My Magic Age

After the Harvest Festival, the next thing is the Coming of Age Ceremony that every young man and woman must go through when they are sixteen years old.

Some people say that children who have not participated in the Coming of Age Ceremony will never be mature in their thoughts, and their lives will be incomplete. Even if they live to old age, some of the things they do will be like children.

The night of the Coming of Age Ceremony every year belongs to the night of young people. Young people wear exquisite clothes that they only wear during festivals and celebrations. Everyone sings and dances on the streets. There are dances held for young people in every square. Here, all young people are the protagonists. You don’t even need to spend money to taste some free food, sweet wine and other kinds of drinks, and you can also dance to your heart’s content in the square.

At this time last year, I participated in a grand Coming of Age Ceremony celebration, which may be the most unforgettable thing in my life.

As for this year, in front of me are boxes of primary magic herbs unloaded from the magic caravan. Most of these magic herbs have been reserved by Marvin to two magic herb trading companies in the imperial capital. The price these two trading companies paid for this is to pay nearly a year’s advance payment in advance.

Last night, a magic airship from the town of Guludin on the Pai Plateau arrived at the airport town and brought back a large amount of primary magic herbs, luncheon meat, meat floss bricks, magic antelope hides and corpse fire oil. Recently, there are airships heading to the town of Guludin on the Pai Plateau almost every week, and there are magic airships flying from there to the airport town every week. This trade route has been completely opened by Marvin, and the orc tribe is working together to resist the army of undead in the Death Forest. The orcs also need a large amount of military supplies.

For example, the light marching tents produced by the Green Empire. Although the orcs like to sleep in the wilderness, at best they just carry a bundle of extremely simple raw cowhide rolls, but now it is autumn, and the winter in the Pai Plateau comes earlier than in most places in the Green Empire. Once it snows, even the strong orc warriors can't sleep on the snow. The orc warriors also need a felt house to avoid the cold. The emergence of convenient military supplies such as marching tents has greatly improved the military life of the orc warriors in the wild.

Another example is the various magic items produced by the Green Empire. As the price of the originally cheap Corpse Fire Oil tanks continues to rise, the orcs can no longer use this material as a cheap fuel in the wild. Now the orcs have also learned to apply Corpse Fire Oil on stone balls, and then use catapults to throw these burning stone balls into the enemy camp, or ignite a wall of fire in the battle to block the skeleton army outside. Therefore, life-related magic items such as the Fire Gathering Rune Plate and the Water Gathering Rune Plate are quite popular among the orcs. In contrast, the two rune plates of Miniature Tornado and Continuous Frost are not popular among the orcs.

Many private territories of the Green Empire lords have large tracts of land that have been reclaimed into large farms. The imperials are good at growing barley and wheat. Now the orcs seem to have become accustomed to wheat cakes with broth, or barbecue with oatmeal porridge. Eating raw meat in the wilderness has gradually become a kind of nostalgia and ritual for the orcs. Therefore, any airship flying to the Pai Plateau will be filled with bags of black whole wheat flour as long as there is any space.

Qige Trading Company has been extremely busy recently. The original four magic airships all travel between the airport town and the town of Guludin. At the same time, Marvin has temporarily hired four magic airships.

In addition, Marvin also customized two magic airships from the largest magic airship manufacturing workshop in the imperial capital called "Jiejie". Each of these two magic airships costs up to 5,000 magic crystals. From manufacturing to delivery, the two magic airships require at least 12,000 magic crystals. Even if the payment is made in batches, 3,000 magic crystals must be paid to the Jiejie airship manufacturing workshop every month. This is almost the profit produced by Qige Trading Company in the past year. Customizing two magic airships is almost beyond the current trading company's ability to afford, but Marvin has raised this huge sum of money by relying on large orders for magic herbs.

I promised Zach's friends that I would not only provide them with a large number of magic giant crossbow arrows, but also some magic herbs and marching rations. These materials are in short supply in the magic market of the imperial capital.

