My Magic Age

Before Qi Ge left the imperial capital, she gave me the management of her trading company. I couldn't spare the time to manage her trading company, so I asked Alia to help me keep an eye on it.

When Qi Ge was in the imperial capital, she would check the accounts of the trading company in the middle of each month, and she would also decide the proportion of goods purchased from the town of Guludin each time, including magic parchment, canned luncheon meat, vermicelli, corpse fire oil, primary magic herbs, and some raw meat jerky, etc. The types are varied and the span is large, but they are all specialties of the orc tribe.

Among these goods, the most stable sales are magic parchment, and the magic herbs are in short supply recently. Some noble lords are willing to stockpile some luncheon meat and corpse fire oil. These things are stored by some lords as military supplies, and vermicelli is successfully brought to the tables of Green nobles by Qi Ge.

These imported goods from the orc tribe have a large consumer group in the imperial capital. For example, canned luncheon meat is almost the same price as beef in the imperial capital, but canned food is easier to store and transport, and is the first choice for home travel.

In addition, Qige also owns a workshop for making magic potions and fire phosphorus bombs. Before Qige left, the production of these two workshops within half a year had been arranged. Both workshops have their own managers, so I only need to listen to the housekeeper's report on the accounts regularly on the island by the lake, and occasionally let Alia go to the workshop to check some actual conditions. As long as the two workshops can maintain normal operation, I will not care even if there is no profit in the past few months, as long as I can hold on until Qige returns from Etia.

Qige has never asked me why I didn't contact Kuz in the Green Empire, but she is so smart, I guess she probably has some ideas in her mind.

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Four old dwarf craftsmen worked together to create a smaller version of the magic engraving machine. After four days and nights of continuous hard work, they finally succeeded in creating a metal rune plate of "Fire Gathering". It was also at this time that I suddenly found that I was one step closer to the dream in my heart.

Just as the Yekis scholar said, this metal magic rune plate greatly reduced the demand for magic metal.

In the imperial capital, copper is the cheapest among ordinary metals. Such a magic engraving machine is equivalent to a magic apprentice drawing a magic rune plate day and night. The magic engraving machine never needs to consume mental power. It only needs a technician who is skilled in operating the engraving machine. Many female dwarves in the underground caves of Xinliu Valley can do it.

In the eyes of the four old dwarf craftsmen, this magic engraving machine obviously has many shortcomings. Because the blacksmith shop in Xinliu Valley lacks a large number of professional tools, the transmission shafts and gears produced can only be polished manually. To put it bluntly, a hacksaw and a few plate files are used to dig the workpiece out of the iron material. Even being able to make this magic engraving machine work normally is a miracle.

So the first improvement of this prototype was also slowly carried out under the auspices of the old dwarf. First, all transmission parts that did not meet the requirements had to be removed. In order to make the processing simpler, these parts were made of copper. Now they have to be replaced with fine steel or black iron rolling. The dwarves have some unique understanding of the processing technology of transmission shafts and gears.

The four old dwarf craftsmen in the underground cave of Xinliu Valley then began to make the third magic engraving machine.

At the same time, the stamping head of the magic engraving machine forged by the North Duisburg blacksmith workshop was also transported to the underground cave of Xinliu Valley. Under the guidance of the old dwarf craftsman, this magic engraving machine of normal size began to be assembled one after another. In order to make this magic engraving machine have a good performance from the beginning, many Xinliu Valley blacksmith shops could not make exquisite parts. I took the drawings copied by the old dwarves to the major blacksmith shops in the imperial capital for OEM.

Because the metal rune plate of the "Fire Gathering Technique" only engraved the magic red copper wire on the ordinary copper plate, if it failed, it would not be wasted. At most, the magic pattern line on the copper plate would be scraped off with a file, and it could be reprocessed immediately. During this period, the small magic engraving machine continued to produce the "Fire Gathering Technique" magic rune plate.

So I suddenly had an idea to draw the copper hot pot in my memory on parchment, and then asked an old dwarf craftsman to help me make one. According to the style of the copper hot pot with a round chimney in the middle and a circular pot bottom around it, more than a dozen female dwarves swung hammers in the Xinliu Valley blacksmith shop to make this copper hot pot.

