My Magic Age

The next time I saw Senior Dylan was on a chilly Friday afternoon.

It was very windy that day. The wind chimes on the eaves of the nine-story Mage Tower of the Astrologers' Union were jingling in the wind, and the gray clouds in the sky made the sunlight a little dim.

A gorgeous magic caravan took me to the gate of the Astrologers' Union. I got off the magic caravan and looked up at this magic building that was taller than the Tower of Pride. This magnificent Gothic-style building was like a sword piercing the clouds, with straight stripes running through the entire tower.

I followed the waiter step by step up the stone steps made of bluestone slabs and walked into the Astrologers' Union, the richest of all magic unions.

The Astrologers' Union holds the management rights of the teleportation halls in major cities in the Green Empire. Even many nobles cannot afford the expensive teleportation fees in the teleportation halls.

The teleportation hall built in the prosperous Fifth District has people coming in and out day and night.

The cost of the teleportation hall is calculated based on the number of people. If a small group walks out of the teleportation hall, the magic crystals required will definitely make people feel that the prices in the imperial capital seem a little unreal.

I remember the fish skin hood magic pattern construction exhibition last fall. The wealthy Astrologer Union offered a sky-high price of 1,800 magic crystals for each fish skin hood and successfully bid for 30 fish skin hoods, which happened to be the last batch of fish skin hoods produced.

From that time until now, I have not made another fish skin hood.

Those inscription masters in the imperial capital tried hard to get the drawing method of the "life magic pattern" on the fish skin hood from me. I drew 30 fish skin hoods in one breath at that magic pattern construction demonstration, which made those inscription masters mistakenly believe that the "life magic pattern" on the fish skin hood was as simple as a layer of window paper. It only needed to be gently poked through by someone to peek into the whole picture inside.

In fact, since the magic pattern demonstration, the inscriptionists in the imperial capital have almost sold out the fishman skin, but there are only a few inscriptionists who can successfully make fish skin hoods. Every inscriptionist who makes a fish skin hood has spent a huge price, and those who can't make a fish skin hood have lost all their money.

The magicians of the Astrologer Union proved with facts that they spent 1,800 magic crystals to buy a fish skin hood. This seemingly crazy move is actually just on the edge of the cost price of the fish skin hood. All the inscriptionists kept silent about it.

Afterwards, the storm seemed to calm down, but my rune plate workshop was boycotted by the inscriptionists in the imperial capital.

During the period when the Mithril Rune Plate was in short supply and even out of stock, even if the inscriptionists in the imperial capital got the base plate of the Magic Rune Plate from Nick and successfully made the "miniature tornado" rune plate, these rune plates would then flow directly into the market, and the Rune Plate Workshop had no possibility of repurchasing them.

It was under such circumstances that a large number of workshops specializing in exhaust fans emerged in the imperial capital to compete with Nick's Rune Plate Workshop for the magic market. The exhaust fans produced by the Rune Plate Workshop did not have any competitive advantage in the magic market due to their old and monotonous styles.

During this period, the Rune Plate Workshop relied only on the orders of the base plates of the Amaterasu Magic Rune Plate to maintain normal operation.

Later, with the help of the Royal Constructed Knights, the South Wind Legion, the North Wind Legion, and the Qiyan Province Constructed Knights, the Mo family finally successfully sealed the Abyss Hell connecting channel in the Wala Valley on the Kenda plane. Then the Mo family announced that the legions stationed on the Kenda plane would obey the call of His Majesty Charles at any time to participate in the plane wars of other planes.

After this battle, the commander of the Ex army directly entered the Anchirado plane owned by the Babington family. The Royal Construct Knights also entered Anchirado under the leadership of His Royal Highness Charles. So far, the five major mithril mines on the Anchirado plane have resumed normal production one after another. These five major mithril mines account for the mithril production of more than six layers of the Green Empire, and a large number of mithril ingots have re-flown into the Green Empire.

The mithril rune plate workshop in San Carlos City has started to operate again. A large number of blank mithril rune plates that are slightly cheaper than the fine gold magic rune plates have poured into the imperial capital, becoming the last straw that broke the camel's back for my rune plate workshop.

After a large number of mithril rune plates poured into the magic market, the inscriptionists in the imperial capital would rather lose part of the deposit than cancel the order for the fine gold magic rune plates.

After a month without receiving any orders, Nick chose to lead his rune plate craftsmen to transfer to another rune plate workshop. As far as I know, the owner of this rune plate workshop is likely to know Ivan and Diego, or it is them.