Especially magic herbs and marching rations. The former is an indispensable medical item in battle, and the latter has almost become a belief of the imperial soldiers. Most of the imperial soldiers firmly believe that luncheon meat and meat floss bricks can bring them victory.

There was noisy music outside. A group of young people gathered in the hall of this restaurant for dinner. They not only brought musical instruments such as accordions and recorders, but also sang together in the restaurant. The cheerful singing passed through the roof and entered the box on the third floor. There were more than a dozen young nobles sitting on the sofa in this box. At this time, their eyes fell on the carpet in the middle of the room. On the carpet were several large magic sealing boxes, which contained bundles of silver leaf grass and concentration grass. These were the main materials for making secondary healing potions. These magic herbs filled seven magic sealing boxes.

Even if all the herbal shops in the trading hall on the first floor of the Tower of Pride could not gather so many primary magic herbs. Zach lazily leaned on the sofa, and Ernestine sat on the armrest of the sofa next to him. The two looked at the young nobles around them with dull eyes. Zach coughed lightly and said, "Last winter, the situation in the Yelo plane deteriorated to the extreme. Angelos City, Thunder City, and Blood Ring City were successively conquered by the Nibru Spiders. The outer cities of Gurubash City and Tandon City were razed to ruins, and the inner city was almost conquered by the Nibru Spiders."

Zach sat up, took a glass of ale from the table, took a sip, and continued: "Our legion lasted until this spring. When the Niburu Spidermen came to the city of Pereira, the main war faction in Durva Province decided to organize a counterattack. battle."

The nobles around were listening to Zach tell the inside story of the battle in the Hierro plane.

Zach stretched out his hand to hold my shoulders and said to everyone with infinite emotion: "At that time, many lords did not dare to put the last bit of bargaining chips into the counterattack. Ernestine and I ran around the imperial capital to ask for help, but it was a pity that At that time, everyone was not very optimistic about the situation in the Hiero plane. No one was willing to help us. Today Almost all of you sitting here have helped me at that time. The plane war in the Green Empire has spread very widely. I know that many families may not be willing to lend me the Knights. Even the supplies are probably on the back of the family. The pressure was secretly lent to me, no matter what, I am very grateful to everyone.”

I seem to be able to imagine what kind of difficulties Zach and Ernestine have gone through. These lords who stayed in the imperial capital are a group of speculators. They will never let their legions enter death. They will only do so if they are sure that victory is in hand. Start planning a war that will reap the fruits of victory.

Catalina and Betty stood behind me. I looked back at them. Betty had a bright smile in her eyes.

For today's transaction, Aaliya specifically asked me to bring Betty with me. She holds the list of supplies for this transaction.

Zach pointed at the magic-sealing box in the room and said boldly: "The magic herbs are all placed here. As for the marching rations, they are in the truck downstairs for the time being. If you plan to purchase them separately, you should pool the money together. Purchasing involves a share issue. In the former case, you must discuss the share you need in advance, and in the latter case, you must discuss it yourself. "

The young nobles had originally thought of a way to deal with me, but unexpectedly it was Zach who came forward and looked at each other. Everyone didn't know much about me, but they all knew what kind of character Zach was. He has a rough personality and a bad temper that can explode at the drop of a hat. Especially since he has recently become the heir to the dukedom of Durva Province and his status has soared like a rocket. Now it is even more difficult to openly offend him.

So one of these nobles, a lord who had inherited the inheritance, quickly stood up and expressed his position: "I won't go into details about the shortage of these materials in the imperial capital recently. No one can have too much of these things in their hands. Since we want By forming an aid corps, everyone is connecting their futures together. We can go back and discuss the distribution of these materials. Since Marquis Jijia has provided so many in-demand materials as agreed, we will use the simplest procurement method - unified Buy."

The rest of the young nobles also said that the specific distribution of materials would be done in private later, and there was no need to discuss this now.

Zach glanced at me, and I understood what he meant and asked Betty to take out the list of supplies in her hand.

