My Magic Age

Although the five-masted sailboat in the dock was fixed on a wooden frame, it was still shaking gently, and there was a slight creaking sound from the hull.

The water of the lake laps at the stone pillars that have sunk into the water. In this early spring season, the water level of Weiyang Lake is very low. The ice and snow on the top of Mount Mazzaro has begun to melt. The clear snow water pours into Weiyang Lake, creating a volcanic atmosphere for this volcano. The lake at its mouth has been injected with new vitality.

Senior Dylan glanced at the old boatman indifferently and said: "Hanklum, you are worried that once the adamantine rune boards on these ships are removed and the plan for the mobile magic teleportation array fails, future disputes will make it difficult for you. There is nothing wrong with disconnecting, but I was a little too hasty. I never thought that the mobile magic teleportation array plan would fail. "

When the old boatman Hankram heard what Senior Dylan said, he lowered his head slightly, not daring to look at Senior Dylan.

Senior Dylan turned to look at the nearest five-masted sailing ship and said in a firm tone: "Now I can tell you clearly that all the adamantine rune plates on these ten five-masted sailing ships are destined to be removed."

When the boatmen at the dock heard what Senior Dylan said, they became even more excited and talked about it.

Although Bradford, the manager of the shipyard, wanted to suppress these objections, it was obvious that he did not have much authority among these shipwrights.

Instead, the old boatman Hanklem waved his hand to calm everyone down, and the objections around him were gradually suppressed.

Senior Dylan looked at the dark crowd in front of him, was silent for a while, and then spoke again: "You want to keep the ten five-masted sailing ships in their current state. I cannot promise you to keep all ten five-masted sailing ships, but I You are allowed to select nine of the ships and seal them directly according to the current status. "

Senior Dylan's words made the boatmen become quiet for a moment. Everyone raised their heads and their eyes fell on the young magic scholar in front of them.

Senior Dylan continued: "It's just that today we must dismantle the adamantine rune plate on a ship no matter what, to ensure that the subsequent installation of the adamantine rune plate can proceed smoothly, otherwise the construction schedule will be delayed. I You are the only one asking.”

"If you don't want to do it, I'll ask other boatmen to do it." He emphasized this sentence, and his voice was as clear and cold as the icebergs and snow in early spring.

He set his sights on the old boatman Hanklem and said directly: "The fifty boatmen I invited from Ignace City in Palestina Province have arrived at the airport town. Starting tomorrow, they will They will take over your rune board installation work, and in the coming days, they will assemble a five-masted sailboat with a movable magic teleportation array."

When he heard Senior Dylan's words, the old boatman Hanklum's face turned a little pale. He raised his head in fear, as if he didn't expect that Senior Dylan would have such a hand. So today's dockyard boatman Not only is their strike meaningless, it will also cause big trouble for the nearly five hundred shipwrights in the dock.

When the boatmen heard the news, they were all shocked and looked at Senior Dylan in surprise.

"Hanklum, let me show you how fifty boatmen managed to put together a movable magic teleportation array on a five-masted sailboat within a month. But I don't want you to have any doubts. If there is any resistance or seeing you causing some trouble for them, on the contrary, I hope you can calm down and learn how they work on the ship.”

After Senior Dylan finished speaking, he turned to Bradford and said: "Now, Bradford, take people to mark the nine ships you want to keep with red paint. As for the remaining ship, , I hope to remove all the adamantine rune panels on the ship before sunrise tomorrow."

Bradford took a breath, put away his round belly, and said loudly to Senior Dylan: "As you command, Scholar Dylan."

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The inscriptionists stood on the side of the dock. Inscriptionist Eustace frowned slightly in the crowd, watching Hanklum and more than 500 boatmen disperse from the dock. Some boatmen took out the goods from the dock warehouse. Buckets of raw paint are placed on the wooden floor of the dock.

The milky white raw paint, which was originally used to prevent corrosion of the hull itself and to prevent shellfish from adhering to the bottom of the ship, was taken out, and some red-colored cinnabar powder was filled into the raw paint, turning it into buckets of red paint. Subsequently, nine ships and five ships The hull of the schooner was painted with the word 'Sequestered' in red.

