Mage? Spell Engineer!

The Granol family's mansion is on Pastoral Street. The newly purchased five-story single-family mansion is tall enough, spacious enough, and most importantly, large enough to receive guests of the future Count Granol. But tonight, there were only five people on the long dining table that could accommodate twenty people.

In addition to Granol on the main seat and Francois next to Rorschach, there were also the young daughter of the prospective countess and the prospective count.

"Fortunately, there are flowers, which make the table look less empty. There is some truth to these Valouana accents." There are carefully stacked flowers in the middle of the table, which add a lot of color to the white tablecloth, but if you look closely, it looks a little wilted. . Granol did not use a candlestick, but a slightly exaggerated magic lamp - it did not emit light by itself, but cleverly used circuits to make the [Light Spell] last longer.

Most of the decorations in this home are like this: on the one hand, they lamely imitate the great nobles, and on the other hand, they exaggerate the emphasis on magic, trying to prove the identity of the archmage to visitors.

He's already an archmage and still does this, this guy is really screwed up. Compared with the dashing Master Kano, Rorschach could only shake his head secretly in his heart.

At the family dinner, Granol asked about the situation in the secondary plane, and finally asked Rorschach in a roundabout way about his views on the gold mine in the secondary plane.

"To be honest, the only evidence is the results of that apprentice. Maybe he was very lucky, and most of us were quite unlucky in those three days." Rorschach and Francois both smiled when they said this.

"To be honest, Master Granol, I am from the Empire. The gold mines in the Holy Kingdom's territory have nothing to do with me. I will never make any comments on such a sensitive matter." Rorschach neither denied nor affirmed, and said that he This is the same attitude toward others.

Granol laughed dryly: "If you want to mine, you need a stable and high-capacity transmission channel. Master Kano did it on the day of emergency opening. It is said that Master Rorschach's paper played a key role in allowing the Alchemy Department to improve the power. unit."

"Speaking of which, thank you very much for your willingness to recommend my paper. I have heard about it from Mr. Kano."

"The main thing is that Master Rorschach is very good. Since it has been proven effective in practice, the magic guild should not stick to cumbersome procedures. I have read your paper, that heat, heat's discussion of energy is very exciting. .Master Rorschach, are you interested in joining the Masons?"

At this point, Francois was startled. The knife missed and scratched the dinner plate, making a rude and harsh noise.

"Sorry, actually I don't know much about the Masons. It is said that you are at the top of the Masons?"

"It's not worth mentioning, it's just an association with a relatively long history." Granol said it was not worth mentioning, but he straightened his back unconsciously:

“In ancient times, masons who made statues of gods established the Masons’ Guild. We advocate geometry and magic, and are nominally responsible for the construction of many magic guilds, with members and organizations throughout the continent.

Of course, what’s the point of giving statues to gods these days? Our new goal is to create something more interesting, and if Rorschach is willing to join in. "

"Sounds like a very powerful organization, but I'm sorry that I'm not very good at mathematics and have little interest in geometry." Rorschach declined the olive branch - this high-level organization seemed unreliable, and in Rorschach's eyes, it seemed impossible. Francois was much more pleasing to the eye than his father.

The blunt refusal made the banquet temporarily awkward. Under the table where Rorschach could not see, the countess-to-be kicked her daughter.

"Master Rorschach, my brother has been praising you as a very powerful spell caster since he came back. Can you show it to us?" Francois's sister began to "play" the lines she had memorized. Her voice was particularly sweet. If she was traveling through time, The former Rorschach would only say: The deadlock depends on the sword!

"Qilvis, Master Rorschach is our guest."

"It's okay, I didn't expect Francois to comment like this." Rorschach turned to look at the young man sitting next to him, and Francois smiled. Francois, your smile is not natural at all. You haven't mastered your kung fu yet.

Rorschach put his hand on the wilted flower at the edge. [Resuscitation], a basic spell in the natural system, was obtained by Rorschach after dismantling the magic and then combining it with "activation" and "resuscitation". Visible to the naked eye, the low-hanging flowers are rehydrated and plump, and the leaves are greener.

"Yeah." Qilvis exclaimed, and she saw that all the flowers changed colors next, from common yellow and pink to more rare bright blue and smoky purple, and the white flowers also changed from yellowish to crystal clear. of pure white.

This is the effect after adding "mapping".

Granol immediately commented: "Francois praised Master Rorschach's energy-shaping magic to me, but I didn't expect that he is also very accomplished in the natural system."

No, do you want to praise me for this? Can you show the arrogance of a high-level mage? Rorschach began to find socializing an unappetizing activity.

A dish of minced meat was brought to the table by a servant and distributed equally among the five people present. The pork, which may be fat or lean, is first fried until crispy. The chef then shreds it and stirs it into various spices to create a "pork sauce" that is suitable for eating with bread slices. Each person was also given a small plate of dark pickled citrus fruits. Rorschach dipped it in and tasted a little. The combination of salty, sweet and sour taste was close to that of plums. Finally, the familiar orange flavor emerged, which should be combined with the meat sauce. Tired.

"This is a delicacy from my wife's hometown. I feel a little tired of it. I think you young people won't have any pressure to eat it." Granol picked up the fibrous meat sauce with a knife and spread it evenly on the bread:

"It is said that a group of young men got into a dispute over the distribution of wild boar after hunting. Everyone was a good boy. Everyone said that the arrows on the prey were shot by themselves. Some people were not convinced who got the best part. The chef Simply cook it and tear the meat into fine pieces, then make a sauce and distribute it evenly.”

Chopped for good distribution, banker and Finance Minister Necker agrees very much. He wants to finely cut His Majesty the King's gold mine into one hundred thousand pieces, although he still doesn't know how big the gold mine is and whether it is enough to cut.

Fortunately, he is not cutting the gold itself, but issuing shares of the Sharyana Mining Company.

After reading the report of the Finance Minister, Charles XVI looked up and said with a smile: "Dear Necker, I believe you are not going to give away a lot of my gold, are you?"

"My King, the company's stock is by no means equal to the share of the gold mine. Your Majesty, do you know how much public debt there is now?" Public debt is the debt of the kingdom, and it is also the debt of the royal family.

Necker expected that Charlie would not be able to answer, so he continued to explain: "Converted into new currency, even if we depreciate it by 20% in a planned way, 3.2 billion gold is as much as the sand in the Seine River! Where can we find the flowing water? Where is the river of gold coins?”

"Gold mine."

"It's too late, it's too late, Your Majesty. The gold mine has not yet proven its reserves, and has not started mining yet, and it is still in a damn alien plane! Why not sell the hope it brings at a good price first." Necker took out a new The report is brief and the most important thing is that it is given to His Majesty personally by him and will not be handled by the prime minister.

"The annual dividend of 500 lang per share can be exchanged for 200 francs per share in public bonds, and 400 francs in public bonds can be exchanged for 500 gold shares."

The lang is the unit of paper money, one lang is worth one gold coin, and one livre is worth one silver coin, at least for now.

Unbeknownst to Necker, a document identical to his new report was sitting on the cardinal's desk. But at this time Du Plessis was thinking about a more important, even dangerous issue. He said to his personal secretary in a joking tone: "If the nobility, the Church of Order, and the trading companies affiliated with the Magic Guild are taxed at the same rate as civilians at the same time, will there be a civil war in the Holy Kingdom?"

The secretary had a mountain of documents to deal with without raising his head: "You also said before that the kingdom cannot survive without taxation."