My Magic Age

Alia took my arm, wearing a pair of blue deer leather boots, stepping on the stone pavement and making a "clacking" sound.

The maid Betty followed behind her, holding a small parasol with floral fabric. Whether it was her appearance or her temperament, Betty was obviously better than those girls from small noble families.

Alia's smile was like the brightest sun in autumn. Her long golden hair was piled high on her head. She was tall and curvy. The white skin on her neck and chest was a little dazzling. She was as elegant as a proud white swan. Her blue eyes reflected the bustling crowd on the streets of the airport town. She walked in the market in a yellow and white striped court dress. The aristocratic aura on her body made the civilians who passed by avoid her.

The shouts of merchants, the bargaining of people in the town, the music of organs and recorders, the neighing of horses, and the fluttering of chickens and ducks in cages merged into the most joyful movement full of life in the market. We walked through the streets and the noisy market and came to the central square of the market.

One after another, magic caravans gathered in the trade market of the Airport Town. Each magic caravan could only carry two huge wooden boxes. There was a constant flow of fishy and salty sea water through the gaps in the wooden boxes and dripped on the stone slabs of the Airport Street Market. The fountain in the center of the market had been occupied by these fish merchants from Xinghai City. They cleaned the fountain a little. Several young fish merchants wearing black sea beast suspenders and naked stood by the fountain, took out several frost scrolls from the magic box, and threw them into the fountain one after another.

This practice of the fish merchants in Xinghai City was quite novel to the people in the Airport Town.

For the residents of the imperial capital of this generation, magic scrolls are exclusive items for magicians. When using magic scrolls, you need to recite spells, but the fish merchants in Xinghai City have changed their views. These fish merchants untied the horseweed ropes of the frost scrolls and casually put the scrolls on the stone ground at the bottom of the dried fountain. Layers of cold ice mist diffused from the pool. Standing by the fountain and looking at the cold water vapor, people had the illusion of standing on the clouds.

The magic caravan leaned against the circular fountain. The fish merchants poured the frozen sea fish in the wooden boxes into the fountain. The fresh salmon mixed with crushed ice looked silvery in the sun. The cold air surged from the bottom of the fountain, covering the salmon in a light frost mist.

Boxes of salmon soon piled up the fountain into a small hill. Then the fish merchants in Xinghai City spread square wooden pallets by the pool and placed the plump salmon on them. The people of the Imperial Capital wanted to eat some fresh game and fish, which were basically transported through magic boxes. This new mode of transportation was very novel to the people in the Airport Town, so everyone crowded in front of the stalls and competed to buy these fresh salmon.

I didn't expect that these fish merchants in Xinghai City would be willing to buy frost scrolls to keep these salmon fresh, but during the long-distance transportation, some salmon still couldn't avoid going bad. Even if they were re-frozen in the fountain, they still couldn't cover up the faint smell of stinky fish.

There were too many people who wanted to buy fresh salmon, and many people crowded together, and the scene was a bit chaotic.

I stood on the periphery with Alia, and lost interest in buying fresh salmon for a while. We hired a large magic caravan, returned to the warehouse, pulled a full cart of magic pattern spider silk ingots, and hurried back to the Imperial Capital.

It takes at least one day for the magic caravan to cross the Mazzaro Pass. I sat in the magic caravan and practiced drawing the ‘energy-gathering magic pattern’. After learning for so long, I can already draw the magic pattern very skillfully, but I still can’t meet the clearance requirements in the mysterious magic book, and I can’t open the third page of this book.

Despite this, I still gained a lot from this mysterious magic book. The two companion magic patterns of ‘reducing demand’ and ‘energy-gathering’ can upgrade any magic pattern structure to a higher level.

Especially the second companion magic pattern, which directly changed the composition of some primary magic pattern arrays. This companion magic pattern has a certain magic-gathering ability, which can provide a source of magic power for some simple primary magic patterns. In this way, not only can the first-level warrior draw simple magic pattern structures on themselves, but even ordinary people can enjoy the magic effects of primary magic pattern structures.

