Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 119 Solon's Composite Bow Designs and the Conflict Between the House of Othello

With black hair and black eyes, possessing the distinctive features of the Mediterranean race, Galen Othello, sitting in his carriage as he entered Simon's town, glanced with disgust at Baron Simon, who was trying to curry favor with him.

In his view, investing in this inland town with no advantages and setting up an inland trade market is a very unprofitable thing.

Not to mention Maple Leaf Town, which is so targeted at the Peter family, it would have been better to invest in Sunan Peter from the beginning.

Those are truly high-quality assets.

However, for some reason, her cousin Chesia made the opposite decision, even using her own savings to forcefully invest here.

If her investment fails, her authority within the family will decline significantly.

The Othello family is a merchant family, and more importantly, a merchant aristocracy of the Republic. They are the head of the five hundred families that effectively rule the Platinum Republic, and their history is very ancient, dating back more than a thousand years.

Galen Othello was having a headache. The Othello family was enormous, with many branches within the family. The Othello family had many monopolistic businesses. When their children came of age, they would be assigned to one to five merchant ships based on their past performance, along with all the family's hired sailors for two years, and nautical charts and trade routes provided by the Othello family, and then go out to sea to do business.

Those who succeed become the pride of their families and become the family's maritime merchants. Those who go bankrupt lose all their honor, return to their families, are ridiculed by everyone, and then have to find ways to get loans and borrow money to go to sea again.

Although they were the most distinguished people of the Platinum Commercial Republic, they spent their years at sea, traveling between countries along the Mediterranean coast. He himself had not returned to the series of semi-artificial islands on the mainland of the Platinum Republic for three years.

Therefore, he always stayed with his cousin Cheshire.

After he came of age, he received a lot of help from his cousin Chesia, so when he was summoned to help her invest in the Simon Territory, he agreed.

He even made a trip to the Mamluk Sultanate on the other side of the Mediterranean to buy some unique spices, dates, and grains sold in the Mamluk region, and transported them to Simon Territory in order to help his cousin Chesia.

As a result, Cousin Cheshire, who always has a good eye and never makes a mistake, for some reason chose Simon, a fool, this time.

In his opinion, the Storm Knights of the Storm Kingdom were not good at business. These barbarians were too rough in their work and had little patience.

Take Baron Simon, for example. What is he doing, showing off at the town gate?

Did he not know that he might affect the potential wealth of Simon Town?

Galen stopped thinking about that ridiculous Baron Simon.

Anyway, with Cousin Cheshire around, this town should be able to survive, since the inland economy of the Storm Kingdom is the worst of all the countries.

The Othello family's wealth could easily be breached here.

The king of the Storm Kingdom is even jokingly called the Beggar King by other countries because they have to ask the kings of various western countries and the pope of the Papacy of the Order Gods for help every year because of financial bankruptcy.

It can be said that the Storm Kingdom is a very typical Holy War Kingdom.

The White Gold Republic has gained numerous trade privileges from its trade with this jihadist nation.

The carriage stopped in front of a flower shop. Garen stepped down and looked at the beautiful roses blooming in front of the shop.

The shopkeeper seized the opportunity to strike up a conversation with the distinguished-looking customer. "These are fresh-cut roses picked this morning, the best blessing for a loved one. Sir, look how beautiful these roses are! They even have the morning dew on them. What young lady wouldn't be captivated by them?"

"A rose costs only three Storm Copper Coins. I have..."

Garen interrupted him. "Your roses aren't very good quality. Not many people will buy them. At least half of your roses will be stuck in your hands today. If you still want to sell inferior roses tomorrow, you won't be able to sell a single one."

Garen Seollen said, "But I'm going to buy all the roses you have here, so let's say two roses for three Storm Copper Coins."

Galen cunningly used vague language, avoiding explicit numbers, to provoke the merchant before him and prevent him from realizing that he had halved the price.

When the merchant heard that Garen wanted to buy them all, he was overjoyed. He did a rough calculation and felt that he could make a profit, so he immediately began to pack all the roses that Garen had.

Garen's personal servant asked, "Master Garen, are you buying so many roses for that young lady from a collateral branch of the Peter family?"

Garen nodded. "I fell in love with her the moment I saw her by chance. I'm going to pursue her."

His personal servant said in a slightly sarcastic tone, "But we're now in competition with the Peter family."

"Moreover, he's just a country nobleman who has rejected you time and time again. In the Mamluks, there were even foreign princesses who wanted to throw themselves at you."

Garen glared at him. "Don't talk badly about Miss Julia Peter behind her back. I don't like it when I hear it."

"That's incredibly impolite. Although the Peter family is just a minor noble family in the countryside, they are still part of the ruling knightly class of the Storm Kingdom."

