Magic Industrial Age

In reality, for Roy, it was almost impossible to enter the magical world like Douglas or Lilia, especially the field of magical machinery.

Therefore, fame was truly insignificant to him.

But Douglas was different!

He already had a certain reputation in the magical world because of the magic forging hammer.

Now, if he could come up with a whole new set of steelmaking methods,

ensuring a huge increase in production capacity, with sufficiently low costs, and a sky-high cost performance,

then from the production line of magic steel furnaces to building a factory to make steel himself, from publishing various papers to having the entire steelmaking method named after him...

All of this would bring not only Guilders, but also business expansion, increased fame, imperial attention, and the admiration of countless people.

Wealth and fame!

Almost everything was contained within this magic steel furnace, leaving Douglas no choice but to be tempted.

Roy's concession truly won Douglas's gratitude.

Even with his dark side, he felt that having a partner and friend like Roy was a stroke of immense luck.

Of course, Roy's concession was also motivated by his own needs.

In the office of the Lightninger Magic Machinery Factory, Roy and Douglas Hill had a heart-to-heart negotiation.

First and foremost, was the deep binding of interests.

Roy would use the data from this experimental model to perform a secondary design, thereby producing a complete set of steel plant blueprints.

After he left, this new factory would be supervised by Douglas Hill and managed by the Roy Fitts Magic Group.

As for the specific share allocation, Roy would hold 51%, possessing absolute control and management rights, while Douglas Hill would hold 49%, being the second-largest shareholder with advisory rights.

He would also participate in management, mainly responsible for magic machinery maintenance and optimization.

If the production capacity met the standards, in the later stages, if anyone wanted to buy a production line, the Lightninger Magic Machinery Factory would be responsible for production.

Most importantly, Roy and Douglas exchanged shares, with 2% of the Roy Fitts Magic Group's shares exchanged for 10% of the shares of Douglas's industries.

In this way, the equity of both parties was completely intertwined.

Roy didn't trust character, but he believed in the entanglement of interests, with such a large amount of benefits at stake in their current industries.

Unless the empire intervened and offered sufficiently great advantages, Douglas wouldn't even consider betrayal, just thinking about his losses.

That would be purely thankless and strenuous.

Of course, the result of this deep binding was that Douglas couldn't refuse the many requests Roy made.

First, Roy wanted to take away ten magic machinery apprentices, all of whom had to be selected from the Lightninger Magic Machinery Factory's elite personnel.

Roy understood clearly that abandoning magic machinery in this era would be foolish.

Therefore, the industrialization process of the earldom still had to be advanced, and to advance the industrialization process, talent was essential.

Roy would naturally recruit these ten people from the Lightninger Magic Machinery Factory, providing adequate money, full benefits, and excellent prospects, which would naturally attract people.

But the subsequent replenishment of talent would require Douglas's efforts.

A batch of talent cultivated by the magic academy had to be allocated.

And that was just the beginning; in the future, Roy would inevitably have to transfer manpower and rely on Douglas for replenishment.

It's worth mentioning that it wasn't just the Lightninger Magic Machinery Factory; he also planned to transfer some key personnel from the Ortis Pharmaceutical Company and the Northern Railway Company to follow him.

Furthermore, Roy planned to set up a long-distance communication magic array from Flower Collar to Oakland City, to ensure that he could obtain information here as soon as possible and convey orders.

If possible, he actually wanted to set up a long-distance teleportation magic array, but that was impossible.

Even if Douglas could find someone to help, the Habsburg Empire wouldn't allow it.

Are you kidding me?

If this kind of long-distance teleportation magic array could be set up casually, what security would the empire have?!

Of course, simple communication magic arrays were allowed; in fact, the empire itself had built more than one set of magic communication systems.

However, Douglas would have to invite people for these, which would take time.

Roy also had to truly inherit the earldom and settle down before he could continue to push forward.

Therefore, there was plenty of time!

At this time, it's not hard to see that Roy's mentality had changed since he had the Holy Artifact - Ring of Proverbs.

Before, he didn't care about Flower Collar, but now, it was a must-have.

This communication lasted a whole afternoon, and by the time both parties had reached an agreement, it was already evening.

But Roy felt that the gains of this day were still enormous.

As the plans in his heart were implemented one by one, even when he wasn't around, the Oakland City base camp became more and more stable.

