Angel approached a wizard and carefully read the contract text on the leather scroll.
After reading it, Angel broke into a cold sweat down his back.
The words on the contract were too shocking to him. One word could cover the core content of the entire contract.
Rosen mentioned before that only a little "help" is needed to advance the Purification Garden to the intermediate level. I didn't expect that this help would be such a cruel word.
——Blood sacrifice!
Just like when Sanders was building the Gravity Garden, he drove a bunch of phantom beasts from the Phantom Island into the designated area. When the purification garden was formed, their flesh and blood formed part of the witchcraft garden.
This time the things done to purify the garden are still the same.
After absorbing the flesh and blood of extraordinary beings with different attributes, and reaching a certain amount, the Purification Garden will undergo a qualitative change, thereby pushing it to a higher stage.
Moreover, this number is not a small number. The contract does not specify how many people will be sacrificed in blood, but only an estimate: 90%!
This blood sacrifice is a true portrayal of a "narrow escape from death"!
When Angel was on the Cloud Whale, the "nine-cabin bloody battle" advocated by Sanders was actually a narrow escape. But the scale of that narrow escape was not as big as this one!
You know, the quota conditions for Sky Mechanical City to open to the Purification Garden this time are: Climb to the top of the Sky Tower!
There are countless sky towers set up in various places in Sky Mechanical City, and they have been set up for more than thousands of years. In these thousands of years, leaving aside the dead, how huge the number of people who can achieve this condition will be?
!
Even if for various reasons, those who have exceeded the third-level apprenticeship, or are too old, ultimately did not choose to participate in this "grand event" to purify the garden, Angel believes that even so, there are still many people who are willing to come.
, definitely no less than five digits!
Rosen's "help" was to directly cut off tens of thousands of extraordinary beings by 90%. This was undoubtedly a naked massacre.
He suddenly looked up at Rosen in the center, and then looked at the expressions of the other wizards around him. Almost no one thought this was inappropriate. Although they were communicating with each other, Angel could tell from their expressions.
It turns out that what is being discussed is definitely how to maximize profits, not the lives of those apprentices.
There was an unprecedented silence in the conference room for a while.
After a long, long time, finally, someone spoke up, and this person was none other than... Kanter of the Night.
Angel thought of the House of Lilith, the wizarding organization that Kanter belongs to, which has always had a sparse population. If 90% of the apprentices were massacred without deviation this time, how would a small wizarding organization with a sparse population deal with itself?
And if Angel remembers correctly, Kanter brought only one apprentice this time: Qili.
According to Kanter's care for Qili, it is normal for him to argue at this time.
"The apprentice who is 90% dead is too harmful to a small wizard organization like us. I think this contract is inappropriate." As soon as Kanter spoke, all the wizards in the room, including those who spoke privately, fell silent and focused their attention on
On Kanter and Rosen.
Kanter, Rosen, and Sanders are the three strongest players on the field. They have all embarked on the path of true knowledge and have reached the level of second-level wizards. Rosen is from Sky Mechanical City and is leading this matter.
and Kanter and Sanders can be said to be on the side of the masses. Naturally, no one dares to ignore Kanter's words, and his words must also be for the benefit of the masses.
"Your Excellency Ruye, I understand what you mean. But what I want to say is that there is a difference between large and small organizations. This is irrefutable. However, the dispersed resources of large organizations will lead to many apprentices who are not worthy of the name; the resources of small wizard organizations are concentrated.
, elites are emerging in large numbers." When Rosen said this, he looked around at everyone present: "The people we eliminated from the Purification Garden this time are those apprentices who do not live up to their name, but for those true elite apprentices, they can gain great benefits, even...
…It is possible to reach the sky in one step.”
"So, I would like to ask Lord Ruye now. Are you asking me this because you have no confidence in your juniors? I heard that the teaching quality of Lilith House is even better than that of many large organizations."
Rosen's eyes finally fell on Kanter again, first questioning, and finally giving a gentle compliment.
Kanter stroked his white beard and said calmly: "I naturally have confidence in the juniors, but there are not many juniors in our small organization, and everyone is an important indicator. So I must ask clearly whether the pros and cons are worth it.
Let’s go on an adventure.”
"Your Excellency Ruye is right. Apprentices who die 90% of the time will definitely do more harm than good to the younger generation. How big of a 'benefit' can we be willing to let our younger generation take risks?" Kanter finished his words and also came to the scene.
With the support of most wizards. Most of the seats in this meeting are actually from small wizard organizations, and many of them are not even small organizations and can only be called wizard families.
At this moment, everyone began to discuss this matter.
Angel saw it very clearly. If it hadn't been for Kanter's suggestion, maybe this group of people didn't care about the death of their descendants at all. What they cared about was how much their own interests could be. Even at this point, they are not really rational.
Instead, he wanted to use Kanter to put pressure on Rosen in exchange for greater benefits.
