Magic Industrial Age

Three days later, Loye and Lord Robin Water finalized the new contract, marking the end of this negotiation.

Imperial Ambassador Lord Robin Water needed to send the contract back to the Empire as quickly as possible. After it was submitted to the Cabinet, it would be approved and finalized, completing the process.

Of course, there might be several rounds of back-and-forth and negotiations in between, but that was normal.

Loye believed that the Empire, for its established goals, would tolerate some of his small, willful requests.

It is worth mentioning that Lord Robin Water's contact with the Empire did not involve him making a trip himself, as that would be too slow!

Instead, the Disaster-grade mage had some means of long-distance communication. Through some props and magic arrays, he directly sent the contract back.

This method obviously had a certain cost, but it was really fast!

On the contrary, the Empire's high-level officials needed enough time to see, review, evaluate, discuss, and finalize this contract.

The Habsburg Empire was vast, and there were many things happening every day. It would not be an exaggeration for the Cabinet members to say they were 'handling ten thousand matters daily'.

Flower Collar was just one of their chess pieces, not worth their constant attention!

However, it was a good thing that Lord Robin Water did not leave.

His presence allowed the Empire's workers and technicians to mobilize as quickly as possible.

It is worth mentioning that although this one did not leave, Mennon Becker finally completed the communication magic array and left in a huff.

Lord Robin Water's arrival not only brought a fourth-tier Disaster-grade mage to protect his safety,

but also brought Mennon Mage's granddaughter, Christina Becker.

She was a mechanical mage with thick glasses, at most twenty years old, and her level was already Tier 2 LV8, even more powerful than Lilia.

Moreover, she specialized in magic-powered machinery for mining. This time, she followed the delegation abroad, which she had worked hard to obtain.

As a result, now that her grandfather wanted to take her away, she was naturally unwilling.

The grandfather and granddaughter had a big argument, and of course, Mennon Mage couldn't do anything about his granddaughter.

He had to nag Loye many times, insisting that Loye guarantee his granddaughter's safety.

Loye certainly refused to guarantee it. As a result, a third-tier extraordinary mage actually threatened an earl in front of three fourth-tier mages.

It was quite a spectacle!

In the end, Loye had to agree. There was no other way, as he still needed the old man to build the communication magic array!

As the saying goes, don't burn bridges until you cross them, and the river hasn't even been crossed yet, so there's no way to burn the bridge.

However, Loye was not willing to suffer losses, so Mennon Becker agreed that he would give Loye an 80% discount for building communication magic arrays in the future.

Moreover, he had to be available on call and be prioritized.

However, even if the old man was angry, he couldn't leave that day.

Because Douglas Hill insisted on staying for a day to catch up with Loye.

It was also on this night that Douglas found Loye to discuss new research topics, and the two sides had in-depth discussions and communication.

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Inside the study,

Douglas Hill placed a magic crystal lamp burning with magic crystals on the desk.

The soft and bright light bloomed, illuminating the large study as bright as day.

He took out a pile of paper, dragged a bench, and sat opposite Loye, saying, "Come on, come on, tell me about the topics we are going to research later.

Don't tell me you have no ideas, and don't tell me you have no preparations. I haven't delayed your affairs for a moment.

So, if you drop my affairs, I will bite you to death!"

"Give me any good topics, good ideas, ten or eight are not too many, three or five are not too few."

At this moment, Douglas Hill's face was full of hope.

However, Loye did not speak immediately, but closed his eyes slightly, with a look of hesitation on his face.

Douglas Hill waited for a long time and finally couldn't help it: "Loye, you are an earl now, with a noble status, are you going to show off to me?"

Loye rolled his eyes: "Is it okay to use the aggressive method at this time?"

"There's nothing good or bad, it's just useful!"

After a pause, Douglas added: "If you are worried that I will embezzle your credit and the magic-powered machinery I create won't share the benefits with you, then why don't we sign a contract now?"

"Just like before, everyone makes money together, okay?"

Loye waved his hand and said, "You know that's not what I mean! If we really wanted to maximize profits, we wouldn't even be sitting here together.

It's just that I'm still a little unsure about your new research direction."

"If you're unsure, just tell me and we'll discuss it together."

"That's fine too!"

Loye nodded, paused for a moment, organized his words, and then said: "Actually, for the choice of research topics, I think the most important thing is three points.

First, it must be in line with the current situation. Those disaster-level mechanical mages will definitely be able to come up with a lot of powerful things.

But, is it useful?

If it can't be popularized and is not suitable for ordinary magic gunners to use, it is equivalent to nothing!"

