This Lich Requests More Remuneration
Chapter 616 - 546: Chaos Ensues When Everyone Can Cast Magic

Chapter 616: Chapter 546: Chaos Ensues When Everyone Can Cast Magic

Zariel looked at the data displayed on the Magic Mirror and said in shock, "Are these... all Soul Currency? Where did they come from?"

Amberser explained, "Strictly speaking, they are merely data entries of Soul Currency. In reality, most of them are stored in the form of Soul Fragments. When needed, these Soul Fragments will serve as raw materials, which I then piece together into Soul Coins."

"No wonder the numbers are so strange. What’s the exchange rate?"

Amberser replied, "Regardless of size, one hundred Soul Fragments can be exchanged for one Soul Coin. The exchange can be done directly through the Magic Mirror, without the need to seek help from other Hell Lords."

Unexpectedly, Zariel said, "That’s more merciful than I expected. I thought you would raise the exchange rate by tenfold."

In Hell, there were also methods to compress Soul Fragments into Soul Coins, but it would nearly take seventy to eighty Soul Fragments just to create the lowest-grade Soul Coin.

The process is wasteful, time-consuming, and laborious, but the effect of using complete Soul Coins is many times stronger than merely using Soul Fragments. They are also essential fuel for many hellish devices.

It’s like the difference between high-purity fuel and low-purity material.

Amberser’s exchange rate was one hundred to one. Even if the size of the Soul Fragments was not restricted, this was very generous of him.

After all, the exchange could be made at any time, without risking life and limb to pry them from the grasp of Hell Lords.

It was precisely this aspect that led Zariel to believe Amberser was conducting a losing business. Zariel suspected that it had to do with Amberser’s ability to "forge" currency. The cost for him to mint Soul Coins was definitely much lower.

Zariel wasn’t wrong. Others needed seventy to eighty Soul Fragments to press a Soul Coin, but Amberser only needed twenty to thirty. The ability to create Pseudo-Souls allowed him to greatly reduce costs, while the unique characteristics of the Magic Mirror Spirit ensured that Amberser could efficiently serve all Magic Mirror users, as efficiently as the internet in a previous life.

However, there was still one problem.

Zariel keenly grasped the crux of the matter and pressed, "But convenience is useless if the majority of devils cannot produce that many Soul Fragments."

Amberser smiled and said, "Exactly. So half of these numbers on the accounts are from my personal subsidy, about one-third are low-interest loans, and only the remaining portion represents real deposits."

A bank can’t just collect funds from the wealthy, but the distribution of wealth in Hell is extremely unbalanced.

Hell Lords can amass a large number of Soul Fragments, while the nomadic devils barely have any surplus. For cambions like Cambion, at the bottom of the hierarchy, even securing a meal is a struggle, let alone using sophisticated methods to combine Soul Fragments into Soul Currency.

And inferior demons ranking even lower than Cambions tend to not survive a few years after their transformation, soon reverting to Soul Fragments scattered across the ground to be reaped.

Yet, even if all the Hell Lords and devils were amassed together, the Soul Fragments they held would still be no match for those collected by the scattered devils struggling to survive in the wilderness.

The problem remained: how to persuade these devils to deposit their Soul Fragments into the bank.

Living day-to-day without enough food, these devils would shove any two fragments they found into their mouths. Cambion had only had enough rations for one day, and the next day, he would have to go "scavenging" in the wilderness again.

If they barely had enough to eat, how could they have extra to deposit?

Moreover, the spread of Magic Mirrors in Hell wasn’t wide enough yet. The Magic Mirror Amberser could offer them for free, but the creation of such alchemical artifacts still involved costs, and they were much more expensive than Amberser’s forging of Souls.

Amberser spent a great deal of effort negotiating with the God of Alchemy, and they enhanced the formula for the Magic Mirror, modifying the recipe to suit materials readily available in Hell.

Once the design was ready, Amberser released the inferior demons under Melina’s control.

