my age of magic

Chapter 465 262. Seventh Level Magic Apprentice
For the people of El City, fall is the time of harvest.During the coming-of-age ceremony, people should offer the fullest ears of wheat and the mellowest golden cider to the goddess of harvest, praying for the goddess to bestow divine grace and bless the people living in this land.

In the eyes of the Green people, the Goddess of Harvest is the god in charge of agriculture, animal husbandry and reproduction. The northerners of the Green Empire are very willing to hold weddings in autumn, which means that there is plenty of food.

Autumn in El City is the busiest season. The large golden apple groves in the mountains require a lot of labor. The fruit farmers will pick these golden apples. Every Elder will brew golden cider. The sour golden cider passes through After more than three years of cellaring, the taste will become extremely mellow.

A round of fiery red sun pierced the clouds on the horizon, letting the sun shine on the mountains and plains, those lush golden apple trees were full of fruits, it had not rained for a week, the bamboo grass on the high hills The leaves turned yellow, several gazelles were tied to the hillside, and not far away, two children were squatting on a small mound, poking the ant nest intently with wooden sticks.

I was hurrying to town in the buggy, it was Tracy's bar mitzvah and if I was late there was no way she would go crazy.

I remember the last time when she was in a bad mood, she helped me tidy up the laboratory bench in the attic bedroom, knocked over the magic-sealing box containing the fire-focusing scroll, and almost burned my entire room.Fanny and Leant are very supportive of my study of inscriptions. They think that it is better to be an inscriptionist than a magician. At least an inscriptionist will not have to go to the battlefield in the future. Magic scrolls, or repairing the magic pattern structure, at least this is safe.

The thing that makes them most proud is not that I have become a good magic apprentice or have my own shop in the city and the business is booming.Instead, at the barbecue party held on the street, the chef Harvey who lives at the easternmost end of the street roasted a whole sheep with the scroll of concentrating fire that I drew, and the sauce was prepared by me. That’s right, my magical herbology Maybe I don't know much about it, but I have a lot of experience in which plants can be made into seasonings.

At that party, after tasting the sauce I prepared, Chef Harvey said to me sincerely: "Giga, if you are not a distinguished magician (in fact, I am a magic apprentice), you may Be an amazing cook."

In fact, I really want to say to him: In my previous life, I was a vegetable cooker, able to mix cold dishes and carve radish flowers.

However, Fanny, who was helping the cook at the side, obviously disagreed with Chef Harvey's statement. She proudly put her arms around my shoulders and said to the neighbors: "If our Ji Jia is not a magic apprentice, he will definitely become one." Excellent fighter."

"Yes, a swordsman like sister Tracy!" A little boy from the neighbor's house who looks familiar but has forgotten his name echoed. It seems that Tracy has a high prestige among them. I thought that Anne's prestige should be the highest among this group of children, but obviously the children didn't buy Anne's account very much. It seemed that she had faded out of this circle for a long time, and the children had already forgotten who she was.

"Of course, why did your family, Leant, be a very good swordsmanship instructor!" The person who spoke was a girl who still had a charm. Unexplainable and unexplainable complicated relationship. Now she is the proprietress of a wine shop. The golden cider brewed by her man tastes very soft, just like his character. He doesn't care about his wife boasting about other men like this, even if that The man is also the lover of his wife's girlhood.

Lyonte, who was standing under the sycamore tree not far away, drinking wine with the men, smiled and shook his head, put his arms around the owner of the wine shop and said: "Ji Jia will not learn Western rapier from me, the madness in his bones is more like He is a berserker, and I am glad that he is now a magic apprentice."

Sitting in the carriage and recalling this warm scene, the corners of her mouth curled up. I think Tracy must be a little impatient for waiting now!

But there is no way, Marvin took the first order from our blacksmith shop just a few days ago, it was ten pieces of magic rune metal plates customized by the owner of the Magic Caravan Firm. For the first order, Marvin and I both Extra attention was paid to it, but at the stage of casting the metal plate, some problems happened one after another, so that the master blacksmith only made the magic rune plate last night, and then I needed to rush out the magic rune plate overnight. It was a hectic life after staying up all night and now rushing back to town for Tracy's bar mitzvah.

A week ago, Marvin rented a very cheap house in the slums on the edge of the moat outside the city. The reason why the houses here are cheap is that in three or two months, winter will come. When the time comes, Everything beyond the moat of El City is unprotected. This place will be the first target of plundering by the barbarians on the ice and snow tundra. Maybe some bold barbarians will live in these houses as temporary shelters. residence.Therefore, these poor and homeless people in the civilian area need to save enough money in the last two months and hide in the city of El to welcome this long winter.

The houses on the side of the moat in El City will become worthless after autumn, and many houses will be left unused. Few people dare to live in civilian areas in winter. Those barbarians used to In the past few decades, too many killings have been left on this land. These hatreds cannot be resolved and must be repaid with blood.Just like the battle in the early spring of this year, the one who was doomed to lose had to pay the price of their lives, and all the young barbarians of the Celtic tribe were killed by the river.

Of course, I also consider that it is adjacent to the coal yard and the moat, and there are other reasons.There are two auxiliary resources that must be used to open a blacksmith shop. The first is coke that can melt metals, and the second is the water source required for quenching. The blacksmith shop is backed by the coal yard and next to the moat. The geographical location Very convenient.So, Marvin and I opened a very small blacksmith shop here, and hired a master blacksmith. It is said that he was a homeless man who had traveled in this dwarf country. His craftsmanship was not as good as he boasted, but I negotiated with Marvin and finally hired him, promising to rent him a house in the city if he did a good job.

