my age of magic

Chapter 1530 80. The first round of integrating into the life of the imperial capital

Immediately after the Harvest Festival is the coming-of-age ceremony that every boy and girl must experience at the age of 16.

Some people say that children who have not participated in coming-of-age rituals will never be able to mature their minds. This life is flawed. Even if they live to old age, they will do some things like children.

The night of the coming-of-age ceremony is a night for young people. Young people wear exquisite clothes for festivals. Everyone sings and dances on the streets. Every square holds a dance for young people. Here, all young people They are all protagonists, you don’t even need to spend money, you can taste some free food, rum and other kinds of drinks, and you can dance in the square.

This time last year, I attended a huge Bar Mitzvah celebration that was probably the most memorable event of my life.

As for this year, in front of me is a whole box of primary magic herbs unloaded from the magic caravan. Most of these magic herbs were booked by Marvin to two magic herb firms in the imperial capital. These two traders The price paid for this behavior is to pay an advance payment of nearly a year in advance.

Last night, a magic airship arrived at the airport town from Gludin Town on the Pai Plateau and brought back a large amount of primary magic herbs, luncheon meat, meat floss bricks, magic antelope hides and corpse fire oil. Recently, the airship has been flying almost every week. To the Gludin town on the Pai Plateau, magical airships will also fly from there to the airport town every week. This business route has been completely opened by Marvin, and the orc tribe is working together to resist the undead in the forest of death The army, the orcs also need a lot of military supplies.

For example, the light marching tents produced by the Green Empire. Although the orcs like to sleep in the wilderness in the wild, at best they carry a bundle of extremely simple rawhide rolls, but now it is autumn, the Pai Plateau Winter comes earlier than in most parts of the Grimm Empire. Once it snows, even the orc warriors with a strong physique cannot lie on the snow to sleep. Orc warriors also need yurts to avoid the cold. The emergence of military supplies has greatly improved the life of the orc warriors in the wild.

Another example is the various magic items produced by the Green Empire. As the price of the original cheap corpse fire oil tanks continues to rise, the orcs can no longer use this material as cheap fuel in the wild. Now the orcs have also learned to use corpse fire. Oil was applied to the stone balls, and these flaming stone balls were hurled into the enemy camp with trebuchets, or a wall of fire was ignited in battle to keep the skeleton army out.Therefore, life-like magic items such as the fire-gathering rune board and the water-gathering rune board are very popular among orcs. In contrast, the two rune boards of miniature tornado and continuous frost are not popular among orcs.

Many lords of the Grimm Empire will have large tracts of land reclaimed into large tracts of farms. The imperial people are good at growing barley and wheat. Now the orcs seem to have become accustomed to wheat cakes with broth, or barbecue with porridge. Eating raw jerky has gradually become a kind of nostalgia and ritual for orcs.So airships bound for the Pai plateau filled with sacks of dark graham flour wherever there was room.

Qige Trading Company has been very busy recently. The original four magic airships all travel between the airport town and Gludin town. At the same time, Marvin temporarily hired four magic airships.

In addition, Ma Wen also ordered two magic airships from the largest magic airship manufacturing workshop in the imperial capital called "Jiejie". These two magic airships cost as much as five thousand magic spar each From the manufacture to the delivery of the airship, at least 1 magic crystals are needed. Even if it is paid in batches, three thousand magic crystals must be paid to the Jiejie airship manufacturing workshop every month. This is almost a Qige trade. The profits generated by the firm in the past year, customizing two magic airships is almost beyond the affordability of the current trading firm, but Marvin relied on a large order of magic herbs to make up the huge sum of money.

I promised Zach's friends that not only would I provide them with a large number of magic crossbow arrows, but I would also gather some magic herbs and marching rations. These materials are in short supply in the magic market of the imperial capital.

Especially magic herbs and marching rations. The former is an indispensable medical item in battle, and the latter has almost become a belief of the imperial soldiers. Most imperial soldiers firmly believe that luncheon meat and meat floss bricks can bring them victory.

Loud music came from outside. A group of young people gathered in the restaurant hall for dinner. They not only brought instruments such as accordion and clarinet, but also sang together in the restaurant. The cheerful singing sounded through the roof , into the box on the third floor. There are more than a dozen young nobles sitting on the sofa in this box. At this time, their eyes are all on the carpet in the center of the room. On the carpet are several large magic sealing boxes. There are bundles of silver leaf grass and concentration grass, which are the main materials for making secondary healing potions, and these magical herbs are completely filled with seven magic sealing boxes.

Even all the herb shops in the trading hall on the first floor of the Tower of Pride couldn't come up with so many primary magic herbs. Zach leaned lazily on the sofa, Ernestine sat on the armrest of the sofa next to him, and the two looked at the people around them. Zach, a young nobleman with dull eyes, coughed softly, and said, "Last winter, the situation on the plane of Hierro deteriorated to the extreme. Anglos City, Thunder City, and Blood Ring City were successively destroyed by Nibru Spiderman. The outer cities of Gurubashi City and Tanton City were razed to ruins, and the inner city was almost captured by the Nibru Spiderman."

Zach sat up and took a sip of ale from the table, and continued: "Our legion lasted until this spring, when the Nibru Spidermen came to the city of Pereira, the main combat faction in Durva Province decided to organize a counterattack battle."

The nobles around were listening to Zac's inside story about the battle of the Hierro plane.

Zach put his hand on my shoulder, and said to everyone with infinite emotion: "At that time, many lords did not dare to put their last chips on the counterattack. Ernestine and I ran around the imperial capital to ask for help. Unfortunately, that At that time, everyone was not very optimistic about the situation in the plane of Hierro, and no one was willing to help us. Almost all of you sitting here today helped me at that time. The plane war of the Grimm Empire spread widely. I know that many people The inside may not agree to lend me the Knights, even if those supplies are probably secretly lent to me under the pressure of the family, no matter what, I am very grateful to everyone."

