Steadfast Wizard: From Heart-Swapping Rat to Dimensional Demon God

Chapter 107 Sudden Wealth! The Enchanting Princess Philo!

Cheryl was telling the truth. Despite the tattered appearance of the pile of stuff, it was actually top-notch. Most of it was in excellent condition, and many of the core components could be reused simply by removing the unimportant wires and wiping them clean.

The drawback is that while they are all cores, golems are not just cores; the trunk also requires a lot of materials to build.

But none of that matters. This pile is conservatively estimated to have over three hundred cores. Sell some and keep some for ourselves, and we can still make over a hundred more complete Obsidian Golems.

Moreover, the territory doesn't even need to be sold!

Because the Solomon Territory has obsidian mines!

The territory can produce most of the materials needed to create golems, except for Harris Goat Steel, which needs to be purchased from outside. However, the problem is that firstly, they can buy it through official channels, which is a controlled resource for others, but not for Solomon. Secondly, there are substitutes for Harris Goat Steel that the territory produces, although they are of slightly lower quality.

But that's okay, you can use it first and then replace it later!

So, in summary, Cheryl can make full use of all of these golem cores to create another golem army for her territory!

Even if you can't afford to keep them, you can sell them now, which is much more expensive than selling materials and golem cores separately.

But right now, the only problem that still exists is that the territory is out of money.

The previous battle with the Black Orcs had essentially depleted the territory's strategic resource reserves. Now, the territory needs money everywhere. Although the Empire rewarded my father with some gold coins when he was promoted, it was nothing compared to the expenses of the territory.

So the current situation is that the products are very good, and they really want them, but they can't afford them.

"It's alright, you can take it back first, and settle the bill later. I'm not that short of money right now, I have enough for the time being," Isaac nodded and said casually.

He was also aware of the situation regarding the territories, which was one of the reasons why he didn't want more territories after becoming a wizard—not all territories are profitable.

Especially in a rapidly developing territory, it is an incredibly terrifying money pit!

In the case of the Solomon Territory, the territory has been constantly expanding outwards in recent years. Training soldiers costs money, fighting wars costs money, settling people in conquered territories costs money, and building new territories costs even more money...

Especially the construction of new territories!

That requires money in every aspect!

As a frontier territory, Solomon was able to expand outwards, but the lands outside his borders were wild and untamed, with extremely harsh environments.

Only the Black Orcs can survive there. After conquering a territory, it usually takes a long time to develop it into a habitable place for ordinary humans, which requires a lot of gold coins to be poured into it.

Otherwise, do you think the empire would be so kind as to grant such great authority to the border lords?

Solomon's territory was able to survive for two reasons: first, Gaia or Caesar often led cavalry to roam the wilderness, killing any Black Orc tribes they caught and plundering a lot of things to sell; second, Cheryl's Golem Workshop continuously turned the mineral resources in the territory into golems to sell to other nobles, resulting in a large cash inflow.

Thirdly, each head of the family would form an adventure team when they were young, travel all over the world, dig up many relics, and sell many treasures, which provided them with enough funds to support themselves.

It can be said that the Solomon family's success today is due to their hard work, but they have also been quite lucky. If they had encountered any problems with their finances, they would have all gone under.

Therefore, he fully understood Cheryl's predicament. Moreover, the quantity was indeed large and valuable. It would be difficult to find a customer who could buy so many golem cores at once. Selling them slowly would take forever.

They might even try to lower the price.

Rather than that, it would be better to sell it to the family. Given Caesar's personality, he certainly wouldn't let his younger brother suffer a loss, especially if it were on credit. He might even buy it at a premium.

As for whether they can repay it...

That's impossible. The eldest sister's mage tower can create complete golems. Unlike potions, which many wizards learn as a side skill, golems are a high-end skill that a single wizard simply cannot master.

After all, the main market for golems is still in the hands of various nobles and powers, who buy dozens at a time. Even if the technical problems are solved, small wizard workshops don't have that kind of production capacity.

