Magic Industrial Age

For Roy, Mila Greenman was definitely a pleasant surprise.

This twenty-five-year-old woman was considered quite old by the standards of this world.

But in Roy's eyes, she was in the prime of her career!

Her proficiency in three languages, self-taught basic meditation, and abundant magical power indicated that she possessed remarkable will, perseverance, and intelligence.

Moreover, her willingness to forgo a substantial sum of gold in this setting, solely for the chance to prove herself, further demonstrated her decisiveness and ambition!

Roy was willing to give such a person an opportunity.

He was even more confident that she would surprise him.

In any case, with the Greenman family's affairs settled, the evening's banquet came to a perfect close.

Roy was truly exhausted on this day, dealing with this group of old foxes was even more tiring than venturing into the guano island again.

Lilia felt the same way, so they both chose to stay overnight at the Provence Manor.

They slept soundly that night, but Oliveira did not.

Over the course of the night, he caught two thieves and three assassins, but he didn't interrogate them extensively, as he wouldn't have obtained any useful information anyway.

In the end, all five of them were buried in the manor's flower garden, and it was evident that next year's flowers would be even more vibrant.

And this was the unique style of this world.

In the world of the extraordinary, there were always those audacious individuals who couldn't discern the difference in strength and believed they could obtain everything.

The night passed without incident, and early the next morning, Roy returned to Auckland City, but not to the academy. Instead, he headed to the City Hall.

Here, along with the Greenman family's contracts, more than a dozen contracts needed to be notarized one by one, in addition to transferring shares.

But this was just the beginning, the subsequent matters were both complex and numerous.

For example, although Roy didn't involve himself in the production and sales of the nine magic energy factories, he still needed to dispatch a basic accountant.

These people would be his eyes, and could also prevent some people from embezzling.

However, this batch of accountants couldn't be drawn from the Raymond family.

Because, strictly speaking, these were all Roy's private property, not the Raymond family's.

Fortunately, Maruna Marquez also had his own talent pool.

Personnel could be drawn from the Champs Elysees Magic Energy Textile Factory, and a batch could be recruited from society to supplement them.

Then there was the takeover, reorganization, design, and modification of the Greenman factory.

This was a major project, and the main thing was that there was no precedent, so it had to be explored bit by bit.

From layout to decoration, from purchasing tools to raw material procurement, everything had to be improved through continuous experimentation.

Roy had Deep Blue take out several classic design drawings, but the magical parts required Lilia's participation in the modification.

For this reason, she had to suspend her two projects at hand.

Facts proved that it was extremely necessary for Roy to arrange an assistant for her. The existence of Mila Greenman at least solved her problems in life.

Of course, Roy didn't rest either. He first reached a preliminary cooperation agreement with Damon Grayson through repeated consultations.

This agreement included a purchase intention of at least thirty magic energy hammer forging machines at a preferential price of nine hundred gold Thalers per machine.

According to Lilia's calculation, the material cost of a magic energy hammer forging machine was about two hundred gold Thalers.

Mainly because the magical materials involved, such as lapis lazuli, magic pattern engraving, etc., had to be purchased from the Magic Tower, which was expensive.

The labor cost was about one hundred gold Thalers, mainly because some parts were hammered out little by little by blacksmiths and coppersmiths, which took a lot of time and energy.

Adding it all together, the cost was about three hundred gold Thalers.

But, merchandise, after all, had to make money. Doubling it and selling it for six hundred gold Thalers wasn't too much, right!

Then, the new type of machinery had to have promotion costs, venue costs, research and development funds, and even later transportation costs, adding up to another doubling, nine hundred gold Thalers was already a conscientious price.

Finally, selling things, high-tech things, it would be embarrassing not to have a premium.

Therefore, Roy priced it at one thousand gold Thalers per machine, responsible for one year of after-sales maintenance.

As soon as this price came out, Lilia looked at him like she was looking at a profiteer, but Roy still felt that this price was very conscientious.

As for Damon, the president of the Blacksmiths' Guild, after all, he was the first customer, so the agreed discount couldn't be less, so it became nine hundred gold Thalers per machine.

Of course, new magic energy machinery was always distrusted, so there were many additional clauses in this thirty-machine order agreement.

For example, it was paid for machine by machine, and the balance of this machine would only be paid after each debugging was correct.

For example, the prototype machine was taken by Damon and installed in his factory. He needed to start training skilled operators during this period.

During this period, Damon's actions were also constant.

He also didn't choose to eat alone, but screened a group of people within the Blacksmiths' Association and planned to jointly build a new magic energy factory.

