my age of magic

Chapter 799 299. Aliya's Redemption
"The first time I saw him, I took a magic airship with my brother and came to the capital to sell golden cider. At the airport, he jumped off the carriage wearing a knight's light armor and hugged my brother. His golden Curly hair and hearty laughter, it seems that the entire airport revolves around us."

Aliya raised her head and drank the golden cider in the goblet. Her swan-like neck showed a graceful arc, and her gaze seemed to be immersed in that beautiful memory.

I never knew Colin, but I did know Count Zimmermann, a strong and traditional knight.

Lady Arya poured another glass of golden cider from the bottle.

She turned her head to look at the wall of the dining room, where an oil painting hung.

The oil painting is smeared with heavy oil paint, depicting a magnificent mountain and river. On the grassland at the foot of the mountain, a knight leads a regiment of heavy armored cavalry and is marching to the distance of the grassland. From the eyes of Mrs. Alia, It can be seen that the knight in the painting is the Marquess of Colin Babington.

Her smile was bitter, as if she was muttering to herself: "He said his name was Colin Babington, and he and his brother were best friends in the Advanced Knight Academy. I will never forget that he once He took me around the entire imperial capital, and we watched the sunset at the edge of Weiyang Lake, and he said at that time that he would give me a plane."

A mature woman is as beautiful as a glass of mellow wine, and her intoxicating eyes are like a veil in the dark night.

Mrs. Aliya continued: "Hehe, how ridiculous the oath is! It was to fulfill his ridiculous oath on the plane that he buried his life in the Angela multi-plane."

I think that if a man can die on the battlefield, his life should not be too much of a failure. This kind of thinking comes from the orc tribe.

The northern border has been baptized by war all year round. The barbarians on the ice and snow tundra attack every area on the northern border in a large scale every year. Those who come back from the battlefield alive have a complete life, where there is often only a thin line between life and death.

I said lightly: "For the glory of the empire!" This sentence will be on the lips of almost every northerner.

The ice cubes in the glass kept hitting the wall of the glass. I took a sip of the golden cider, and when I looked at Mrs. Alia, I realized that her cheeks were already flushed and her eyes were blurred.

I'm afraid that only when she is drinking can she be able to speak out what is in her heart, and maybe she will be more relaxed this way.

She took another big sip and said: "He likes to make friends very much. At that time, he was the first heir of the Babington family. The adults in the family were very optimistic about him and supported him, so he was in the capital. Many friends, the rune metal plates produced by the Babington family are very popular in Green. At that time, the trading firm in the imperial capital was managed by his friend Edgar. Colin said he was a quick-witted person, Very smart and trust him too."

It turned out that the Marquess Edgar was originally a friend of Colin Babington.

Mrs. Alia said: "At that time, the business in the imperial capital was always run by Edgar. He would come here in a magic caravan almost every day to submit the business status of the day to Colin. He managed the store to a minimum. very good."

It seems that every heir to a noble and wealthy family will do business in the imperial capital. Louis Mensa is like this, but Colin Babington is also like this.

As I thought, Mrs. Alia said: "During the period after Colin's death, I was not in the mood to manage the family's business in the imperial capital, and the business of the imperial capital's magic store also plummeted. Edgar made a fuss about profitability, and since then, I have started to learn management and business a little bit.”

When the sharp sword hanging above the head disappears, it is inevitable that under the drive of interests, there will be situations of guarding and stealing.

Madam Aliya said again: "Later, I found an opportunity to drive Edgar out of the magic shop."

The slender maid brought up a large plate of stew, filled a ladle full of it, and put it on my plate.I nodded to her, and she walked past me smiling.

I picked up a spoon and put a large piece of stewed meat into my mouth. It was the belly meat of the best one-horned bison. It melted in the mouth, soft and tasty.

It is also extremely delicious to dip the oatmeal into the thick soup.

