My Magic Age

Nowadays, North Duisburg needs to provide 60,000 giant crossbow arrows to the Magic Seal Workshop every month. North Duisburg has a large turnover box, one box can hold 500 giant crossbow arrows. Every week, a ten-meter-long large magic caravan is loaded with 30 boxes of giant crossbow arrows and transported to the Rune Plate Workshop in the seventh district of the imperial capital. These giant crossbow arrows only stay in the Rune Plate Workshop for half a night before being transported to the Magic Seal Workshop in Xinliu Valley.

In addition, North Duisburg also provides 8,000 sets of base materials for the "Fire Gathering Technique" and "Miniature Tornado" rune copper plates every month. The huge amount of orders every month makes me a guest of honor in North Duisburg. Every time I come to North Duisburg, no matter how busy Count Robert is, he will put down his work and take some time to receive me in person.

In fact, I didn't come to North Duisburg this time to lower the price to Count Robert. I just wanted to add a large order to Count Robert, but Count Robert himself didn't believe it.

Almost all the seventeen lords who followed Prince Wales and wanted to make money from the war ordered a batch of giant crossbow arrows from me.

Yesterday, Marquis Haslaber came to the Royal Magic Academy to find me and brought me an order agreement for ordinary giant crossbow arrows. I never expected that he would find an order for 500,000 giant crossbow arrows in just three days.

You know, this is not the ordinary steel cluster arrows used by archers, but the giant crossbow arrows made of alloy steel mixed with black iron. Each giant crossbow arrow can be exchanged for about eight pots of ordinary steel cluster feather arrows. I don’t know where he got these orders from, but so many orders came at once. At least the two magic engraving machines in my magic seal workshop that are working day and night will work non-stop for four months before they can deliver all the orders of Marquis Haslaber.

I didn’t expect that some of these orders in my hand were actually snatched from North Duisburg.

If Earl Robert hadn’t told me, I wouldn’t have known that I had become the fourth largest supplier of giant crossbow arrows in the imperial capital without knowing it.

Of course, I have always believed that sooner or later I will become the largest purchaser of giant crossbow arrows in North Duisburg and even the entire imperial capital.

Because these dual-attribute giant crossbow arrows are completely made of countless failed products. In order to have more magic giant crossbow arrows, the base number of magic engravings can only be continuously increased. The excess ordinary non-attribute giant crossbow arrows must be dumped, even if the price is a little lower, it is better than rotting in the hands and recasting.

For these lords, as long as the quality of the giant crossbow arrows in my hands is good, they don’t care much about the patterns on them. The magic patterns engraved on the blade of the giant crossbow arrows can make these arrows look more upscale.

At present, an average of 25 giant crossbow arrows are engraved to successfully produce a dual-attribute magic arrow, and the success rate is only 4%. Some time ago, four old dwarf craftsmen told me that the success rate of engraving dual-attribute giant crossbow arrows can be increased to 5%, but after so long, I haven’t heard them talk about it again. I guess they must have encountered some obstacles.

Last month, I went to the Yello plane, and the affairs of the imperial capital were fully handed over to Alia. For a whole month, all the giant crossbow arrows and rune copper plate base materials from North Duisburg were transported to Alia's home. The rune plates and magic pattern spider silk produced from the Xinliu Valley Magic Seal Workshop were also directly moved to the warehouse of Alia's new family courtyard. When I returned from the Yello plane, the magic caravans from North Duisburg resumed delivering goods to the rune plate workshop.

The street in front of North Duisburg is always busy, and it seems very lively at any time. There are dozens of smaller blacksmith shops on both sides of the blacksmith workshop. Dozens of blacksmith shops here form a steel forest. The billowing smoke draws several white ribbons in the space, and the tails of some of the smoke even connect with the white clouds in the sky.

Count Robert and manager Goss waved goodbye to me at the gate of the Duisburg blacksmith workshop.

At this time, Chris Andy, the production supervisor of the North Duisburg Blacksmith Workshop, hurried to Count Robert and whispered a few words in his ear.

After listening to me, Count Robert made an apologetic gesture to me, indicating that there were other things to deal with in the workshop, and then hurried away with Goss.