Zach handed the list to the noble lord and said to him: "This is the list of goods. You will need to send someone to me to hand over the goods later. If you can't eat so much of any kind of goods, you can tell me. Specific purchase quantity.”

The noble lord took the list in his hand, carefully looked at the materials and amounts on it, and then passed the list to other young nobles.

"Zach, are you kidding me? Who can think of these supplies as too much?" He crossed his hands and said, "Not only is it not too much, but we will also pay gold coins according to the highest transaction price in the magic market this month. Come on." , bring in the boxes we have prepared."

In almost no time, there were heavy and chaotic footsteps outside the room, and then there was a knock on the door. After obtaining permission, the servants outside carried a dozen heavy boxes in. Under the instruction of the noble lord, Next, the servants opened the lid of the box and He casually kicked his shiny boots on a box, and several subordinates immediately pushed the box. A whole box of yellow and orange gold coins was scattered all over the floor. After confirming that all the box was filled with imperial gold coins, those The servants put the gold coins back into the box again.

Betty walked up at this time and began to continue the transaction with a steward under the noble lords. Each material needed to be determined at a price, then counted, etc., and there were many tedious things.

The noble lord sat down again and said with envy: "Zach, I didn't expect that you still have such resources. It seems that there are many factors that we can't see in the victory of the Hierro plane. The Mian Da Counterattack was a special report in the Imperial Capital Magic Newspaper for more than half a month. It’s just that there are still details that we don’t know. I remember that it was reported that Duke Jingyue of Sloit Province sent ten constructor knights of the North Wind Legion, so that some lords would be willing to put their chips on you. , the pressure in our family is not that great.”

Ernestine glanced at Zach, took over the topic and said:

"Speaking of this, I still have to thank Jijia. When the Durva Army was defeated in Angelos City in the Hierro plane, a large number of heavy armored infantry regiments needed to retreat to Pereira City. Our Constructed Knights were responsible for breaking up the rear. Unexpectedly, we were bitten by the Nibru spider warriors. At that time, the only way we could What we did was to retreat while fighting. Zach and I were both seriously injured in that battle. Later, Zach and I were sent to the Imperial Capital for treatment. At that time, he was wrapped in bandages like a mummy. Lord Sola found him and was at the Magic Academy. Jijia in class, they snatched me and Zach back from death."

As she spoke, she unbuttoned two buttons of her leather jacket, revealing the skin below her throat and above her cleavage, showing a centipede-like scar with countless stitches. Ernestine continued:

"This spring, Zach and I went to the imperial capital to seek help everywhere, but unfortunately there has been no progress in the imperial capital. Before returning to Durva, I went to the Royal Magic Academy to visit Jijia. I heard that he had treated Duke Jingyue of Sloyt Province. This grand duke controls the North Wind Legion, so we asked Jijia to try to write a letter to Duke Jingyue, asking him to send troops to support Durva. Unexpectedly, Duchess Jingyue really agreed to send troops and immediately dispatched ten construct knights to Durva Province. I think the victory of the Yello Plane War so quickly has a lot to do with Duchess Jingyue's ten construct knights."

Zach squinted his eyes, suddenly leaned forward and placed the sword on the coffee table in front of him, and his light green face became With a bit of coldness, he said in a deep voice:

"I have talked so much with Ernestine. Actually, I want to tell you one thing. Marquis Jijia is a good friend of Ernestine and me. He studies alone in the Royal Magic Academy in the imperial capital, and also opened a rune board workshop in the imperial capital. He also has to manage this trading company on behalf of His Highness Qige. It is inevitable that he will offend some people in the imperial capital. However, I hope everyone can understand the friendship between us. You are all my friends. In the future, if there is anything against him in the imperial capital, you can say hello - of course it would be best, but it doesn't matter if you don't say it, but I hope you don't get involved, otherwise we will be enemies, whether it is Durva or Salta, all doors will be closed to the enemy..."