my age of magic

Chapter 1121 224. The Birth of the First Magic Engraving Machine

The imperial capital located in the basin on the top of Mount Majaro finally ushered in a heavy snowfall, and the entire imperial capital city became white in the wind and snow.Because the imperial capital is surrounded by ring-shaped mountains like a huge crater, the wind and snow gather in the imperial capital.In just one night, the shallowest part of the snow in the city was waist deep. The magic caravans and low bush walls on the street were buried in the snow. The traffic in the entire imperial capital was paralyzed. are all closed.

The prices of grain, oil, meat and other foodstuffs in the store doubled. Overnight, all the firewood and briquettes in the imperial capital ran out. His Majesty Charles issued an order to suspend all large workshops. All the briquettes and firewood stored in the workshops must be taken away. Come out and sell it at a low price to the commoners of the [-]th and [-]th blocks. To ensure that they don't freeze to death in front of the fireplace at home on the coldest winter night, the Angibald royal family will take part of the money from the treasury , to make up for the losses of these large workshop bosses.

It is said that the imperial capital has such severe and extreme weather every year, but this year the snow seems to have come a little earlier. According to an astronomer in the magic newspaper, it is because the cold air flow from the north and the warm and humid trade wind from the southeast converge on Mount Majaro. Cause such a heavy snow.

The city hall began to actively organize the commoners in the imperial capital to carry out snow removal campaigns. This kind of campaign is usually paid labor. The commoners only need to work for four hours in a row to get a silver coin and a hot meal. Broth and wheat cakes can be Eat to your heart's content.

The nobles only need to stay at home, sit on the sofa in front of the fireplace and enjoy the fire, eat hot beef soup, let the servants clean the snow in the yard, and wait for the weather to gradually improve.

Before the heavy snow showed signs of road closures, the Royal Academy of Magic sent several magicians to post notices on the notice boards at the entrances of each dormitory building: the academy will suspend classes for a week.

I don't understand the inevitable connection between this heavy snowfall and the Royal Academy of Magic, and they even decided to suspend classes. Most of the magic students in the academy live on campus, and most of the residences of those magic teachers are also in the third block around the academy. In my opinion, there is no need to suspend classes at all, but the library of the college is still open normally, and in such cold weather, the library also provides free hot milk tea to all magic students.

I travel between the Academy of Magic and the Institute of Imperial Capital every day, but in this cold weather, there is no magic caravan at all, and the ancient horses pulling the carts are led into the stables by the coachmen one after another.The heavy snow may be an obstacle to the travel of people in the imperial capital, but for a person from the north, no matter how heavy the snow is, it is impossible to hinder travel.

I dug out the skis that had been left in the warehouse of Xinliu Valley for a long time. I thought that I would not need them when I came to the Imperial Capital, but now it seems that I was wrong. The snow is not small at all.

Katerina and I each carried a pair of skis and walked out of the dormitory building. I kept telling Katerina the essentials of skiing, and then I put on my ski shoes and personally helped her on the snow by the pool in the dormitory building. Demonstrate.

Katerina was wearing a tight leather armor, squinting her eyes and stood aside, watching me ski back and forth on the snow a few times, stepping on the snowboard and walking on the snow for two laps, and then learned to ski, Katerina An agile first-rank fighter, she is extremely outstanding in balance and coordination, so learning to ski is like her innate ability.

The two of us were wearing skis, passing through the campus of the Royal Academy of Magic, one after the other, we walked quickly on the thick snow, and when we passed the square in front of the teaching building, we found that there were many magic students gathered in the square, Noah and Xue Lee Newman was among them, and they cheered, ran, and had a great time in the waist-deep snow.

Noah lived in the city of Ignace in Emerald Bay since he was a child, and Shirley is from a noble family in the southern province of Bena. The two of them are very new to the snow in the north. It is not that they have never seen snow. Snow is there for them It melted instantly when it fell from the sky to the ground.

Under the envious eyes of the magicians on the square, I quickly slid out of the gate of the academy, and disappeared on Yulin Street with Katerina.

