My Magic Age

The rune plates of ‘Fire Gathering’ and ‘Miniature Tornado’ transported from Xinliu Valley once again filled the warehouse of Alia’s family.

Betty held a parchment account book and counted the number of ‘Fire Gathering’ rune plates row by row in the warehouse, with an extremely focused look. These rune plates will all be sent to the rune plate workshop tomorrow morning, and Murray, the manager of the rune plate workshop, will rush to make a batch of new copper hot pots and exhaust fans from these rune plates.

Although it is the season of spring in the imperial capital, the copper hot pots in the magic market of the imperial capital are still in short supply.

The people of the imperial capital fully understand the magic merchants for the fact that the copper hot pots in the magic shops are always out of stock. The people of the imperial capital believe that good goods, under the premise of being in short supply, must maintain a relatively low price, and naturally they will be snapped up in a short time once they appear.

As a result, a new sales model has emerged in many magic shops: ‘number release’.

Every person in the imperial capital who comes to the magic shop to buy a copper hot pot can receive a copper number plate after paying a deposit of one tenth. In this way, the magic shop will set a pick-up time according to the number on the plate.

So the people in the imperial capital firmly believe that as long as they have enough patience, they will be able to buy the copper hot pot.

Murray said that some magic shops with good locations have already arranged the number to the hundredth, and it will take at least a month to get the copper hot pot.

Although the number of "Fire Gathering" rune plates shipped to the workshop increases every week, Murray still hopes that the number of rune plates can double again.

Compared with the "Fire Gathering" rune plates installed in the copper hot pot, the "Miniature Tornado" rune plates have always been tepid in the market.

Due to the wide variety of exhaust fans flooding the magic market in the imperial capital, the exhaust fans produced by the rune plate workshop only account for less than 20% of the sales share.

This is mainly because the people of the Imperial Capital have a preconceived impression of old-fashioned exhaust fans. They prefer to choose those exhaust fans that meet their own aesthetics and have some unique functions in the market. Even if the price is slightly higher, as long as the economic conditions allow, it is acceptable.

I asked Marvin and Si Pei to start a business in the Imperial Capital, and also considered handing over this part of the market to Marvin. Unfortunately, there were many problems with the trading company, so Marvin had to temporarily manage Qi Ge's trading company and put the matter of developing the exhaust fan magic market on hold.

Due to a series of military operations recently on the Yello plane, the barbarian slaves and orc warriors captured a batch of fresh giant spiders.

Now, more than half of the giant spiders in the silk reeling workshop are newly added recently, and the entire silk reeling workshop has increased to 200 giant wooden cages. The magic pattern spider silk ingots produced by these giant spiders can basically meet the production of the expanded Alia textile workshop. Now the sales range of Alia's magic pattern spider silk cloth is not limited to the imperial capital, and even in addition to the major provinces of the Green Empire, it is even sold as far as Buenos Aires in the Elf Kingdom.

The silk reeling workshop is still in the stage of huge profits. Although the spindle of a magic pattern spider silk has dropped from the original ten gold coins to five gold coins, this industry does not cost me anything except for regularly replenishing some giant spiders.

It is the stable output of this part of the silk reeling workshop that ensures the normal construction of the town of Trum.

More than a hundred beast girls moved dozens of boxes of fine steel ingots from the dwarf kingdom and nearly a hundred boxes of rune plate copper blanks into the underground warehouse of Xinliu Valley.

In addition, there are nearly a thousand steel pipes of different specifications already stored in the rental warehouse of the Airport Town. North Duisburg will transport five batches of steel pipes to the Airport Town in two weeks. These steel pipes will be used for the infrastructure of Trum Town.

In addition, I ordered a thousand boxes of glass from Palestina Province through the Emerald Bay Trading Company, which will also arrive in the Airport Town via magic airship this week.

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I took Katarina across the portal to the blacksmith shop in the underground cave of Xinliu Valley.

It happened that four old dwarf craftsmen and several female orcs were dismantling the large wooden boxes piled at the door of the blacksmith shop. These wooden boxes were slightly damaged. Looking inside from the gaps, you can clearly see the pieces of fine steel ingots wrapped in oil paper.

