my age of magic

Chapter 1207 11. Anecdotes about the Dock ([-])

The wind on the lake was very strong, making the lake water rippling.

Although the five-masted sailboat in the dock was fixed by a wooden frame, it was still shaking slightly, and there was a slight creaking sound from the hull.

The water of the lake is beating against the stone pillars submerged in the water by the pier. In this season of early spring, the water level of Weiyang Lake is very low. The ice and snow on the top of Mount Majaro have begun to melt, and the clear snow water is pouring into Weiyang Lake. The lake at the mouth has breathed new life into it.

Senior Dylan glanced at the old boatman lightly and said, "Hanklum, you are worried that once the adamantine rune plates on these boats are removed, the plan for the mobile magic teleportation array will fail, and future disputes will make it difficult for you all." There is nothing wrong with getting rid of the relationship, I was a little too hasty about this matter, I never thought that the plan of the mobile magic teleportation array would fail."

The old boatman Hanklum lowered his head slightly when he heard what Senior Dylan said, not daring to meet Senior Dylan's eyes.

Senior Dylan turned his head to look at the nearest five-masted sailing ship, and said in a firm tone: "Now I can tell you very clearly that the adamantine rune plates on these ten five-masted sailing ships are destined to be completely removed."

When the boatmen at the dock heard what Senior Dylan said, they became even more excited and talked about it.

Although the manager of the dock, Bradford, wanted to suppress these objections, it was obvious that he did not have much prestige among the boatmen.

Instead, it was the old boatman Hanklum who waved his hand to calm everyone down, and the opposition voices around him were suppressed little by little.

Senior Dylan looked at the dark crowd in front of him, was silent for a while, and said again: "You want to keep the ten five-masted sailing ships in their current state, I cannot promise you to keep all ten five-masted sailing ships, but I You are allowed to select nine of them and seal them up directly according to the current status."

Senior Dylan's words made the boatmen suddenly quiet. Everyone raised their heads, and their eyes fell on the young magic scholar in front of them.

Senior Dylan continued: "It's just that the adamantine rune plate on a ship must be removed anyway to ensure the smooth progress of the next adamantine rune plate installation, otherwise the construction period will be delayed. Only you are asking."

"You don't want to do it, I'll ask other boatmen to do it." He emphasized this sentence, his voice was as clear and cold as icebergs and snow water in early spring.

He set his sights on the old boatman Hanklum, and said directly: "The fifty boatmen I invited from Ignace City, Palestina Province have arrived in the airport town. Starting tomorrow, they will They will take over your rune plate installation work, and in the next few days, they will assemble a five-masted sailboat with a mobile magic teleportation array."

When he heard Senior Dylan's words, the old boatman Hanklum's face turned a little pale, and he raised his head in horror, as if he hadn't expected that Senior Dylan would have such a skill, so today the boatman at the dock Not only is their strike meaningless, but it will also cause big trouble for the nearly [-] boatmen in the dock.

When the boatmen heard the news, they were also very shocked and looked at Senior Dylan in amazement.

"Hanklum, let me show you how fifty boatmen built a mobile magic teleportation array on a five-masted sailboat within a month. But I don't want you Any resistance or seeing you make them some trouble, on the contrary, I hope you can calm down and learn how they work on the ship."

After Senior Dylan finished speaking, he turned his head and said to Bradford on the side: "Now, Bradford, you take someone to mark the nine ships you want to keep with red paint. As for the remaining ship , I hope to remove all the adamantine rune plates on the ship before sunrise tomorrow."

Bradford took a breath, put away his chubby stomach, and said loudly to Senior Dylan, "Of order, Master Dylan Scholar."

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The inscribers stood on one side of the pier, Eustace scribe frowned slightly in the crowd, watching Hanklum and more than 500 boatmen disperse from the pier, and some boatmen took out a piece of paper from the dock warehouse. Buckets of raw lacquer on the wooden floor of the pier.

The milky white raw lacquer that was originally used to prevent the hull itself from anticorrosion and to prevent shellfish from adhering to the bottom of the ship was taken out, and some bright red vermilion powder was filled into the raw lacquer, turning it into a bucket of red paint. The hull of the galleon was painted with the word 'storage' in red.

