This Lich Needs More Money

Chapter 216 Harvey’s deceived life

 William Harvey’s life can be condensed into one word of tragedy.

Since birth, Harvey has been an abandoned baby. Although he was picked up and raised by others, it was not out of kindness and they used him as a livestock. There were more than a dozen abandoned babies who grew up with Harvey, but he was the only one who survived in the end.

Harvey did not fight back by relying on his own ability, but because the old beast drank himself to death.

Harvey was locked in a cage. He took off all his clothes to make a rope, hooked the key from the old beast's body, and survived. Unfortunately, he was still a little slow, so no other children survived.

It seems that from here on, Harvey embarks on a bumpy road, and his survival is mainly due to luck, not because he is smarter than others.

 Escape from the prison of human traffickers, and what follows is a long wandering.

Harvey didn’t even know how he survived. He relied on begging, stealing and other methods to grow up to the age of twelve, and then quietly hid in a monastery, pretending that he wanted to believe in gods.

 Harvey thought he was going to meet a good man. The priest was really kind to him. He not only fed and clothed him, but also taught him how to read.

 Harvey was very studious and studied word by word extremely seriously, until he started to have nightmares about the devil with two baboon heads.

Few people can maintain this unwillingness under the influence of Demogorgon.

This monastery was a fake, and the teachings Harvey saw were actually Demogorgon's hymns.

That night, Harvey once again dreamed of Demogorgon.

A group of bloodthirsty gnolls were attracted by this name full of evil magic and almost ate him to the bone.

 Harvey once thought that this seemed not bad, it was much better than the previous life of being like a wild dog.

 Humans who are targeted by demons will end up very miserable, let alone this demon prince.

 Next, Harvey had to work as a warlock for a while.

But Harvey is always unwilling in his heart. Will he eventually turn into a piece of rotten meat that will fall into hell? It would be better to die at birth, at least it would save you so much torture.

Although he was not happy, Harvey had to admit that the period of becoming a warlock was the easiest in his life.

While wandering in the wild, he occasionally thought about the writing he had learned and wrote his name on the soil.

It's just that Harvey didn't know that the devil was inseparable from him.

 But all he got in exchange was the ruthless ridicule of the demon prince, and it was a double ridicule from two heads.

But perhaps because he had experienced too many fatal crises, Harvey could still remain calm when he dreamed of Demogorgon again, and wanted to talk to the demon prince to see if he could let him go.

 Harvey didn’t know that what the priest taught him was not a script commonly used in the mainland at all, but a script belonging to the devil.

 Harvey knew he had been tricked again.

 At the most critical moment, the evil energy condensed in Harvey's palm, blasting the closest Jackal to pieces.

 After so many years of adventure, Harvey knew what it meant to be a warlock, so he knew he was doomed. He didn't know that he had just recited a few evil prayers praising Demogorgon, but how could he be targeted by this demon?

 Harvey is always a belated observer of other people's deceptions. But it was not too late. Harvey deceived the priest by pretending not to know and escaped from the monastery.

At that time, Harvey was sixteen years old. He cast his first spell, which was a magic blast filled with evil aura. Only warlocks blessed by the evil Lord could cast magic blasts.

Looking back carefully, this monastery is also full of weirdness, with believers who can only enter and not leave, warehouses with weird smells, and crows that are always hovering over the monastery.

 Power can bring wealth, and wealth can solve most problems. When Harvey was working as a warlock, he was well fed, clothed, and able to learn the language again, which allowed Harvey to learn a lot of knowledge.

Of course, there are very few people who can say a few prayers and get Demogorgon to take a second look.

Harvey is a special person, so after he made up his mind to get rid of Demogorgon, he devoted himself to it.

 Give up the power of the warlock and let people use amnesia to cleanse all their memories of Demogorgon. This is Harvey's plan.

It's just that it's hard to find a mage who can cast the forgetfulness spell. I don't know how long it took to meet a kind-hearted old mage who said he was willing to help him.

Then Harvey was deceived again.

This old mage who looks easy to talk to is actually a necromancer. Necromancers are not all bad people, but the proportion of good people among them is really pitiful.

 Harvey is a warlock who is favored by Demogorgon. What a good material it is. It is easy to create a high-level undead.

This necromancer also took a fancy to this and wanted to trick Harvey into using him as material

 Harvey has a very high talent for casting spells, much better than Umberto, but he is far behind Umberto when it comes to understanding people's hearts.

 He is just lucky.

While the necromancer was preparing the ritual, Harvey picked up a book and read it. It was an introductory introduction to necromancy. Then, Harvey discovered something was wrong. The ritual prepared by this old man had nothing to do with the art of forgetfulness.

The Necromancer never expected that someone would be able to spot his disguised high-level undead transformation ritual by just looking at the introductory guide to necromancy. Harvey just lacks systematic education, so he knows a little about many things, but as long as he is given basic knowledge, Harvey can always see the essence of magic at a glance and then draw inferences.

 Harvey knew that he had been deceived again, and was about to run away, but found that the mage tower had long been sealed, and there was no way to escape unless he could kill the necromancer. Give him a magic blast while he's not paying attention?

I'm afraid this won't work, Harvey knows very well that he is no match for this necromancer.

