"There is no money."
A group of mages looked at each other, never expecting to fall into such a situation. "Ryze! Why didn't the money be left? Didn't you leave it to you? What should we do next? I only have three days of tobacco left!"
Reitz pressed his nose with his thumb, looked at the others with some dissatisfaction, and was quite dissatisfied: Oh, you guys smoke fireworks, what happened to me when I saw a small casino spending some money? And I didn't lose, but my wallet was stolen.
"Don't worry about tobacco, how long have we booked here at the hotel?"
"There are twelve rooms in total, and there is still one month left," said Reitz.
"You go and get some deposit back, so we will stay for half a month, so that you can buy half a month tobacco for half a month." The mage who just reminded him not to mention tobacco was now more happy: "If we squeeze in, we only need six... four rooms, then the time can be longer, right?"
"Or we can go back to the Holy Trinity Castle." Reitz sighed and said.
The mages were a little moved but hesitant, some shook their heads firmly, and some didn't care about the proposal at all. Instead, they carefully pinched the pocket on their chests with their fingers, and estimated the remaining amount of "tobacco stock" inside. "The Holy Three Castle has become like that, and the Sect Master will obviously not support us anymore. And most importantly, in the battle with the Behemoth, Polong lit the tobacco shop. We have no channels to purchase goods in the Holy Three Castle - but I have to say that the smell is really good."
These mages all showed intoxicating expressions. They all participated in the mission to fight against Bemon, but they all gathered around the lit tobacco shop, and none of them were willing to go to other defense areas. Such a fighting attitude angered the Holy One Church established in the war. As a punishment, all the funds were cancelled. The "Mistress of Mysterious" house was confiscated and became the dormitory of the church pastor again. The Holy Trinity Castle collapsed almost completely, and the mansion hiding in the corner survived, so it was only a matter of time before they were targeted.
"The deposit cannot be refunded, and even if it can be refunded, what should we do in half a month? We have to find a way to make money, mages! We are all smart people. Can't you see clearly this clearly? Do you have any ways to make money? Manors, land, and industries? Don't hide it now!"
"Ryze, wouldn't you know if we had a manor and a property?" said a wizard. "I remember I was handing over a vineyard ten years ago to you to take care of, and you said you sold it for a good price. What about that money?"
"Your tobacco is two levels higher than others. Why didn't you think of this money when you show off?" Reitz waved his hand hard, and the tone directly increased by one octave: "I tried my best to make the money allocated by the church barely enough for you to use every day. Is anyone thanking me? I'm still caring about you! Even in this crisis situation, I still found a good job and can make a fortune."
"Make a profit? Tell me quickly. Is there another evil store owner who needs us to rob...has it been hit?"
"The elves on Minas Ishir need someone to help create a magic circle. I have inquired about it. They use standard techniques to write the runes used for magic circles on wooden pieces. I think it is very simple, and it is not difficult for everyone. The elves provide spell materials, and each standard rune board is rewarded with a silver coin."
"A silver coin is too few! You can only need a gold coin!"
"Okay, it seems you don't want to participate." Reitz snorted, and then said: "The entire project of the elves requires 600,000 standard rune boards. They have to pay 60,000 gold coins for the rewards alone! Each rune board is a small job of three or four runes, which is essentially just using mana to write. When the other party provides materials, a silver coin is a good reward. There are 22 people in total, and it is not a dream to grab 30,000 to 40,000 yuan. Then, use this money to open a store, or invest in spells and alchemy materials, even if you invest in tobacco merchants, you can live for a long time."
"It must be a tobacco merchant." The two mages said in unison, and the others nodded one after another.
"Then it's settled. I'll sign up quickly and sign the agreement. Oh, you can give me a letter of attorney, so you don't need to sign the agreement one by one. Even if there is a letter of attorney, I have to come back tomorrow. This headache-inducing paperwork..." Riz said with trouble, but his hands were very quick. He took out the scroll, quill and ink and started writing the contract. "Minas Ishir used a standard contract, and all the contracted staff were the same, and paid according to the qualified rune board. I'll try to start working within three days."
"Three days? Are you too anxious?"
"Only after three days, we won't be able to smoke cigarettes or get kicked out of the hotel!" Reitz threw the quill pen on the table: "It's okay if you don't want to take this job. If you have a better way, tell me it quickly. I won't have to run back and forth so much to deal with these headache-inducing trivial matters!"
