my age of magic

Chapter 1409 213. The troubles of the Francis scholar
The smoke billowed in the laboratory, exuding a pungent and spicy smell.

There are six large crucibles placed side by side in the room. This round-bottomed crucible is almost an essential alchemy tool for alchemists. With the help of magic power, alchemists use crucibles to remove slag, refine and purify magic materials. , After integrating many techniques, a brand new alchemy material is finally formed.

In the eyes of the Francis scholar, these crucibles are more like ordinary utensils. He uses a special method to melt the magic metal into a liquid state at room temperature, so that the liquid metal is the 'ink' required by the magic seal workshop. After the dwarf craftsman brushes this kind of 'ink' on the punch of the magic printing machine, and engraves the magic pattern on the arrowhead of the giant crossbow or the bottom material of the rune plate, this is how the magic pattern rune plate is manufactured.

Although those magic engraving machines are the key to the success of the red copper magic rune board, but without the magic metal solution prepared by the Francis scholar, these metal magic rune boards cannot be manufactured.

There are three more crucibles in the Francis Scholar’s ​​laboratory than when I came here before, and with the help of the magic assistants, these crucibles are melting magic metals. The three magic assistants are each holding a magic white paper notebook. Magic materials were intermittently poured into the crucible in front of me, many of which were ground into powder. I saw a magic assistant pour a tube of salamander blood into the crucible, and the flame in the crucible instantly Just jumped out.It was like a clown in a circus performing acrobatics in front of an audience.

In Francis Scholar's alchemy laboratory, I took out ten mithril ingots in front of Francis Scholar and said goodbye to Francis Scholar.

I didn't expect to be stopped by Francis Scholar before leaving this time.

"That...Jijia, wait a minute." There was a thoughtful expression on his face.

He turned around and walked to the display rack by the wall in the laboratory, reached out and took down a round glass container on the display rack, and vigorously shook the silver liquid in the glass container inside. The silver liquid inside was as heavy as mercury. , formed swirls in the glass vessel when shaken by the Franciscan scholar.

"Are these Mithril solutions? Francis Scholar." I looked at the silver liquid in the glass container and asked him curiously.

I didn't expect Francis scholar to have prepared mithril solution here.

Scholar Francis frowned, scratched his messy hair vigorously, and said to me: "This is not yet a mithril solution, but it is almost the same."

I looked at him in astonishment, what does this mean?
Scholar Francis led me to his test bed, and from the mountain of magic formulas piled up on the test bed, I found a blueprint full of various magic formulas.Just looking at the complex equations above, I feel like I have spent the past two years at the Royal Academy of Magic. Otherwise, why can't I understand all the symbols on the parchment of Francis Scholar?
Scholar Francis spread out the parchment, pointed to the runes on it, and said to me: "The famous alchemist put forward a new point of view at the last alchemy seminar, that is, the fusion of two metals of the same type and close compatibility. At the same time, a new type of magic metal can be obtained, which not only has the characteristics of the two magic metals, but also has a high chance of obtaining new characteristics during the fusion process."

Is the metal solution in the glass bottle the new magic metal?I thought secretly in my heart.

Scholar Francis went on to say: "Originally, I wanted to use mithril and thorium to fuse together to become a new magic metal. These metal solutions are formed by melting 70.00% mithril and 30.00% thorium together. The new magic metal, but I did not use the traditional smelting, but converted the two magic metals into a metal solution, and then mixed them together according to the ratio."

Sure enough, I guessed it.

Because of its good conductivity, the magicians of the Green Empire like to use mithril to make rune plates, but the metal properties of thorium and mithril are completely different. Although thorium's conductivity is average, it is a kind of strength, It is a magical metal with extremely high hardness, yield strength, fatigue resistance, and magical load capacity. In other words, Thorium is a metal that is more suitable for making weapons than magic black iron, but Thorium is not suitable for making talismans. Wenban.

