my age of magic

Chapter 1271 75. New Changes in Casting Technology

The rune plates of 'Concentrating Fire' and 'Miniature Tornado' brought from the Valley of Willow filled Arya's warehouse again.

Betty held a parchment account book in the warehouse and counted the number of 'Fire Focus' rune plates row by row, with a particularly focused expression. These rune plates will all be delivered to the rune plate workshop tomorrow morning. Murray, the manager of the stencil workshop, will drive these rune slabs into a batch of new copper hot pots and exhaust fans.

Although the spring is here in the imperial capital, the supply of copper hot pots in the imperial capital's magic market is still in short supply.

For the copper hot pots in the magic shop are always out of stock, the people of the imperial capital have given the magic merchants a full understanding. The people of the imperial capital think that the good goods, under the premise that the supply exceeds the demand, must maintain a relatively low price. Will be sold out in a short time.

As a result, a new type of sales model has appeared in many magic firms: 'number distribution'.

Every person from the imperial capital who buys copper hot pot in the magic business can receive a copper number plate after paying one-tenth of the deposit. time for the goods.

Therefore, people in the imperial capital firmly believe that as long as they have enough patience, they will be able to buy copper hot pot.

According to Murray, some magic shops with good locations have already ranked their numbers to hundreds, and it will take at least a month before they want to receive the copper hot pot.

Although the number of 'Focus Fire' rune plates shipped to the workshop has increased every week, Murray still hopes to double the number of rune plates.

Compared with the 'Focus Fire' rune plate in a copper cauldron, the 'Miniature Tornado' rune plate has always been lukewarm in the market.

As a wide variety of exhaust fans flooded the magic market in the imperial capital, the exhaust fans produced by the Rune Plate Workshop only accounted for less than 20.00% of the sales.

This is mainly because people in Imperial City have a preconceived impression of old-fashioned exhaust fans, and they are more willing to choose those exhaust fans in the market that meet their own aesthetics and are ingenious in some small functions, even if the price is slightly higher, but as long as It is also acceptable if economic conditions permit.

I asked Ma Wen and Si Pei to start a business here in the imperial capital, and I also considered handing over this part of the market to Ma Wen. Unfortunately, there were many problems at the trading house, so I had to ask Ma Wen to temporarily manage Qige's trading house. The development of the exhaust fan magic market has been put on hold for the time being.

As a result of recent military campaigns on the plane of Hierro, barbarian slaves and orc warriors have captured a live batch of giant spiders.

Currently, more than half of the giant spiders in the silk reeling workshop have recently been added, and the entire silk reeling workshop has increased to two hundred giant wooden cages. The magic-weave spider silk ingots produced by these giant spiders can basically meet the needs of Alia's spinning. After the workshop was expanded, the sales scope of Alia's magic-weave spider silk cloth is not limited to the imperial capital. In addition to the major provinces of the Grimm Empire, it is even exported to the city of Buenos in the kingdom of elves.

The silk reeling workshop is still in the stage of huge profits. Although the spindle of a magic-weave spider silk has been reduced from ten gold coins to five gold coins, for me, this industry hardly needs it except for regularly replenishing some giant spiders. what cost.

It is the stable output of the silk reeling workshop that ensures the normal construction of the town of Trume.

More than a hundred orc girls moved dozens of boxes of fine steel ingots from the dwarf kingdom and nearly a hundred boxes of rune plate copper billets into the underground warehouse of Xinliu Valley.

In addition, there are nearly a thousand steel pipes of different specifications in the rental warehouse of the airport town. North Duisburg will continue to transport five batches of steel pipes to the airport town within two weeks. These steel pipes will be used for the infrastructure of the small town of Trume.

In addition, I ordered a thousand boxes of glass from Palestina Province through the Emerald Bay Trading Company, and I will also arrive at the airport town by magic airship this week.

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I took Katarina across the portal to the blacksmith's shop in the underground cavern of Simwillow Valley.

It just so happened that four old dwarf craftsmen took a few female half-orcs to dismantle the large wooden boxes piled up at the door of the blacksmith shop. These wooden boxes were slightly damaged. Looking inside from the gap, you can clearly see the pieces wrapped in pieces. Refined steel ingot on oiled paper.