There are also some unspeakable secrets in this. In such a harvest season, any laborer in El City will not worry about finding a job, let alone we employ craftsmen with blacksmith skills.

I don't have high requirements for this blacksmith. I don't need him to make horseshoes and forge iron nails, as long as he can melt and cast. All he needs is to pour molten steel into a specific sand mold and cast it into a metal with connecting lugs. Then use a file to polish off the burrs on the steel plate, throw it into the molten magic red copper pool for a bath, and coat the surface of the steel plate with a thin layer of copper skin, which is enough.

These magic red copper ores were brought back from Xinliu Valley, and the cost was very low. The iron ingots were bought from other blacksmiths, and there was already a fixed market price. It is said that the process is simple and the raw materials are sufficient. What happened, but many problems happened.Many trivial problems are like a gourd soaked in water, hold one end and float out of the other end.

According to the Yerkes scholar's practice, his craft of making magic rune boards is different from the traditional ones. It is an improvement on the basis of the traditional magic rune boards. Square is comparable, so problems appear one after another.

Traditional magic rune plates are made of thin steel plates forged by blacksmiths with hammers. This steel plate has been hammered countless times and has a certain strength and toughness.But our metal plates are cast from casting molds, so that the feet and lugs can be directly cast on the steel plate, which can simplify the working strength of the blacksmiths, but the disadvantages are also very obvious, the cast steel plate is easy to be brittle, Intensity is poor.

After finally building a forging table powered by a large waterwheel in the workshop, this problem was solved, but it was discovered that the copper plating process of the steel plate was not perfect, and the magic red copper plating could not be completely covered on the steel plate. Under the guidance of the master blacksmith in the college laboratory, a certain amount of co-solvent was added to the magic red copper metal solution, and a layer of catalyst was coated on the surface of the steel plate to solve this new problem. In this way, the runes The drawing of the sheet metal was delayed until last night.

After staying up all night, he drew sixteen rune metal plates in a row, and finally succeeded in ten.

Drawing magic runes on the metal plate is very different from the difficulty of the magic circle on the magic scroll. The former requires more extensive knowledge.

Fortunately, all these problems were solved, and I was able to escape to Tracy's bar mitzvah.

Another batch of low-level magic herbs was shipped from Xinliu Valley. Marvin counted the quantity of these magic herbs according to the order requirements from the magic academy laboratory and sent them to the magic academy. The value of magic scrolls is exactly the same as that of those low-level magic herbs, and our grocery store finally has a very stable supply of magic scrolls besides me. This is also something worth celebrating.

I stretched out my hands and rubbed my stiff face vigorously. I pushed the caravan and looked out the window. There was still dew on the weeds on the side of the road. From the looks of it, there is still time, the morning mist has not yet dissipated, dancing between the mountains with the faint morning breeze, it looks like a burning flame under the reflection of the morning sun.

The exquisite red light leather armor custom-made for Tracy is placed in the box next to me. This is a one-piece light leather armor dress. Lizard leather, the leather maker is indeed the most famous leather master in El City. The leather armor he made is not only exquisite in appearance, but also very comprehensive in terms of protection ability. Basically, the most important parts of the body will be For protection, the whole leather armor is sewn with magic rune threads, and a circle of black lace is added to the leather armor.

The flame snake scales on the leather armor are re-reinforced on the leather, and each flame snake scale contains a group of magical flames. The faint coercion of the second-level monster double-headed flame snake radiates from the leather armor. I still remember that last night, the leatherworker made his last effort with great regret.Trying to convince me to keep the leather armor, don't ruin such a good piece of leather armor...

I closed the gift box with satisfaction, hoping that Tracy would like it.

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I stared at Sister Guoguo who was sitting in the caravan, and sometimes I would talk to her foolishly, but she always looked at a loss, only when the water element condensed in my palm, Only then will her eyes become agile, and she will lean over to swallow those water elements.

Yes, Sister Guoguo's water element spirit is constantly growing. I found that after she absorbs the water magic element, her body will continue to become solid, but she still only acts on instinctive consciousness.

Two days ago, Mentor Heidi made a special trip to find me, the main purpose was to visit Sister Guoguo. Originally, she wanted to call Sister Guoguo back to her side, but she tried many methods and failed.Before leaving, Instructor Heidi told me that she was going to search for some materials in the Ivory Tower Magic Library in Sloit City to see if there is any way to repair the incomplete soul. The spirit of the water element is just a shell that imprisoned Guoguo's soul.

It's a pity that there is still no news about the letter sent to Jambach. He must have followed Viru to find the evil mage Montetroa all over the world. Unfortunately, he may not know until now that this tyrannical evil mage has already died. Death at my hands.

If there is no relevant answer in the ivory tower library in Sloit City, I think the trip to the imperial capital should be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

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In the second semester of the first year of the Magic Academy, an inscription class was offered, and I began to immerse myself in the world of magic. Every day, I lived a life of two points and one line between the magic school and home.Those boring runes and magic circles in the eyes of others have become a part of my daily life. Finally, before the first snow of this winter came, I was successfully promoted to a seventh-level magic apprentice.

In the eyes of others, it seems that I should learn the first kind of magic, but those who are familiar with me know that I know at least three kinds of water magic skills.

The winter is cold and long. The people here not only have to resist the severe cold weather, but also avoid the hunting of the barbarians from the extreme north. galloping horse.

Women do not have to do heavy labor throughout the winter, which is the best season for reproduction. In the cold winter with heavy snowfall, newly married men and women hide in warm houses and work hard day and night for the reproduction of offspring. , this is winter in Sloit, and it arrives as expected with the savages on the icy tundra.

Barbarians can be seen everywhere in the silver-clad mountains...

(End of this chapter)