The mages kept silent. Brit Smoke raised his chin slightly and ordered Ryze: "Hurry up, stop talking nonsense, go and return early, and do a better job. If the reward can be increased, it would be even better."
Reitz nodded vigorously: "Okay, I will work hard."
The work of a silver coin and a standard rune board comes from the construction project of the "strategic transmission platform", with 60,000 gold coins being given to the craftsmen. This matter has now become the latest and hottest topic of discussion for the entire Minas Ishir. Feige and Eddie took out all their money into the project. Originally, the two hoped that Diderit would also invest, but the Elf Lord did not focus on making money, but wanted to spend half of their money to the church to rebuild the Holy Trinity Castle and half of it to improve the living standards of the elves immigrants. She felt that if she only paid one thousand gold coins, she refused this investment.
If the lord doesn't interfere, how can he become an official businessman? So Eddie insisted on pulling Didelite and wrote down an IOU of 10,000 gold coins, and then bought the IOU. "The lord of Minas Ishir is reputable, and of course he will pay off the debt first. So after a while, Didelite became one of the shareholders. But..." Eddie lowered his voice and said to Feige: "It's just that she doesn't have many shares and cannot decide or reject anything alone."
"It's okay to have small things, but big things, especially when the business of the strategic transmission platform conflicts with the core interests of the church or the elves, and it is impossible to negotiate and compromise, then give in. This magic circle serves strategic goals, and obtaining money is just a process, not a strategic goal."
"What is the strategic goal?" Eddie asked with wide eyes.
"I can freely use my ideas to change the world."
Feich's strategic goals sound amazing, but in fact it is just a cliché that can be readily available. For Eddie, Feich's idea of ​​free display may be from the count to the duke, or even to the prince. If it is for Diderit, it may be to reform the church and better spread the goddess belief. Only Shani truly understands what Feich's strategic goals are: he actually didn't think about it at all, but he vaguely thinks that this teleportation platform is very important and should be built, and then it will be more prominent in the name of "strategy". As for what to do in the future, how to use it, and adapt to the situation.
After calculation, the initial construction of the strategic transmission platform costs a lot of money, and the material fee can be controlled at more than 10,000 gold coins, but the cost of making the magic circle is so high that even if Feiqi does a vain work, the remaining one will cost 60,000 gold coins. Feiqi gave the design drawing, but he refused to hand-draw all the runes himself.
"I have other things to do, and it is impossible to spend them on it. And this repetitive work is enough to give the craftsmen. This time I spent some money to count how many people can draw runes with mana."
Eddie knew that she could not force Feich to do something. After using the reason to "save 60,000 gold coins" as a reason, she had to introduce other investors. The Countess first responded, and some of the Andrews and his wife also came out. Some of the fugitive nobles of Feinberg also joined, and then some chambers of commerce that smelled the opportunity. However, they only knew that this was a "spell investment project", but the specific content was completely uninquired. This is a prospectus based on trust, and if you want to come, you will come, and you will not force it. This attitude of "I am just playing mystery, I am just arrogant" is quite suitable for a magic project to some extent. And if you can't get enough gold coins, Eddie also thought of a countermeasure. She would "persuad" Feich. In order to complete the project, he must draw the runes himself - for the sake of "strategy", can Feich not agree?
However, the craftsman fee of 60,000 gold coins was still raised, and Feiqi did not have to be pulled out, which made him happiest. It was one of Feiqi's creeds to find ways to relax himself. To this end, he designed the magic array in a modular way, trying to use "function calls" and "function access" to make the trunk of the magic array as simple as possible, and used as many standard modules as branches to implement the spell function. In this way, the workload of the main part he was responsible for - that is, the core process control - was smaller, and the proportion of modules that could be made with standard runes was higher. This is the idea of ​​industrialization rather than craftsmanship: large-scale division of labor and cooperation is carried out on the basis of standard and simple repetitive work, instead of continuous excellence completed by craftsmen. Which is better? For users, which one is cheaper and more practical.
Feiqi stipulated the production standards for rune boards and designed and made magic circles for testing quality. If we put it another way, Feiqi was equivalent to changing the production of magic circles from hand-copying to movable type printing, at least at the level of movable type layout. The standard rune board is "movable type". The standards set by Feiqi include fonts, degree of concave and convexity, spacing, arrangement specifications, etc. The future goal is to mass-produce movable type, and now there is no way to make it in a "labor-intensive" way.
