The rest of the week was spent in furious negotiations with the local federal government office, which owned my dream house. They at first gave a ridiculously high valuation, pointing out at all the surrounding land that came with the house, forty acres of it, including the trees and a barn.
I then pointed out the safety issues with the house, with all those old spells. I even wrote a cost estimate, in my capacity as a Graduate in Practical and Applied Magic, to get rid of all the magic.
The cost of the magic abatement lowered the cost a lot, pushing the house value to the negative. The bureaucrat then asked me why I wanted the house if it was such bad value. I pointed out that, in my capacity as a dark mage, I could get rid of all the magic for the price of my own labor.
In the end, it
