This Lich Needs More Money

Chapter 3 Fleeing due to tax crisis

Each magician will set up many magic traps on his territory, some are fatal and some are non-fatal, usually to guard against thieves.

  After all, every magician will store a large amount of valuable magic materials, as well as precious magic notes and books. These things are often small in size and very valuable, and are most easily targeted by thieves.

  Setting traps and breaking them is a game that has lasted for thousands of years, and every magician and thief cannot escape. But it seems that those who invaded this time were not thieves who came to try their luck, because they couldn't even crack the most basic warning traps on the outside of the castle.

When Amber Xiu put on the robe that covered his whole body and appeared outside the castle, he only saw a young man and woman. Both of them were in ragged clothes. The man was already lying in a pool of blood, and his thighs were cut by several strings. The sharp thorns pierced it and it was almost useless. The girl tried very hard to take the man away, but she couldn't drag him away at all.

Seeing Amber Xiu's appearance, the girl let out a terrified scream.

Amberxiu waved his finger and fired a sleep spell, causing the girl to close her mouth and fall asleep.

Then Amberxiu slowly walked up to the man and asked, "Why did you break into my manor? Didn't you see the sign at the door that says 'no climbing, there is a magic trap'?"

The man was also trembling with fear. There were few ordinary people who could not see the lich without fear. The legendary lich had its own fear aura. Although it was not as effective as the Nightmare Knight, it was not something that ordinary people could withstand.

Pressed by Amber Xiu, the man endured the severe pain and said, "I... don't know how to read."

 Amberson:…

"Even if you are illiterate, didn't your lord tell you that this is the territory of the lich?" Amberxiu asked again.

The man lost too much blood and was very weak, but he still squeezed out his last strength and said: "Lord Lich, I can dedicate my life and soul to you, but please spare my sister. We are running for our lives and are forced to We broke into your manor out of necessity, we really didn’t mean to offend.”

 “Are you runaway slaves?”

Only escaped slaves would be so panic-stricken and even dare to invade the territory of the lich. They probably thought that the legend of the lich was just used by the lord to scare people, so they planned to hide in the castle.

Who would have thought that the man explained excitedly: "No, we are free people. The lord suddenly wants to raise taxes. Our family has already paid the full amount, but he suddenly wants to double it again. If we can't pay it out, he will take my taxes." My sister was sold to a brothel!”

 “Suddenly increasing taxes? Have you offended the lords?” Amberxiu asked.

The man continued: "Not just us, the entire county, and even several nearby counties, are increasing taxes significantly, and many free people have been sold into slaves."

Amberxiu was surprised. The Alchemist Council would not allow this to happen. Could it be said that they themselves are almost bankrupt.

It is very possible that the plan to create a new race failed, and they estimated that they lost most of the wealth accumulated in the Alchemy City. The elves of Silver Moon Highgarden took advantage of the situation and increased the prices of potion raw materials on a large scale. Alchemy City estimated that many daily orders could not be completed. This compensation would intensify Alchemy City's losses.

The group of alchemists who spend all day talking about bottles and jars suddenly chose to raise taxes across the board, hoping to rely on tax money to get through the difficulties. Naturally, the little lords below followed closely the operations of the Alchemist Council and put taxes on the lower classes.

 “Have many free people fled?” Ambrose asked.

"Many, I know more than a dozen..." Before he could finish his words, the man passed out. Losing a lot of blood put him on the verge of death. If he left it alone, Amberxiu would be able to get one more experimental material. But when he thought about the large number of free people fleeing, Amberxiu suddenly had a new idea.

 Magical energy burst out from his fingers, and a healing spell fell on the man.

The pierced thigh began to heal quickly, the spikes were squeezed out by the regrown flesh, and the lost blood was replenished under the influence of the spell.

 After a while, the man woke up.

Seeing the healed wound, the man quickly knelt in front of Amber Xiu: "Thank you, kind lord Lich."

Amber Xiu gave a weird laugh, and then said: "Say thank you to a lich. It seems that your mind is not completely clear yet. Do you think I will let you go like this? If you dare to invade the lich's territory, I will kill you." Be prepared to leave your soul and body behind."

"No, sir, please..." The man knelt on the ground and begged.

Amberxiu cast a silence spell on this man impatiently, making him shut his mouth completely.

"Don't be anxious, I will give you a chance to live, but only if you complete the task I gave you."

Amberxiu snapped his fingers, and two weird-looking skeletons appeared. It’s said to be a skeleton because these two things are made entirely of bones. It’s said to be weird because it’s not a skeleton in human form at all. It looks like a skeleton dog, but where the skull should have been, there are An arm with only three fingers.

What kind of weird creature was it during its lifetime to leave behind such a skeleton?

Two weird skeleton dogs grabbed the sleeping woman, put them on their backs, and then followed Amberxiu's footsteps.

The man looked at Amber Xiu's back and his sister who was taken away, and could only bite the bullet and follow him. He didn't have the slightest courage to resist, for fear that he would turn into a corpse in the next second. At least the Lich Lord helped him heal his injuries. It seemed quite reasonable, and he might actually have a chance to survive.

With this kind of luck, the man followed Amberxiu into the castle.

Amberxiu took the two of them directly to his laboratory, and then ordered: "Stand aside, I won't ask you, don't talk."

 After saying that, he didn’t care about this person and walked back to his experimental table.

 I saw Amber Xiu taking out a memory crystal and hanging it high on the laboratory. This thing can be used to record images and sounds, and is a common magic prop. Amberxiu used magic power to activate the crystal, and then said: "Experiment on appearance modification of undead creatures, session 176."

"For a long time, we have been accustomed to making the skeleton into an upright walking form. Two hundred and six bones form a complete human skeleton. However, without the connection between muscles and fascia, each bone needs to be connected by a soul. force to combine closely.

“There are only two joints in one toe. If you want the skeleton to stand on two feet, the soul needs to consume a lot of energy to perform real-time calculations and balance the front, rear, left, and right at all times. I think these are actually unnecessary burdens..."

Starting from the assembly of the skeleton, the memory crystal clearly recorded every step of Amber Xiu's work.

 (End of this chapter)