Full-Time Magician: Demon Mage

Chapter 491 The Price Has Really Increased

However, the nature of capitalists never disappoints them; just one night later, they issued another statement during the day.

Australian Magic Association: "We regret to inform everyone that the training effect has been reduced due to the over-allocation of places at the Saint Kai's Altar."

"Therefore, after discussions among the association's senior management, in order to protect everyone's interests, it was decided to reduce the number of places from five to three per year."

This caused an uproar. Those who had been hoping to break through to the Super-Order or become Super-Order Mages by entering the Holy Altar immediately became dissatisfied.

However, their dissatisfaction had nowhere to go, because the Australian Magic Association simply ignored them.

They initially thought that sharing one spot between two Star Sea Celestial Veins was already a blatant case of cheating, but now it seems like they were the real fools.

Last night's comment was truly prophetic, turning a prediction into reality, but it's them who are suffering.

Of the three spots available for external recruitment, two have already been reserved by that powerful individual, leaving only the remaining spot as their chance to compete.

This means they will have to pay a higher price to get the same training opportunities as before.

However, Star Sea Celestial Vein is no longer available for sale on the market. The Altar of Saint Kai is one of the few sacred cultivation grounds that can guarantee high-level mages breaking through to the super-level realm.

This undoubtedly casts another shadow over their bleak future; if they want to break through to become super-level mages, they really have to be slaves to those capitalists.

This has left the mages who have been following the Saint Kai Altar for a long time exclaiming that they can't stand it anymore, as this year's operations are as outrageous as robbery!

With so many people vying for that one spot, even if it were simply bought with money, the price would be astronomical, far exceeding the actual value of the spot.

This made more and more mages realize that if they did not have a place to cultivate, they would be restricted by others in every way in the future.

However, they could not afford the cost of building a similar sacred cultivation ground, nor could they build one.

The Australian Magic Association's back-and-forth maneuvering has effectively redistributed most of the two lost spots each year to that single spot.

Wang Teng might make a fortune by taking two cultivation slots for free, but they won't lose out either. There will always be fat sheep coming to them for them to fleece.

However, perhaps because of the large number of people involved, the news spread quickly among the Buddhist community.

Major factions have condemned the Australian Magic Association for its greedy practices and demanded an increase in the number of places available.

Soon after, the Australian Magic Association issued another compensation statement that afternoon: "Due to the error in the calculation, we have dismissed the guard captain of the Holy Kay Altar. In fact, the Holy Kay Altar can accommodate four more people."

This announcement left all the monks who had been paying attention with mixed feelings; after all that fuss, it turned out they had only added one more spot.

Still extremely limited! The competition is fierce!

However, the Australian Magical Association's statement can be considered a response, meaning that even if they continue to make trouble, there will be no substantial compromise.

The mages who were paying attention to the Altar of Saint Kai could only grit their teeth and accept this situation.

There are only two spots available, and they may have to pay an unimaginable price to get them.

But who can they blame? Would they dare blame Wang Teng? Everyone subconsciously ignored Wang Teng's existence, assuming that the two spots had already been claimed by the other party.

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"Haha~ These guys are hilarious!"

Jiang Shaoxu lazily sank into the sofa, her two long, fair legs casually stretched out, and she held a computer in her hands, laughing heartily.

"Aren't you going to cultivate today?" Leng Qing asked, glancing at Jiang Shaoxu.

"Hmm... Yu Mian and Sister Yue went in today!"

Jiang Shaoxu looked up and replied before starting to surf the internet again. There were more and more breaking news stories lately, sometimes making people's cerebellum shrink.

"I was wondering why I hadn't seen them today; I thought they'd gone out."

Leng Qing calmly took out her phone and started contacting Lingling. School was about to start, and she wondered how Lingling was doing.

Her current life is truly leisurely; she has no worries about food, lodging, or cultivation. The only thing she worries about is Lingling.

The women in the family were either cultivating themselves or enjoying entertainment, while Wang Teng had already left the castle and arrived in Australia.

He wasn't just saying he'd come to cultivate in time; the person who received him this time was clearly no ordinary person.

Outside the Void Altar, the scene and atmosphere remained familiar.

Wang Teng could see through the restrictions and barriers that filled the void at a glance; he couldn't see through them before because he wasn't strong enough.

"Welcome, Your Excellency Wang Teng! I am Lucas, the president of the Australian Magic Association."

A slightly gray-haired, robust man was waiting there. Upon seeing Wang Teng arrive, he warmly approached him for a chat.

"Hello, President Luca!"

Thank you so much for your support!

Wang Teng was slightly polite, but shook the hand that the other person extended.

"Haha~ What are you saying? It's our honor that you chose the Void Altar."

"Please come in~" President Luca said with a smile, gesturing for him to enter.

Wang Teng was the type to not hit someone who was smiling, and although he knew how to get in, he didn't mind the way they treated him.

This appearance likely indicates that he feels guilty.

Forget it, let's talk about it after he finishes his cultivation!

Following the other party's guidance, Wang Teng entered the Void Altar, where the scene remained the same: an endless void.

"Please come in, Your Excellency," Chairman Luca said, pushing open the door and inviting the other party in.

After watching Wang Teng go inside, he silently closed the door.

Lucas wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Standing next to this man was truly terrifying, and his survival instinct urged him to flee.

If it weren't for his strong will, he would have been unable to walk long ago.

"That's terrifying~"

He came here specifically to greet me today, not for any other reason than to confirm whether I am really that scary.

Although the Holy City has paid a heavy price for this, there is an old saying in the East: seeing is believing, hearing is deceiving!

Unable to resist his curiosity and a sense of luck, he appeared at the guarded crossroads, hoping to catch a glimpse of this living emperor.

Now that he had actually seen it, he felt a chill run down his spine at his own audacity; the invisible aura was so overwhelming that he could hardly breathe.

If the other party shows him hostility, he will probably have no choice but to stand there and wait to die, and the Magic Association behind him will pretend not to see it.

With the Holy City fallen, which continent's magic association would dare to provoke this living emperor again?

"Thankfully, the other party seems to be a reasonable person."

After wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Lucas felt a chill on his back as the breeze blew, and only then did he realize his embarrassing state.

Only those who are close to the pinnacle of this world understand that power is illusory and that only strength reigns supreme.

Rules are products of power; they bind those who are subject to them, and are almost impossible to bind those who make them.

That's how the Holy City was back then. It usually seemed to be hidden from the world and hardly managed the magic associations of the various continents.

But those who truly know understand that the Holy City's influence is constantly binding mages throughout the world.

This invisible constraint extends from top to bottom and from inside to outside. Countless factors that want to break through this constraint will be judged by heretics and then secretly eliminated and smeared by public opinion.

Those who are insignificant can only live under these rules; they can't cause any trouble, and they won't get any attention.

(End of this chapter)