Chapter 423 Choice

Looking at this somewhat magical scene, Leah slightly widened her eyes, wanting to ask but not daring to speak.

"That was a magic contract between me and someone else. The time has just come, so I just cancelled it."

With a smile, Avis briefly explained what had just happened, and then glanced at the herbs in the girl's hand.

"However, this is not something you should pay attention to. Change a new dragon's breath grass and process it again until you can successfully complete the process while being distracted."

Watching the girl continue to process the alchemical plants in her hand, Avis sat back in his seat, tapping his fingers lightly on the armrest of the chair, and began to think a little.

Avis also has a certain understanding of the character of Her Majesty Vernica of the Ring of Time and Space.

The broken crystal on the pendant means that Albins has contacted Vernica. And just like the development in the previous life, Vernica was very satisfied with him, and even came forward to help him cancel the contract.

Due to his previous agreement with Albins, the latter is currently a guest of Olivendi, although it is only nominal, but this also forced Vernika to reconsider.

Vernika herself may not care, but because of her identity as the president of the Continental Magic Council, she not only represents herself, but also represents the Continental Magic Council behind her.

If Albins still retains this identity when he becomes her direct student, it is equivalent to sending a signal to the outside world.

The Continental Magic Council showed goodwill to the Olivendi family.

Vernika cannot affect the Magic Council behind her because of her personal wishes.

And when Avis contracted with Albins, he used his personal identity rather than the Olivendi family.

Therefore, [Ring of Time and Space] will probably send someone to write to him. As for the specific content of the letter... Avis doesn't even need to predict, he can guess it roughly by simply guessing.

It's nothing more than hoping that he can agree to cancel the guest contract, and may also promise to give some generous rewards.

But unfortunately, what he wants now is not these.

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….….

On the other side, inside the pure white tower of the sky city Oraxian, a girl with black hair and silver eyes sat on the throne on the top floor of the tower, quietly reading the letter in her hand.

After a moment, she let go of the letter and let it fall from her fingers.

As it fell to the ground, the color of the letter began to darken rapidly, and the texture became fragile, as if it had spanned countless years.

In the end, the letter completely turned into dust and merged into the rock the moment it touched the ground.

There was nothing wrong with the letter itself, and it was indeed written by Avis himself recently.

However, the content of this letter was somewhat beyond her expectations.

In the letter to Avis, she did, as Avis guessed, express the hope to cancel the contract with Albins. And the reward was nothing else, it was her chance to make a move.

She made this request not only considering her identity.

Most importantly, before he was seriously injured and went into seclusion, [Stargazer] Brunz had already told her and [Mystery Seeker] in advance: Don't have any relationship with the four major families of the Gloria Empire!

At the same time, she also mentioned in the letter that Albins owed Anvis a favor, and she hoped to write it off.

As compensation, she could also agree to a request that he could do within his ability and would not harm the interests of the Magic Council.

As a ninth-level limit, her one chance to go out and one request were just to exchange for another Pamir student who was not even fourth-level. Even for the descendants of the Olivendi family, this condition was already quite sincere.

And Anvis did not refuse her request. On the contrary, he expressed his gratitude and fear for the kindness of His Majesty [Ring of Time and Space] in his reply.

At the same time, Anvis promised that he would take the initiative to cancel the contract with Albins, and it would not cost anything, just as a gift to congratulate his friend on his soaring.

Standing up in silence, Vernika's eyes drifted away.

The content of such a letter indicated that although the other party agreed to one of her requests, he was not prepared to accept her kindness.

In other words, this behavior meant that the reason why Avis terminated the contract was not for her benefit, but for the future of Albins.

Even for the second request, Avis did not mention it in his reply, and it was obvious that he did not want to agree.

In the heart of this little guy from the Olivendi family, his importance has reached this point? Even beyond my favor?

Although she hit a soft nail, Vernika was not angry, but felt a little absurd.

She refused the favor of a ninth-level peak strongman just for a mere third-level spellcaster?

"Well, let me see if your choice is correct."

Muttering to herself, Vernika took out a crystal ball, recorded the whole process of the incident, and then sent it to Albins.

No matter what Avis thought, it was a good thing for her students to have such a friend.

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In the following days, some members of the parliament could no longer stand the war in the Federation. So they intervened and calmed down the kingdoms of the Federation temporarily.

However, this approach was just a suppression and did not solve the fundamental problem.

Due to Avis's selling of constructs at a loss, many kingdoms thought they could get a bargain, so they invested a huge amount of money to buy constructs, preparing to rely on war to recover the cost.

And if a small kingdom buys a large number of constructs, then even if its neighboring countries did not plan to buy constructs before, they will have to buy them together. Otherwise, if a war breaks out, they will be very passive.

But now due to the intervention of the parliament, the war has suddenly stopped, and these constructs have become hot potatoes.

Unlike magic weapons made by alchemy, magic constructs with complex structures need maintenance.

Because they use cheap materials, even if they are placed in the warehouse without moving, they need regular inspection and maintenance every year to replace the worn and rusted parts.

Although the price of finished constructs has dropped under the influence of Avis, the maintenance fee has not dropped at all. Even because many small construct factories have gone bankrupt and changed their business, the price of vulnerable parts has increased a bit.

Many small kingdoms that had gritted their teeth to buy constructs were suddenly dumbfounded. Not only did they not have time to recover their investment, but they also had to pay a huge and painful maintenance fee every year.

As for selling some at a low price, some small kingdoms wanted to sell at a low price, and under pressure from each other, the price was directly pushed down to an extremely low level.

Even if some kingdoms could not stand it and wanted to collude to raise the price, there were always some people in the black market who sold all kinds of structures at the price of broad leaf lettuce in almost unlimited quantities.

Under the suspicion that the other party was pretending to stabilize the price and lowering the price to run away first. This alliance was established not long ago, and it completely collapsed and fell into a cycle of mutual price reduction again.

In the end, some kingdoms simply gritted their teeth and did not sell, preparing to hold on for a few years, and then resume the war when the parliament no longer paid attention to this matter.

At the same time, in order to raise the maintenance fees for these years, these small kingdoms can only start to think of ways to mine high-value magic minerals in the territory, hunt high-value monsters, collect rare alchemical plants, etc., and then sell them in exchange for gold coins.

Of course, in addition to this, there is a simpler way-raising taxes.