My Magic Age

There is a circular pool made of bluestone in the center of the square outside the castle. Gray rockery stones are stacked in the center of the pool. On the top of the strange stone, there is a magic fountain that continuously spits out clear spring water. The splashing water mist is dazzling. Under the sunlight, a colorful rainbow forms. The apple trees by the pool have sprouted new buds, and each apple tree looks tender and green. If you look closely, you can see a string of stamens in bud on the treetops.

Qige and I were walking aimlessly in the square, and we would always meet some young orcs out for a walk. They were wearing gorgeous and exquisite leather armor, with exquisite long swords at their waists, and would greet Qi with a smile. Ge said hello and said what a coincidence. I think they were not really in the mood for a walk, they just wanted to take the opportunity to meet Qige by chance and say a few words.

During lunch, Kut ordered someone to send a letter back, saying that the appointment of Kuz as the leader of the edge of the Death Swamp had been unanimously approved by the Elders Council. The appointment letter would be reissued after Kuz attended the coming-of-age ceremony. The whole territory is dead To the north of the Dead Swamp, the edge of the swamp runs deep to the north, is 30 kilometers wide, and 500 kilometers long from east to west. It reaches the Baipu Cliff at the intersection of the western mountains of the Pai Plateau and the Ulutu River in the west, and ends in the south of Yelian Mountain in the east. The Duan Mountain Range is an extremely long and narrow piece of land.

Now that things have been settled, we need to make some preparations before departure. Originally, we wanted to cut some of the magic antelope skins we hunted into palm-sized squares and turn them into magic parchment for making scrolls. However, Catalina's words inspired and reminded us. She said something when I was about to cut those complete devil's antelope skins: It is a pity to cut such complete sheepskins into pieces! At this time, it suddenly occurred to me that when we first made the scrolls, we used useless scraps of leather obtained from Uncle Fred, which cost almost nothing.

Although we now have enough magic antelope skins, this is no reason to waste them! So, we once again thought of selling these magic antelope skins. The largest number of merchants in Gurudin Town are those selling leather and herbal medicines. Although the price of magic antelope skin drops a little every day during the spring hunting period, there will never be a shortage of buyers in Gurudin Town.

We asked Butler Kidd that there is a workshop in the east of the town that specializes in making magic parchment, so we decided to try our luck there. The magic parchment produced is usually a very regular one-foot-square white paper. The value of each devil antelope skin, general price experts You need to take a tape measure and carefully measure one by one to see how many pieces of magic parchment each piece of magic antelope skin can produce. Since the size of magic antelope skins varies greatly, how many pieces of magic parchment can be produced by each piece of magic antelope skin? , became the standard for the constant value of antelope skins.

After cutting the magic parchment in this way, the remaining magic antelope skin scraps will be sold to leather shops at a low price by paper manufacturers. Some leatherworkers like to use the magic antelope scraps to piece together and sew some magic antelope skin light armor. These are used The magic antelope skin light armor pieced together from scraps is inferior to the light armor made of complete leather in terms of defense, but it is better in terms of quality and low price.

In this case, we want to go to the Magic Parchment Workshop to see if these parchment scraps are worth anything. We want to sell these complete devil antelope skins and buy back some scraps.

The seventy-six magic antelope skins stored in the warehouse were rolled into two large rolls with a diameter of one meter, which were very heavy. In the afternoon, Kuz found a mule. We tied two large rolls of devil antelope skins with ropes and tied them to the back of the mule. Kuz led the mule slowly out of the castle gate.

When I walked out of the castle gate, I happened to meet the young orc who sat opposite me at dinner yesterday. When he saw Qige standing side by side with me, his dark face immediately turned purple again, and his hands and feet were helpless. Standing there calmly, watching us walking over blankly, he woke up when he saw Kurtz leading a mule carrying two rolls of devil antelope skins out of the gate.

He trotted forward a few steps to keep up with Kuz's pace, and asked Kuz across the mule: "Uncle Qi, didn't you say yesterday that you only caught three magic antelopes by the saltwater pond? How could there be such a thing? So many skins? Oh my God, did you catch a small group of magic antelopes?”

"These sheepskins were hunted by me and the orcs from the Laitu tribe I met on the way. Do you want to go with us to the workshop to the east that makes magic parchment?" Kurtz turned to this man wearing a beautiful yellow sheepskin. asked the young orc nephew in the coat.

When the young orc heard that he was going to the magic parchment workshop, he shook his head repeatedly and said: "Oh, my God! I don't want to go there. It's so stinky that even flies can't survive there. Uncle Qi, I don't think so. You'd better ask Butler Kidd to invite the owner of the family to come to us, it would be great to talk here!"