Later, the first magic engraving machine was successfully born in the blacksmith shop of Xinliu Valley...

It can be said that I was able to survive the joint boycott of the imperial capital inscriptionists and the strong pressure of the magic union. The Astrologer Union gave me a lot of help. Of course, there was a favor from senior Dylan, and it may also be that the value of the fish skin hood itself is like that, but I can still feel the goodwill conveyed to me by the Astrologer Union.

So senior Dylan sent someone to find me in the college and wrote a letter saying that he wanted to see me. Without saying a word, I followed his waiter to the Astrologer Union.

Senior Dylan’s magic laboratory is on the fifth floor of the Astrologer’s Guild. The waiter pushed open the golden and carved door of a laboratory. I saw Senior Dylan working busy inside. The magic laboratory was full of things. It was a drawing on magic parchment, and there were several female magician assistants beside him who were helping Senior Dylan tidy up the messy room.

The waiter stood at the door and signaled that I could come in, but he stood outside the door and did not dare to step into the laboratory.

Senior Dylan found me standing at the door of the magic laboratory and hurriedly called me in. He was thinner than the last time we met. Fortunately, he was still energetic, but his eyes were bloodshot and he looked a little haggard. His hair was messy, and he wore a pair of tortoiseshell glasses on the bridge of his nose, which looked a little baggy.

There was almost no place to stay in the magic laboratory. I bent down and picked up a drawing of a magic pattern array and stepped into the magic laboratory.

Senior Dylan looked very happy when he saw me coming, and took me to the rest area in the corner of the magic laboratory.

In the corner of this seemingly very spacious magic laboratory, a small bed was simply laid out. The cashmere quilts on it had not been folded up and were piled messily on top. Two magic robes were hung on the floor-standing clothes hangers on the side. and some white silk shirts, it looked like a temporary resting place for senior Dylan.

Senior Dylan and I were sitting on the sofa nearby. A female magic student assistant came over carrying a tray with teapots and teacups, and placed the two teacups on the coffee table in front of me and Senior Dylan. She looked pretty. , the figure wrapped in the magic robe is also very plump, carefully squatting next to the coffee table, filling our tea cups with milk tea.

Don't look at Senior Dylan's slovenly appearance, but looking at the spacious magic laboratory room and the sexy female magic assistant, it can be said that Senior Dylan's life here is quite luxurious.

"It's a bit messy, don't mind it too much!" Senior Dylan stretched out his hand and rubbed his face vigorously to make himself more energetic. He smiled at me and said, "I have been very busy during this period. All the maids who were cleaning up the house were scolded by me and ran away. No one has come over for a while, and no one has helped me clean it up. You know I’m not good at sorting this out.”

I smiled at Senior Dylan and said, "When we worked together in that cabin on the Slave Trader, it was ten times dirtier than here, and we got through it just like that!"

"Haha, now that I think about those days occasionally, I lived a really fulfilling life!" Senior Dylan laughed heartily, his voice a little dry and hoarse.

Senior Dylan inserted his hands into his messy hair and said to me with emotion: "I remember at that time, I was repeatedly demonstrating whether those magic pattern formations were feasible every day, and then you casually used the magic pattern formations beside me. It was drawn without any mistakes according to my diagrams and annotations, and we directly demonstrated and compared it with the actual objects. Alas! I can't find that kind of work efficiency back here in the imperial capital no matter what."

I put the magic parchment drawing I picked up from the door on the table. When I saw the familiar magic pattern drawn on the magic drawing, I felt sad in my heart.

Senior Dylan returned from the Vashj plane and has been working on the research of movable magic teleportation arrays. It was a paper that Senior Dylan published in this academic field of magic that made him the most popular in the Green Capital. Young magic scholar.

This magic pattern array is still the research and improvement of the movable magic teleportation array. For me, these drawings still appear in my mind one by one like yesterday's memory.

"At that time, all the potential was tapped out in the desperate situation. Noah and I were focused on trying every means to return to the imperial capital. If we didn't go back, Noah and I would be expelled from the Royal Academy of Magic. That was really impossible. There’s a way!” I said to Senior Dylan with a smile. "Fortunately, Noah and I met our senior at that time. We are probably still wandering on the sea in the Vashj plane now!"

Senior Dylan waved his hand and said: "At that time, I was trapped in Vasqi just like you. Who would have thought that we would encounter a rebellion within the Mensa family. But speaking of it, Duke Mensa did not lose anything in the rebellion this time. , but a blessing in disguise, not only Vashj's The situation of the plane war gradually became clear, and different voices within the family were completely suppressed. The internal conflicts within the family were temporarily and perfectly resolved, and they also gained the Revenge Queen and a mobile island city built on the back of a mountain dragon turtle. , It’s really a big profit.”