As the nails on the box board came down one by one, the female half-orc removed the cover from the wooden box. One of the old dwarves reached out and took out a fine steel ingot from the wooden box. The oiled paper on the top reveals the brick-shaped steel ingot inside. One corner of the steel ingot is printed with the special emblem of King Stan of the dwarf kingdom, and there is a strong smell of machine oil on the steel ingot.

Not only did the faces of the four old dwarf artisans not show any joy, but there was also a hint of sadness.

When the old dwarves saw me coming in from outside the smithy, they surrounded me one after another.

The old dwarf craftsman named Alberta held a heavy fine steel ingot in both hands, with chrysanthemum-like wrinkles on his face, and said to me with a bitter smile: "Lord Jijia, you really made these from the dwarves. The best steel materials from the country have been bought back!"

Another old dwarf craftsman gently stroked the thick beard on his chin, and then said to me: "Maybe we forgot to tell you last time, even if we have such high-quality steel, with our existing processing methods, It’s hard to machine gears with that high precision.”

The eyes of the third old dwarf craftsman looked left and right, but he didn't want to meet my gaze, and said to me with some guilt: "My lord, we can barely produce copper gears at present, and the movement used to assemble the magic engraving machine is basic. It's also made of copper."

"What we old guys mean is that even with these high-quality steel materials, it is very difficult to transform the movement of the magic seal machine into a city made of fine steel." The last old dwarf stood up and added, afraid that I would do not understand.

The four old dwarves stood dejectedly at the door of the blacksmith shop like children who had done something wrong.

I reached out to take the refined steel ingot from the first old dwarf, and said to them, "Things are actually not that bad. Before buying these refined steel ingots, I actually made some preparations."

I walked into the blacksmith workshop with four old dwarf craftsmen, and the old dwarf craftsmen looked at me suspiciously.

There is a very old blower standing next to the workbench. A small furnace is behind the blower. As the lungs of the blower keep opening and closing, the air is sent into the furnace, and the flames on the coke in the furnace instantly turn into flames. into cyan.

On the other side of the workbench is a huge wrought iron chopping board. On the chopping board is a half-forged Damascus sword. A stone tank is placed next to the chopping board. The stone tank is filled with water. The water looked cloudy, with a layer of oil floating on the surface.

When the old dwarves saw me standing in front of the sink, they all surrounded me.

At this time, I unscrewed the drain pipe in the sink and drained all the water in it.

Then he gently placed the refined steel ingot in his hand into the stone trough, then took out a bottle of metal softener from his pocket, and poured it evenly on the refined steel ingot.

"This is a bottle of metal softener personally refined by a master alchemist. It is said that it can soften all metals. There should be no problem with the refined steel ingot. We just need to sprinkle the softener evenly on the refined steel ingot." I said. Holding the empty bottle in his hand, he said to the four old dwarf craftsmen.

Four old dwarf craftsmen stood aside, stretching their necks to watch my demonstration carefully. The other female dwarves in the blacksmith shop also put down their work and gathered around.

I put the empty bottle of softener aside, then took out a wooden box from my magic pocket, and said to these dwarves: "Wait a little bit, and when the fine steel ingot is completely soft, you can press any workpiece with a wooden mold." Yes, but the premise is that the dimensional accuracy of the wood mold must meet the requirements, and it is best to use fine-grained hardwood carving molds such as iron wood or indigo wood.”

One of the old dwarves picked up the empty glass bottle I put aside, wiped it on the edge of the bottle mouth, got a little residual liquid, put it in front of the big nose and tried to smell it, unfortunately the residual softened The softener stuck to the mithril ring of his middle finger, and in an instant, his mithril ring was melted by the softener, like a drop of viscous honey dripping on the ground.

"Wow, how could this happen!" The old dwarf exclaimed in surprise, "This is against science. Could it be some kind of powerful earth magic?"

I will put a pair of snakeskin gloves on my hand, and then pull the wooden box, inside is a very delicate biscuit mold, engraved with the small round biscuit mold that little Ella likes very much, this I found it out of the kitchen.