Smartness comes from being smart. It takes time to accumulate magic power and time to practice casting spells. Harvey is really far behind this old man.

 In order not to attract the old man's attention, Harvey could only continue to pretend to read. But this time, as if destined, he got an introductory guide to the prophecy mage, written by the King of Elden.

He has been wandering for many years and has never seen a prophetic mage. It should be said that he has never heard of it. Harvey was mesmerized by this look. The power of fate is mysterious and powerful, and the descriptions in the book are mysterious but profound.

 Harvey didn’t know how long he had been reading, but when he closed the book, he grasped the power of fate.

A die of destiny appeared in his palm, and then Harvey threw the die of destiny onto the necromancer.

 The power of fate was invisible and did not even move the old man's hair. But the next second, the necromancer accidentally stepped on a puddle of greasy things. It was human fat that had not been completely cleaned, because the dirt blended into the ground and was completely invisible.

The Necromancer was unsteady and bumped into the medicine cabinet next to him.

 A series of glass snaps, and potions of various uses were smashed, making him smolder and wail in pain.

This is not fatal in the first place, and the Necromancer always has some means of saving his life. But Harvey appeared in time and slit his throat with a knife.

This necromancer thought Harvey was here to help him up, but he didn't expect that this kid was here to stab him. Silent spellcasting is a very high-end spellcasting technique. This poor necromancer has not yet mastered it. The magic items on his body need to be activated with mantras. Harvey's knife has already cut his way out.

　　A knife to seal the throat was followed by a knife to the heart, a knife to the liver, and a knife to the eyes directly into the brain.

The necromancer was killed in this way. As soon as the soul emerged, Harvey grabbed another bottle of potion and poured it over, and even the soul was completely annihilated.

 A Dice of Destiny allowed Harvey to kill this powerful necromancer and successfully escape from the mage tower.

I don’t know if surviving a catastrophe will bring blessings. Ever since Harvey left the Mage Tower, Demogorgon seemed to have disappeared from his life.

 You no longer have to dream about the two-headed baboon, nor do you accidentally explode something with magic energy.

Those evil energies were completely eliminated from his body, and Harvey changed from a warlock to a prophecy mage. Although he could only be regarded as a new apprentice, his life also changed completely.

 Harvey once again began to travel across the continent when he was only eighteen years old.

 But this time, he learned wisely and used divination first when encountering uncertain things. I finally experienced what it means to go smoothly. Most of the time, I don’t need to detect lies. I can tell whether what others say is true or false by just relying on intuition.

This made Harvey feel like he was at the pinnacle of his life. When he was at his most prosperous, he came to the Alchemy City, a place known as the supreme place of knowledge, and wanted to learn more knowledge.

 Then, he met the "King of Elden" in the Alchemy City.

 Harvey sighed. His life had always been full of ups and downs, and he was almost used to it.

Having been arrested so many times in his life, Harvey lived peacefully in Amberxiu's castle, and then confirmed the identity of the other party from Amberxiu's collection of books.

Whether it was unintentional or not, Amberxiu's Beginner's Guide to Prophecy Mage really changed Harvey's life.

  Harvey’s feelings towards Amberxiu were complicated. Perhaps because he was once a warlock, he was not too discriminatory towards the lich, but was rather grateful.

  Harvey once thought about expressing his gratitude to Ambrose, but this teacher was too, too... The only adjective Harvey could think of was "greedy".

Having traveled for so many years and visited so many places, Harvey has seen a lot, but he has never seen a lich who likes money so much.

Amberson's desire for money is so strong that Harvey doesn't even know how to communicate with him. Maybe nothing he says is more useful than the gold coins in his pocket. Unless Harvey could give this teacher a few million gold coins, maybe in this way he could feel the gratitude in his heart.

 When Amberxiu took out his phylactery, Harvey was moved for a while, thinking that this might be the mutual attraction between the prophecy mages. However, after leaving the castle and entering the desert, Harvey gradually came to his senses.

 The phylactery in his hand should be fake.

 Given Amber's character, he shouldn't have given him a life box.

As a young man who lacked love since childhood, he received the attention of his teacher. He was so patronizing and touched at the time that he didn't feel there was any problem at all. He didn't realize it until he had been away for several days.

Amberxiu’s level as a prophecy mage far surpassed that of Harvey’s, which blinded his intuition. If he had to figure it out on his own, Harvey would only be able to figure it out in a few days.

 But even though he figured it out, Harvey still worked very hard to keep the phylactery safe. What if he guessed wrong, what if Amberxiu gave him the real thing for safekeeping?

 Even if there was only a small possibility, Harvey didn't want to screw it up.

 Because Ambrose was his first teacher, even if he used him, he never deceived him. Ambrose always told Harvey clearly what he was going to do. This kind of confession, which cannot even be called kind, is a rare sunshine in life for Harvey, who has been deceived all the time.

 So, people’s childhood cannot be too miserable, otherwise they will be easily abducted.

 The same goes for Harvey, and the same goes for Naomi.

Taking Amber Xiu's phylactery with him, Harvey trekked to the desert, hoping to avoid the coming chaos in the Alchemy City.

Unexpectedly, the Alchemy City was gone, and all the people who came from the Alchemy City became the focus of attention.

 (End of this chapter)