My Magic Age

The magic carriage stopped outside the gate of Alia's new manor, and Catalina and I jumped off the magic carriage.

I threw a silver coin to the coachman and waved to him, indicating that he could leave. The coachman took the silver coin, quickly put it in his arms, put his hands together and saluted me, and said happily: "Thank you for your generosity, and may the goddess of luck always be with you."

After the coachman finished speaking, he raised his whip and flicked it in the air. The Gubolai horse immediately raised its hooves, stepped on the hard snow road, and pulled the magic carriage and disappeared into the snowy night.

The street lamp at the door was a little dim. A guard poked his head out of the gatehouse inside the gate and saw me and Catalina standing at the door. He hurriedly pushed the door open and ran out. On a cold night, a copper hot pot was lit on the wooden table in the small gatehouse, with hot steam coming out of it. There were wine glasses and a piece of fresh meat next to it, and a small knife for cutting meat was placed on a wooden plate.

The guard put on a sheepskin coat and pushed open the big iron gate. I walked into the manor. The guard at the door quickly closed the gate, took out a lantern from the gatehouse, held it in his hand, and ran to the front to lead the way for me. The guard had only walked halfway when Alia's personal maid Betty came up from the villa. Betty only wore a fur coat over her silk dress and a pair of beige short leather boots. A section of her ivory calf was exposed outside, which was better than the snow in the yard.

She saluted me slightly, then took the lantern from the guard at the door, walked to Catalina, took Catalina's arm affectionately, and whispered a few words in Catalina's ear. Catalina smiled slightly, and seeing that Betty was wearing thin clothes, she quickly pulled her into the villa. It can be seen that Betty and Catalina have a good relationship.

Alia stood at the door of the villa, with two exquisite wooden doors of the villa open behind her. The bright light from the living room shone through her back. The villa hall looked magnificent under the light, with an indescribable luxurious beauty. Alia had a faint smile on her face, and her makeup was very light, but very delicate. Her long golden hair was tied behind her head, making her figure look particularly tall.

Seeing me climb the stone steps at the door, she took my arm affectionately, and her full chest pressed against my arm, making me feel incomparable softness. Alia walked into the hall of the villa with me, and said to me as we walked: "How is the inscription exhibition of Yekis scholars going?"

The warm breath in the hall hit me, and I took off my coat, sat on the soft leather sofa, and wiped my face with the wet towel she handed over.

I said to Alia: "Everything is going well. Yekis also specifically asked me to say thank you in person. He likes the decorations in the exhibition hall very much."

Several red-hot fruit woods were burning in the fireplace, and two crackling sounds were made from time to time. A maid added some new firewood to the fireplace to make the fire in the fireplace burn more vigorously. Another maid brought a plate of exquisite fruits from the kitchen, including grapes, apples, pears and plums. These colorful fruits were covered with some water droplets, which looked delicate and tempting.

Catalina and Betty went upstairs together. I vaguely heard Betty telling the maid to prepare hot water. Catalina whispered to Betty while walking. She untied her red hair and let her thick long hair fall behind her head. She took off the leather armor of the 'Earth Shield' on her body. The maid who followed them hurriedly came up and took the leather armor in her hands.

Alia knelt down beside the coffee table with her knees bent. Her plump legs under her long skirt outlined a charming curve. She poured me a cup of tea. With a faint smile on her beautiful face, she said to me: "As long as he is satisfied!"

She slightly adjusted the wrinkles on the chest of her skirt, then sat down next to me and asked me: "Are you going to the airport town early tomorrow morning?"

I shook my head and reached out to hug her soft and slender waist, but was slapped away by Alia with her hand. She glanced at every corner of the hall with some worry, and waited for me with a little anger.

There were a few servants and maids in the hall, and it was obvious that Alia didn't want to lose her dignity in front of these servants.

I leaned on the soft sofa, stretched my body, and said to her: "Before leaving tomorrow, I have to go to the academy to say goodbye to scholar Sean."

I turned my head and wanted to kiss her rosy cheek, but suddenly I found that she had a trace of loneliness in her eyes at this moment. When she saw me looking at her, her eyes became as gentle as water.

Holding Alia's hand, I hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help saying to her: "How about... you come back to El City with me?"

"El City?" Alia smiled bitterly, lifted a messy hair by her ear, and said to me: "The town of Mas no longer exists, and Zimmerman Manor has become a ruin. What's the point of me going back?"

She looked at the exquisite hall, slightly moved the corners of her mouth, and said to me: "I'd better stay in the imperial capital, so you can go back to El City with peace of mind. I will help you take care of the workshop and His Highness Qi Ge's business."

Alia was silent for a while, stretched out her hand to hug one of my arms, and held her tightly in her arms.

I squeezed her hand and said to her: "Okay, I will come back after winter is over."

