Chapter 78 Means

  (10,000 subscriptions collected, throwing flowers, just in time to finalize the contract for the Traditional Chinese version this afternoon, spent the afternoon organizing publishing drafts, didn't write anything new, updating now, extremely sorry! Well, so everyone doesn't have to worry about being cut off, at least there's a guaranteed basic income)

  "Hmph, these two are indeed up to no good. They actually got me to sign a contract, trading the magic core for some Nether God Grass." Xiao Chen flicked through the contract.

  As soon as they signed, they would be bound by the rules of the contract. Xiao Chen was willing to exchange, and when the time came, even if it caused a commotion in the academy, there would be nothing that could be done about these two people.

  "These two, are simply not greedy enough, they actually want to set a trap for the master, wait until I erase their will and turn them into idiots." Denox gazed coldly at the two.

  "No need, these two are instructors, it's too conspicuous." Xiao Chen shook his head.

  Looking at the two people with bewildered eyes.

  Denuos, who mastered the soul illusion technique, took control of their spirits with one move. As a former nine-star wizard, Denuos' strength far surpassed that of the two, even as a residual soul. He silently and stealthily launched a sneak attack, taking control of the duo.

  "Lao De, hypnotize them and have them tell me where the magic core is?" Xiao Chen said.

  Denuos's spiritual power dispersed.

  A circle of black ripples emerged from the eyes of both people, looking very strange.

  "Tell me, where is the Maelstrom Core?" Denox asked.

  "The demon core is on me." Bano said mechanically.

  "It's on him!" Xiao Chen stood up, unexpectedly this person was really greedy to the extreme, and actually had a demon core hidden on his body.

  He walked over, fumbled for a moment, and then pulled out a purple box from Bano's bosom.

  Xiao Chen opened it, and a crystal the size of a fist inside emitted circles of magical light, with the shadow of a small wolf appearing and disappearing within.

  At a glance, Xiao Chen was certain that this was the Demon Core. The aura it emitted was similar to that of the Demon Core of the Kastor Merchant Alliance's Lishan Mouse, but different in that this Demon Core was one circle larger and its magical aura more intense. The quality of the crystal as a whole was obviously much better than that of the Lishan Mouse's earth-type Demon Core.

  "The Storm Wolf's magic core, a mid-grade first-class magic core. Not bad! Although it can't compare to the likes of the Whistling Wind Vulture and the Ghost Face Blood Scythe, extreme-quality magic cores, it's still not bad." Dennox said with an undulating tone.

  "A first-class medium-grade, how is it possible? A first-class demon core can still be divided into grades?" Xiao Chen looked at him.

  "Of course, master," said Denox. "Even among first-class magical beasts, the gap in strength is enormous. Top-notch ones like the Screamwind Vulture and the Ghost-faced Blood Scythe can single-handedly annihilate hundreds of ordinary first-class magical beasts. The quality of their magic cores naturally differs greatly, so there are also grades for magic core quality, divided into upper, middle, lower, and extreme grades."

  Hurricane Wolf, as a mid-tier demon beast, has a magic core that is also mid-tier. If it were the magic core of a top-tier demon beast like Whirlwind Vulture, it would be an extreme-quality magic core. Generally, the price difference between two tiers is tenfold. One extreme-quality magic core can exchange for around ten high-quality magic cores. If it's this kind of mid-quality magic core, one extreme-quality magic core could exchange for around a hundred.

  "What a huge difference!" Xiao Chen clicked his tongue and said: "What level was that cracked mountain rat demon core we saw in the business alliance last time?"

  "The Leshan mouse can only be considered a weak first-order demon, the demon core is a low-grade product, but that one, in fact, not even as good as a low-grade product, that demon core has been damaged and may have been obtained from a newly promoted demon beast, the essence of the demon core has not yet fully formed, at most it's only worth half the value of a first-order low-grade demon core."

  "What... that inferior one is worth 150,000 gold coins, and a normal first-class low-grade magic core would cost around 300,000 gold coins. The one I have in my hand is mid-grade, equivalent to ten low-grade ones, which means it's worth 3 million gold coins..." Xiao Chen didn't realize it until he calculated it, but now he truly felt the value of the magic core in his hand was comparable to a city.

  Three million gold coins, how much money is that?

  Even Xiao Chen, who had no concept of money, understood that this was a terrifying number.

  No wonder these two mentors were blinded by greed and wanted to set up a trap to seize the magic core.

  "Three million, what's the big deal..."

  De Knox whispered.

  Obviously, for the former nine-star master, even a first-class extreme magic core would be easy to get, let alone this small middle-grade magic core.

  Xiao Chen put away the magic core.

  "What about these two, sir?" Dennox asked.

  "They..." Xiao Chen gazed at Bano and Kanfield, deep in thought.

  These two people cannot be killed, and if they are not handled properly, it will also be a trouble.

  "Actually, sir," Dennox said, "I have a way to erase one of their memories."

  "You still have this ability, then it's simple." Xiao Chen's eyes flashed, he straightened his body, walked to the door and called out to his servant.

  "Sir, is there an order?" A servant ran over from a distance.

  "Give me another thirty bottles of strong liquor!" Xiao Chen ordered.

  "Thirty bottles......" The waiter was stunned...

  ……

  ……

  An hour later, a horse carriage left the Mansa Hotel.

  After several days, a rumor spread outside the college that two instructors from the Wind Department got drunk after competing in drinking outside and were carried back to the college, where they fell into a coma and couldn't be awakened even with magic.

  The hotel attendant who sent him back twice had explosive news, and the two were said to have drunk a whole cellar of wine in the hotel, which was unprecedented and unmatched.

  They fell into a coma for nearly half a month, and in the end, it was only when the Academy sent a law enforcement officer to use the light system's "Great Purification Technique" that the two of them woke up.

  However, no matter how people asked them, neither of the two could recall the situation of drinking alcohol.

  Drinking until losing memory, fainting until a monk takes action can wake up.

  The "heroic deeds" of these two people naturally spread widely, becoming the laughing stock of countless people. The two were jokingly referred to as the "Gods of Wine" by curious onlookers, and their reputation was loudly proclaimed.

  Even students from other departments flocked to the Wind Department, wanting to catch a glimpse of the Wine God's demeanor.

  In the end, the impact of the incident was so great that even the school authorities had to step in and expel the two individuals before the matter could be settled.

  Time went back to that noon.

  Xiao Chen ordered the hotel attendants to send the two people in the private room, who were drunk and unconscious, with a strong smell of alcohol emanating from every pore on their bodies, back to school.

  He was very sure that these two people would absolutely not wake up for a short time.

  "Master, you're too cruel." Denox shuddered.

  He watched as Xiao Chen used his magical powers to force the wine from a whole cellar into the two men's bodies, so much wine that even if they were two ferocious beasts, they would still be drunk, their blood almost equivalent to high-concentration liquor, completely becoming two drunken men.

  "Even if they don't use any means to erase their memories, these two will still have their brains corroded by alcohol and become useless people."

  As a potion master himself, Dennox was well aware of the harm that alcohol could cause to the body.

  A large dose of liquor was poured into their bodies, and these two people would be completely useless even if they woke up.

  In fact, that's exactly what happened. The two woke up to find their powers greatly diminished, their brains dulled by the corrosive effects of alcohol, and they were no longer able to serve as instructors. Moreover, the influence they had was so pernicious that the academy directly expelled them.