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Such cold weather did not stop the gathering of water magicians. The water magic-themed salon, which was held only once a month, was held as scheduled at the home of Mackintosh magicians. One of the strongholds for holding parties.

The so-called water magic salon is actually a gathering for water magicians to exchange their recent experience and understanding.

Many new water magicians will benefit from the magic salon, and this kind of water magic salon is also a good platform to show themselves. They can show some magic research results to other water magicians, so that other magicians will gain recognition, gain some prestige in the wizarding world.

In fact, the fact that Scholar Xiao En has such a great influence among water magicians is entirely because he often wants to share his experience with other water magicians, and he has also selflessly helped many water magicians. One of the water mages he helped.

Scholar Xiao En was surrounded by a group of water magicians. He crossed the crowd and asked me: "Jijia, I see that you often go to the Magic Research Institute recently. Do you have any small inventions in water magic?"

"Yes, Shawn Scholar." I replied loudly.

Sean Scholar asked me directly, "Oh, would you mind showing us that?"

So I said, "Of course, Sean Scholar."

"This invention was inspired when I went to the airport town some time ago and saw a few fish merchants in Xinghai City selling iced sea fish at the trade market. After returning to the Imperial Magic Research Institute, I invented a life-related magic. thing……"

Although I know that it is a bit inappropriate to show my invention in such bad weather, but since Shaun scholar asked me what new discoveries I have made in the 'magic circle' at the Magic Salon, I will readily ask from the crowd I walked out and looked back at Scholar Mullen apologetically. Scholar Mullen signaled to me to talk later, and I nodded quickly.

Scholar Mullen is proficient in ancient goblin language, which is what I need to know the most at the moment, and Scholar Mullen thinks that I am also a young magician who is extremely proficient in goblin culture, and thinks that I share his interests. Before, we still contacted each other by writing letters, but this time we met at the salon, it was like we had known each other for a long time, and the topics we could talk about suddenly became much wider.

I walked into the middle of the crowd and saluted all around.

There were nearly 20 water magicians sitting or standing in the hall. They all looked at me curiously. In their eyes, I was a complete newcomer. There were even many people who didn’t know me. They quietly asked their companions, and then After being introduced by his companions, there was a look of surprise in his eyes.

I dragged out a rectangular wooden box from the magic backpack.

When I first built this wooden box, I was very stubborn and asked the carpenter to install a door on the side of the wooden box, and the most difficult thing for Yerkes scholars to understand was that I made the wooden box thin and tall. According to Yerkes scholars, the magic sealing box with a ratio of 10X8X6 is the most perfect golden ratio, but I have an almost paranoid attachment to the shape of the wooden box, after all, it is a piece of life. magic items, so the Yerkes scholar didn't bother with me.

Scholar Yerkes helped me design a frost magic pattern that can work normally on a cheap red copper rune plate, and the most rare thing is that this kind of 'frost' still has a continuous magic effect. The center of this red copper rune plate is inlaid with this A piece of magic spar, I spread a thick quilt on the inside of the wooden box, and made a wooden interlayer inside, so that the space inside is actually not as big as it looks from the outside, but It is acceptable, and finally nailed the thin red copper rune board to the inner wooden board, and finally polished the inside and outside of the wooden box with fine sandpaper to make it smooth and smooth, and then painted the outside of the wooden box three times White paint, the first wooden refrigerator in the Green Empire was built from my hands.

Yerkes scholars can't understand my approach. It takes time and effort to make this kind of storage refrigerator after sealing the magic box properly.

I placed the refrigerator next to the hall, and began to introduce the function of this refrigerator to the water magicians who gathered. There is no doubt that the magic pattern circle of this refrigerator is more suitable for water magicians to draw. It can be said that this is a suitable machine. The life-like magic items of water magicians, but after I introduced the function of the refrigerator, they did not cause much reaction among these water magicians.

At most, someone would smile at me very perfunctorily and say: 'Oh, this idea is very good, and the concept is novel. '

Some people patted me on the shoulder and said, "Hey, it's good for young people to have ideas. I hope your innovative spirit will continue. Come on, young people." '

In short, this creative display was a failure. I did not get everyone's approval. Many water magicians raised very sharp questions. It is precisely because they understand water magic and the current status of the imperial capital's magic market that their doubts are solid. Powerful, and every question is well-founded.

