My Magic Age

This winter, the two things that the inscriptionists living in the imperial capital remember most are that the Magic Guild announced the secret of the life magic pattern on the fishman skin to all the magicians in the Green Empire. Many inscriptionists in the imperial capital participated in the demonstration of the life magic pattern. Unfortunately, in the following two months, no one could master this life magic pattern skillfully.

Another thing is that a new magic rune board quietly entered the magic market of the imperial capital, and this low-cost magic rune board quickly occupied the magic market of the imperial capital with its price advantage. This "Fire Gathering Technique" rune board drawn by red copper magic line has stable performance and low magic consumption. In addition to heating, it can also be used to cook some delicious food.

At the beginning, it was only widely circulated in the circle of small nobles.

Later, some magic merchants with a keen sense of smell took this novel red copper rune board to some magic scholars in the imperial capital, hoping that they could give the same design plan. Unfortunately, many magic scholars could not explain clearly how this thing was made.

Some magic merchants made imitations at a cost price that was twice the price of the copper hot pot, so these imitations were like a flash in the pan in the magic market of the imperial capital and soon disappeared.

This copper hot pot with a red copper rune plate was originally only sold in the magic grocery store in the trading hall on the first floor of the Pride Tower, but later, many magic stores in the imperial capital sold it. However, if you want to buy the cheapest copper hot pot, you still have to buy it in the magic grocery store under the Pride Tower.

In fact, after I took these copper hot pots out of Xinliu Valley, I still only sold them to the owner of the magic grocery store in the trading hall on the first floor of the Pride Tower. The reason why other magic stores also sold them was that the owner of this magic grocery store privately wholesaled the copper hot pots to other magic stores.

There are many strange inventions and creations in the Imperial Capital Magic Research Institute every year. Many magic scholars in the institute are considered magic hermits. They have extensive knowledge and powerful magic, but they do not want to make their names public. Many owners of magic shops understand this rule. I asked this owner to keep a secret for me, and the owner of the magic shop agreed without hesitation.

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The magic caravan stopped in front of the Rune Plate Workshop. The snow on this street has been cleared. Some snow piled up on the roadside. The places exposed to the sun have begun to melt slowly. The snow water flows into the dark channel beside the wall. The ice ridges in the dark channel crisscross, presenting ice columns like stalactites in a cave. The gurgling snow water shuttles between these ice columns.

Some civilians were wearing thick cotton clothes and lying in the corners where the sun could shine. They had a layer of fur mattresses under them, silently absorbing the warmth brought by the sun. Their faces were frozen purple, their hands were inserted into their chests, and they curled up like bent shrimps.

It seems that the poor in the imperial capital do not have enough experience in keeping warm. In Ayr City, if they dared to lie on the street like this, they would be frozen into popsicles in less than half a day. Ayr City has night watchmen who specialize in picking up corpses in the early morning. They push four-wheeled carts through every street and alley, load some frozen corpses into the carts, and push them to the cemetery outside the city.

This is the imperial capital after all, and no one will freeze to death because of lying on the street in the sun.

The snow at the gate of the Rune Plate Workshop had not been cleared. It seemed that the work had been stopped for many days. Alia, wearing a thick court dress and a black cloak, walked down from the magic carriage. Her lambskin boots stepped on the remaining snow, which immediately covered her shoes. The maid Betty supported her arm from behind.

The coachman took out a snow shovel from the shelf behind the carriage and shoveled the snow on the steps outside the gate of the Rune Workshop. The flying snow and ice chips flew everywhere, and the sound of the snow shovel rubbing against the ice on the steps was very harsh.

Walking up the steps, I saw a thick layer of snow covering the lock on the gate. I sighed and turned to Alia and said, "Nick finally left with the craftsmen in the workshop."

Alia stood quietly at the door of the Rune Workshop, with a mocking smile on her face, and said to me, "During this period, I guess they thought they had mastered the method of profiting from the Rune Plate Workshop, and they couldn't wait to go out and try it out. At this time, mithril has once again poured into the magic market of the imperial capital, and the prospects of the fine gold magic rune plate are worrying. Perhaps these are their so-called reasons."