Alia waved to a maid and told her a few words. The maid turned and left, and then said to me: "By the way, I have prepared some gifts here, you have to help me bring them to Ann and Jenny."

"Okay." I agreed.

After a while, the maid and the servants brought over ten large magic boxes. I didn't know how many things were in them. Looking at the magic boxes at my feet, I didn't open them. Instead, I said to Alia, "Are you ready for the empty room I asked you to prepare?"

Alia was about to open a magic box. When she heard me say that, she stopped immediately, sat up straight and said to me, "It's ready. I asked someone to empty the basement of the villa and move the sundries inside to the warehouse next to the stable."

I supported my slightly tired body, stood up from the sofa, and said to Alia, "Take me to see your basement. Carry these magic boxes there."

The basement of the villa is adjacent to the kitchen of the villa. It was originally a place to store some sundries and ingredients. I walked down the stone steps for a few meters and felt a slightly cool breath in the basement.

The waiter walked in front with a lantern. The stairs were a bit steep. When we arrived at the stone door of the basement, the waiter pushed the stone door open with force. The heavy stone door made a creaking sound, as if the shaft lacked lubricating grease. I took the lead in walking into the empty basement. There was not much moisture in this basement. The waterproof layer should be well done. Only a little white frost condensed on the ceiling above the corner. The floor of the basement was paved with terrazzo. These stone slabs were put together with almost no gaps.

The basement of Alia's new home is several times larger than the basement of my rental house. All the items on the shelves have been cleaned up. It can be seen that they have been carefully cleaned. I asked the servant to put the magic box on the floor of the basement, and then asked the waiter and servant to leave. Only Alia and I were left in the basement. I closed the heavy stone door and hung the lantern on the hook behind the stone door.

I opened a portal to Xinliu Valley next to the stone door in the basement, and then took Alia into Xinliu Valley. Two orc warriors wearing white rock rhino magic pattern leather armor were guarding the teleportation altar. The open space under the altar was full of copper hot pots. These copper hot pots were piled together like a long flower wall.

The most meaningful thing Murray has done recently is to buy nearly a thousand copper hot pots without the "Fire Gathering" rune plates installed for me in the free market in front of the Tower of Pride. Because these copper hot pots are imitations of the best-selling styles on the market, it is very simple to install the "Fire Gathering" rune plates on these copper hot pots.

The production of copper hot pots at the Xinliu Valley workshop is insufficient, and the Magic Engraving Workshop has stockpiled several boxes of "Fire Gathering" rune plates. With the copper hot pots that Murray bought back in time, a batch of newly baked copper hot pots were soon neatly stacked in the stone chamber of the teleportation altar.

Now there are three magic engraving machines in Xinliu Valley working day and night. The first one engraves the rune plate of "Fire Gathering", the second one engraves the arrowhead of the crossbow, and the third one engraves the rune plate of "Mini Tornado". Under the careful maintenance of the old dwarf craftsman, the three magic engraving machines have a satisfactory working efficiency, but they have always been very stable. In particular, the performance of the third magic engraving machine is much higher than the first magic engraving machine. In this way, the production of rune plates in Xinliu Valley day and night is naturally very efficient.

Kalancuo hurried over when he learned that I had arrived in Xinliu Valley. Seeing Alia standing beside me, he nodded slightly to her.

Alia took good care of little Ella in the imperial capital. Kalancuo always remembered these things, so he was so kind to Alia. I asked Kalancuo to move all the copper hot pots and the "miniature tornado" rune plates out of Xinliu Valley. The orc warriors had done this countless times, and they would stack the goods neatly without special instructions.

Then I took Alia to the silk reeling workshop. At the door of the silk reeling workshop, Alia hugged my arm with weak legs and pale face. She was unwilling to go in anyway. She had an inexplicable fear of those giant spiders, so I ordered the Yelo native women to move the prepared magic pattern spider silk ingots to the warehouse square.

The first time Alia saw the three magic engraving machines in the workshop, and saw the magic rune plates being printed directly on the magic engraving machines, Alia covered her mouth in surprise and leaned against the stone wall without saying a word. When Alia saw the magic engraving machine for the first time, she knew what these magic machines meant.

These magic engraving machines mean that the era when engravers were the primary productive force of magic runes will soon become a thing of the past, and magic machines will slowly replace the junior engravers in the workshops.

Alia was once the wife of Colin Babington, the first heir of the Babington family, and has always been the person in charge of the Babington family in the imperial capital, so she knows the process of rune boards very well. She watched a "Fire Gathering" rune board ignite a flame in the hands of the female dwarf at the testing table, and touched those exquisite round magic rune boards with excitement, and couldn't let go.

She turned her head and asked me: "You told me before that you wanted to take back the market of exhaust fans. It turns out that you have already had these plans, right?"

