Full-Time Magician: Demon Mage

Chapter 507 The Storm Rises Again

The two then had a detailed discussion. He would naturally not need to do much while he was in charge; he would only need to take action at crucial moments.

This was merely a safety net to protect the Demon City from the impact of the Ocean Gods, since only he had the power to do so.

The Demon City doesn't keep so many mages around just to do nothing, especially since the Demon City is incredibly wealthy and they'll definitely be needed on the front lines during wartime.

This is where the regional distinctions among monks become apparent; generally, if a problem arises in a particular place, the local monk is responsible for it.

Only special institutions like the Forbidden City would undertake nationwide operations.

As the call ended, Wang Teng casually tossed his phone onto the sofa and continued to enjoy his decadent lifestyle.

He even sought out the head maid to learn about the castle's maid classifications, discovering that one type was for life and the other was for employment.

The lifetime tenure system places extremely high demands on maids. They not only need to be beautiful but also have sufficient qualities. Simply put, it depends on whether their personality is suitable for the job and whether they are multi-talented.

They even had to cultivate and restrict their diet and habits, supposedly to ensure they had the right temperament and appearance, which really opened his eyes.

Of course, the salary was very high. He heard from the head maid that the annual salary for a lifetime maid was 120 million.

This is the net salary after including room and board; in addition, there is a generous year-end bonus, with each person spending approximately 150 million yuan per year.

Upon reaching retirement age, they are required to be provided with a free property, free medical care, and a living allowance to ensure a worry-free life for the rest of their lives.

The employment system is like hiring temporary workers, with a shorter term, usually about six months to a year, and the wages are much lower.

Their monthly salary is only 1 yuan plus work bonuses, and room and board are also provided, which is just barely enough.

With the current prices in Yaoyang City, it's barely enough to get by. Cosmetics are very expensive, but girls like to buy them.

Currently, there are only 20 people with lifetime appointments at most, and that includes the group of people Lin Yunxi brought from her Dawn Castle.

The rest of the people worked at the bottom of the castle and had almost no chance to come up to the top floor. Only the 20 maids and the head maid could come up.

However, Wang Teng had to admit that the maids on the top floor of the castle never gave him a bad impression; on the contrary, they were all very pleasant to get along with.

Lin Yunxi's head maid was indeed outstanding, fully demonstrating to him what the decadent life of feudal remnants looked like.

Despite its decay, Sunrise Castle seems to have quite a lot of daily expenses, not just wages, but also castle maintenance, special food supplies, and so on.

Fortunately, the castle has a substantial income, and with Jiang Shaoxu and Lin Yunxi managing it, there's no fear of the castle running out of food.

This is why it's so hard to move out once you get used to living in a place like this; even those women never mentioned going back to Moon Rain Cottage.

It's very convenient for them to go back to China; there's an airstrip not far away, and they can take a chartered plane back home at any time.

No one mentioned it anymore. Tang Yue and Leng Qing would occasionally go back once or twice a month, but Ding Yumin never went back at all, while Jiang Shaoxu was having a great time here.

Aside from enjoying the decadent life in the castle, his main goal was naturally cultivation.

This month has been mostly spent cultivating, depleting my stored summoning magic energy, resulting in a significant increase in strength and a much deeper understanding of dimensions.

At the same time, it absorbed the enhancements brought about by the forbidden spells of the spatial and chaotic systems.

His lightning element remained unchanged, while his time element, through diligent cultivation, finally reached the highest level of mastery.

The power boost brought by the Time-based Super-Order is far beyond what high-Order magic can match.

The advanced time-based magic mainly involves time dilation, with three spells at its core: Time Stop, Time Torrent, and Time Reversal.

The three major spells have almost no casting trajectory; they are invisible, intangible, and undetectable. Once cast, their effects are immediately apparent, and they can target large or small areas, or even single targets.

The only magic that can resist time is either time-based or chaos-based.

After all, top-tier Chaos Forbidden Spell Masters can create Chaos Forbidden Boundaries, which even Time cannot approach unless a higher level of power is used to forcibly break through the barrier.

So while time-based magic may be powerful, it's not exactly a game-breaking ability; chaos magic is the truly game-breaking one.

With his current strength, it doesn't matter what power he uses to crush weaker opponents. If his opponent in the peak competition is a demon emperor, that would be fine, but if it's an ancient king or a similar emperor, that would be very difficult to deal with.

After all, the Ancient King possessed two powerful forbidden magic systems, Chaos and Mind, which essentially made him immune to magic skills.

The opponent's death aura attack was also at full strength, specifically designed to target living beings. If one's body was corroded by the death aura, it would be extremely troublesome.

Wang Teng was confident that he could fight on par with Gu Laowang, but he wasn't very confident that he could fight someone of a higher level. This is the trouble with having a variety of methods.

What you have, your opponent also has; even if they don't have it, you can still counter and defend against it. What the two sides are competing in is combat experience and raw strength, and in this respect, he is at a disadvantage.

Fighting demons is another matter entirely. Even if an emperor-level demon is very intelligent, it doesn't mean it has enough methods to deal with all sorts of strange abilities.

At the same level, a human emperor can usually easily defeat a demon emperor. If he were to use dimensional power, he could achieve an instant kill.

What makes sirens so difficult to deal with is their ability to quickly escape into the deep sea, making them extremely difficult to catch and kill.

They are capable of both offense and defense, and wherever there is sea, the sea monsters are significantly stronger than the land monsters in terms of overall combat power.

Land demons are not without their merits. Precisely because they require direct confrontation, land demons usually appear in groups, making the battles even more ferocious. When they fight, they fight to the death, and the battles are extremely bloody.

Human mages, when fighting sirens, can rely on their land advantage, giving them room to retreat.

But when fighting land demons, if you can't outrun them, either you die or they die, or they can't win and have to run away.

If you can outrun the demons, it's easier to back down peacefully. However, in reality, more often than not, you end up being killed by the demons, since human mages like to take risks and walk their dogs.

Apart from a few magic users who possess the ability to move quickly, most mages wearing magical armor are generally no match for land monsters.

"It's alright~ Anyway, we won't be facing the Ancient King anytime soon. At worst, we'll just have to fight the Siren Emperor."

"Even if those emperors manipulate the power of the void, it's no problem; they're just withered bones in a tomb."

Wang Teng was full of calculations in his mind. He wondered if there would be any unexpected events in this incident, since his appearance had attracted the attention of many emperors.

This alone is enough to be a variable, and the wise mind of the Ocean Gods will certainly not ignore this threat too much.

Even if the vanguard is sent out, it will be guaranteed to have sufficient strength, rather than simply coming to be killed.

Without a king-level sirens to back up the scene, relying solely on the Sea King's skeleton is far from enough!

This is an obvious problem that the other party could certainly figure out. In addition, there is the existence of the Ancient King, which is a rather hidden force.

If Neptune Skeleton is still the vanguard general, then who knows if the Queen of the Bone and Veil behind him will come out to join the fun.

Whether the Ancient King would be attracted by the other's existence is also an unknown question, considering that the Ancient King reached the Middle Emperor realm by merging with the Pyramid Underworld.

This is the current phase where the demand for the undead is increasing. The number of human deaths alone, coupled with competition from the dark plane, is really not enough.

(End of this chapter)