The remaining nearly 400 boatmen gathered around the outermost five-masted sailing ship, and quickly removed the fine gold rune plate on the surface of the hull with picks and hammers.

Senior Dylan went straight to the ten inscribers, and said to the leading inscriber among them: "Your Excellency Eustace, do you think that the mobile magic teleportation arrays on these ten ships are not working properly? Are there any problems like this?"

The inscriber was obviously still immersed in the wave of apology from Senior Dylan just now and hadn't come to his senses. He put on a haughty posture, raised his neck and said to Senior Dylan: "That's the truth, I like to speak based on facts. "

The corner of Senior Dylan's mouth twitched, and he sneered, "Haha! Your Excellency Eustace, I usually admire magicians who are accustomed to speaking with facts."

Hearing Senior Dylan's bad tone, Master Eustace realized that Senior Dylan didn't come to apologize again this time. Every sentence was provocative, so his face became a little ugly. Said to Senior Dylan: "Just say what you want to say, Scholar Dylan."

Senior Dylan stared at Eustace and said: "Originally, out of kindness, I asked the boatmen to remove all the adamantine rune plates on the ten ships, so that the remaining nine ships would not be destroyed after the new ships were assembled and tested successfully. Parking in the dock will make you embarrassing to the scribes.”

Eustace Scribe's face was even more ugly, and there was a hint of hatred on his gloomy face.

Senior Dylan didn't pay attention to Eustace's face at all, and said directly: "I just didn't expect that there would be a strike on the dockside. I don't think these civilian boatmen should have the courage to stand on the dock and question me. With someone instigating them behind their backs, it is impossible for other people to be involved in the matter of the dock, so the most direct beneficiaries are the inscription masters."

The veins on Eustace's forehead were still bulging, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Scholar Dylan, do you think we are instigating these civilian boatmen to make trouble?"

He is like a volcano that may erupt at any time, and the magma in his body is constantly surging.

But senior Dylan continued to add fuel to the flames. He said, "Is it rare that I guessed wrong? Are you trying to hide something? You want to get out of Yonghu Dock, but you don't dare to disobey His Majesty Charles' will." , the most important thing is that you can't see any hope of success in the dock, so you just thought of messing up the plan to build a mobile magic teleportation array, or let this plan be shelved forever."

Eustace asked senior Dylan angrily and loudly: "Scholar Dylan, do you mean that you still stubbornly think that the design of the combined magic circle drawing is okay?"

Senior Dylan was also on the tip of the nails, refusing to back down and said: "Your Excellency Eustace, if I say that the main reason why this combined magic teleportation array has been unsuccessful for so long is because of the exquisite drawings drawn by you. The fit of the magic pattern connection lines between the golden rune plates cannot meet the requirements, do you think this is an excuse I made?"

Eustace's face turned purple with anger, and he asked loudly: "Scholar Dylan, do you think our inscribers are not capable enough to draw your work perfectly?"

At this time, Senior Dylan smiled strangely at the inscriber Eustace, and then said quickly: "Since we both feel that this matter is the other's fault, then...Your Excellency Eustace, do you dare Make a bet with me? If this combined magic teleportation array cannot be activated normally due to design problems, I will lose. If this combined magic teleportation array cannot be activated due to problems in the process of drawing inscriptions If it starts normally, then I win."

The inscriptionist Eustace almost didn't even think about it, and directly agreed loudly, saying: "There's nothing to be afraid of, I just hope you don't lose too badly, and since it's a bet, you can't go without the bet, What are we going to bet on?"

Senior Dylan asked him calmly, "Then what do you want to bet on?"

I didn't expect Eustace to be so angry, so irritable and impulsive, to mention the bet...

Eustace said without hesitation: "I bet on the fish skin hoods of your Stargazer Union. I know that your Stargazer Union bought a total of [-] fish skin hats. If I win this bet, please Scholar Dylan, go back to the Astrologer's Guild and bring me ten fishskin hoods."

