Volume 1 Chapter 51 (1/2)

Positions of magicians and merchants

“That’s right, I don’t have enough gold coins right now and can’t support the daily expenses of this Magic Tower.” Hearing Xu Yi coldly penetrating through him, Great Magician Camilla didn’t seem hurt at all. He just let out a soft sigh and directly admitted the truth, “But Xu Yi, I don’t like magic being polluted by the spirit of merchants. This is my principle, you don’t need to spend all that effort to change my thoughts.”

Xu Yi slightly knit his brows, “Your excellency Great Magician, can I ask why you feel this way…..Magic and money coming together, will it definitely be polluted? From what I can see, this is a complete paradox. Just like I said just now, money is innocent and as for how it is used, it completely depends on a person’s thoughts. You might think that money and magic coming together is bad, but rather I feel the complete opposite. If money and magic come together, it can create very wonderful changes.”

“Wonderful?” Great Magician Camilla gave a strong snort, “For a fellow like you with such a strong talent for magic to become a lowly merchant, how is that a wonderful change?”

Xu Yi knit his brows even tighter, “Your excellency Great Magician, your prejudices are too strong. Perhaps in the tradition of the Sines Continent, magicians are higher than merchants, but from what I can see, the merchants of the Sines Continent are stronger than the magicians.”

“Nonsense!” Great Magician Camilla suddenly slapped the desk and angrily stood up. He pointed at Xu Yi as he cursed, “You actually dare say that a magician can’t compare to those dirty merchants? What can those merchants do? They only rob people of their money with their black conscience! Whether it is their eyes or their brain, it is filled with thoughts of money and they don’t even have any honour among themselves! Those fellows, you are actually comparing them to magicians? Are you trying to shame me?”

“Then your excellency Great Magician, what can magicians do?” Xu Yi said with a cold smile, “Keep researching more powerful magic to become more efficient at killing people?”

“You……” Great Magician Camilla wanted to say that Xu Yi was speaking nonsense, but he suddenly stopped.

This was because he realized that Xu Yi was actually completely right.

That’s right, magicians had a high status on the continent, but why was that ? Of course it was because magicians were stronger than normal people and then easiest place for that to manifest itself was on the battlefield. Magicians had much greater killing power than normal soldiers with their magic.

In the history of the Sines Continent, many countries had countless wars and in those wars, magicians played a very important role each time.

Even some more powerful magicians, like those at the Great Magician Rank, just one or two of them was enough to change the situation of a battle or even influence the entire war.

Therefore, from a long time in the past, Magicians had always been feared and worshipped by people of the Sines Continent. Their statuses kept increasing without stop.

But no matter how high of a status a magician had, that didn’t change a fact, which was that Xu Yi was completely right. Magicians had always done a single thing, which was to keep studying more powerful magic.

As for the reason why they studied more powerful magic? Of course it was to have a bigger role on the battlefield.

To be more precise, it was to be more effective at killing people.

Thinking of this, Great Magician Camilla’s face that had been red because of Xu Yi’s words instantly turned pale. His finger pointing at Xu Yi began trembling and after a while, he fell back into his chair and didn’t speak for a long time.

Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head. If it wasn’t for the special circumstances, he wasn’t willing to be this direct with Great Magician Camilla.

But this was indeed his true inner thoughts.

He could understand why magicians had such a high status on the Sines Continent, but that didn’t mean he agreed with this.

From what Xu Yi could see, having powerful strength was indeed important because this could allow one to protect oneself and one’s important things.

But other than this, the most important thing was normal life.

Humans created civilization because they chased a more beautiful life.

Because of this point, humans invented various tools. This was the case from the ancient stone ages to the highly advanced civilization on earth.

With the development of civilization, humans could go from not having enough to eat to not worrying about food or clothes. They could even go into the sky or ocean, or even reach outer space.

If they lost this point, that means that human civilization would lose their driving force. At that time, they would be no different from animals.

Magic was very powerful, but Xu Yi was more willing to use magic to increase everyone’s quality of living instead.