chapter 28

Since the day that Vandal brought up the topic about the Republic asking for compensation or that they will declare war on them if they do not complied, roughly a week had passed- and my, Leonard was surprised about how efficient his second brother was, just a day after he asked for some energy crystal, he sent him a cart of it, if Leonard were to make an estimated guess for the amount in the cart, he could say it was at least close to half a metric ton worth of crystal.

"Wow…" he quickly picks up a decent size chunk of energy crystal and brought it up to the sun, letting the bright light shined through the bluish crystal, causing a beautiful glow.

"Nice quality too...not bad...not bad." Leonard exclaimed excitedly as he slowly drained the energy stored within the crystal into his palm and formed an orb of energy, the raw form of magic.

[Large quantity of low quality energy source has been detected...in depth scanning initiated… confirmed, energy source no longer useful for host, advise host to either- spent it on something else other than using for self, or exchanged it with system for achievement point.]

A message from the system popped into his head after he sucked out the magic from the chunk of crystal and absorbing it into himself.

"How much would I get out of all these?" Leonard asked the system curiously, as he indeed has some need for the system achievement points, since the crystal was likely had no use for his self power leveling and only at most, be for some interesting and volatile experiments and trained some low tier magic caster quickly.

[Calculating- please wait for a moment…- *ding, host will receive ninety-eight achievement points for the amount detected- however system courtesy, host will receive one hundred instead.] the system informed him.

Leonard stare blankly at the message, he had an urge to kill someone after reads through the message, he wanted to cry as well.

"System...why are you so blackhearted?" he lamented as he looks at half a metric ton of crystal in front of him, which would likely fetched him at least a million gold coin if he were to sell it to the highest bidder, but the system only exchange all these for a hundred achievement point.

[System is not blackhearted, this is the market value for low energy value items within the multiverse system market, system was generous enough to pay host extra for low quality crap- know that you are poor, so be glad.] the system actually replied back to him.

"I'll sell it later, for now, let me play with it for a bit…" Leonard could only let out a long sigh.

After the little session of lamenting over due to the system being such a blackhearted businessmen...person...or thing, Leonard drags the cart loaded with energy crystal down into the former dungeon room, which was now converted into his own laboratory after a bit of cleaning and due to the lack of prisoner and criminal etc.

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While Leonard was having "fun" by himself in the underground dungeon, the republic of the free city state also have their own issue to deal with as well.

A moment ago, a messenger has come and delivered the council leader a personal letter from the border settlement, the letter had a strange seal in the shape of a human skull, base on an educational guess, he could confidently say it was likely from the dark mage that caused the council some major headache.

"What is it now?" the elder complained as he looked at the letter and the wax seal before slowly breaking the wax and pull out the letter.

Immediately what greeted him first was bold words written in red ink, titled apology.

Which greatly caught his interest, the elder was grinning ear to ear as he held onto the letter.

"Perhaps he felt scare now, since I threaten to declare war on his supporter, the Duke of the Welser family." he thoughted.

"Let see what he had to say for himself here...hmm…" the elder put on his reading glass and brought the letter near the window for some natural sunlight to help his reading.

Apology

Dear council member(s) of the Free City State Republic, I am the great Necromancer/ Dark Mage Pater Tuus! As you might have already known, I am the one responsible for the destruction of your a part of your beautiful city and the death of half of your council members.

"Oh? Nice pleasantry there, and claiming the responsibility too...maybe he's not that bad after all." the council leader thought as he read the first part of the letter, he couldn't help but to see Pater Tuus (Leonard) in a new light, even if he blasted half of their council into oblivion, but it was not that much of a loss to him personally since many of them were his personal opposition.

"Let see what he wrote next." his eyes then moved further down to the piece of paper a letter of "apology".

Pffftttt!!! *cough *cough *Cough!

Immediately upon laying eyes on what the rest of this Pater Tuus had to say for an apology, he coughed out a pint worth of blood, most were from shock while the rest were out of pure anger and frustration.

I apologize for any civilians caught in the blast(however I doubt that the blast was that big to begin with, as I already did somewhat field tested it and it would at most destroy the only building that was the epicenter and shattered a few windows further out) of my somewhat successful experiment in the dark art of Necromancy- However! I regret NOTHING and felt no sympathy for you! And any other council members that caught in that unfortunate "accident" and I demand a compensation for my losses as well!

* Emotional distress

*Lost of sleep

*Annoying me

*attacking my subordinate

*Pissing me off( another level of annoying me)

*Lost of appetite

*Lost of resources

* me hating you in general.

Amount due: 10,000,000 Gold Coins or 10,000 Top quality energy crystal .

Of course, I'll also accept items that would have the same value as the price mentioned above.

The due date for this is : exactly one month from the date that this letter was sent.

Signed

Pater Tuus

The Great handsome Dark Mage.

XXX 1st of the XXXXX Imperial year.

"Messenger!!! CALL IN THE MESSENGER!!!" the elderly council leader shouted out loudly as blood still dripping from his lip and dyed all his teeth red.

"Elder!" the moment the messenger arrived, he was greeted by an enraged elderly man.

"Quickly inform all the other remaining members of the council to the substitute parliament building! Go NOW"

"At once, Elder." the messenger bowed before quickly rushed out of the office.

*Cough *Cough *cough!!!

After the messenger left, the elderly man coughed out a few more spoonful of blood as vein were seen popping out from his forehead and his eyes burned with anger.

"I don't know who you are, but I couldn't care less! But noted this! I will find you...and I will kill you!" the elderly man wiped his bloody lip with a handkerchief from his pocket.

Of course, Leonard was oblivious to all happened in the republic at that moment, he was too busy experimenting with the cart load of energy crystal that Vandal had sent over to him, including what happening when he decides to overload a crystal with too much energy.