It turned out that he wanted the fish skin hood collected by the Stargazers Guild, but I couldn't understand it. I've been with Senior Dylan for so long. Could it be that he didn't recognize me?Ten fish skin hoods may be expensive magic items worth [-] magic crystals to everyone in the imperial capital, but to me they are only worth ten perfect and undamaged mermaid skins!

Senior Dylan asked back: "What if you lose?"

Eustace was overwhelmed with anger, and shouted directly: "How can we lose? If we lose, then I will accompany you with ten fish skin hoods equivalent to gold coins or magic crystals."

Senior Dylan seemed to be waiting for Eustace to say this, so he said without a moment's hesitation, "Then it's settled."

He took out a contract scroll from his magic pouch, and took out a quill pen from his pocket, dipped some ink very skillfully, and then quickly wrote on the contract scroll. Senior Dylan's imperial text was written very beautiful.

While writing the contract scroll, he continued: "It's a little thing I don't want to mention, but since our bet is related to the manufacture of the mobile magic teleportation array, I have to say a few more words. The last six Over the past month, the Astrologers Union has paid you a large amount of remuneration every month, and has also consumed tens of thousands of pure gold rune tablets. If this bet is to determine who is responsible for both of us, then I I would like to mention something to all the inscription masters, if it is a problem with my design drawings, then I will directly bear the remuneration paid to you in the past six months, as well as all the expenses of the tens of thousands of fine gold rune plates consumed."

After saying these words, Senior Dylan's contract scroll was finished. He quickly signed his name on the bottom of the scroll, then straightened up and handed the scroll to Eustace on the opposite side. He smiled slightly and said to him Said: "But if I win this bet in the end, it means that you are not proficient enough in the study of inscriptions. Of course, I will not let you return the six-month remuneration to me, but at least I hope that you will recover the lost money." The cost of tens of thousands of fine gold rune tablets is borne..."

He stared at Eustace without blinking.

Eustace, on the other hand, took the contract scroll, feeling a bit stuck, glaring at senior Dylan angrily, gritted his teeth and said, "It's a deal, if I lose, I will compensate you for these gold talismans." Writing board..."

As he spoke, he paused for a moment, and then said to Senior Dylan: "But since it's a bet, we can't wait indefinitely for you to perfect this set of blueprints little by little. There must always be a deadline."

Senior Dylan and I looked at each other and said a word: "One month."

Eustace immediately said: "Alright, at this time next month, we will come to the dock to pay our respects to the launching ceremony of your mobile magic teleportation array!"

He turned around and wanted to leave the dock, but after walking a few steps, he came back. At this time, he seemed to have calmed down a bit, his forehead was covered with a layer of cold sweat, and he said to Senior Dylan with a cold face: "In addition, I hope that our people can come to the dock anytime and anywhere to check the newly drawn adamantine rune plates. We need to check whether the new rune plates are different from the ones we drew before. If it is any different from before, don't blame me for taking this contract away and taking it to the House of Representatives of the Magic Union."

"Of course." Senior Dylan agreed without hesitation.

Afterwards, Eustace quickly left the dock with the other nine scribes.

All the while, Eustace didn't give me another look, as if I were nothing but air.

After their conversation was over, I said to Senior Dylan: "Senior, are you really going to Palestina Province to hire a group of boatmen?"

"Of course it's true. Two months ago, around the end of the winter vacation, I asked Noah to help bring the crew of the Slave Trader to the Imperial Capital. I didn't expect that the magic airship encountered a windstorm. , I was delayed for some days on the way, and it has dragged on for almost two months, and those crew members just arrived in the airport town yesterday!" Senior Dylan said to me proudly.

With that said, Senior Dylan took me to a temporary passageway lined with wooden frames of a five-masted sailing ship. From here, I could get close to the adamantine magic rune panels inlaid on the outside of the hull until I walked into the five-masted sailing ship. , only to see the huge adamantine rune plates on those hulls. Almost every adamantine rune plate is ten feet long and five feet wide. Build ten ships at the same time...

Considering that the Astrologer's Guild is really rich in financial resources, more than 1 of these giant adamantine rune tablets have been prepared.

Then I thought of the bet, and I shuddered at the thought of whether Eustace would have been able to come up with such a large sum if he had lost it.

(End of this chapter)