Of course, Princess Filo is an exception; she's a princess of a kingdom, a wealthy woman who already had her own mage tower during her formal wizarding stage.

Different.

Therefore, he was not worried at all about the territory not being able to repay the money.

Hearing this, Cheryl nodded, her heavy heart from Remington's death easing somewhat. She smiled and said, "In that case, I'll trade to you at 10% above market price, payable in three installments, once a year."

Isaac nodded, having no objection. Building golems is very time-consuming; with the territory's production capacity, it's only about three per month. These three hundred-plus cores would take several years to produce at full capacity without expanding the production line. Paying in three years is perfectly acceptable.

Since this was already prioritized for him, he naturally wouldn't have any other objections.

So, with Isaac's permission, Cheryl waved her hand, and a magic circle opened above the training ground. A blue light covered the golem remains, and in an instant, all the golem remains floated up, piece by piece, for Cheryl to count.

Isaac's brow twitched at the sight of this spell. Was this the strength of a Grand Arcane Mage trainee?

This pile of golem remains may not look big, only thirty or forty cubic meters, but it's all solid lumps of iron with top-notch density. Although it hasn't been weighed, it's conservatively estimated to weigh at least a thousand tons!

Don't you see that after just two days of this, the training ground has become completely dilapidated?

When he first transported this thing into the dimension, hundreds of greatsword demons helped him move it. Now, Cheryl just waved her hand and it was done. The difference is...

Thankfully, my older sister is one of us!

"There are 347 complete golem cores in total, plus three that are slightly damaged—I'll say 350 for you. Then there are the other materials—not very valuable, I'll just give you 100,000 gold coins for them. That's a total of 1.5 million gold coins. Would you like to check them again?" Cheryl glanced at the floating golem wreckage and understood all the data, then turned to Isaac and said.

"One hundred and fifty—!" Isaac's heart skipped a beat!

Sure enough, no matter what world it is, this is still the most profitable industry!

He's never had a fraction of that amount of money in his entire life!

In that instant, Isaac suddenly didn't want to kill Philo anymore. What a waste to kill her! Anyway, it's said that wizards often have to go out. As a princess of a country, it's normal for her to take a hundred or eighty golems with her when she goes out, right?

This is a sure way to make money!

"Isaac?" Cheryl gently reminded him when he didn't answer.

"Oh, okay, this one, I have no objection!" After a pause, Isaac continued, "Um, ma'am, will the territory still accept golem cores in the future? Hmmm, maybe not just cores."

"?" At first, Cheryl didn't quite grasp Isaac's meaning, but being an arcanist, her mind worked quickly, and she immediately understood Isaac's idea. She was speechless for a moment, then said, "It's impossible to accept more in the future." Firstly, the mage tower's production capacity is limited; this is enough to keep us busy for seven or eight years. Secondly, we don't have that many clients. Thirdly...

We can only buy this once. If you still have some, I'll introduce you to a friend, and you can sell it to her later. She's not afraid of trouble.

"Oh, oh." Isaac nodded somewhat, realizing he had asked a stupid question.

The territory is not like the empire; it doesn't have such a large production capacity. It's not like you can just throw materials in and golems will come out immediately. Besides, this thing was stolen from the eldest princess, and the empire was in the wrong this time, so it's not good for them to say anything.

But if they take it again in the future, the empire will definitely complain.

However, it wasn't all bad news. His idea still had potential. Just like Cheryl said, if they couldn't sell it to the territory, couldn't they sell it to someone else?

The price will be a little lower, but that's nothing, since it's all free business anyway.

The transaction went smoothly. Cheryl had done her homework before coming and had a general idea of ​​the number of golem cores here. She had also obtained the authorization from Gaia and Caesar beforehand. She still had the authority to process orders of 1.5 million.

The transaction was completed quickly. However, it was really just a few blank documents that had been stamped beforehand. Isaac filled in the amount, signed his name, and that was it.

