Chapter 51

Chapter 51 Family Investment Contract

Chapter 51 Family Investment Contract

[Orkney Giant Bear] and [Ulson Giant Wolf], these two magical creatures, are both relatively powerful creatures among the medium-level magical creatures.

The Orkney Giant Bear has [Earth Magic Pattern Skin] on its body, which can enhance its own defense capabilities and speed up its wound recovery.

The [Ulsun Giant Wolf] possesses super-fast speed, and has the [Speed] rune naturally embedded in its bones.

The bloodlines of these two magical creatures are very suitable for me now.

The reason why the dark wizard apprentice was able to suppress the law enforcement team was because of his speed advantage.

If you have the Earth Demon Pattern Skin, your survivability will be greatly improved, and your fault tolerance rate can be greatly increased.

If the same thing happens again this morning, I will have more security.

After thinking for a moment, Locke set his sights on the [Orkney Giant Bear]. The reason was simple, because there happened to be an [Okney Giant Bear] in the magical creature breeding room of his formal wizard mentor, Witch Sophia.

Purchasing magical creatures from Teacher Sophia can not only save a lot of magic stones, but also you don’t have to worry about quality issues. You can even extract blood from the [Oakney Giant Bear] yourself.

Locke pondered, “Besides that, I don’t have the ability to refine the blood separation and extraction potion of the [Orkney Giant Bear]. This requires a first-class wizard apprentice or a formal wizard to refine.”

“The other second-class wizard apprentices were also purchased from others. I can buy them from Teacher Sophia.”

“As long as I have the blood of the [Orkney Giant Bear] and a specially customized [Orkney Giant Bear] bloodline separation potion, I can refine an [Orkney Giant Bear] bloodline transformation potion myself. This level of potion is just a piece of cake for a second-level wizard apprentice in Lilith’s cottage.”

Locke thought, after all, Lilith Hut is the base camp of wizards who study potions. Based on his current knowledge, the comprehensive ability of the wizard apprentices in Lilith Hut in potions is probably far superior to that of wizard apprentices from other schools.

Locke said: “But the source of magic stones is a problem.”

“However, the [Okney Giant Bear] is just a useless magical creature to a formal wizard, and Teacher Sophia usually doesn’t care about it. So the fee shouldn’t be too expensive, and she might even give it to me.”

“Just ask tomorrow.”

A gray dwarf servant knocked on Locke’s bedroom door rhythmically and cautiously, “Great wizard master, there is a strange wizard outside the door who wants to visit you.”

“Would you like to meet her?”

Locke frowned. Who would come to see him in Upside Down Alley at this hour?

Laun and Pierre, only third-class wizard seedlings, couldn’t possibly enter Upside Down Alley. Teacher Sophia couldn’t enter Upside Down Alley either, where the second-class wizard apprentices lived. If she did, it would cause a sensation.

I have just become a second-class wizard apprentice and probably don’t have many friends in this class.

Locke said indifferently to the gray dwarf servant: “Well, I understand. I will arrange for her to wait for me in the living room.”

The duergar servant hurried away.

About eight minutes later, Locke changed into a white wizard robe, put on the badge representing a law enforcement wizard apprentice and the academy badge, and went to the living room.

In the living room, Locke saw a female second-class wizard apprentice wearing a violet wizard robe. The wizard robe she wore seemed to be carefully tailored to make it look somewhat sexy.

She wore a pair of golden high heels and an amethyst necklace on her earlobes.

But Locke had never seen this person before.

Locke looked at her in confusion. “Hello, I’m Locke Augustine, and you are?”

The female wizard apprentice’s eyes lit up slightly when she saw Locke coming over. She stood up and said to Locke with a smile, “Nice to meet you, Wizard Augustine. Hello.”

“I’m Crystal Reeves.” She emphasized, “I’m a second-class wizard apprentice of the Reeves family.”

“The Reeves family is one of the seventy-two local wizarding families of Lilith’s Cottage.”

Locke frowned slightly.

Of course he knew about the seventy-two local wizarding families in Lilith’s Cottage.

