my age of magic

Chapter 1124 227. Nick's Betrayal

For the people in the imperial capital, this winter is extremely cold, and the two consecutive snowfalls made the imperial capital winter freeze into a white tone.

All the inconvenient factors brought about by these two snowfalls have been turned into economic burdens imposed on the people of the imperial capital, and the soaring prices of various commodities have left the people with no time to appreciate the beautiful scenery brought by the two heavy snowfalls to the imperial capital.

Those poor people who are on the food and clothing line have no money to buy firewood or briquettes to resist the severe winter cold, and this year the briquettes and firewood in the imperial capital are nearly twice as expensive as in previous years. This is due to the intervention of the city hall councilors. Depressed prices on the fuel market.In the imperial capital, there are still many small nobles holding gold coins and unable to buy briquettes. In short, the deepest impression on the people of the imperial capital this winter is the coldness.

Therefore, a series of items to keep out the cold have appeared on the market.

It was also when I sold the third batch of copper hot pots to the grocery store that I learned from the owner of the magic grocery store what happened in the imperial capital this winter. It was actually not his fault that Noah used the hot pot as a hand warmer. Inadvertently caused by the magic grocery store owner.

I moved the hot pots produced by the female dwarves in the Xinliu Valley blacksmith shop out of Xinliu Valley and sent them to the magic grocery store in the Tower of Pride in the imperial capital. At the beginning, I was actually the owner who introduced the usage of the hot pot, but I didn’t expect that The owner did not tell his customers at all: This copper pot is for boiling meat.He just randomly placed a piece of magic crystal on the red copper rune board, and then added a little water to the pot, saying that placing this thing in the room can quickly warm up the whole room.

It can't be blamed that the owner of the grocery store sells too casually. The main reason is that there are many nobles who go to the grocery store every day to buy the magic scroll of "Focus Fire". A palm-sized scroll of Gather Fire can burn for more than [-] hours. , if placed in the fireplace in the house, it can keep the house warm all day long. Although the price is a little expensive, it is affordable for nobles.

Therefore, the fire-gathering scrolls in various magic grocery stores have become high-end heating items in this winter. With a demand-side market, the fire-gathering scrolls in magic grocery stores have naturally become out-of-stock items. When buying more scrolls for focusing fire, I took fifty copper hot pots to the magic grocery store and told a lot to the owner of the magic grocery store, Barabara. The grocery store owner only clearly remembered the bottom of the copper pot. There is a Fire Focus Rune Tablet, and the price of the entire Copper Cauldron is only one-third of the price of the Fire Focus Rune Table in the magic market.

In this way, these magic hot pots have greater profit margins for the grocery store owner. Although the magic red copper rune board in the copper hot pot is a bit different from other rune boards, the burning flames are not the same at all. Not inferior, the flames are blue, which means that the temperature released by the flames is very high, so he began to recommend these copper hot pots to nobles who want to buy magic scrolls, and they called them: warming stoves.

The thing that made me laugh and cry finally happened. The copper hot pot did not become popular in the imperial capital. Instead, the stoves were passed on by word of mouth among some small nobles, and they quickly began to sell well. What surprised the grocery store owner the most was these stoves. The word-of-mouth seems to be very good, but the owner of the magic grocery store has not realized that a new type of rune board that has broken the average price of rune boards for many years is slowly being born in his shop.

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Through the glass windows covered with icicles, looking at the magic caravans on the street in the distance and clearing the snow from the street, Yinyue heard the coachman raise his long whip and whistle loudly in the air.

Pushing open the window to let the cold air blow into the warm room, wearing only a silk shirt, I couldn't help shivering against the wind, Gu Bolaima's body was steamed with white water vapor, and I tried my best to Pulling the magic caravan, the civilians of the whole city are clearing the snow from the streets.

The air was filled with rich ice elements, I stretched out a finger, recited a spell casually, and an ice crystal condensed out on the fingertip.