I think the application of ‘energy-gathering magic pattern’ is far more than this. It should have a broader application space, but I haven’t thought of it yet.

"Jijia, you are both an ice magician and an inscriptionist, right!" Alia said to me while lying on her back on the soft leather sofa, tilting her head and looking at me.

"Yeah!" I looked up at Alia and answered.

Katarina sat on the carpet in the carriage and practiced a kind of yoga-like physical exercise. This kind of gymnastics can enhance one's flexibility, coordination and balance. Many assassins and swordsmen will learn this set of physical exercises. In fact, this kind of physical exercise has been involved in the junior swordsman academy. In the advanced swordsman academy, this kind of physical exercise has become one of the compulsory courses.

Alia looked at Katarina with envy. She propped up one hand on her white chin and said to me: "Seeing the scrolls of ice magic used by the fish merchants in Xinghai City has inspired me a lot."

At this time, I just finished a "energy-gathering magic pattern" on a piece of magic parchment, so I simply stopped writing and listened carefully to Alia's thoughts.

Encouraged by me, Alia sat up from the sofa, took my magic engraving pen, and sketched a cube on the back of my magic parchment with just a few strokes. It can be seen that her painting skills are very solid, and she has obviously studied this aspect. Her thin fingers hold the pen in an elegant posture. Her full chest is against the table, and she draws a wooden box in one breath, and draws a few boards in the wooden box with a few strokes.

She circled the picture she drew with the tip of the pen and said to me: "I wonder if it is possible to invent a box that is not as expensive as the magic box, nor as rough as those wooden boxes, so that those fishmongers can use this box to hold fresh sea fish."

She simply tied her loose blonde hair behind her head, revealing a shrewd and capable look.

She continued to tell me: "As long as a few of the cheapest metal rune plates are embedded in the box, these metal rune plates can keep the fresh fish in a frozen state all the way. In this way, when they are transported to the imperial capital, the frozen sea fish will not become smelly. I always feel that the wooden boxes made by the fish merchants in Xinghai City are not good enough."

I scratched my head and followed Alia's idea and said: "This... should not be too difficult. We only need to install a few rune plates with ice magic effects in the insulated wooden box to keep the fresh fish in a frozen state for a long time. We can find the cheapest copper rune plate and draw the simplest frost magic on the rune plate. The frost magic can keep The temperature in the insulated wooden box is maintained below freezing point. "

Alia stared at the wooden box pattern on the parchment, and then drew the insulation layer on it in detail, and then said: "The wooden box must be well sealed, and there must be an insulation interlayer in the middle, so that the insulated box will not lose temperature. This is like our ice cellar in the north. In winter, we store ice cubes in the insulated ice room, and those ice cubes will not melt in the summer of the following year. This can save some metal rune plates and reduce the production cost of wooden boxes. "

"By the way, if this kind of wooden box is made, let's call it a refrigerator!" I suggested to Alia.

"Refrigerator?" Alia raised her delicate eyebrows.

"Yes, let's call it a refrigerator." I waved my hand and said.

This idea is like a bean sprout, sprouting in my heart, and then slowly growing. At this time, I have a special urge to make it, not for anything else, just for the word "refrigerator".

Speaking of this, I immediately became more energetic and said to Alia: "By the way, I can ask Yekis scholar to help me design an ice magic rune board that saves the most magic power... If you didn't mention this, I almost forgot that our exhaust fan sales have not been very good recently, right?"

I thought of the so-called ice magic rune board that saves magic power, which is actually to add "energy-gathering magic pattern" to the rune board with the "frost" magic effect. At the same time, a gem base is also set on the magic rune board. Even if magic crystals are inlaid, the consumption of magic crystals by the magic rune board should be reduced to the minimum. Then, I thought of those exhaust fans. In fact, if I draw a "energy-gathering magic pattern" behind the "micro tornado" magic rune board, it is very likely that those exhaust fans will get rid of the trouble of consuming magic crystals and frequently replacing magic crystals, but I have no way to explain this to Alia.

