Arcane Rebirth

"Lighting staff?"

Clifford looked at Jialan with wide eyes.

Jialan nodded and waved the short metal staff in his hand: "It is an alchemy product very similar to the Yongming Light Staff. It has lower illumination brightness, shorter duration, and a relatively low manufacturing cost for one-time use...

It has similar properties to a torch, but can last for more than 6 hours."

Clifford's eyes flashed: "Can you mass produce it?"

"It is not difficult to make such low-level alchemy products, but it takes a lot of time. If I rely on myself alone, the lighting rod I can make is barely enough for my own use, and it is not good for external use."

Jialan thought for a moment in embarrassment: "After all, alchemy products are different from low-level potions that do not require high abilities. It is impossible to train ordinary employees to assist in production. Besides, I personally don't have that much time to be responsible for manufacturing alchemy products."

Clifford laughed: "Then what if there is a group of alchemists to help you?" Jialan raised her eyebrows in surprise.

"New Sarn, the city of a thousand towers in the Right Sword Coast of Breland County, is a famous alchemy holy land in the seven continents, and the headquarters of the Alchemy Guild is also there!"

Clifford chuckled and said: "We can hire a group of new Sarn alchemists and alchemy workers. Although they need to be paid a high salary, if we can build an alchemy workshop, any investment will be worthwhile.

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Hearing that he could recruit alchemists, Jialan couldn't help but be moved. His own power was too weak, and it was too time-consuming to create some items, such as the exotic constructs he was trying to improve recently.

If the equipment can have a group of helpers, the progress will be improved hundreds or thousands of times.

Jialan thought for a while, for future development, it is still necessary to establish an alchemy laboratory, and nodded. With his current ability, most of the alchemy products he can produce are low-level, but in the early stages of development, it should be

That's enough.

He doesn't seem to be under the protection of his teacher now. He has nothing but nothing. Don't look at the prospects of Kolai Pharmacy. With the current production capacity alone, the annual output value has reached a huge sum of nearly 30 million quintals.

But the problem is that after deducting the cost of Kolai Pharmacy, and the reserved working capital and development funds, the money left is an amount that can be withdrawn at will, and it is not even enough to complete the infrastructure he envisioned for Kolai Pharmacy.

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If we really follow Jialan's habit in the previous era when he was in charge of more than a dozen super large experimental bases for his teacher, it would not even be enough to buy one of the laboratory equipment. Just a large alchemy experimental base in the alchemy experimental base.

The construction cost of the furnace probably exceeds 30 million gold coins.

So let alone the money-consuming hardware facilities, 30 million gold a year, even if used as trial project funding, is not enough to cause disaster for several projects.

Especially when you encounter crazy mages who are trying to build astral passages, or who are trying to reproduce the technology of the ancient Neisser Arcana civilization, then a little money is not worth it. Jialan's former civilization will review the mages' project applications for the teachers.

When I was writing a plan, I met a man who planned to study "Neisser Energy Core" and build a floating continent...

Just like the words that the mages use to mock themselves: "The mages are the richest people in the world, but the poorest people in the world are richer than the mages, because as a magus, you are always short of money!"

In comparison, Jialan now has almost nothing, and he can be regarded as an example of a spell caster who started from scratch.

Due to the lack of various arcane infrastructure, his arcane strength has been theoretically unavailable and has improved extremely slowly. So far, he has only returned to the peak state of a high-ranking mage apprentice. He has never been able to break through the rank limit and regain his former level of 1

The strength of a high-level mage.

The advancement of a mage is not like what some guys imagine. You can become a master by accumulating combat experience by defeating little monsters. Almost any successful mage relies on his profound knowledge and huge accumulation of experimental data.

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Without the data support that the Kelanbao Library can provide, and the data accumulated by the predecessors of various mages over thousands of years, even a genius like Jialan, with only a few theories in his head, can only wonder at the vast ocean of mysteries.

, it is really difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice... Well, this exotic slang describes it very vividly.

Clifford had no idea that Jia Lan would have so many thoughts running through his mind in such a short period of time. He was just testing the proposal and did not expect that Jia Lan would really agree.

He has long taken a fancy to Jialan's super abilities in the fields of medicine, alchemy, enchantment, etc. This is reflected in the various potions and alchemy products Jialan offers, and the basic products on the market that do not have private property rights.

It's completely different and you can tell that there must be a huge group of high-level magicians behind him.

