No one cares why the pot of stewed elbows that just arrived is only half full, just like no one questions why Wendy dares to go directly to Rand.
"Sir, are you saying that Wendy just made this jar this afternoon?"
"To be precise, it's the rune part. The jar is ready-made."
"Oh my God." Mace Maned Wolf looked at Peter and he said, after getting a positive answer, "Then Wendy is definitely a genius magician. It is difficult for any high-level magician I have ever seen to be able to describe it successfully in one go." Magic patterns, let alone assembling magic patterns."
While shopping during the day, Lant discovered that items with magic patterns were very expensive. For example, it was generally believed that the runes drawn by pre-high-level magicians usually cost about 1 gold coin and the production cost of 1 kilogram of coins. But in reality, all magic patterns have a high premium.
Magic pattern products are at least 1-5 gold coins more expensive than the same products without magic patterns. For some products with multiple magic patterns, it is common to be 10 gold coins more expensive because of the probability that a magician can successfully draw 2 magic patterns. Very low, the scrap rate of drawing two magic patterns on the same item will be higher.
Because of this, few people can afford a jar with two magic patterns unless they have special needs.
The product was a good product, but there was no market. Lant understood what Mace meant, but Lant was not in a hurry. After all, Wendy could not only paint heated magic patterns on the cans.
After analysis, Metz found a very marketable direction: low-temperature seafood clay pots.
For the Maned Wolf City and many nobles of the Dragon Kingdom, how to transport seafood at low cost has been a problem that has been troubling them, because there are only a few buildings dedicated to teleportation in each city, and the teleportation gates in these buildings require Priority is given to the emperor and legendary messengers, nobles traveling from various places, and military deployments. It takes at least several hours for the seafood on the seaside to arrive at the harbor and reach the tables of the nobles.
Therefore, Mace thinks that a special chilled clay pot can be made, equipped with purifying magic patterns and cooling magic patterns, specially used to store seafood and ice cubes.
Metz's statement gave Lant an idea. He could make a special seafood container, use purification and cooling magic patterns to directly store cold seawater, and store live fish in the seawater. As long as the live fish can mature for more than 2 hours, Nobles should be able to spend more gold coins to buy live seafood.
A group of people at the dinner table were chatting about the future product direction of the magic pattern drawing genius. At this moment, Lant even felt that except Neil, who had no ideas because Makoto was not around, everyone else at the dinner table had turned into product managers and were all there. Keep drawing cakes for Wendy.
"Sir, there is a master mage outside who wants to see you." A cavalryman came over to report.
"Oh, did you tell me what his name was?"
"Ben Call"
"Oh, I remembered, please come in quickly." Lant knew that he was the cousin of the Paladin Burt Call. He said before that he was already in the Maned Wolf City, and now he must be looking for him to prepare to go to Galloping Horse from Lot territory. Plain.
Not long after, Ben Call entered the restaurant, looking like a standard mid-level magician, with a face in his 30s, black eyes, and golden hair covered by the hat on the mage's robe. He was about 2.4 meters tall and very tall. Slender, but without any sense of weakness.
According to Paladin Burt, this Ben Call had been traveling because he was unable to enter the Magic Tower to continue his training when he was in the imperial capital.
Both were mid-level, and Lant was still a knight lord. Logically speaking, Ben should say hello to Lant first, but when he saw that Ben didn't mean that, Lant wasn't angry.
"Master, I welcome your interest in visiting Lot Viscounty and Galloping Horse Plains."
"Oh, thank you, Lord Viscount." Ben stared at Lant as soon as he entered the door. "Excuse me, is your surname Benma?"
"Of course, both the Roth Territory and the Galloping Horse Territory are from the same family. I inherited Viscount Roth because there was no heir after the death of Viscount Roth." This set of words was the official statement confirmed after communication between Lant and Huck. , so that Lant, as an intermediate knight, can legitimately inherit the territory of Viscount Lot. In addition, the Dragon Kingdom will also owe Lant a military merit.
"No wonder, I knew a knight who came to the imperial capital to study. His name is Albert Galloping Horse. Do you know him?"
"Of course, he is my uncle and a scholar in our territory."
"Oh," Ben's eyes suddenly lit up, "I just said you look very familiar, but I can't think of where we have met before."
"I was good friends with Albert back then, and he could be said to be a celebrity in the imperial capital at that time."
"Can a junior knight become a celebrity?" Lant thought, but did not dare to say.
