Wizards' Mutual Aid Alliance

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A crimson flame suddenly burst from the rune paper tanned from Demon Beast scales. The beast hide, worth fifteen gold coins, turned to ash in an instant, leaving specks of black scorch marks across the desk.

Looking at the rune brush blackened by smoke in his hand, Gao Jing shook his head and tossed it into the trash bin beside him.

Talisman crafting and refinement really was a money-burning trade. He had started with the most basic Totem Rune Compendium and now studied the Complete Guide to Low-Tier Runes, burning through tens of thousands of gold coins along the way.

Although talisman crafters were highly sought after, and the early investment could certainly be earned back once one had mastered the craft.

Ordinary Wizards truly could not sustain such expenditure.

Of course, for Gao Jing, let alone tens of thousands of gold coins, even adding another zero to that figure would not give him the slightest pressure.

Totem Runes were, in truth, the foundation of wizardry. He studied Rune Studies not because he wanted to become a full-time talisman crafter, but because he wished to strengthen the foundations of his path as a Wizard through mastering runes.

In the two months since returning from the Main World to the Great World, Gao Jing had holed up in the Radiant Wizard Tower studying runes.

He felt that he had made tremendous progress.

Without a second thought, he took out fresh rune paper and a new rune brush from his storage space, then began drawing the Explosive Flame Talisman he had just failed to create once more.

Pure chaos mana streamed continuously from the tip of his brush, flowing as smoothly as drifting clouds and running water as it left pale gray marks upon the dark green beast-hide rune paper. A