My Magic Age

For the people of El City, autumn is the season of harvest. At the coming-of-age ceremony, people offer the fullest wheat ears and the sweetest golden apple wine to the goddess of harvest, praying for the goddess to bless the people living on this land.

In the eyes of the Green people, the goddess of harvest is the god who controls agriculture, animal husbandry and reproduction. The northerners of the Green Empire are willing to hold weddings in autumn, which means that food is abundant.

Autumn in El City is the busiest season. The large tracts of golden apple forests in the mountains require a lot of labor. Fruit farmers will pick these golden apples, and every El person will brew golden apple wine. The sour golden apple wine will become extremely mellow after more than three years of cellaring.

A fiery red sun broke through the clouds on the horizon, letting the sun shine over the mountains and fields. The lush golden apple trees were full of fruits. It hadn't rained for a week. The leaves of the bamboo grass on the hills had turned yellow. Several yellow sheep were tied on the hillside. Not far away, two children squatted on a small mound, holding wooden sticks and concentrating on poking ant nests.

I hurried to the city in the carriage. Today was an important day for Tracy's coming-of-age ceremony. If I was late, she might go crazy.

I remembered that last time she was in a bad mood, she helped me clean the laboratory table in the attic bedroom, and knocked over the magic-sealing box containing the Fire Gathering Scroll, and almost burned my whole room. Fanny and Ryant were very supportive of my learning inscriptions. They thought that being an inscriptionist was better than being a magician. At least an inscriptionist would not have to go to the battlefield in the future. If they joined the army, they would only need to make magic scrolls or repair magic pattern structures in the arsenal in the rear. At least it was safe.

The thing that made them most proud was not that I became an outstanding magic apprentice or had my own shop in the city and the business was booming. It was that at a barbecue party held on the street, Harvey, the chef who lived at the eastern end of the street, roasted a whole sheep with the fire scroll I drew, and the sauce was prepared by me personally. Yes, I may not have learned magic herbalism very well, but I have a lot of experience in which plants can be made into seasonings.

At that party, after tasting the sauce I prepared, Chef Harvey said to me sincerely: "Giga, if you were not a distinguished magician (in fact, I am still a magic apprentice), you might become a great chef."

In fact, I really want to tell him: In my previous life, I was a kitchen cook who could mix cold dishes and carve radish flowers.

However, Fanny, who was helping in the kitchen, obviously disagreed with Chef Harvey's statement. She proudly put her arm around my shoulders and said to the neighbors: "Even if our Giga was not a magic apprentice, she would definitely become an excellent warrior."

"Yes, a swordsman like Sister Tracy!" A little boy from the neighbor's house who looked familiar but had forgotten his name echoed. It seemed that Tracy had a high prestige among them. I thought that among these children, Anne should have the highest prestige, but it was obvious that the children did not buy Anne's account. It seemed that she had faded out of this circle for a long time, and the children had forgotten who she was.

"Of course, your Ryan is an excellent swordsmanship instructor!" The speaker was a charming lady. It was said that she had a complicated relationship with Fanny and Ryan. Now she was the owner of a wine shop. The golden apple wine brewed by her man tasted very soft, just like his personality. He would not care if his wife boasted about other men like this, even if that man was his lover in his girlhood.

Ryan, who was standing under the sycamore tree not far away and drinking with the men, smiled and shook his head, hugged the owner of the wine shop and said: "Ji Jia will not learn Western rapier from me. The madness in his bones is more like a berserker. I am very glad that he has become a magic apprentice now."

Sitting in the carriage and recalling this warm scene, the corners of my mouth could not help but curl up. I think Tracy must be a little impatient now!

But what can we do? Marvin just received the first order from our blacksmith shop a few days ago. It was ten magic rune metal plates customized by the owner of the Magic Caravan Business. For the first order, Marvin and I both attached great importance to it. However, during the stage of casting the metal plates, some problems occurred one after another, so that the blacksmith master only made the magic rune plates last night. Then I needed to rush the magic rune plates out overnight. I had been up all night, and now I had to rush back to the city to attend Tracy's coming-of-age ceremony. This kind of life is really busy.

A week ago, Marvin rented a very cheap house in the slums beside the moat outside the city. The reason why the houses here are cheap is that winter will come in three or two months. At that time, everything outside the moat of El City will be unprotected. This will be the first target of plunder by the barbarians on the snowy tundra. Perhaps some brave barbarians will live in these houses as temporary residences. Therefore, the poor and vagrants in the civilian areas need to save enough money in the last two months and hide in the city of El to face this long winter.

The houses along the moat of El City will become worthless after autumn. Many houses will be idle. Few people dare to live in the civilian area in winter. Those barbarians have left too much killing on this land in the past few decades. These hatreds cannot be resolved and must be repaid with blood. Just like the battle in early spring this year, the loser must pay the price of life. All the young barbarians of the Celtic tribe died by the Galloping Horse River.

Of course, I also considered that this place is close to the coal yard and the moat, and there are other reasons. There are two auxiliary resources that must be used to open a blacksmith shop. The first is coke that can melt metal, and the second is the water source required for quenching. The blacksmith shop is backed by the coal yard and close to the moat. The geographical location is very convenient. So, Marvin and I opened a very small blacksmith shop here and hired a blacksmith, who was said to be a wanderer who had traveled in this dwarf country. His skills were not as good as he boasted, but after discussing with Marvin, we still hired him and promised to rent a house for him in the city if he did a good job.

There are some unspeakable reasons for this. In such a harvest season, any laborer in El City will not have trouble finding a job, not to mention that we hired a craftsman with blacksmith skills.