"You can ask him. He once broke through the Tower of Purity alone and talked freely with several legends, but it shocked our magic school."
"Really? He never mentioned it to us."
"Perhaps in Albert's view, failing to bring help from the Imperial Capital to his family is not considered a success for him, so he doesn't want to talk about it."
"Yeah, that's right."
For the two of them, with a common topic like Albert, a lot of the content that follows becomes easier to talk about.
Lant introduced to Ben his experience of fighting all the way from the Galloping Horse Plains, as well as his plans to explore the future of Yeqi City.
"So, you really made those barbarians believe in the God Emperor?"
"Yes, I think since they have to believe in a god, then let them simply believe in the human god." Lant said in a matter-of-fact way.
"The God Emperor wouldn't mind having more believers, would he?"
Ben looked at the bold lord in front of him and said, "It's hard to say!"
"ah?"
"Although the God-Emperor has countless followers, the only ones who are truly qualified to win His favor are those who abide by the rules of knights or magicians."
I knew that the fourth son of the Border Baron in front of me knew nothing and had no idea about religion.
"Although your barbarian demon-embracing followers now believe in the God-Emperor, they have no idea of the God-Emperor's power and responsibilities, nor do they know the rules and regulations. If such so-called believers enter the interior of the human race, they will only be destroyed by the temple. The League considers it to be a false religion.”
"Well, I haven't thought about this, but now all the barbarians in my territory know the divine power and power of His Majesty the God Emperor."
"oh"
"The priest in my domain, Leite Dolaina, has been spreading his faith, and we have made songs about his miracles."
"Doraina" Ben recalled the surname belonging to the Pope's family, "Do you still have a priest in your territory?"
"Yes, he is an ascetic who voluntarily went to the salt mine. After I took the people from the salt mine south, he voluntarily joined my team."
"So that's the case, but even so, you have to manage your barbarian subordinates well. The human race's interior is no better than the Galloping Horse Grassland, and you must not kill without permission."
"Oh, okay." At this moment, Lant felt that the person in front of him was simply his mentor, not an intermediate mage who wanted to defect to him. "
"By the way, Ben, have you eaten? Do you want some of my new pork?"
"You...did it?" Ben looked at Lant in confusion.
Ben Call's evaluation of Lant's food was quite satisfactory. He thought it tasted good, but there was too much oil and too much salt.
"What kind of wealthy family does this have to be able to pay attention to a light diet while wandering around?" Lant thought in his heart, but said, "There is nothing we can do. We used to eat mutton every day on the plains. This is not a change." taste."
"You wouldn't use such a luxurious jar to change the taste, right? Even if you are a viscount, you wouldn't use such a jar painted with double magic patterns to make ordinary food, right?"
"This is not an ordinary jar that heats magic patterns. Look at this lid."
"This lid...are these magic patterns?" Sure enough, an expert would know if there is one as soon as he gets started, and Ben would know the ingenuity of this jar lid just by twisting it.
"Did you buy this from the Blue Dragon Family?" Ben didn't even think this product could be found in Maned Wolf City.
“How much do you think I paid for this jar?”
"If the Lanlong family sells you for more than 5 gold coins, you would be unjust."
"I'm also planning to buy a fresh-keeping container with 2-3 magic patterns, something like this." As Lant spoke, he found a pen and paper with Ben, and continued to draw special pictures for Ben Call. Fresh-keeping containers used to transport seafood.
"This container of yours is so complicated. I'm afraid each side requires about 3 magic patterns to realize it. This will cost at least hundreds of gold coins."
"100 gold coins?" Metz on the side said in surprise, "Is it so expensive?"
"Then it depends on whether Blue Dragon sells it to you. I have never seen similar containers on the market, but the nobles in Longya City have become more sophisticated in recent years. If you don't supply this kind of container to the Lanlong family, Shang, you definitely can’t buy it.”
"Okay, Wendy, I'll give you 100 gold coins. You can buy any magic ink you want. As long as you can make this fresh-keeping container before I come back, we will share the profit 28% for every container sold in the future."
"Huh?" Ben Call looked at Lant in shock, and then he was even more shocked to learn from Lant's explanation that the clay pot with two magic patterns in his hand was the person in front of him. It was only made by a girl with the mage apprentice level, and the girl only failed twice during the making process.
"You really got a talented magician," Ben said while carefully observing the magic patterns on the pottery pot in his hand. "This kind of magic pattern that can be assembled and spliced will test the artist's spatial thinking ability and drawing skills." Basic skills, just such a line, you may not be able to draw it well if you find an intermediate mage."
