Wizard's Journey

Chapter 158 Purple Gold Incense

Beneath the Tree of Life, the intertwined roots resemble rolling hills and mountain ranges.

The large hills and mountains are covered with buildings of the Seven Rings Holy Tower, but some of the smaller hills have become free markets for witch hunters.

Some wizards from other worlds who return from their conquests often bring back many wondrous items from other worlds to sell, in addition to the rewards they received for their missions. Among these, the most common items are some captured slaves from other worlds.

Captured slaves of otherworldly creatures are a type of soft currency that never lacks a market, whether it's for large-scale, high-price buybacks by Stigmata Wizards, experimental needs of certain wizards, or the personal good character of some wizards. In fact, some Stigmata Wizards will even trade away large numbers of captured slaves and the right to use soul servants when they are short of funds.

If a large number of slaves are captured, they are mostly directly purchased by other Stigmata Wizards.

The right to use those soul servants became a common low-level holy mark of friendship passed down among arcane wizards, becoming one of the trump cards of some arcane wizards.

Green rode in a seven-ring bubble, floating in the air and casually scanning the dazzling array of strange goods on the ground. Occasionally, he had to make way for some huge alien captives and slaves, and sometimes he would be attracted by some magical specialties of other worlds, and linger there for a long time.

However, trading in such a scattered free market requires wizards to have a keen eye for specific values, so most wizards just fly by and take a quick look. Unless it's something they care about, very few wizards will actually land and try to buy or trade.

Fifteen minutes later, Green landed in front of a towering gate beneath the roots of the Tree of Life.

Snapped!

The seven-ring bubble burst, and Green Ping floated in the air, his feet slightly off the ground. He passed by the wizards on both sides selling various levels of life leaves, and like most of the wizards who came, he headed straight for the gate about fifty meters high on the trunk of the tree of life.

Behind the gate was a wide, bottomless passageway.

After a period of continuous downward movement, a quarter of an hourglass later, a vast underground space appeared in Green's view.

Countless magical chandeliers illuminated this enormous underground plaza, which was surrounded by numerous passageways that seemed to connect to other underground plazas. The entire underground space of the Tree of Life resembled a colossal anthill, unimaginably vast.

Green's eyes darted around, but he didn't rush straight to his target. Instead, he wandered around the huge underground plaza, where one shop after another with family insignia stood.

These are the legitimate shops that Seven Rings Holy Tower has been operating for a long time. The prices of the items are relatively stable and do not fluctuate much.

As Green saw more, gathered more information, and broadened his horizons, he gradually began to form a value system for items in the wizarding world within the Seventh Ring Tower.

First of all, in the Seven Rings Holy Tower, apart from witch spirits and magic stones being hard currency equivalents, otherworldly slaves and otherworldly energy crystals can occasionally be traded as "soft currency" for some large-scale transactions.

Secondly, some otherworldly specialties will have different values ​​depending on the wizard's individual needs.

Some exotic products from other worlds have different prices. Some wizards think the prices are outrageously high, while others think they have gotten a great deal.

Finally, once a new alien world is developed, its first specialties and slaves will often be extremely popular. As time goes by, these specialties and slaves will find their place within the value systems of the many alien worlds conquered by the Seven Rings Holy Tower.

After two full hourglasses had passed, Green found a shop that looked quite ordinary.

However, the shop's sign is a blooming purple-gold flower!

"Hello, is there anything you need to tell me?"

As soon as Green entered the shop, a witch wearing a garter belt came up to him. The witch had long, wavy green hair, was about 1.9 meters tall, even taller than Green, and was extremely thin, practically a skeleton in a garment.

Looking up at the girl, Green thought to himself, "Another flat-chested girl."

Nodding, Green did not look at the various goods in the shop. Instead, after a fluctuation of his mental energy, a strange mark wave flashed by, faintly resonating with a powerful will above his head.

This is the resonance fluctuation of the Seven Rings Contract.

"Hmm? You are...?"

The witch paused for a moment, then closed her eyes.

