Sign a Soul Contract??
Glory’s Light was momentarily stunned.
These days, not just anyone had the qualifications to sign a Soul Contract with Li De.
The apprentices who entered the Magic Factory to work all signed contracts with Vina or the first Factory Director, Karu. Li De no longer signed contracts personally. His little maid was fully capable of handling such matters.
And not every apprentice was allowed to sign it. Only those truly qualified to enter the Magic Factory could sign a Soul Contract.
Once the contract was signed, it meant you were wholly part of the Crimson Mage Tower, and the Crimson Mage Tower would spare no effort to cultivate you.
If you didn’t sign the Soul Contract, it was simple, you could only forever engage in peripheral work, handling logistics or, like Glory’s Light, processing magical beast hides. The treatment you received would be countless grades lower, essentially the very bottom rung.
Any mage apprentice recruited into the Crimson Mage Tower was informed of this from the very beginning. If you weren’t willing, you wouldn’t even get through the main gate. So the life and death of the apprentices in the entire Mage Tower were basically tied together with the Crimson Mage Tower.
It wasn’t that no one ever refused to sign, most who did were spies sent by other forces. They would be strictly interrogated with spells, and if no issues were found, expelled. If problems were uncovered, they were dealt with on the spot.
It was just that domineering. There was no talk of fairness. In this world, mages were the most noble profession.
How could you expect to rise above others without paying a price?
Especially for commoners and ordinary families, if their household produced a noble mage, the entire family might thereby come under protection. That allure was too great.
Don’t even mention signing a Soul Contract, there were plenty willing to sign slave contracts.
After considering for a moment, Glory’s Light decisively agreed. After all, he was a player, what was there to be afraid of?
He didn’t believe that merely signing a contract could have any real impact on him.
“Do you know the incantation for the Soul Contract?”
“Of course. I learned it before.”
“Very well. Begin.”
Glory’s Light didn’t dawdle. He directly began reciting the incantation taught to every apprentice by the Crimson Mage Tower.
“Oipfnq, mighty deity who governs death and souls, I am your loyal servant, your most devout believer. I willingly borrow your power to sign a Soul Contract with my master.
If the contract is broken, I will offer my soul to serve you eternally, oh great God of Death."
As the final syllable fell, Li De’s expression grew somewhat peculiar.
Because he truly sensed Glory’s Light’s soul before him.
But unlike others, Glory’s Light’s soul seemed to be protected by a special power. Li De could not truly obliterate the other party’s soul. However, he could erase Glory’s Light’s presence within Glory.
That was to say, the legendary… character deletion.
“What is this supposed to be? Have I become a GM, a game administrator? Can’t kill them but can delete their character?”
Li De’s brows lifted slightly, feeling a hint of regret in his heart. Pity he couldn’t completely control the soul, otherwise he really would become a textbook villainous dark boss.
Meanwhile, Glory’s Light’s face was also extremely odd.
Because he had heard a system prompt.
“Ding. You have signed a Soul Contract with Li De Kachar, Lord of the Crimson Mage Tower. The other party now controls your soul and can erase your presence at any time.
If your presence in Glory is erased, your account will be deleted. Everything will be wiped.”
What the hell is this dogshit???
This vow turned out to be real?? This NPC actually had the authority to delete my account at will??
Goddamn it, you dogshit game developers, today I’m going to beat you until you shit yourself.
Glory’s Light was practically driven mad.
He’d thought that so-called oath was merely a system formality. But damn it, it was real. And the other party could outright annihilate him. This annihilation was ten thousand times worse than any death, it was deletion. Unspeakably tragic. Utterly unjust.
Watching Glory’s Light’s face full of grievance, Li De almost laughed but could only hold it in. This guy must have gotten the system prompt.
Hahaha. These brainless players probably never imagined the system would pull a move like this.
Sure, you can’t die, but deletion? Are you scared or not?
Months of effort, gone with a flick of the finger, anyone would go insane.
“Very good. Glory’s Light, you are now part of the Crimson Mage Tower. This is Mana-Infused Blood, extremely precious. It will let you directly break through and become a Formal Mage. This is your reward.”
Glory’s Light’s expression finally eased a bit. He reached out to receive it, immediately breaking into a broad smile.
Right now he felt that being a big shot’s underling… wasn’t really that hard to accept.
Diluted Mana-Infused Blood
Effects:
- Drinking it immediately restores 30 mana points. Mana recovery speed +100%, can heal injuries.
Description: Blood treated by mysterious methods, brimming with incredible energy.
Originally, Mana-Infused Blood’s properties were not like this.
Mana-Infused Blood
Effects:
- Drinking it immediately restores 50 mana points.
- When consumed by vampires, it increases body recovery speed by 1000% and can heal injuries.
Description: Blood soaked in the Saintlight Vampire’s holy artifact, filled with incredible energy.
But to prevent players from noticing anything, Li De had specially instructed Harrison to mix in many magical ingredients to alter Mana-Infused Blood’s attributes.
Overall, even though the properties of Mana-Infused Blood had been modified somewhat, it still retained its various miraculous effects.
“You can drink it now.”
For an apprentice mage to become a Formal Mage, they needed ample mana as a source to inscribe Magic Nodes.
Li De wasn’t sure whether players had to follow the same procedure. That was precisely why he’d summoned Glory’s Light here.
At this moment, Glory’s Light was his little lab rat. He needed to test all sorts of ideas on him. Later, he would relay the results to his data analysis team so all members of Crimson Moon could learn from them or use them as a reference.
Anyway, this guy couldn’t die, no matter how he tormented him, it didn’t matter.
[T/N: Chapter 244 is massive (almost 10k words) and was a pain in the ass to translate and edit. The author said he was too lazy to divide it into multiple chapters :( ]