Your Majesty, the Spectacle Has Missed the Country!

　　 Chapter 20 Arnell's Levitation Technique

　　 "It takes about thirteen gold coins to rebuild a stable...round up to the nearest twenty..."

"It takes two gold coins to rebuild a bullock cart. Money is second, but the most important thing is that the bull pulling the cart is frightened... This bull, but Idal leads the strongest bull, full of energy, because Because of you, you may lose a few calves this year, so if you think about the cost of mental loss and the cost of treatment and training...make up a whole, count your ten gold coins..."

　　 "If you add in the white bread you stole and the cost of treating your injuries..."

Bruno stopped the pen in his hand, raised his head, smiled and said, "My respected mage advisor, Mr. Arnell Brad, you now owe me a total of forty-five gold coins, that is to say... you are already in debt. My salary for three months."

　　 Arnell stared at the large number of numbers listed by Bruno on the parchment. For a long while, he said: "If the thirteen gold coins are rounded... shouldn't they be ten gold coins?"

　　 "This is our Idar's tradition, whether it is high or low," Bruno explained.

　　 "So that's it..." Anel nodded thoughtfully.

　　 "So..." Bruno took out a roll of parchment and said, "This is an employment contract that I asked Old Ford to rewrite. Please take a look and then sign it by the way..."

While Arnell looked down the employment contract, Bruno said, "According to the new contract, your monthly salary will still be 15 gold coins before the debt is paid, but 5 gold coins will be automatically deducted. In order to repay the arrears, the calculation rules for the interest on the arrears are stated in the contract..."

　　 Arnell only felt that the words on the parchment were small and pitiful, densely packed, and looked big for a while: "Can't you write the words bigger..."

　　 "Excuse me, Idar has gotten tight on the leather paper recently...If there is no problem, sign it quickly..." Bruno said with a smile.

　　 Arnell didn't bother to look at it, so he directly picked up the pen and signed his name with a few brushes.

　　 Bruno took the contract from Arnell, took a closer look, and then satisfactorily stamped the seal of the Stuart family. A mage’s deed was completed, perfect...

　　 "Cough cough..." Bruno cleared his throat, sat upright, and said, "Mr. Arnell, we should talk about other things now... For example, your levitation technique..."

　　 "The levitation technique was the first magic I came into contact with. Although I don't know any higher-level magic for the time being, it is absolutely easy to cast the levitation technique." Anel was full of confidence.

　　 "How many times a day can it be released? How long can it last?" Bruno asked directly.

　　 "Also, what do you think about working eight hours a day? It should be very humane..."

　　 Arnell: "???"

　　I am a mage, a mage!

　　 still tm work eight hours a day? The donkeys in the production team are not so productive!

　　 "Bruno Stuart, Earl of Idal," Anel finally said with a serious face: "Are you sure you are not kidding?"

　　 "I don't think so."

　　 "Spellcasting will greatly consume the caster's mental and magical powers. Not to mention working eight hours a day, even two consecutive hours of casting is a whimsical thing." Anel retorted.

"I need to remind you that the reason I hired you was to build a sky garden, and if you only rely on serfs to build it, then the completion of the construction is almost indefinite, so I want you to help those serfs, in A suspension technique is applied to stone or wood to speed up the progress of the project." Bruno said frankly.

　　 "It is a shame for a mage to be with a serf! It is a defilement to the nobility!" Anel said angrily.

"What do you think is the gap between us and the serfs?" Bruno asked in return: "It's nothing more than we gave birth to better! Serfs are neither dull nor despicable. They rely on their own strength to exchange food and shelter, we What right do you have to despise them?"

　　 The room suddenly became quiet, as if the air had solidified. Bruno stopped talking, just watching the complicated expression on Arnell's face constantly change.

　　 For Arnell, Bruno's remarks today can be regarded as shocking.

　　 After all, the western part of the empire where he was born may be the most severely oppressed and persecuted place on the entire continent. More than half of the serfs in the entire Idar Territory were bought from slave traders in the western part of the empire.

Arnell seemed to have given up resistance. After all, under the eaves, he had to bow his head, so he resignedly said: "It takes about seven or eight seconds for me to chant the Levitation Art, but at most, I can release eight or nine magic spells in a row. After that, you need to rest. You should know that releasing magic consumes a lot of spiritual power for the wizard."

　　 Bruno nodded, expressing his approval.

In fact, Bruno is not completely ignorant of magic. After Arnell arrived, he also specially conducted some "tutorial". Therefore, in Bruno's view, Arnell's efficiency in releasing the levitation technique It's already very high.

　　 After all, for most ordinary mage apprentices, it is possible to release three or two magic and require rest.

　　 It’s just that Bruno is surprised that if Arnell’s mental power can support him to release the levitation technique eight or nine times in a row, then such mental power should be considered extremely good, and it shouldn’t only be basic magic...

　　 But, aside from Arnell, Bruno wouldn't go into the details. After all, getting started is the most important thing.

　　 As for the requirements of "eight hours a day" proposed by Bruno at the beginning, it is naturally not counted, but... isn't that the way negotiations are? Asking all over the sky, sitting on the ground to pay back the money, if you set a realistic requirement from the beginning, it can be said that the noble mage Anel will get another inch...

After thinking for a moment, Bruno suddenly said: "I have always wanted to ask you one thing, you know... The envelope between the Regent Council and the nobles usually has a magic mark to ensure that the letter is not opened before being delivered. If the envelope is destroyed, the magic mark will dissipate. In this case... can the levitation technique be attached to certain objects so that these objects have a levitation effect for a certain period of time?"

　　 "Huh?" Anel was taken aback for a moment. This question... It seems that he has never thought about it...

　　 "It should be... impossible, after all, no one has ever tried it." Anel said uncertainly.

　　 "How long does the magic mark on the envelope exist?" Bruno asked

　　 "That's a special magic circle..." Anel thoughtfully, as if grabbing a filigree filament, but he couldn't figure it out.