"Ah! But what does this have to do with the refrigerator we are discussing now? The business of the Rune Plate Workshop is still quite good." Alia was a little uncomfortable with my jumping thoughts, so she asked me.

Alia then told me the current status of the Rune Plate Workshop. Although the business is not bad, there are great hidden dangers. She said: "Luke has been trying to persuade me to expand the Rune Plate Workshop recently. Luke is easily influenced by Brunanlun. I am worried that once several large mithril mines in Angela's multi-dimensional space are taken back by the Imperial Construct Knights, the market of the adamantine magic pattern rune plate will be impacted. With the current manufacturing process, the cost of the mithril rune plate is 20% lower than that of the adamantine magic pattern rune plate. Once the mithril mines in Angela's multi-dimensional space resume mining, the orders for the adamantine magic pattern rune plate will be greatly reduced... or even gone."

I said to Alia: "I want to say... maybe I have a way to take back this market."

"The market for exhaust fans?" Alia asked me in surprise.

"Yes, I can ask Yekis scholars to design a magic rune plate that saves magic power, or I don't need to ask an inscriptionist to draw the magic rune array on the rune plate." I said to Alia, but these need to be completely based on the successful development of the magic engraving machine, otherwise this exhaust fan will never be mass-produced.

Alia asked me with an incredible expression: "Don't need those inscriptionists in the imperial capital!... Do you want to draw the magic rune array on all the metal rune plates yourself?"

I rubbed my nose and said to her: "That won't happen, maybe I can find a better way..."

As the text annotations on the Hextech technology drawing were translated bit by bit, Bernd and I finally figured it out, according to the text records on the drawing.

The most important punch on this magic engraving machine is made of the hardest krypton gold, and we need to carve the krypton gold into a convex shape. The huge box inside the punch needs to be hollowed out, and thirty-seven pieces of metal rune plates made of fine gold are inserted inside.

The biggest function of these metal rune plates is to stably export magic power and simulate the most stable magic power. The goblin technician only needs to use a special brush to apply the mithril solution on the punch punch. At the moment the punch touches the metal plate, the magic rune plate inside the punch instantly outputs magic power and carves the magic pattern array on the ordinary metal plate.

This metal rune plate is slightly different from the ordinary metal rune plates sold in the magic market. There may be a slight lack of magic effect, but the most important thing is to save manufacturing costs.

From material costs to manufacturing costs, there are significant reductions.

Let's start with the material cost: ordinary mithril rune plates are made by coating ordinary metal plates with a layer of mithril. The biggest advantage of this blank mithril rune plate is that any magic skill can be drawn on the rune plate, but the rune plate made by the magic engraving machine uses a punch to directly engrave magic patterns on ordinary rune plates. The mithril solution on the punch will adhere to the magic patterns on the metal plate. In this way, only the magic pattern lines of a metal rune plate are made of mithril, which can greatly reduce the material cost.

Then there is the inscription cost. Ordinary mithril rune plates are engraved by inscription masters on magic pattern arrays. The success rate of this method is less than half, and the inscription fee charged by the inscription master is also very high, which is also the main reason why the price of rune plates has remained high.

If the magic engraving machine can succeed, once the manufacturing cost of these simple primary magic rune plates is reduced, we can easily take back the market of exhaust fans.

And... once the price of magic metal rune plates is reduced, what does this mean?

This means that the cost of many magic items will be greatly reduced. By then, perhaps this exhaust fan can enter the kitchen of ordinary families.

The magic caravan slowly moved up along the mountain road, and I sat in the car, my thoughts flying around along the countless lines intertwined in my mind. I thought about the application of exhaust fans for a while, and then I thought about the development of refrigerators. At this time, I found that if all these wanted to be implemented, it completely depended on whether the magic engraving machine could be successful.

At this time, I was a little looking forward to the magic engraving machine being made quickly, because I hoped to teach those inscription masters in the imperial capital a lesson.