The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 60 Academy Rewards
More and more magic stones flowed, and soon accumulated into a small pile.

The fire giant stopped and a mental wave was transmitted towards Richard.

"The penalty for breach of contract is 10,000 magic stones, the contract is 5,000 magic stones, 100 magic stones per month, and the contract lasts for at least 20 years. During the contract period, you are responsible for all my mana consumption, and you don't have to execute the death order."

Ten thousand magic stones?
Richard's face froze; this number was a bit beyond his acceptable range.

But he immediately thought of another solution.

"I won't pay you the penalty, but I can hire you to hold back in the next battle for a thousand magic stones, and then I can hire you again on this condition."

The fire giant thought for a few seconds, during which time Holder kept commanding him to attack with his mind, which made it a little angry.

The contract between it and Holder was not a slave contract, but an employment contract.

They are the people of Fire Lord Field, not servants of the wizard.

"Human, I want you to make a contract."

"it is good!"

Without saying a word, Richard took out a contract template from his pocket and wrote down the contract terms in no time.

In this contract, Richard will pay one thousand magic stones to the Fire Giant after Holder's death, and hire the Fire Giant at a price of five thousand magic stones to establish the contract, one hundred magic stones per month, and a contract period of twenty years.

The contract did not specify that the Fire Giant needed to give in, but both parties knew what would be in their own best interest.

"First, I order you to attack!"

Holder gave the order again, but this time the fire giant obeyed the order. But... it moved very slowly.

Holden's face turned pale when he saw this scene. He didn't know what Richard had done to First, but the fire giant's actions were undoubtedly disadvantageous to him.

Richard smiled brightly at him.

This is the consequence of trying to please others.

Generally, the contracts signed between wizards and elemental creatures are slave contracts. The elemental creatures need to completely carry out the wizard's orders. Once they disobey the orders, the wizard can kill them with just a thought.

But the prerequisite for signing a slave contract is that the wizard is stronger than the elemental creature and can make the elemental creature die immediately if he does not sign the contract.

But Holder in front of him was only a mid-level apprentice, and it was impossible for him to do this. And if Holder used the power of the wizard to sign a slave contract, then it would be impossible for him to bring the fire giant into the examination room.

The items that can be brought to the exam must be made by the wizard apprentice himself, or purchased with magic stones through legal channels.

If there was no such rule, Richard could have asked Joe Lord to give him a wizard-level war beast to bring into the examination room.

But then the exam becomes meaningless.

Therefore, the only contract Holder could sign was an employment contract.

As we all know, most of the mercenaries are the kind of people who will do anything for you.

If Richard offered a higher price, the fire giant would have no reason to disagree.

Ellie was a little confused about the situation at the moment, but she could still see that the Fire Giant was letting her win.

Without the fire giant blocking their way, she and Richard were more than enough to kill Holden.

"Richard, the old way."

Richard understood what he meant and immediately went forward to entangle Holder, while the fire giant chased after Richard very quickly.

Seeing that things were beyond his expectations, Holden immediately took out a scroll from his pocket and decided to... run away.

Where there is life, there is hope.

But before he could activate the scroll, a loud explosion startled his arm.

His magic barrier was almost cut open by Richard's black sword, and the dark flames spread rapidly along the magic barrier. His magic power was rapidly decreasing.

He glanced at Ellie out of the corner of his eye and found that Ellie was also brewing a spell at this moment.

As for the Fire Giant, it was still "rapidly chasing" Richard.

Holder gritted his teeth and immediately tore open the scroll in his hand. The next moment, he turned into a ray of light and disappeared.

"You're giving in so soon." Richard sneered and then switched his focus to Wu Ni.

"Five hundred meters east, Ellie, let's go!"

……

Five days later, Holder looked at the terrifying fireball flying towards him in despair. Without the fire giant, he would be just a stronger intermediate apprentice, no different from Richard Ellie.

As Holder was burned to ashes, his contract with the fire giant ended.

According to the contract, Richard paid the magic stone to the fire giant and signed a twenty-year employment contract with him.

Due to the death of Holder and the blind apprentice, Richard's points also rose. Richard topped the leaderboard because he killed the blind apprentice and Koguk, and Ellie killed Holder and her points came to seventh.

Because the two of them were chasing Holder, the mosquito monster was picked up by some apprentice. If Ellie can kill that mosquito monster, her score will be in the top three.

But Ellie had no complaints.

Just being able to get into the top ten would have accomplished her goal.

The five-day chase had left the two men exhausted both physically and mentally. There were no mediocre wizard apprentices, and the wizards’ methods were ever-changing. Even if they couldn’t defeat them head-on, they always had the ability to escape.

"Take a break for two days, it will be over in a few days," Richard suggested.

Ellie also agreed tiredly:
"it is good."

Nine days later, the exam was over.

As the magic airship landed in the center of the examination room, the surviving apprentices burst into tears.

It's over, they're still alive.

After returning to school, the college conducted a mark statistics as soon as possible.

There were more than 4,000 apprentices who took part in the exam, but only more than 1,000 survived.

More than half of the wizard apprentices become the cornerstones for other apprentice wizards.

Richard has sixty-two marks, which equals six thousand two hundred magic stones when converted into them. Including the magic stones, materials and magic equipment Richard got from killing people, Richard earned nearly ten thousand magic stones from this exam.

But Richard was calm about it.

The rewards for the leaderboard were quickly notified to the top ten apprentices. As mentioned before, the reward was to enter and explore the dean’s secret realm.

However, due to some urgent matters involving the dean, the time to enter the secret realm was postponed for two years, which made Richard a little regretful.

……

The central black tower has ninety-nine floors.

"The dean's secret realm is a good place." Joe Lord handed the magic stone reward distributed by the academy to Richard. "Although the dean's secret realm is not as good as the great secret realms of the old academy deans, it is also a secret realm split from our wizard world. It is definitely a blessed place for you."

Chucks, who had also finished his exam, looked at Richard with envy.

His points were just a little short of the top ten, so he missed the chance to explore the secret realm.

"Teacher, what exactly is this secret realm?" Richard asked puzzledly.

He checked many books in the library, but there were only fragmentary explanations about the secret realm, which left him confused.

Joe Lord cleared his throat and explained:

"Richard, the planes we usually talk about will split into some space fragments at certain moments. Most of these fragments will disappear soon after they are split, but a small part will exist for a long time after the split.

These fragments are what we call secret realms.

The era of these fragments is often different from the current era of the plane, and the same is true for the environment. For example, we are now in the pioneering period, but the space fragments split from the wizarding world may be the wizarding world in the enlightenment period or even the ignorant period. "

As he spoke, a hint of fanaticism flashed in Qiaoluode's eyes.

"Can you imagine that, in the secret realm of a great wizard, some creatures that have become extinct in the current wizarding world still exist. Those things became extinct before we were born, but we can still find them in the secret realm now. Learn about their habits, structure, and even functions.

This kind of experience cannot be bought with any amount of magic stones."

(End of this chapter)