"And that princess was an indigenous Azhar princess from a land ruled by a Bey in the Mamluks. It was simply... horrible! She didn't even like to bathe!"

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After Su Nan finished refining the first bottle of medium-grade Sacrificial Stone Gargoyle Potion, he asked Sunday to help him look after the laboratory. Then he left the Four Seasons Garden and went to find the great artist Solon, whom he had recruited from Boot Peninsula a few days earlier.

Solon then took Sunan into his sculpture studio with great interest to see the two life-sized marble statues he had recently sculpted for Sunan.

Solon ripped off the red cloth covering the marble statue, and instantly two lifelike portraits of young boys appeared before Su Nan.

Solon said to Sunan, "My esteemed master, these are the works I have completed for you in the past two weeks. I have taken your facial features and added some artistic imagination to complete these two works, which will surely shine brightly in your castle."

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. Okay, but not in his own castle, but in the Oak Wizard Tower in the Four Seasons Garden, to help him refine potions and handle chores.

Su Nan said briefly, "That's right. I have a new task for you."

"I want to make a gargoyle out of steel. The gargoyle can be quite large, about the size of a carriage."

"The steel gargoyle's claws should be sharp, its tail should have barbs, and its wings should be as close to the body size as possible to 2:1."

"I think the forelimbs of this gargoyle could be made into a winged structure, where the wings and claws are combined, so that it can fly and also be used for grasping."

"This time, the steel gargoyles need to be solid. By the way, I need you to be able to embed these thumb-sized clay tablets into them. Can you do that?"

"My dear master," Solon pondered for a moment, then suddenly frowned and said, "Embedding the clay tablets is simple; after all, steel statues can have many layers. But if it's solid steel, placing it on top of your castle could pose a hidden danger, and might even damage your castle."

Su Nan said, "You don't need to consider that."

"Just cast it according to my description."

Solon bowed to Sunan. "Very well."

He didn't care about any of that anymore. After all, many nobles had their own unique hobbies, and all he had to do was complete his artistic creations.

Solon hesitated for a moment, then said to Sunan, "My respected master, I am not content to be merely a sculptor and foundry; I have broader uses and interests. Would you like to see the war engineering vehicle I recently designed for your army?"

"I also have many unique ideas for the design of battlefield equipment. If you could equip your army with them, it would surely make your army invincible!"

Su Nan was taken aback.

Then he remembered that artists of this era were almost all-rounders, capable of doing everything from architectural design to water conservancy projects.

Therefore, there is a saying that incompetent artists can only draw architectural design drawings.

Clearly, this artist wanted something fancy.

After thinking about it, Su Nan felt that he would be working with this artist more often on the Stone Golem series in the future, so it seemed like a good idea to show him some respect.

So Su Nan nodded and said, "Then let me take a look."

Solon was initially worried about the young baron's attitude, and was therefore very nervous. He was afraid that Su Nan would not even look at him and would mock him, telling him to focus on his own business, just like the viscounts he had encountered on the peninsula had treated him before.

"Look, this is a special bow and arrow I designed."

Su Nan blinked, then looked up at Solon, and then at the specially designed bow and arrow in his hand.

This is actually a bow and arrow that is ahead of its time—a composite bow.

There is a limit to the poundage of a regular bow, and the poundage of the bow determines how well a werewolf warrior can perform.

Werewolf warriors were originally developed to use tools such as bows and arrows.

If the composite bow in front of them could actually be manufactured, the improvement it would bring to their werewolf warriors would be far more than just a little.

Su Nan took a half step back and began to seriously examine this Solon, who had been expelled from the Boot Peninsula because he was falsely accused of plagiarism.

Su Nan asked in confusion, "Haven't you shown anyone your weapon design drawings before?"

"Doesn't anyone think your weapon design has any potential?"

Solon sighed and looked at Su Nan with some anticipation. For an artist, finding a patron who can appreciate his art is the most wonderful thing in the world.

"I showed it to people. But no one trusted my design, thinking it was too far-fetched. Viscount Ambrose of the Republic of Ambrose, in particular, laughed at me, saying I was being delusional."

"And for example, this special bow and arrow of mine, if it could be made, would definitely be very powerful. But I can't find the right materials to make it."

"That way I won't be able to prove myself."

Su Nan nodded.

So that's how it is. This guy has the brains, but the basic materials available in this era limited him.

But I now have a bunch of magical garden plants.

The wizard's materials should contain plant and animal materials that can be used to make the composite bow.

Moreover, the blueprints can be optimized by the AI ​​to a reasonable, practical, and low-cost level before Solon can manufacture them.

I should spend most of my time digesting the magical information I've recently acquired.

He's currently in a period of rapid development in magic, so he definitely doesn't have the spare time to make his own composite bow.

(End of this chapter)