The latest report is that during a routine reconnaissance of the Demon Realm Gate on the southern line, it was discovered that orc troops were gathering on the floating island next door.
In terms of time, there are only three months left before the next opening, and these guys have just begun to cope with the last round of changes. It has to be said that their reaction ability is really stretched.
Because the Air Force was required to avoid entering Fatel's airspace as much as possible, it was not clear what they were doing specifically, and they did not choose to encircle the floating island where the Demon Realm Gate was located as soon as they came up.
Subsequently, it was discovered that their military operation was very reluctant.
Fatel faced the direction of Demon Realm Gate No. 2. There were originally three camps observed from the air. Judging from the smoke and the number of tents, there were less than a thousand people in each camp.
After discovering that they had gathered, it took a month for the total number of observable camps to reach five, and the two new camps only reached a scale of more than 4,000 people.
This means that they can only gather less than three hundred people every day!
This is thanks to the fact that the demon forces corresponding to Demon Realm Gate No. 2 are not active, otherwise the gathering speed would not be enough to kill them.
[In view of the general environment,
Then again, it is quite good for a traditional force like Fatel to gradually adapt to the background of floating islands.
After reading several relevant reports from Fatel's direction, Wang Qi no longer cared and started to check the development of local forces around No. 2 Demon Realm Gate.
According to regular reports from licensed agencies, at least three floating islands around Gate 2 are already fighting demons. In the latest report, a total of 146 ice devil horns were recovered last month.
An Ice Crown Ice Demon has two horns, and there are only a few dozen horns if there are more than a hundred, so it cannot be considered a group activity. In addition, the Air Force did not observe the cross-island behavior of the demons. Most of this was the result of active attacks by surrounding armed forces.
Ice Demon Horn selected some samples and sent them to the palace to decorate Wang Qi.
The length of the horn, including the arc, is 35 to 42 centimeters, and the base diameter is 21 to 29 centimeters. It is only a little thicker than a cow horn. The surface is made of bright blue fine ice-flake-like fine scales.
In terms of hand feel, it is silky when touched from the bottom to the tip of the corner, with a slightly smooth and grainy feel. There is no obvious undulation on the whole. It will be more painful when you touch it in reverse. If you rub it back with fresh meat, you can even bring out some minced meat.
There are three categories of processed products.
One is in powder form, and its shape is very similar to that of white sugar. It only uses a layer of a few millimeters thick on the surface of the ice magic horn. Depending on the size and quality, the finished product made from a single horn is between 220 and 400 grams.
The powdered finished product is mainly used for direct spell casting, and can also be used to mix other magic materials.
The quality level of ice magic horn powder is not high, but it has an advantage. It has no clear magic direction and can be mixed with powder materials of any properties.
Spell-casting materials are a very big threshold in learning magic. They are the same as magic spells. It depends on the person. If you are talented and have strong magic power, you may not need them.
The prophecy exploration magic that Li Xiang mastered was a major supplier of consumables.
Although the threshold for casting consumables is low, there are also flaws. For example, the four-ring exploration magic [Magic Mapping] held by Li Xiang cannot detect underwater and underground conditions if cast materials are used. It can be understood that it can only be deconstructed from powder. Only where the particles can reach can they be "seen".
But obviously, it is impossible for serious people to compare with Li Xiang's nearly 1,000 mysterious points. Except for some magics in the conjuration and evocation systems that have been optimized to the point where they do not require consumables, in most cases mages are still inseparable. Supplies.
Speaking of these nearly a thousand mysterious values, Wang Qi has recently stopped adding attributes to himself and Li Xiang because his physical body can no longer withstand it.
Wang Qi had earlier discovered that as attributes increase, people will become "Solaristic", which means that the cells in the body each do their own thing, and they need to be controlled by will to maintain the macroscopic entity.
