Mage? Spell Engineer!

Bungee jumping can indeed relieve stress, and what he just saw must not be jumping off a building. Rorschach gathered his mood and followed Master Eugenie into her office. Another gargoyle swayed over and brought tea.

"Thanks."

The gargoyle can also speak, with a harsh drake voice: "You're welcome."

"You are quite polite to the devil." Elizabeth covered her mouth and chuckled.

Rorschach explained his purpose and expressed that he wanted to build a personal mage tower in the Kingdom of Byrne. According to the guild's promise to him, could the Tower of Secrets help?

"It depends on what type you want. If Master Rorschach plans to live alone in the mountains, then we are willing to support you. If you want to recruit apprentices, we need to be more cautious.

"According to convention, the mage who leaves the Tower of Secrets is good enough, and we are willing to support him or her in building his or her own tower, but we must recruit students here and assign apprentices to them. Not only that, we also need to conduct assessments on these towers."

This is equivalent to being affiliated to a research laboratory under the name of the Tower of Secrets. If that's all, Luo Xia can stay comfortably in the research building in the royal capital. Why is he here looking for trouble?

"What if I don't accept this form?"

"Then we can provide materials and a team to build a mage tower, so that your tower has a protective magic circle, a tower spirit that is beginning to gain intelligence, and we can help you negotiate with the local lords and management agencies, etc. All of the above will cost money. But you should know that no matter how much you pay for the goods and services related to Bain Magic, this is the only one that will be sold."

"Great, money is not a problem. The problem is that I don't have that much money now." Rorschach almost choked her to death. Elizabeth wiped her mouth and asked, "How much money do you have now?"

Does this depend on your own trump card? "My mentor, Archmage Kano, is willing to support it, and I also have some funds at my disposal."

"If Master Kano is willing to support you, I think a mid-sized tower can be built. Fifty thousand gold eagle coins is the right price. It can be repaid in multiple installments, but with interest. If you have collateral, we can introduce you to a bank. loan."

No, this is a magic tower or a sales department. At first, Rorschach thought that his disposable assets were about one hundred thousand gold francs, which converted into sixty thousand golden eagle coins. If he sold the shares of Hercules, he would be able to get it all at once. After paying it off, looking back now, it feels like I'm buying a house.

"Can I make a down payment and then get a loan?"

"Yes, that's what it means."

"I have the ability to pay it off in one lump sum, but at the moment I prefer to make an investment, so I don't have the money 'right now.'" Rorschach mentioned his plan to build a factory in partnership with Valuana businessmen and the Bardorom Chamber of Commerce. and mentions the frustrations encountered at the glass guild.

But Elizabeth shook her head: "It seems that Rorschach doesn't know the rules of the game here."

The three pillars in Byrne are the "Brewing Guild", "Wool Guild" and "Dyeing and Spinning Guild", but looking at the entire Duma League, the four strongest guilds are the "Bar Association" and "Banking Federation" "The Brotherhood of Masons" and the "Guild of Materials", and the first three guilds are all under the control of the Tower of Secrets.

Well, the law is also a law, and a mage should learn the law. There is nothing wrong with it! No wonder it can provide services such as construction, loans and negotiation with lords, and the co-authors are all in-house stores.

The fact is that all three industries require high-quality people, and the long apprenticeship system in the Tower of Secrets makes it difficult for these people to continue learning. It has sent a large number of talents to the legal industry, finance industry, and civil engineering. The reasons behind it are really heartwarming.

"Do you know Master Granol? What is the connection between the Masonic Brotherhood in Valoisana and the one here?"

"The Stonemasons Brotherhood is an association that grew up with the Magic Guild. It worships the Creator and advocates mutual help among its members. According to research, it was born in Istany. There are now five major guilds, parallel to each other.

"The Stonemasons Brotherhood here is more like a construction guild in the literal sense, but as far as I know there are also members in the Tower of Secrets. Most of the craftsmen are in the outer ring, and there is another organization in the inner ring. The leader of the outer ring calls the guild. Long, the leader of the inner circle is called the 'Lord'."

It sounds very dark. Rorschach suddenly thought that Granol was the "President". Could it be that there was another "Lord" of the Brotherhood in the Holy Kingdom?

Finally, Elizabeth concluded: "So what I want to say is that we will not take the initiative to change the current situation, and of course we will not hinder your plan, Master Rorschach. I wish you good luck."

Although the negotiation has not been completed, the "academic visit" still needs to be done. The contact between Kano and the Tower of Secrets was somewhat hasty. Rorschach first visited briefly and ate in the restaurant on the 50th floor of the Tower of Secrets.

"I apologize in advance. I don't understand table manners. When I was a child, I would rather go horseback riding in the mountains than attend ladies' classes." Eugenie took off her wide pointed hat, revealing her waterfall-like long hair, which fell to her shoulders in waves. Upper and back, and her hair color is exactly the same as Bart's fiancée.

"No one cares about that here, beautiful lady." Damn it, why don't you use a Valuana accent so proudly?

"I hope the dishes here are as authentic as your accent." The female mage smiled, accompanied by several other teachers from the Tower of Secrets. The lunch was the dishes of the Holy Kingdom.

In the afternoon, Rorschach was invited to give a lecture in the auditorium of the Tower of Secrets. When communicating with Kano, the master reminded Rorschach to be prepared, and the lecture titled "The Relationship between Evocation Spells and Material Heat Movement" began.

As soon as they heard the speech of "a fifth-level mage under the age of eighteen", the apprentices immediately occupied the auditorium. Even the mage could only stand behind and listen. There was no other meaning. The Tower of Secrets had not appeared in more than thirty years. He is an official mage who is less than twenty years old, and now there are two people on the platform.

Moreover, Rorschach is still an intermediate mage, so the apprentices are even more curious about his physical structure.

"So there is a certain similarity between the way magic intervenes in the kinetic energy of matter particles at the microscopic scale and the kinetic energy of objects at the macroscopic scale.

"However, for spells like [Freezing Ray], we need to continue to explore how the spell works. Whether the kinetic energy is consumed or offset, or whether it is transformed by magic into other forms of existence."

Thunderous applause.

"The above are some of my personal opinions. If you have any questions, you can ask them."

Silence fell.

Big eyes stare at small eyes.

Eugenie continued to speak to resolve the embarrassment: "The evocation system is indeed an area that most apprentices and mages of the Tower of Secrets have not explored in depth. Thank you Master Rorschach for broadening our horizons. It is very enlightening."

The second round of applause was followed by a second silence.

Liven up the atmosphere. Luo Xia cleared her throat: "No one has any questions. Let me ask everyone. Okay, it's just you."

Rorschach pointed to a boy with a round face and freckles on his face: "There is a kind of bread in Valois that is about this thick and this long. How many can you eat on an empty stomach?" Rorschach made tiles with his hands. The size of the melee weapons Louva can use.

The boy thought about it seriously: "Five."

I ordered it for a big eater. Rorschach shook off the baggage: "Wrong answer. You are not fasting after eating the first one. Thank you, apprentice."

Finally there was applause and laughter.

The next day, the apprentice who was called excitedly relayed a joke imported from Valois to the classmates who did not attend the lecture: "How many loaves of this size can you eat on an empty stomach?"

The female classmate thought about it: "What's wrong with you two?" She found that the other person's expression became depressed.

"That's not right, you should answer five like I did then!"