As long as we can obtain a few rare alchemy product formulas from this group of high-level magicians, such as the lighting staff that Jialan just mentioned, it will be enough to support an alchemy workshop and support an alchemy store.

Unlike his old friend Clark, who focuses on the pharmacy industry that is beneficial to the mercenary guild, Clifford has a bigger plan!

In this pioneering era that advocates adventure, industries such as archeology, exploration, and the development of pre-civilization ruins all require a large number of special alchemical products and magic equipment, which ordinary craftsmen cannot satisfy adventurers and mercenaries.

Once he can get involved in this blank market full of hungry demand and get involved in this high-end field, what he can gain is not only the gain in terms of profits, but even greater, the improvement in fame, prestige, and influence. What do you call him?

It's okay not to be obsessed with it.

Both parties had their own needs, so naturally they hit it off immediately. Clifford didn't even bother to host the regular auction that had already started, and planned to discuss it with Jialan, hoping to build the alchemy workshop tomorrow.

But Jialan smiled and comforted the passionate Clifford, saying that he still needed to make some preparations for the establishment of the alchemy workshop, and would inform him when the time came.

However, he did not intend to leave Clifford idle. He was naturally responsible for sending people to New Sarn, the city of a thousand towers, to recruit alchemists and alchemy craftsmen, and to stock up on various conventional alchemical raw materials.

After finally calming down the excited President Clifford, Jialan discovered that the auction had already begun. While casually watching the auction activities in the auction hall below from the balcony of the VIP reception room, she mentioned the topic of Clifford's business just now.

The Hammer of Eternity scrap warehouse that Ford mentioned.

After Clifford was stunned for a moment, he remembered that judging from the previous situation, this young magician not only had considerable strength in the fields of medicine, alchemy and enchantment, but also seemed to have great abilities in the fields of archeology and identification.

Extraordinary abilities made him involuntarily look forward to the things in the Hammer of Eternity's waste warehouse.

Those items are all items received by the Hammer of Eternity Auction House in its auctions over the years. Most of them are odd items whose value cannot be determined after appraisal by appraisers.

For items like this whose origin and function cannot be confirmed, usually if the bidder insists on auctioning them, the auction house will suggest that they conduct a "zero reserve price auction" and place them in several small auction houses in the Hammer of Eternity.

It is for some rich people who want to try their luck on Taobao. Maybe if they are lucky, someone will be willing to spend money to take pictures and collect them.

However, more than 99% of these items cannot escape the fate of being unsold. Except for a very small number of bidders who are willing to pay expensive appraisal fees and auction fees to take the items back, the vast majority of bidders simply

They don't even want the failed auction items, and pay them directly to the Hammer of Eternity as auction fees.

This "zero reserve price auction" format was specially created by the Eternal Hammer CEO in order to compete with several other large auction houses for market share.

First of all, the "zero reserve price auction" has almost no operating costs. It is nothing more than freeing up a few small auction rooms and regularly putting out those weird items. No one can tell whether a few rare items will emerge among those weird items.

It's a mysterious good thing that no one knows about. Finding one out of a thousand is considered a profit.

Secondly, this format is also to cultivate a customer base. Most of the bidders who choose the "zero reserve price auction" are adventurers and mercenaries. They can't afford the appraisal fee for some strange trophies they obtained during their adventures.

Often they can only be sold at very low prices on street stalls like those in flea markets.

These low-level mercenaries and adventurers will always grow up, and there is no guarantee that there will be a few famous big shots, and the Eternal Hammer who once "helped" them will also be trusted by them and become the eternal hammer.

As a die-hard customer of the Hammer, if they have something really good in their hands, their first choice is to send it to the Hammer of Eternity.

Why not use low-cost operating methods to cultivate a customer base?

Since the appraisers of the auction house can occasionally find a few good things from this pile of worthless unsold items, it is difficult to throw them away directly. Over time, such strange items that have been unsold will become

More and more were accumulated, and some warehouses had to be set aside for storage.

Although it is just a worthless weird thing, it is much better than the rags in the flea market anyway. It can be regarded as the best among rags.

So as soon as Jialan expressed interest in those things, Clifford immediately made the decision to hire Jialan as the special appraiser of the Eternal Hammer, specifically responsible for appraising those unsold items.

And Clifford promised that if a good item is identified, both parties will share it 50/50 after deducting the auction cost after auctioning it. If it is an item that Jialan needs, he will pay Jialan at the cost price as a reward.

Just as he was talking, Jialan's eyes were suddenly attracted to an item being auctioned in the auction house below. (To be continued.)