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After returning to the Material Realm, Fran remembered something: to bring the Gold Coin to the Spirit Realm, each Gold Coin needed Spirit Crystal to enchant it so that it could be brought to the Spirit Realm.

"I don't think mages would use that method; otherwise, they would incur costs before even spending the Gold Coin."

"Perhaps the mages have a way to convert these Gold Coin into the Spirit Realm, or perhaps the special nature of that Law Domain allows the mages to transfer materials there at a relatively low cost."

Fran knew that the mages had set up a place in the Spirit Realm for trading not just to collect fees.

Mages are among the wealthiest people on the entire continent, given the abundance of magical devices and powerful spells available.

Putting aside everything else, the Construct School School alone possesses construction technology that is unmatched on the entire continent. Just by undertaking construction tasks for other factions, it is enough to support half of the Alliance.

Of course, this refers to ordinary people. The money-burning experiments of the mages are not included. If they were, even ten Construct School wouldn't be enough for these mages to squander.

However, this has nothing to do with Fran, because she now has a large amount of Gold Coin at her disposal, which she can use to get started.

After Fran and the Lord of Radiance checked the Gold Coin and confirmed that there were no problems, Fran took about 10,000 Gold Coin to the mailroom of the Northern Lands Society.

Fran entered the house and pressed the receiver of her Mana Communication System twice in the signal receiving area. Her account immediately popped up on the receiver.

"Master Lai, welcome. Do you need to send any more letters this time?"

Emmett, a Formal Mage, had just come from the Alliance to the Northern Lands Society. He was forced to work at the Northern Lands Society's liaison office because he was short of money.

Previously, this position was usually filled by apprentices, because there were very few Formal Mage in the Northern Lands Society.

Compared to other more important departments, the liaison office is somewhat less prominent, especially considering that the Northern Lands Society did not have a good relationship with the local the Alliance from the very beginning.

This led the Northern Lands Society to simply not act according to the Alliance's rules—to appoint a Formal Mage as the liaison officer.

There are thorough considerations behind this: the various communication devices issued by the Alliance are extremely valuable, and apprentices simply cannot afford to pay for them if they make a mistake.

Furthermore, the liaison office also possesses equipment crucial to the Alliance as a whole, namely, liaison devices that can remotely and directly transmit information to various branches.

When a territory of the Alliance is attacked, or when valuable resources are discovered, the device can be used to directly contact other parts of the Alliance to expedite support.

Such communication requires adding a secret code to the transmitted information to ensure its accuracy.

What if the apprentice is captured by the enemy and then spreads rumors through various means? It would be difficult to ascertain the situation from such a distance.

However, it's different for Formal Mage. Enemies who can extract secret messages from Formal Mage in a short time are at least third-tier enemies.

In this situation, although the enemy may only have intended to disrupt the Alliance, the enemy's Order alone is enough to warrant a trip from the Alliance's mages.

After all, Formal Mage are outstanding in terms of mental strength, and even second-tier enemies cannot break through Formal Mage's mental defenses in a short period of time.

Emmett had encountered this mage ' Lai ' before. He was tall and always wore a white robe. Most importantly, he had a four-digit Contribution Points in the Mana Communication System.

All of this left a deep impression on him. According to the rules of the Northern Lands Society, these Contribution Points could be used to send letters. Last time, he saw this mage Lai, send a letter to the Antir Region, which seemed to be addressed to a lord of a certain territory.

Emmett couldn't remember clearly because he was too shocked by the number of Contribution Points in the Contribution Points column.

After arriving at the Northern Lands Society, he became a disciple of a Second Order Mage, taking him as his mentor. His mentor had achieved some success, publishing over a dozen papers that could be selected for Paper over the course of ten years.

However, his mentor only Contribution Points little over two hundred points in the Mana Communication System, and his mentor usually just browsed through the Paper in the system.

In other words, the mage ' Lai ' in front of him was far superior to his mentor in academics, which made Emmett feel like he was in a dream.

For some reason, Emmett felt like she had seen the name somewhere before, but after a cursory search, she couldn't find any information about the mage.

This puzzled Emmett. Logically speaking, someone with such a high Contribution Points of points should have published many Paper, but why couldn't he find a single one?

Furthermore, he couldn't recall where he had seen the monk's name before.

However, after a moment's thought, Emmett came to her senses and saw a letter being handed to her.

"This letter should be sent to the Adventurers Guild in White Dragon Port."

