Mage? Spell Engineer!

Otto suspended the meeting with Rorschach on the grounds of asking his father for instructions. Rorschach confidently enjoyed the scenery and drank tea in the manor.

The prince also took away some samples, but Rorschach advised him not to carry them himself. Even if it was nitrocellulose passivated with paraffin, there was no guarantee that this laboratory product would bring any "surprises."

While waiting, Mr. Hasay asked Rorschach worriedly: "If the royal family can really provide such a large amount of funds, what will be the equity structure of the new factory?"

"It's all mine. Whether it's 20,000 yuan or more, it can only be counted as the deposit provided by the kingdom." Luo Xia said shocking words while drinking tea.

"Ah?" Hasai was shocked. Who else could do this kind of business?

Rorschach was a little dissatisfied with his manager's attitude: "Mr. Hasay, isn't such a great alchemical invention valuable? You should take a look at Istany. Only after I went there in person did I know how well they protect intellectual property rights. I don’t know how high it is.”

Hasai could only nod in agreement.

Horn also wanted to say something to Rorschach, but found no chance. He saw Prince Otto appear again, bringing blank documents and a bank voucher.

"According to His Majesty Albert's will, Master Rorschach, you will get sufficient funds, but at the beginning you can only get an investment of six thousand gold eagle coins from the Ludwig family and a charter to enclose the land. Next, the kingdom A special bond will be issued, part of which will be used for the construction of the plant.

"Creditors have the right to supervise the whereabouts of funds, so both the royal family and creditors should have the right to know about the factory's construction progress, procurement, personnel and other matters."

The prince pushed the document in front of Rorschach: "Sign it."

"Your Highness, I think there are two fallacies in what you just said." Rorschach shook his head: "The factory belongs to BASF, so all contracts, deeds and other documents should be signed by the company's legal person, Mr. Angelhorn.

"Secondly, you said that the Kingdom will issue bonds. Then the Kingdom should be responsible for the creditors. How can we bear the responsibility? I ask you to have absolute trust in us and not to interfere with everything in the factory. Otherwise."

Rorschach put down his cup expressionlessly: "I can't guarantee what form smokeless gunpowder will appear in Byrne again. Your Highness, you don't want it to be used on the enemy's guns, right?"

Mages are all bastards with no glory to speak of! The prince wanted to curse, but he agreed to Rorschach's request.

There is only one bottom line given by His Majesty Albert - the relevant technology cannot be allowed to appear in places other than Byrne. As for money, the Ludwig family has always been generous in sponsoring art, and the art of war is also art!

The artist knelt and punched the royal family to ask for money, while Rorschach raised a 40-meter-long sword and put it on Otto's neck and shouted: Will you give me money? If you give me money, I'll sell you this precious sword. You're innocent!

Otto also said: Young Xia is really fair, I will buy it and I will give you cash.

Rorschach was not a professional. After he set the tone, he handed over the specific negotiations to the businessmen. He chatted with the eye-opening Bart: "When do you think those watchmakers will finish the work? Those gentlemen will not deliver the goods. I will be forced to continue occupying your bathtub."

Bart wanted to roll his eyes at Rorschach in front of his brother-in-law: "If you like it so much, I might as well give you the bathtub! Anyway, I don't live there now."

The money-grabbing operation ended with Mr. Horn having a sore hand when he signed in. At the end, he felt so dizzy that he almost lost his balance.

At Horn's insistence, he finally got a chance to be alone with Rorschach.

"What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?" Rorschach didn't want Basif's manager to collapse at this juncture.

"No! Alas, I should have told you earlier." Horn looked downcast, as if he had returned to the miserable days when he was on the verge of bankruptcy, making Rorschach even more curious. Just listen to him hesitantly say:

"It's all my fault. I should have told your Master Rorschach earlier. As of last month, Istani has stopped exporting saltpeter to us! I have calculated that it would take at least ten tons of new gunpowder to be installed in two brigades. Saltpeter, the current situation is such that supplies are in short supply, I’m afraid even if we scour the entire market we won’t be able to satisfy them.”

After all, Horn was a real person, and he thought about raw material issues that others didn't understand. The current nitric acid is obtained by refining nitrate and Lufan oil, and the yield is low. For this demonstration, it took him all night just to refine the green vitriol oil and nitric acid.

From this point of view, it is simply impossible in Horn's eyes to mass-produce it like black powder.

"Actually, it's just for demonstration now. I plan to collect raw materials from the air to make nitric acid without using any old processes."

Horn wanted to say it was impossible, but he was a mage, so he shut up and waited for Rorschach to finish: "About 20% of the air is 'phlogiston', and most of the remaining components can be used as raw materials for preparing nitric acid.

"The new plant will have the ability to liquefy air and extract what I call 'nitrogen'. It can not only produce nitric acid, but also synthesize ammonia and produce synthetic fertilizers."

Horn was fascinated by what Rorschach said: "If what you said is true and achievable, then you are the saint who can turn food into food from the air!" However, he immediately thought that the new factory was built in the name of producing high-performance gunpowder and explosives. Yes, he added: "But this technology will bring more and more efficient deaths."

Rorschach patted the businessman on the shoulder: "Life and death have always gone hand in hand." He thought of Maxim's original intention of inventing the machine gun: "If the weapon is so powerful that the enemy is afraid of war, can it reduce casualties?"

Is there such a logic? Horn was confused: "Ah? Really?"

Rorschach nodded affirmatively: "If it doesn't work, the weapon is not powerful enough."

The Byrne royal family believes that good things should be enjoyed quietly internally, especially when the relationship between it and the empire is delicate. There is no need to tell the emperor who is busy with everything and has a bad body. He may have to upgrade his equipment. If he makes others angry, What should I do if I have angina pectoris?

Rorschach really wants to say that I also have a magical medicine that is specifically designed to treat angina pectoris, and it will also explode.

In short, the construction of the factory was required to be carried out in a low-key manner. The factory site was still in Lanster according to Rorschach's requirements, so it was listed as "Fonda Phase II Project", claiming to produce a more powerful "explosive carbonated drink" .

"The dwarf engineering team you named is also on the way. Now that the airship control is getting stricter and stricter, they will be delayed for a while." Bart explained the situation to Rorschach in the bathtub.

He found that his friend was spending more and more time in the bathtub in the past few days. Apart from arranging factory construction work and drawing drawings that he could not understand, he spent the rest of the time in the bathtub, either meditating or rubbing his head.

And he seems to be controlling more and more magic. As a spellcaster, Bart can feel the magic in the environment flowing towards the tower when he is still a street away from the mage tower. And when he used [Arcane Vision] to check it, he was immediately shocked: there were virtual magic circle circuits on the stone bricks on the street.

No need to guess, it must be a masterpiece arranged by Rorschach. The magic power of half the city was driven towards the core of the magic circle.

As for my own bathroom as a node, in the area of ​​about two square meters above the bathtub, the magic power is so strong that mysterious crystals appear, falling slowly like snowflakes.

Rorschach was covered with "snow" and murmured: "If Mr. Boles doesn't complete the calculation core, you will lose a friend. I can't wait to bang my head against the wall at this moment!"

The memory fragments of the ancient mage were invading his dreams and even reality. Although he could gain some knowledge of spell-casting techniques, more often than not, the pain caused Rorschach to lose the ability to think and learn.

Now is the last day agreed with the clockmakers. Rorschach feels that his condition can no longer persist, and the soul separation must be carried out as soon as possible.

The acknowledgments will be merged to tomorrow, thank you all for reading!