If it is said that fighting in heavy rain is the home field of water magicians, then ice magicians especially like winter. In this kind of weather, the condensation speed of ice magic is much faster than usual, and the magic perception is released. I clearly feel To the maids standing outside the door waiting for Alia and I to get up, Betty was sitting by the side, holding a sheepskin booklet in her hand, and was checking the records one by one with a pen, probably planning what to do. Arrange for Aaliyah's day.

There was a scent of fragrance behind me, a warm body was pressed against my back, a pair of gentle arms wrapped us tightly in a velvet blanket, Alia put her head on my shoulder, and asked me in a charming voice Said: "Why do you get up so early, is there any morning class today?"

Feeling the softness of Alia's body, I dispelled the ice crystals on my fingertips. Those ice crystals instantly turned into ice powder and dissipated in the air. Under the dazzling eyes, it was like spilling a handful of silver powder casually.

I turned back and buried my head under her fragrant and soft neck, took a deep breath, and said to Alia: "There is nothing going on in the college recently. Many courses this semester have ended. Now it is the last time for the magic students. When sprinting to practice magic levels, the Royal Academy of Magic has some rigid standards, requiring magic students to reach at least level three in magic at the end of the first semester."

Aliya squinted her eyes, giggled, and then said: "You are already an eighth-level magician, so it has nothing to do with you to sprint to practice magic levels?"

I turned my head and set my eyes on the courtyard. After the heavy snowfall, the snow scene in the courtyard is still quite exquisite.

Maybe it’s because Alia and I both lived in the north since we were young, and we have an indescribable affection for snow. She didn’t ask the servants to clean up the snow in the yard. I also think it’s the best way. The grass is covered with a thick layer of snow. The pure white blanket has a very elegant beauty.

I said to Alia, "Well! So I took this opportunity to ask for two weeks' leave to go out."

Alia will reach out to me and ask, "Where are you going?"

"Yero," I said.

Aliya still doesn't know the second secret of the Hammer of the Space-Time Breaker, so she doesn't know how I can get to the Yero plane, so she asked me: "Ah, is there time? You want to borrow the hammer from the residence of the Duke of Samoyed." Temporary teleportation array?"

I said: "It should be in time. Two giant spiders in the silk reeling workshop in Xinliu Valley died again. If they continue to die like this, I'm afraid there will be no magic-weave spider silk ingots produced next month. I need to catch some new ones." The giant spider is back."

Aliya heard me say this, hugged me tightly from behind, and then said to me: "I heard that the situation in the Hierro plane has become unstable. The Duke of Samoyed lost three cities in a row. , if you can't catch it, don't be too reluctant, it's winter, it doesn't matter if the textile workshop shuts down for a while."

I don't evade the fact that the city of Pereira is now in a mess, and one can imagine other cities on the Hierro plane.

I said, "You have to go over there to find out the specific situation. This time I will take those barbarian slaves with me. They should have the strength to fight against the spider warriors."

Seeing that I had already made a decision, Aliya just asked softly, "When are you leaving?"

I was silent for a while, and said in a low voice: "Let's go later, Katerina will come and join me."

Perhaps because parting was imminent, the atmosphere suddenly became quiet, and she pressed her face against my back.

After a while, Aliya calmed down and said to me: "By the way, the next battle target of the Prince of Wales and the Royal Constructed Knights has been decided. Do you know where it is?"

"Where?" I asked.

A while ago, there was some internal strife in the Angibold royal family. His Royal Highness Charles seemed to feel that the Prince of Wales had made outstanding achievements recently. We need to run it to see if there is a possibility of leading troops to the expedition.However, this matter was forcibly suppressed by His Majesty Charles.

Now counting, the Prince of Wales should almost go out again.

"Angelado plane of the Babington family in San Carlos Province." Alia said a name that I didn't feel surprised.

Because all the previous signs have shown that the Grimm Empire urgently needs a large amount of Mithril.

Alia said to me: "It is said that to solve the scarcity of mithril mines, the five major mithril mines in Angela's multi-plane will be the primary target of this expedition. The Grimm Empire needs a large amount of mithril to maintain magic equipment, including Magic airships, magic caravans, magic cannons, bed crossbows, siege vehicles and other ordnance, this time the crisis of the Babington family has passed safely."

