244: Knowledge is the most valuable asset

Chapter 244: Knowledge is the Most Precious Wealth

At the same time, in a hotel in a city south of the Aimiya Empire, a thin old man was sitting cross-legged on the bed.

In front of him, a magic array filled with black mist was suspended in the air; this was the Wizard Association's dedicated long-distance communication magic array.

Evidently, he was giving his daily work report.

The old man's name was Satim, Enzeer's direct superior, a Two-Crescent business liaison.

At the same time, he was the only resident Two-Star Cadre in Amyria.

Satim just turned sixty this year and has worked in the Aimiya Empire for nearly ten years; he has been diligent and responsible.

Now, Satim had accumulated enough merit points, and he could finally step down from his role as business liaison and go to the Central Continent to participate in the promotion assessment!

If all went well, in a few months, Satim would become a distinguished Three-Star Cadre!

However, having only merit points without strength wouldn't allow him to pass the promotion assessment, and coincidentally, Satim's weakest point was his strength.

The reason he had to serve as a business liaison in the Aimiya Empire was because Satim's strength was insufficient; he had only barely broken through to Level 40 at the age of sixty.

If one had great strength and extraordinary talent, who would want to be a business liaison in the barren Northern region?

After reporting on his recent work, Satim closed the communication magic array, then took out his crescent token and injected soul power.

As a Two-Crescent business liaison, the area Satim was responsible for was the entire Aimiya Empire; his duty was to supervise the 'Wizard Trading Market' here.

If someone posted a transaction that violated regulations, Satim would have the right to withdraw it; he was equivalent to the 'Wizard Market Administrator' within Amyria.

Although it sounded very impressive, in reality, it was a very boring job.

Because there were too few and too low-level wizards within the Aimiya Empire.

It was just those few dozen people coming and going, and the tasks were basically all E-grade; even if Satim wanted to skim some profits from it, he couldn't.

If it were the prosperous Central Continent region, serving as a business liaison there would yield much more profit!

There were many rules in the Wizard Market, but to make money, tasks had to be in violation of rules, so they had to bribe the business liaison.

Unfortunately, Satim managed the Aimiya Empire; he had been a business liaison for so many years, and no one had ever bribed him.

The Black Wizards here were poorer than the last; only Enzeer in the Royal Capital was rich, sending him some gifts every year.

"Sigh, just a few more months, and once I'm promoted to Three-Star Cadre... Hmm?! This, this is..."

Suddenly, Satim's body trembled, and he opened his eyes, filled with shock and uncertainty.

A few seconds later, he probed his consciousness into the Wizard Market again, focusing his attention on a newly appeared task.

"A, A-grade task! A reward of one million merit points!"

"My Dark God, this was actually posted within the Aimiya Empire, it's unbelievable..."

Satim's heart pounded violently, his breathing became rapid, and he couldn't regain his composure for a long time.

He had been a business liaison in the Aimiya Empire for almost ten years and had only ever seen C-grade tasks with four-figure rewards at most.

And now, he had actually seen an A-grade task with a seven-figure reward; this was simply a dream!

"The one handling the business is Enzeer, and it's even... jointly posted by two Three-Star Cadres?!"

Subconsciously, Satim suspected this was a non-compliant task; some Black Wizards would post exorbitant tasks to attract others' attention and gain more exposure.

Generally speaking, such exorbitant tasks were impossible to complete; they were purely trying to attract attention, which was an act of disrupting the Wizard Market.

"Searching for traces of the Demon Phoenix... What is this? What kind of Beast is a Demon Phoenix? I've never heard of it..."

Satim murmured, feeling increasingly that this was a non-compliant task that would leave a black mark on his record.

But Satim hesitated, delaying the cancellation of this A-grade task.

The reason was simple: this task was jointly posted by two Three-Star Cadres, and not only that, they had also paid a deposit of five thousand merit points.

This didn't seem like a random posting.

Of course, the most important thing was that Satim didn't dare offend two Three-Star Cadres.

He was already weak in strength, and having struggled in the Wizard Association for so many years, he understood human relationships best.

"No, I must go to the Royal Capital and see what's going on."

Meanwhile, in a guest room at Baisen Manor in the Inner City of the Emilia Imperial Capital.

Cecilia had returned from the Wine Country and returned the wizard token to Dick.

"Dick, what if someone actually accepts the task, how should we pay the deposit...?"

Now, Cecilia completely understood the operating rules of the Wizard Market; large transactions required a deposit, which was 20% of the reward.

In other words, if someone accepted Dick's task, they would need to pay a deposit of two hundred thousand merit points first!

However, the awkward thing was that their wizard tokens now only had a few thousand merit points left; the balance was severely insufficient.

If they couldn't pay the deposit, it would be judged as a non-compliant transaction, and the five thousand deposit paid earlier would be deducted.

"Don't worry," Dick said confidently, looking at Cecilia with a light chuckle, "Before dawn, I can earn the deposit back!"

"Could it be... two hundred thousand merit points is actually very little?"

Cecilia tilted her head and asked; she had just come into contact with the Wizard Trading Market and had no concept of the value of merit points.

"No, no," Dick shook his head and said slowly, "Two hundred thousand merit points is an astronomical figure."

Thinking carefully, you'd know that whether it was Ina or Hazel, both were Three-Star Cadres, but their balances didn't exceed ten thousand.

This was enough to show that two hundred thousand merit points was definitely a huge sum for an average Three-Star Cadre, a huge sum they couldn't save in a lifetime!

Although they held positions in the Wizard Association and could receive a salary every month without doing anything, it was pitifully small.

A One-Star Cadre could receive 5 merit points per month, a Two-Star Cadre 20 merit points, and a Three-Star Cadre 100 merit points.

Solely relying on this basic dead salary, they couldn't save two hundred thousand even if they lived out their natural lifespan, and besides, there were many places where merit points needed to be spent in daily life.

Just casually browsing the trading market, buying a little here and a little there, hundreds or thousands of merit points would quickly disappear.

Therefore, even high-level cadres had to frequently do tasks to earn merit points, otherwise, they would just be paupers.

"Then, then what should we do? Where can we get so many merit points all of a sudden...?"

Looking at the panicked Cecilia, Dick casually said, twisting his neck, "Just sell something, and you'll earn it back."

"Sell something?"

Cecilia was stunned for a moment, looked at the empty-handed Dick, and asked doubtfully, "Sell... what?"

"Knowledge."

Dick pointed to his head and smiled, "The most precious wealth is knowledge; it cannot be seen or touched, but it is the most sought-after commodity in the Wizard Market!"

After saying that, Dick sat cross-legged on the bed, closed his eyes and focused his mind, and began browsing the Wizard Market in his mind; he was going to make a killing in merit points.

There was nothing good to browse in the market in the Northern part of the Demon Spirit Continent; the transactions here were all low-level and extremely poor.

Therefore, Dick was browsing transactions on a global scale, specifically filtering for intangible online transactions, which were the fastest way to cash out.