My Magic Age

The heat next to the row of large iron pots soon made us sweat. We didn’t dare to stay here for too long. If we didn’t replenish salt water in time, we would easily become dehydrated. The group was just a few steps away from the oil pots. He sat down to rest at a wooden table and chairs next to the oil depot a hundred meters away.

A temporary warehouse was built here with wooden planks, and nearly 800 barrels of corpse kerosene were placed inside. There were dozens of empty barrels scattered outside the warehouse.

Dozens of gray dwarf slaves were sitting in the empty space in front of the warehouse. Each one held a sharp file and was gradually cutting off the sternum left by the Swamp Corpse King from the two ribs to make a side bone. To make a bone shield, you only need to cover the bone shield with a layer of corpse king skin. Such a bone shield is both light and strong.

"What kind of deal does the owner want to do with our brothers?" Kurtz sat down and asked straight to the point. When he saw Horsens focusing on the oil drums in the warehouse, he asked: "You want to exchange iron ingots for corpse fire?" Oil? In addition to making fire bombs, isn't this something only magic pharmacists can use? Or, like Jia, do you think the orcs in Grudin are willing to buy this kind of stove?

At this time, Kuz's maid, Asakusa, carried a set of cups and a beast girl, and moved the oil stove outside my tent. It was a barrel-shaped sixty centimeter high and about thirty centimeters in diameter. The vertical oil stove looks like the beast girl Carrying it easily, she placed the oil stove in front of my feet, deftly opened the iron cover, unscrewed the regulating valve, used flint to ignite the fire, and finally placed the kettle on the stove polished like a lotus. Go up and wait quietly for the water in the pot to boil.

"Why not? This thing looks very convenient. Not all wilderness hunters like it. They waste a lot of time behind the one-horned buffalo herd, picking up dried cow dung for cooking. However, I really want to know about the corpse fire. The price of oil, if this kind of oil stove is as expensive as those luxury goods shipped from the Green Empire, not many orcs can afford it!" Horsens looked at the flames on the stove carefully! , his eyes showed eager eyes.

I looked at the oil stove in front of me and said slowly: "Such a crudely made oil stove is worth about three silver coins. If it is well made, the cost will never be higher than five silver coins. The inner tank of this oil stove contains Filled with corpse fire oil, I tried to use this kettle to boil water, and it could be boiled almost one hundred and fifty times, which means..."

Before I finished speaking, Horsens was amazed and said: "If you calculate it this way, if you only cook two meals a day in the wilderness, then an oil stove can be used for two months after being filled with grease, which is enough The hunters have completed a hunt, but the first thing I know is, how many silver coins do you want to sell this thing for? "

"Ten silvers!" Kurtz and I looked at each other and said to Horsens at the same time.

"Is it so cheap?" Horsens said solemnly.

No one knows what kind of chain reaction it will have if so much corpse fire oil enters the market of the orc tribe, but Kurtz and I have been preparing to develop convenient cooking utensils made of corpse fire oil in the direction of poverty-stricken people. This is also What we have been arguing about the most recently is whether it is to maximize profits or to win reputation and bring this convenient and fast oil stove into the lives of ordinary orcs. In the end we priced ten silver coins.

Ten silver coins are equivalent to half a month's wages of an adult orc, which is a considerable expense. However, for an orc hunter who walks into the wilderness alone, as long as he can try his luck to hunt a magic antelope or Feng Lang, I have recovered my capital and everything. Even if I don't hunt these low-level monsters, I can still encounter a few rare magic herbs in the wasteland.

Speaking of which, our zombie fire oil has almost no business. Hunting these swamp zombies is just something the Laitu tribe has to do in order to survive.

So why has no orc tribe been willing to refine corpse fire oil? The main reason is that hunting swamp zombies is extremely risky. Many orc hunters are unwilling to set foot in the death swamp. This is also because it is a very dangerous area and the undead creatures in it are very troublesome to hunt. Even some hunters Knowing the method of refining corpse fire oil, but finally gave up because there was no way to carry the corpse fire oil out, and just took away the magic core from the skull of the swamp zombie.

Not to mention the orc tribe on the edge of the swamp. Ordinary orc warriors have no way to resist those ghost killer death scythes. If these tribal chiefs have the formula of corpse fire oil, if they are crazy and insist on driving for those corpse fire oil, If the orcs in the tribe go to the swamp to hunt swamp zombies, it will bring a disaster to the tribe.

This formula was given to Qige by Elder Mayana, an orc wise man who walked in the wilderness and guided the displaced orcs on how to survive. After discovering that Qige was a magician, he decisively gave the recipe of corpse fire oil to Qige. I gave it to Qige. I think Mayana must think that Qige has the ability to hunt those swamp zombies. Maybe even if Qige can't deal with those swamp zombies, as a magician, she must have a group of powerful people behind her who can. Deal with these swamp zombies.

Hunting swamp zombies, even though Kurtz and I were very well prepared at the beginning, it actually cost us a lot of money. And this was with the help of Vilu and Jambach, the Raitu beast in the tribe. The female warriors gradually built up their confidence and gradually figured out some ways to kill the swamp zombies. The most important thing is that we have the means to restrain the death scythe. Now even the beast warriors encounter the death scythe without much fear.