The biggest force on the Angela multi-plane is the Babington family. Affected by the Angela multi-plane war, their factory in San Carlos City is in a state of semi-shutdown. If this situation continues for a few more days In a few months, the Babington family may be dragged down alive, but now it seems that after the royal family released the news, the Babington family can be regarded as desperate.

"Wales agreed?" I asked Arya.

"Well." Aliya said: "The letter of appointment was released yesterday afternoon, and the young and old Mo family of the Mo family were also on the expedition. It seems that this time is also bound to win. As early as a month ago, he directly led the Construct Knights to the Angela multi-dimensional plane."

"...In that case, will the rune workshop on our imperial capital be affected?" I remembered that I still have a rune board workshop on the imperial capital, so I asked Alia.

Aliya smiled wryly, and said to me: "It's not just as simple as being shocked, it's just such a confirmed appointment that caused Rune Workshop to receive more than 20 chargeback applications yesterday afternoon."

"Why did someone charge back the order so quickly?" I asked a little surprised.

Originally thought that even if the rune workshop was hit, it would be at least a month later, but I didn't expect it to be so serious.

Alia smiled at me and said, "Speaking of which, the reason should be blamed on you."

"Me? How is it me?" Hearing Alia say this made me even more confused.

Alia explained to me: "I heard that the empire is going to conquer the plane of Angela, and the five largest mithril mines over there will soon resume normal operations. The little lords who originally had some mithril reserves all Before recovering the Mithril mines, while the price of Mithril is still high, they all want to sell the Mithril in their hands, and take advantage of this last chance to make a fortune."

"What does this have to do with me?" I said with a wry smile.

"Of course this has nothing to do with you, and it will have something to do with you in the future. Suddenly there is such a batch of mithril in the magic market of the imperial capital, and some dead rune board workshops in the imperial capital will be revived immediately. "Alia whispered in my ear. "Don't forget, who was the one who completely offended those guys because of the life magic pattern on the fish skin hood and had conflicts with all the inscribers in the imperial capital..."

"It's me!" I said frankly.

Alicia said: "You wouldn't be naive to think that they didn't know you were standing behind Nick, would you?"

"It's not hard to find out... So, those inscribers are taking revenge on me?" I asked Aliya.

Aliya said: "They just don't accept the drawing work of the magic pattern circle on the fine gold magic pattern plate for the time being."

I asked her, "So now that rune tablet workshop is in a predicament all of a sudden?"

Alicia said: "It's not just that, Nick and Brennan have started to fan the craftsmen in those workshops to leave the workshop together, and I will rush over to deal with this matter this morning."

I asked Aaliyah, "Are they planning to go to another workshop together?"

Aliya said to me: "I will try my best to retain those artisans..."

It seems that this matter is not as simple as what Alia said. The craftsmen in the workshop have worked under Nick for so long, and it is hard to say that they will stick to the rune board workshop.So I said to Alia: "You don't have to be too forceful about this kind of thing. It may not be a good thing for the Runeboard Workshop if they go away. This kind of thing must go with the flow."

Arya said, "Ah! Aren't you going to run the Rune Pad Workshop?"

I took a deep breath and said to Aliya: "Of course not, not only will I not stop operating, I will try my best to make the rune board workshop bigger, but I don't need those blank spaces right away. The technicians of the rune board, if they want to leave, you just let them go decisively."

Aliya looked at me in surprise, and I said to her: "Since those inscription masters have completely torn faces with us, then I have nothing to worry about. I said that I will give those arrogant guys Some lessons."

I didn't expect those inscription masters to have such a great influence, and they started to boycott me collectively.

I didn't expect that the honest Nick was finally persuaded by Brennan, and he chose to take the craftsmen in the workshop away.

It's just... so what if Nick and the craftsmen leave, because there is a magic engraving machine in Xinliu Valley, from now on I don't need those blank magic rune plates at all, as long as ordinary metal plates are enough, I also There is no need for an inscription master to draw a magic circle on a blank rune board, all I need is a place in the imperial capital to turn around the magic rune board.

(End of this chapter)