Although I was curious about what happened in the workshop, it was inconvenient to go back, so I could only get on the magic caravan with Catalina.

When the caravan passed the intersection, I happened to see a caravan of thunder rhinos parked on the back street of North Duisburg. Each thunder rhinoceros as huge as a hill was carrying a lot of goods.

When the magic caravan passed the intersection of the back street, I asked the coachman to stop the caravan on the side of the road. Looking out the window, I found that there was a group of dwarves standing under the feet of the thunder rhinos. They were wearing heavy metal armor and dressed themselves like a can box, with a large iron hammer hanging around their waists.

Don't underestimate these dwarves. They are extremely strong, have a hot temper, and are as stubborn as a donkey, but every dwarf is a natural forging master and an excellent warrior.

Boxes of heavy goods were unloaded from the back of the Thunder Rhino, and each box made a dull sound when it fell to the ground.

When the last wooden box was unloaded from the back of the Thunder Rhino, the relieved Thunder Rhino let out a long low cry. Seeing the flags fluttering on the wooden houses on the backs of those Thunder Rhinos, I recognized them as the seven major dwarf kingdoms. The flag of King Stan among the monarchs. There is no doubt that these huge and heavy wooden boxes must contain fine steel ingots transported from the dwarf world.

Countless blacksmith workshops in the Green Empire have been repeatedly studying the composition of these top-quality steel ingots, but it turns out that only the fine steel ingots shipped from the Dwarf Kingdom are the best. Northern Duisburg has always been inextricably linked to the Dwarf Kingdom. King Stan has very close trade relations, and Count Robert has always told me about the full-coverage armor forged in their workshop. The steel materials are all shipped from the dwarf kingdom.

Seeing those thunder rhinoceros that seemed to be buried deep in my memory, I suddenly had the urge to climb on the back of the rhino and stay for a while. I opened the door of the carriage, walked out of the carriage, and stood in the bustling crowd. It was as if the world suddenly stopped, and a reversed time and space appeared around my body, as if I had returned to the time when I was a child living on the back of the Thunder Rhinoceros.

I spent almost three years on the back of the Thunder Rhino. At that time, although my body was eroded by the fire poison twice every morning and evening, it was the most relaxed and happy period for me. On the back of the Thunder Rhino, There is almost no need to think about what will happen tomorrow. I lie in bed every day, drink rice porridge, and listen to Old Kuru telling how delicious white bread is in the human world. The sun rises from the horizon in the morning and sets between the mountains in the evening. , although every night I don’t know whether I will see the sun again the next morning, but the days are carefree.

At that time, like all the orc children, I was not afraid of death, and Kurtz and I would try something we thought was brave every day.

But what about now?

I never even wanted to tell Kurtz that I was still alive. Every time I thought of that fascinating wasteland, there would be a kind of sourness and a touch of sadness flowing through my heart. It was an extremely bitter taste.

I stood at the intersection and paused. Catalina stood beside me and seemed to feel my strangeness, standing shoulder to shoulder with me.

Seeing dozens of Thunder Rhinoceros crowded in the several kilometers long backstreet, Catalina smiled and said to me: "I didn't expect to see these big guys here in the Imperial Capital. Do you want to go and have a look?"

I shook my head slightly and said to her: "Let's go, we have to rush to Qige's trading house to take a look."

After getting on the magic caravan, Catalina asked: "What happened at the trading company?"

I sat down on the soft leather sofa and poured myself a glass of golden cider. After drinking the wine in one gulp, I said to Catalina: "Aliya told me that the trading house now has a large backlog of canned luncheon meat and meat floss. brick."

"How could this happen?" Catalina asked in surprise. She sat down on the sofa opposite, her ruby-like eyes blinking constantly.

I said to Catalina: "A sales manager over there sold the low-level magic herbs and corpse fire oil in this batch to the southern lords. Probably the manager felt that if this matter was traced, I would not get any good results if I came down, so I took the employees who were involved in sales and transportation that day to resign."