The remaining nearly four hundred boatmen gathered around the outermost five-masted sailboat, using picks and hammers to quickly remove the fine gold rune plate on the surface of the hull.

Senior Dylan walked directly towards the ten inscription masters and said to the leading inscription master among them: "Sir Eustace, do you think that the mobile magic teleportation arrays on these ten ships cannot operate normally? It is because of the magic teleportation array drawings. Are there any problems like this?”

The inscriptionist was obviously still immersed in Senior Dylan's apology just now and did not wake up. He put on a arrogant posture, raised his neck and said to Senior Dylan: "This is exactly the truth. I like to speak based on facts. "

Senior Dylan's lips twitched and he sneered: "Haha! Mr. Eustace, I usually admire those magicians who are accustomed to speaking with facts."

Hearing the unkind tone of Senior Dylan, Master Eustace realized that Senior Dylan was not coming to apologize again this time. Every word he said was provocative, so his face became a little ugly. He said to Senior Dylan: "Just say what you want to say, Scholar Dylan."

Senior Dylan stared at Eustace and said: "Originally, out of good intentions, I asked the shipwrights to remove all the adamantine rune plates on the ten ships, so that when the new ships were assembled and the experiments were successful, the remaining nine ships would not be destroyed. Parking in the dock will make you feel a little embarrassed."

Eustace's inscription master's face became even more ugly, with a hint of hatred in his gloomy face.

Senior Dylan didn't pay attention to Eustace's face at this time, and said directly: "I just didn't expect a strike to happen here at the dock. I think these civilian boatmen don't have the courage to stand on the dock and question me. It must be If someone is instigating them behind the scenes, it is impossible for other people to be involved in the shipyard matter, so the most direct beneficiaries are the inscription masters."

The veins on Eustace's forehead were still bulging, and he gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Scholar Dylan, do you think we are inciting these civilian boatmen to cause trouble?"

He was like a volcano that could erupt at any time, and the magma in his body was constantly surging.

But Senior Dylan was still chattering to add fuel to the fire. He said: "Is it rare that I guessed wrong? Are you trying to hide something? You want to escape from the Wuyang Lake Shipyard, but you dare not disobey His Majesty Charles' will. , The most important thing is that there is no hope of success here at the dock, so you thought of disrupting the plan to build a mobile magic teleportation array, or shelving the plan forever. "

Eustace asked Senior Dylan angrily and loudly: "Scholar Dylan, do you still stubbornly believe that the design of the combined magic pattern drawing is okay?"

Senior Dylan was also at odds, refusing to give in and said: "Sir Eustace, if I say that the reason why this set of combined magic teleportation arrays has not been successful is because of the wonderful drawings you have drawn. The fit between the magic lines between the golden rune plates cannot meet the requirements. Do you think this is an excuse on my part?"

Eustace's face turned purple with anger, and he asked loudly: "Scholar Dylan, do you think that our inscription masters are not capable enough to draw your work perfectly?"

At this time, Senior Dylan smiled strangely at Eustace Inscription Master, and then said quickly: "Since both of us feel that this matter is the other's fault, then... Mr. Eustace, do you dare? Make a bet with me? If this combined magic teleportation array fails to start normally due to design problems, I lose. If this combined magic teleportation array fails due to problems during the inscription drawing process. If it starts normally, then I win.”

Inscriptionist Eustace almost didn't think about it and agreed loudly, saying: "There's nothing to be afraid of. I just hope you don't lose too badly. Besides, since it's a bet, there can't be no stakes. What do we always have to bet on?”

Senior Dylan asked him calmly: "So what do you want to bet on?"

I didn't expect Eustace to be so angry, so irritable and impulsive, that he even mentioned a bet...

Eustace said without hesitation: "I bet on the fish skin hoods of your Astrologers Guild. I know that your Astrologers Guild bought a total of thirty fish skin hoods. If I win this bet, please Scholar Dylan returned to the Astrologer's Guild and brought me ten fishskin hoods."

It turns out that he wants the fish skin hood collected by the Astrologer's Guild, but I can't understand it. I've been with Senior Dylan for so long, does it mean he didn't recognize me? Ten fish skin hoods may be expensive magic items worth 18,000 magic crystals to everyone in the Imperial City, but to me they are only worth ten flawless mermaid skins!