"Secondly, there must be demand! Only if there is a great demand and it is a necessity can it be accepted by the public."

"Finally, it must be good and cheap, cost-effective, and can be mass-produced."

"So, based on these three standards, I have screened several directions, you can take a look first."

As he said this, Loye pulled the paper next to Douglas over, took a quill, and wrote casually.

And what he wrote first was: Daily Necessities!

"Daily Necessities?! What do you mean?"

"Miller told me about the Empire, the capital of the Habsburg Empire, you should know something about it, right?"

Douglas curled his lips: "I haven't been there. That's the capital. Do you think a small mage like me is qualified?

Of course, I still know something about it!"

"It is said that there is the only super-large magic energy pool in the Empire, directly connected to all the street lamps and lighting systems in the entire city."

"Every night, when the street lamps light up, it looks like stars on the ground from a distance!"

"And all the houses in the capital are connected to magic energy. When you turn on the switch, you can light up the magic crystal lamp.

That is to say, in that place, if you don't have magic power, you can't even turn on the lights."

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As he said this, his eyes lit up and asked, "Do you mean?"

Loye took over the conversation: "That's right, since magic energy can be used to light up lamps, can it be used for other things?

For example, adjusting the temperature in the room."

"Can we design a magic-powered machine, a small one, installed indoors, to ensure that there is warm air in winter and cold air when it is hot in summer?

In this way, the indoor temperature is always maintained at a level suitable for the human body, wouldn't it be very popular?"

"Also, taking a hot bath is a troublesome thing now. It is not easy to boil water and maintain the water temperature.

But if we can invent a machine that directly heats cold water to a certain temperature and maintains it.

Wouldn't it be very convenient to just turn it on when you want to take a bath?"

"Similarly, as long as it can be heated with magic energy, can't we design a stove, driven by magic energy, to cook food at will!"

"In this way, can a lot of time spent chopping firewood, starting a fire, etc. be reduced?"

"Machinery, after all, must make people's lives more convenient in order to feel happiness.

Don't you think this aspect is worth studying?"

Douglas's eyes were bright: "You are right, very right, and I think these seem not difficult to achieve!"

After a pause, he looked at Loye again and asked, "Since you have such good ideas, what were you hesitating about before?"

Loye rolled his eyes and said, "Because there is only one capital in the Empire."

"If you want to find a city completely covered by magic energy in other places, it is not easy.

So, this field of daily necessities has development potential in the future, but now, it is still too early!"

Douglas immediately wilted and said, "What you said is too far away. What I want is a project that can make money.

Loye, it's not that I'm stingy, but Lilia has you to help him build a mage tower, and I can only rely on myself.

So, I have to make money quickly, like a magic-powered hammer forging machine and a steelmaking furnace!"

"Then I have a second idea, Douglas, have you ever thought about getting involved in the field of engineering machinery?"

Douglas frowned slightly and asked, "Engineering machinery? What do you mean?"

"It's very simple! Nowadays, mines are being dug everywhere in the Empire. The obtained ore always has to be transported, screened, filtered, crushed, and even classified.

Each of these links can actually be designed as magic-powered machinery, but it has to be designed according to the actual situation, which is a bit troublesome."

Loye paused, thought for a while, and began to draw on the paper again: "Let's not talk about those individually designed ones, let's talk about general-purpose types, such as this excavator."

Loye's speed was very fast. In a few strokes, the outline of an excavator appeared on the paper.

Although there is no specific data, the general appearance is out. Under the cab is a crawler, with a long swing arm and a large bucket!

"A magic-powered excavator is definitely a good helper for excavation, whether it is building houses, leveling land, mining, clearing roadblocks, etc., it is very useful!"

"How much strength does an ordinary person have? This, one bucket down, is enough for one person to work for an hour or two."

"Believe me, as long as you research this out, even if it's just a prototype, and the effect is a little worse, it will make those contractors crowd your factory."

"At that time, you can continuously update and iterate the optimization based on the feedback data, and you can firmly occupy half of the engineering machinery field."

Douglas couldn't help jumping up and said, "This is good, this is good! I will study this!"

As he said this, he raised his head and met Loye's eyes, squinting slightly.

He said: "Loye, Loye, do you have any good ideas that you haven't mentioned?"

"Tell me, tell me, let me make a reference and then determine which field to get involved in?"

Loye pursed his lips and said, "Here, I really have a new field, which is research and development from scratch."

"I call it the Magic-Powered Telegraph Machine!"

The third update, see you tomorrow morning!