Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 65 New order has arrived!
Noli, the leader of the cave dwarves, was sitting comfortably on the sofa beside the fireplace, holding an account book and reading it carefully.

"Noli! Good God! Look what I just did!"

His good-for-nothing brother Tongchui rushed into his study again, shouting and yelling. Nuoli rolled his eyes speechlessly.

Tongchui didn't care. He proudly waved a thin piece of paper in his hand and said, "Haven't you always looked down on my business acumen? Humph, look at this for yourself..."

The dwarf leader struggled to stand up, took the piece of paper that was obviously enchanted from Copper Hammer's hand, and read a few lines roughly.

His eyes suddenly widened, and then his breathing became much heavier.

"Where did you get this order?"

Tongchui said proudly, "How's it going? An order for 20,000 gold pounds worth of magic stone ore, a long-term supply order!"

The Cave City is located in the hilly area near the sea in the southern part of the southern continent. It is the natural territory that has belonged to the Cave Dwarves for generations. Because the land is barren and not conducive to farming, no other race is willing to take the trouble to compete with these dwarves who burrow underground all day long.

However, the unique racial talents of the cave dwarves allow them to find magic stone veins deep in the barren land and to dig and collect them on a large scale.

Gradually, a dwarven industry was formed with the export of magic stone ore as its main business.

The underground city where Tongchui and Noli are located is built on the largest magic stone vein in the southern hills.

After nearly two hundred years of mining, the output of low-grade ores is still abundant, but the output of more scarce high-grade ores has been declining year by year.

They had to go deeper underground to dig for high-level ores, which made mining more difficult and costly than before.

In addition, the joint monopoly of the Human Wizard Kingdom and the Federation resulted in a single sales channel, and they were subject to the exploitation and price-cutting of the Magic Stone Chamber of Commerce.

"Twenty thousand pounds, and only low-level magic stones are needed. Mr. Kel... Mr. Sugard, is this really just a joke for you?" Noli stared at the order in a daze, still a little unconvinced.

After all, the profits of the Cave City have not been very good in recent years, especially after the Federation occupied the newly discovered magic stone veins in the Evil Moon Mountains, the Magic Stone Chamber of Commerce has repeatedly lowered the price of their raw ore.

"Our annual profit from ore exports is only 50,000 gold pounds. If we sign this order, we can earn at least half of the 20,000 pounds of low-level magic stones..."

The mining cost of low-level magic stones is not very high. In addition, some of the stocks are of relatively low quality, so the Magic Stone Chamber of Commerce simply refuses to purchase them. They have been piled up in the warehouse gathering dust for several years.

"Done! We have to get this order!" Noli slapped his thigh, grabbed the copper hammer, and urged. "This mysterious forum member, Mr. Kerr... Sugard, do you know his identity?"

He didn't want to get involved in troublesome incidents such as magic stone smuggling or collusion with the demons.

"Don't worry, I made a deal with him before. It was all about that strange ore... Well, there hasn't been much progress so far, but I've already got some preliminary insights..."

Noli frowned and shouted, "Don't talk to me about your damn ore. Tell me about the risks of this deal!"

"Okay, okay... uh, this Mr. Kel'Thuzad is a battle mage. I can basically confirm that."

"But there seems to be a spellcaster organization behind him, composed of combat spellcasters. It should be a civilian organization that seeks to profit from exploring ancient ruins."

Nuo Li asked in confusion, "How do you know so much?" Tongchui chuckled and explained, "Have you ever seen a research-based spellcaster who had to trade with others for even a third-level spell? Only battle mages whose minds are completely filled with spells and battles would be so shallow!"

"I estimate that this batch of ore will flow into the community of freelance spellcasters. After all, the Federation's goods are not cheap, and civilian combat spellcasters don't have to participate in the war in the Evil Moon Mountains, so they naturally need multiple purchasing channels."

"Are you sure the Federation won't look suspicious? This could be considered snatching a piece of the pie from their mouths."

Tongchui said disdainfully, "That's why I asked you to go to Alaye and see the world. How could the Federation be interested in such a small piece of meat?"

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Harvey looked at the order reply that Reiner took from the teleportation array with satisfaction, picked up the feather pen and signed his own magic emblem symbol on the contract.

This is a common anonymous transaction method. You don't need to sign your real name on the magic contract. You only need to provide the emblem symbol of the corresponding magic pattern. It will still be subject to the contract restrictions of the magic network space energy.

"Twenty thousand gold pounds worth of low-level magic stones. At a 5% discount, each magic stone costs five gold pounds, and a total of 4000 pieces are being purchased..."

The Frost Giant mentioned in his reply that his mine did not have so many standard quality primary magic stones at present, so he could only supply about 500 pieces per month. However, he would provide an additional 200 low-quality magic stones with cracks or defects for free as compensation for the delayed delivery.

Harvey felt that this was a real bargain. After all, low-quality magic stones could only be recharged a limited number of times and were prone to explosion or collapse. However, he only used them as "feed" for one-time use and did not care about their quality at all.

However, he still planned to rub the other party's bottom line again, picked up the pen and expressed his dissatisfaction in the reply letter, and asked that the number of gifts of inferior magic stones be increased to the same as the number of purchased magic stones.

After thinking for a while, Harvey turned to look at Asdalen who was busy on the assembly line.

"How much magic stone do we consume every month to feed beetles?"

Without even looking up, Asdaren replied, "2000 beetles, consuming 20 magic stones per day, 600 per month... I reminded you this morning that the magic stone inventory is only enough for three days."

"Increase the beetle breeding scale to 4000!"

Asdalen was stunned for a moment, then asked unhappily, "What's the point of just increasing beetle production? Both energy-gathering arrays are overclocked now, and aren't you the one who's been complaining about the energy crisis all day long?"

Harvey chuckled, looking quite confident. "The problem has been basically solved. I also snatched parts from two scrapped continental-class teleportation arrays from the Alchemy Exploration Society, which can be assembled into a brand new one."

"Really? Your member of the Magic Network Forum has such great authority in the Exploration Society that he can privately sell you alchemical products of this technology?"

"Of course, I exchanged this with them using a lot of points. It didn't cost me a penny!"

This is not the first time that Harvey has done something like getting something for nothing on the Magic Network Forum. Once one batch of leeks is cut, more will quickly grow. As long as he doesn't use stupid methods like killing the chicken to get the eggs, the Magic Network Forum itself is his biggest network and resource platform.

After this group of new members gradually get familiar with each other, Harvey plans to open up the invitation quota again, but this time he does not plan to allow each member to invite one person as before.

This time, he planned to conduct a bidding war to purchase the quota...

(End of this chapter)