Chapter 0427: Keeping a thief for your own benefit
"Are you going to join our Witch Tower?"
The thin and withered Gargamel looked at the wizard apprentice in front of him with suspicion.
"Yes!" Bilis begged anxiously: "My lord, as long as you allow me to continue studying here, I will be obedient and try my best to be an apprentice!"
Gargamel squinted his eyes and listened, looking up and down at the other party.
Well, primary strength...no troublesome family and organizational background...still a wandering apprentice...from these points of analysis, the probability that the other party is a spy planted by a family is very low. If there is really a wizard family who wants to take the idea of the Fire Throne, at least a senior apprentice must be used by the party.
A junior apprentice with poor talent, expecting him to slowly climb to the top and master the secrets of the Witch Tower. Even Gargamel dare not have such an idea, let alone expect any conspirator to make such a low-level mistake.
So the other party should be a poor apprentice who is desperate!
After understanding this, Gargamel finally managed to squeeze out an ugly smile on his gloomy face.
"This wizard tower has just been established and is in urgent need of manpower. We would not accept wandering apprentices like you who have no introduction and no guarantee..."
Hearing this, Bilis, who had an expectant expression on his face, showed an anxious look on his face.
But Gargamel's words soon turned again.
"...However, seeing that you are so sincere, this wizard can give you a chance..."
"Thank you... Thank you..." Bilis couldn't help showing an ecstatic look and thanked him repeatedly.
"Don't thank me yet, let's see how you perform first!" Gargamel grabbed the air, and a metal amulet that was neither gold nor iron appeared in his hand: "Leave your witchcraft mark in it and carry it with you, then go to the senior apprentice Torre and ask him to arrange a room and work for you. From now on, you will be an apprentice of the Fire Throne!"
"Yes, yes... I'll go right away!" Bilis obediently engraved his personal witchcraft mark on the metal amulet, carefully put it in his arms, and then bowed respectfully and left the room.
When his figure disappeared in the room, the beautiful and charming body of the forest demon appeared beside Gargamel: "Why do you keep this rookie apprentice? Aren't you afraid of leaving a hidden danger for the witch tower?"
Seeing Ava coming, Gargamel, who was full of viciousness, immediately transformed into the most caring and considerate husband, carefully helped her sit down, and then put his right hand on her abdomen without any abnormality, silently closed his eyes and sensed the strange rhythm of life.
Although no soul breath was sensed in it, the strength of life was significantly enhanced compared to before.
The forest demon Ava rolled her eyes at Gargamel in displeasure, but her eyes and eyebrows were full of pride and love.
"A kid like this, although his strength is not very good, is the easiest to cultivate into a confidant!" The two of them were so sweet and affectionate for a long time, and Gargamel suddenly seemed to remember and explained: "The Witch Tower has now been initially established, and it will definitely usher in a huge development. Whether it is the owner's family or other organizations, some spies will be planted in one after another. So wedged a few nails in it in advance, so that we can control the situation more in the future..."
"Humph..." The forest demon Ava was obviously not interested in this: "You human wizards are so cunning, even a small Witch Tower requires you to fight for so many things..."
Gargamel shook his head and said: "This is not a trivial matter, but a huge benefit! To put it bluntly, since our Witch Tower was built, The surrounding Black Forest of 300 to 400 miles has become our appendage. As long as it does not fall, no one will take away the benefits here. According to my estimation, the Kamala family will send someone to contact us within a few days..."
"Kamala?" Forest Fairy Ava frowned and couldn't help asking: "You mean, the wizard family closest to Songta Town?"
"Of course!" Since Grimm handed over most of the authority of the Fire Throne Wizard Tower to Gargamel, he has become the butler of the Wizard Tower: "If they move a little slower, the old guys of the Sanditalin Wizard Association will smell it, and I'm afraid the benefits here will have nothing to do with them..."
Speaking of this, Gargamel couldn't help stroking the goatee under his chin, and his mung bean-sized eyes couldn't help but burst out with proud light.
"You mean... the Sanditalin Wizard Association will also send people?"
"Not only will they come, but they will come very quickly!" Gargamel sneered complacently: "But these guys have always been arrogant. If you want to scrape a layer of oil off them, you have to see the means of a certain family... hehehe..."
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It must be said that Gargamel, a wild wizard who has been wandering in the central part of the continent for a hundred years, really has a deep understanding of the wizard family that is difficult for outsiders to understand.