When the show was about to end, the Mullen scholar ran out from nowhere and stood side by side with me in front of the refrigerator. The Mullen scholar also held the same point of view as everyone else, but seemed worried about hurting my self-esteem. He seemed a lot more euphemistic when he spoke.

He stood in front of the refrigerator for a while, stretched out his hand to caress the refrigerator, sighed softly, and said to me: "It seems that it is an imitation of the magic sealing box, but it is far inferior to the magic sealing box." The box is practical, and it needs a red copper rune plate, even the cheapest red copper rune plate, it is also an expensive rune plate! Those rune plates in Green Emperor Capital are all monopolized by the inscription masters in the inscription union. Could it be that you want to promote your magic item to the whole people? It is not a necessity for traveling like a magic caravan. Nobles don’t need it, and commoners can’t afford it. This magic item’s positioning is so embarrassing, no one will want it .”

What Scholar Mullen said is absolutely right. Nobles don’t need it, and commoners can’t afford it. This is the biggest problem with this refrigerator.

Then, he went on to say to me: "Besides, it's winter now. If you want ice cubes, you just need to put a basin of clear water outside the house overnight. Maybe your invention will be taken out in summer, and someone will be willing." try it."

This is also one of the reasons why refrigerators are not favored by people. If it is in hot weather, I am afraid that some people are willing to buy one.

Scholar Mullen added: "Also, if we want to promote this life-like magic item for civilians in the market, the most important thing is to reduce the production cost... this time about the life magic pattern on the fish skin hood , It seems to have offended all the inscription masters in the imperial capital, don't expect someone in the imperial capital to help you draw cheap rune metal plates."

I patted my forehead, stood aside a little discouraged, and became listless.

Scholar Mullen looked through the refrigerator carefully, and asked me suspiciously: "Although your refrigerator is not very creative, but this wooden box is quite exquisite, could it be this refrigerator?" Is the shape borrowed from a goblin civilization relic?"

Scholar Mullen added: "I remember that during the goblin civilization, they created a lot of items that combined magic and technology."

Seeing me shaking my head, Scholar Mullen patted my shoulder comfortingly.

At this moment, my thoughts have already flown to the magic engraving machine. This time, after Bernd and the old dwarves successfully reduced the size of the magic engraving machine, they finally created a prototype of the second magic engraving machine.

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The Royal Academy of Magic announced the suspension of classes. I have been preparing items for smelting krypton gold for the past few days, including some expensive fluxes and shaping molds. It is introduced on the magic drawing that the krypton gold magic line impression on the punch is magic. The most core thing of the engraving machine, the magic line stamp cannot have a little deviation. Otherwise, even if the magic line similar to the magic line is printed, the printed magic line is likely to be a failure.

In the past few days, I have been taking Katerina to stay in the underground cave of Xinliu Valley to make the second prototype of the magic engraving machine, because the other parts of this prototype have been fully prepared before. At this time, I only need to solve the problem. Magical conundrums on printheads.

Bernd and four old dwarf craftsmen also helped me come up with an idea. After four consecutive days and nights of hard work, the prototype of this magic engraving machine was finally successfully manufactured on the day before the Magic Academy resumed classes. When the rune board ignited a blue flame, Bernd and the old dwarves sat on the ground in shock.

If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, no one would have thought that the magic engraving machine actually replaced the inscriber and successfully printed a metal rune tablet.

The first prototype looked dilapidated. Some parts were repaired and disassembled, making this magic engraving machine look dilapidated.

Moreover, we tried to print the magic pattern circle of "Fire Gathering" on a piece of red copper plate. Even for the simplest common magic runes of the fire system, the failure rate of the engraving machine almost reached 90.00%, which shows that engraving ten At least nine of the rune plates are waste products, so this magic printing machine is far from what I expected in my heart.

However, the only gratifying thing is that the appearance of this magic engraving machine is actually successful, and our research has thus taken the first successful step.

The next step is to study how to improve the success rate of engraving, and how to make this magic engraving machine more refined...

(End of this chapter)