Chapter 129: Apprenticeship Contract

Although the process had a few minor accidents, this apprenticeship ceremony was ultimately completed smoothly.

It was called a ceremony, but in reality, it was just the two parties signing an apprenticeship contract under the witness of Dragon Mom.

The Witch World was, after all, a world of spellcasters. When the God King founded the eight major magic factions, she had referenced many spellcaster civilizations, which is why many traditions in the Witch World today bear the shadows of traditional mage and wizard culture.

Take this apprenticeship contract, for example. It is said that in the past, when mages or wizards took on apprentices, they would conclude an apprenticeship contract. However, that kind of contract was more like a deed of sale; from then on, the apprentice became the teacher's private property. The contract imposed a pile of obligations on the apprentice, but placed very few restrictions on the teacher.

There was no helping it; after all, in general mage or wizard civilizations, apprentices had to beg teachers for a chance to learn, and teachers usually treated apprentices as free servants, only teaching them a trick or two when in a good mood.

However, the apprenticeship contract in the Witch World was relatively much fairer. Witches converted that old contract into an equal contract. The contract had constraints and requirements for both the teacher and the apprentice, but these requirements were often quite loose, amounting to nothing more than the apprentice respecting the teacher, and the teacher doing their best to guide the apprentice.

Well, there's no helping it; after all, witches are naturally fond of freedom. Under normal circumstances, they don't like to bear too many constraints, but a major event like taking on an apprentice still requires a sense of ritual.

What they value is the process of concluding the contract; they aren't that concerned about the content of the contract.

Because of this, contract culture is very common in witch society. Basically, as long as it's a serious matter, witches like to sign a contract for it. However, if you look closely at the content of those contracts, you will find that they basically only have the minimum level of constraints.

Hmm, basically just to the extent of "if you have money, pay it back; if you have a debt of gratitude, repay it."

In any case, witches only like that kind of simple and straightforward contract. If it's made too complicated, they might ignore you because they are too lazy to think.

And if you still want to go a step further and use the contract to blackmail a witch...

Hmm, the demons in the Abyss who have now been reduced to laborers for the Demon King and are long-term 007 workers have a lot to say about that.

Of course, generally speaking, besides signing a contract, a witch's apprenticeship ceremony also depends on personal personality as to whether or not to have a lively celebration. By rights, with the status of Nuo'erluosi and Youfeiliya, Dorothy's apprenticeship ceremony should have been very grand.

But now, Teacher Spider couldn't wait. She was afraid that if she dragged it out any longer, something else would go wrong. Moreover, Dorothy herself didn't like liveliness, so the two decided to keep everything simple.

Nuo'erluosi immediately slapped a pure gold contract book out of her pocket, full of grandeur.

Just as mentioned before, for witches, a contract is a manifestation of a sense of ritual, so naturally, the higher the grade of the contract book, the more ritualistic it seems.

Thus, the most ordinary parchment contract books could no longer satisfy the increasingly vigorous showing-off needs of this bunch. Eventually, the contract books of the Witch World began to "involution" inexplicably, launching all kinds of "skins," such as dragon-skin contract books, angel documents, demon contracts, etc.

In the end, even the ink used to write the contracts began to compete. In short, the more high-end, the better.

Dorothy took this seemingly ordinary golden contract book from Teacher Spider's hands, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but tremble slightly.

Hmm, whether in terms of weight or feel, this contract book was a normal golden contract book.

Although gold is indeed precious and is the main currency of the Witch World, pure gold contract books are a bit stretched compared to those truly high-end contract books.

Dorothy had originally thought that Teacher Spider was someone who refused to compete and valued practicality more.

After all, gold itself is an excellent magic storage material, so the utility of golden contract books has always been very good, making it one of the more cost-effective types among various contract books.

However, when she flipped this contract book to the back, she saw an elegant signature in the corner of this plain golden document—Asidimosi.

Damn, the Demon King's personal signature.

The Home Witch looked up at Teacher Spider, who had a calm and breezy expression, and had to admit that she had truly been shown up this time.

The signature of a powerful witch is not like the limited-edition celebrity signatures of her past life, which are actually just gimmicks. The signatures of such big shots have their power flowing through them, especially when signed on something like a contract book.

That is to say, this contract had received the witness of the Witch King.

The utility of such a thing as a contract is generally linked to the witness. Once someone violates the contract, the witness has the obligation to maintain the contract's utility.

Currently, the vast majority of contracts sold on the market in the Witch World have Grand Witches as witnesses, and only a few high-end contracts have Peak Witches as witnesses. As for that kind of contract book with the Witch King as a witness...

It can only be said that this thing is priceless and has no market.

Contracts of this level are generally used for alliances between powerful witch territories. Now, using this for a small apprenticeship ceremony really has the suspicion of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

However, Dorothy looked up at her own mother on the side and quickly understood.

Fine, her own weight is indeed hard to disturb the Witch King, but if one considers the status of her mother, Youfeiliya, then this apprenticeship of hers is indeed equivalent to an alliance between two powerful witches, so it barely qualifies to use this contract book.

At that moment, she didn't hesitate anymore, directly forcing out a drop of fresh blood to drip onto the golden contract book. That drop of bright red blood quickly deformed, transforming into her own exclusive mark—a little witch riding a broom.

Subsequently, Teacher Spider also dripped a drop of blood, and a mark of a spider dancing with silk threads was added to the contract book.

Finally, this contract book automatically ignited, and the pitch-black firelight eventually formed the mark of a classic ram-horned demon. And that ram-horned demon, which was originally just a mark, suddenly opened its eyes and looked at everyone present.

That was originally just a casual glance, but when the gaze swept to Dorothy, the ram-horned demon's eyes were clearly stunned. Then, the gaze moved upward, and when it saw the hat on Dorothy's head, the ram-horned demon widened its eyes directly.

"Contract concluded."

However, very quickly, the ram-horned demon returned to normal, and an exceptionally majestic voice rang in Dorothy's ears.

... Demon King is surprised... ===== CHAPTER 130 =====