The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then glanced up and down at Senior, showing an expression of sudden realization.
"Oh, by the way, this is obviously your first time here. No wonder you don't know how strong these three kinds of wine are." After saying that, he nodded and continued: "Yes, I am an employee of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but I am not a magician. Those high-ranking researchers at the institute are just poor second-level magicians who make a living by drawing magic circles every day."
Senior's eyes showed a more interested light. He first glanced at the glass of dark red wine with a bottom left in front of the middle-aged magician, and then asked the bartender to bring two glasses of the same wine. Passed a glass over.
"What?" The middle-aged magician looked at him in surprise. "Are you going to buy me a drink?"
"Well, I want to ask you something." Senior smiled and nodded.
"Inquiring about something?" Although the middle-aged magician was obviously a little drunk, his eyes were still clear. He glanced at the wine handed over by Senior and smiled. "I'm just an ordinary low-level magician in the Chamber of Commerce. What are you asking me for?"
Senior moved closer, reached into his arms, and took out a small badge.
"Second level magician badge?" The middle-aged magician immediately recognized the meaning of this badge. He looked at Senior in surprise, thought for a moment, took the wine glass and took a sip. "Okay, what do you want to know? Let me tell you first. There are some things that cannot be told to outsiders."
"Of course." Senior smiled quickly. "I haven't asked yet..."
"Just call me Luther."
"Okay, Luther, you've seen it too. I'm just like you. I'm a second-level magician. And you see... I'm not doing well right now..." Senior said calmly, spreading his hands.
Luther took a look at Senior, who even had two pieces of pudding on him. The fabric of the clothes was not very good, so he nodded slightly.
"Then what? Do you want to find a job at our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?"
"That's what I originally planned, but..."
"Just what?"
Senior looked around, approached Luther, lowered his voice and said, "I think you should have heard that the Magician's Guild Headquarters issued a notice some time ago, saying that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce is... ahem... it's a... Liar. In fact, it is not good for low-level magicians at all, so I..."
"Fart!" Luther suddenly slammed the table in front of him hard. The sound was so loud that it immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the tavern.
Senior was startled and quickly grabbed Luther, then smiled and nodded to everyone in the tavern.
Others saw that nothing happened and ignored it.
Senior then breathed a sigh of relief and continued to ask Luther: "Why are you so excited? Is what the union headquarters said wrong?"
"Nonsense! Those guys at the union headquarters are talking bullshit. What's wrong!" Luther still looked very angry, but this time his voice was softer than before. Not very noticeable in this noisy tavern.
"Really?" Senior looked at Luther with some suspicion. "So, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is actually very good to low-level magicians?"
"Of course." Luther said decisively. "Except the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Which chamber of commerce will give low-level magicians like us a salary of twenty gold coins per month?"
"Twenty gold coins per month? That's really a lot." Senior pondered for a moment and then asked: "But the union headquarters said... The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will only squeeze low-level magicians to do meaningless things for them. Living and drawing magic circles all day long will not help improve the magic level of low-level magicians... "
"Fart!" Luther roared excitedly again, but this time he didn't attract many people's attention. "In addition to offering us such a high salary every month, the Chamber of Commerce will also prepare many benefits for us. Low-level magicians like us have a chance to apply for free magic materials once a month if they are willing. , for us to study magic ourselves, isn’t that good?”
"Well, this is indeed good..."
"Besides, every once in a while, the Chamber of Commerce will regularly ask those senior magicians, or even invite the great magicians in the Chamber of Commerce, to personally provide face-to-face magic guidance to us low-level magicians to help us improve our magic level. You tell me , except here, where can low-level magicians like us have the opportunity to get personal guidance from the distinguished great magician?"
"This..." Senior was silent for a while and then changed the topic. "But I also heard that... the low-level magicians that Xinfei Chamber of Commerce brought into Xinfei Academy didn't teach them magic at all... "
"Fart! Fart! Fart!"
Luther cursed three times in anger, suddenly stood up, looked around the tavern, then grabbed Senior's arm and dragged him to a table in a corner.
The people at the table looked at Luther and Senior who rushed over in surprise. One of them, a middle-aged magician who was about the same age as Luther and also had a second-level magician badge on his chest, glanced at Senior, and then looked at Senior. Luther asked: "Hey, Luther, what's the matter? Is this your friend?"
"No, we just met." Luther responded casually, then stepped back to Senior in front of a few people, pointed at them, and said to Senior: "These guys are just like me, they just came last year." For those who graduated from Xinfei Academy, ask them if the academy is what you said."
