The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 270: The thought of joining the witch suddenly came to my mind, and I suddenly felt that the world was wide
"Find me?"

The captain listened to the first mate's report with a gloomy expression.

What does this wizard want to do?
The captain was not blinded by hatred. In the decisive battle, all the fire lizards who were eager for revenge and glory died on the battlefield.

Every fire lizard participating in the Fire Project is a person who relies more on reason than emotion.

They shoulder the responsibility of inheriting the fire lizard clan and cannot afford to be impulsive.

But the captain thought for a long time and still couldn't guess what Richard was trying to do.

If a wizard wanted a slave, he would beat the person half to death, imprison him, and throw him into a slave bag. If a wizard wanted information, he would beat the fire lizard half to death, and then torture him with soul magic.

If the wizard wants wealth or specimens, it is even easier. There is no need to control the strength to beat him half to death, just kill him directly.

The captain really couldn't figure out what he could do.

Boom boom boom!
There was a sudden knock on the door of the captain's room.

"Captain, I think we can talk."

The captain's face froze. The wizard came to the outside of the captain's room silently, and he didn't notice it at all.

The captain nodded to the first mate, who came to the door nervously, ready to open it. The captain drew the scimitar from his waist, ready to take action if anything went wrong.

Squeak!

Perhaps it was due to lack of lubrication, or perhaps the first mate was too nervous and exerted force unconsciously.

The door to the captain's cabin made a sharp sound on its hinges as it opened.

Under the high tension, the captain took action subconsciously.

The black gold scimitar in his hand suddenly ignited with golden flames. All the energy in the body was attracted by this knife and poured into the blade like rivers flowing into the sea. The golden flames surged like a volcanic eruption.

The wind helps the fire!

Ding!
The half-broken scimitar drew a clear line in the air and pierced straight into the metal wall of the captain's room, disappearing completely inside.

The captain looked at the scimitar in his hand in a daze. Where the blade of the scimitar was pointing, a pitch-black crow's claw blocked its way.

"Captain, this welcome ceremony is a bit impolite."

The captain looked towards the door, and saw a wizard in a black wizard robe looking at him quietly, and on his shoulder, a black crow retracted its claws.

An idea suddenly flashed through the captain's mind.

Invincible.

"Wizard, what do you want to do with me?" the captain asked stiffly.

He knew that he could not defeat the wizard, but as a fire lizard, he really couldn't pretend to be nice to the wizard.

At least not now.

"Let's talk about the fate of you and your crew." Richard replied calmly.

"destiny?"

"Yes, your future fate depends entirely on you."

Richard took out a soul contract from his pocket and handed it to the captain.

"If you sign this, you will live. If you don't sign this, you will die."

The captain took the contract and took a look at its contents.

The text of the contract was written in Salamander language, and the wording also had the style of Silver Horned Nobility. It was hard to imagine that these words were written by a wizard.

The content of the contract is very simple. To put it simply, once they sign the contract, they will become indigenous employees of the Richard Jorold Wizarding Chamber of Commerce.

After becoming an employee, employees need to abide by the regulations of the Chamber of Commerce. Once the rules are violated, the wizard will punish them according to the regulations.

The vast majority of the contents of this contract are the regulations of the Chamber of Commerce, which can be said to be very loose in the captain's opinion.

Any Salamander noble's rules for treating their servants would be ten times stricter than this, and the punishments would be ten times more cruel.

This contract actually stipulates that a fire lizard only needs to work for eight hours. This is ridiculous. Even fire lizards would not set such a lenient rule for fire lizards.

This is how it is among the same species, so how could a wizard set such rules for fire lizards?

The captain put down the contract and replied in a somewhat stiff voice:
"Wizard, that's a good joke."

"A joke?" Richard smiled and shook his head, "This is not a joke, this is the contract you are going to sign.

I would like to add that signing this contract is equivalent to what you call a 'soul oath', and it has a very strong binding force."

The captain looked at Richard coldly: "You mean you plan to hire us and let us work eight hours a day when there are 24 hours in a day, and even have one day off every six days.

You will also provide us with food and shelter during this process, and if we perform well, we can even eat the meat of the fire beast.

Moreover, after a Salamander has worked for a certain number of years, you will give him freedom..."

The captain read the contents of the contract one by one. At the end, he sneered almost every time he read a sentence.

Rather than letting him believe that wizards can treat fire lizards so well, it would be better to let him believe that the King of Fire Lizards will return like lightning tomorrow, sweep across the wizards, fight all the way into the wizards' hometown, and take the wizard clan as slaves.

At least the latter one is more pleasant to think about.

"I repeat again, this contract is real. This is exactly what you are going to sign." Richard said impatiently.

