Chapter 906
Conversation with the Russell Throne
Chapter 906 Conversation with the Russell Throne
Locke, along with wizard Bruce and others, left the Gold Grail arena and went to a small room next to it to sign a contract.
However, the next step requires a trip to the White Wizard Association in Dragonfall Lands, where they can register a cooperative shop alliance using a quota from the Windwalker's Sanctuary.
The contract between Aladdin's Shop Alliance and the wizard Leon Newman was, as agreed, signed privately by the wizards Bruce and Leon Newman themselves.
After all, the wizard Bruce had already told him that the subsequent cooperation could be handled directly by him and the secretary of the Moon Ring Witch.
Locke looked at the contract and discovered that the person he was directly dealing with in the contract was not the wizard Bruce himself, but his secretary, Edith Campbell, the Moon Witch.
Wizard Bruce explained, “I am the vice-dean of the Windwalker Sanctuary, and Witch Edith is a senior wizard mentor of the Windwalker Sanctuary. I have already signed the contract on behalf of the Windwalker Sanctuary, and this shop alliance is a shop alliance jointly established by you and the Windwalker Sanctuary.”
"According to wizarding law, a second-circle wizard can only register one shop alliance."
"But Wizarding University has its own quotas and qualifications that can be used to register shop alliances."
"Is everything alright?"
Locke took the copy of the contract from him, looked at it carefully again, and confirmed that there were no problems, especially the disclaimer, which exempted him from all the costs he would have to bear if the Flying Gourd lost money.
Aside from potential damage to his reputation and business credit, he will not suffer any additional losses, but he may gain 30% of the profits from the operation of Flying Gourd.
This is a worthwhile deal.
Because the Holy Land of Windbreakers clearly has extensive experience in developing aircraft, and this alliance is essentially a pledge of allegiance between the Land of Dragonfall and the Border of Darkness and Light, the Holy Land of Windbreakers will not act recklessly.
In this way, one can trust the professional operation of the Wind Chaser Holy Land in the store alliance.
Wizard Bruce said to Wizards Locke and Leon Newman, “I need about one hundred fertile seeds of the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow and the Flying Gourd. My style is to produce first and then wait for orders; I can cover the costs upfront.”
"I will discuss the procurement with some wizard shops in Dragonfall. Rest assured, we have a complete product operation chain for excellent flight products."
"Any excellent product can continuously generate value once it enters our operation chain."
Wizard Leon Newman quickly replied, "Alright. But I need a little time. Once I get back, I'll immediately begin producing the breeding seeds for the Flying Gourd. Please rest assured, Lord Bruce."
Locke frowned. “It takes almost two months to travel between the Land of Dragonfall and the Land of Three Swamps. If Aladdin’s sales channels are in the Land of Dragonfall, then just delivering the fertile seeds I have to you will incur huge operating costs.”
Operating costs can be calculated.
Because wizard airships don't inspect magical items like astral rings and demiplanes in such detail, but the main concern is the time cost.
Wizard Bruce nodded seriously and said, "That is indeed the case."
"But there's nothing we can do about it. Business is just that hard."
"If there are difficulties, we can only overcome them. But you can rest assured that we dare to do this business because we are confident."
Edith, the secretary of the Moon Ring Witch, smiled and said, "According to wizarding law, our shop alliance with you can only sell in certain areas of Dragonfall for the time being. If you want to sell your products throughout the entire wizarding lands, you must be a shop alliance of a third-ring wizard."
Locke nodded.
That was also the biggest moat that Solas's barefoot and Melochy's magic steps provided for their alliance with the Augustus Shop.
Since I am neither a Sun Ring Wizard nor a Third Ring Wizard, my shop alliance can currently only sell within two major regions.
Even if wizards can go into other regions to make purchases themselves, or order people to retrieve goods from other regions, it still affects sales to some extent.
As for the shops he partnered with in cooperation with the Holy Land of the Wind, due to his wizard level, he could only sell his wares in shops within the Dragonfang District, one of the seven major districts of the Dragonfall Lands.
