Chapter 896
The Locked Ancient Soul and the Declining Silver Peach Garden
Chapter 896 The Locked Ancient Soul and the Declining Silver Peach Garden
Along the Tianjiang River, inside the ancient pavilion of the Silver Peach Garden's century-old headquarters, a group of formal wizards were working listlessly. Although they were wizards working for the Red Dragon Throne's shop alliance, to be honest, this title only intimidated some wizards who didn't know them.
After all, the Red Dragon Throne has so many shops under its control, so these little fish working for the Red Dragon Throne are really nothing.
At this moment, a second-ring wizard in the ancient pavilion ran up to the star-ring wizard Terence and whispered, "Wizard Terence, I am very sorry, but I still have to resign recently. I can pay a severance fee to repay Silver Peach Garden for the training and cultivation I have received during this period."
The Star Ring Wizard Terence's body stiffened instantly.
The original administrative director and most of the department heads of Silver Peach Garden have all been dismissed, and now the entire administrative framework is basically empty. He, a senior wizard director of the market research department, is temporarily in charge of the overall situation here.
But once he temporarily took over the shop alliance, he realized what it meant to be dead but not stiff, and what it meant to continuously bleed out and be unstoppable.
Terence the Wizard sighed. He was a wizard of the prophetic school, yet he was put in charge of this Breeders' Shop Alliance. Firstly, he didn't understand the in-depth breeding techniques; secondly, he was willing but powerless in this situation.
The entire Silver Peach Garden was immersed in a state of decay and aging.
Even though this is just an abstract concept of a fictitious alliance of shops, every wizard working here feels that there is no future here. Even though the salary is currently satisfactory, everyone feels that working here is a dead end, because everyone knows that Silver Peach Garden is caught in a death spiral of liquidating shops to make ends meet.
Unless... the Red Dragon Academy lends a hand.
But Wizard Terence sighed. The entire Silver Peach Garden had long been marginalized. There were no wizards of the Red Dragon lineage here anymore, and even if there were, they were marginal figures in that lineage.
His speech is vulgar and unrefined.
In this way, the entire Silver Peach Garden, like the countless shops in the alliance, will have a glorious past, then slowly die in the hands of irresponsible managers, eventually fading into obscurity and being forgotten.
This seems to be the end of the Silver Peach Garden.
The wizard Terence turned to the second-circle wizard he had poached from another shop alliance at great expense and asked, "Kyle, are you really not considering staying for a while?"
Wizard Kyle gave a wry smile.
“I can return half of the resettlement allowance and financial subsidies you gave me before.”
Wizard Terence asked, "Who dug you up?"
Wizard Kyle coughed and said, "It's the Olayer Shop Alliance."
A look of surprise flashed across Terence Star Ring Wizard's eyes.
“I thought you would leave the Tianjiang Riverbank, after all, it’s the Demon Winter now, and all industries are declining. I didn’t expect you to stay here. Olayer…”
“Kyle Wizard, you have a talent for breeding, you are an excellent breeder, you can’t go backwards as you get older. Olaye is not as good as this place.”
"I remember that shop was established less than five years ago and has never been profitable."
“Wizard Kyle, you can stay here a little longer. After this period, our Silver Peach Garden will be much better.”
Wizard Kyle shook his head and said, "Lord Terence, please forgive my bluntness, but you are more aware than I am of the current mess that is Silver Peach Garden."
"Without any external help, how can it be brought back to life?"
Wizard Terence frowned and sighed.
"I understand. You don't need to return the subsidies I gave you before. After all, you've been here for more than half a year. And since you only fulfilled your contract for half a year, many benefits were not given to you in the first place."
"Kyle Wizard, I hope you're happy with your new shop alliance."
Wizard Kyle breathed a sigh of relief, because his contract with Wizard Terence was for three years, so he was worried that Wizard Terence would hold on to him and not let him go, or make him pay a huge amount of compensation.
But now it seems that he only needs to pay a normal compensation.
This compensation will be paid by Lady Rose of Olaye.
That person was very generous and paid off all of his personal debts in one go. As a poor second-ring wizard from the Tianjiang River region, he naturally wanted to move up to a better place and join that shop alliance.
Besides, he had inquired and learned that the Rose Witch was an important figure in the Rose School.