The base of this copper hot pot is inlaid with a palm-sized "Fire Gathering" magic rune board. When using it, just place a magic crystal fragment on the rune board at the bottom of the copper hot pot, and a blue flame will burn inside. It is very convenient to operate.

After the copper hot pot was made, I couldn't wait to use it to entertain the dwarves living in the underground caves of Xinliu Valley. The delicate and plump yellow sheep meat was cut into thin slices like cicada wings. It only needed to stay in the boiling water for a short moment before it could be fished out. No other seasonings were needed. Just dip it in some chive sauce and it would be incomparably delicious.

The dwarves were usually accustomed to ale, dry bread, sausages and stewed meat. They usually ate mutton by simply chopping it into small pieces and throwing it into a large iron pot to cook it until it was soft, then eating the meat and drinking the soup in big mouthfuls. This method of cutting the meat into thin slices and boiling it in boiling water was the first time they had tried it. Not only did they find it very novel, they also felt that this was the way to eat mutton that was truly delicious.

This group of dwarves is also very conscientious, and they have no scruples just because there are more than 60,000 barrels of golden cider in the wine cellar.

In fact, only Bernd and the old dwarves drink a little occasionally. They like to drink and sometimes brew some barley wine with rough lees from the barley and grains allocated to them. Sometimes, the dwarves even You can drink two dozen ales while chewing a piece of black bread.

There are still some White Rock Rhinoceros hard-leather armors hoarded in Xinliu Valley. These hard-leather armors have not yet been painted with magic patterns. I plan to personally make these White Rock Rhinos hard-leather armors into the 'Power of the Giant Bear' magic pattern structure, so as long as I will come here when I have time. Scholar Yerkes has been preparing for the winter magic pattern construction conference.

I heard that there are many inscription masters in the imperial capital who are also waiting to see this person who has not been able to pass the inscription master's primary examination yet, but has designed the 'Devil Snake's Teeth' magic pattern structure that makes many lords salivate. What kind of person is the magic scholar? Can he release an impressive magic pattern construction again at the winter magic pattern construction conference?

There was even a well-known inscriptionist in the imperial capital openly speculating in a magic newspaper that the 'Snake Demon's Fang' was a magic pattern structure design plagiarized by Yerkes scholars from an ancient book. In fact, he himself knew nothing about inscription design at all. , the reason is that a person who has not even passed the junior inscriptionist exam, how could he possibly design the magic pattern construction drawings!

Yerkes Scholar is preparing to display the 'Elegance of the Wind' with energy-concentrating magic patterns at the winter press conference this time. There are many things that need to be prepared. The most important thing is that at the press conference, he will face the many inscriptions in the audience. To his fellow masters, magicians, and noble lords, he needed to give a brief explanation of his design drawings and answer some questions.

Therefore, in addition to going to him regularly every week to draw the 'Devil's Fang', I would also go to Xinliu Valley to draw the 'Power of the Bear' magic pattern structure.

During this period, the biggest change in Xinliu Valley was not the orc warriors who had white rock rhinoceros leather armor and black lin horses, but those who wore black iron armor, hung black iron moon blade axes on their waists, and carried crossbows modified from bed They are barbarian slaves made of overweight crossbows. When they wear black iron armor, they seem to have a kind of murderous aura in their bodies.

Their bodies are strong, especially their endurance far exceeds my expectations. Even wearing this heavy armor weighing more than a thousand kilograms, they can carry out a rapid march of more than 100 kilometers, and can also set up a charge formation on the battlefield. This group of savages People are born fighters.

Originally, I wanted to make one of the two magic spells, 'miniature tornado' or 'frost', on the printing head of the next magic pattern engraving machine, so as to greatly reduce the cost of exhaust fans and refrigerators, at least to allow the Imperial City to Ordinary residents here can afford it, but after seeing the military formation of these barbarian slaves, I changed my mind. The manufacture of exhaust fans and refrigerators was delayed, and the manufacture of heavy crossbow magic arrows became a top priority.

Yerkes scholars designed the two magic patterns of 'sharp' and 'penetrating' into the shape of a magic ring. Originally, I wanted to tattoo these two magic patterns on the wrists of Katrina and Kalantso, because these two magic patterns The magic pattern array matches the energy-gathering magic pattern very well. During the tattoo process, Kalancso accidentally mentioned: If the magic pattern array is 'penetrated' and engraved on the tip of the crossbow arrow, these black iron arrows will not Will it easily penetrate the armor of a heavily armored knight?