"Of course Wendy is a genius." Lant was very happy. "Not only Wendy, but also Lili, Sophia, Joni, and Firefly all have strong magic talents."
"Then you really found a treasure."
"Just picking up treasures is not enough. Beautiful gems also need to be constantly polished and planed before they can be placed on the crown. I am guarding these potential apprentices here, but I can only let them carve these simple magic patterns. "
"You are right, so it is best to send them to magic schools in big cities to study. Only those magic schools can provide them with solid basic knowledge of magic, and they can develop better in the future." Ben said very seriously, even though Lant also felt that Ben was right.
At this time, Wendy, who was still sitting, suddenly stood up and said, "Sir, you saved us. We are willing to follow you and won't go anywhere else!" After that, she left.
"Hey, Wendy, wait for me." Lili didn't care about anything else and just followed her out.
Firefly, the last one to leave, saluted Lant, "Sir, let's go with Wendy to see if we can make the fresh-keeping container you want. As for going to school in another city, I think it's okay otherwise."
The departure of several girls seemed to put an end to the sumptuous dinner, and then Lant's two brothers and several knights also left. Lant had no choice but to invite Ben Call to the lord's room for a private chat.
Lant knew that some girls were so resistant to going to big cities to go to school because of their past experiences.
To put it bluntly, in schools supported by big nobles, the main tasks of noble children are to get married, get to know each other, and continue their bloodlines and connections. Girls like Wendy will be ridiculed if they don't study well, and they will be ostracized if they don't study well.
One can imagine Wendy's resistance to going to school.
However, in the eyes of Ben Call, Wendy is showing her loyalty to her lord. If girls are allowed to see the magic of magic, they, natural magisters, will know that a viscounty cannot support their resources for exploring magic. need.
"You can also see that these children's previous school experiences have had some impact on them." After arriving in the lord's room, Lant said.
If I encounter the right opportunity, I will let them go to a magic school in a big city, but before that, I hope you can give them more guidance. "
"I will, but I still hope you can consider sending him to a big city. I believe that with the guidance of a magician, Wendy will be able to become a high-level magician within 10 years. If she can get the guidance of a legend, she will only become more powerful. quick."
Well, Ben Kaul’s words seemed to Lant to mean that if you can be a student who is an academician, you will definitely be a professor in the future.
As expected, the family is rich in paladins and mages, and they are not angry at all when they talk. Lant was mocking the mage in front of him in his mind, and suddenly remembered.
"By the way, your surname is Kaul. Is your ancestor the legendary mage Kaul, a disciple of the God Emperor?"
"Yes, I am the fifteenth generation grandson of Lord Kaul."
"Oh, I have admired you for a long time, and I always feel that you are kind." Lant hugged his thigh without any psychological burden.
According to Ben Kaul, Yeqi City was a city built by ancient civilization on the Galloping Horse Plain, connecting the subcontinent where the human race is now located, and the central mountain range at the core of the continent.
Moreover, this city has completely passed through the divine civilization, goblin civilization, orc civilization and human civilization. These civilizations have left a large number of magical relics in the city.
The ancestor of the Kaul family, the legendary rune mage and disciple of the God Emperor, Lord Kaul, lived in Yeqi City for several years before he came to Legend. He specialized in studying the magical relics in the city and participated in the reconstruction of Yeqi City that year. .
Because of this, Ben Kaul hopes to return to Yeqi City and explore the footsteps of his ancestors.
"I will do my best to support your exploration, but I hope you will share your research results with me when you leave."
"Okay, I will copy all the runes and magic circles that I can understand so that your subordinates can learn from them in the future," Ben changed the topic, "But I suggest that you go to the Imperial Capital to find some people who are interested in going there. The magicians of the Galloping Horse Plains and the magicians of the Dragon Kingdom have little interest in remote territories like the Galloping Horse Plains."
Rant knew that Ben was telling the truth. In the entire Galloping Horse Plains and the Northwest Territories, magicians and priests were rare. Before meeting Gandalf and Wright, Lant only knew that there were magicians raised by the Earl's family in the Maned Wolf City. and priests.
The magic turbulence on the Galloping Horse Plain will affect everything from the growth of magic plants, the absorption of magic potions, the use of magic and the growth of magicians. It is basically a restricted area for magicians. Only people like Gandalf and Wright who take pleasure in asceticism, Only then could he come over voluntarily.