The captain's attitude did not surprise Richard. In fact, quite a number of his salamanders had the same attitude when they saw the contract.

Richard's conditions were so good that they seemed like a joke.

However, there are some smart people who can see the hidden trap in this contract.

Take the most attractive one, freedom.

Richard's promise of freedom would indeed be fulfilled, but by that time, the Salamander would have been squeezed dry of its last bit of surplus value by Richard. Salamanders of this age were useless to Richard, so giving them freedom was a pretty good choice. This approach was already quite black-hearted in Richard's eyes.

But it is always better to compare goods. Compared with wizards and even salamanders, Richard's method of squeezing out the surplus value and throwing it away is actually quite humane.

After all, by doing this, the fire lizard must at least live until the day when it is no longer valuable.

The captain stared at Richard for a long time, and it seemed that the wizard in front of him was not joking.

Is this contract real?
The captain took the contract in front of him again and read the salamander language on it again, word by word. He even carefully read the patterns on the edge of the contract, fearing that Richard had hidden the words in it as decoration.

He was born in the Shield of Morik, and he often dealt with wizards. Naturally, he had seen the soul contracts used by wizards to enslave fire lizards, and he could also identify whether they were true or false.

The contract before me is indeed real.

"Why." The captain put down the contract, "Wizard, why did you do this?"

The captain used his feudal aristocratic thinking and racked his brains to figure out why Richard made this offer.

"I've said enough, Salamander," Richard replied calmly, "If you ask stupid questions like that again, I'll feed you to my crows."

Hearing this, Ulysses looked at the captain with some anticipation, and his greedy eyes made the captain shudder.

The crow was staring at him.

The captain took a deep breath. Now he had to make a decision.

Should I sign the contract or become bird food for the crows?

As a salamander, he and wizards also have an irreconcilable hatred. But at the same time, his reason tells him that hatred can't solve any problems.

The wizard will not die because of his hatred, and his crew will not live because of his hatred.

The Salamander clan is on the verge of extinction, and now every free Salamander is precious.

They shoulder the responsibility of passing on the culture of the Salamander clan!
Moreover, this wizard promised freedom in the contract, and the conditions he offered were quite good. Under this wizard, they might live better than in the [New World].

Moreover, once a soul contract is signed, it cannot be changed. As long as they sign the contract, the wizard will definitely fulfill the terms above.

Thinking of this, the captain made a decision.

"Give me a pen."

Richard smiled and nodded:
"Yes, you made the right decision. The Salamander will be passed down under your decision."

The captain held the pen and signed his name on the contract with difficulty.

He kept repeating to himself that this was for the sake of Salamander's legacy.

However, he overlooked one point intentionally or unintentionally.

His ship is not the only one with remaining fire lizards. Even if they all die, it will not hinder the inheritance of the fire lizard clan.

The captain didn't want to admit that he was actually afraid of death.

But this does not prevent it from being the right decision.

Since Richard has already discovered their traces, it is only a matter of time before the New World is discovered.

If the leaders of the new world fail to make the right decisions, extinction will surely await them.

After the name was written, the contract turned into a ball of fire and disappeared into the air.

An invisible connection connected Richard and the captain. Richard smiled brightly and took out a stack of soul contracts from his pocket.

"Captain, I'll leave it to you from now on."

The captain took the contract. At this moment, he no longer had any psychological burden, or in other words, there was no turning back.

"Yes, Lord Richard."

……

An hour later, the captain returned to the captain's room with several unused contracts.

"My lord, there were five Salamanders who were unwilling to sign the contract. I have dealt with them."

Richard nodded and put the contracts back into his pocket.

"Very good. I will go and fix the boat for you. You should have a sea chart. We will sail back to your headquarters later."

The captain's body froze, and he asked in a somewhat awkward voice:
"Sir, I don't quite understand what you mean?"

"Don't understand?" Richard looked at the captain. The smile on his face looked like a devil's grin to the captain.

"Why do you think I came to the deep sea of ​​​​the Lava Sea?"

The captain felt a chill running up from his tail to his intellect.

Yes, this is the deepest part of the lava sea, how could a wizard get here?

The captain looked up at Richard stiffly:
"Sir, are you here specifically to see us?"

Richard smiled and nodded:
“I have been looking for you in this sea for three years. If you hadn’t shown up, I might have needed some more time.

But none of this matters.”

Yeah, none of this matters.

What's important is that the wizard already knows that they have escaped to the depths of the lava sea.

Richard patted the captain and said earnestly:
"Captain, you should be thankful that I discovered you. If you were any other wizard, you wouldn't even be qualified to be enslaved."

The captain collapsed to the ground, muttering with trembling lips:
"The fire is out."

(End of this chapter)