Chapter Eighty-Nine: Yes, Co-optation.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Raphael. It's just that I didn't expect you to be so vigilant, and I thought you would use magic like flying to quickly enter our sight. Fanny looked at the two people who entered the camp with a smile on her face, the layout in the camp was very simple, and it looked no different from the camp of an ordinary soldier, but Raphael knew that there should be a hole in the camp, maybe it was more troublesome to create a storage ring, but if you want to turn a camp into a multi-layered space with a sense of hierarchy, it is enough to have a magic 'space expansion', and the spell magician is willing to use this to earn some extra money for himself.
Because, this magic does not take a long time, a skilled spell magician can cast one in ten seconds, but these jobs are mostly apprentice practice, the mage tower needs to be maintained once a year, this work will be outsourced in most cases, or a mage will have his own construction team to repair and improve himself.
The gold sol that needs to be spent on one maintenance alone often needs to use more than 100,000 yuan to remember, which is not a small amount! Not to mention the expenses on weekdays, whether it is the consumption of magic crystals, materials, ingredients, etc. in the mage tower, these are also very terrifying values. Therefore, apprentices often become coolies for their mentors. There is a saying in the mage world that says, "An apprentice is a teacher's money-making tool." ”
This sentence may not sound very good to say, but it is true, in addition to the usual courses, apprentices usually need to bring benefits to the mage tower, potions, scrolls, magic equipment, etc., but the mage tower will not say that the apprentice will use his own money to buy materials, and the mage tower will provide materials.
For example, a mage tower will give you ten pieces of materials, and then give you the goal of having five pieces of the finished product, and you can make five pieces to pass the level, but if you can make more than five of these extra things, you can become your own personal property. Of course, you can choose to contribute, so that you can also get rewards from your mentor.
Most apprentices will turn in the extra product, which is not a mandatory rule, because unless you really need Thor too much, turning it in is the best option!
Why?
Because being able to get the mentor's reward is much better than Thor's, the mentor's reward may be a magic item made by the mentor himself, a magic book, or a mentor's teaching, these things are much better than Thor's or something! Visionary mages will even spend Thor themselves to buy materials to fill in the failed work, in order to get a reward from the mentor!
The gurus are well aware of this kind of behavior, but they will not stop it, as long as you are not stupid and hand over twenty copies of the finished product of ten materials, everyone will turn a blind eye and let you go. Mentors also need money, and there are not many people who really don't take money into their eyes, after all, whether it is the study of magic, the purchase of materials, or the daily expenses, they all need Jinsol to open the way!
"It's a good habit to be vigilant, I don't want to shoot people down when I'm flying in the air again!" It's a good place to start talking in a relaxed environment, because no one wants the guy on the other side of the negotiation to have a cold face.
"Please be seated." Tiffany was apparently amused by the somewhat playful conversation between the two, and sat both Raphael and Parker Dew down.
"Sure enough, just as Mr. Raphael had predicted, the dark elves were not willing to be lonely, and although they thought they had not been discovered by us, the stars had already told us their whereabouts, poor fellows. In other words, when do we act? Wipe out all these dark elves? Tiffany, who spoke, it was clear that she did not expect Raphael's prediction to be so accurate, and she had some doubts about it, but last night, all these doubts flew away from her heart.
"I'm here for this, and things have changed a bit. I'd like to give me a little bit of time, and I'm going to take this group of Dark Elves into it. Raphael said very frankly, without the slightest intention of hiding, he didn't intend to beat around the bush, this is a waste of everyone's time, everyone understands people, there is no need to use the aristocratic set.
"Co-optation?!" Tiffany didn't expect Raphael to say such words, she hated the dark elves a little, she didn't expect Raphael to say such words from his mouth, and the atmosphere seemed to fall to the freezing point all of a sudden.
"Yes, co-optation." Raphael nodded, seemingly unaware of the coldness in the air.
"Can you tell us what you think?" Fanny took a sip of tea, then placed the cup on the table and looked up at Raphael, she didn't really care what the outcome of this group of dark elves would be, what she cared about how the whole thing would end.
Hearing Fanny's words, Raphael breathed a sigh of relief, and was most afraid that the topic would not be opened, so there would really be no breakthrough in the conversation. Now, Fanny has made a cut, and the next step is to see the outcome of the conversation between the two parties. "Well, yesterday a group of dark elves left the mountains to reconnoiter the situation nearby, I wonder if the ladies found out about this?" Raphael smiled and asked a question first.
"No, it seems that Mr. Raphael's original arrangement really makes sense, and these dark elves are indeed very secretive in the night." Fanny shook her head, but Raphael knew it was Fanny's attempt to ease the atmosphere. He nodded his head to her in gratitude. Tiffany is still too young, many things are still very superficial, and she is too easily affected by her own emotions to make a very correct judgment.
At least in Raphael's view, there is one thing that really needs to be solved by force, and that is when wisdom does not work.
When he was able to use his wits to solve a problem, Raphael did not want to use force. There is a saying from the mage: "The weak use force to solve everything, and the strong use their brains to solve everything." Although there are a lot of pretense elements in this sentence, Raphael still thinks that what he said is quite reasonable, force can only cure the symptoms at most, but when you need to solve a matter in depth, you still need to use the wisdom in your mind.