My requirements for this blacksmith are not high. I don’t need him to make horseshoes and forge iron nails. As long as he has the skills of smelting, he only needs him to pour molten steel into a specific sand mold, cast it into a steel plate with connecting lugs, then use a file to grind off the burrs on it, throw it into the magic red copper pool that has melted into liquid to take a bath, and plate a thin layer of copper on the surface of the steel plate. That’s enough.

These magic copper ores were transported back from Xinliu Valley at a very low cost, and the iron ingots were bought from other blacksmith shops. There is already a fixed market price. It is said that the process is simple and the raw materials are sufficient, so nothing should go wrong, but many problems have arisen. Many trivial problems are like gourds soaked in water. If you press one end, the other end will float up.

According to the practice of Yekis scholars, the process of making magic rune plates is different from the traditional process. It is an improvement on the traditional magic rune plates. However, since the process level of our blacksmith shop cannot be compared with the blacksmith workshop of the college, problems have arisen one after another.

The traditional magic rune plates are made of thin steel plates forged by blacksmiths with hammers. This kind of steel plate has been hammered countless times and has a certain strength and toughness. However, our metal plates are cast from casting molds, so that the foot and lug can be cast directly on the steel plate, which can simplify the work intensity of the blacksmiths, but the disadvantages are also very obvious. The cast steel plates are very brittle and have poor strength.

After finally building a forging table powered by a large waterwheel in the workshop and solving this problem, I found that the copper plating process of the steel plate was not perfect, and the magic copper plating layer could not be completely covered on the steel plate. Later, under the guidance of the blacksmith master in the college laboratory, a certain amount of co-solvent was added to the magic copper metal solution, and a layer of catalyst was coated on the surface of the steel plate, so that this new problem could be solved. As a result, the drawing of the rune metal plate was delayed until last night.

I stayed up all night and drew sixteen rune metal plates in a row, and finally succeeded in ten.

Drawing magic runes on metal plates is very different from the difficulty of magic patterns on magic scrolls. The former requires more extensive knowledge.

Fortunately, all these problems were solved, and I was able to get away to participate in Tracy's coming-of-age ceremony.

Xinliu Valley has brought over another batch of low-level magic herbs. Marvin counted the number of these magic herbs according to the order requirements of the Magic Academy Laboratory and sent them to the Magic Academy. I didn't expect that the value of the magic scrolls I got in exchange for the first cooperation was exactly the same as the value of those low-level magic herbs. Our grocery store finally has a very stable source of magic scrolls besides me, which is also something worth celebrating.

I stretched out my hands and rubbed my stiff face hard, pushed open the caravan and looked out the window. There were still dewdrops on the wild grass on the roadside. At this time, I'm afraid that the gate of El City has not been opened yet. From the perspective of time, it's still in time. The morning mist has not yet dissipated. Between the mountains, it dances with the light morning breeze, and it looks like a burning flame under the reflection of the morning sun.

The exquisite red light leather armor customized for Tracy was placed in the box next to me. It was a one-piece light leather armor dress. The entire battle skirt was sewn with a complete double-headed fire snake leather. The leatherworker was indeed the most famous leatherworker in El City. The leather armor he made was not only exquisite and beautiful in appearance, but also very comprehensive in protection ability. Basically, the most important parts of the body would be protected. The entire leather armor was sewn with magic rune thread, and a circle of black lace was inlaid on the leather armor.

The fire snake scales on the leather armor were reinforced on the leather again. Each piece of fire snake scale contained a ball of magic flame. The faint pressure of the second-level magic beast double-headed fire snake lizard emanated from the leather armor. I still remember that last night, the leatherworker made a last effort with great regret. Trying to persuade me to keep the leather armor and never ruin such a good piece of leather armor...

I closed the lid of the gift box with satisfaction, hoping that Tracy would like it.

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I looked at Sister Guoguo sitting in the caravan infatuatedly. Sometimes I would talk to her foolishly, but she always looked confused. Only when the water element condensed in my palm would her eyes become smart and she would come over to swallow the water element.

Yes, Sister Guoguo's water element spirit is constantly growing. I found that after she absorbed the water magic element, her body would continue to become solid, but she still only acted on instinct.

Two days ago, Teacher Heidi came to me specifically for the main purpose of visiting Sister Guoguo. Originally, she wanted to call Sister Guoguo back to her side, but she tried many ways and failed. Before leaving, Teacher Heidi told me that she was going to the Ivory Tower Magic Library in Schloit City to find some information to see if there was any way to repair the broken soul. If Sister Guoguo could never wake up, this water element spirit was just a shell that imprisoned Sister Guoguo's soul.

Unfortunately, there is still no news from the letter I sent to Qiang Bahe. He must be following Viru to search for the evil wizard Mondtroya all over the world. Unfortunately, he probably doesn't know until now that this powerful evil wizard has died in my hands.

If there is no relevant answer in the Ivory Tower Library in Sloyt City, I think the trip to the imperial capital should be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

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In the second semester of the first year of the magic academy, I opened an inscription class and began to immerse myself in the world of magic. I lived a two-point one-line life between the magic school and home every day. Those runes and magic patterns that are boring in the eyes of others have become part of my daily life. Finally, before the first snow of this winter, I successfully promoted to a seventh-level magic apprentice.

In the eyes of others, it seems that I should learn the first kind of magic, but those who are familiar with me know that I have at least three water magic skills.

The winter is cold and long. The people here not only have to resist the severe cold weather, but also have to avoid being hunted by the barbarians from the far north. Those barbarians come from the other side of the frozen Horse River all over the mountains and plains, and they run faster than horses.

Women don’t have to do heavy work throughout the winter. It is the best season for reproduction. In the cold winter with heavy snow, newlyweds hide in warm houses and work hard day and night to reproduce. This is the winter in the province of Sloyte. It arrives as expected with the barbarians on the ice and snow tundra.

In the snow-covered mountains, barbarians can be seen everywhere...