Wizard's Journey

Chapter 540 Refusal

Three months later.

The development of the Bengyashan gold mine led to the booming development of gold workshops that process gold handicrafts.

Following Green's suggestion, the first pioneering merchants of Mothfrog City made substantial profits from the gold trade after opening up the Doma River waterway. They then began to actively maintain Green's Doma River trade route plan, bringing considerable revenue to Green's accounting and tax collection.

On this day, the Lord's Mansion of Green City received a large merchant group from afar.

Unable to dock at the unfinished port of the Doma River, the closest port to Mothfrog City, the caravan had no choice but to spend three whole days transporting its goods ashore in small boats.

As for the unfinished roads, these businessmen had already come up with other solutions.

The caravan had tamed elephants that were seven or eight meters long and five meters tall. Their bodies were heavy, and they carried large quantities of goods step by step toward Mothfrog City. Such a powerful caravan was far superior to all the merchants in Mothfrog City combined.

This is a business guild from the distant Three Thunder Tower Wizarding Academy.

The purpose of this chamber of commerce was to open up a trade route at the Nine-Headed Wrath Wizard Academy, and the booming Mothfrog City's Doma River Gold Trade Route naturally came into the chamber's sights.

As a pioneer of trade routes, if successful, the profits gained will be more than double those of subsequent chambers of commerce!

Such profits are enough to drive merchants to overcome difficulties and obstacles to reap the rewards.

The city lord's mansion was brightly lit. Outside, on the most bustling street of Mothfrog City, the town's residents excitedly purchased large quantities of foreign goods brought by the merchant caravan. Inside the mansion, Green, as the highest ruler of the town, organized the town's nobles to welcome the leader of the caravan.

Fine wines, delicious food, beautiful music, and graceful dancing.

"Lord Green City, the president of the Wutong Gold Merchant Guild sent me all the way to Moth Frog City in the hope of reaching a cooperation agreement with Moth Frog City. These luminous pearls are just a small token of the president's appreciation."

The fat man with a round belly played with two round gems in one hand, while gesturing with the other hand to the knight behind him to respectfully hand Grimm a box studded with gems.

The nobles in the hall all turned their attention to the box.

Green, who was holding the kraft paper contract, smiled, opened the box, and two fist-sized blue pearls emitted a soft light, with faint energy fluctuations emanating from them, making them exquisitely beautiful.

"Wow……"

Several young noblewomen covered their mouths, their eyes sparkling with desire.

Green closed the box again, looked at the confident eyes of the caravan leader, and smiled slightly. This Wutong Gold Merchant Guild was the first caravan to set up shop here, but it would certainly not be the last.

"I am very satisfied with the contract terms proposed by the Wutong Gold Merchant Guild, but I would like to add one condition to this last item."

After he finished speaking, Green clapped his hands to signal the music to stop, and several big merchants representing the interests of the merchants of Mothfrog City walked over.

Green pointed to the merchants and said, "In the future, Mothfrog City plans to establish a local chamber of commerce to maintain control over regional resource trading prices. The condition proposed by the Golden Phoenix Chamber of Commerce is that your chamber of commerce will be able to more easily use ports and roads when trading with the Nine-Headed Wrath Wizard Academy in the future, and charge lower fees than other chambers of commerce. In general, there will be less conflict with the Mothfrog Chamber of Commerce. Therefore, I would like to ask your chamber of commerce to provide Mothfrog City with funds and technical support to build an air port, even if it is a minimal one."

"Airport!"

The caravan leader, a fat man, looked at Green in surprise and said, "Lord Green plans to build an airport here?! Without the corresponding resources to gather and distribute profits, the cost of maintaining an airport is no small amount. This is why few cities in the outer areas of the Holy Tower can afford to build airports. To be frank, I don't think Mothfrog City has the ability to maintain a normal airport."

Green smiled: "Mothfrog City can't stay Mothfrog City forever."

Green's insistence made the fat man frown, but considering that the person in front of him was a wizard with extraordinary wisdom that he could not fathom, he stopped thinking about it.

"Alright, I agree to the conditions proposed by Mothfrog City. Let's draft a new contract."

The fat man readily agreed, and with his chubby little hands, he took a fine quill pen and a new piece of parchment from the knight beside him, and began to draft a new contract.

Green insisted on building this airport for two reasons.

Firstly, small towns must maintain a high level of infrastructure planning and construction to ensure a large number of jobs, bring income to the lower-level residents, and even stimulate the development of small-scale farms, workshops and factories that are just beginning to emerge.

Secondly, it was to prepare for a possible academy war more than 140 years later!

The Holy Tower's peace rules will protect it for another 140 years. The brutality of the war between the academies is like a miniature world war. It may not be apparent now, but as the tension between the Nine-Headed Wrath Wizard Academy and the Shadow Thousand-Eyed Wizard Academy draws ever closer, the importance of this air port will surely become clear!

At that time, the supplies that the Nine-Headed Wrath Wizard Academy urgently needs will be transported over continuously through the air port!

Of course, by that time Green was no longer the lord of Mothfrog City, so it didn't seem to mean much to Green himself, but...

If the war between the two academies continues until Green returns from his next demon-hunting expedition, the significance will be completely different!

Typical college wars end in various ways within a decade or two.

However, there have been occasional battles between academies that have lasted for hundreds or even thousands of years.

The war between the elemental wizards of the Wizarding Continent and the dark wizards of the Dark Domain has raged from ancient times to the modern era, until a temporary reconciliation was reached on the basis of jointly saving the wizarding world from its doom.

"Sir, what do you think of this contract?"

The fat man handed Green a new contract.

After quickly reviewing the contract, Green nodded and signed it, which the fat man then happily put away.

…………

A month later.

