Custom witchcraft was indeed one of the means to make money in Colin's plans.
This idea came from Shelley who was standing in front of him.
"It's a requirement from Darren's Commission," Shelley continued.
Darren's Commission was an underground trading market with a membership system, and Shelley was one of its members.
With such a membership status, Shelley had many others; she revealed that she should have at least ten.
Aside from occasionally trading witch tools and magic potions, the main focus of such underground trading meetings was still knowledge exchange.
Although it sounded very grand, based on recent understanding—
The highest knowledge traded within these underground organizations was usually only Second Rank, and perhaps only Third Rank knowledge could appear at best.
There was no help for it; the Supreme Council's control over knowledge was just too stringent.
Strictly speaking, even Second Rank knowledge, let alone First Rank, was rare to see openly on the market.
Normally, if a School Wizard had First Rank witchcraft, they would usually exchange it for other resources by submitting it to the School or their Faction within, in exchange for points, and then for resources.
Then, different Factions within the School and between Schools would engage in larger-scale knowledge trading to ensure the flow of knowledge.
At the same time, this would also ensure a monopoly over knowledge.
However, there would always be a need for knowledge trading among ordinary wizards.
And as long as there was demand, there would be a solution.
These kinds of trading meetings were special organizations born for the circulation of First Rank and higher witchcraft.
Initially, it was mainly friends trading knowledge with friends, and then as friends introduced friends, and friends of friends introduced more friends... the embryo of the trading meetings was born in this way.
Of course, now, knowledge trading meetings similar to Darren's Commission have developed and been reformed over a long time into mature entities.
They exist in a gray area; the Supreme Council recognizes their existence but also restricts them from circulating higher levels of knowledge.
'It is indeed a suppressive world,' Colin silently lamented, 'not only because of the ubiquitous tainted babbling but also because of this powerless social system... It prevents one from seeing more possibilities for advancement.'
He gathered his thoughts and continued to smile at Shelley, asking, "So what exactly is the custom witchcraft?"
Custom witchcraft, just as the name implies, involves creating witchcraft that satisfies the commissioning party's needs.
As the membership of the trading meetings increased, simply buying and selling witchcraft of course could not satisfy everyone's unique needs.
Thus, this type of trading format also came into being.
Darren's Commission was a trading meeting that focused more on issuing commissions for custom witchcraft, and its scale was among the top in Neustadt City.
It's worth mentioning that if one happened to have witchcraft that met the requirements, one could directly trade it, just like normal buying and selling of witchcraft.
Shelley continued to respond:
"Force Field Magic, the requirement is that it must at least defend against Second Rank basic Spirit attacks and must be usable in conjunction with a Spirit Illusion Shield, the commission price is two hundred thousand Magic Stones."
"The detailed requirements are here." Shelley handed over a sheet of white paper, seemingly well-prepared.
Perhaps even if Colin didn't ask, she would have told him about this after they finished exchanging information.
Colin took the white paper and after looking at it for a while, his brows slightly furrowed.
When he first heard Force Field Magic, he had some expectations, as the defense witchcraft he possessed—a Steel Temperature Resistance Field, was also in the category of Force Field Magic.
Therefore, he was somewhat confident about customizing Force Field Defensive Witchcraft.
But now, upon a closer look, it seemed somewhat challenging.
This custom commission needed Force Field properties primarily focused on defending against Spirit attacks, while his own specialty was more in physical defenses.
This might not be a big deal, as having Golden Paper, he could certainly find and break the limits of Force Field Magic focused on defending against Spirit attacks to finally meet the requirements.
But there was another requirement—it had to be usable in conjunction with a Spirit Illusion Shield.
This witchcraft, Spirit Illusion Shield, he had never heard of before, but looking at the description on the white paper Shelley handed over, Spirit Illusion Shield was also a Force Field Magic of spirit defense.
This made the task rather difficult.
As is well known, two witchcraft spells that are too similar in principle cannot be used at the same time; this could cause abnormalities in the witchcraft or the second witchcraft might fail to be cast.
It's like having your hands full with one stick; you wouldn't be able to grab another weapon.
However, it might not affect you if instead of grabbing another weapon, you were to wear something like an arm guard.
But a Spirit Illusion Shield and the requested Force Field Magic were clearly not in this category.
They both focused on defending against Spirit attacks.
Therefore, to avoid too much similarity leading to conflicts, he first needed to have an in-depth understanding of Spirit Illusion Shield before creating this custom witchcraft.
This requirement alone was enough to exclude him.
"Did the commissioner provide the Spirit Illusion Shield witchcraft?" Colin put down the white paper and asked, unwilling to give up.
"No," Shelley shook her head, pausing to speculate:
"Spirit Illusion Shield is a common defensive witchcraft among members of the 'Dule' School. If the commissioner is a member of the 'Dule' School, they probably can't teach it to others without permission."
Colin nodded and sighed, "Looks like the two hundred thousand Magic Stones are not related to me."
Seemingly thinking of something, he then asked, "Is there an exchange for Spirit Illusion Shield witchcraft in the True Knowledge Library?"