Chapter 492: Chapter 24: Distant Alliance and Close Attack

“F…F…Fifty million!”

“Is this for real? I didn’t hear wrong, right? Fifty million Magic Stones!!!”

The assembly hall was filled with the sound of people gasping.

If the earlier twenty million Magic Stones was still within everyone’s understanding, then the fifty million here completely overturned the wizards’ perception.

The income in the Wizard World is absolutely linked to an individual wizard’s strength.

The pinnacle that a wizard can reach through personal effort is the level of millions of Magic Stones. The mark of ten million is an existence beyond the reach of ordinary wizards, let alone a number like fifty million.

Even Kalsa and Baggen were startled. Fifty million Magic Stones, it’s not as if they could take out such an amount so lightly.

Kalsa couldn’t help but say, “Saphieros Wizard, isn’t that unnecessary?”

Lynch shrugged, “I’m not someone who likes to waste time. Since I decided to do it, I might as well do it all at once.”

After a pause, he glanced at the two of them and added, “Besides, these Magic Stones mean nothing to me.”

As the saying goes, a wastrel selling off his ancestor’s fields feels no pain.

Whether it’s twenty million or fifty million, in the end, these Magic Stones aren’t coming out of his pocket. Instead, he’s reporting them as expenses for excavating ruins to Fran, who will cover the costs, so it doesn’t matter how much he spends.

With that being the case, it’s better to assert himself, to win more allies and stance for himself.

Currently, his Witch Domain’s overall strength might barely contend with the Pure White Tower in a one-on-one, but gaining more allies would increase his chances of defeating the Pure White Tower.

Don’t be fooled by how it seems as though Kalsa and Baggen are getting along well with him; in reality, none of them are fools. In such significant events concerning life and death, they will certainly support the side that is more likely to win.

Therefore, Lynch had to show his strong side at this junction, letting them know that he possesses considerable power.

On the surface, the bidding is for the Crystal Flower Spirit, but in reality, it’s for allies and positioning.

As expected.

After hearing Lynch say this, Kalsa and Baggen looked at each other again, with evident confusion and shock in their eyes.

It was clear to them that Lynch’s Witch Domain did not have the capability to nonchalantly spend this amount of Magic Stones, yet here he was, doing just that. There could be only one reason—there was another force supporting him.

To be able to casually present fifty million Magic Stones for him to squander—what a colossal force that must be!

Meanwhile, in the opposite number six box.

“Bang!”

A loud crash, and the Crystal High Education Cup made from the Moonlight Radiance Stone shattered on the floor, with the Blood of the Female Infant brewed from the Banshee Cub splattering everywhere, turning the whole floor a bright red in an instant.

“Damn it!”

The number two figure of the Pure White Tower, the brother of the Master of Pure White, Wizard Holman, roared angrily, “Damn bastard, is he deliberately going against me!”

He had reached the level of High-level Wizard for over a century now, and over this century, he had persistently been purifying his soul.

However, after the Soul Purity reached around 40%, it refused to rise any further, stuck at this bottleneck for over thirty years now, adding mere single digits to his Soul Purity over these thirty years. Content originally comes from NoveI-Fire.ɴet

Holman knew this was the shackle of the Wizard’s Road. Without external aid, a breakthrough was nearly impossible.

Thus, these past years, he had been searching everywhere for materials that could boost his Soul Purity, visiting all the major Witch Domains that might possess such treasures.

Yet, those in control of these resources were not willing to part with them lightly. Either the price was too steep, or the resource sites were too dangerous for his strength to handle.

He had acquired only a sparse amount, just enough to boost his Soul Purity by about 10%.

Finally, upon hearing that a Crystal Flower Spirit would be for sale at this gathering, he had prepared early on, even making arrangements and deals with the major powers of Jade Ridge, culminating in a colossal fortune of tens of millions of Magic Stones, his entire savings.

Originally thinking that he had everything meticulously prepared, he was left dumbfounded right from the start when the bidding opened with twenty million Magic Stones, a figure far beyond his limit.

He had no choice but to sign a three-hundred-year servitude contract with his brother, the Pure White Tower’s Witch Master, to advance over ten million Magic Stones for the auction.

But what he couldn’t understand at all was how this amount, raised with such hope that it even cost him three hundred years of servitude, was instantly shot down.

Fifty million!

Nothing he could sell would work now, not even if he lay down on the experiment table would his brother be willing to further fund his auction attempt.

“Don’t be impulsive, my brother.”

The voice of the Master of Pure White, Anderson, rang out. His expression was equally grim, understanding the provocative nature of the jump from a bid of twenty million straight to fifty million.

“How can I not be impulsive?”

Holman retorted irritably, “You know how long I’ve waited for this chance. This is likely my one and only opportunity!”

A wizard’s maximum lifespan is about five hundred years. For him, at over four hundred years old, very little time remained. If he couldn’t advance to the Second Tier and regain Life Power, the outcome would be nothing but a dead end.

This was no longer a matter of advancement, but a matter of life and death for him.

“Who is it! Just who is it that’s targeting me!”

Holman’s eyes were blood-red.

“Kalsa? Or Baggen?”

The Master of Pure White said, “Not Baggen. Before the gathering, I specifically spoke with him, and he promised he wouldn’t compete for the Crystal Flower Spirit.”

“But it wouldn’t be Kalsa either.”

Anderson continued to analyze, “Apart from Kalsa, the rest in the Witch Castle are still quite a distance from reaching the Sprint Mystical Level. Diana and Jenny, even those high-level wizards deemed promising, won’t have a chance at the Sprint Mystical Level within this century. They have no reason to prepare so early.”

Holman’s voice was hoarse, “Who else could be in that box besides them?”

Anderson’s gaze turned toward the opposite box.

Similarly, the Pure White Tower had their spies along the way, and although barriers and shields could block magic, they couldn’t prevent Anderson from learning through other means who was present in the opposite box.

His brow furrowed involuntarily.

Originally, he’d thought it was just a pushover—that their ability to take over Tarim was merely a matter of luck and ambush. Yet, he hadn’t expected them to be able to show such nerve, so brazenly declaring war.

It seemed he had indeed underestimated this damn fellow before.

“Lord of Fiery Flame, is it?”

He gritted his teeth, “Very well, very well!”

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