According to the contract, the first payment of 500,000 will be given to Isaac three months later. This is the only payment that will be delayed. From the second payment onwards, payments will be made in accordance with the terms of the contract.

After signing the contract, Cheryl waved her hand and used magic to temporarily create a huge space, taking in all the golem remains. Then she turned and left the territory without lingering.

Firstly, the battle at the fortress had just ended, and she had a lot of things to do. Secondly, there wasn't much for Isaac to do here; in this vast territory, only Isaac and Smith were people.

Isaac didn't keep any of it. He was excited to suddenly receive such a large sum of money, even though he hadn't received it yet. He had to think carefully about how to spend it!

First and foremost, of course, is the Mage Tower!

Forget it—this is too expensive, I can't afford it—anyway, I won't need it, I'll just upgrade the lab and make do. Besides the lab, the monster breeding farm can also be officially built by purchasing materials. He plans to convert the original herb field into a monster breeding farm, just as planned, mainly for raising monster cubs.

There's no need to bother modifying the breeding grounds yourself; you can just buy ready-made ones. These kinds of field spells already have various high-end versions, some of which can even keep the monsters inside in a state of heat 24 hours a day, constantly celebrating life without harming their bodies!

It can be incredibly magical!

Of course, there are also places suitable for monster cubs to grow up in.

There are even those that help monsters awaken their dragon blood, but just how effective are they really?

That's a matter of opinion.

Anyway, Isaac isn't planning to buy that kind. He'll just buy a higher-end model suitable for monster cubs. He'll research the technology for awakening dragon blood himself.

Besides the industry, there are also some things that can be launched ahead of schedule.

For example, floating islands!

Floating islands are not floating cities; they are only somewhat similar. The former is simply a magical natural landscape, while the latter is a powerful weapon developed by arcanists!

An evolved version of the Mage Tower!

A cluster of enormous, high-speed mage towers floating in the air!

Normally, mage towers cannot be moved because their energy comes from the four elemental realms. They need to open a channel in a fixed location and then use a magic circle to purify the four elements into magic power to power the mage tower.

Once the mage tower starts moving, it will either lose its connection with the elemental realm, or the magic flowing from the elemental realm will immediately go berserk!

Therefore, although the Mage Tower is powerful, it can only defend one side, which is not particularly outrageous.

Until the birth of one thing—the Arcane Furnace!

Apart from the higher-ups of the Truth Association, no one knows the principle behind this thing; all they know is that it can unleash almost limitless magical power!

And it's a portable source of magic!

And so... the mobile mage tower appeared—

But soon, the arcanists discovered that the magical power released by the arcane furnace was far too immense; it couldn't possibly power ten mage towers, let alone one.

A hundred seats would be no problem at all!

Thus, the ultimate weapon of the arcane sorcerers, the floating city, was born!

Even if Isaac's savings increased a hundredfold, he still couldn't afford this.

What he wanted to buy was a floating island, which was just a small island that could float in the air. Although it was also expensive, it wasn't as outrageous as a floating city. The prices of the two were worlds apart.

He bought this thing to fill the dimension, of course. That place was barren. To farm, you need land first, right?

His flesh dimension is currently empty. Although the space is large, it is basically unusable. After throwing out the golem remains, all that remains are the flesh nest and a few large rocks that were casually moved in when the nest was built.

Apart from that, there was only emptiness, with hardly any air at all.

So, the first step in creating a dimension is to transport some soil into it. But you can't just dig in any soil, because there's no air in the dimensional void, so no one can live there.

Unlike floating islands, these magical landforms not only float in the air, but also possess a special magical barrier that can decompose the magic in the air into various resources needed for life to grow.

For example, air, water, sunlight, etc.—only with these things can you start farming.

Furthermore, the structure of floating islands is also very suitable for conversion into floating cities; early floating cities were built based on floating islands.

He might do that again when he has money and skills!

Moreover, he has a natural advantage over others. His floating city is in his own dimension, and his magic is completely self-sufficient!

No need for an Olympus furnace!