Rosen "coughed" twice, drawing the attention of everyone present to himself again, and then said: "I have just said that what is removed is only the dross, and what is left is the real essence. For these things that can be used in blood sacrifices
Those who survive are the real elites, and we will not hesitate to reward them."
"Then what is this reward?" Kanter asked.
"When the low-level garden leaps into the middle-level garden, the law of purification will expose the core password to the greatest extent. Don't you all believe that the elites you value will gain huge gains from this? If you can understand the context of purification, then
Really reach the sky in one step. Even if you are a bit unlucky and cannot understand it, immersing yourself in the rich purifying power is enough to increase the chance of becoming a formal wizard."
Rosen pointed out the real benefits this time. If one could really understand the purification of the veins, it would be a power that even a group of people would flock to. It would not be an exaggeration to say that one can "reach the sky in one step".
Of course, they also know very well that it is not easy to comprehend the purification veins, and the chance is as low as one in ten thousand. But as Rosen said, even if the purification veins are not comprehended, the power of purification is enough to increase the chance of formal advancement. This is also
Not a loss.
Everyone fell into thinking.
"I believe that everyone here does not want their descendants to be in infancy and protected in an ivory tower, right? Killing and cruelty are the main themes of wizards, aren't they?"
Rosen continued to use words to incite. But everyone present was not a vegetarian, so it was natural to hear that there was a big loophole in Rosen's words. Even Angel understood that Rosen was playing a word game. Killing and
Cruelty is indeed the main theme of the wizard. But this time it is "forced to kill" in an enclosure. It can be said that the apprentices are just chess pieces that have been manipulated and abandoned. How can there be any main theme?
"Furthermore, for your beloved apprentices, you can directly tell them what's going on here and let them make their own choices. As for other apprentices who are not worthy of their name, I hope you can keep it a secret." Rosen continued to increase the pressure.
Perhaps the pie drawn by Rosen was too tempting, or Kanter had full confidence in Qili. He took the initiative to withdraw from the battle and no longer argued with Rosen. Obviously, he had acquiesced in what Rosen said.
.
"How about it? If you have no objections, why not sign this contract?" Rosen urged.
Of course, the contract will eventually pass. This is the choice that everyone present has already made when they saw the contract. But Kanter only talked about the interests of the apprentices and not the interests of the wizards present, so naturally no one chose to sign.
Everyone turned their attention to Sanders. As the strongest person present and representing the non-"Sky Mechanical City" side, what would be Sanders' opinion?
Even Rosen looked at Sanders. He knew whether he could capture greater interests would depend on Sanders' words.
Sanders closed his eyes and fell asleep for a long time. He didn't make a sound in the previous conversation. It was only then that he slowly said: "I have no objection."
When Sanders said this, Rosen breathed a sigh of relief.
Angel was not surprised by Sanders' choice. For those who had nothing to do with him, Sanders would not care about their life or death at all.
"However, the sizes of wizard organizations are different, and there are even wizard families present. According to the contract, each wizard organization is allocated two fixed quotas, which is unfair to large wizard organizations." Sanders said lightly.
There is of course a huge difference between the power of laws absorbed by wizards and the power of laws absorbed by wizard apprentices. Thousands or even tens of thousands of wizard apprentices can share this power of laws, but for formal wizards, perhaps
One person can be worth hundreds of apprentices, so the number of places they allocate is so small.
But as Sanders said, it is unfair for large organizations to give two places, and small organizations and even wizard families to give two places.
Regarding the point raised by Sanders, Rosen said readily: "This can be discussed."
So, for the next day and night, the matter was discussed at the meeting.
Sanders accelerated over this scene, allowing Angel to see the final conclusion. Because the strength of each wizard organization is different, the final conclusion given by Rosen is not fixed. Every time the Purification Garden is opened,
Large-scale wizard organizations must give 10 or more places each time, and medium-sized organizations must give 4 or more places. As for the remaining small organizations and wizard families, Rosen said that he would make a decision after discussing with them in detail.
After the illusion ended, Angel returned to the dining table.
He still held the knife and fork in his hand, but it was trembling slightly. On the plate in front of him was a piece of Shaman Milk Cake, cut into half, exuding a rich milk aroma.
"Do you understand now?" Sanders didn't have any sweets in front of him, only a cup of black tea that exuded white air.
"Couldn't another species be used instead?" Angell asked Sanders.
"Is there any difference?" Sanders put his thin lips close to the delicate porcelain cup, breathed in the white air through his nose, and took a sip of tea.
Angel lowered his head, there was indeed no difference. Human beings are life, and so are other species.
Sanders thought early on that Angel might be resentful of this based on his character, but to his surprise, Angel quickly figured it out.
The wizarding world is not the glory that ordinary people imagine, it is reality. Angel can accept this reality so quickly, which means that he is actually slowly integrating into this world.