The strategic teleportation platform is located outside Fuzang Town, separated from the town by a low mountain bag. It is placed here to be able to be linked to the three-barrel magic circle in the future. Of course, only Feiqi himself knows this reason. The external explanation is that the closer to the magic school, the more convenient it will be to maintain it in the future. Considering that there will be a lot of loading and unloading work here in the future, the hill bag will be densely planted with trees and shrubs to reduce noise.
He arranged all these things to give himself time to do other things. The entire territory was busy earning the 60,000 gold coins, and he didn't care about quarrels. The students of the Magic School began their first large-scale engineering internship in their lives. They were responsible for checking the standard rune boards, tracking the progress of the project, and assembling the magic array platform according to the design drawings. In order to make it more attractive to become students of the Magic School, Feige and Eddie paid them a high salary.
As everyone was busy, Fitch could get out to prepare for his journey to hell. After all, there was still a form of Desire Demon that had not been restored, and he had to continue to advance to completely get rid of the Forbidden Demon. However, before going to hell, he unexpectedly met Rez Weiga.
"He is going to take half of the standard rune board's project volume, which is at least 30,000 gold coins. It's important, so I brought him here." Eddie winked at Feich, "If you can give him this part of the work, you will be 10% off."
"If you make it in batches, you can save some money. We are all spellcasters." Reitz said to Fitch with a smile: "In the range of Model Leader, Cultivator and the Kingdom of Aria, the Mist of Mysterious Mist is the highest-level spellcaster group. I looked at the standard rune board, and that thing is not difficult to make."
"Mysterious Mist All Leave the Tobacco House... Am I talking about the mansion?"
"The church has suffered such a huge loss. As we have received the help of the church for a long time, we always have to make some contributions, right? So we gave the mansion to those injured and lost people." Reitz blinked at Fitch: "Mr. Saint, Chief Consultant, thank you for your concern, but now we are discussing the rune board business, right? I want to make sure to take this business, so I am willing to give in 10% of the profit. If you don't agree and still buy it at the original price, it is obviously not suitable for you. How to accept it or how to accept it will not affect the project, and you can save at least three thousand gold coins."
"I'll buy it at the original price. I don't need these three thousand gold coins." Feich's rejection was a bit unexpected. Eddie was about to persuade him, but he was forced back by Feich's eyes: "The mages of the Mysterious Mist are indeed not lacking in the ability to make rune boards, but I think they lack the awareness of completing tasks. I will not threaten the progress of the project in order to save three thousand gold coins."
"What if I can show enough efficiency? Take a week to see the quantity and quality of our work. If we can surpass others, are we qualified to take part in part of the project?"
"This is relatively more reasonable, not that you can't consider it. But I'm very surprised, why would you rather take less money than grab the project?"
"Because we are about to go bankrupt, we need a lot of money to start over." Reitz spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders: "What can I do? I can't miss this good opportunity, right? I learned that there are spellcasters in your territory, and more than half of the treasure girls are spellcasters, and you also have a magic school. However, elves often use elves runes, while treasure girls use ancient runes. The students in the magic school are all novices, and they are definitely not as proficient as the wizards of the Mysterious Mist."
"Okay, if the mage of Mysterious Mist can complete the rune board with quality and quantity and prove his ability, then you can talk about the matter of contracting some projects. Then you can find Eddie."
Rez had already got the result he wanted, and he flattered for a while and left. Feige asked Eddie to stay and said to her: "Rez is going to make trouble, I'm pretty sure about this."
"Ah? If that's the case, I'll arrange more people to check the rune boards they sent."
"In addition to more inspections, I'll take some of their rune boards to me, and I'll see it myself. But the problem is not this..." Feiqi used the detection spell and confirmed that no one eavesdropped, and said: "The mages of the Mysterious Mist are on the verge of bankruptcy, and Ryz may have to abandon them. Note that if Ryz wants to advance the project, it means he may be running away."
"He came to talk to me, but he didn't show this idea." Eddie thought for a while and said, "If he wants to advance, I won't give it to him."
"Give him, let him run. If I want to leave the wizards of the mysterious mist, I must put them in a desperate situation." Feige said to Eddie: "You go and do something, get me some gold coins and gems, and I will cast tracking spells on it. Then find a chamber of familiarity to give you a withdrawal certificate, which is the kind used by the chamber of commerce for long-distance transportation. I will mark him with the method of Monster Hunter. As long as he runs, I can recover him, and at least get the money back."