Those fears are all due to ignorance. After we killed sixty or seventy Death Scythes in a row, its mystery has been revealed to us.

Therefore, for us, corpse fire oil is not a rare thing. Even if it is difficult to buy in the market now, we do not intend to be a unique business with rare goods. The idea of ​​Kuz and I is to spread the market as much as possible. Open, this can be regarded as a measure to improve the quality of life of the orcs, just like the orcs have the ability to make their own salt. These are things that promote the progress of the orc tribe, and speaking of it, corpse fire oil can also be considered a kind of A low-level strategic material, it is the main ingredient of fire bombs.

I smiled and said to Horsens: "Is the owner of Horsens interested in corpse oil?"

At this time, the kettle on the oil stove kept making a "sizzling" sound, and a ball of white water vapor spurted out from the spout. The kettle lid was beating happily. Behind him, Horsens lifted the kettle from the oil stove. Lifting it down, he personally placed the wooden cup on the wooden table Filling the cups one by one, he said with emotion: "No one dared to think that one day we would all sit together and boil water and make tea with the fat from the bodies of these ferocious beasts in the swamp, but now all this It seems to have become a reality!”

Horsens said with emotion: "This is a good thing. Not all orcs like those dried meats. This business is not difficult to do. To be honest, according to the price customized by your brothers, this kind of oil stove is definitely not Worrying about sales, is it too late for me to join in? "

I looked up at Kurtz and motioned for him to speak.

Kuz didn't show any pretense and said directly: "If the owner wants to trade the corpse oil, that's no problem. Jia and I's plan is that we will only sell the corpse oil. As for Jia, what he wants to do is this The oil stove is just to find a new market for so much corpse oil!”

Kurtz pointed to the piles of oil barrels in the warehouse and explained: "After all, even if you make fire bombs, there is a certain limit. We can't expect to hang ourselves on this tree. Now we can be considered cooperation, Huosen Mr. Si, you bring out the oil furnace, and we bring out the fire oil for corpses. I don’t think it’s better than this. Like this, let's add five to one. The first plan is to make an oil stove that can hold seven liters of corpse oil. Our Laitu tribe is responsible for the corpse oil, and you are responsible for the oil furnace. One can be filled with seven liters. We sell the kerosene oil stove for ten silver coins, and we are responsible for the final brewing and sales. "

What Kurz said is actually just a big circle. The cost of a finely crafted oil stove is close to five silver coins. After such an oil stove is sold, we and Horsens will pay half and half. It happens to be a Wuyin store, which is almost the same as Horsens selling the oil stove directly to us.

Horsens looked a little ugly. In fact, it didn't matter whether the business was done or not, and it didn't matter whether the business was done or not, but if someone was treated as a fool, no one would feel comfortable. Now Kuz has a big circle in front of Horsens, which makes Horsens very unhappy.

Horsens is a very well-educated orc. If he were an ordinary orc with a bad temper, he would have turned over the table and left by now, but he was still waiting for what Kurz would say behind him.

"The second option is that you provide the oil stove and we produce the fire oil. However, you also need to be responsible for the sales and transportation among the orc tribes on the Pai Plateau. In this case, the cost of making the oil stove will be eliminated. In addition, the profits from the sale of our oil stoves are divided equally between our two families.”

After hearing the first half of what Kurtz said, Horsens' eyes almost turned black, but when he heard the final profit distribution, Horsens stared at Kurtz with wide eyes and asked hurriedly: "Really?"

"Do you want to hear the third option?" Even if Kurtz spoke in Orc language, his speaking speed was slow and his voice was very thick, but in this situation, it seemed a bit irritating.

"Let's talk about it!" In fact, Horsens has basically decided to adopt the second method of cooperation with us, but he still wants to hear the third plan.

Kurtz pursed his lips and smiled: "We will sell you corpse fire oil directly, one silver and two liters!"

"real?"

"real!"

"I did this!" Horsens stretched out his hand and raised it in the air, saying proudly.

Kurtz quickly stood up and reached out to slap Horsens on the palm, and the deal was settled.

Horsens had been tired from driving for the past few days, and he had been wandering around the village with us for a long time. When he sat at the door of the corpse kerosene warehouse, he already looked exhausted. Now after finishing the deal, Horsens looked like Although I was very tired, I was in a good mood. After sitting for a while, I went back to the tent to rest.

I sat on the chair and was filled with emotions for a while.

At this time, Kuz was still a little dizzy and couldn't wake up. He asked me with some confusion: "Jia, you said it would be easier for us to just tell him one silver and two liters from the beginning and sell him the fire oil directly. How wonderful! Why do you have to go through such a long process and finally sell him the corpse fire oil?"

I smiled and said, "If we had said at the beginning that we wanted to sell him the corpse fire oil directly, I guess this old orc would have bargained with us. Our corpse fire oil might not be able to be sold for one silver and two liters. You talked to him like this, told him that we knew the profit, and then told him our price, and this guy didn't even bargain, and agreed directly!"