Betty took off a bunch of copper keys from her waist and walked to my side I tried to open the big iron door, but unfortunately the lock on the door was covered with a thick layer of ice, and the gold-plated copper key could not be inserted into the keyhole. After trying for a long time, he said to me helplessly: "The lock is frozen. I probably need to use some hot water to scald it. After the ice is melted, the door can be opened."

I reached out and touched the copper lock, and said to Betty: "Or, let me try!"

Betty obediently made way for me, and I came up to stand side by side with her. We stood almost side by side. She exuded a faint fragrance. She didn't look at me, but pursed her lips slightly, holding the copper key in her hand, and turned to help Alia under the steps.

I drew a magic pattern of "Ice Explosion" on my chest with my bare hands, and gently uttered the word "explosion" from my mouth. I heard a crisp "click" sound, and the copper lock on the door broke into two halves, and the cracks looked smooth and neat.

I unfastened the iron lock on the door and pushed open the door of the Rune Workshop. The yard of the workshop looked very desolate. Some ordinary metal plates without magic metal were placed under the awning in the yard. The thick snow crushed the awning. The canvas on the awning was covered on the metal plate, and a layer of snow was covered on it, like a big snow pile.

Pushing open the door of the workshop, some unfinished rune plates were still on the production line. It seemed that the craftsmen in the workshop left in a hurry.

I stood at the door of the workshop for a long time without speaking.

Alia walked to my side and said to me with a smile: "Do you feel very depressed?"

"Depressed, why depressed?" I scratched my head and asked her strangely.

"Seeing the rune plate workshop that I set up with my own hands collapsed like this, shouldn't I feel a little disappointed?" Alia turned her head and glanced at me, and asked me strangely. Her eyes smiled very charmingly. When looking at her face, it is easy to ignore what she said.

"Ah?" I was a little slow to react, and Alia rolled her eyes at me, expressing her contempt for me.

I looked at the 'miniature tornado' printing molds and said to Alia: "The industrial system that combines magic and technology will eventually replace this kind of manual workshop. The production rights of these blank rune plates have always been in the hands of the inscriptionists in the imperial capital, so it has always been the inscription union that has been manipulating the price of rune plates behind the scenes."

"Isn't it always like this? What's wrong!" Alia asked me with a smile.

"Of course, they will secretly manipulate the price of rune plates in the magic market. Although there will not be much change, this market has always been controlled by them." I sighed and said.

I always thought that the inscriptionist was a great magic profession, but after so many things happened, I saw the ugly faces of so many inscriptionists, and I felt that these people are actually no different from the slave traders in the slave market.

Alia reached out and grabbed an icicle hanging from the eaves, gently broke it off, and held it in her hand, like a broken spear tip, crystal clear under the refraction of the sun.

Her delicate face was reflected on the smooth icicle, and she said to me: "For example... all the craftsmen in your rune plate workshop disappeared overnight, because these inscription masters cut off the sales of your fine gold magic rune plates. The inscription masters in the entire imperial capital refused to purchase the empty rune plates produced by your workshop. I guess this is the real reason that forced Nick to leave!"

"That's probably it!" I said.

Alia smiled and said to me: "Come and do textile business with me. The profit of those spider silk magic pattern cloth is several times more than these magic rune plates. By the way, have you solved the supply of magic pattern spider silk?"

I replied: "Solved! Magic pattern spider silk ingots will be available next month. Do you want to go there to have a look?"

Then, I thought of the giant spiders in the silk reeling workshop. More than 30 newly captured giant spiders made the silk reeling workshop less dead, but the giant spiders occasionally made a terrified hissing sound, which still made the silk reeling workshop look a little scary. At least the goblins would be scared to the point of weakness when they heard the word "silk reeling".

