Chapter 286 Private Magical Transaction

This chapter is a bonus for reaching 20,000 rewards in "Wasteland Ranger: End of the World Legend."

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All town officials have pledged loyalty, and no outsiders remain in Flowerfield Town.

Of course, apart from the increased unity among the people, there don’t seem to be many changes. Whether now or before, as the son of the Earl, Liszt’s authority has remained unshaken.

The banquet’s atmosphere was lively.

As a lord, he inevitably drank a few more cups of wine, the local specialty Flower Brew, and felt slightly tipsy. As the banquet was ending, he detained Elkson: “Mr. Elkson, please stay a moment.”

“Lord Baron, how may I assist you?”

“If I recall correctly, you specialize in earth and water magic.”

“Yes, your memory serves you well.”

“Then, I would like to buy some knowledge of water magic from you.” Seeing Elkson's brow furrow in hesitation, Liszt added, “It is indeed rather abrupt and impolite to ask a magician to sell their magic, but please believe me, I am merely curious about magic, and I am willing to pay a fair sum of gold.”

Elkson pondered for a moment.

He glanced around to ensure there were no bystanders before hesitantly saying, “Lord Baron, you know I am neither haughty nor obsessive. My love of gold surpasses my pursuit of truth. I am willing to assist you in purchasing magic books and producing potions, but selling magic would damage my reputation.”

“No record of this transaction will come from my side, and you needn’t worry about an unknown magician suddenly appearing. I have no intention of learning magic myself, and I am fully aware of the dangers of a knight studying magic.”

“In that case, I am willing to sell the magic spells.”

“For a reasonable price, I will acquire all the water magic spells you know.”

"Do you not need the other elemental magics?" Since selling one type of magic was already a sale, Elkson naturally hoped to sell several more. "I specialize in earth and water magic, and I also have some knowledge of wind, fire, and ice. Currently, I master sixteen spells. If Lord Baron buys them all, I can offer a discount."

Liszt had originally intended to purchase only water magic.

But hearing this, he thought it might be wise to buy them all; they might come in handy later.

"First, determine the price of the magic. If it's reasonable, I'm not against buying them all. But if the price is too high, I will only purchase water magic. Although I am a lord, my estate is large and expenses are many, so I don't have much extra money to spend. You understand that." Liszt began to haggle.

He wasn't about to let Elkson name an exorbitant price; Coral Island had more than one mage.

"The four spells that magic apprentices can learn—Water Arrow, Flying Rock, Fireball, and Wind Blade—Lord Baron can obtain from magic books."

Elkson continued, "I mainly master spells at the Mage level. For water, there are Water Arrow Barrage, Water Wheel Shield, Water Bullet, and Water Whirlpool. For earth, there are Rock Spike, Earth Wall, Rolling Stone, Rock Cannon, and Earth Platform. For fire, there are Great Fireball, Fire Wall, and Dancing Fire Serpent. For wind, there are Levitation and Multiple Wind Blades. For ice, there is Ice Blade. Additionally, at the High Mage level, there is Earth Grenade for earth magic."

"What about the prices?"

"For the Mage level, each spell costs two gold coins. The High Mage level Earth Grenade costs twenty gold coins. Altogether, that would be..." He counted on his fingers twice, "a total of fifty gold coins. This price is absolutely fair; even if I wanted to exchange spells with fellow mages, it wouldn't cost less than this."

To be honest, the price wasn't too steep.

However, parting with fifty gold coins at once still pained Liszt; his liquid funds were limited.

After some thought, he said, "Let's leave out the Earth Grenade for now. Thirty gold coins for your fifteen spells... However, I can promise that if you can acquire more spells, I will continue to buy them at today's price. You should believe in my potential; purchasing spells won't be a burden."

It was a bit disappointing not to sell the Earth Grenade for twenty gold coins, but Elkson nodded, "Of course, Lord Baron. Your future is as vast as the sea. I will go back and write down the casting procedures for the spells. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me."

Taking out thirty gold coins, Liszt handed them directly to the other man, "Pleasure doing business, Mr. Elkson." He wasn't worried about the man running off with the money; this was Coral Island.

"Pleasure doing business, Lord Baron."

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With the motivation of having gold coins, Elkson delivered the written casting schemes of the four water-element magic spells the next day to the castle and continued writing the remaining spells.

Liszt directly handed them over to the mermaid, "Aker, I've found four new magic spells for you. These are spells that can only be mastered at the magician level. I'm not sure if you can learn them right away. If you can't master them, then meditate more to train your mental strength."

"Sure thing, thank you brother, Aker will study hard and strive to become a mermaid magician, hehe."

"By the way, today you should go to the seaside to replenish water. Don't rush into reading yet. Let's play by the sea for two hours."

"Okay, Aker does need to change the seawater in the shell. This seawater isn't fresh anymore." Aker stirred the seawater in her shell with her hand. The seawater still looked crystal clear. It’s unclear how mermaids determine if seawater is fresh.

Seaside.

Snowflakes were flying, and winter had not yet ended. It won’t stop snowing until mid-February.

In this strange world, the climate and hydrology differ significantly from Earth. For example, Liszt had recently discovered an important piece of information: in Flower Town, the length of day and night in winter is equal, without variations in day length.

This confirmed his previous judgment.

If this world is a planet, then it would have no axial tilt.

He also reviewed descriptions in knight novels and found that the winter and summer across the continent followed the same pattern. Regarding temperature differences, the countries in the southern part of the continent rarely featured snowy weather in knight novels. One knight novel even described the southernmost region.

It said there was a country, called the Flame Kingdom, where the weather was permanently hot like a sauna.

"Does this mean that the southernmost part of the continent is near the planet’s equator? In other words, the continent I’m on is just part of the planet’s northern hemisphere, not the entire world?"

Aker happily bathed in the sea, occasionally letting out laughter like silver bells.

Jie La flew along the shore, looking at Aker, and occasionally shouted, "Woo-wa!"

Hiddleston lay in the snow, with storm and fire crawling on it. It’s unclear whether it knew these two pups were its offspring, but it tolerated them climbing and biting on its body.

Liszt continued to ponder over astronomy and geography.

"If this is the case, it means that this continent, with its southernmost part near the equator and its northernmost part far from the North Pole, is not a very large continent... The actual area feels very vast, and the total area of the continent might far exceed the total land area of Earth."

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