my age of magic

Chapter 1123 226. The Copper Hot Pot Used as a Hand Warmer
Before Qige left the imperial capital, she handed over the management of her trading firm to me. I couldn't spare time to manage her trading firm, so I asked Alia to keep an eye on it for me.

When Qige was in the imperial capital, she would check the accounts of the trading firm in the middle of every month, and she had to decide the ratio of goods purchased from Gludin Town each time, including magic parchment, luncheon meat, etc. Canned food, vermicelli, corpse fire oil, low-level magic herbs, and some raw meat jerky, etc. There are various types and a wide range, but they are all special products of the orc tribe.

Among these commodities, magic parchment is the most stable in sales. Recently, magic herbs are in short supply. Some noble lords are willing to hoard some luncheon meat and corpse fire oil. These things are stockpiled by some lords as military supplies. The vermicelli was successfully brought to the table of the Green nobles by Qige.

These imported products of the orc tribe have a large part of the consumer group in the imperial capital. For example, canned luncheon meat is comparable to beef in the imperial capital. Although the price is almost the same, canned food is easier to store and transport, and it is the first choice for home travel.

In addition, Qige also owns a workshop for making magic potions and fire phosphorous bombs. Before Qige left, he had already arranged the production of these two workshops within half a year. The two workshops have their own manager, so I only need to listen to the butler’s report on the accounts on the small island by the lake regularly, and occasionally let Alia go to the workshop to check some actual conditions. As long as the two workshops can maintain normal operation, these few Even if Yue has no profit, I don't care about it, as long as I can persist until Qige returns from Aetia.

Qige never asked me why I didn't contact Kurz on the side of the Green Empire, but she is such a smart person, she must have some ideas in her heart.

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Four old dwarf craftsmen worked together to create a miniature prototype of the magic engraving machine. After four days and nights of continuous struggle, they finally succeeded in creating a metal rune plate of the "Focus Fire". The dream in my heart is one step closer.

As Yerkes scholars say, the Metal Magic Rune Tablet greatly reduces the need for magic metal.

In the imperial capital, copper is the cheapest among common metals.Such a magic engraving machine is equivalent to a magic apprentice drawing magic rune boards day and night. The magic engraving machine never needs to consume mental power. It only needs a mechanic who is skilled in operating the engraving machine. There are many female dwarves in the cave who can do the job.

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, and the transmission shafts and gears produced can only be polished manually. A hacksaw and a few board files forcibly pulled out the workpiece from the iron material. I even think it is a miracle that this magic engraving machine can work normally.

So the first improvement of this prototype was slowly carried out under the auspices of the old dwarf. First of all, all the transmission parts that did not meet the requirements had to be removed. In order to make the processing easier, these parts were all made of copper. , Now they have to be replaced with stainless 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 immediately started to make the third magic seal machine.

At the same time, the printing head of the magic engraving machine forged by the North Duisburg blacksmith workshop also arrived at the underground cave of Xinliu Valley. I continued to assemble it. In order to make this magic engraving machine have a good performance from the beginning, many Xinliugu blacksmiths could not make exquisite parts here. I took the drawings copied by the old dwarves to various parts of the imperial capital Made in a large blacksmith shop.

Because the metal rune plate of 'Focus Fire' is only to engrave the magic red copper wire on the ordinary copper plate, and if it fails, it will not waste anything. Processing, during this period, the small magic engraving machine was still producing the 'Fire Focus' magic rune boards one after another.

So on a whim, I drew the shape of the copper hot pot in my memory on the parchment, and then asked an old dwarf craftsman to help me build one. According to this type, there is a circular chimney in the middle and a ring-shaped pot around it. A dozen female dwarves wielding hammers in the Xinliu Valley blacksmith shop specially made this copper hot pot.

The base of this kind of copper hot pot is inlaid with such a palm-sized "fire-gathering" magic rune board. As long as it is in use, a magic spar fragment is placed on the rune board at the bottom of the copper hot pot. The flame burns inside, which is very convenient to operate.

After the copper hot pot was built, I couldn't wait to use it to entertain the dwarves living in the underground caves of Xinliu Valley. The delicate and plump yellow mutton was cut into thin slices like cicada wings, and it only needed to stay in the boiling water for a short moment. When it comes out, there is no need for other seasonings, just dip some leek flower sauce and eat it in your mouth, it is unparalleled deliciousness.

The dwarves are usually used to ale, dry bread, sausage and stew. Usually eating mutton is just chopping the mutton into pieces, throwing them into a large iron pot and boiling them, and eating meat and soup with big mouthfuls. It is the first time for them to try the method of rinsing and eating the thin slices in boiling water. Not only do they find it very novel, but also feel that eating mutton in this way is the real delicacy.

This group of dwarves also had a bottom line, and they didn't have any scruples just because there were more than 6 barrels of golden cider in the wine cellar.

In fact, only Bernd and the old dwarves drink a little occasionally. They love to drink, and sometimes they brew some barley wine with rough lees from the barley and grain allotted to them. Sometimes, the dwarves even You can drink two pitches of ale with a piece of black bread.

There are still some white rock rhinoceros hard leather armors stockpiled in Xinliu Valley. There is no magic pattern structure drawn on these hard leather armors. I will come here when I have time. The Yerkes scholar 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. I want to see this one who has not passed the primary examination of inscription masters so far, but has designed the magic pattern structure of the "snake tooth" that makes many lords drool. What kind of person is the current magic scholar, and whether he can release the impressive magic pattern construction again at the winter magic pattern construction conference.

There was even a well-known inscription master in the imperial capital who openly speculated in the magic newspaper that the 'Snake Devil's Fang' was a magic pattern 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 design the magic pattern construction blueprint!

