Scholar Francis, as agreed with Kiger, provided me with a certain amount of magical metal solution every month.

Although he has a somewhat eccentric temper and rarely communicates with outsiders on weekdays, he is a man who keeps his promises.

From the Adamantite solution needed in the Rune Plate Workshop at the beginning, to the red copper solution needed in the Magic Seal Workshop later, as long as I tell the specific amount I need and learn to provide Francis with the corresponding magic metal, he will prepare the metal solution on time and wait for me to pick it up.

He was thinner than the last time we met, with deep sunken eyes, dark black bags, pale cheeks, and thin deep purple lips that were always drooping downward, and he was rarely seen smiling.

He spoke harshly, except for Kige.

"Why are you here? Today is not the day to agree on a metal solution. Scholar Francis raised his heavy eyelids and said to me weakly.

It seems that after taking a large amount of mental magic potions, the damage to his body is quite serious.

It's just that this scholar has a very bad habit of becoming crazy once he focuses on a certain alchemical study, and he is the kind of person who can stay up all night trying to verify an answer.

Kig has been secretly providing some forbidden psychotropic potions to Scholar Francis, those potions contain a certain ingredient 'demon's blood', which is a kind of black magic potion that is easy to become addicted to once taken, and after Qige's purification, although the side effects are much smaller, it is not nothing.

He has a very strange temper, and he knows that taking too many magic potions containing the 'demon's blood' ingredient will cause addiction, but he doesn't seem to mind.

His study of alchemy had clearly fallen into a state of madness.

However, in my eyes he is a respectable magician, and alchemy is like a demon in his heart, and he wants to find answers.

I said to Scholar Francis, "Well, I'm early." Scholar Francis, your face doesn't look good, isn't Sue's treatment effective?"

In order to prevent his body from being completely destroyed by the 'demon's blood', I asked Sue to help him treat his drug addiction.

It didn't seem to be working well, and without the support of psychotropic drugs, his whole body became haggard, and his body was getting thinner and thinner day by day.

Scholar Francis lifted his eyelids again and glanced at me, pouted, and said, "Why do you ask, didn't you recommend that beautiful priestess from Campbell's santary?"

He sat down in a high chair next to me, and his magical assistant brought two cups of tea and placed them on the long platform.

He picked up a cup to himself, put his hands to his lips, blew softly, and paused before he added, "Or do you have as little confidence in her treatments as I do?"

He simply put down the teacup in his hand, leaned in front of me, and asked me like a cold poisonous snake, "Or did you collude and come to me just to treat me as a guinea pig on the experimental bench?"

I stood there, a little speechless as he asked.

Scholar Francis smiled faintly, pushed another teacup in front of me, tilted his head, and said to me with some emotion: "Hi, Jijia, in fact, I have always wanted to know what point of Qige favored you, and would actually give up the most promising royal general in the Grimm Empire, but chose you, an ice magician from a small border town, even if you have an outstanding magical talent that no one can match, it is impossible to impress that arrogant princess, this question I have thought about for a long time, and I have never guessed." ”

I smiled and said to the Francis scholars, "Oh, or God's will." ”

"Come on!" he sat in a high chair without even lifting his eyelids this time, looking like a crow perched on a scarecrow's shoulder.

After a moment of silence, just as I was about to say what I meant, Scholar Francis suddenly raised his head, frowned at me, and said, "That priest from Campbell's sanatorium has quite good treatment methods, don't you see that my complexion is still quite good lately?"

"Okay...... If you think so. I said.

The Francis scholar turned his head away from me.

Not far away, in front of the magic cauldron, his magic assistant was diligently stirring the viscous liquid in the crucible.

Scholar Francis stopped talking, and it seemed that he was only going to accompany me through this cup of tea.

"By the way, Scholar Francis, this is for you. I pulled out a roll of magical parchment from my bosom and handed it to Scholar Francis.

Scholar Francis received it, unfolded it very casually, and said as he looked at it, "What is this?" It looks like an alchemical recipe ......."

But soon he closed his mouth, his face became solemn, and after reading it completely, he asked me with a serious face, "Oh! where did you get this thing?"

I said to him, "Snatched from a goblin, oh, in exchange, he gave it to me, and I allowed them to live, right?"

Scholar Francis looked back at the alchemy formula, and said as he looked at it: "You actually found this thing in the hands of goblins, doesn't it mean that those goblins have degraded to the same virtue as those subhuman species, how can you still keep such a precious thing?"