As a wizarding academy, Lilith’s Cottage has both wizarding forces centered around master-apprentice relationships and wizarding forces centered around family relationships.

But in the final analysis, family inheritance cannot compare to the inheritance of master-disciple relationship.

Because you cannot guarantee that every one of your offspring has wizarding qualifications, but you can guarantee that every student you accept has very high wizarding qualifications.

If a wizarding organization wants to grow stronger, it must get rid of the forces centered on blood ties.

Therefore, in Lilith’s hut, the wizards from outside still dominated the majority, while the family wizards who came first had long been marginalized.

Like his own teacher, Witch Sophia, she is a typical foreign wizard.

Although she is also a local, her home is not on the original site of Lilith’s cottage.

Locke said to Crystal Reeves, “So, Miss Reeves, why did you come to me?”

“I’m going to meditate soon.”

Crystal Reeves raised her brows in dissatisfaction, because not only did Locke not show the proper respect to the Reeves family as she had imagined, but he seemed to be trying to drive them away.

But when she thought about the purpose of her visit today, Crystal’s expression softened. “In that case, I’ll make it short.”

“The Reeves family values your qualifications. Although the academy’s evaluation of your qualifications is only level 3, our Reeves family does not mind it.”

Crystal smiled slightly, as if Locke should be grateful for this. “So, the Reeves family wants to sign a contract agreement with you and invest in you.”

She handed the contract to Locke.

Locke took the contract and began to read it.

Yes, the descendants of wizard families may not all have wizard qualifications, so they also have some ways to supplement wizard apprentices, which is to invest in powerless wizard seedlings.

The best choices, of course, are those wizard seedlings from overseas who have no local connections.

Locke thought that his unusual speed of advancement might have attracted the attention of the Reeves family, so they came here early and wanted to invest in him.

Locke looked at the benefits section of the contract. “Hmm? Give me fifty magic stones every month, two more bottles of Concentration Ointment, and the right to use your family laboratory.”

Crystal curled her lips, a hint of contempt flashing in her eyes. “Yes, the Reeves family invested in building their own laboratory. As an investment of our family, you also have the right to use it.”

“Of course, this way you will also have corresponding obligations to our family.”

Locke looked at the obligations part of the contract and frowned deeply.

In this contract, he actually had to guarantee that within ten years, he would give birth to at least five children with female relatives of the Reeves family.

At the same time, he also required himself to be willing to help when the family needed him after becoming a first-class wizard apprentice.

As a “favor”, the contract also made a big promise that if he became a first-class wizard apprentice and performed well, he could even marry Crystal, the most outstanding child of the Reeves family with a fourth-level qualification, and become husband and wife.

Of course, in the form of a son-in-law.

Seeing this, Locke’s eyes were already wrong. This contract was obviously arrogant.

It was obvious that the other party wanted to use him as a stud and use him to improve the possibility that the descendants of the Reeves family would have outstanding wizarding qualifications.

Perhaps, this contract is attractive to ordinary wizards from overseas, but for me who owns the synthetic Rubik’s Cube, it is just a useless thing.

As long as he passed the breeder assistant certificate, he would not be short of magic stones for a period of time.

Signing such a contract is obviously unnecessary and will only cause trouble.

Locke said to Crystal, “I refuse.”

A hint of disbelief flashed across Crystal’s confident face. Then her faint smile froze, and a flash of anger flashed in her eyes, but she tried her best to suppress it and maintain her rationality. “How could that be?”

“Are you still dissatisfied?”

“Mr. Augustine, let me remind you that this contract is already very favorable, especially since you are only a third-level wizard apprentice.”

“The magic stones our family gives you every month are even more than the benefits the academy provides you. In this academy, without magic stones, you will be unable to move forward. As a non-local wizard apprentice from overseas, you will be isolated and helpless.”

Crystal suppressed her anger and said, “If it weren’t for the fact that you became a second-class wizard apprentice within a year, your qualifications wouldn’t have passed the review of our Reeves family.”

“And now only our family is interested in you. Other local families will not extend an olive branch to you.”