Then, Senior Dylan said with a wry smile: "Everyone thinks that my return from the Vashj plane has brought me both fame and fortune, but they don't know that the real winner is the controller of the Vashj plane!"

What Senior Dylan said made me feel a little hot.

Speaking of which, I also gained a lot in the Vashj plane. My biggest wish was the 'soul horn' that was lost in the hands of the Pirate King. I finally got it as I wished. This was my main purpose in going to the Vashj plane. .

In addition, he obtained part of the Pirate King's treasures and the 'directional magic teleportation scroll' designed by Senior Dylan based on the magic theory of the movable magic teleportation array. Although the effective teleportation distance is only two kilometers, it is an adventure trip. Essential life-saving items.

Senior Dylan said straight to the point: "I invite you here this time because I want you to help me complete a batch of magic rune boards on the movable magic teleportation array."

Of course he knew that I was studying at the Royal School of Magic and that I had little time, but he started asking me for help, which obviously meant he was in trouble.

I didn't think much about it and agreed directly, saying, "Okay. Senior, when are you going to get this batch of magic rune plates?"

Seeing that I agreed without asking any questions, Senior Dylan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Of course, the sooner the better!"

Then he said, "There is no other way. The guild has tried its best to help me find the best inscription masters in the imperial capital. These inscription masters are famous and have great tempers, but their skills are very average. My magic rune plate drawings are as detailed as possible, and some unnecessary magic patterns and arrays have been simplified, but the effect of the magic rune plates they made is still not ideal."

I can imagine this, after all, Senior Dylan's movable magic teleportation array is a kind of combined magic rune plate. In terms of combined magic rune plates, it must be said that Yekis scholars are at the forefront. At the beginning, he and I made a combined magic pattern structure shoulder armor for Theresa's rock golem magic pet at the War Magic Academy in El City.

In fact, the production of this kind of magic rune array made of magic metal plates is still a bit particular, especially in the treatment of the connection line between the rune plates. If you are not careful, a rune plate will fail.

I was a little distracted, but I heard Senior Dylan say again: "The first few failures, I thought it was because those magic rune plates were made by several inscription masters. After they were put together, poor compatibility was inevitable. As long as we find a few key points and replace the magic rune plates, it will be fine. But the facts proved that my idea was very stupid. We replaced almost all the magic rune plates three times, but still failed to complete a complete mobile magic array."

This is the third time he sighed: "Hey! Later, I decided to let these ten inscription masters directly take charge of ten ships, so that we can ensure that the magic on each ship is The rune plates can all be made by the same inscriptionist, so these magic rune plates are more compatible with magic, and at the same time, ten five-masted sailing ships with movable magic pattern arrays are built. As long as one of them succeeds, I will be successful. "

He said with some annoyance: "But now it's a mess. Those famous inscriptionists in the imperial capital are questioning me one after another. Even the Queen of Vengeance in the Mensa family is speculated by them to be picked up from the ruins of ancient ruins, not created by us. They are questioning me!"

I finally know why Senior Dylan is so irritable.

"So, Senior, you have been involved in building a sea ship with a mobile teleportation array recently?" I asked Scholar Dylan in surprise.

Although I had expected such a day, I didn't expect it to come so soon.

At the beginning, we built a movable magic teleportation array on the golden sea ship, relying on the two-way magic teleportation array on land and sea in the Ignas City Military Port, so that the Mensa family has a strategically important war fortress.

I didn't expect that not long after Senior Dylan returned to the imperial capital, the Astrologers' Union had already started to build a second sea ship with a movable magic teleportation array.

"It's the order from above." Senior Dylan pointed upwards to me.

I suddenly thought of the floating imperial city above my head, so my thoughts became clear, and I whispered to Senior Dylan: "Is it from His Majesty Charles?"

Senior Dylan nodded and said to me: "Let's go, I'll take you to Weiyang Lake to see us build a dock. Without the permission of the Angelbold royal family, who can build a shipyard in Weiyang Lake!"

Hearing Senior Dylan say this, I suddenly remembered the lake view I saw in Prince James' study on the third floor of the Lakeside Manor Castle, and the huge dock on the other side of the lake in the distance. At that time, I was still wondering who was so weird that he chose to build a large dock in Weiyang Lake...