Chapter 712 - Attacked First (1/2)

Chapter 712 Attacked First

It was understandable why Solisa would wear such an expression when she had always been careless.

One would never worry about daily expenses until one took charge. In reality, as the only daughter of a boss, she had enough money for her own use. It didn’t require much money to establish a loosely-organized guild of players.

However, after she established the Summoning Magic Tower, she found that her money was really not enough. After they got a stable base, house maintenance and furniture were both costly.

She also had to prepare food and the necessary clothing.

For example, the “school uniform” of the Summoning Magic Tower had to be designed with good materials.

The materials and the designers had to be paid for too.

Although the summoning spell of the elves would automatically be learned after they reached the level, they would have additional slots after they became Masters and they could learn new spells.

So, she had to prepare spell models too, including everything from the beginner ones to the advanced ones.

er ones

It was okay not to learn the new spells, but as a magic-related society, its future depended on the number and coverage of the spell models it had.

The female Elven Summoners were very strong. Each of them was a soldier, and they could make money on their own.

However, the female NPCs in the game weren’t so capable, and they needed money to take care of their life problems.

That was very costly too.

So, Solisa had been quite short of money.

She felt that the Magic Tower she built was a bottomless hole, swallowing all her savings from accomplishing quests in the past four years.

Fortunately, Roland had offered a lot of funding

He even made the full payment of five hundred gold coins in advance.

Solisa was greatly relieved. She didn’t feel the urge to sell herself for money anymore.

After all, she was already getting anxious when she realized that she couldn’t make ends meet again after she used up Roland’s payment.

Therefore, she decided to let go of her pride and clung to the thigh of the magnate Roland.

Why didn’t she seek the sponsorship of the famous anchors or other rich guys in reality?

As a matter of fact, it had been calculated on the forum that the money Roland had spent on the Delpon Magic Tower, his equipment, the magic school, and all other aspects had definitely amounted to more than a hundred million. In comparison, Principal Huang and the other magnates hadn’t really invested much in the game. Admittedly, Solisa was truly visionary to have expanded the Phoenix Guild into the largest guild in the game.

She had made another good move with the instincts of a woman.

Roland was slightly surprised to see Solisa’s adulating smile. Not just him, the other four girls were astonished too.

Solisa had always impressed them as a strong and independent person. So far, the Phoenix Guild had never counted on men’s help.

But seeing the helplessness underneath Solisa’s smile, Roland instantly got it.

As a leader of an organization himself, he knew that it required devotion as well as wealth to support.

“Okay, you can protect me if we’re involved in a fight later.” Roland thought for a moment. “Is five gold coins per person enough?”

All the girls were excited except Solisa.

They were not exactly poor, but they had rarely met quests that paid one gold coin, much less one that paid five gold coins.

Solisa smiled. Five gold coins were a lot for an individual, but not nearly enough for an organization.

Still, it was better than nothing.

“Great!” The girl who carried Roland here on her horse waved her right hand energetically. “We’ll definitely do our job well now that you’ve paid us well, boss. Don’t worry, the enemy has to conquer an army of summoned beasts if they want to hurt you!”

As she spoke, the other four Summoner girls all summoned their beasts.

All of a sudden, they were surrounded by weird creatures, such as half-naked fawns and four-legged beasts with mushroom heads.

Thanks to the Elven Summoners’ racial talent, the waves of their summoning spells were perfectly hidden in the woods, so the liches didn’t sense anything wrong even though their camp was right behind the hill.

Solisa sat on her unicorn and summoned a white horse. She pointed at it and said, “Get on and we’ll take you to the hilltop.”

Roland got on the horse, which was awfully docile under the control of the Summoners despite its bad temper.

Then, the unicorn led the way, and all the trees and grasses split, like the sea divided by Moses.

On a straight path to the hilltop, the unicorn carried Solisa in the lead, followed by Roland and the other girls who also rode white horses.

Further behind was a dense troop of summoned creatures.

Although Roland could’ve evaporated all the summoned beasts with a blue fireball from the sky, it did feel great when the five of them created an army.

Very soon, all six of them reached the hilltop.

The summoned beasts hid in the lower corners behind them.

Standing amidst the tall grasses, Roland and the others looked ahead through the gaps.

Before them was a valley surrounded by hills. It wasn’t very large, but it could contain a town.

A lot of altars and weird buildings made of bones were neatly established in the valley. Many moving white objects were vaguely moving on the road too.

“There’s a barrier here that can prevent the dispersion of dark magic power.” Solisa appeased the slightly anxious unicorn. “So we didn’t find them until we were really close.”

“It’s a delicate and interesting magic array.”

As the strongest Mage player, Roland had detected the magic barrier the moment he came. He dropped three magic spiders.

The little creatures quickly crawled past the barrier and entered the camp of the liches. The girls watched the spiders disappear with wariness on their faces.

In the end, Solisa said, “Roland, can you keep the spell model of those spiders to yourself?”

“Why?”

“They’re really great scouts,” said Solisa in disdain. “You are an honorable man and won’t use it to do anything bad, but if it’s disseminated and every Mage picks it up, I’m afraid that no women will dare to shower with ease.”

“Oh…” Roland realized that she did have a point.

Indeed, after a dozen optimizations, the spell model of the magic spiders was so concise and efficient that even a magic apprentice could learn it easily.

It was true that some malicious people might use it to do evil things.

“Okay, I can promise you that.” Roland thought for a moment and said, “But I dare not guarantee that the other Mage players won’t be inspired by my magic spiders and create a similar spell. Just don’t blame it on me if they do anything.”

Roland never considered himself the only smart person in the world.

After the other players found ways to make use of magic power, they would definitely walk a path of their own.

Roland could only keep pressing forward, so that he wouldn’t be left behind.

“I’m relieved to hear that.” Solisa seemed relaxed.

At this moment, Roland suddenly turned around and looked at the liches’ camp, as the magic spiders were sending back pictures and sounds.

The liches’ camp was abound with dark magic power, which was blocked by the barrier and didn’t disperse to the outside world.

Even the ground had been corrupted by the magic power and looked ominously gray.