I asked Scholar Francis, "Do you think this recipe is valuable too?"

Scholar Francis looked up, looked at me in surprise, and stubbornly said to me, "You should answer my question first." ”

I spread my hands and said, "Well, actually our expedition team accidentally entered a cave and found a goblin tribe there, this recipe was found in a treasure chest, the chest was full of all kinds of gems, the recipe was laid out at the bottom of the box as waste parchment, oh, this one in your hand is a manuscript that I copied by hand, the original drawing is full of goblin characters, and it is not easy to read. ”

When I had said this, Scholar Francis simply rolled up the magical parchment scroll, placed it on the long table, and reluctantly pushed it in front of me.

Scholar Francis said to me straight to the point: "I need this alchemy formula, what do you want to exchange with me?"

"I can give it to you if you want. I said.

The Francis scholar refused without even thinking about it.

He said to me, "Excuse me, and if you really want to give it to me, then make a condition that I can accept." ”

I rubbed my hands together and smiled at the Francis Scholar and said, "If you could make me some metal softeners for free every month......"

Before Scholar Francis could finish my words, he preemptively spoke: "Three days later, you come to me to get the first batch of metal softeners, and in the future, you can take these two potions together every month, and I will make a detailed list of the various magic materials that need to be consumed next time you come." ”

"Okay, that's it. I said to Scholar Francis.

After talking to Scholar Francis, I began to pack the boxes into my Magic Belt.

The glass bottles of those sealed boxes were filled with red copper solution, and they were extremely heavy to carry.

With the help of that magic assistant, it took me a lot of effort to stuff these magic chests into my magic belt.

Nowadays, every time the magic printing machines in the magic seal workshop in Xinliu Valley are printed, they need to use a brush to apply the red copper solution to the magic seal punch, and the entire substrate of this magic rune plate is an ordinary copper plate, only the magic pattern line on it is rubbed with a red copper solution.

Because of this, the Gathering Fire Rune Plate and the Miniature Tornado Rune Board are so cheap.

There are three major elements missing from the production cost of the Gathering Fire Technique, which is why the value is so low: the plating of magic metal, the magic ink, and the processing fee of the inscription master to draw the rune plate.

For a long time, it is really because of these three factors that the price of rune boards has remained high.

At present, the fire-gathering rune plates and miniature tornado rune plates produced in the magic seal workshop have spread all over the imperial capital, and the stable magic effect and low price have allowed these two rune plates to quickly occupy the imperial capital magic market.

There are almost no inscriptionists willing to draw the 'Gathering Fire' rune board and the 'Miniature Tornado' rune board anymore.

Listening to Murray, some workshops specializing in exhaust fans in the imperial capital are being forced to find new sources of goods, and the shipments of copper hot pots and exhaust fans here in the rune board workshop are gradually rising, and the old-fashioned exhaust fans cannot be sold in the market at all.

......

By the time I returned to the Yerkes Scholar's Magic Lab, the Yerkes Scholar was sitting on the couch in the lounge area, talking to Marvin and Spee about the refrigerator with great interest.

When I pushed the door and walked into the magic lab, I saw that they were chatting happily, and I didn't know what the Yerkes scholar said, and the three of them burst into laughter.

When I walked in, I found that there was a magic table lamp on the coffee table, which was the kind of energy-saving magic table lamp that was put out at the winter magic item exhibition.

They saw me walk into the magic lab and looked at me.

Marven asked me, "Jijia, didn't you say that you are going to help you sell these magic items after I come to the imperial capital?"

I sat down on the couch across from Marven and said, "That's right, that's what I said at the beginning, but now that my magic firm lacks a trustworthy manager, you have to help me with this matter anyway." ”

"Well, I'll listen to you. Marven spread his hands and said with a smile.

I said to Marven, "Betty will take you to the trading house to take stock of the supplies, and I will find a way to sell all the canned luncheon meat and meat floss bricks that have accumulated in the backlog." ”

At this time, the scholar of Yerkes stood up and said to us, "Hey, all right, Marven and Spee have just arrived in the imperial capital, don't talk about these things about the trading house today, let's put down the things in our hands and have a good rest, I know that a newly opened tavern in the back street is very good." ”

"Okay, then what are we waiting for here, let's go!"

After everyone had a little drink in the bar, Marven said that he would take a magic caravan to see the night view of the imperial capital, and Marven and Spee temporarily lived in the attic rented out in the third block......