Kurtz smiled slightly and said, "I want to visit their workshop. Maybe I will open one in my territory in the future!"

Walking eastward along the streets paved with bluestone bricks, crossing three streets, we found the magic parchment workshop in the outermost circle of the town. This workshop that makes imitation parchment covers an area of ​​about one acre and is surrounded by piled adobe walls. When we were outside the yard, we saw steam steaming inside, and a sour smell spread from inside. The smell was mixed with The other strange smells made my throat hurt.

We covered our faces with scarves and came outside the workshop. At this time, a human craftsman wearing cowhide overalls ran out of the workshop. He was about 40 years old, 180 cm tall, with a slightly chubby belly, a bald head, and a pair of black tortoise-shell glasses. He held a ruler in one hand and a paper cutter in the other. With an excited expression on his face, he said to Kuz, who was leading the mule, "Didn't you say it would take at least a week? How come it was sent back so quickly?"

"Ahem!" Qi Ge covered his mouth and nose and coughed lightly, indicating that this guy had asked the wrong person.

But it seems that this craftsman knows how to judge people very well. When he saw that the person asking the question was unable to speak, he knew that he had found the wrong person. Following Kuz's gaze, he found Qi Ge behind him. He opened his mouth in surprise, but immediately realized that he had lost his composure and quickly closed his mouth and said, "Are you also from the Green Empire to pan for gold? Sorry, you are so beautiful that I lost my composure for a moment. Is there anything I can help you with?"

"Do you buy these magic antelope skins here?" Qi Ge rolled his eyes to the side, fanned the stinky fog around with his little hands, and asked casually.

"These... these magic antelope skins, don't you plan to transport them back to Green to sell?..." The craftsman asked in surprise.

Qi Ge waved his hand impatiently and asked, "Are you the shop owner?"

"Ah! Are you a magician? Excuse me! I am the owner of this magic parchment workshop. I have been running this workshop here for five years..." Maybe it was because the shop owner had not spoken to anyone for a long time, or maybe he was born to be a chatterbox. Anyway, as long as he opened his mouth, he would want to talk endlessly. However, this guy still had a little bit of insight. When he saw Qi Ge wearing a black and white striped magic suit long coat and trousers, he quickly reacted and realized that the girl in front of him should be a magician.

His eyes drifted to the two bundles of magic antelope skins on the mule beside him from time to time. He began to explain how he had ordered a batch of magic antelope skins at the beginning of the month, but the batch of magic antelope skins had not been delivered yet. If it was two days later, the workshop would have to stop working. But the door of the leather shop was closed. It was said that the boss had rushed to the depths of the wilderness with his work to purchase magic antelope skins. The message left for the shop owner was: the magic antelope skins would be delivered in a few days. Therefore, the owner of the workshop mistook us for the delivery of goods for that business.

However, the shop owner was happy that we were also here to sell magic antelope skins. He was very happy that we did not sell the magic antelope skins to the leather business, but sent them to him. Then he gave us a long story about the current leather market. It can be said that any individual hunter who came to Guluding Town to sell leather would be closely watched by countless leather merchants when they first entered Guluding Town. They would constantly persuade those hunters to sell leather to them.

The leather shops and magic parchment workshops in Guluding Town can only buy magic antelope skins in the leather business.

Our appearance just solved the problem of the workshop owner's magic antelope skin raw materials running out. In this way, we sold each magic antelope skin to the workshop owner very smoothly at an average of 66 silver coins. Then, we asked to buy some scraps of magic parchment, and the owner of the workshop agreed very readily. He quickly asked an orc to take all the scraps from the paper cutting room to the reception room.

Looking at the pile of magic paper scraps, Kuz and I saw magic parchment for the first time. In fact, magic parchment is very different from magic antelope skin. First of all, after the flatness is finely processed, even the scraps of magic parchment have a very uniform thickness. Secondly, it is more resilient and soft. According to the owner of the workshop, some preservatives are added to these parchments, which will allow the magic parchments to be placed for a long time without rotting. Finally, more importantly, these magic parchments are soaked in the juice of white ring vines, so that they can repair the slight injuries caused to the leather by the skinning knife during the leather making process.

Usually, for an inscriptionist, there are many reasons for the failure of making a magic scroll, including the lack of stability of the ink, the poor magic perception of the inscriptionist, the complex structure of the magic pattern array, the unstable control of the magic power of the inscriptionist, and too many cracks on the magic parchment.

Among them, the crack refers to the skinning knife damaging the texture inside the magic parchment during the leather making process, causing partial fractures. This kind of accident is the most unacceptable for the inscriptionists.