As the nails on the box board were removed one by one, the female half-orc removed the lid of the wooden box. One of the old dwarves reached out and took out a piece of fine steel ingot from the wooden box. He trembled and pushed away the oil paper on it, revealing the brick-shaped fine steel ingot inside. One corner of the ingot was printed with the special emblem of King Stan of the Dwarf Kingdom, and the fine steel ingot was filled with a strong smell of motor oil.

The faces of the four old dwarf craftsmen were not only without any joy, but also with a trace of worry.

The old dwarves saw me walking in from the outside of the blacksmith shop, and they surrounded me one after another.

The old dwarf craftsman named Alberta held a heavy ingot of fine steel in both hands, his face full of wrinkles like chrysanthemums, and said to me with a bitter smile: "Lord Jijia, you really bought back these high-quality steel materials produced in the dwarf country!"

Another old dwarf craftsman gently stroked his thick beard on his chin, and then said to me: "Maybe we forgot to tell you last time that even if we have such high-quality steel, it is difficult to process such high-precision gears with our current processing methods."

The third old dwarf craftsman looked around, unwilling to look me in the face, and said to me with a guilty conscience: "Lord, we can only barely produce copper gears at present, and the movement used to assemble the magic engraving machine is basically copper."

"What we old guys mean is that even if we have these high-quality steels, it is very difficult to transform the movement of the magic engraving machine into fine steel." The last old dwarf stood up to add, fearing that I didn't understand.

The four old dwarves stood at the door of the blacksmith shop dejectedly like children who had done something wrong.

I reached out to take the fine steel ingot from the first old dwarf and said to them: "Things are not that bad. Before buying these fine steel ingots, I actually made some preparations."

I walked into the blacksmith workshop with the four old dwarf craftsmen, and the old dwarf craftsmen looked at me suspiciously.

There was a very old blower standing next to the workbench. A small furnace was behind the blower. As the blower's lungs kept opening and closing, the wind was sent into the furnace, and the flames on the coke in the furnace instantly turned green.

On the other side of the workbench was a huge wrought iron anvil, on which was placed a half-forged Damascus sword. A stone trough was placed next to the anvil, filled with water. The water in the trough was very turbid, and there was a layer of oil on the water surface.

When the old dwarves saw me standing in front of the trough, they all gathered around.

At this time, I unscrewed the drain pipe in the trough and drained all the water in it.

Then I gently placed the fine steel ingot in my hand into the stone trough, and then took out a bottle of metal softener from my arms and poured it evenly on the fine steel ingot.

"This is a bottle of metal softener made by the master alchemist. It is said that it can soften all metals, and fine steel ingots should be no problem. We just need to sprinkle the softener evenly on the fine steel ingots." I said to the four old dwarf craftsmen holding the empty bottle in my hand.

The four old dwarf craftsmen stood aside, stretched their necks and watched my demonstration carefully. The other female dwarves in the blacksmith shop also put down their work and gathered around.

I put the empty bottle of softener aside, then took out a wooden box from my magic waist bag and said to the dwarves: "Wait a little while, when the fine steel ingot is completely softened, you can use the wooden mold to press any workpiece, but the premise is that the size accuracy of the wooden mold must meet the requirements, and it is best to use fine-grained hardwood carving molds such as ironwood or indigo wood."

One of the old dwarves picked up the empty glass bottle I put aside, wiped the edge of the bottle mouth, and got a little residual liquid. He put it in front of his big nose and tried to smell it. Unfortunately, the residual softener got on the mithril ring on his middle finger. In an instant, his mithril ring was melted by the softener, just like a drop of sticky honey dripping on the ground.

"Wow, how could this happen!" the old dwarf exclaimed in surprise, "This goes against science. Is this some kind of powerful earth magic?"

I put on a pair of snakeskin gloves and opened the wooden box. Inside the wooden box was a very delicate cookie mold, which was engraved with a small round cookie mold with patterns that little Ella liked very much. I found it in the kitchen.

