Chapter 39: Pale Fate

  According to the list of spellcasting materials seen by the slave traders, Luo Wei found that the most expensive spellcasting material carried by the slave traders had reached nearly 500 gold coins.

  "1893.5 kilograms."

  According to the budget of buying one unit for each, Luo Wei added up the priced materials listed by slave trader Colenwil and calculated the total price in his mind.

  "What did you say? 1893.5 gold Gilders? Mr. Lofwyr, shouldn't there be no expensive spellcasting materials on the list at all? Did I write it wrong......"

  Korvus strained his long, thick neck, trying to find the incorrectly written price of the spell component on the quote sheet in Rove's hand.

  "No, I'm talking about the total price of all the spellcasting materials." Rove shook his head to make it clear and understandable for the slave trader that a mistake had occurred. After a pause, he added: "Of course, this is the total price after calculating the various discounts you mentioned, Mr. Correnwey, not the total price on paper."

  "Ah? Mr. Lovi, you...you..." Slaver Kolenweh's gaze turned to Lovi, and in an instant, his expression changed to one of utter astonishment: "You can actually perform such complex calculations in such a short time without the aid of any paper or pen? Good heavens, how much must the gods have favored you to possess such incredible computational abilities!"

  "I said, isn't this no big deal?"

  Having heard the slave trader's astonishing words, Luo Wei felt that this was definitely another one of the slave trader's clumsy attempts at flattery.

  This kind of addition problem that even elementary school students in China can solve, why make such a big fuss about it.

  Oh right, because of the discount rate issue, the difficulty of calculation has increased to... a junior high school level?

  "What's the big deal?! Master Rowen, you can't be serious! As far as I know, even in the prestigious magic academy of Kandia, which is located in a remote mountain city, the most difficult question on their entrance exam, held every three years, only requires arithmetic operations within three digits. Moreover, it's just simple addition or subtraction with no more than ten numbers at a time! And yet, this spellcasting material list has a whopping sixty-two items recorded!"

  The slave trader said with a serious face that the secondary level of continuous addition in Luo Wei's eyes was actually a great skill in his eyes.

  "Mr. Luo, even if you said your mentor was the White Bone Sorcerer of Jian Xiao Tower or the Nine-Ringed Wizard of Dark Desolate Swamp, Pale Fate, I would believe it without hesitation!"

  So the slave trader continued to say that he was not speaking deceitfully but truly thought so in his heart.

  In the world of Etern, low-circle mages can get by without understanding advanced mathematical knowledge, but every high-circle mage is necessarily a master mathematician.

  The higher the level of magic, the more it involves complex spellcasting, material proportioning and adjustment, model analysis and reconstruction, maintaining stable magical output, precise casting, and enchantment... All these things are based on mathematics!

  Although ordinary people can calculate addition and subtraction problems within a hundred, the more profound mathematical knowledge is an absolute secret that magicians will not easily reveal.

  Want to learn this knowledge?

  No problem, pay a sufficient price and I can teach you, but whether you can learn it or not depends on your own ability to understand.

  Profound mathematical knowledge is the most precious treasure—at least in the eyes of these spellcasters.

  Even on a planet where systematic education has been laid out globally, high school graduates who have completed 12 years of basic education still lack math skills and are mathematically incompetent.

  But Luo Wei was definitely not in the category of being bad at math, otherwise he wouldn't have been admitted to the forensic medicine major.

  So let's not mention the basic geometry and algebra knowledge learned in the compulsory education stage, even if it's a university-level course like advanced math, linear algebra, probability theory and mathematical statistics, and analytical geometry. For Luo Wei, although he doesn't dare to boast that he has learned well, at least he can understand and pass the exams.

  Although compared to the academic tyrant who lived in a dormitory at that time, Luo Wei, whose self-confidence was repeatedly shattered, could only admit defeat and acknowledge that his mathematical talent was just "ordinary wisdom".

  So after listening to the slave trader's words, Luo Wei realized that the key point was that he mentioned two people who were obviously of a high level, rather than a math problem.

  The White Bone Sorceress of the Screamwood Forest.

  The pale fate of the nine-ring wizard in the desolate wasteland.

  If I'm right, both "Bai Gu Mu Zhe" and "Cang Bai Ming Yun" should be titles for mages, shouldn't they?

  Pale Destiny had the prefix of Nine-Ringed Wizard, meaning that the caster's rank was not yet at the nine-ringed level. However, the name White Bone Shepherd was not unfamiliar, so it was at least a seven or eight-ringed great ability?

  Bai Gu Mu Zhe

  Pale Destiny

  Luo Wei silently recited the two names in his heart, and for some reason, when he silently recited the name "Cang Bai Ming Yun", he felt a strange emotion emerging in his heart. This emotion contained nostalgia, shame, irritation, sadness, and anger.

  As expected, the title of "Pale Fate" which belongs to a certain 9th ring mage, is also a keyword filled with memories for the original owner of this body, the magician Salo.

  But what surprised Luo Wei was that although the pale fate stirred up a severe emotional response in his body, there were no memory fragments related to it that emerged.

  Friend or foe?

  Rovin couldn't give himself an accurate answer, so he could only make the worst assumption - the Nine-Ringed Sorcerer, Sage of Pale Fate, was an enemy of the magician Salo.

  In that case, the place called Dark Wilderness will definitely be absolutely impossible to approach from now on.

  Luoyi made up his mind in secret.

  Thoughts always move faster than the flow of time in reality, so under Roviel's absolute determination not to approach the dark wasteland, and then returned to reality from a state of contemplation, the slave trader Colenweh had just asked his next question.

  "Mr. Luo Wei, this defensive three-ring magic tool, the Fire Shield Ring, is priced at 4,500 gold coins. What do you think?"

  The slave trader said.

  "Four thousand five hundred golden crow bridges?"

  Lovi's face showed a look of surprise, the memory fragments left by magician Salo told him that the fire shield ring that could only be activated by incantation was a very trashy magic ring, so Lovie estimated its value to be around one or two thousand gold Galdton.

  Now, slave trader Korunwi reported 4,500 gold in transit ravens, which is equivalent to the high price of 9,000 gold Gaddons!

  "Mr. Lovi, the price really can't be any higher! It's just a defensive three-ring magic tool, even if in a few months, the Magic Academy of Kandia in the mountain city will hold its tenth annual Magic Competition, and the price of magic items will rise by about 20%, but 4,500 gold ravens are really already the limit price for this fire shield ring..."

  The slave trader who had misunderstood Luo Wei's meaning explained with a bitter face.

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