As a result, many potion masters began to look for potions that can repair the broken lines of parchment. Many magic potions have such effects, but their costs are very expensive. Later, several economical ones were slowly found in these magic potions, one of which is the juice of the white ring vine.

Looking at these parchment scraps scattered on the floor of the room, Kuz and I looked at each other. It turned out that what we used before were semi-finished products. Those things were not parchment for making scrolls at all, but some magic antelope skin scraps. Qi Ge picked up a piece of parchment scraps that was about the width of a palm and about a foot long from the ground and asked the workshop owner: "How much do you sell these scraps for?"

"These scraps are worth nothing! Only people from leather shops always buy from me. Usually we sell them by the bag, one sack for one gold coin..."

When we walked out of the magic parchment workshop, not only was there nothing missing on the back of the mule, but there was also a sack of parchment material. We spent a total of three gold coins to buy three sacks full of parchment from the shop owner. The edge of the material. The money bag around my waist is filled with heavy gold coins, forty-seven in total. Unexpectedly, these devil antelope skins turned out to be so valuable. Kuz and I regretted not being able to hunt more devil antelopes. We only waited until the food in the tribe was sufficient and then gave up hunting the devil antelope. It turns out that devil antelope skins are so valuable. !

Qige quietly pushed behind me twice and whispered: "These gold coins are enough to buy a small yard around the Green Imperial Capital!"

"Jijia, let's go hunt the devil antelope again. I think we shouldn't just focus on those worthless potatoes!" Kuz's eyes were also a little straight. He has been following Old Kuru all these years. We lived in the open and had very little money. An ordinary neti bow only cost fifteen silver. When we were in Yemen Town, we almost pawned our pants. Until now, it is still difficult for me to regard this guy as a noble child of the Ku family, the most powerful family in Gurudin Town. This kid is just a bumpkin from the mountains.

I was walking on the street and finally dared to take a deep breath. I had to complain about the terrible smell in the Magic Parchment Workshop.

At this time, we saw an attendant in the castle running towards us from a distance and told us that the weapons dealers had arrived and were waiting in the castle. Butler Kidd asked Kuz, Qige and I to rush back as soon as possible. The weapons dealer who had been waiting for more than a day finally came to the door when we were leaving the castle to do business.

In order to rush back to the Kurtz family's castle as quickly as possible, we no longer let Kurtz lead the way. This guy's memory of his childhood was very unreliable. The attendant led us continuously through the streets. The magic parchment workshop was in ancient times. At the easternmost edge of the town of Rudin. This time, the way we returned to the castle was different from the way we came. First we walked along the streets on the edge of the town for a while, and then we saw a straight road leading to the castle. .

Along the way, I passed many shops, and the one that greatly impacted my vision was the airport docked two kilometers away from the town of Gurudin. It is a lighthouse-shaped building. Twelve tall lighthouses made of huge stones stand at the east end of the town. Each lighthouse is a hundred meters apart. On the left and right sides of the top of the lighthouse, wooden suspension bridges more than 20 meters long extend outward. There are five magic airships nearly 100 meters long docked at the airport at the moment. The giant football-shaped airbag at the top of the airship is spray-painted with these colorful patterns. Below the airbag hangs a large wooden ship-shaped pod. When the airship docks at the airport, those The lighthouse's drawbridge is built on the side of the ship-shaped pod.

Qige was like me at first. She always liked to look around curiously when walking on the street, but after we passed the airport, she began to become cautious, and her beautiful face began to show anxiety, and she hurriedly and walked towards the castle.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" I quickly caught up and asked with concern.

Qige glanced nervously on the street, and then said: "It's nothing, I just think we should speed up the progress. We can't continue to delay here in Gurudin Town. We have to rush to the Death Swamp as soon as possible."

"But we didn't even prepare any scrolls!"

"Tonight, no, no! We will start preparations in the afternoon. I will mix the magic ink first. This time we will make more and try to be more prepared." Qige looked very nervous when she spoke. This was my first time. I saw this expression on Qige's face. She seemed so anxious that Kurtz, who was behind, had to hand over the mule to the attendant leading the way. He chased us, and seeing Qige walking in a hurry, he asked me: "Jia, how is Miss Qi today?" "

I shrugged and said helplessly: "How do I know?"

Turning around to look at Catalina, I found that the girl was also lowering her head in frustration, and I realized that they were hiding something from me. However, during the magic parchment workshop, Miss Qi was still talking to the girl with great interest. Shopkeepers bargaining. In this short period of time, she became panicked. Was it those airships in the airport?