“Without the magic stone, your talent is useless. You will gradually become mediocre and eventually no one will pay attention to you.”

“This is the best opportunity you will ever have in your life.”

Crystal said, “You’d better think about it again.”

When Locke heard this, he sneered in his heart. The Reeves wizard family seemed to be quite powerful.

But in essence, they are just a group of families that don’t even have a formal wizard. I can’t even be sure how many first-class wizard apprentices they have now.

Teacher Sophia told me that most of the wizarding families in Lilith’s cottage are just gilded by the outside but rotten inside.

The truly promising wizard apprentices in the academy would never hang out with them.

The other party came to find him because he must have seen that as a wizard apprentice from the overseas mortal world, he had limited knowledge.

Moreover, my qualification evaluation level is not high, and I will not be taken seriously by the major formal wizard mentors, so they dare to come to me to sign this kind of contract.

Locke refused again and said, “Ms. Crystal, I still won’t sign the contract.”

“I’m used to being alone. I’m going to meditate.”

Crystal’s expression finally turned ugly. She said with anger and a cold expression, “I won’t offer such a generous contract again.”

“If you miss this opportunity, it will be the biggest regret in your life.”

Crystal said, “Without the magic stone, even if you have some talent, you are nothing.”

Crystal turned and walked out the door.

Locke just glanced at her and said to the gray dwarf servant, “Send her out.”

Although the gray dwarf servants didn’t quite understand what was going on, they were keenly aware of Locke’s unwelcome attitude towards Crystal, so they immediately changed their flattering attitude and arrogantly opened the door and asked Crystal to go out.

This made Crystal so angry that her nose almost broke.

However, because this was Upside Down Alley and Locke was a law enforcement wizard on patrol, if she attacked Locke, she would get into trouble, so she had to hold back.

Before leaving, Crystal muttered, “Damn those gray dwarves! These despicable creatures should have been burned to death in the first place, instead of being spared by our ancestors after their defeat.”

After the episode, Locke took a bath and then intensified his meditation.

Only by constantly intensifying meditation can one further improve his mental strength and speed up the time to become a first-class wizard apprentice.

…

The next day, in Witch Sophia’s office, Locke placed his palm on the amethyst matrix, and the number 61 was displayed on it.

This is the result of the effects of the Moonlight Potion, the Rose-Red Gem, and the Root and Vein Synchronous Meditation Method.

Witch Sophia walked into the office, glanced at the Amethyst Matrix, and then looked at Locke with amusement. “You came to my place very early today.”

“I thought you’d be late.”

Locke was puzzled and said, “Teacher, I don’t quite understand what you mean.”

Witch Sophia smiled and said, “With a beautiful lady from the wizard family by your side, I thought you would be reluctant to leave.”

“I guess there must be a wizard family looking for you to invest in recently. After all, your speed of progress is worthy of their investment.”

“Outstanding wizards like you from overseas are irresistible to them.”

Locke said to Witch Sophia, “Teacher, I refused yesterday.”

Witch Sophia looked at Locke in surprise.

Locke immediately recounted what happened yesterday.

After hearing this, Witch Sophia sneered. “No wonder these wizard families are getting worse day by day. They even dare to look down on my students.”

“The contract they gave you isn’t even a standard one. All resources have been reduced by about 30 percent.”

Witch Sophia sneered and said, “I think I’m bullying you. When you entered Lilith’s hut, your wizard qualification was only evaluated as level three.”

“A bunch of people who look down on others. How can you use such a crude test method to assess a wizard’s talent?”

“It’s good that you refused.”

“The Reeves family currently only has two first-class wizard apprentices, neither of whom has any hope of becoming a full-fledged wizard. Furthermore, they are already very old, and there is no successor in the family.”

“It’s just a sinking ship.”

Witch Sophia seemed very unhappy with the contract given to her by the Reeves family.

She felt that this seemed a bit insulting to her.

After all, Locke is her only student at the moment.

Witch Sophia sneered and said, “When you become my assistant breeder, I’ll see who will regret it.”

(End of this chapter)