This situation becomes very obvious after the attributes reach nearly 1,000. If you are not careful, some limbs will become blurred. Fortunately, you will still subconsciously pay attention to the touch when making touching movements. For the time being, there has not been any case of two people shaking hands and holding objects overlapping. situation.
But this trend is also obvious. If the attributes continue to be added, the two of them will need to spend a lot of money.
If you focus on maintaining your human form, daily activities will become very troublesome.
Return to the Ice Devil's Corner.
The second category of finished products should be classified into the art category, similar to ivory products, where horns are made into cups, small animals, candlesticks, etc.
The difference is that the ice magic horn is a magic material after all, and its products also have a certain magic carrying capacity.
There are not many usage scenarios, but the parts that can be used are very interesting.
For example, when Wang Qi got a section, Li Xiang withered it into the shape of a small white horn, and then used the creation puppet spell on it to make it move.
Unlike the big guy like the rock puppet, this rough-processed prop-like puppet has no autonomy at all and only reacts when your fingers touch it. Its behavior is very stereotyped. If your fingers touch it from the front, it will perform a harmless attack. If you touch it from the back, it will walk away. The most suitable place to place such a thing is actually a chessboard!
Non-animal and human-style finished products are generally used for scene theft prevention, drug detection, etc.
I can’t say it’s useless, it’s just that it’s not very useful.
The third type of finished product of the ice magic horn has a more primitive form, using the entire horn to process the magic array components.
This type of magic array is extremely traditional. It is the kind of array that covers an area of dozens or hundreds of square meters and has a very single function. Typical ones are teleportation arrays, summoning arrays, city defense arrays, etc.
Of course, the Ice Demon Horn is not of a high enough level to be used in advanced formations. It can only be used as an ingredient in the manor's protective formations... it is not even the protagonist.
The situation is similar to the feedback from the 301st Battalion: useful, but not so useful.
Franchise agencies operate on a basis of 200 yuan to recycle ice magic horns. In fact, it is not that much, because guns have to pay taxes when leaving the country, so the 1,000 yuan selling price of guns abroad will also be deducted. Adding the official subsidy given for the labor involved in recycling the horns, the price of a single horn returned to the country is temporarily 165 yuan, regardless of quality.
The intermediary has consulted many magic equipment factories, but no one wants it!
Fortunately, the price is not an issue. As a material that can partially replace 4-ring materials, the price of one to two hundred is not unacceptable to the income of domestic mages.
The magic equipment factory mainly considers supply volume and supply stability. In this regard, one does not need to have outstanding strategic knowledge to make a judgment. Near the No. 2 Demon Realm Gate, there is a high probability that the supply volume will gradually increase and then collapse due to the demon cluster crossing the floating island.
Therefore, this thing cannot be processed centrally and can only be put into the retail market.
Wang Qi sent an inner court guard to follow up for a few days, but the magic material stores the agency contacted were reluctant.
The size of the magician group is too small compared to the general population. This determines the way the magic material store operates, which will tend to be a combination of high value and low profit margin and low value and high profit margin.
This is completely opposite to the logic of the ordinary market. For example, food is a guaranteed product in the ordinary market, and the profit margin of its raw materials rarely exceeds 20% in a single link. The best-selling products in magic stores are one-time two- and three-ring magic spells. Crystal, the cost of 10 yuan must be sold for more than 30 yuan.
Based on the general price of similar materials, the price of a single serving of Ice Magic Horn is difficult to exceed 200 yuan. This profit margin really does not satisfy the store.
It didn't sound like a big deal, so Wang Qi went to the finance department to approve a note and handed it over to the intermediary to continue the negotiation.
In fact, it is a direct official subsidy. The specific amount of subsidy depends on the intermediary itself. Anyway, if the subsidy is 10 yuan less, they will earn 3 yuan more.
The money is not much, but this business is a franchise. There are only two agencies in total. It is expected that there will always be tens of thousands of ice magic horns in the whole cycle. It can be seen that it is worth their efforts in retail negotiations.