In the magic market, the price of thorium is several times higher than that of magic black iron, and the stock of thorium in the magic market is not much, and it does not belong to the mainstream magic metal in the magic market.

Francis scholars seldom introduce his works so hard, and often just hand over the metal solution to me and let me leave.

His detailed introduction of this new magic metal made me feel a little curious.

At this time, I heard him continue to say: "This metal solution not only has the good magic conductivity unique to mithril, but also has the high load unique to thorium. This silver alloy also stimulates some power of holy light, so I This metal solution is called Holy Silver Solution. Unfortunately, I have tried many methods to solidify these Holy Silver solutions, but the effect is not ideal. As long as these curing agents added with obsidian powder are sprinkled, the Holy Silver will instantly The surface of the solution forms a solidified metal crust into which the rest of the curing agent cannot penetrate."

It turns out that this 'holy silver solution' has a fatal flaw, so I asked: "So these holy silver solutions can only be regarded as semi-finished products?"

The Francis scholar said to me: "Yes, I know that you use these metal solutions to draw the magic rune plate, just cover the metal plate with a thin layer of magic metal, if it is only a thin layer, it will not affect the Holy Silver The solution is solidified. These holy silver solutions are actually not much different from Mithril solutions, and in some respects are even better than Mithril solutions. If you can use them, you can take these Holy silver solutions away."

"Are you sure that the metal curing agent can cure this holy silver solution, even if it's only a thin layer?" I hesitated for a while, thinking that it would be better to ask this matter in person.

Scholar Francis did not answer directly, but directly pulled out the bottle cap of the glass vessel, poured the holy silver solution inside into a metal tray, and handed me the fist-sized glass vessel, which contained Most of the bottle of holy silver solution, and then he found a box of curing agent powder from the item display rack behind him, and he took out a little curing agent powder and sprinkled it on the holy silver solution in the tray.

The liquid holy silver solution in the tray solidified quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye, just like wax oil dripping on a wax table, and now a layer of bright silver crust has condensed on the surface, and the Francis scholar uncovered the layer on the surface of the holy silver solution The shell, the holy silver solution below it, really hasn't solidified at all.

Whether it is mithril or thorium, the attribute of the power of holy light contained in these magic metals is hidden, but this thin plate of holy silver actually exudes a faint power of holy light, although it is still very weak, but at least It is dominant, and it is much stronger than the power of holy light contained in the original Mithril and Thorium.

This holy silver solution seems to be tailor-made for me, but so far I still can't figure out the purpose of Francis scholar trying to sell this holy silver solution to me.

Holding the bottle of holy silver solution in my hand, I said to Francis: "Scholar Francis, I can use this holy silver solution. Next time I will bring the thorium needed to make the holy silver solution too!"

Hearing what I said, Scholar Francis said to the magic assistant on the side: "Ten mithril ingots can probably smelt about twenty bottles of holy silver solution. Eddie, hurry up and get the balance."

"Okay, Mr. Francis!" A magic assistant immediately put down the sheepskin notebook in his hand, and quickly brought a balance from the cabinet in the corner.

Seeing the balance on the platform, Francis looked distressed and said:
"I have been doing experiments in this area since I came back from the alchemy exchange meeting. Originally, I wanted to combine fine gold and krypton finance, ahem, but...you know, it's impossible, Bruce doesn't Maybe I was allowed to do this crazy thing, so I changed the title of the research topic to 'Mithril and Thorium', the research went well at least at first, I thought it was the ratio between Mithril and Thorium No, those holy silver solutions cannot solidify, so I keep adjusting the ratio of mithril and thorium..."

Speaking, Francis led me to the warehouse on the side of the magic laboratory.

Only the laboratories of great scholars like Francis and Schindky are equipped with warehouses. When Francis scholars opened the warehouse door, I thought I was wrong. Then I rubbed my eyes hard and found that it was not a double image in front of me, but All the shelves are actually full of glass bottles, those fist-sized glass bottles are lying on wooden supports one by one, filled with holy silver solution... well, a whole warehouse.