When Alia heard me say this, her expression seemed to freeze. Then she lowered her head and stroked the smooth and smooth fabric of the long skirt, hiding her inner panic, and said to me: "Forget it, I'm afraid I will lose the courage to wear a long skirt made of magic spider silk fabric forever."

I smiled. It seemed that the horrible scene in the reeling workshop really scared Alia.

Then I said to her: "The rune plate workshop here will continue to operate. Wait for me, I will go out to find a manager."

In the imperial capital, it is very difficult to find an excellent manager who can manage a workshop. The main reason is that most people with this ability will open a workshop by themselves. Seeing me say this, Alia looked at me in surprise, as if she didn't believe that I could find a manager who met her needs all at once.

"Are you serious?" Seeing me walk to the gate of the rune plate workshop, Alia asked behind me.

"Of course!" I replied.

Alia stood on the steps at the gate and asked me: "Where are you going to find such a suitable manager at this time? Do you want me to ask Betty to come and help you!"

I had already walked to the street at this time, and turned to ask her: "Are you sure you can handle everything without Betty?"

She didn't say anything. Obviously Betty was also very important to her. Alia's daily life was almost arranged by Betty.

So I waved my hand at her and said: "It doesn't matter. I just need an ordinary manager. As long as he knows how to keep accounts and calculate accounts, it's fine."

As I said, I walked to the corner of the street, where a poor man was lying in the sun. He seemed to be like many people. He chose such a good weather, holding a roll of fur mattress, walked out of the cold home, and found a place that was sheltered from the wind and facing the sun to bask in the sun. He was squinting his eyes and curling up his body to resist the invasion of the cold wind, but he felt that a shadow blocked the last bit of sunlight on him.

He barely opened his eyes, facing the sun, squinting his eyes and looking at me.

When he saw the black magic robe I was wearing and the magic badge on my chest and confirmed that I was a magician, he immediately sat up from the fur mattress and said to me respectfully: "Respected Mage, how can I help you?"

This is the gap between nobles and commoners. No matter when, when a commoner sees a noble, he should take the initiative to say hello.

There are so many nobles in the imperial capital, so this kind of etiquette is rarely seen on the street, but if a noble walks in front of a commoner, it means that the commoner should take the initiative to say hello, otherwise it is an infringement of the rights of the nobles.

The poor man looked thin, but his eyes looked very clean, and his cotton coat was not too dirty.

I said to him: "Do you want to have a decent job?"

He nodded without hesitation.

I asked him again: "Then can you do basic calculations?"

He hesitated a little, not understanding why I asked this, but still said: "I still know some basic calculations."

I then asked him: "Can you keep accounts?"

He didn't say anything this time, just looked at me puzzledly.

I turned around and waved to Betty, saying, "Show me your account book."

Betty was standing next to Alia. When she heard me say that, she ran down the steps obediently and took out an account book from the magic caravan and handed it to me.

I opened the account book and saw that it was just some records of income and expenditure. It was just a purchase record of Alia's daily life. The handwriting inside was neat and neat. I showed one page to the poor man and asked him, "Can you understand this?"

"This is the account of family income and expenditure..." said the poor man.

I hurriedly closed the account book because I found that this page recorded a piece of underwear ordered at the tailor shop. It was nothing, but there was a line of small words behind it: 'Ji Jia Magician likes it'...

I coughed slightly in embarrassment, and then I thought that he didn't know me, so why should I feel guilty, so I asked the poor man, "What's your name?"

He said, "Murray."

I asked him again, "Are you from the imperial capital?"

He nodded.

I asked him, "Where do you live?"

He pointed to a narrow alley not far away and said, "It's in the third civilian apartment in the alley."

He didn't look like he was lying, so I said to him, "Murray, I have decided to hire you to help me manage this rune plate workshop. Now I need you to help me count all the metal plates in the workshop. I will pay you fifty silver coins a month. Are you willing to do it?"

When he heard me say this, he immediately became energetic and said to me loudly with a look of surprise, "I do!"