On the second day after Bilis joined the Flame Throne, the envoys of the Kamala family and the Hatch wizard of the Sanditalin Wizard Association came to the Witch Tower at the same time, and they also brought the goodwill and contracts of their respective families and forces.
The envoys of the Kamala family brought an equal cooperation contract, stipulating that both parties, as equal and mutually beneficial partners, will jointly develop the resources and land within the hundreds of miles of the Black Forest around the Flame Throne. The Kamala family is responsible for providing manpower and manpower to open up a small settlement between the Witch Tower and Songta Town that can accommodate a thousand people, and the Witch Tower is responsible for providing necessary security guarantees.
Once the territory derived from this is formed, the Kamala family will occupy 70% of the territory and the people, and the Wuta will not have to pay any price to obtain 30% of the territory and the corresponding people.
No matter from which aspect, this is a good thing for the Fire Throne Wuta!
After all, this is just Grimm's personal private Wuta, and it is difficult to get the full support of the Salupo family. Without the support of the family, he can only rely on himself. Where can he find suitable people, and where can he raise funds to transform the remote and desolate Black Forest into a habitable land suitable for human habitation.
If Grimm wants to monopolize this territory, he can only reject the proposal of the Kamala family and do it all by himself. This also means that in the next hundred years, he will probably spend most of his time on the tedious and complicated territory construction and the trivial matters of eating, drinking, defecating and urinating thousands of people.
And this is undoubtedly unacceptable for Grimm, who has great ambitions and aspirations!
As for the Sanditalin Wizard Association, the conditions given were a bit harsh.
As long as Grimm agreed, the Wizard Association planned to build a public city here with the Flame Throne Wizard Tower as the core. However, the old guys in the Wizard Association were always unwilling to give up the control of the city, and were only willing to give Grimm a profit dividend in the form of magic crystals.
In the future, the land, people, resources and mineral deposits in the surrounding territories will be converted into corresponding magic crystals and fed back to Grimm, but he will not be allowed to interfere in the power operation of the public city.
Such conditions are extremely harsh!
To be honest, Grimm looked down on the conditions offered by these two forces.
The conditions of Sanditalin were too harsh, almost completely hollowing out Grimm's power. And the Kamala family could not give Grimm what he really needed.
As for the territories and resources that they were most interested in, Grimm only cared about the latter, but was not interested in the former.
Territories and people? Can these make him a level 2 wizard?
Now he has put all his thoughts on improving his own strength, and he is not keen on worldly power and wealth. If he has a mature and stable family system now, then the vast territory and endless resources can play a real role and cultivate qualified and coherent family successors.
But now he is almost fighting hard alone. Even if he gives Grimm a huge territory, he has no intention to slowly cultivate wizard apprentices and cultivate family wizards loyal to him!
So Grimm doesn't want to accept any of the conditions of the two families.
But in this way, he will offend the local snakes and the old guys of the Wizard Association at the same time. It can be imagined that the days of the Flame Throne Wizard Tower will not be easy in the future!
Just when Grimm was in a dilemma, Gargamel, who had been prepared, whispered a few words in his ear, which immediately made him smile and shocked.
Yin!
This move of Gargamel is absolutely Yin!
So, on the second day after the two forces contacted Grimm, the monsters came back again.
A team of adventurers who crossed the Fire Cave and went to the northern forest to explore were suddenly attacked by a group of monsters. Only one thief came back from the team of five.
When he fled back to the temporary camp covered in blood, he immediately caused a commotion among the crowd.
Was the tranquility of the Black Forest for half a month just an illusion? Could it be that the surrounding monsters have not been cleared? Could it be that new monsters broke into this vacuum territory?
A series of questions made the mercenary adventurers worried...
With their strength, it would take a lot of risks to slaughter those jungle beasts. Once they encountered those terrible monsters, even if their team expanded ten times and their equipment was ten times better, they could not resist the other party's weird and powerful witchcraft ability.
And the thief who fled back to the camp was soon taken to the witch tower. In front of the representatives of both parties, Grimm asked him about his experience in detail.
They were attacked by monsters 70 miles northwest of the Fire Cave. The attacker was a terrifying demon dog with two heads. It led a group of 20 to 30 demon dogs and attacked their camp at night.
The thief's companions were easily slaughtered without any resistance, and the thief escaped by chance and overheard the conversation between the demon dog leader and another terrifying Medusa in the wild.
It seems... it seems that they are organizing a new wave of beasts, ready to attack the tower built by human wizards again.
And this information is obviously beyond the expectations of all wizards! chapter;