Yerkes scholars are going to use the "Grace of the Wind" with the concentrated magic pattern at the winter press conference this time. There are many things to prepare. The most important thing is to face the many inscriptions in the audience at the press conference. Masters, magicians, and noble lords, he needs to briefly explain and explain his design drawings, and also answer some questions.

So I go to him regularly every week to draw the 'Magic Serpent's Fang', and I will go to Xinliu Valley to draw the 'Giant Bear's Power' magic pattern structure.

During this period of time, the biggest changes in Xinliu Valley were not the orc warriors who had white rock rhinoceros hard leather armor and black horses, but those who wore black iron armor, black iron moon blade axes on their waists, and bed crossbows on their backs. Barbarian slaves made of super-heavy crossbows, when they wore black iron armor, they seemed to have a murderous aura.

They are physically strong, especially their endurance far exceeds my expectations. Even wearing this heavy armor that weighs more than a thousand catties, they can march more than a hundred kilometers in a hurry, and they can also put on a charge formation on the battlefield. This group of barbarians People are born fighters.

Originally, I wanted to make one of the two magics of '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, and at least let the imperial capital Ordinary residents can afford it, but after seeing the formation of these barbarian slaves, I changed my mind. The manufacture of exhaust fans and refrigerators was postponed, and the manufacture of heavy crossbow magic arrows became a top priority.

Scholar Yerkes designed the 'sharp' and 'penetrating' magic circles in the shape of magic rings. Originally, I wanted to tattoo these two magic lines on the wrists of Katerina and Kalancuo, because these two The magic pattern circle and the energy-gathering magic pattern match very well. During the tattooing process, Kalancuo inadvertently mentioned a sentence: If the 'penetrating' magic pattern circle is engraved on the arrow tips of the crossbow arrows, these black iron arrows will not Will it easily pierce the armor of a heavy knight?
So the heavy crossbow arrow engraved with 'penetrating' and 'sharp' magic circles at the same time was born in the hands of me and the Yerkes scholar. Socketed with cheaper Materia shards.

Yerkes scholars joked that this kind of bed crossbow is the most expensive crossbow, and the cost of each one is at least no less than one magic spar, and because the number of inscribers in the imperial capital is limited, mass production of this kind of arrow is impossible, When he said these words, he didn't know that the printing head of my second magic engraving machine would be engraved with two kinds of magic circles of "penetrating" and "sharp" at the same time. The printing of this large magic engraving machine The head area is very large, and I plan to engrave the arrows of four heavy crossbows at a time.

As the plane war continued to break out, the war caused the economy of the Grimm Empire to show a backward trend, but there were also many war weapon industries. At this stage, a large number of black magic crystals continued to pour into the trading market of the Grimm Empire. The exchange rate between stones and gold coins is constantly shrinking.

I remember that one magic spar could be exchanged for at least nine gold coins in El City five years ago, but this winter, one magic spar can be exchanged for six and a half gold coins.A magic spar fragment the size of a fingernail is equivalent to a tenth of the size of a magic spar, but this kind of magic spar fragment is even more worthless, and it is by no means a tenth of the price of a magic spar. In fact, ten One piece of magic spar can be bought for only one piece of silver, so the use of magic tools is no longer out of reach in some families in the imperial capital. Many families have magic caravans, magic wall lamps and so on.

This summer, a magical 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 'Focus Fire' rune plates were engraved, and then put into the bottom of the copper hot pot, and then the self-contained The copper hot pot of the 'Fire Gathering Technique' circle quietly began to be sold in the magic grocery store in the Tower of Pride in the imperial capital.

The winter in the imperial capital seems to be extremely cold this year, with one heavy snowfall after another, a thick layer of snow is already compacted on the streets of the imperial capital, and the magic caravan will press out deep and deep roads on the hard snow. Ruts, the magic caravan on the street can only drive forward along these ruts, so that the vehicles on the street appear to be extremely orderly.

After the magic class in the morning, I met Yingli Zhunu at the entrance of the Royal Academy of Magic. I wanted to go to the food street to eat something casually, but because the snowy road was difficult to walk, I canceled going out for lunch In the end, Katerina suggested that it is better to have a hot pot in the dormitory of the water magician.

Yingli, Helena, and Becky are no strangers to hot pot. When the girls heard that a set of pots was specially made for hot pot, they couldn't wait to go to the dormitory to cook hot pot. In such a cold winter, a few people gather together in the dormitory to eat a warm hot pot. The dazzling sunlight shines into the dormitory through the glass window, and the smell of boiled lamb soon floats into the corridor of the dormitory.

At this time, I saw Noah holding a copper chafing dish in his arms, and suddenly broke in from outside. When half of his foot was still outside the door, he asked me loudly: "Ji Jia, are you in the dormitory again?" What good food to eat?"

"..." I was speechless, is it necessary for the whole floor to know!
"Ah! Yingli, Helena, Becky, you are also here..." At this time, Noah saw Yingli, Helena, Becky, and Katerina sitting around the writing table, and smiled. greet.

There was a steaming hot pot on the table, and I was standing by, cutting up lamb with a paring knife.

Ying Li hurriedly stood up politely, and said with a smile, "Noah, would you like to have something together?"

In the Vashki plane, Noah and Ying Li have changed from acquaintances to very close friends in three months, and they have become very casual when chatting.

Noah walked to the writing desk with a copper hot pot in his arms, looked at the steaming hot pot on the table, and said to me with a look of surprise: "Xiaoyou, Jijia, your idea is really good! You actually used this Why didn’t I think of the stove for cooking and eating! Originally, I wanted to recommend this stove to you, but I didn’t expect you to use it before me. The winter in the imperial capital is really too cold..."

(End of this chapter)