At nine in the evening, the Mages in the guild gradually dispersed, each returning home.
Ezreal, having returned home from work, sat on the sofa, counting his afternoon's earnings, a radiant smile spreading across his face.
In one afternoon, he had earned over two hundred yuan.
Aside from the initial introductory prices for new experiences, the subsequent income came from transporting guild members who accepted quests to the station and other destinations.
He kept his prices low, charging only 30 for a trip to the station and 8 for shops about 5 kilometers away, focusing on high volume and low margins.
By the time he finished work in the evening, he had already guided a Shadow Wolf around common places in Magnolia City, recording the routes.
He left three Shadow Wolves at the guild; if someone wanted to go somewhere, they just needed to accurately state the address to a Shadow Wolf, and it would take them.
After reaching the designated location, it would return on its own, unless they had arranged with the Shadow Wolf in advance to wait, which would incur an additional fee.
These past two months were a busy period for guild members undertaking quests, so Ezreal predicted his earnings would be quite good.
"If I earn 200 a day during busy times, and can maintain around 100 a day during the off-season, I can cover my daily expenses."
Ezreal calculated his income, planning to rely on his 'waiter' service and the rental income from the Shadow Wolves as his primary source of income to sustain his life.
The lowest income for a Mage quest in the guild was 10,000, but he currently had no plans to accept quests.
Regarding the cultivation of Dimensional Summoning, he had only just begun today and could only open and close portals without interference; any external disturbance would easily cause his portal construction to fail.
From a practical combat perspective, it was far too lacking.
Such unreliable summoning would be difficult to use in an emergency.
Moreover, constructing portals was only the core of Dimensional Summoning, not its entirety.
There were many other magic spells in the spellbook that needed to be learned and mastered in conjunction with it.
The rapport between Summoned Beasts needed to be cultivated, and other Summoned Beasts needed to be summoned.
Shadow Wolves were fine for transportation, but for combat, they were somewhat unreliable; although they ran very fast, they were definitely not enough to deal with Mages.
Yuumi the cat was a support, but still a bit weak; her magic power was not enough, and she needed more time to grow. Currently, Yuumi could at most use five heals or five shields before exhausting her magic power and becoming a mere attachment.
However, solely relying on Ezreal's innate magic and rich combat experience, his combat power was considered decent among the Mages.
But after all, life is only once, and without the ability to resurrect, it was better to be a cautious Mage.
Currently, Ezreal decided to spend the next two months practicing magic within the guild and getting to know the main characters, so he could find a reliable teammate when he took his first quest.
"Alright, no time to waste. Let's try summoning other things."
Ezreal put the money into the drawer of the coffee table, then raised his left hand and once again cast Dimensional Summoning.
An invisible force, in the form of ripples, gathered in his left hand, where his explorer's gauntlet was located.
"גיבור גבורי וחסר פחד"
"אני כאן כדי לתקשר אליך, לציית לפקודות שלי."
"חצות את הנהר הארוך של הזמן, לפרוץ את המחסום של החלל ולהילחם בשבילי"
Ezreal concentrated on chanting the summoning spell. The ancient and solemn incantation echoed in the living room, carrying a sense of inexplicable historical gravitas, as if each character bore the weight of time.
This spell had two functions: one was to open a portal, and the other was to send the summoner's consciousness into another world.
After the summoner's consciousness found a suitable Summoned Beast, he could directly cast a compulsory consciousness attachment spell on it to complete the contract.
Of course, the target of the consciousness attachment spell could not have too great a difference in magic power and mental strength, otherwise it would fail and cause some backlash.
Once the contract was complete, the next summoning would only require a simplified incantation.
"להילחם בשבילי!"
Translated: Fight for me!
He extended his left hand forward, palm open and facing ahead.
As he chanted, a dazzling white light burst from his hand, forming a halo.
The halo slowly rotated, gradually expanding, eventually forming a human-sized vortex.
This vortex was entirely composed of white light, its edges emitting a soft glow, and a string of ancient and mysterious characters slowly rotated within the vortex, appearing and disappearing.
Summoner's Rift!
Ezreal's consciousness once again sank into the map of the Rift, flying around.
He lightly floated to the position of the bottom lane's tri-bush, where two rock-composed bugs, one large and one small, squatted motionless in their jungle camp.
Ancient Krugs, common jungle monsters in the Rift.
Though called bugs, they actually looked more like pointy, irregular rocks with a pair of sharp mandibles and four stone legs.
The larger one was about two meters tall, with an irregular crack in the middle of its body. The crack's color, like the Krug's eyes, was blue and emitted a faint blue glow.
The smaller one was about a meter tall, also with a crack in the middle of its body, but its color was lighter, more like white-blue, while its eyes were still blue.
This crack was the Ancient Krug's innate splitting magic; the larger one, when killed, would split into four smaller Krugs, and the smaller one, when killed, would split into two Krugs of the same size.
Their attack power was average, but their splitting magic made them quite troublesome, and their defense was also good, perfectly meeting Ezreal's requirements for a tanky front-liner.
Moreover, the magic power consumption for summoning Krugs was not significantly different from summoning Shadow Wolves, basically negligible.
Ezreal controlled his spiritual consciousness, making a dive into the smaller Ancient Krug, and after about two or three seconds, emerged from it and then re-entered the larger Krug next to it.
After about five seconds, Ezreal's spiritual consciousness detached from the larger Krug, floating in mid-air, and nodded in satisfaction.
Then, Ezreal's spiritual consciousness instantly teleported to the red team's Krug position, performing the same forced contract on the red team's Ancient Krugs.
Successfully gaining control of two sets of Ancient Krugs, Ezreal was very satisfied. Just as he was about to fly to other jungle monster spawn points, his peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of a strange, shining box in front of the bottom lane turret.
"Hmm?" Ezreal controlled his consciousness to the bottom lane turret, slowly landing next to this strange, glowing box, circling it once.
The box was cylindrical, about knee-high, golden in color, with a strong sense of technological machinery, and a blue energy crystal embedded in its top.
It was this blue crystal at the top of the golden treasure chest that was emitting light.
"Is this a hextech toolbox?!" Ezreal exclaimed.