I reached into the stone trough, grabbed the steel ingot softened like cheese, and rubbed it vigorously in the stone trough. An incredible scene happened before the eyes of the dwarves. The steel ingot was like a piece of soft Like dough, it changes shape casually in my hands. I knead the refined steel ingot twice like kneading dough, and knead the refined steel ingot into a soft round steel rod.

Immediately, I grabbed a small piece of the steel material of the round steel rod with my hands, rolled it up twice with my hands, then stuffed it into a small round biscuit mold, and then tapped it firmly with a wooden mallet.

I pointed to the piece of steel embedded in the mold, and said to the dwarves: "To make complex workpieces, we only need the wooden mold to be perfect enough to press any fine steel parts out, but if you do Of course, this step is not over yet, we still need further processing, that is, workpiece curing!"

"To be honest, this is a bit like a biscuit mold." A female dwarf next to her looked at the mold suspiciously.

"Hey!" I laughed twice, and then said, "Sorry, I couldn't find a better demonstration tool, so I had to temporarily take out the biscuit mold in the kitchen!"

After finishing speaking, I took out a bottle of metal curing agent from my magic pocket, unscrewed the cap, and then just dripped a drop of olive oil-like liquid on the small round biscuit pressed by steel material. In an instant, Acrid white smoke evaporated from the steel.

When the dwarves were in a hurry to disperse the pungent smoke, I took the small round biscuit made of steel in my hand, and all the fine patterns on the small round steel biscuit were printed clearly.

The four old dwarves looked at the small round biscuit in my hand with incredible expressions on their faces. They took the round biscuit over, and one old dwarf even sent it to his mouth and bit it hard with his teeth.

"This is really amazing, what kind of alchemy potions are these?" an old dwarf whispered.

The dwarf standing beside him wiped his eyes vigorously, stared at the round steel biscuit, and said, "If it can be promoted, this metal softener can make the forging level of the Grimm Empire surpass that of the Dwarf Kingdom for the first time!"

Later, another old dwarf craftsman said: "This softener may change the traditional forging processing mode. In the future, the production of metal utensils will become as simple as wood carving."

"With this kind of metal softener, the dwarf kingdom will never have anything more to offer."

The old dwarves gathered together and discussed in a hurry.

I then took off the snakeskin gloves and handed them to one of the old dwarves.

Then I moved the whole box of metal softener and hardener out of the magic pocket, placed it next to the work table, put away the biscuit molds, and then said to the four old dwarves: "If you replace those copper gears with With more precise steel gears, can the printing success rate of these magic printing machines be improved?"

"That... of course," replied an old dwarf artisan.

"Then I look forward to your good news. If you need anything, feel free to ask!" I said to the four old dwarf craftsmen, "Recently, I have a new red copper rune plate with magic pattern to be printed. The production process of this rune plate will be more complicated, because both the front and back of it need to be printed with the magic pattern circle, and more importantly, the two magic pattern circles are closely connected..."

With that said, I took out the blueprint of the 'Continuous Frost' magic rune board designed by the Yerkes scholar, and showed it to the four old dwarves.

Looking at the new-style magic rune board displayed in my hand, an old dwarf hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Lord Jijia, can you let the Yero natives in the underground cave cooperate with us, their woodcarving The craftsmanship is much superior to ours..."

"No problem." I immediately agreed.

Walking out of the blacksmith shop in Xinliu Valley, I planned to go to the secret room containing the Hextech blueprints. When I passed the underground square, I saw that the square was full of grains, stones, steel pipes, raw rubber, Linen and many other materials need to be transported to the Trum camp in the plane of Hierro immediately, so Katerina and I took the time hourglass and ran to Ye through the portal on the teleportation altar overnight. Luo plane.

When I stepped through the portal leading to the plane of Yero, I realized that there were two indigenous girls of Yero in my house. How Ella gets along.

I talked about this with Katerina, and Katerina told me that, apart from learning Chinese every day, the two Yero indigenous girls planted some flowers brought from the Yero plane in the back garden of the courtyard. They also trimmed the lawn and shrub walls. They are good at communicating with plants.

(End of this chapter)