My Magic Age

The arrival of the rainy season means that the water of the Benma River will begin to rise slowly. The river water flowing down from the Pai Plateau will fill the entire Xinghu Grassland. When the entire Xinghu Grassland is saturated with water, the excess river water will rush downstream along the Benma River. There is a dam that winds for nearly 700 kilometers on the south bank of the Benma River, which belongs to the territory of the Green Empire, but the north bank, which belongs to the territory of the barbarian tribe, is a vast grassland and wetland.

The abundant rainwater saturates the soil. The barbarians hate walking on the wetlands very much. They have almost no habit of wearing shoes. Staying in the wetlands for too long will soak their feet. Therefore, the summer is in the north. The barbarian tribes will continue to migrate northward and they will avoid the rainy season of the Benma River.

For the city of El, such a summer is full of vitality.

The caravans coming down from the Pai Plateau have injected new vitality into the city of El. The huge wealth they bring will be shared by the merchants in the city of El, and it can also bring some new business opportunities to the city of El. At the same time, it means that the civilians living in the city of El have more employment opportunities. In such a prosperous summer, as long as hardworking people in El City will not starve to death. Of course, if they are foreigners, it is another matter, at least they have to do the hardest work.

This year's summer seems to be particularly long. Standing under the shade of the trees, you can feel the heat waves from the slate scorched by the scorching sun on the street.

The five stalls outside Si Pei's ice shop are crowded with people buying red bean ice. I didn't expect the red bean ice business to be so good. A month ago, Si Pei only opened up a small corner in the grocery store. Later, because I understood the skill of "ice wall", Marvin rented the backyard of the grocery store and converted the empty house there into a simple ice storage. The most valuable things in the ice storage are four ice-gathering scrolls. These four scrolls gather water and condense ice in the ice storage day and night.

If Teacher Heidi knew that the original reason I learned to draw ice-gathering scrolls was to open an ice shop, I wonder if she would be angry and freeze me into an ice sculpture and put it at the door of her office.

With sufficient ice supply and huge business opportunities, Marvin also bought the shop next to the grocery store. After a simple renovation, it became the leading ice shop in the small market outside the War College. Now, Si Pei, who is in charge of the operation, has twelve employees, but he is still very busy. The red bean ice here is good and cheap. You can buy a small cup of fruit flavor for just one copper coin, and a large cup for three copper coins. The shaved ice is also piled with red bean paste and a large spoonful of honey.

In the hot summer, some students in the college would rather skip lunch at noon and rush over to eat a bowl of red bean ice to cool off.

Considering that it is not pleasant to stand on the street in the hot summer, Si Pei built a pergola outside his stall and set up some benches and square tables under the pergola for people to rest. Unexpectedly, this simple idea made the ice shop business three times better.

As the end of the semester approaches, many students in the college have begun to prepare for summer field training. The Fire Gathering Scroll is the best-selling scroll in the grocery store recently.

Si Pei placed a bowl of red bean shaved ice in front of me and glanced at Ma Wen, which meant to ask him: You see Ji Jia has eaten it, don’t you want to eat a bowl?

Ma Wen pointed to the ice shop owner who was waiting outside anxiously and said to her: "He has been waiting for you for a long time, go and get him some ice."

Looking at the diligent Si Pei, she was almost too busy to touch the ground, her ruddy face was covered with a layer of crystal sweat, and she didn't even have time to drink a sip of water. She was also obedient to Ma Wen, and said to Ma Wen enviously: "Seeing how happy you are now, I am really a little envious."

Ma Wen pouted and looked at me with disdain, waved his hand and said: "Don't come on, I really envy you. Before, Ying Li was too low-key in our class, and everyone misjudged her. Now everyone is familiar with each other. Even if we can't be sure of her identity, at least we know that she must be a rich lady. Jia, tell me the truth, are those girlfriends around Ying Li her personal maids?"

Looking at the gossip fire burning in his eyes, I really don't understand how he usually keeps a serious look.

Seeing that I didn't answer, he was not discouraged and continued to ask me: "I heard that some noble ladies in some aristocratic families are very reserved before getting married, and they also have to consider the honor of the family. Some old aristocratic families have many rules. Have you ever kissed her?"

I tapped the plate with red bean ice with a silver spoon impatiently. Marvin smiled and waved his hand to indicate that he would not mention it.

He carefully checked a pile of fire-gathering scrolls to make sure that the magic array in each scroll could operate normally. Then he tied the scrolls again with straw ropes made of horse lotus leaves, and carefully put them into exquisite paper boxes. This is the back room of the grocery store, where Marvin usually rests. There is a set of women's light armor hanging on the hanger in the corner, which should be the training uniform of Si Pei in the academy.

Seeing that I had almost finished eating, Marvin got down to business and said to me, "The three magic rune plates on the counter were bought by the fat owner of the magic shop on the corner yesterday. Jia, the price of our rune plates seems to be a bit low. You don't know how disgusting he looked at that time, wanting to laugh but not daring to. I went to other shops to observe. Those blank copper-plated metal plates can be sold for about fifty silver coins. We only sell them for seventy silver coins. Are you sure there is a profit?"

Not only is it profitable, such a one-foot-square iron plate only requires five silver nickels to buy from the blacksmith shop. Take it to the alchemist's workshop and let the alchemist thinly plate it on it. A layer of magical red copper only costs twenty silver. Such a A copper-plated metal plate can be sold for fifty silver in a magic shop. There are many reasons for this. In short, this business itself is huge profits. In addition, the underground world of Xinliu Valley provides us with a large amount of magical red copper, allowing us to make runes. The cost of metal plates has dropped a lot.

"There is still a big surplus." I explained the reason to Marvin and talked about some knowledge about the magic rune board.

