my age of magic

Chapter 1251 55. Francis Scholar

Scholar Francis provided me with a certain amount of magic metal solution every month according to the previous agreement with Qige.

Although he has a weird temper and rarely communicates with outsiders on weekdays, he is a person who keeps his promises.

From the fine gold solution needed in the rune plate workshop at the beginning, to the red copper solution needed in the magic seal workshop later, as long as I tell Francis the specific amount needed and learn to provide the corresponding magic metal to Francis, he will They will prepare the metal solution on time and wait for me to pick it up.

He was thinner than the last time I met him, with deep sunken eye sockets, dark bags under the eyes, paper-pale cheeks, and thin dark purple lips that always drooped downwards, and he was rarely seen smiling.

He spoke harshly, but he was special to Qige.

"Why are you here? Today is not the day to make an appointment for Haoqu's metal solution." Scholar Francis raised his heavy eyelids and said weakly to me.

It seems that after taking a large amount of spiritual magic medicine, the damage to his body is still quite serious.

It's just that this scholar has a very bad habit, that is, once he focuses on a certain alchemy research, he will become crazy. He is the kind of person who can stay up all night in order to verify an answer.

Qige has been secretly providing some banned psychotropic medicines to Francis scholars. Those medicines contain a certain ingredient 'devil's blood', which is a black potion that is very addictive once taken. After Qige's purification , although the side effects are much smaller, but not without.

He has a very weird temper. He knows that if he takes too much magic potion containing 'devil's blood', he will become addicted, but he doesn't seem to mind.

His research on alchemy has obviously fallen into a state of madness.

However, in my eyes, he is a respectable magic scholar, and alchemy is like his inner demon, and he wants to find the answer.

I said to Francis Scholar: "Uh, I came early. Francis Scholar, your complexion doesn't look good, is Su's treatment not effective?"

In order to prevent his body from being completely destroyed by the 'devil's blood', I asked Su to help him treat his drug addiction.

It seemed that the effect was not good. Without the support of psychotropic drugs, his whole body became emaciated, and his body was getting thinner and thinner day by day.

Scholar Francis raised his eyelids and glanced at me again, curled his lips and said, "Why do you ask that, didn't you recommend that beautiful priestess from the Campbell Nursing Home to me?"

He sat down on the high chair beside me, and his magical assistant brought two cups of tea, which he placed on the long platform.

He picked up a cup on his own, put his hands to his mouth, blew lightly, and said after a pause, "Or do you have as little confidence in her treatments as I do?"

He simply put down the teacup in his hand, leaned in front of me, and asked me like a cold poisonous snake: "Or you have colluded and came to me just to use me as a guinea pig on the laboratory table?" ?”

I stood there, a little speechless by his question.

Scholar Francis smiled lightly, pushed the other teacup in front of me, tilted his head, and said to me with some emotion: "Hi, Jijia, I have always wanted to know whether Qige favors you. Which point, you would give up the most promising royal general of the Grimm Empire, but chose you, an ice magician from a small border town, even if you have unparalleled magical talent, it is impossible to impress that Arrogant princess, I've been thinking about this question for a long time, but I still can't figure it out."

I smiled and said to Francis Scholar: "Hehe, maybe it's God's will."

"Come on!" He didn't even lift his eyelids this time, sitting on a high chair, looking like a crow perched on a scarecrow's shoulder.

After being silent for a while, just when I was about to say something, the Francis scholar suddenly raised his head, frowned and said to me: "The priest in the Campbell Sanitarium has pretty good healing methods, don't you think there is nothing wrong with it?" It can be seen that my complexion is pretty good recently?"

"Well... if you think so," I said.

Scholar Francis turned his head away from looking at me.

In front of the magic crucible not far away, his magic assistant was helping him stir the viscous liquid in the crucible.

Scholar Francis stopped talking, as if he only intended to finish the cup of tea with me.

"By the way, Francis Scholar, this is for you." I pulled out a roll of magic parchment from my arms and handed it to Francis Scholar.

Scholar Francis received it in his hand, unfolded it casually, and said while looking at it, "What is this? It looks like an alchemy formula..."

But soon he closed his mouth and his face became serious. After reading it completely, he asked me seriously: "Oh! Where did you get this thing?"

I said to him, "Snatched from the hands of a goblin, oh, in exchange, and he gave it to me, and I let them live on, fair enough, isn't it?"

Scholar Francis looked back at the alchemy formula, and said while looking at it: "You actually found this thing in the hands of goblins. It doesn't mean that those goblins have degenerated to the point of being as virtuous as those subhuman species. How can they keep this kind of thing?" Precious things?"