Seeing that I ate deliciously, she followed my example and asked the maid for a small piece of soft toasted oatmeal, then poured a spoonful of thick soup on top of the oatmeal, and carefully pinched the edge of the oatmeal with two fingers, Putting it into the mouth, the taste of the gravy and the smell of wheat immediately mixed together in her mouth. Her bright red and sexy lips gently wrapped around the white and tender fingers like scallions that were stained with the soup, and instantly There are thousands of styles. Feelings.

I hurriedly restrained my thoughts, and asked Mrs. Aliya vaguely: "Then what happened to the contract that Edgar just mentioned?"

Mrs. Aliya took a deep look at me and said: "The Babington family controls the largest magic industrial base in San Carlos City. Nearly half of the rune metal plates in the entire Grimm Empire come from San Carlos City. There is a complete forging process there, and magic metal can be plated on any metal surface. The magic shop run by Colin in the imperial capital mainly deals in rune metal plates. I took over his shop and did not change the business items. To be honest, Ba The magic rune boards produced by the Binton family are still very popular in the imperial capital, as long as we focus on auditing the accounts, even if we don’t understand marketing, we can keep the magic store going.”

"Everything went smoothly at first, but after the outbreak of the plane war, the Angela multi-plane controlled by the Babington family was attacked by the dark forces of the abyss, and a large number of troops were restrained on the Angela multi-plane. The family's magic industrial base is in a state of semi-stop production. The Babington family controls the resources of more than a dozen planes, and riots of varying degrees broke out in those planes at this time, and more than [-]% of the mines are currently trapped. discontinued status."

"So the Duke of Babington issued a notice two weeks ago. Due to the shortage of magic metal reserves, the family will suspend the processing of all civil rune metal plates from now on. But when the notice was delivered to me, it happened that It was two days later than expected, and just the night before, I took another order."

Speaking of this, she frowned and took out a contract book of magic parchment from her bosom. The official orders were all this magic contract book, and the contents on it were bound by magic.

I asked him, "Is that order in Edgar's hands?"

Mrs. Aliya nodded and said: "After Edgar was driven away by me, he didn't leave the imperial capital. He owned a trading firm in the imperial capital. That's why I knew about these magic runes when I saw his order. The metal plates were custom-made by him."

I asked her again: "Is it true that the magic industry base in San Carlos can't do it?"

Mrs. Aliya's eyes dimmed at this time. She was a little embarrassed, but she still mustered up the courage to say: "There are also people in the family who are obstructing this matter. In addition, the magic metal stored in the family warehouse is now being rushed." It is impossible to produce magic weapons such as magic trebuchets, magic-weave bed crossbows, and magic-guided cannons to produce civilian magic rune metal plates."

I said: "So the root cause is here! So which part of the magical industrial base is not working? Is it caused by insufficient production capacity or insufficient raw materials?"

Mrs. Aliya replied: "The main reason for the raw materials is that the production of the mithril mines in Angela's multi-plane has been discontinued. Those magic rune plates must be coated with a layer of mithril. Now all the mithril must be used for In the manufacture of magic cannons and magic catapults, there is no extra mithril for the manufacture of civil magic rune plates."

I was still wandering around the magic material market on the first floor of the Tower of Pride in the morning, and I didn't think that magic materials like Mithril were scarce.

So I asked Mrs. Aliya: "So have you tried buying some Mithril from the magic market?"

Madam Aliya smiled wryly: "It's useless, there will never be such a large amount of Mithril circulating in the magic market."

I thought about it for a long time, and then tried to ask: "So are there any other alternatives?"

Mrs. Aliya took another sip of wine from the wine glass, and then said: "Unless it is more advanced thorium and gold essence, but these expensive magic metals are more expensive and rare than mithril. Will you sell those high-level magic resources?"

I thought that I still had a lot of magic red copper in my warehouse, so I asked, "What about magic red copper, can magic red copper replace Mithril?"

Looking at the goblet in her hand, Mrs. Alia shook her head weakly, she was a little drunk.

After a little delay, he said: "The magic power transmission of magic red copper is far inferior to that of mithril. It is okay to make some low-level magic rune metal plates with magic red copper. To make intermediate magic rune plates, at least one must be plated on it." layer of mithril."