"How is it?" The middle-aged magician was even more confused. "Hey, Luther? What does this guy say about the academy?"
"This idiot actually believed what those bastards from the Magician Guild Headquarters said. He thinks that we are all fools and have been tricked by Xinfei Academy. We can't learn magic in the academy!"
"Huh?" Several people looked at Senior with surprised expressions, then looked at each other and burst into laughter at the same time.
"Haha, someone actually believes such ridiculous words."
"That's right, I thought no one would be so stupid as to believe something that is obviously a lie at a glance."
"Have you made a mistake? I don't know if the Lampali Kingdom Magician's Guild branch has explained it before. Xinfei Academy takes very good care of low-level magicians like us. How could we not be allowed to learn magic?"
"Exactly. If we can't even learn magic in the academy, how can we work in the Chamber of Commerce after we get out? Can't we understand such a simple truth?"
"Haha... so stupid..."
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Listening to the unceremonious ridicule and ridicule from everyone. Senior's face turned blue and white. After a while, he barely held back and continued to ask: "According to what you said, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is actually very good to you? Has it taught you magic?"
"Nonsense! The Chamber of Commerce opened this academy just to let us low-level magicians master some basic knowledge of magic machinery, and then choose a direction in which we are good at training, so that we can use it after we are good. If we don't teach us magic, let us What are we doing in there?”
"That's right. Although our Chamber of Commerce is very rich, we can't waste it in vain, right? Besides, the president is such a shrewd person, how could he do such a meaningless thing, everyone, right?"
"certainly."
"That's right."
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"But... the things you learned are only useful when working in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, right? It doesn't seem to be of much help in improving your magic level..." Senior asked still confused.
"Hey, why are you so stupid?"
A young magician in his thirties who wore a third-level magician badge on his chest glanced disdainfully at Senior.
"Think clearly, guys like us who are so old but still such low-level people, do we still expect our magic level to improve by leaps and bounds and dream of becoming great magicians? Stop joking! Let me tell you. At our age, life is nothing else. Important. In other places, our magic is useless, but when we come to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, we can get a salary of twenty gold coins or more every month, which is enough for us to live a life we never imagined before. I don’t dare think about a good life. If it were you, would you think about so many useless things?”
"That's right, any improvement in magic level is all illusory. Having food to eat and being able to survive is the real thing."
"That's right. We are not those guys from aristocratic families. We have so much money for them to buy materials to study magic. We must first ensure that we survive. Do you know how grateful I am to our Chamber of Commerce? If it weren’t for the good jobs provided here, I might be starving to death right now, why would I bother to study magic?”
"But... but the union headquarters has now issued a clear warning. If you still stay in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, you might anger the union headquarters. Then... we are all magicians, and I am afraid there will be a lot of inconvenience in the future. ..." Senior said still somewhat unconvinced.
"Bah!" The younger low-level magician spat hard. "The bastards at the union headquarters put it nicely, saying that for the benefit of low-level magicians like us, they advised us to stay away from the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Bah! If we leave the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the union headquarters will give each of us a monthly salary of 20 Can a salary of gold coins give us such a good life? If not, he is talking nonsense!”
"That's right, we managed to live a good life relying on the Chamber of Commerce, but these bastards at the headquarters won't let us live in peace. What do they want to do?"
"Hmph, these guys keep saying that they are thinking about the interests of the low-level magicians in the mainland, but I think they are basically thinking about themselves! Do you think I don't know? These guys are obviously because they can't compete with the president on patent protection, so Want to take revenge on our Chamber of Commerce!”
"Damn, these hypocritical villains!"
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Seeing the excited expressions of the group of people, Senior could only be speechless.
After a while, when everyone calmed down a little, Senior asked again: "But everyone... After all, we are magicians registered with the union. If we don't listen to the instructions of the union headquarters, I'm afraid... there will be a lot of difficulties in the future..."
"Difficulty?" The young third-level magician sneered from his nostrils, looked down at the third-level magician badge on his chest, suddenly pulled it off, and threw it lightly on the table. "These guys don't care about us at all. I don't care if they die. At worst, I quit the Magician's Guild and they won't control me anymore!"
Senior was startled and wanted to speak, but found that several people around him, including Luther, either pulled the badges directly from their chests, or turned them out in their pockets and threw them all on the table.
A total of seven badges were mixed together, reflecting light of different colors, which looked a bit dazzling.
Senior looked at the magician badges still rolling on the table and was completely stunned. (To be continued...)