I asked Francis Scholar: "You also think this recipe is valuable?"

Scholar Francis raised his head, looked at me in surprise, and said to me stubbornly: "You should answer my question first."

I spread my hands and said, "Well, actually, our expedition team accidentally entered a cave and found a tribe of goblins there. I found this recipe blueprint in a treasure chest. It was full of gemstones, and the formula blueprint was spread on the bottom of the box as waste parchment at that time, oh, the manuscript in your hand is copied by me, the original blueprint is full of goblin characters, and it is not easy to identify."

After I finished speaking, Francis scholar simply rolled up the magic parchment scroll, put it on the long table, and reluctantly pushed it in front of me.

Scholar Francis said straight to the point: "I need this alchemy formula, what do you want to exchange with me?"

"If you want, I can give it to you." I said.

The Franciscan scholar refused without even thinking about it.

He said to me: "It's still free. If you really plan to give it to me, then make a condition that I can accept."

I rubbed my hands together and smiled at Francis Scholar 'hehe' and said, "If you can prepare some metal softener for me for free every month..."

Before I could finish my sentence, Scholar Francis said first, "Deal! After three days, you can come to me to get the first batch of metal softener, and you can take these two medicines together every month. The various magic materials that need to be consumed, I will make a detailed list for you next time you come."

"Okay, that's it." I said to Francis Scholar.

After talking to Francis Scholar, I started packing those magic sealing boxes in my magic fanny pack.

The glass bottles of those magic sealing boxes are filled with red copper solution, which is extremely heavy to lift.

With the help of that magic assistant, I spent a lot of effort to stuff these magic sealing boxes into the magic pocket.

Nowadays, the magic engraving machines in the Xinliu Valley Magic Seal Workshop need to use a brush to apply the red copper solution to the magic seal punch every time they print. The entire base of this magic rune plate is an ordinary copper plate. Only the magic lines above are rubbed with red copper solution.

Because of this, the prices of Focus Fire Rune Pad and Miniature Tornado Rune Pad are so cheap.

Three major elements are missing in the production cost of Gathering Fire, which is why the value is so low: the coating of magic metal, magic ink, and the processing fee for the inscriber to draw the rune plate.

All along, it is really because of these three factors that the price of the rune board has remained high.

At present, the Gathering Fire Rune Board and the Miniature Tornado Rune Board produced in the Magic Seal Workshop have spread all over the big and small corners of the Imperial City. The stable magic effect and low price have allowed these two rune boards to quickly occupy the Imperial City. Magic Market.

Now almost no inscriber is willing to draw the 'Focus Fire' rune board and the 'Miniature Tornado' rune board.

According to Murray, some manufacturing workshops specializing in exhaust fans in the imperial capital are being forced to find new sources of supply. The shipments of copper hot pots and exhaust fans at the rune board workshop are gradually increasing. Old-fashioned exhaust fans are on the market. It can't be sold at all.

……

When I returned to the Yerkes Scholar's magic laboratory, the Yerkes Scholar was sitting on the sofa in the rest area, talking about the refrigerator to Marvin and Spee with great interest.

When I opened the door and walked into the magic laboratory, I saw that they were chatting happily. I don't know what the Yerkes scholar said, but the three of them burst into laughter.

When I walked in, I found that there was a magic table lamp on the coffee table. This is exactly the energy-saving magic table lamp displayed at the winter magic item exhibition. Unexpectedly, the Yerkes scholar also took out this energy-saving table lamp. , show it to Marvin.

When they saw me walking into the magic laboratory, they all looked at me.

Marvin asked me: "Jijia, didn't you say that you are going to sell these magic items for me after I come to the imperial capital?"

I sat down on the sofa opposite Marvin and said, "That's right, I said so at the beginning, but now my magic firm lacks a trustworthy manager, so you have to help me with this matter anyway." .”

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Marvin spread his hands and said with a smile.

I said to Marvin: "Betty will take you to check the inventory of materials in the trading house later, and I will find a way to sell all the backlog of canned luncheon meat and meat floss bricks."

At this time, the Yerkes scholar stood up and said to us: "Hey, well, Marvin and Spei have just arrived in the imperial capital, so let's not talk about the things in the trading house today, let's put what we have in hand." Come down and have a good day's rest, I know there's a nice new pub in the back street."

"Okay, then what are we waiting for here, let's go!"

After everyone drank a little wine in the bar, Marvin said that he would take a magic caravan to see the night view of the imperial capital. Marvin and Spei temporarily lived in the rented attic in the third block...

(End of this chapter)