Dark clouds obscured the full moon as Green emerged from his study.

After calculating the time, Vivian from the Nightmare World should have reached the Nightmare Tower of the First Circle by now. After all, she was riding the Shadow Meteor, and the Shadow Meteor's speed, after several months of continuous acceleration, was already several times faster than the Mechanical Bee.

Thinking this, Green expended some mental energy, and the surrounding space distorted before returning to normal, only this time a blood-red crescent moon appeared in the sky above.

Unlike Vivian, Green, as one of the six wizards who summoned the rules of judgment, was specially sensed by the One Circle True Spirit Wizard. Green had just arrived in the Nightmare World and contacted the One Circle True Spirit Wizard when a black gash hundreds of meters long suddenly appeared on the top of Green's head, and an irresistible suction force pulled Green in.

Such methods are many times more powerful than those of the Demon King of Nightmare World.

"Green, what do you want?"

A majestic voice rang out; it belonged to the One Circle True Spirit Wizard, who stood tall in the nightmarish world.

Green bowed respectfully, inwardly surprised, "So fast!?"

A colossal tower, reaching ten thousand meters high and soaring straight into the nightmarish world, has actually been formed!

The tower seemed like an ancient monster born from a nightmare world, exuding an aura of inviolable majesty and fear. At this moment, the One Circle True Spirit Wizard was at the top of the tower, and the circular hole in the World Garment between the nightmare world and the wizarding world seemed to have expanded further with the construction of the Holy Tower.

"The Nightmare Tower is only in its outline; it will take hundreds of years to complete. Why did you summon me?"

At this moment, the Nightmare Tower of One Circle stood at the feet of the True Spirit Wizard of One Circle, who seemed to be the heart of the tower, continuously injecting some kind of power into it.

With his current level of intelligence, Green could not yet comprehend the significance of the Holy Tower to the True Spirit Wizard.

"Great One Circle True Spirit Wizard, I have a junior sister who is on the verge of her soul dissipating. I beg you, Master, to infuse her with the power of terror, so that she may become a true Nightmare Wizard!"

Ugh……

After a silent sigh from the True Spirit Wizard, a mouth grew out of the Nightmare Tower beneath his feet. With a "poof," it spat out Grimm's Shadow Starfall as if spitting out an apricot pit. Vivian inside, although not dead because the Shadow Starfall protected her by a True Spirit Wizard, had already fallen into a coma.

"Is it her?"

"Exactly!"

Green pointed to the Awakening Light within the Shadow Starfall and said, "Great One Circle True Spirit Wizard, if you can break the balance rules of my junior sister and advance her to a formal wizard, I am willing to offer this Awakening Light as..."

Suddenly, a True Spirit Wizard stopped Green.

Green stared blankly at the True Spirit Wizard, clenching his teeth, his eyes pleading, but all he received was a pair of wise and resolute eyes that rejected him.

As the endless years of life passed, the wisdom and perseverance left in the eyes of the True Spirit Wizard made Green seem to see the entire history of the wizarding world.

"You're right. I can indeed force her to advance to the rank of a formal wizard. Any True Spirit Wizard in the wizarding world can force her to advance to the rank of a formal wizard! But anything that breaks the balance of the rules will have to pay a higher price, and the price I need to pay is to reduce the number of Nightmare Wizard Apprentices who can activate Nightmare Shadows in the wizarding world by 100,000."

One hundred thousand Nightmare Wizard apprenticeships!?

To become a nightmare wizard apprentice, one must first be drawn into the nightmare world, just as Grimm activated Vivian's Nightmare Shadow.

This is a natural curse for some people with special constitutions, but for the vast majority of people in the wizarding world today, it is an unbreakable protective seal.

The area controlled by the Nightmare Tower in the Wizarding World will be located on a cluster of islands surrounding the Seven Rings Tower on the Wizarding Continent, which is adjacent to Green's hometown, East Coral Island.

There, after the wizards have selected their apprentices, there is an additional step: the Nightmare Rhino Baptism, which is the step to activate the Nightmare Shadow, also known as the quota mentioned by the True Spirit Wizard.

Undoubtedly, this spot will require a True Spirit Wizard to expend some of their power.

With 100,000 wizard apprentices, countless wizards will be born. This is indispensable and of utmost importance to the One Circle True Spirit Wizard who has just established the One Circle Nightmare Holy Tower!

Looking at Green's dejected and desperate eyes, the True Spirit Wizard sighed, "If it were later, perhaps I would grant your request, but now, absolutely not!"

The withered face of the True Spirit Wizard Yiyuan turned serious, making Green feel an oppressive feeling that made it hard to breathe.

"Grimm, do you know? The wizarding world is facing a completely new challenge, a challenge from the other side of this world community! They possess a completely new civilization system that we cannot understand. They grow by devouring the metallic mineral elements of various worlds; they are known as the Metal Destroyers. The most elite witch-hunting wizards we dispatched have initially brought back some biological specimens from this civilization, but the wizarding world cannot even comprehend these things that can hardly be called living beings. This is a life and civilization system that the wizarding world has never seen before, and the challenge facing the wizarding world has now reached a critical point!"

Green gritted his teeth, looking at Vivian, who was unconscious in the Shadow Starfall, filled with guilt, but he only closed his eyes and nodded silently.

The most elite demon hunters have already brought back specimens.

If that's the case, then Senior Sister Youquan, who has been away from the wizarding world for hundreds or even thousands of years, should be returning soon, right?

I hope I can make it to the Academy Battle!

"Green, a few thousand years is not much time left for you on your path to becoming a wizard. If you fail to become a Saintly Wizard by then, the war between the wizarding world and the metal destroyer civilization will be your end."

(End of this chapter)