My Magic Age

The imperial capital located in the basin on the top of Mount Mazzaro finally welcomed a heavy snowfall, and the entire imperial capital became a vast expanse of white in the wind and snow. Since the imperial capital is surrounded by a ring of mountains like a huge crater, the wind and snow gathered in the imperial capital. In just one night, the shallowest snow in the city has reached waist-deep, and the magic caravans and low shrub walls on the street are buried in the snow. The traffic in the entire imperial capital is paralyzed, and the shops on the street are closed.

The prices of food such as grain, oil, and meat in the store have doubled. Overnight, all the firewood and coal briquettes in the imperial capital are sold out. His Majesty Charles issued an order to suspend all large workshops. All the coal briquettes and firewood stored in the workshops must be taken out and sold at a fair price to the civilians in the sixth and seventh blocks to ensure that they will not be frozen to death in front of the fireplace at home on the coldest winter nights. The Angelbold Royal Family will take out some money from the treasury to make up for the losses of these large workshop owners.

It is said that the imperial capital has such severe extreme weather every year, but this year's snow seems to have come a little early. According to an astronomer in the magic newspaper, it is because the cold air currents from the north and the warm and humid trade winds from the southeast meet on Mount Mazzaro that such a heavy snowfall occurs.

The city hall began to actively organize civilians in the imperial capital to carry out snow removal activities. This kind of movement is usually paid labor. Civilians only need to work for four hours in a row to get a silver coin and a hot meal. They can eat as much meat soup and wheat cakes as they want.

The nobles only need to stay at home, sit on the sofa in front of the fireplace, warm themselves by the fire, eat hot beef soup, let the servants clean the snow in the yard, and wait for the weather to slowly improve.

The Royal Magic Academy also sent several magicians to post notices on the notice boards at the entrances of various dormitory buildings before the heavy snow showed signs of road closures: the academy will be closed for one week.

I don't understand what the heavy snow has to do with the Royal School of Magic. They even have to suspend classes. Most of the magic students in the school live on campus, and most of the magic teachers live in the third block around the school. In my opinion, there is no need to suspend classes. However, the library of the school is still open as usual, and in such cold weather, the library also provides free hot milk tea to all magic students.

I travel between the School of Magic and the Imperial Capital Research Institute every day, but in such cold weather, I can't call a magic caravan at all. The Gubolai horses pulling the carts are led into the stables by the drivers. Heavy snow may be an obstacle to the travel of people in the Imperial Capital, but for a person in the North, no matter how heavy the snow is, it will not hinder travel.

I turned out the skis that had been thrown in the warehouse of Xinliu Valley for a long time. I thought I wouldn't need it when I came to the Imperial Capital. Now it seems that I was wrong. Although the climate in the Imperial Capital is warmer than that in the northern provinces, the snow is not small at all.

Catalina and I each carried a pair of skis and walked out of the dormitory building. I kept telling Catalina the essentials of skiing, and then I put on my ski boots and demonstrated it to her in person on the snow by the pool in the dormitory building.

Catalina, wearing tight leather armor, stood by with squinted eyes, watching me skiing back and forth on the snow a few times, and then walked around the snow on the skis for two circles, and then she learned to ski. Catalina is an agile first-turn warrior with outstanding balance and coordination, so learning skiing is like an ability she was born with.

The two of us wore skis and passed through the campus of the Royal Magic Academy, one in front and one behind, quickly passing through the thick snow. When we passed the square in front of the teaching building, we found that many magic students gathered on the square, including Noah and Shirley Newman. They cheered and ran in the waist-deep snow, having a lot of fun.

Noah grew up in Ignas City in Emerald Bay, and Shirley was from a noble family in the southern province of Bena. The two were very curious about the snow in the north. It was not that they had never seen snow before. Snow melted immediately when it fell from the sky to the ground.

In the envious eyes of the magicians in the square, I quickly slid out of the gate of the academy and disappeared with Catalina on Yulin Street.

…

Such cold weather did not stop the gathering of water magicians. The water magic theme salon held once a month was held as scheduled at the home of the magician McIntosh. The home of the magician McIntosh is one of the bases for the water magic union to hold gatherings in the imperial capital.