I reached into the stone trough and grabbed the steel ingot that softened like cheese. I rubbed it hard in the stone trough. An incredible scene happened in front of the dwarves. The steel ingot was like a soft dough, changing its shape in my hand at will. I rubbed the steel ingot twice like kneading dough, and kneaded the steel ingot into a soft round steel rod.

Then, I pulled off a small piece of the steel material of the round steel rod with my hands, rolled it twice with my hands, and then stuffed it into the mold of the small round cookie, and then knocked it with a wooden mallet.

I pointed to the piece of steel embedded in the mold and said to the dwarves: "To make complex workpieces, we only need to make the wooden mold perfect enough to press out any fine steel parts. However, this step is of course not enough. We need to do further processing, that is, solidify the workpiece!"

"To be honest, this is a bit like a cookie mold." A female dwarf next to me looked at the mold with a puzzled look.

"Hehe!" I laughed dryly twice, and then said: "Sorry, I can't find a better demonstration tool, so I have to take out the cookie mold in the kitchen temporarily!"

After that, I took out a bottle of metal curing agent from the magic waist bag, unscrewed the bottle cap, and then just dripped a drop of liquid like olive oil on the small round biscuits pressed by steel. Instantly, pungent white smoke evaporated from the steel.

When the dwarves were busy dispelling the pungent smoke, I took the small round biscuits pressed by steel in my hand, and all the fine patterns on the steel small round biscuits were clearly printed.

The four old dwarves looked at the small round biscuit in my hand with incredible expressions. They took the round biscuit and one old dwarf even put it in his mouth and bit it hard with his teeth.

"This is really amazing. What kind of alchemical potion is this?" an old dwarf whispered.

The dwarf standing next to him wiped his eyes hard, stared at the steel round biscuit, and said: "If it can be promoted, this metal softener can make the forging level of the Green Empire surpass the Dwarf Kingdom for the first time!"

Later, another old dwarf craftsman said: "This softener may change the processing mode of traditional forging. In the future, the production of metal utensils will become as simple as wood carving."

"With this metal softener, there will be nothing that the dwarf kingdom can use from now on."

The old dwarves gathered together and discussed variously.

I then took off the snakeskin gloves and handed them to one of the old dwarves.

Then he took out the whole box of metal softener and curing agent from the magic waist bag, placed it next to the work table, put away the cookie mold, and then said to the four old dwarves: "If you replace those copper gears with With more precise stainless steel gears, can the printing success rate of these magic seal machines be improved?"

"Of course." An old dwarf craftsman replied.

"Then I look forward to good news from you. If you need anything, just ask!" I said to the four old dwarf craftsmen. "Recently, I have a new magic-patterned copper rune plate to be printed. The production process of this rune board will be more complicated, because the magic pattern array needs to be printed on both its front and back sides, and more importantly, the two magic pattern arrays are closely connected..."

As I said that, I took out the design drawing of the 'Continuous Frost' magic rune board designed by Yerkes scholar and showed it to the four old dwarves.

Looking at the new magic rune board displayed in my hand, an old dwarf hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Lord Jijia, can you ask the Yero indigenous people in the underground cave to cooperate with us? Their wood carvings The craftsmanship is much better than ours..."

"That's no problem." I agreed immediately.

After walking out of the blacksmith shop in Xinliu Valley, I planned to browse the secret room containing the Hex technology blueprints. When I passed the underground square, I saw that the square was filled with grain, stone, steel pipes, raw rubber, Linen and many other supplies needed to be transported immediately to the Trurum camp in the Hierro plane, so Katarina and I took the time hourglass and ran to Yero through the teleportation gate on the teleportation altar overnight. Luo plane.

When I stepped through the portal leading to the Hierro plane, I remembered that there were two Hierro indigenous girls at home. I had been too busy these past two days to go back home, and I didn’t know that they were with the little girl. How's it going with Ella.

I talked about this with Catalina. Catalina told me that in addition to learning Mandarin every day, the two indigenous girls from Hierro were planting some flowers brought from the Hierro plane in the back garden of the courtyard. Plant seeds and trimmed lawns and shrubbery walls. They are good at communicating with plants.