Sharing benefits was not only known to Roy, they also promoted it enthusiastically and were very busy!

Also from Damon, Roy earned the first pot of gold besides the pirate treasure, and finally had income and expenditure.

Then there was Douglas Hill, he really intended to invest.

To this end, he even used many means to dissuade Earl Carl Blatt and others from investing.

As for Roy, he naturally welcomed his joining!

However, there were differences between the two sides on the specific distribution of equity.

Therefore, after the banquet, Roy sent Maruna, and Douglas also sent a business spokesperson, the head of the Caroline family, Jamie Caroline, to negotiate the details.

Both sides had demands, but neither side would give in too much.

Therefore, they chose to let the spokespersons test each other's bottom lines first.

Spokespersons were just spokespersons, even if they quarreled endlessly, even if you came and went, wishing to put each other to death, it would not affect the friendship of the above bosses.

It must be said that Jamie and Maruna really didn't deal with each other!

Specifically, it can be traced back to the previous negotiations on the purchase of Caroline Magic Energy Factory equity, which was full of contradictions.

This negotiation was really tit-for-tat, and all kinds of sentences greeting each other's family members emerged one after another.

Of course, during the negotiation process, both sides constantly tested each other's bottom lines.

Roy learned from Maruna that Douglas was actually very greedy, and he even hoped to occupy the dominant position in the new magic energy factory.

For this reason, he was willing to pay a large sum of gold Thalers.

But was Roy short of money?

What he lacked the least was money, and he couldn't possibly give up the dominant position of the factory.

Just kidding, he had been busy for so long, and even sacrificed his charm to win Lilia.

Although it was his initiative, wouldn't you say it was a sacrifice?

Now let him give it to others as a wedding dress, that's not a joke!

The negotiation fell into a stalemate, but Roy was not in a hurry at all. Anyway, even without Douglas's joining, his factory, magic energy pool, and sales were all resolved.

At worst, the speed would be slower, he really didn't care!

Therefore, Roy calmly cultivated, read books, meditated, and studied in an orderly manner, and life gradually returned to normal.

During this period, his magic power accumulation had also broken through the 100-point mark, officially becoming an LV1 mage apprentice.

However, the Douglas matter had not been resolved, and he still resisted the urge to try the gun.

Also during this time, he also deeply realized the benefits of pure fighting spirit.

The body refining effect was at least three times that of before, and the recovery of physical fitness and the increase in physique were even more needless to say, even digesting various magic potions and magic beast meat could have a very good effect.

And the strongest point was that Roy at this time really controlled the Void Slash, and wanted to find an evenly matched enemy to try the power of this combat skill.

The only drawback, yes, even the best things have drawbacks.

The only drawback of this pure fighting spirit was that the cultivation speed was much slower, because it was too pure, the accumulation speed was really not fast.

Of course, Roy was still very satisfied, you can't have both, that would be a bit too much.

Also during this period, Roy allowed Oliveira to take the 'Sacred Lava Heart' secret medicine, creating the second battle professional who could cultivate 'God's Sigh'.

For Oliveira, it was like unfolding a new world, and his vision was different.

The result was also obvious, Oliveira dropped a level.

After refining his thick fighting spirit, it was not much stronger than Roy, leaving only less than two-tenths, no longer the previous majestic domineering.

However, the same fighting spirit slash was more than twice as powerful, and even a random blow could extend to hundreds of meters away.

This was the benefit of pure fighting spirit.

With this gain alone, Oliveira felt that his chance of breaking through the fourth order was several times greater.

As for the last bottle of Sacred Lava Heart, it was treasured by Roy.

This kind of magical secret medicine should not be easily shown to others.

In the end, it took until early March, and the negotiations between Maruna and Jamie finally reached a stalemate, and Douglas could no longer hold back.

He found Roy and had an in-depth negotiation, and finally made concessions.

As a result, the shares of this magic energy machinery factory were settled, Roy occupied 51%, holding absolute control.

Lilia Lightninger took a stake in technology, accounting for 10%, and Hill took a stake in resources, accounting for 30%.

Speaking of which, this was actually a bit unreasonable for Lilia, after all, she invested the most time and energy.

But this was the status quo, she was the weakest and there was no way.

However, she herself was quite satisfied.

Being able to have such a large share and wealth at this age and professional level was enough to make countless people envious.

Also because Roy and Douglas were not suitable to appear in public, this factory was still named after Lilia.

It was called Lightninger Magic Energy Machinery Factory.

At this stage, there was only one product, a small magic energy hammer forging machine for personal use!

Chapter 2 is still being revised, I will do it as soon as possible!