The so-called water magic salon is actually a gathering for water magicians to exchange their experiences and insights in recent times.

Many new water magicians will benefit from the magic salon, and this kind of water magic salon is also a good platform to show themselves. They can show some magic research results to other water magicians, which will gain recognition from other magicians and gain some reputation in the magic world.

In fact, the reason why Scholar Sean has such a great influence among water magicians is that he often shares his experience and insights with other water magicians, and has selflessly helped many water magicians. Of course, I am also one of the many water magicians he has helped.

Scholar Sean was surrounded by a group of water magicians. He asked me across the crowd: "Ji Jia, I see that you often go to the Magic Research Institute recently. Do you have any small inventions in water magic?"

"Yes, Scholar Sean." I answered loudly.

Scholar Sean asked me directly: "Oh, can you show us?"

So I said, "Of course, Scholar Sean."

"This invention was inspired by me when I went to Airport Town some time ago and saw several Xinghai City fish merchants selling chilled fish in the trade market. After returning to the Imperial Capital Magic Research Institute, I invented a piece of life-like magic. thing……"

Although I know it is a bit inappropriate to show off my invention in such bad weather, since Scholar Sean asked me at the magic salon what new discoveries I have made recently in the 'Magic Pattern Array', I readily stood up from the crowd. After walking out, I looked back at Scholar Mullen apologetically. Scholar Mullen signaled to me that we would talk later, and I nodded quickly.

Scholar Mullen is proficient in ancient goblin language, which is what I need to know most at the moment. Scholar Mullen thinks that I am also a young magician who is extremely proficient in goblin culture. He thinks that I have similar interests with him. We are in this salon Before, we had communicated through letters. This time we met at the salon, it was like we had known each other for a long time. The topics we could talk about suddenly became much wider.

I walked into the middle of the crowd and saluted around me.

There were nearly twenty water magicians sitting or standing in the hall. They all looked at me curiously. In their eyes, I was a complete newcomer. There were even many people who didn't know me and quietly asked my companions. After being introduced by his companions, there were surprised looks in their eyes.

I dragged out a rectangular wooden box from the magic backpack.

When I first built this wooden box, I was very stubborn and asked the carpenter to install a door on the side of the wooden box. What was most incomprehensible to Yerkes scholars was that I made the wooden box thin and tall. In fact, According to the ideas of scholars Yerkes, the magic box A horizontal box with a ratio of 10X8X6 is the most perfect golden ratio. However, I have an almost paranoid obsession with the appearance of the wooden box. After all, it is a magic item for life, so Yerkes scholars have no Complain with me.

Scholar Yerkes helped me design a frost magic pattern that can work normally on a cheap red copper rune board, and the most rare thing is that this kind of 'frost' has a continuous magic effect. This red copper rune board is inlaid with this in the center. A fragment of magic crystal, I covered the inner layer of the wooden box with a thick quilt, and made a sandwich of wooden boards inside. The space inside is actually not as big as it looks from the outside, but it is still acceptable. Finally, the thin red copper rune board is nailed to the inner wooden board, and finally the wooden box is sealed inside and outside with fine sandpaper. After polishing it smooth and flat, and painting the outside of the wooden box with white paint three times, the first wooden refrigerator in the Green Empire was built by me.

Yerkes scholars can't understand my approach. I don't need to seal the magic box properly, but I have to spend time and energy to build this kind of storage refrigerator.

I placed the refrigerator next to the hall and began to introduce the functions of this refrigerator to the water magicians at the gathering. There is no doubt that the magic pattern array of this kind of refrigerator is more suitable for water magicians to draw. It can be said that this is a suitable machine for water magicians. The daily life magic items of water magicians did not cause much reaction among this group of water magicians just after I introduced the functions of the refrigerator.

At most, someone will smile at me very perfunctorily and say: 'Oh, this is a very good idea and the concept is novel. ’

Some people also patted me on the shoulder and said, ‘Hey, it’s good for young people to have ideas. I hope your innovative spirit will continue. Come on, young people. ’

In short, this creative display was a failure. I did not get everyone's recognition. Many water magicians raised very sharp questions. Precisely because they understand water magic and the current situation of the magic market in the Imperial City, their doubts appear solid. Powerful and every question is well-founded.