I seem to be able to imagine what hardships Zac and Ernestine have gone through. The lords who stayed in the imperial capital are a group of speculators. They will never let their legions go to death. Start planning a war where you can reap the fruits of victory.

Katerina and Betty were standing behind me and I looked back at them, Betty had a bright smile in her eyes.

For today's transaction, Aliya specially asked me to bring Betty, and she holds the list of materials for this transaction.

Zach pointed to the magic-sealing box in the house, and said boldly: "The magic herbs are all here. As for the marching rations, which are temporarily in the truck downstairs, you plan to purchase them separately, or pool the money together Buying, which involves a share issue, the former you have to discuss the shares you need with each other in advance, and the latter is to buy it back and discuss it yourself.”

The young nobles originally thought of a set of rhetoric to trade with me, but they didn't expect Zach to come forward and looked at each other. Everyone doesn't know me, but they all know what kind of character Zac is. He has a rough personality, the kind of violent temper that explodes at any point, especially when he has recently become the heir to the Duke of Durva, his status has risen like a rocket, and it is even more difficult to openly offend him now.

So one of these nobles, the lord who has inherited the inheritance, quickly stood up and expressed his opinion: "I won't say more about the shortage of these materials in the imperial capital recently. No matter how many of these things fall into anyone's hands, since we want By forming an aid corps, everyone is connecting their futures together. We can go back and discuss the distribution of these materials. Since the Marquis of Jijia has provided so many urgently needed materials according to the agreement, then we will use the simplest procurement method-unification Buy."

The rest of the young aristocrats also expressed their specific distribution of materials, and it will be fine for everyone to do it in private later, so there is no need to discuss this now.

Zach glanced at me, and I understood what he meant, and asked Betty to take out the list of materials in her hand.

Zach handed the list to the noble lord, and said to him: "This is the list of goods. Later, you need to send someone from your side to hand over the goods to my side. In addition, if any kind of goods can't eat so much, you can talk about it." The specific purchase quantity."

The aristocratic lord held the list in his hand, carefully looked at the materials and amounts collected on it, and then passed the list to other young nobles.

"Zach, you are really joking, who would think too much of these supplies?" He folded his hands together and said, "Not only are they not too much, but we will also pay gold coins according to the highest transaction price in the magic market this month. , Bring in the boxes we prepared."

After almost no time, there were heavy and chaotic footsteps outside the room, and then there was a knock on the door. After obtaining permission, the servants outside brought in more than a dozen heavy boxes. Next, the subordinates lifted the lid of the box, and kicked their shiny boots on a box at random. Several subordinates immediately pushed the box to the ground. After filling all the gold coins in the box, the followers put the gold coins back into the box again.

Betty walked up at this time and started to continue the transaction with a butler under the noble lords. Every material needs to be approved for a price, and then count the number, etc., and there are many tedious things.

The noble lord sat down again, and said with envy: "Zack, I didn't expect you to have such resources in your hands. It seems that there are many factors that we can't see in the victory of the Hierro plane. The major counter-offensive campaign has been reported in the imperial capital’s magic newspaper for more than half a month, but there are still details that we don’t know. I remember that at that time, it was reported that Duke Jingyue of Sloit Province sent ten branches of the North Wind Legion Install the Knights, and there will be some lords who are willing to put their chips on you, and the pressure on our family is not so great."

Ernestine glanced at Zach, took over the topic and said:
"Speaking of this, I still want to thank Jijia. When the Duerva Legion was defeated in the city of Anglos on the Hierro plane, a large number of heavy armored infantry regiments needed to retreat to the city of Pereira. Unexpectedly, we were bitten by the Nebulu spider warriors. At that time, the only thing we could do was to retreat while fighting. Both Zach and I were seriously injured in that battle. Later, Zach and I were sent to the imperial capital for treatment. Wrapped in bandages like a mummy, Master Sola found Jijia who was in class at the Magic Academy, and they snatched me and Zack back from the clutches of death."

As she spoke, she undid two buttons of the leather jacket, exposing the skin below the throat and above the cleavage, revealing a centipede-like scar with countless stitches.Ernestine went on to say:
"This spring, Zack and I went to the imperial capital to ask for help. Unfortunately, there has been no progress in the imperial capital. Before returning to Duerva, I went to the Royal Academy of Magic to visit Jijia. I heard that he had treated Sloit at the beginning. The Duke of Jingyue in the province, the Grand Duke controls the North Wind Army, so we asked Jijia to try to write a letter to Duke Jingyue, asking Duke Jingyue to send troops to support Durva. Unexpectedly, the Duke of Jingyue really He agreed to send troops, and immediately sent ten Constructed Knights to Durva Province. I think the Hierro plane war can be won so quickly, which has a great relationship with the ten Constructed Knights of the Duchess Jingyue. "

Zach squinted his eyes, and suddenly leaned forward and placed the sword at his waist on the coffee table in front of him. His light green face became a bit cold, and he said in a deep voice:
"I've talked so much with Ernestine, and I just want to tell you one thing. The Marquis of Ji Jia is a good friend of Ernestine and me. He is studying at the Royal Academy of Magic here in the imperial capital, and I also opened a rune board workshop here in the imperial capital, and I have to manage this trading firm on behalf of His Royal Highness Qige. I will inevitably offend some people in the imperial capital, but I hope everyone can understand the friendship between us, You are all my friends. If there is anything against him in Fandidu, you can say hello-of course it is best, it doesn’t matter if you don’t say it, but I hope you don’t get involved, otherwise we will The enemy, whether it is Durva or Salta, will close all doors to the enemy..."

(End of this chapter)