Of course, it's clear that Windwalker's Sanctuary and Bruce Sunring Wizard still have some sales channels. If these two complementary products sell well in the future, they may attract some wizarding universities or key laboratory teams to enter the shops inside the Dragonfang region of Dragonfall Lands to purchase the corresponding flying vehicles.
Edith the witch smiled and said, "Our Windbringer Sanctuary has a well-established wizard delivery service. I can teach you the spell to summon them. If you want the seeds sent over, just use the spell to call them and make contact. The Windbringer Sanctuary has a corresponding cooperation with a wizarding organization."
"Just be careful."
Edith, the Moon Witch, gritted her teeth. "They don't have a very good temper. The spell is... 'Quickly offer true knowledge to my hands.'"
Locke fell silent.
The wizard Leon Newman took it all in, and he stammered, "Should I quickly offer the truth to you...?"
Edith the witch placed her index finger on her lips.
“Mr. Newman, you should never recite this incantation casually.”
The wizard Newman from the village of Guteng immediately shut his mouth and nodded obediently.
"I understand, Lady Edith."
Locke remembered that the spell was actually the Ladybug Raider's spell.
Good heavens, so it turns out that the professional wizard delivery organization in the Holy Land of Wind is them.
When those guys were in the Land of Six Towers, they tried to steal my key experimental data. I beat them up, and in order to get away, they gave me some magic stones and wanted to cooperate with me.
Locke hesitated for a moment, because this involved his own product, so he still wanted to find out the details.
"How long have you been cooperating with this wizarding organization? Aren't they ladybug raiders?"
Edith the witch chuckled.
"It seems that Mr. Augustine has heard of their great reputation."
Newman looked at Locke with a puzzled expression, then at Edith the witch.
He didn't know what the two were talking about, but he was afraid of appearing too ignorant and embarrassing the ancient vine village wizards, so he could only pretend that he also knew about ladybug raiders, with a smile on his lips, without asking the two what ladybug raiders were.
Edith nodded to Locke and said, “Don’t worry. The Ladybug Raiders are a business alliance that we fund, at least the legitimate part of it. They don’t all do that kind of work; they have legitimate businesses too. If they were all in the gray area, it would be difficult to support so many wizards.”
"However, only wizarding organizations with special cooperation agreements with the Ladybug Raiders can use them. For ordinary wizarding organizations, using them would probably mean losing both money and manpower."
Locke nodded slightly.
Unexpectedly, the Holy Land of the Windbringers is so powerful that it actually managed to instruct the Ladybug Raiders.
At this point, the wizard Newman could no longer understand anything.
But he still pretended to know what he didn't, even though he really wanted to ask what the ladybug raider was.
Bruce the Wizard was about to invite the two to have a meal in the Witch's Kitchen. It was his business practice; since they had become partners, even if it was just for business cooperation, it would be better for them to build some rapport.
Sharing a meal is the simplest way to build an emotional connection. It's not that the meal itself is valuable, but rather that the time of these brilliant breeders is valuable, and more importantly, that a meal can bring you closer to them.
Bruce the Wizard glanced at Locke and Newman, wondering what mischief he was plotting.
In fact, he had some private business proposals in mind, which he wanted to bring up suddenly at the dinner table when everyone was shy.
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
Bruce the wizard frowned in annoyance. He hated it when people would suddenly come in and disturb him while he was doing business.
But when he opened the door a crack and saw that it was actually the Russell Throne, he was so startled that he quickly put on a smile to cover up the displeasure that had just been shown.
Russell the Wizard...
The champion of the border between darkness and light, the Grand Judge, the protector of the law, and also the first person in the world to combine sacred magic and golden magic to a certain extent.
His golden holy magic made him the Throne Wizard.
Wizard Russell glanced at him. "Everyone's here."
Bruce the Wizard quickly forced a smile, all the business plans in his mind vanishing instantly. He'd decide whether to use them, and which ones to use, after seeing how the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow and the Flying Gourd went.
The wizard Bruce and the witch Edith behind him immediately bowed in respect.
