my age of magic

Chapter 1135 238. Quartermaster of the South Wind Legion

Next to the blacksmith's shop, a magic pattern printing workshop stone room was temporarily built. Here, three girls, Ying Li, Helena and Becky, saw the magic engraving machine for the first time. In the stone room, a group of female dwarves were developing A piece of 'focus fire' rune board.

The two female dwarves picked out the palm-sized round copper plates from the material basket, and then checked whether the copper plates were as smooth as a mirror. They would pick out the thin copper plates with defects, and then they moved the qualified copper plates to the magic engraving machine. On the prep table.

A female dwarf sat in front of the magic engraving machine. During the interval between each fall of the magic engraving machine, she stuffed ordinary copper plates under the printing head. The brush of the copper solution was quickly applied to the printing head, and then the printing head fell down, engraving the rune lines of magic red copper on the flat copper plate. Put a new copper plate in the box again, the whole process takes less than 3 minutes, and the operation is skillful and smooth.

These round ordinary copper plates will be transported to the inspection table after engraving magic runes. Two female dwarves will alternately inlay the rune plates printed with magic patterns on the gemstone base, and install a piece of magic spar. If there is flame, it means that the rune plates have been successfully engraved. These rune plates are turned behind to fix the gemstone base, and then embedded in the bottom of the prepared copper cauldron.

If there is no response from the rune plate, or if there is billowing smoke, it means that the rune plate has failed to make, and the failed rune plate will be handed over to other female dwarves, who will use a file to remove the magic rune thread from the copper plate. Scrape off, and throw these discarded rune tablets into the furnace to recast them into copper ingots.

However, even with mass production, the success rate of magically engraving the 'Fire Concentration' rune plates is still very low. On average, only two rune plates can be successfully produced for every ten 'Concentration Fire' rune plates produced.

There is no large-scale steam forging machine in the underground cave blacksmith shop of Xinliu Valley, so the existing production cannot be satisfied by hand-rolling thin copper plates. Therefore, recently, they have been purchasing thin copper plates from North Duisburg. The new manager of the Rune Workshop silently Recently, Li was traveling between North Duisburg and Rune Workshop. He was responsible for purchasing thin copper plates in North Duisburg, punching the thin copper plates into round blanks in the Rune Plate Workshop, and completing the initial polishing process. After that, I will transport these round thin copper plate blanks into Xinliu Valley.

The finished copper hot pot will also be returned to the Rune Plate Workshop first, and the craftsmen of the Rune Plate Workshop will print the logo on the most inconspicuous place on the bottom of the copper hot pot, and finally send it to the Tower of Pride. The magic grocery store in the trading hall on the second floor, and the magic grocery store will sell these copper hot pots in batches.

The winter in the imperial capital is getting colder every day, and this cheap copper hot pot is becoming more and more popular in the magic market.

This kind of magical machinery had too much impact on Yingli, she covered her mouth in surprise, leaned against me, and whispered to me: "We always thought you were secretly hiding in the magic laboratory of the Yerkes scholar to draw These 'Focus Fire' rune plates, it turns out that you are actually replacing the junior inscriber with a magical machine... My God, how did you do it?"

I stood beside her and explained to her: "Simply speaking, the drawing of the magic pattern circle by the inscriber is just a process of using magic power to imprint the magic pattern on the magic leather or magic metal. Copy the rune board, and then use magic machinery to realize this series of actions, this is the working principle of the magic engraving machine."

In fact, this concept is somewhat vague and general magic principle, probably every magician understands it.

"Did you design this big guy?" Ying Li asked me.

I said honestly: "How could it be me? This magical machine is not a product of this era at all. Even the dwarf engineers in the most industrially developed dwarf country are not able to design such a perfect magic engraving machine. A piece of magical machinery that represents an era."

I reached out and touched the shell of the magic engraving machine. The entire body of this magic machine is made of magic mithril. It is engraved with magic runes that I can't recognize. I just follow the style drawn on Hex's blueprint. , depicting these runes on the body of the magic engraving machine, the abundant magic power slowly flows in the magic lines on the magic engraving machine.

The cost of such a magic engraving machine is very expensive. If it is not for the financial support of the pirate king's treasure, I am afraid that I will have to sell some fish skin hoods to make up for the experimental funds. The magic engraving machine started to bring me a very stable income.

