 21 human cities one after another, and attracted a total of more than 700 mentally qualified magic apprentices.

Except for 200 of them who were of lower quality and were finally brought back by Boss for a new assignment, the remaining 500 or so apprentices will all be brought back to the Holy Tower of Dark Fire by Thane.

Originally, Bos was extremely uneasy about doing this.

When Thain and he passed through seven cities in succession and plundered two hundred apprentices, the fat man began to give up.

However, when Thane increased the magic coins required to bribe Bos from 30 to 100.

The fat man's eyes turned into the shape of magic coins and widened.

What does 100 magic coins mean?

This means that most of the loan Bose owes to the public magic college can be repaid instantly, which means that if he is not in a hurry to repay the loan, he can also build a private laboratory of his own first.

It is not easy to build a laboratory suitable for yourself.

Even for the most ordinary laboratory, if all functions are required, it will cost at least hundreds of magic coins!

This still eliminates the cost of building an extremely expensive element pool.

After Thain was promoted to the first level, the reason why he had no related worries was that on the one hand he earned enough during the Regional Academy War, and on the other hand he moved directly to the top of the Holy Tower where he could use Lianman's experimental equipment. .

Based on Lu Lianman's equipment level, it is estimated that some demigod-level magicians' laboratories are not as advanced as Thain's at that time.

Sure enough, this fat man, whose name and body shape gave Thain a certain favorable impression, and his money-grubbing attributes also made Thain feel a little familiar.

After acquiring another five hundred magic apprentices, Thane told the fat man that the deal between them had just begun.

As long as Fatty Boss continues to provide his magic apprentice with energy, Thain can continue to pay him enough.

This should be the easiest way to make money, right?

Even if Baos risked his life to participate in the alien war, the final profit he received was the money smuggled by two apprentices.

"I am responsible for only twenty-one cities. If you want to look for them again, you can only go to the villages and towns under the jurisdiction of these cities." Fatty Boss said to Thain with unfinished content.

"What about other cities?" Thain asked casually.

The Abalut Empire is vast, and only a small area in the southern part of the empire is enough for the Dark Fire Holy Tower to recruit students.

"There are other magicians in charge of other cities, and some cities are not from the same college as me. If we happen to be encountered, it is very likely to be exposed..." Boss said with some embarrassment.

"Since there is a risk of being exposed, you might as well bring the other party in."

"I want a lot of apprentices, and you alone can't satisfy my appetite." Thain said with a smile.

Thain's smile made Bose's hair stand on end. ‏‎‏‎‏​‎‏‎​‏‏‎‎‏‏

To be honest, at the risk of being ruined or even punished by the Imperial Public College to earn the money from Thain, Baos really didn't want to reveal it to others.

Including other formal and above-level magicians from the Imperial Academy into this circle or interest group?

Thinking of this, Baos couldn't help but shudder.

Unlike Bos, who was feeling uneasy, Thain was calculating another account in his mind.

Just one Boss brought seven hundred magic apprentices to Thane.

As long as he recruits five to six more magicians from the Imperial Academy, Thain can basically gather the magic apprentices that the Holy Tower of Dark Fire lacks this time.

More importantly, this is a long-term deal.

The admission process for Holy Tower College has always been once every ten years.

If this matter is not exposed, you can continue to do it.

Facing the smile at the corner of Thain's mouth, Bos couldn't help but said: "I heard something like the devil's temptation in your tone."

"What is a devil?"

"I have studied them. They are just a group of special creatures between flesh and blood and energy bodies."

"They also have weird and special ways of using energy and mental power."

"If you do a good job, I can give you some of the devil's limb tissue specimens that I treasure." Thain patted Bose on the shoulder and said casually.

He didn't realize that he had become something else in the eyes of Bose.

Baos's Adam's apple made a "beep" noise and said nothing more.