Emmett brought the letter back to the workbench, knowing that this was probably the mage ' Lai ' placing an order with the Adventurers Guild to send over some materials from a Magic Creature.

Emmett was somewhat taken aback to see the official seal of the Northern Lands Society on the document, as this indicated that the Northern Lands Society would guarantee the transaction.

The stamp alone is enough to incentivize the Adventurers Guild to transport the Magic Creature materials over without a deposit.

This once again surprised Emmett with the power of the mage ' Lai,' a power that was estimated to be usable only by the upper echelons of the Northern Lands Society.

Furthermore, his inability to sense the mental fluctuations emanating from the mage ' Lai ' led him to some speculation.

This ' Lai ' is either one of the few Third Order Mage in the Northern Lands Society who devotes all their energy to experiments, or a Second Order Mage has a very good relationship with the upper echelons of the Northern Lands Society.

Emmett suddenly looked up, as if he had remembered something.

"Um, it seems there's an the Alliance communication device in White Dragon Port now. Should we use the expedited service...?"

"White Dragon Port, how come there are the Alliance communication devices there?"

Fran was somewhat surprised to hear this, as neither the city lord's side nor the Church of the Goddess of Ocean Currents in White Dragon Port were particularly fond of the Alliance's mages.

Moreover, Fran personally spearheaded an operation against these two forces last time, leaving them almost completely wiped out.

Under these circumstances, it was somewhat unbelievable to Fran that White Dragon Port could still accept the Alliance mages to station there.

"I don't know. I heard it's some kind of Astrology School of mages. Apparently, they're going to expand outwards onto the Ocean together with the Transmutation School."

Emmett shared the information he had gathered, Fran raised an eyebrow upon hearing it, not delving further into the topic.

"Urgent! Here's a Gold Coin."

According to the rules of the Alliance, if you want to use this communication device to expedite personal mail, you have to pay an express fee of one Gold Coin.

Fran knew that the cost of activating this device might not be fifty silver coins, but since the Alliance was responsible for laying out this communication network, she had no choice.

This can be seen from the fact that while the price of all materials is rising, the cost of starting the device once has never increased, indicating that the cost of starting it once is not high.

Fran composed herself. With so many Gold Coin now, it was essential to use one Gold Coin for expedited processing.

She placed many orders with the Adventurers Guild, including Magic Creature materials she needed to craft equipment, and wrote in her letter that she would receive 4,000 Gold Coin as payment.

She has many Ancient Rune at her disposal, but she lacks suitable materials.

While Fran might save some money if she hunted the animals herself, isn't the purpose of Gold Coin to solve tedious tasks?

If Fran wants to satisfy her need for Magic Creature materials, she won't even be able to complete half of it by the time Iris takes her to the Floating City.

If she entrusted everything to the Adventurers Guild, the items could be delivered to her in as little as three months, as her order included delivery services.

In addition, she placed a duplicate order for an item with the Adventurers Guild, Adventurers Guild may not have known was placed twice by the same person.

She hasn't received the materials needed for Sequence 6 of her [Song of the Deep Sea] modification sequence yet, and she didn't receive any news when the Spirit Realm Market closed last time.

This forced Fran to place an order with the Adventurers Guild in White Dragon Port, hoping to have everything ready before heading to the Floating City.

Therefore, she was willing to pay 2000 Gold Coin to expedite this single commission.

After sending the letter through the communication device, all Fran had to do was wait. She stepped outside and saw a familiar figure walk in.

That was Dorian, the Elemental School mage who had gone to the Northern Lands Society with Fran.

After that, the two never met again. At this moment, Fran simply nodded to Dorian, and in her current state, she shouldn't have recognized him.

Dorian went inside and called out enthusiastically to Emmett:

"Emmett, how's work going?"

Upon seeing Dorian enter, Emmett responded with delight:

"Dorian, it's been a long time... By the way, do you know who I just saw? A mage who might be a third-tier mage... Her Mana Communication System account has four-figure Contribution Points."

"Ha! Not bad. On my way to the Northern Lands Society, I even met one of Harbos Lloyd's students. We even traveled together to the Northern Lands Society before parting ways..."

"Dorian, you're really good at bragging."

"You're different too, with four-digit Contribution Points, making it seem like it's the real deal."

"Mine is different. I remember her name was Lai, although I don't know what she's accomplished..."

"Wait a minute..." Dorian seemed to realize something and said, as if he was unsure.

"Isn't Lai... the author of that ' Mathematical Analysis of Fireball '?"