In the following days, Roy became increasingly busy.

On the one hand, he had to read the ancient books of the Raymond family to provide Deep Blue with sufficient information.

Of course, he was selective about this part, putting the historical records and secrets all in the back.

The first choices were high-level breathing techniques, battle qi techniques, combat skills, and high-level meditation techniques.

These were the most useful to Roy, especially the high-level breathing techniques and battle qi techniques, which pointed out the future direction and allowed Deep Blue to optimize and iterate.

It was just that the analysis of the two secret holy techniques took up too much 'memory', so it could only be slowed down for now.

On the other hand, the design drawings for a complete set of magic steel plants were also a troublesome matter.

With experimental data as a base, many shortcomings could be discovered, and Deep Blue could avoid some of them.

But after the design drawings were released, they were rejected by Douglas Hill because many aspects didn't conform to the common sense of magic machinery.

Then, Roy would modify them, Douglas would reject them again, modify them again, reject them again...

This back-and-forth really tired Roy out!

Although the design drawings were produced by Deep Blue, so Roy didn't have to use his brain, Roy was the one drawing the pictures!

Back and forth, again and again, he was numb!

In addition to this, Roy's daily socializing was indispensable.

Various salons, banquets, communicating with merchants who had business dealings, plus handling various trivial matters and confirming personnel.

Roy had to admit that there were too many things to do; he had never been so busy!

Nowadays, besides sleeping and practicing breathing techniques and basic meditation in the morning and evening, he had stopped all other cultivation.

There was really no time!

Sometimes, he even reflected on himself: what was the point of making money?

Of course, it was to have no worries about food and clothing and not lack money to spend!

But what about now?

He didn't lack money, but he was too busy to stop.

However, as time went by, various matters gradually settled down.

For example, personnel issues, including ten magic mechanic apprentices, ten apothecary apprentices, and ten railway construction backbones, had all been selected.

There were also thirty people led by Anger who dared to fight and were considered combat personnel.

Including Roy, Butler Hoover, and Olivia, there was a team of nearly eighty people.

With so many people, security was the top priority.

Hoover contacted a large mercenary group in Camotes City through the Raymond family's channels.

The Dragon and Beauty Mercenary Group had a romantic name, but its strength should not be underestimated, with as many as a hundred formal combat personnel.

This number might not be much in other countries of the Old Continent, but in the extremely powerful Habsburg Empire, it was a rare large mercenary group.

What's more, their mercenary团长 (tuánzhǎng,团长 means leader of a group) was Sick Francis, a third-order transcendent axe warrior with the title of 'Barbarian'.

He also had two second-order magicians under his command, and their strength was definitely not weak.

In fact, it was difficult for them to maintain their operations in Camotes City, mainly because the empire was watching them, afraid that these violent elements would cause trouble.

Therefore, in addition to mercenaries, they also兼职 (jiānzhí,兼职 means work part-time) detective work, so it can be said that their functions were mixed.

However, after the reform of the Police Department, the empire strengthened the management of public security and the crackdown on gang members, and their business was also affected.

This time, the order that Roy submitted was definitely a rare big order for them, the kind that would allow them to eat for a year!

Therefore, the axe warrior Sick Francis brought all his combat personnel, which also expanded Roy's team to nearly two hundred people in one fell swoop.

In addition, Baron Miller also contributed.

He somehow managed to invite the Seventh Mixed Legion to send out a magic gunner squad.

The number of people was small, only about ten, but having them as guards represented a different status.

Although they could only be sent to the border of the Habsburg Empire and could not enter the Duchy of Norman.

But as long as they were there, no one in the empire would dare to attack!

It was said that the Habsburg Empire strictly controlled and did not allow imperial legions to be dispatched without reason, and it was somewhat incredible that this was successful this time.

Miller himself said that he was just trying, but he didn't expect it to be approved.

In a flash, half a month had passed, and just as Roy was ready to set off, the Grand Duchess sent a letter.

This time it was urging him to get to the royal city of the Duchy of Norman, Auxerre, as soon as possible.

It was also at this time that news came from Deep Blue that the analysis and optimization of the two holy techniques had finally yielded results.

PS: Sorry, family members came to visit, I really don't have time tonight, so there will only be two updates.

Everyone don't wait, there will only be two updates today!