So the heavy crossbow arrowhead with both 'penetrating' and 'sharp' magic patterns engraved with it was born in the hands of Scholar Yerkes and I. Of course, it is impossible for me to draw energy-gathering magic patterns on the tip of the arrow, but I can Inlaid with cheaper magic crystal fragments.

Yerkes scholars joked that this kind of bed crossbow arrows are the most expensive crossbow arrows. The cost of each one is at least no less than one magic crystal. Moreover, because the number of inscription masters in the imperial capital is limited, it is impossible to mass-produce this kind of arrows. When he said these words, I still don't know that the printing head of my second magic engraving machine will be engraved with both 'penetrating' and 'sharp' magic patterns at the same time. The area of ​​the printing head of this large-scale magic engraving machine is very large. I am going to Four heavy crossbow arrowheads are engraved at once.

As the plane war continues to break out, the war has caused the Green Empire's economy to show a backward trend, but there are also many war weapons industries rising. At this stage, a large amount of black magic crystals are constantly pouring into the trading market of the Green Empire. Magic crystals The exchange ratio of stones to gold coins is constantly shrinking.

I remember that five years ago in El City of the Green Empire, one magic crystal could be exchanged for at least nine gold coins, but by this winter, one magic crystal could be exchanged for six and a half gold coins. A magic crystal fragment the size of a fingernail is equivalent to one-tenth the size of a magic crystal. However, this magic crystal fragment is even less valuable. It is by no means one-tenth of the price of a magic crystal. In fact, ten You can buy such a magic crystal fragment for a piece of silver, so using magic tools is no longer an unreachable thing in some families in the imperial capital. Many families own magic caravans, magic wall lamps, etc.

This summer, a magic item that became an exhaust fan became popular in the imperial capital, and then major trade unions rushed to imitate it.

Just as the old dwarf craftsmen were debugging the second magic engraving machine, small batches of 'Fire Gathering Technique' rune boards were engraved, and then put into the bottom of the copper hot pot, and then this kind of self-contained The copper hot pots of the 'Fire Gathering Technique' magic circle quietly began to be sold in the magic grocery store in the Tower of Pride in the Imperial Capital.

This year's winter in the imperial capital seems to be particularly cold, with heavy snowfalls one after another. The streets of the imperial capital have been compacted with a thick layer of snow. The magic caravans will press deep ruts on the hard snow. The magic caravans on the street can only move forward along these ruts, which makes the vehicles on the street look very orderly.

After the magic class in the morning, I met up with the girls of Yingli at the gate of the Royal Magic Academy. I originally wanted to go to the food street to eat something, but because the snowy road was difficult to walk on, I canceled the decision to go out for lunch. Finally, it was Catalina who suggested that we eat hot pot in the water magician dormitory.

Yingli, Helena and Becky were not unfamiliar with hot pot. When the girls heard that a set of special pots was made for hot pot, they could not wait to run to the dormitory to cook hot pot. In such a cold winter, several people gathered in the dormitory to eat a hot pot. The dazzling sunlight shone into the dormitory through the glass window, and the aroma of mutton soon drifted into the corridor of the dormitory.

At this time, Noah suddenly broke in from outside with a copper hot pot in his arms. When he was half a foot outside the door, he asked me loudly: "Ji Jia, what delicious food are you eating in the dormitory again?"

"..." I was speechless. Is it necessary to let the whole floor know!

"Ah! Yingli, Helena, Becky, you are also here..." At this time, Noah saw Yingli, Helena, Becky, Katrina and other girls sitting around the desk, and greeted them with a smile.

There was a steaming hot pot on the table, and I was standing aside cutting mutton with a skinning knife.

Ying Li quickly stood up politely and said with a smile: "Noah, do you want to eat together?"

In the Vashj plane, Noah and Ying Li became close friends after knowing each other for three months, and they became very casual when chatting.

Noah walked to the desk with a copper hot pot in his arms. Looking at the steaming hot pot on the table, he said to me in surprise: "Oh, Jijia, your idea is really good! You actually use this kind of heater to cook food, why didn't I think of it! I wanted to recommend this heater to you, but I didn't expect you to use it before me. The winter in the imperial capital is really too cold..."