When the show was about to end, Scholar Mullen ran out of nowhere and stood side by side with me in front of the refrigerator. Scholar Mullen also held the same views as everyone else, but seemed worried about hurting my self-esteem. He seemed to speak more tactfully.

He stood in front of the refrigerator for a short while, stretched out his hand to touch the refrigerator, sighed softly, and said to me: "It seems like an imitation of the Demon Sealing Box, but it is far inferior to the Demon Sealing Box." The box is practical, and it requires a red copper rune plate. Even the cheapest red copper rune plate is an expensive rune plate. Board! Those rune boards in the Green Imperial City are monopolized by the inscription masters of the Inscription Guild. Is it because they want to promote your magic item to the whole people? It is not a necessity for traveling like a magic caravan, and the nobles do not need it. Commoners can’t afford it. This magical item is so awkwardly positioned that no one will want it.”

Scholar Mullen is absolutely right. Nobles do not need it, but common people cannot afford it. This is the biggest problem with this refrigerator.

Then, he went on to say to me: "Besides, it's winter now. If you want ice cubes, you just need to put a basin of water outside the house overnight. Maybe someone will be willing to bring out your invention in the summer." Give it a try.”

This is one of the reasons why refrigerators are not popular among people. If it is a hot weather, I am afraid some people are willing to buy one.

Scholar Mullen added: "Also, if we want to promote this daily life magic item for civilians in the market, the most important thing is to reduce the production cost... This time about the life magic pattern on the fish skin hood. , seems to have offended all the inscription masters in the imperial capital, don’t expect anyone in the imperial capital to help you draw cheap rune metal plates.”

I patted my forehead and stood aside a little discouraged, becoming listless.

Scholar Mullen carefully looked through the refrigerator inside and out, and asked me somewhat suspiciously: "Although your refrigerator is not very creative, this wooden box is quite exquisite. Could it be this refrigerator?" Is the shape borrowed from the ruins of a certain goblin civilization?"

Scholar Mullen added: "I remember that during the goblin civilization, they created many items that combined magic and technology."

Seeing me shaking my head, Scholar Mullen patted my shoulder comfortingly.

At this moment, my thoughts have already flown to the magic engraving machine. This time, Bernd and the old dwarves successfully reduced the size of the magic engraving machine and finally built a prototype of the second magic engraving machine.

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The Royal Academy of Magic announced the suspension of classes. I have been preparing items for smelting krypton gold in the past few days, including some expensive fluxes and shaping molds. The magic drawings describe the magic thread impression on the punch head. The core thing of the engraving machine is that the magic line impression cannot have any deviation. Otherwise, even if a magic line similar to the magic pattern array is printed, the printed magic pattern array is likely to be a failure.

In the past few days, I have been staying with Catalina in the underground cave of Xinliu Valley to make the second prototype of the magic engraving machine, because the other parts of the previous prototype have been completely prepared. At this time, I only need to solve the problem Difficulties with the magic of the print head.

Bernd and four old dwarf craftsmen also helped me come up with ideas. They worked hard for four consecutive days and nights. Finally, the day before the magic academy resumed classes, the prototype of this magic engraving machine was successfully manufactured. When the red copper surface When the green flames ignited on the rune board, Bernd and the old dwarves sat down on the ground in shock.

If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, no one would have thought that the magic engraving machine actually replaced the inscription master and successfully printed a metal rune plate.

The first prototype looked shabby, with some parts repaired, disassembled and reassembled, making this magic engraving machine look shabby.

Moreover, we tried to print the 'Fire Gathering' magic pattern array on a red copper plate. Even for the simplest universal magic runes of the fire system, the failure rate of the engraving machine was almost 90%, which shows that At least nine of the ten rune boards that were engraved were scrap. As a result, this magic seal machine is far from what I expected.

But the only gratifying thing is that this magic engraving machine actually seems to be successful, and our research has therefore taken the first successful step.

The next step is to study how to improve the success rate of engraving and how to make this magic engraving machine more precise...