Seeing me standing blankly in front of the warehouse, the Francis scholar smiled awkwardly for the first time. He scratched his messy hair and said to me: "When this research was halfway through, it was suspended by Bruce. I was a little hot at the time. , so I didn’t listen to Bruce’s warning, and continued to receive a batch of mithril and thorium from the Institute of Magic. It wasn’t until these holy silver solutions filled the entire warehouse that I realized that if I wanted to solidify these holy silver solutions, Currently known curing agents simply cannot do that."

"So... Scholar Francis, you received some extra mithril and thorium from the research institute in your own name?" I asked him.

Scholar Francis nodded.

I finally knew why Francis was distressed.

I didn't say anything else, I came out of the Francis scholar's laboratory, ran directly to the magic trading hall on the first floor of the Tower of Pride, and wiped out all the stocks of mithril and thorium in all magic metal shops. It cost me four boxes of magic spar, and the magic shop owners almost thought that there was some bad news from those planes, so they hoarded mithril crazily.

Although I bought nearly 2000 yuan of mithril ingots and thorium ingots at the magic trading hall, I only emptied one-third of the holy silver solution in the Francis scholar's warehouse. He simply bought it with magic spar. Unexpectedly, Scholar Francis found it troublesome, and he was only willing to exchange one-third of the holy silver solution, and the remaining holy silver solution would rather be stored in the warehouse.

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Then I came to the magic laboratory of the Yerkes scholar.

Half a month ago, Yerkes scholars held an inscription design conference in the exhibition hall on the first floor of the Imperial Inscription Union Headquarters Building. In addition to further explaining in detail about the 'fangs of the magic snake', 'power of the giant bear' and 'shield of the earth' In addition to the design drawings of these three top-level magic-weave structures, the latest research results - 'Low-wearing magic-weave circle' were also announced to the inscribers in the imperial capital.

I have read this academic paper. Yerkes scholars mainly expounded in this academic paper that everyone has magical self-adaptability, that is to say, every ordinary person also contains certain magical elements in his body, but The attributes of these mana vary from person to person. Some people are born with affinity for water elements, so there is a small amount of water element mana in his body, and some people are born with affinity for earth elements, so his body contains The mana of the earth element, but these mana are very few and cannot be expressed.

He believes that changing the traditional magic pattern circle can reduce the consumption of mana, and this low-wear magic pattern is made into a magic pattern structure, painted on the body of ordinary people, which can absorb the mana stored in the person itself, which means The magic pattern structure can be drawn on the body of ordinary people, but it has greatly increased the difficulty of drawing the magic pattern circle, so the magic pattern pattern designed by this kind of design is only theoretically reasonable.

Even so, the Yerkes scholar's paper caused an uproar in the imperial capital.

This summer, life-related magic items continue to sell well in the capital. Whether it is exhaust fans, copper hot pots, refrigerators, etc., almost all of them have been accepted by the people of the capital. The reason why these magic items are accepted by the people of the capital is nothing more than continuous The war of planes caused the price of magic spar to continue to drop, and the price of these elementary magic rune plates dropped sharply.

When I talked about Francis Scholar with Yerkes Scholar, Yerkes Scholar nodded noncommittally.

"I've heard about this matter from Bruce. In fact, the research institute has known for a long time that the mithril and thorium in the warehouse have been exhausted, but they also kept silent on Francis' side, which means that the research institute This side is actually unwilling to bear this part of the loss, but it will not be too harsh on Francis..." said the Yerkes scholar.

He raised his eyebrows and asked me strangely: "It's just that your giant crossbow arrows have always been engraved with magic red copper? Why do you suddenly want to use Mithril this time?"

I told the Yerkes scholar what had happened on the Pai Plateau, and the Yerkes scholar frowned and asked me, "Are you going to provide weapons and equipment to the orc tribe on the Pai Plateau?"

I nodded.

(End of this chapter)