"It's like this at the Rune Board Workshop, and it's like this at the trading company! Don't the managers here in the Imperial City have any credibility at all?" Katarina said angrily.

Katarina's words reminded me of Nick and Brennan.

Then she couldn't help but ask me: "How much money did they take away?"

I poked my eyebrows gently with my finger and said, "Maybe they are worried that they have the life to take it but not the life to spend it, and there are other employees in the business, so they didn't pocket the money for the goods, but everyone should take it." He received a generous benefit fee, but now the entire business is in a state of semi-paralysis. A large number of newly arrived canned meats and meat floss are waiting to be processed, and a new batch of employees must be recruited. Aaliya went early in the morning I have to rush over there to deal with these things. I have to show up at this time. "

Nick and Brennan took away all the hired craftsmen of the Rune Board Workshop, but they did not take away any of the assets of the Rune Board. Obviously they did not want to cause trouble for themselves.

At this time, Catalina suddenly thought of Qige. She complained to me: "There has been no news about Qige for so long since she arrived in Aetia."

Although I was also a little worried, I believed that there was nothing that Qige could not do, so I comforted her: "It is probably because the postmen from the two countries never communicate with each other, and the caravan's way of sending letters is too slow. She sent The letter must be on its way."

Catalina asked me again: "Then how do you plan to deal with this matter?"

I twirled the light stubble on my chin with my hand and said to Catalina: "This matter can't be settled like this after all. I want them to give it back to me if they take it from me, and they will vomit it if they eat it." "Come out, I don't believe that no one is responsible for this. Wait until I catch those who are behind this, and I will settle things with them."

"Hey, are you trying to make a big deal out of this matter? You are now considered a person of status in the Imperial Capital." Katarina said to me.

I patted my forehead with my hand, then sat up from the soft leather sofa, and said to Catalina: "Yes, if you don't tell me, I will forget it. I should go to the logistics department to redeem some merits that belong to me. Now these black magic crystals should be enough for me to be promoted to a first-class earl. Let’s get ready and we’ll go to the logistics department tomorrow.”

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Catalina smiled at me gently.

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When I walked into the trading house, I found that it was still messy inside. In the yard behind the trading house, there were a large number of canned luncheon meats and meat floss bricks wrapped in oil paper piled up. Some meat floss bricks were piled up like a hill and covered with some tarpaulins. I'm worried about getting wet when it rains.

Although there is very little rain in spring in the Imperial City, the warm and moist air from the Endless Sea blows over. Once it meets the cold air from the ice and snow tundra in the north, extreme convective weather will form, causing rainfall and sometimes even hail. For example, although canned luncheon meat is not afraid of getting wet in the rain, those pig iron cans will also become full of rust if they are exposed to the rain for too long.

As for the oil paper on the outer layer of the meat floss bricks, it is even more intolerant of rainwater soaking.

Alia and the maid Betty stood in the backyard corridor in person. The employees in the business were moving goods one by one into the warehouse of the business. There were only a few employees, making the business seem more and more deserted.

The door of the warehouse that was supposed to be filled with magic herbs was open. There were some elementary magic herbs scattered on the ground, and the entire warehouse was empty.

Similarly, a warehouse next door that stored corpse oil was also opened, and there was no longer any oil drum containing corpse oil.

Aaliya saw me walking in with Catalina from the outside, and hurriedly asked Betty to move two chairs out of the business.

"How is the situation?" He came to Aaliya and asked her.

Aaliya threw the quill in her hand into the ink bottle, supported her fair chin with both hands, and said to me with a smile: "It's not as bad as imagined, and all the payments have been made. It's just that the trading company needs more money." Just some people.”

"Have you found out who is causing trouble inside?" I asked Betty, the maid next to her.

Betty glanced at Aaliya calmly, and when she saw that there was no expression on Aaliya's face, she shook her head slightly.

Aaliya said to me: "You should focus on the backlog of canned luncheon meat and meat floss bricks now. Although these things are easy to store, there are not many empty warehouses in the business."

Then she said to me: "This week there is a magic airship from the town of Gurudin that will arrive at the airport town. I have to organize the manpower to prepare to receive the goods before the airship arrives."