Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton

The Mercenary Guild is very wealthy, with bounties worth hundreds of millions of Demon Crystals, including one for the remains of Steadfast Locke, still hanging on the bounty board. By rule, thirty percent of the bounty amount must be deposited as a guarantee, and this is inviolable.

This means that the Mercenary Guild must have at least a cash reserve of 30 million Demon Crystals.

Whether they leave the cash in the account, or lend it out for financial operations, at least 30 million must be recorded on paper.

That is enough since the assets of the Mercenary Guild certainly exceed hundreds of millions of Demon Crystals. With the figures on paper in hand, they can mortgage the guild’s assets to get money if they cannot readily produce the cash.

The Magician’s Guild, on the other hand, is a hundred times richer than the Mercenary Guild, the difference akin to that between a wealthy landlord and a well-off bank that deals in finance. This is because the Magician’s Guild produces Demon Crystals.

“For instance, the Elemental Converter, it’s produced by your Magician’s Guild, right?” Negris asked.

“No, not at all, don’t just make things up. It was a masterpiece from the Goblin Engineers, nothing to do with us,” Misha promptly denied.

Negris smirked. He used to believe such denials, but after a Goblin Master Engineer like Vaguli joined his family, he realized this was impossible. Goblin Engineers are just under the nurture of wizards.

They either end up like Vaguli, under the care of Stellaris Academy, or are nurtured by the Magician’s Guild. Without wizards, goblins can’t even engrave Magic Runes, let alone handle the Magic Circuit and Energy Cores inside. Goblins are just employees, while wizards are the bosses.

The Magician’s Guild bestows the honor of inventing the Elemental Converter onto the Goblin Engineers. The main reason is the bigger one gets the more target they become, too much wealth attracts hatred.

Being wealthy is one thing, but now they can ‘produce’ money too, which doubles the envy towards them.

Being wealthy and producing money is tolerable, but they also have multitudes of followers and numerous girls and women throwing themselves at them, hating them squared.

However, the title of Misha’s father as a guild president isn’t the wealthiest among them, the ones with more wealth are ones like the landlord of Mars Magic Tower.

Mars obviously follows the naming pattern of Stellaris, and truly, it has countless connections with Stellaris.

The founder of Mars Magic Tower was a student of Mars, a successor to the magic tradition, Seventh Level Fire Mage Joseph.

There are some beings in the world with no particular talent for cultivation, but they have superior eloquence abilities. No one can beat them in a fight nor can anyone outtalk them, take for instance….Red Star.

Negris’s talking skills were slightly inferior compared to the Red Star’s. He couldn’t outtalk Lightning.

Joseph is just like the Red Star, not inherently skilled in cultivation, but first-rate at educating students. Borrowing the fame of Mars, Joseph established the Mars Magic Tower at the foot of the Sulphur Volcano.

Several hundred years later, Mars Magic Tower has grown into the top-tier Wizards’ Tower in the Master Plane. Due to its origin ties with Stellaris, it still receives several exchange student placements.

Getting into top-tier academies like Stellaris Academy is a lifelong dream for all wizards. If they fail the entry exams, many opt to join Wizards’ Towers that offer exchange programs.

The wizards of Mars Magic Tower, those with talent focus on cultivating, those without strive to participate in management work while those skilled in intrigue try joining different wizard groups.

In the hundreds of years that followed, the Mars Magic Tower has become an integral part of the Pancontinental Magicians Guild, with many of its members infiltrating various departments of the guild, which gives them quite an advantage during elections.

Misha’s father, Joseph VI, has served as the president of the Magician’s Guild for eight terms, that is sixteen years, with each term lasting two years. The election is just around the corner again.

Given the president’s crucial role, despite the position not being profitable, in fact sometimes it incurs losses, it can attract policies favoring one’s Wizards’ Tower.

Thus, in recent years, Mars Magic Tower has become increasingly prosperous.

“These last couple of years, the most profitable businesses have been the Silk Magic Cloth, World Tree branches, spatial ornaments, and Holy Essence Liquids. So much money is being made that people are getting jealous and are starting to undermine my father for the presidency,” Misha said indignantly.

Ange tilted his head, while Negris and a few others exchanged baffled looks.

Changing the subject, Negris asked, “So why are you here? What’s there to enjoy in a marsh?”

Misha shook her head, “Nothing fun, and too many mosquitoes too. But it’s peaceful, and those guys will never think I would come to a place like this.”

“Oh, it’s so annoying. Since I became an adult, all the people around me started behaving strangely. They promised to be my guardians and followers but now one after another they are beginning to flaunt themselves.”

“And there are too many with connections. They have to be shoved in to be my followers, but once they arrive, rather than cultivating, they dress in all sorts of colours and wave them around in front of me, disturbing my cultivation. It’s so vexing!”

Misha grumbled about this deeply.

“Right, the biological instinct to reproduce.”

“Spring is coming, it is the season for the exchange of essence.”

“By the way, Little Yellow Dragon, can you still…?” Durken asked with a grin.

“I know what you’re asking. Naeli has started learning the Divine Intercourse technique of the Succubus. If it really doesn’t work, I’ll reincarnate and go back.” Negris replied irritably.

A few lascivious old men were whispering amongst themselves about whether Divine Intercourse could produce Dragon offspring, or if using its scale to cultivate a body would be considered its ‘kin’ or ‘it’. No one was interested in Misha’s adolescent troubles anymore.

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