Chapter 487 – Demon Sorceress

Chapter 487 – Demon Sorceress

Sylph looked at Aramir with some surprise, reciting the lines she had spent a long time memorizing the night before:

“You seem much more relaxed. Have you found a buyer to your liking?”

“I think I may have found a way to bring Yar along with me,” Aramir said with a smile.

Sylph was momentarily stunned.

“Let’s go, Sylph!”

Mo Lan and the others had already opened the door and stepped outside. Vasida called out to Sylph, who was lagging behind.

“Congratulations, Mr. Aramir!” Sylph had to try very hard to put on an expression of feigned sincerity, then hurried to catch up with her companions.

Aramir was in such a good mood at the moment that he didn’t notice anything amiss. However, to prevent anyone from coming to disturb his reading, he hung a “Temporarily Closed” sign on the door, then came back and continued poring over the book.

As soon as Mo Lan’s group climbed into the carriage, Vasida quietly activated a small one-way sound-dampening magic circle, enveloping herself, Mo Lan, and Sylph to prevent their voices from reaching Lena and Jenny, who were sitting near the carriage door.

Lilith, who was also shut out of the barrier: “…”

She didn’t need to think to know what they were discussing right now.

She was starting to regret taking on the important duty of managing the group’s finances! Otherwise, she wouldn’t have had to be the one driving the magic carriage today, going with Lena and Jenny to look at houses.

Inside the one-way sound-dampening magic circle, the disappointment and wistfulness vanished from Sylph’s face in an instant. “Moira, how was my acting just now?”

“Not bad! Your expression management is getting better and better!” Mo Lan praised.

It hadn’t been for nothing that she’d spent an hour yesterday teaching her how to adjust her expressions.

“Did you two notice? Aramir was even speaking faster than usual! I bet he wanted to hurry up and send us on our way so he could get back to reading the Dawn Society materials!”

Vasida said excitedly, “He’s done for! Sooner or later he’ll fall into the hands of our Dawn Society and hand over all his Elven forces of nature to us!”

“There wasn’t a single book to be seen in the Oak Inn—he’s probably not someone who normally enjoys reading! That just shows he’s truly determined to claim the trial reward.” Sylph paused here, her curiosity piqued. “Moira, what trial reward did you give Aramir?”

Mo Lan showed them the finalized version of Aramir’s customized trial task, which she had just settled on yesterday.

“You can’t be serious! A single temporary redemption right for a {Temporary Item Card — No. 9 Spatial Planting Pot (3 Days)}?”

Vasida and Sylph were dumbfounded. “What kind of reward is that? It’s not even a complete card!”

“If I rewarded him with a complete {Spatial Planting Pot Card}, who knows how long it would take to earn back the Mana cost from Aramir! A card that precious can’t just be given away so easily! Even a redemption right is incredibly valuable, you know?

A temporary card with a time limit has low production costs, and it happens to solve his urgent problem without fully satisfying him all at once. That gives him greater motivation to complete trial tasks. Isn’t that a much better deal than directly rewarding a complete {Spatial Planting Pot Card}?” Mo Lan explained with impeccable logic.

Sylph still held out a sliver of hope. “So the {Temporary Item Card — No. 9 Spatial Planting Pot (3 Days)} is also sold at ten times the production cost?”

“Of course!” Mo Lan said. “Constantly changing prices would be bad practice!”

“…”

The facts proved that her arrangement was excellent. Couldn’t they see that Aramir had already been hooked by the task reward and was fully immersed in his mission?

Vasida and Sylph could only think that Aramir was really easy to string along. A Spatial Planting Pot Card that could only be used for three days—and only a single redemption right at that—was enough to make him work this hard. They no longer had any doubt that Aramir would give his absolute all to complete the remaining tasks.

However: “Aramir only has two trial tasks, but Greta has four. Isn’t that a bit unfair?”

“They’re called trial tasks, but really they’re meant to help solve their current predicaments. Aramir’s trial tasks may be fewer, but the difficulty is higher, and our returns are greater! Greta’s tasks are more numerous, but we’re operating at a loss in the early stages! Besides,” Mo Lan said, “I never said everyone’s trial tasks would be the same! All rights of final interpretation belong to me!”

Vasida and Sylph: “…”

“Oh right! I’ve come up with another great idea this time! I’m planning to modify and upgrade the {Dawn Society Invitation Card} by adding a mind-reading function. It will read the current needs of trial candidates, then select the most suitable reward from a list of trial rewards I’ve pre-selected.

For candidates in urgent situations, the reward will be a complete card. For those who aren’t in a rush, it’ll be a card redemption right. If the production cost is low, I’ll directly reward a permanent card redemption right. If the cost is high, I’ll reward a one-time or time-limited card redemption right.

The tasks will be standardized like Aramir’s.

Successfully invite ten spellcasters within three months, and you can skip all subsequent trials to become a full member of the Society.

Otherwise, it moves to Trial Task Three: invite ten spellcasters within six months.

And then after that, invite ten spellcasters within one year.”

Mo Lan had come up with this method yesterday while deliberating over Aramir’s trial tasks.

Aramir was the first contract target from the Elven race, on par with Greta in importance, and both required careful handling. That was why Mo Lan hadn’t used the trial task template she had originally planned.

“I can already picture the Dawn Society members being run in circles under your command, pouring all their magical energy into the Society, and still feeling grateful for it.”

Vasida stared at Mo Lan’s head, feeling more and more certain that whatever was inside Mo Lan’s brain was fundamentally different from what was in theirs.

“What humans say about psychic power being the wellspring of their wisdom might actually be true!” Sylph said suddenly.

“Why do you say that?” Mo Lan asked, puzzled.

“Your psychic power crushes ours, so your wisdom crushes ours too!” Sylph said. “Humans should also be crushed by you in terms of wisdom, right?”

On this point, Mo Lan suspected it might indeed be true.

After all, what was stored in her mind were the memories of an entire planet’s human civilization! No single human individual could possibly compare.

“I’m now absolutely certain that you must have gone easy on us back then… I mean when you were at the Academy, selling us Card Magic and cards.

I’m finally starting to feel that when the witches called you the Goblin Sorceress, they were actually being unfair to you.

You really did treat the witches quite well. Just look at how you’re operating on humans—it’s practically on par with a Demon. Demon Sorceress suits you much better.” Vasida said with utmost seriousness.

Mo Lan had been quite happy listening to the first half, but when she heard “Demon Sorceress,” she couldn’t hold back any longer. “Is that any way to compliment someone?”

Demon and Goblin—both were serious slander against her! She had merely sold her Magic at a fair and reasonable price, that was all!