Yingli heard me say this, and asked me curiously: "When did there have such a terrible magic machine?"

I took her to the wall of the cave, where there were some magic engraving machine blueprints rubbed from the Hex technology blueprints on the wall, and the blueprints almost occupied the entire wall. I said to her: " In the goblin era, these magic engraving machines are all products left by Hex technology."

Yingli knows about goblins. When I was exploring in Xinliu Valley with her, I was attacked by goblins, and I came into contact with goblins at that time.

We also use all kinds of food to exchange a lot of magic metals from the goblins.

Ying Li raised her head slightly, she focused on the magic drawings on the wall, looking at those strange magic runes, her eyes became more and more confused, and finally she could only force herself to close her eyes, not to look at the magic drawings on the wall , After a while, she broke free from which magic runes and said to me: "... Goblins, that race cursed by the gods? They created this kind of magic machinery? They are too aimed at inscribers. If these Once the magic engraving machines spread all over the Grimm Empire, those inscribers will probably have to change careers."

Helena and Becky were also standing beside us, looking at the magic drawings on the wall, but they couldn't see the magic runes at all, so they didn't respond.Katerina has no interest in these things at all. Every time she goes to Xinliu Valley, she will find a bright magic wall lamp, then take out a biography of the ranger, and sit quietly to read a book.

I said: "Actually, that's not the case. When making the stamping die of the magic engraving machine, an inscriber is still needed."

Ying Li curled his lips and asked me, "Can a junior inscription master do it?"

It seems that, like the Yerkes scholar, Ying Li also has an obsession with the traditional magic industry in his bones.

I said to her: "Of course junior inscribers are not good. They must have a deep understanding of this kind of magic runes. Probably at least intermediate inscribers!"

Ying Li sighed. As a princess of the Angibald royal family of the Green Empire, she still has these insights. She said: "If you have these magical machines, the price of rune boards will definitely fall. If we want to train an inscription master, I'm afraid we need more magic crystals. Jijia, we agreed to teach those inscription masters in the imperial capital some lessons, but this lesson is too heavy."

I pulled Ying Li's soft shoulders and made her face me, her pretty face instantly turned crimson.

Until now, Yingli is still a little shy when facing me.

I said to Ying Li: "The magic machine represents the progress of an era. This magic machine has already been created by goblins. This magic machine is very practical, isn't it?"

There is a row of wooden boxes with scrap copper plates on the side of the stone wall. Ying Li and I hid behind the wooden box. I leaned on the wooden box and stared at the blueprints on the stone wall. , have some different perceptions.

Yingli and I leaned side by side on the wooden box, but she tried hard to restrain herself, not to look at the magic runes on the wall drawings, sometimes she closed her eyes, sometimes she turned her head to look at me, she put her headrest On my shoulder, whispered to me: "I'm just worried that if you use goblin civilizations, it will be regarded as blasphemy."

I touched her greasy face and said: "Actually, I have also discussed this topic with some scholars who are proficient in ancient goblin language recently. We discussed what the goblins did wrong to cause the wrath of the gods. Then we Looking back at that period of ancient history, I feel that the goblins angered the gods in the kingdom of gods because these goblins were too arrogant. They tried to create magic puppets with demigod power, so they were cursed by the gods. Generation after generation, they degenerate into subhumans with rudimentary intelligence."

Speaking of the magic puppets created by the goblins, it reminds me of the female classmate Teresa in the Junior Magic Academy. I heard that she chose to go to the Orianna Academy of Magic for further studies, and she was able to receive admission to the Orianna Academy of Magic. Taking the notice, probably because she possesses the magic power of the rock golem that she can control, that makes the senior officials of Orianna School of Magic think Theresa is a young magician worthy of training.

Ying Li didn't quite agree with my last statement. She pursed her lips and said with a smile, "Goblins probably aren't subhumans. Kobolds and murlocs are subhumans."

Later, I took Ying Li to see the second magic engraving machine. If the first magic engraving machine is compared to a baby learning to speak, then the second magic engraving machine is an adult. The magic engraving machine was made by four old dwarf craftsmen in Xinliu Valley according to the real size of Hex's drawing. It is as big as a small mill.

Now this magic engraving machine is also running successfully, but this magic engraving machine is too large, and it is the three spider warrior slaves who make the magic engraving punch reciprocate up and down.