"Will he think of this already? What if he escaped with a spell like teleportation?" Eddie pulled his hair in distress: "Oh, it seems that I have to go to the magic school to study, and I will inevitably deal with spell-related matters in the future!"
To promote the development of magic, people need to learn magic; the method to promote learning is to clearly show it to everyone: magic is powerful, magic is convenient, and magic makes money. So, Eddie already has the need and initiative to learn magic.
"If he uses teleportation, he will even save the pursuit." Feiqi smiled confidently. Although he did not think he was invincible in the world in the field of space and teleportation spells, it was absolutely fine to suppress Ryze. As long as he did some tricks on the "silver notes" of the Chamber of Commerce, as long as the starting point of Ryze's teleportation was within a radius of three hundred miles, he would only return to the three barrel magic array and be controlled inside, just like those captured demons.
"On the one hand, don't reveal any flaws. Don't agree so easily when prepaying the project payment, let him ask you more. On the other hand, say hello to Liz, and use the Tibetan girls and Titan spiders to suppress those mages when necessary, and I will also strive to be present."
"Want to be present? Are you leaving Minas Ishir recently?"
"No, I will be here, and I will still work and teach students every day from noon to night. I just have to do some magic experiments and I may not be able to get out of my body immediately. The strategic teleportation platform is just a starting point, and I still have a lot to do!"
"Wow, if that's the case, should I start to expand the scale of the Spell Material Alchemy Store?" Eddie said: "Although you have a strong ability to make money, don't worry about money! Spell materials are a large part of the expenses!"
"You can do it. At this stage, it's useless to make too much money. Can I buy any good things?" Feiqi looked down on the goods in this world except those related to spells. "I need more people, even those who can portray simple spell runes. Please note that if someone is not a professional spell caster, but who can complete the standard rune board to make money, keep him and ask him to tell his experience to the students of the magic school. If he is willing to hand over the method to more people, then we will give him money and give him a lot of money!"
"Okay, I will pay attention. It's the same thing in the past: attach importance to craftsmen."
"It's about raising producers. Eddie, I believe you can do it well."
This time, Ryz was sophisticated and could set traps without changing her face and beating her heart. However, he could not hide the changes in the soul fire. Fitch thought it was troublesome at first. Although the method of valuing by piece was a bit inflexible, it was not easy to get into trouble. Why change it? But he saw Ryz's state of the soul fire with the ability of the demon of desire. After becoming alert, he slowly thought about it and guessed Ryz's plan. He only thought more: If a gambler with a flexible mind does not have enough benefits, how could he be kind to bring a group of patients with severe smoking addiction and procrastination all day? When the church no longer supports the Mysterious Fog, Ryz must first consider himself! He first obtained authorization and became a "contractor", and then ran away with a lot of money. This routine is not difficult to imagine.
Similarly, Feiqi also needs to consider his own interests. He has many ways to stop Rez, but it seems that it would be better for him to make this happen. The group of mages in the Mysterious Mist basically had no hope of making it right, and they could only use the means of suppression to have a chance. However, if you want to suppress, you must have a reason. Minas Ishir is not a tyrannical rule, Feiqi also needs to consider his reputation. If you kill someone and pay your life, owes debts and pay money, Feiqi needs such a natural reason.
The next development was basically carried out according to Feid's vision. In the first week, Ridge used high-quality tobacco to stimulate the interest of the Mysterious Mist, and made many standard rune boards, showing that these mages did have good experience in running spell operation - if they couldn't even do this, Feidge wouldn't want to deal with them at all. Then in the second week, Ridge and Eddie finalized the "engineering contract" agreement, which was a total of 35,000 gold coins. In order to boost the fire, Eddie limited a relatively short completion time in the contract, so that the magicians of Mysterious Mist must at least be more efficient than the first week before they can complete it.
Reitz took the bait, or he had planned it like this. He proposed that in order to better complete the workload, he needed to purchase special equipment to improve work efficiency, so he hoped to get a part of the project payment first. Eddie disagreed, unless Reitz could leave these equipment that could improve work efficiency for her after completion, and teach her how to use it.
This was exactly what Ryze thought. He "hesitated" for a long time, agreed "very reluctantly" and left with 12,000 gold coins in one step and three times". When he left Minas Ishir and used a teleportation spell scroll that had been treasured for a long time, his mind was full of the longing for a happy new life with gold coins in the distance, he found himself in a mysterious cave and was trapped by a super complex magic circle.
"Is this hell?" Riz asked.
Chapter completed!