These little guys were tasked not only with carrying their own Magic Mirrors but also with spreading the word about the functionality and formula of the Magic Mirror.

With more confusion, Zariel objected, "Inferior demons? Such insignificant creatures, what can they promote? In the wilderness, they are considered mere prey."

Amberser laughed, "If it were up to them alone, of course they wouldn’t be strong enough, Devils can certainly strengthen themselves by devouring Souls, but this strengthening first depends on talent and second on time, forcibly stuffing them with Soul Currency doesn’t do much in the short term, so I chose a more convenient method."

The content displayed on the Magic Mirror changed once again, showing a dozen magical options.

"What is this... wait, isn’t this the Magic Web?!"

Zariel was shocked because what appeared on the Magic Mirror was the "pay-to-cast" feature.

Choose different Spells, deduct the cost directly from your account, and then you can have the Magic Mirror cast the corresponding Spell for you.

Although none are particularly powerful Spells, just the Fireball Technique is not something those inferior demons can master. Not to mention high-level Spells like Chain Lightning and High-level Invisibility, not many High-level Devils could cast those.

And now, even inferior demons with absolutely no talent for casting could directly cast Spells by paying through their accounts.

"Have you gone mad? Where are you getting all that Magic Power?!"

According to what Amberser had said earlier, the majority of these hefty deposits were his own private subsidies, which meant that when these devil users employed the pay-to-cast service, Amberser was the one mostly shouldering the cost.

Madness, how many Devils would be fighting in that instant, how many Devils would require Amberser to provide Magic Power.

Such a massive consumption would drain Zariel in an instant, what made Amberser think he could manage, did he really see himself as the Magic Goddess?!

After thinking for a while, Zariel asked with skepticism, "Could it be your Legendary ability related to Gold?"

Amberser didn’t hide it, admitting, "That’s right, the power of the Golden Throne hasn’t vanished, I can use Gold to substitute for Magic Power, and I can be present in every Magic Mirror at the same time, able to offer casting assistance to users in a timely manner. So, pay-to-cast doesn’t just demand Soul Fragments, it also requires Gold. But Gold isn’t worth much in Hell, is it?"

To Hell, Gold genuinely isn’t valuable.

The most common tactic Devils use to entice mortals into damnation is to offer money, plenty of money, which shows just how abundant Gold is in Hell.

It may not be as common as rocks, but its price is not much higher than other metals, especially in areas covered with lava, where Dog Head Gold larger than a head can be found effortlessly, spewed to the surface with the magma, even mining is unnecessary.

Gold is used for casting, while Soul Fragments are pure profit for Amberser.

Zariel finally understood, excitedly saying, "You really are insane, doing this... if you do this..."

Zariel was at a loss for words to describe Amberser’s operation but could foresee how terrifying it would be when every devil in Hell had a Magic Mirror in hand. As long as this man could hold up, he would be the master of Hell’s Magic Web.

Once he accomplished this, the entire social structure of Hell would change.

There’d be no such thing as low-level devils anymore, as long as you had enough Gold and Souls, any Devil could become a powerful Spellcaster using the Magic Mirror. The days when Cambions chased a group of Minor Coward Demons with a stick would be gone; they could tear the Cambion to shreds with a Magic Mirror.

Other Devil Lords would also need to worry about this matter, if a large number of inferior demons raised their Magic Mirrors to attack their fortresses, ordinary Lords might not be able to hold back.

Amberser, however, spoke calmly, "From now on, wealth will truly become a part of strength! But that will take a long time, see, all this money is still my own subsidy, the users who really use the Magic Mirror for pay-to-cast are still too few. Give it a few years, by then there will be no more low-level oppression and bullying, everyone will be blasting each other with Fireball Technique. Only when the lowest-level inferior demons can wield powerful Magic will Hell not be chaotic, don’t you agree?"

Zariel only felt a shiver all over, would that not be chaos?

Wouldn’t that be the most tumultuous time in Hell?

However, Zariel felt the entire first layer of Hell trembling faintly, as if resonating with Amberser’s actions.