At this moment, her clone's arrival along the Tianjiang River must be part of a grand scheme. It's said that the Red Dragon Academy and the Rose Academy have engaged in fierce academic conflict, vying for academic status. Therefore, Olayer's first target is clear: his former employer. This would give him a significant advantage.
Because he understands the Silver Peach Garden.
If he seizes this opportunity, he might even have a chance to enter the core circle of the Rose Council and the Rose Throne.
The thought of this stirred up a great deal of ideas in the wizard Kyle's mind.
After Wizard Kyle packed all his belongings and signed the relevant contracts, and after Wizard Terence received the remittance from Witch Rose, he left the ancient pavilion in the Silver Peach Garden.
After he left, Wizard Terence looked up and saw the second wizard standing in front of him. His face was grim, and he asked in a low voice, "Are you leaving too? Davin?"
This is a Qi-transformation wizard who was completely insignificant during the peak of Silver Peach Garden. However, at this moment, he still has a large amount of business in Silver Peach Garden, and he is even in charge of one of the few super products in Silver Peach Garden that can still make money, namely the [Peach Dart Branch].
That was a great invention of the witch Catherine at the first level of wizarding. For a long time, it dominated the market in the nearby wizarding lands. It was an 'advanced magical plant' that wizards in lower-level wizarding lands could not get their hands on even for a fortune. It's just a pity that this thing is too old now.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to sell.
Terence the Wizard frowned. This vaporization wizard was one of the key breeders in Peach Garden.
This person can't leave.
The gasification wizard said guiltily, "The witch Rose said she could pay me a large sum of compensation, a sum that could sustain our shop alliance for a long time."
"As long as you agree."
Terence the Wizard's face was grim. He wasn't going to be so polite to this gasification wizard. He didn't say a word, which frightened the gasification wizard so much that sweat beaded on his forehead.
Wizard Terence narrowed his eyes. Was the Rose School coming to this mediocre wizarding community to compete?
There's also been a magical winter in this area recently.
As for?
Moreover, why didn't that Rose witch ever look for him?
Just as Wizard Terence was about to speak, the group of people who were eavesdropping at their workstations suddenly heard the sound of some kind of animal flapping its wings. To their astonishment, they saw a magical owl tapping on the window with its beak.
With a wave of his hand, the wizard Terence made the window semi-transparent, and then the owl flew straight through the window and into the room.
Terence took the letter from the leg of the owl that had landed on his finger.
"Hmm? Silver Peach Garden has appointed a new administrative head, directly appointed by His Majesty the Red Dragon Throne. Wizard Locke Augustine is our new administrative head."
Terence Star Ring Wizard's eyes flashed with doubt, because he seemed to have heard this person's name somewhere before.
Wait, that looks like the champion of the Silent Grail. The wizards who had been secretly eavesdropping suddenly looked on with curiosity.
I don't know who this newly appointed supervisor is.
Most of them were wizards from the Tianjiang River, so they had long been unfamiliar with Yunze Wetland. In their eyes, Yunze Wetland was a mysterious area full of high-level wizards, where powerful wizards lived, and there were even wizards from the Sun Ring who became singers and toured around performing and collecting data on people's reactions.
Terence Star Ring Wizard stalled for time, saying to the wizard who wanted to resign, "I have no authority over your matter now. We have a new administrator."
"When he comes here to take charge, you can talk to him yourself."
Daven Wizard nodded. He wasn't in a hurry, after all, he was treated quite well in Silver Peach Garden.
Let's see if Lady Rose will offer a huge compensation to poach him then.
……
Golden Crown Mountain, Sand Dune Plane, Research Institute No. 2.
Locke revealed the secrets of how the kingdom operated to Douglas, while the Witch King behind Douglas expressed his astonishment through Douglas.
"The sun and moon are in sync, yet the kingdom's territory can only be established with the help of special celestial phenomena. That's not right."
As the third-ringed High Priest of the Age of Stars, Lord Ragmamon possessed keen perception.
"It is impossible for a kingdom to be established because of a special celestial phenomenon."
'I was too close to the situation to realize that the kingdom's territory was built on the foundation of the dual movement of the sun and moon.'