The magic rune board is a new thing for Marvin. Many magicians don't deliberately understand this kind of thing, let alone Marvin, who has just been a magic apprentice for less than four months.

Magic rune plates are a product of a mixture of inscriptions and magic metals. Magic rune metal plates usually only appear in magic item production workshops or inscription masters' studios. It can be said that its market is very small. , its use is only used to make some magic instruments, such as magic caravans, magic lamps, magic doors, etc., and such magic instruments can use rune metal plates.

When Scholar Yerkes took me to the rune metal plate, it was originally to modify his magic puppet. At that time, he used a large amount of magic metal, so many special magic runes could be drawn on the skeleton of the magic puppet. It was used to improve the various performances of magic puppets. Later, the actual drawing of rune metal plates was Because of the magic pet Theresa, the magic apprentice, Yerkes suddenly had the idea to make a combined magic pattern structure for the rock golem. Then we worked day and night for nearly a month, and finally made one The combined shoulder pads were made and the effect was very good, but because the cost was too high, the experiment was forced to be discontinued.

Later, although I brought back a large amount of magic copper from Xinliu Valley, it was a pity that I could not complete the remaining magic pattern construction until Scholar Yerkes left El City.

Originally, Scholar Yerkes wanted to take those rune metal plates to the imperial capital, but considering the long distance, he gave up. Some belonging to the college should naturally be left to the college, while others belong to our private individuals, so Yerkes left those rune tablets to me.

I had no place to dispose of these metal plates covered with magic runes, so I simply took them to the grocery store and tried to sell them. Unexpectedly, a week later, the rune metal plates placed in the corner of the counter were actually sold. Went.

"His family makes magic phonographs. What's the use of the three metal plates of the anti-gravity magic array?" I asked Marvin a little confused.

Marvin shrugged his shoulders, saying that he couldn't understand it, and then said casually: "Maybe it's because it's cheap?"

"Maybe!" I said absently. "If those rune metal plates are slightly modified and a magic crystal groove is embedded in the core, they can be installed on a magic caravan. The current large magic caravan is too heavy and does not have an 'anti-gravity field' and a 'light body' technique. "It is difficult for ordinary horses to pull such a magic circle."

"Maybe we should hire an alchemist..." Marvin suggested.

I suggested to Marvin: "You have the final say on this, but why don't we hire a potion master? We still have so many low-level magic herbs in our warehouse?"

He said a little embarrassedly: "Jia, I want to try to learn magic potion. Although I know that my talent is a little bit behind, if you want to open a potion shop, potion masters will occupy a large part." For profit, instead of sharing the profits with outsiders, we should learn how to prepare magic potions ourselves..."

Until I walked out of the magic grocery store, my mind was still filled with Marvin's thoughts. I was thinking: This guy is born to be an excellent businessman.

Marvin also told me about what happened in the academy today. It is said that a group of warrior apprentices severely injured a fourth-year student named Abel in the academy. This fourth-year student was said to be a newly promoted student. As an outstanding student who is a formal soldier, the college is handling this matter seriously, but the specific situation has not been disclosed publicly. It is said that the guard camp has come forward to officially bring Abel back to the guard camp.

In addition, last night, a group of civilian students broke into the former city lord's manor and had a fierce battle with the attendants of the noble students inside. Some of these civilian students who broke into the noble manor without permission were caught by the knights of the guard camp, while others took advantage of the chaos and escaped. Now the entire El City is arresting students who took advantage of the chaos to escape.

Things became very complicated overnight.

At first, many citizens felt that the honor of the nobility was inviolable, and those civilian students who trespassed on the aristocratic estates needed to be severely punished, and all of them should be sent to small border towns to build city walls. But things seem to be taking a turn for the better. Some people say that it was a trap set by aristocratic teenagers. They directed and staged a farce and set a trap for this group of unsophisticated students. The purpose was to force this group of civilians to become Outstanding students joined these noble families and became the followers of these noble youths.

One of the key figures was Abel, the organizer of the incident, but Abel denied adding hallucinogens to the golden cider and giving it to these civilian students.

However, the professional magic pharmacist in the guard camp found hallucinogens in the remaining golden cider, and the owner of the tavern denied that these hallucinogens came from the tavern. The reason was simple. The value of these hallucinogens themselves was more expensive than the golden cider. There was no reason for the tavern to do a losing business.

All signs pointed to the noble teenagers in the manor, and the reputation of the nobles in El City dropped to the lowest point in history.

Originally, the parents of the civilian students who committed crimes were still running around in the morning, preparing to ask a noble master to take their sons as followers to avoid being sent to the border town to repair the city wall. However, they heard that all this was a farce written and performed by the nobles themselves, just to make the excellent civilian students become the followers of the nobles.

Many upright civilians said that they would rather go to Puli to repair the city wall than to be followers of such nobles. Some students who successfully escaped from the manor spontaneously went to the guard camp to confess their crimes and asked the guard camp to send them to Puli to repair the city wall.

Originally, the guard camp needed to mobilize a large number of troops in the morning to search for the escaped students in the city of El. In the afternoon, these knights returned to their original posts with nothing to do.

This dramatic day, the civilian students were severely punished, but their reputation was not damaged. But what reputation do civilians want? Those noble teenagers who shot themselves in the foot were severely reprimanded by their families. Although the noble students won the struggle between the nobles and the civilians in the academy, this victory tarnished the reputation of the nobles, which is simply a stain that the nobles have to bear for the rest of their lives.

Many people said that this group of noble children did a stupid thing, but before the matter was settled, another big thing happened in the city of El...

When I went home at night, I found that many knights of the Guard Camp Knights gathered on the central street in the distance. They were all riding on horses and ready to go out of the city. I happened to see Bin standing at the gate of the courtyard, looking at the cavalry in the distance, and talking to himself: Is this another war...