Wizard Newman was so frightened that he froze for a moment. He had obviously heard of Wizard Russell’s great name and knew that he was a terrible living Yama, the chief judge of the border between the light and the dark, who had sent countless wizards to the famous wizard prison of the border between the light and the dark: the Stamped Underground City.
Locke also bowed to him.
Ignoring everyone else, Wizard Russell fixed his gaze on Locke.
"Hmm? I didn't expect Locke Augustine to be such a polite person in private. The last time I saw you write to me directly, without any distinction of rank, seniority, or respect for elders, I thought you would be an audacious person in real life."
"It seems that seeing is believing."
Newman's eyes widened in surprise as he looked at Locke with a puzzled expression.
what?
Why would anyone write a letter to Bertrand Russell?
Both Bruce the wizard and Edith the witch stared wide-eyed for a moment, clearly finding Locke's behavior unbelievable.
Bruce the wizard turned to look at Locke in confusion. Did Locke not know the interesting anecdote about Russell the wizard, the story of the three letters?
Once upon a time, a wizard betrayed the White Wizarding Association and secretly joined the Dark Wizarding Alliance. He then wrote three letters to his friend, Wizard Russell. After reading these three letters and seeing the various illegal information mentioned in them, Wizard Russell determined that his friend had broken the law and used the Holy Tribunal to send him to prison.
This has led to a situation where, for the past thirty years, no one has dared to write to Bertrand Russell, for fear that their letters might become evidence he could use in court.
Wizard Bruce swallowed hard; he was truly a fearless newborn calf.
Young people these days are really scary.
Locke paused for a moment, then said to Wizard Russell, "I am very grateful to His Majesty the Throne for giving me guidance on the ancestral golden foxtail grass and enabling me to publish an article on the boundary of all things."
Russell nodded.
"You've already signed the contract, right? Come with me."
Locke looked at the wizard Bruce.
Wizard Bruce immediately put on a humble smile and said softly, "Go ahead. I can handle the rest for you. There's the Golden Dynasty in between, so it really won't take much effort."
After saying goodbye to the wizard Bruce and the witch Edith, Locke left.
Locke followed behind the wizard Russell.
Russell walked very slowly, leading the way while I followed behind.
They walked through several corridors and arrived at a place that resembled a sightseeing corridor, where some ancient stone pillars that looked like statues of gods appeared on both sides.
Locke frowned, and saw a phantom of a golden toad seemingly jump onto his head and press him down.
But the moment the phantom pressed down on his body, it vanished.
The moment the phantom disappeared, a golden stag appeared, butting itself with its large antlers.
The next moment, the large horn pierced through his eyes, the phantom passed through his body, and crashed into a stone pillar in the corridor before shattering and disappearing.
Locke frowned.
Although Russell's throne progresses slowly, the existence of these illusions that can deceive him even in terms of reality makes his progress even slower.
Locke saw a golden three-headed dog in front of him, frowned, and was about to pass through it when Russell's Throne suddenly stopped.
"This second-ring creature, the golden three-headed dog, is real. It's a sun-ring level magical creature and the guardian of this place. If you run into it, you might get eaten."
When the three-headed golden retriever saw Locke walking towards him, it immediately opened its three blood-red mouths, which were full of saliva, which dripped continuously.
The saliva that fell to the ground instantly turned the ground into pieces of gold.
His breathing was like the very essence of golden magic.
The three-headed golden retriever was immediately discouraged.
"Mr. Russell, it was agreed that food offered to me would belong to me. Why did you have to remind me?"
The Russell Throne ignored the magical creature's question.
"This is the corridor of the past."
"What you see are things that once appeared at the boundary between light and darkness, became symbols of the boundary between light and darkness, and then disappeared with the passage of time."
"This golden three-headed dog is a symbol of royalty."
"Of course, the official positions in the border area between darkness and light have now been decentralized. There are no longer any wizard lords, and naturally, there are no royal families left."
"But this three-headed dog is truly despicable. It spends all its time among these phantoms, pretending to be one, and has thus devoured many wizards. You'd better be careful. According to the contract we signed with him, what he said is true."
Locke nodded and bowed, saying, "Thank you for your guidance, Your Majesty."
(End of this chapter)