I nodded and told her honestly: "Although I have always had this plan, these magic engraving machines have also been successfully developed in recent times."

"Such a magic engraving machine is almost equivalent to ten junior magicians drawing magic rune boards day and night..." Alia stood next to the magic engraving machine for a while and said to me.

Then, she picked up a piece of metal magic thread rune plate, carefully groped the magic lines on it with her fingertips, and asked me: "Engraving magic metal runes and magic threads on ordinary copper plates also greatly reduces the manufacturing cost. , those scrap rune boards do not have magic metal coating, which saves a fortune in material costs, and there is no inscriptionist's crafting fee. How much do you plan to buy such a magic rune board? "

After thinking for a while, I said to Aaliya: "I said that I would take back the exhaust fan market that originally belonged to me. After I have accumulated enough magic rune boards and prepared enough exhaust fans, I will negotiate the price with them. To fight, I am going to price the new exhaust fan at half the price of the cheapest exhaust fan on the market.”

I picked up a discarded rune board, threw it into the scrap bin, and said, "At least the exhaust fans I sell will still be profitable, but the rune boards in the hands of junior inscription masters will probably be ruined. Unless they are willing to lower the price!”

After hearing what I said, Alia took a deep breath and said to me: "These new rune boards are not only a nightmare for the junior magicians in the imperial capital, but also for the industrial area of ​​San Carlos City. "

When talking about the city of San Carlos, Aria's eyes ignited with a hot fire. She bit her lip and asked me: "What do you need me to do in the imperial capital?"

I said to Aria: "I asked the orc warriors to move the 'miniature tornado' rune boards in your basement. You can find someone to make exhaust fans and put them into the market bit by bit at a low price. First, let the Imperial City Let the magic market warm up and let those magic merchants get used to these metal magic thread rune boards, but These 'Miniature Tornado' rune plates I gave you are the only metal rune plates I gave you before returning from El City. You must have a plan and a phased approach when putting the exhaust fan on the market. Throw it down little by little, because the second batch of rune boards I will provide you will have to wait until the spring flowers bloom."

I patted my forehead and said to her: "The other thing is to help me keep an eye on Murray in the rune plate workshop, check the accounts of the workshop with him regularly, and ask him to hoard as many round copper plates as possible. , the exhaust fan wooden box can be customized and the workmanship should be as detailed as possible. "

Aaliya stuck behind me, hugged me tightly, put her face on my back, and said to me gently: "Don't worry, leave these things to me! Jijia..."

"Huh?" I held her hand tightly and said one word.

Aaliya said softly to me: "I'm waiting for you to come back!"

…

The morning sun bathes the imperial capital, and the rows of rows of roofs are covered with a thick layer of snow, reflecting the dazzling light, making it difficult to open one's eyes. Walking out of Alia's new courtyard, Looking back, I saw Alia wearing a thin silk pajamas, waving to me in front of the glass window, and I waved goodbye to her.

Katarina was wearing a magic-patterned leather armor, and her red curly hair was flying in the cold wind. She stood next to me and said to me with a half-smile: "Jijia, I discovered something strange!"

"What's wrong?"

I turned around and asked her. She rarely had such a strange expression. She has always supported me unswervingly like Kalantso, no matter what I did, even if my choice was wrong.

Catalina looked back at a marble column in the corridor outside the courtyard, and said to me: "In Aria Manor, there is a noble lady who has been avoiding you intentionally or unintentionally!"

"..." I looked at her speechlessly.

Catalina squinted at the stone pillar, as if there was a person hiding behind the stone pillar. She said to me: "Every time you leave, she will hide in the dark and watch you leave."

"Who is it? Someone who admires me?" I followed Catalina's gaze and looked over there, but didn't find anything.

At this time, Catalina said to me again: "I asked Betty about the identity of the noble lady. She is Lady Alia's niece - Miss Demi. She came to El City and has been studying with Alia recently. Operations and management.”

Miss Demi is the daughter of Count Zimmerman. I have long heard from Aria that Demi is in the Imperial Capital, but I haven’t seen her recently and thought she had returned to El City. I said to Catalina: "Demi? I heard Aaliya say that she was in the imperial capital. I thought she and An returned to El City together. I remember that when she tutored An in magic knowledge in El City, she could often I saw her in Madam Jenny’s hotel, why didn’t she dare to come out to see me?”

Catalina looked at me with a smile and said, "If you want to know the answer, maybe you can only ask her in person."

I scratched my head helplessly, walked over to a magic caravan parked on the street, and said: "Never mind this, there are still a lot of things to do in the next few days. Let's call a magic caravan. Let's go to the Royal Academy of Magic first and ask Xiao Master En said goodbye, maybe he would have something to bring to Teacher Heidi.”

Catalina and I were walking side by side. Seeing that I didn't pay attention to this matter, she replied readily: "Oh."