Senior Dylan asked, "What if you lose?"

Eustace was so angry that stars appeared in his eyes, and he shouted loudly: "How can we lose? If we lose, then I will give you ten fish skin hoods with the equivalent of gold coins or magic crystals."

Senior Dylan seemed to be waiting for Eustace to say these words, so he said without a moment's hesitation: "Then it's settled."

He took out a contract scroll from his magic pocket, and took out a quill pen from his pocket. He dipped some ink very skillfully, and then quickly started writing on the contract scroll. Senior Dylan's imperial writing was perfect. Very beautiful.

While writing the contract scroll, he continued: "There is a little thing that I didn't want to mention at first, but since our bet is related to the construction of a mobile magic teleportation array, I have to say a few more words. The last six Since last month, the Astrologers Guild has paid you a large amount of remuneration every month, and it has also consumed There are tens of thousands of fine gold rune boards. If this bet is to determine who is responsible for both of us, then I would like to mention to you inscription masters that if it is a problem with my design drawings, then I will directly bear the responsibility. The remuneration paid to you in the past six months, as well as all the expenses for the tens of thousands of fine gold rune boards consumed."

After saying these words, Senior Dylan's contract scroll had been written. He quickly signed his name under the scroll, then straightened up and handed the scroll to Eustace opposite, smiled lightly, and said to him Said: "But if I win this bet in the end, it means that you are not proficient in the study of inscriptions. Of course I will not let you return the six months' remuneration to me, but at least I hope that you will return the money you lost." Bear the cost of tens of thousands of fine gold rune boards..."

He stared at Eustace, unblinking.

Eustace, on the other hand, took the contract scroll and was a bit stuck. He glared at Senior Dylan angrily and gritted his teeth and said, "It's a deal, if I lose, I will compensate you for these fine gold talismans." Wenban..."

As he spoke, he paused, and then said to Senior Dylan: "But since it is a bet, we cannot wait indefinitely for you to perfect this set of drawings bit by bit. There must be a deadline."

Senior Dylan and I looked at each other and uttered one word: "One month."

Eustace immediately said: "Okay, at this time next month, we will come to the dock to observe the launching ceremony of your mobile magic teleportation array!"

He turned around and wanted to leave the dock. After taking a few steps, he came back. At this time, he seemed to have calmed down a bit. There was a layer of cold sweat on his forehead, and he said to Senior Dylan with a cold face: "Also I want our people to be able to come to the dock anytime, anywhere Check the newly drawn adamantine rune board here. We need to check whether the new rune board is different from the one we drew before. If there is any difference between the drawings during the production process and the previous one, don’t blame me for taking this. Zhang Contract was swept away and taken to the House of Representatives of the Magic Guild."

"Of course." Senior Dylan agreed without hesitation.

Afterwards, Eustace quickly left the dock with nine other inscribers.

From beginning to end, Eustace didn't look at me twice, as if I was nothing but air.

After their conversation ended, I said to Senior Dylan: "Senior, are you really going to Palestina Province to hire a group of boatmen?"

"Of course it's true. Two months ago, probably at the end of the winter vacation, I asked Noah to help bring the crew members of the Slave Trader to the Imperial Capital. Unexpectedly, the magic airship encountered an airflow storm. , it was delayed for some days on the way, it took almost two months, and the crew just arrived at the airport town yesterday!" Senior Dylan said to me with a proud look on his face.

As he said that, Senior Dylan took me to the temporary passage on the wooden shelves of a five-masted sailboat. From here, I could get a close look at the adamantine magic rune panels inlaid on the outside of the hull, until I walked into the five-masted sailboat. , only then did I see the huge fine gold rune boards on the hull. Almost every fine gold rune board was ten feet long and five feet wide. One of them was posted on the hull. Senior Dylan actually saw such a ship. Build ten ships at the same time...

Considering that the Astrologers Guild is really rich in financial resources, it has prepared more than 10,000 giant fine gold rune boards alone.

Then I thought about that bet. If Eustace lost, I didn't know whether he would be able to get this huge sum of money, and I shuddered to think about it.