King Lagmamon pondered, "But this young man from later generations reminded me, and it suddenly dawned on me that in my time, it wasn't uncommon for wizards to travel to other worlds. Some wizards simply stayed in those other worlds, unwilling to return, making them their home."
Douglas couldn't understand anything anymore, but he still gritted his teeth and repeated the Witch King's words to Locke.
"If the conjunction of the sun and moon is a special celestial phenomenon, then wizards cannot use the Kingdom Domain once they leave the wizarding world."
Locke also realized what was happening.
Yes.
If the Kingdom's territory depends on the sun and moon of the Wizarding World, what will happen when the wizards leave the Wizarding World?
Douglas repeated the Witch King's words, saying, "The conjunction of the Sun and Moon is not a phenomenon, but a magical 'signal tower' built by the Tower of the Black Sun."
He had barely finished speaking.
Locke noticed that the surrounding magical tides had become unusual, as if an abnormal force was locking onto this area.
But that power quickly dissipated.
Lagmamon, the sorcerer king, sighed in Douglas's mind.
'Damn it, Douglas. I didn't expect the Tower of the Sun to still exist in this era. In the Age of Stars, anything spoken would be known to the Tower of the Sun. And now, in this era, I didn't expect them to still possess that ability. They've discovered my existence; they know I've been resurrected. They know I'm currently possessing the young soul of a modern wizard, but they shouldn't be able to pinpoint my exact location.'
'It seems their power has indeed diminished considerably in this era.'
Douglas asked in his mind, "Teacher, what kind of organization is that?"
King Lagmamon said, "That was our former 'heaven'."
Douglas was silent for a moment, then said, "I will protect you."
King Lagmamon smiled.
"I took a liking to you because of this quality. Alright, it's alright, it should be fine for now. In short, I'll be very satisfied if I can hand over the spell model of the Lightning Gate to Locke Augustine this time."
King Lagmamon, through Douglas, said to Locke, "So that's how it is. The Kingdom's Domain can only be used in this way. But the moon still exists in this world, but the 'Dark Sun' is gone."
Locke pondered for a moment and said, "I have the bloodline of a demonic dragon within me, and I can use my bloodline to simulate the Dark Sun."
King Lagmamon, through Douglas, said to Locke, "I understand. So, there are still ways to solve the problem in this era, ways to make the kingdom's territory usable, right? But it's no longer needed."
"He's an old man after all."
"It's not worth investigating further."
Ever since the Witch King realized that the Kingdom Realm needed the combined power of the Sun and Moon to be established, he immediately understood that he had previously followed the path of the Tower of the Black Sun when creating the Kingdom Realm.
Yes.
The kingdom itself needs to combine the magic of the earth's veins with the faith of its people.
This is essentially a ritualistic magic.
King Lagmamon immediately realized more.
"But there's a problem. If it's sacrificial magic, then as long as it creates a kingdom domain, no matter how it's used, it still relies on the Tower of the Black Sun. So... is that why I was easily suppressed and killed when I rebelled against the Tower of the Black Sun?"
“But that kid from later generations used the Kingdom Domain in front of me before. He shouldn’t have offered sacrifices to the Tower of the Black Sun, nor did he burn offerings to it…”
"So he used his own sacrificial magic? I can't think about it anymore, otherwise the Tower of the Black Sun will immediately lock onto my location. That would kill Douglas."
Locke glanced at Douglas.
'Was that ancient soul someone who, like the wizard Otto, rebelled against the Tower of the Black Sun?'
Although he only heard bits and pieces, he still learned the general origin of this ancient soul.
If he rebelled against the Tower of the Black Sun, then this person is even less likely to be an unknown figure.
I'm afraid this witch king will be a very famous figure in history.
If he hadn't been cursed with expulsion.
Locke glanced at him and then left. "Go check out the Golden Dragon Claw breeding area again. Hopefully, we can get enough breedable seeds as soon as possible. At least four hundred."
"And I need to prepare for the potions class at the Queen's Palace in Shanghai. After all, it's my first time teaching her, and I'm not familiar with her personality, so I don't know what will happen."
Locke felt it was better to be cautious.
"Hmm? Why is the wizard Salonirus of the Golden Dynasty contacting me at this time using the water gourd system?"
(End of this chapter)