With a series of subtle magical fluctuations, the witch opened her eyes and instantly pulled her hands out of the air. Several strange green rays of light flashed by, and as space twisted, green threads intertwined and wove together, and a phantom made entirely of green flames appeared in the witch's hands.

"Green, a wizard apprentice from the Black Tower in District 12 of the Seventh Ring Holy Tower, the inventor of the Venus incense, and one of the twenty-one remaining members of the Purple Gold Incense family who have formed a Seventh Ring contract. Hmm... has he already advanced to become a formal wizard?" The witch frowned and muttered to herself before casually dispelling the green flame illusion.

Green remained still, casually leaning on his magic wand, waiting for the other party to speak.

Without hesitation, the witch said calmly, "According to the contract, the Purple Gold Fragrance family will give you 60% of the profits from the sale of the Venus of Love perfume."

Green nodded, his voice soft and cold, "That's right. I've come here to inform the Purple Gold Fragrance family that I have successfully advanced to Demon Hunter Wizard and will be residing permanently at the Seventh Ring Holy Tower from now on."

If Green and the fat man of Black Tower still had some connection because of Green's rescue during his apprenticeship as a wizard, then Green had no feelings for this Purple Gold Incense family. Their relationship was purely one of cooperation, mutual benefit, and exploitation.

The Purple Gold Fragrance family wanted to take advantage of the fact that the former apprentices of the Grimm wizard only had a lifespan of two or three hundred years, and use the wisdom of a formal wizard to "steal" the formula for the Grimm Goddess of Love Venus's perfume. The price was only a seven-ring Holy Tower contract and a mere five thousand magic stones.

Although, from the perspective of a former impoverished wizard apprentice, Green had made an incredible fortune back then, even suspecting that the fat man and the Purple Gold Incense family had gone mad or acted foolishly, at this moment, from a wizard's perspective, Green realized that the wisdom of a wizard was indeed far beyond that of a wizard apprentice.

All of this is like a wizard apprentice mocking an ignorant commoner; the two sides are fundamentally on different levels of wisdom and have different understandings of the world.

However, it must be said that Green did indeed gain a real opportunity to rise to prominence because of these seemingly unprofitable gains.

Otherwise, Green might end up like the occasional "foolish" wizard apprentices of the past, dying completely in the novice trials or other mandatory missions, or in battles where wizard apprentices kill each other.

Over the years, Green has also gradually come to understand some of the Zijingxiang family's clandestine activities.

Leaving aside the other perfumes that emerged after Venus, the goddess of love, the Purple Gold Fragrance family didn't even exert its utmost effort in promoting the product, all driven by the pursuit of maximum profit. If the Purple Gold Fragrance family waited until after Grin's death before aggressively promoting the product, all the profits would fall into their own hands—wouldn't that be a truly massive windfall?

At this time, Green appeared in the Purple Gold Fragrance family as a wizard for two reasons: firstly, to extract the magic stone, and secondly, to subtly inform the Purple Gold Fragrance family that his lifespan was no longer limited to the two or three hundred years of a wizard apprentice.

If the Zijingxiang family continues to claim they're waiting for their own lives to end before aggressively promoting Venus, the goddess of love, then that would be foolish.

Therefore, if Alin is not mistaken, the income he receives through Venus, the goddess of love, may undergo a real qualitative change in the future.

Green has discovered that many wizards within the Seven Rings Tower area have become accustomed to carrying a small bottle of various types of perfume on their waists. It seems that this has begun to become a kind of invisible trend, and this trend will undoubtedly greatly increase the profits and promotion of perfume.

The witch looked at Green and calmly said, "Since Lord Green has become a resident demon hunter witch of the Seven Rings Holy Tower, then as long as Lord Green is willing, you can collect your due benefits at any of the seven shops and residences of the Purple Gold Fragrance family within the Seven Rings Holy Tower area at any time."

"Um."

With a nonchalant reply, Green calmly accepted the handful of high-grade magic stones handed to him by the witch. After verifying the contract, he casually toured the shop before leaving under the witch's watchful gaze.

Gliding above the bustling crowds in the underground plaza, Green passed through a wide passage and arrived at another underground plaza space a quarter of an hour later.

(End of this chapter)