Locke and Witch Scarlett finished making contact, then returned to the Ashen Esoteric Sect on Floating Reef No. 13 in the Jadeflower Enclave. Afterward, he contacted Wizard Warwick, Wizard McKinley, Witch Shally, and the others, and together they submitted their paper to the Starfield Sea journal First Ring History.
The four of them emerged from the White Wizard Association on the main island of the Jadeflower Enclave. They immediately sighed and lamented. A single submission to the Starfield Sea had actually cost them 80,000 magic stones.
Wizard McKinley was furious. His right arm had already been replaced with an alchemical prosthetic—not because he was incapable of growing another arm.
Although, as an archaeological wizard, he was certainly not skilled in Life Magic, an injury of this level was something Locke could heal by making a new arm grow within a short time.
However, Wizard McKinley seemed to want to experience what a magic-alloy arm felt like, so he directly bought a magical prosthetic arm.
Wizard McKinley said, "The Starfield Sea is really going too far. A single submission costs 80,000 magic stones. This is practically robbery! We rob colonial planes, and they rob us. When all is said and done, all the wealth of the Jadeflower Enclave will flow into the Starfield Sea!"
Witch Shally could not help retorting, "Most magic stones are already flowing into the Starfield Sea. The Starfield Sea has no need to use this method to bleed you dry."
"Recently, the Magic Tide in the Starfield Sea has become too dense, making the transmission of matter and information increasingly difficult."
Wizard Warwick said, "That is indeed the case. In the past, the fee for a single submission was only 30,000 magic stones, but recently it rose to 80,000. This is because of the abnormally continuous price