They are tied to a millstone, and they keep pushing the millstone to rotate like donkeys pulling the millstone. There is a transmission shaft in the center of the millstone, which is connected to the ratchet wheel of the magic engraving machine. As the millstone keeps rotating, the magic engraving machine The punch will be raised slowly. When the punch of the magic engraving machine is raised to the commanding height, the ratchet lock will fail, so the punch of the magic engraving machine will fall down in an instant to complete a stamping process.

The female dwarf sat in front of the operating table, and put a foot-long heavy crossbow black iron arrow into the die, about six arrows could be placed at a time, and then the female dwarf standing on the other side of the operating table was in charge of using the mithril solution Wipe the punch of the magic engraving machine, and it can punch out six arrows with the magic attributes of 'penetration' and 'sharpness' at a time, but the success rate is lower than that of the magic engraving machine that printed the 'Fighting Fire' rune plate A lot, an average of 25 black iron arrows can make a successful magic crossbow arrow.

And if you want to test whether this kind of magic arrow is successfully made, you need to install a gemstone base at the end of the arrow tip and place magic spar fragments to test whether the magic circle can work normally. In this way, every black iron The production cost of the arrows is very high, and regardless of success or failure, the arrows of these heavy crossbows all have 'penetrating' and 'sharp' magic patterns, which are very exquisite dark flower patterns. Installed on the arrow shaft of the crossbow, it seems that this kind of crossbow is very high-end.

The dwarf Bernd even prepared iron and wood shafts for the magic crossbow arrows that were successfully engraved. In this way, the heavy crossbow bolts that were already very expensive became even more expensive. calculate.

The crossbow arrows that failed to be produced will not be recast, and these arrows are only used as ordinary heavy crossbow bolts.

In order to make these heavy crossbow bolts, it's not enough for me to fill in all the proceeds from selling copper hot pots, and I need to use part of the proceeds from the magic-weave spider silk. This makes me fully realize that war is burning money, and only The cost of the initial investment can only be recovered after winning, and once the war is defeated, everything will be lost.

There is a lot of indigo wood and ironwood wood in the Xinliu Valley lumberyard. Some of these woods have been shelved for three years after they were felled. These two kinds of wood are hard and heavy. They are used to make the arrow shafts of heavy crossbows. However, now the old orc Zewang has been leading the female orcs in the orc village to make arrow shafts for crossbow arrows.

Ying Li saw that I had made so many bed crossbow arrow tips at the blacksmith shop, so he knew that I had already started to build the town of Trume. Ying Liming knew that it was very dangerous, but he didn't say a word of dissuasion.

Every young nobleman of the Grimm Empire will join the army and earn some meritorious service on the battlefield so that he can keep his noble title. These are also written in the code of the Grimm Empire. The obligation of all imperial men to serve at least three years in the army.

Like me, I can have an army of my own before serving. This advantage is generally only available to the heirs of the big noble families.Helena and Becky came from aristocratic families and knew the bed crossbow as a powerful weapon for city defense. When they saw that I was forging boxes and boxes of magic crossbows, Becky asked me in surprise: "Jijia, are you going to ask other people for help?" Does the lord sell magical bolts?"

"No, I just plan to use it myself!" I said casually to Becky, and then looked at the boxes of black iron arrow points piled up by the wall, thinking that Becky's proposal is really good, if I can make crossbow arrows It is also a pretty good business to make a profit on the tip of the arrow.

I said to Becky: "However... Listening to what you said, it is a good idea. It is really too much economically to keep making bed crossbow arrow points like this. If this is turned into a business, let me let it go." Aliya investigates how much these magic crossbows can be sold for, it should be able to make money."

Becky’s topic immediately aroused our desire to discuss, so we discussed the feasibility of selling magic crossbow bolts outside the blacksmith’s shop. Only by printing 25 crossbow bolts can one get a magic crossbow bolt. This production cost is still quite high, but even if The crossbow arrow tips that failed to be drawn can still be used as ordinary crossbow arrows, but magic runes can no longer be drawn on them.

Becky has some ideas in this regard. She came up with an idea, and asked Ying Li to find a way to recommend me to become Prince James' military procurement officer, who is responsible for purchasing arrow weapons...

(End of this chapter)