Originally, I thought I could use the magic red copper stored in the underground warehouse to help Mrs. Alia tide over the difficulties, but now it seems that this method will not work.

Thinking of that contract, I asked again: "What is the compensation in the contract?"

Mrs. Aliya rested her head on her arms, leaned on the dining table, and said drunkenly, "The magic shop in the imperial capital."

I am speechless again, no wonder Mrs. Alia is so hesitant. If this magic shop in the imperial capital is lost, it is equivalent to completely losing the market in the imperial capital. At that time, Mrs. Alia should be punished by Babin The accusation of the Elders of the Dayton family, maybe it is unknown to be excluded from the fringes of the family.

I originally wanted to talk to her about the magic-weave spider silk business, but I didn't say anything until the dinner was over.

Seeing that she was drunk, I turned my head and told her personal maid: "Mrs. Alia is drunk, take her back to her room and have a good rest. It's getting late, so I'll take my leave first!"

The personal maid of Mrs. Alia lowered her head and said in a soft voice: "Madam has already prepared the room for us, Master Jijia Magician can rest here for a night!"

"When Madam Aliya wakes up, thank Madam for her hospitality."

After finishing speaking, I put a silver coin in the hand of the personal maid as a tip for her to help me pass the message, then waved to her, and walked outside until I walked out of Babington Manor. I always feel as if something has been forgotten by me.

I feel a little sorry for not being able to help Mrs. Alia.

The night wind is cool, and my heart is haunted by a faint...

……

The next day was Sunday, and I made an appointment with Qige to improve those exhaust fans at the Magic Research Institute.

For the first time, I looked at those mithril magic rune plates very seriously. It was about one foot by two feet square. The whole metal plate was not very thick. Thin magic mithril, and then in the center of the entire magic rune board, a gem base is inlaid.

It doesn't look like much of a technical improvement over the Enchanted Copper Rune Plate.

Of the fifty mithril rune plates in Qige's laboratory, except for the seven that were discarded at the beginning of debugging, and the five that were scrapped during the engraving, a total of 38 miniature tornado magic circles were made.

The carpenter's shop of the Academy of Magic sent over the rest of the wooden parts. Those are wooden shutters of the same size as the rune metal plate. Qige looked at me curiously. Nail two boards of the same size to form a shutter box, and then insert the magic rune board into the shutter box along the carved slots. The two ends of the shutter box are nailed to death with wooden boards. The exhaust fan is made.

When I reached into a hole in the board and embedded a magic spar on the gemstone base, the exhaust fan was officially activated, and a magic vortex was formed on the rune metal plate, sucking the wind from one side and blowing it from the other side. Blowing out from one side, the whole process is that the miniature tornado is constantly rotating, producing a weak suction. Installing it on the top of the room will play the role of exhaust and ventilation.

Takama helped me install such a wooden box on a glass window in Qige's laboratory, which seemed so inconspicuous.

In order to test the effectiveness of the exhaust fan, Qige deliberately lit a pile of magic parchment in the room. Under the blue flame, a puff of thick smoke rushed upwards, instantly filling the entire laboratory with thick smoke, and extinguished the fire. , The three of us quickly ran to the door, closed the door of the laboratory, and then saw a wisp of green smoke drawn by the exhaust fan on the glass window, curling and floating towards the sky dome of the research institute.

Qige and I clapped our hands, and Qige said with a happy smile, "It's really done!"

"Of course, what shall we do next? What shall we do with so many semi-finished products?" I looked at so many semi-finished exhaust fans piled up on the laboratory floor, and asked Qige.

Qige supported his chin with both hands, rested his elbows on the test bench, blinked his big watery eyes, and said to me with a smile: "Of course it's going to be sold, oh, let me do the calculations, the Institute of Magic There are a total of [-] magic pharmacy laboratories nearby, and at least one laboratory must be installed in each laboratory. There are also more than a dozen magic pharmacy laboratories at the Royal Academy of Magic, and all of these laboratories need to install this thing. Well, I'll ask the Alchemy Department later if they want this thing!"

(End of this chapter)