Chapter 5: Money Making Opportunities in Spell Competitions
The tree of life on the hilltop can no longer remember how many years it has been there.
As early as when the forest troll ruled this forest, it had already awakened its self-awareness and silently paid attention to the situation of the forest.
The voodoo magic of the forest trolls, the energy nature is biased toward darkness and death.
This evil magical power will make the tree of life, which advocates nature, very unhappy.
Long-eared greenskinned creatures that use voodoo magic, the Tree of Life is always looking for ways to hunt them down.
However, the Tree of Life has no decent attack methods.
At most, it quietly smacks passing Troll Witch Doctors to death, and then buries them underground to make fertilizer.
Doing this kind of thing too often is not a good idea, as it can easily arouse the suspicion of forest trolls.
Although the attack power of the Tree of Life is very powerful, its attack method is very simple and cannot withstand the siege of a large number of forest trolls.
Fortunately, the forest trolls were quickly driven away by the foreign high elves.
The high elves love the forest very much and use magic shields to protect it.
In addition to blocking the entry of foreign enemies, the magic shield also has the effect of improving the climate.
The tree of life likes the pleasant climate of hibernation and cool summer.
It's a pity that Baipi Longear only likes to study arcana and doesn't like to listen to himself impart natural knowledge.
As time passed, the Tree of Life no longer came into contact with the white-skinned ears.
Of course, the relationship between the two parties is not deadlocked, but they just don't interact with each other.
When Horad was testing the arcane golem near the hill, the Tree of Life would not pick up rocks on the ground and hit him.
After completing the test on the arcane puppet, Herard smoothed the bumpy ground before leaving the forest glade.
Except for the blank spaces left by the leveling of the ground, the place has been restored to its original appearance.
The gentle natural energy emanating from the Tree of Life soon caused flowers and plants to grow again, filling in the glaring gaps.
The Tree of Life, which can control plant growth, is definitely an auxiliary artifact for agriculture and animal husbandry!
After the site was restored, the Tree of Life once again disguised itself as an ordinary tree.
Compared with its quiet appearance, its consciousness is very active.
At this moment, it is transmitting information through flowers, plants and trees, and exchanging knowledge with the ancient trees in the surrounding area.
The young people who took the initiative to repair some small damage made the ancient trees a little curious.
High elves do not wreak havoc on the environment.
But it is also very rare that a hole is dug and it is filled up on its own initiative.
The natural spirits with eyes all over the forest began to pay attention to this special high elf.
Herard had some knowledge of the Tree of Life's methods.
But he would never have imagined this kind of surveillance method that was more powerful than a druid!
Fortunately, the spirit of nature had no ill intentions and was just silently observing his daily actions.
Returning to the dormitory, Herard immediately started boring daily practice.
Then he never stepped out of the Moon Temple again.
Ancient trees are very patient and can pay attention to something or someone for a long time.
However, Herad, who was busy practicing, rarely left the dormitory door.
Faced with such a cultivator, even the ancient trees were stunned.
After waiting for a few days without seeing anyone, the patience of the ancient trees wore off, and they returned to the daily affairs of adjusting the forest ecology.
During the past few days when Herald was practicing diligently, the number one brother, Lilas, and the family's magic messengers kept coming.
The topic is all around the spell competition.
Participating in a spell contest is no big deal.
But if you can get a ranking, this will be a very honorable thing!
It’s almost equivalent to ranking in the World Cup on Earth.
Liras knew that Herard was very diligent during this time.
Although I don't know how much his strength has improved, I am very confident that he will get the ranking.
Most members of the family praised him for getting a place in the competition.
Then he was encouraged to practice hard and strive to get a ranking in the competition.
The Chenfeng family is rich in warriors, but there are not many spellcasters.
Herard's spellcasting talent is actually very high, and he is the type that is focused on cultivating in the family.
If you can get a ranking in the spell competition, it will definitely be a very honorable thing!
However, there are many families of high elves that are rich in spellcasters.
Among the younger generations of those families, the probability of being a genius is very high. The contestants can be described as a collision of geniuses!
To get a ranking in the spell competition, the difficulty is definitely very high!
While Herard was concentrating on training, the outside world conducted a lot of research on the rankings of the contestants in the spell competition.
The bookmakers who were preparing to set up a gambling game carefully studied the daily performance of the contestants and ranked the third, sixth and ninth ranks and the favorites to win the championship.
This is somewhat similar to World Cup betting on Earth.
The difference is that no one is going to fake it.
Contestants mostly try their best to defeat their opponents.
Especially those contestants from big families don't care about the temptation of profit at all.
They are not short of money, what they want is honor.
Winning glory for the family is the only starting point!
Lilas, an underage elf, likes to play with all kinds of messy things all day long.
Gambling is also one of his specialties.
He sent the rankings predicted by the outside world to Herard, and angrily scolded those gamblers for their lack of vision.
Seeing that he was not on the gamblers' rankings, Herard suddenly had an idea.
In the wizarding world, money isn't everything.
But no one thinks they have too much money.
So he scraped together things, scraped together 10,000 gold coins, and then found his family and loyal brothers from Liras.
The group of young men hired by Herard all looked free and undisciplined.
Although it seemed unreliable, Herad still distributed the gold coins to them.
There is no way, most high elves are like this and have no choice.
Besides, just because they look free and loose doesn't mean they can't do things.
"Memorize it all, beat me to win every game. As long as you do it, you will definitely make a lot of money this time!"
The boys all nodded seriously and patted their chests to express that they would definitely do it.
"Also, don't let anything slip when you win money. It will be troublesome if you tell anyone about this kind of thing, and you will definitely be scolded to death!"
After seriously explaining this important point, Herad sent them out of the Temple of the Moon.
A group of boys quickly left on chocobos, each going to raise money.
Herard did not stipulate that they could only work part-time.
If you invest your own money, you will certainly earn more.
As for where their confidence comes from, the weird-looking arcane puppet in the room has explained everything.
Just because they like to eat, drink and have fun doesn't mean they are a loser.
Such a special arcane puppet could only have been made by Herad.
Herad's ability as at least an intermediate mage gave them absolute confidence.
But they don't have as much money as Herard.
He usually spends a lot of money and usually saves only a few hundred gold coins.
As a direct member of the Windrunner family, Liras had less than a thousand gold coins.
Although the initial capital was a little small, the money invested in gambling was enough for them to make a fortune.
Under the guidance of Lilas, a professional, the originally idle elf boys spent a lot of time preparing.
If you want to make money quietly, you must have a detailed execution plan.
After a few days, they had a clear understanding of all the forces in Silver Moon City that were preparing to take over.
Lilas' second sister, Sylvanas, the famous Dark Queen in the game, shook her head helplessly as she watched her younger brother and his friends wandering around all day long.
Although Sylvanas's behavior is very strict.
She didn't have a good way to educate her underage brother.
We can only wait until he reaches adulthood, and then recruit him to the ranger unit for a good training.
As a member of the Windrunner family, Liras can definitely become something.
This is just a matter of the length of training time.
The high elves have plenty of time to grow.
(End of chapter)