“....... Is that all the recent reports? It seems to have failed again........ The consumption of materials has also exceeded expectations, okay, I also know that you have worked hard, summarize the missing materials, including the materials that may be consumed in the last two months, make a list, and hand them over to Wednesday before next Monday. ”

With his fingers tapped on the table, the little adult-like archmage carefully examined the recent research report.

Perhaps, in the eyes of most ordinary people, a mage's magical experiments should be in a small attic with a pointed minaret, in a dark room where a bearded old man stirs a cauldron full of mysterious liquids, or chatters about wooden people, bones, dead cats, or something.

In a sense, this kind of discriminatory view with outsiders really can't be said to be completely wrong, many mages and apprentices in the old era had magic experiments that were unusually non-standardized, and they themselves couldn't figure out the principle of the spell effect.

The so-called wizards, black mages and the like, as well as the evil archmages who make crazy cameos in all kinds of fairy tales, stories, and operas, probably come from this.

In fact, in the era of elves, those roles were played by the witch doctor of the troll clan, that is, it was easy to be black, black and black, and it became a classic image, in those ancient myths, there was always an old mage / old wizard / old witch doctor / old witch woman wearing a feather coat and a strange robe, using various evil spells as an anti-horn.

But the modern mage laboratory is completely different from the little black house of the predecessors.

The spacious laboratory is not only bright and ventilated, but also the overly closed environment and humid rooms are the reasons for the rapid deterioration of materials and biological samples.

Before doing a magic experiment, you must first declare the materials, funds, and assistants, and only after everything is done will you start according to the laboratory procedures at the agreed location, and write a lot of relevant reports regardless of success or failure.

And these reports may be useful, they may be waste paper, they may not be used here in inexplicable places but have a certain value, but without exception, every experimental report is exchanged for real money.

“........ It's all about mages burning money, but I didn't expect it to burn money so much, it can't hold on, and I don't want to ask sponsors anymore, but I feel that she is becoming more and more vigilant....... It would be nice if the elves were willing to sponsor a wave, but I don't think they would be so stupid, or I'll go out and taunt it in two days....."

Reclassify the thicker and thicker folders, more than ninety percent of the reports have no value to the current Rorschach, and the last thin three pages have to be verified one by one.

Times have changed, the inefficiency of small workshops has long been eliminated by the magic civilization, blacksmith shops have been factory and modernized, the traditional industries of forging furnaces and hammers have been replaced by high-pressure machine tools and assembly line production, and the mages have changed even more.

Fighting alone is basically a thing of the past, and the apprentices led by the archmage can also act as assistants, and a complete research team and individual wisdom are not comparable at all.

What Rorschach has to do is to be the leader of the project, list the sub-projects according to his own needs, and then throw them to the apprentices and assistants, wait for them to feedback the results, and then rationally adjust the research direction, which is at least ten times more efficient than all working alone.

“...... It's more than ten times the amount of money burned......"

Looking at the series of deficits on the latest bills, even he has always felt a little sad about the lack of money...... He didn't even dare to tell Isabella how much money he spent, otherwise the other party would have complained all day long about how many e-sports venues and 100 Internet cafes could be bought with the money...... That's right, the money burned is enough for infrastructure, and the guild hall and gymnasium are nothing.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning, and the additional consumption required to carry out the experiment is also relatively large, so it should be better in the future...... Hope it's better. ”

The construction of the laboratory, the hiring and settling-in expenses of the assistants, the purchase of magical materials, and the purchase of large experimental facilities were all expenses that had to be paid at the beginning, and they did account for the bulk of the bill.

But Rorschach's tone of uncertainty knew that he couldn't even fool himself.

Although this one-time large-scale expenditure has come to an end, it has not yet prepared for the year-end council, produced some decent results, and at the same time in order to strengthen its own strength, new research projects have overflowed the schedule, and the manpower and experimental resources are seriously insufficient to the point that Rorschach is seriously considering whether to build another laboratory.

But mentally calculated the budget for these infrastructure projects...... Rorschach thinks it's better to be slow, slow down and meticulous work, slow down so that you don't make mistakes, well, it's definitely not a budget and you can't get the money at all after five years.

“....... I'm going to have to find a way to get some more. Elf or Saviara? This girl is getting harder and harder to deal with........"

While Rorschach was upset, there was news that helped him make a decision.

"Isabella is blocked by elves?!"