Chapter 385
Chapter 385 Teleporting Away
“You’re making me leave the Tower of Fate?!” Greem shouted in disbelief.
“I am not making you leave. I am asking you to leave!” Alice let out a helpless sigh.
“Is there a difference between the two?”
“Of course there is!” Alice laughed bitterly, “The former would be the action of the owner of the Tower of Fate, while the latter is the request of an ally!”
“If you treat me as an ally, then why, at this moment where you most need help, would you… ”
“Because you are a male adept, and this is the territory of the Northern Witches!” Alice gave a direct and straightforward answer.
“You mean, my existence has brought you trouble?” Greem narrowed his eyes. It was the first time he had come into contact with this group of individuals that hailed witches as their absolute leaders. He hadn’t gotten used to it.
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An intense humming surrounded Greem as white lights flashed.
He felt his mind turn heavy, and only managed to regain control over his body once the spatial fluctuation had settled down.
Greem had to support his head with his hands and stand still for a moment before opening his eyes and examining his surroundings.
“Welcome to Ibis City! Judging from the spatial coordinates, you were transported from the Northern Lands. That said, I have never seen these coordinates before. May I ask what array is this and which of the Lady Witches built it?” A white-robed adept stood in front of Greem with a quill and a parchment book in his hands. He had a silver executor’s badge pinned on his chest. It seemed he was an adept stationed here by the Zhentarim Association.
“The Tower of Fate!” Greem nodded at the adept and prepared to leave the teleportation room.
“The Tower of Fate?” The white-robed manager bit his quill and tilted his head, “That adept’s tower hasn’t been connected to the teleportation network for over a thousand years. Could it have been reactivated? Hey, you haven’t paid your teleportation fees.”
“Wait, I still have to pay? Isn’t all the energy required for the teleportation gathered on the array on the other side? Why do I still have to pay over here on this?” Greem was instantly confused.
“Hmph! I bet this is the first time you got to enjoy such long-range teleportation!” The white-robed adept snorted, “Even though the teleporting party provides most of the energy, the receiving array still needs to endure a certain amount of spatial shockwave damage from the process. Thus, to ensure maintenance of the teleportation array and supplying our services to everyone, we have to collect a small maintenance fee over here on our side.”
“How much is it?”
“Three hundred magical crystals!”
Greem was speechless.
It had only cost two hundred magical crystals to go through the Black Forest with the merchant group last time, and it required three hundred for teleporting? Then, if it had been under usual circumstances, how much would he have had to pay Alice for using her array?
The white-robed adept quickly gave him his answer.
Four Thousand!
And this was only because Ibis City was the closest to the Northern Lands. That was why the price was so ‘low’. If Greem wanted to teleport from the center of the Zhentarim area to the Tower of Fate, it would have cost him as much as five thousand magical crystals. If he wanted to teleport from the Silver Union’s lands to the Northern Lands, it would cost him an enormous ten thousand magical crystals.
Greem had to control himself and stop his facial muscles from twitching when he heard the price.
No wonder so many low-grade adepts preferred to ride on flying ships or trudge through the Black Forest with caravan lines than use teleportation arrays, even though there were so many adept’s towers and arrays all over the place. The principal reason was the unbelievable price.
According to the white-robed adept, the cost of using teleportation arrays was expensive because of the massive drain on the tower’s energy reserves. Consequently, they had to collect a fee from the users to compensate their losses.
Greem could feel a fervent passion burn in his heart when he heard this.
He still had a spacestone in his storage belt. If he used it to build a teleportation array, the stone would automatically collect the spatial energies required for the process. Didn’t this mean that he had a treasure trove that could continuously provide him with magical crystals?
Still, the greater value of the spacestone was its ability to conduct ultra-long-range teleportation. That was where its real value lied. Using it as an ordinary array to earn some magical crystals was a waste of such excellent material. Only paupers desperate for money would ever do such a thing!