The fourth day of Egwene's return.

Counting the time spent on Nani, he hasn't left his lab for 20 days, staying in the castle.

This may be a bit abnormal in other places, but in Dalaran, where otaku and women are everywhere, it is a very normal thing.

Staying in their own mage tower for dozens of days, or even months and half a year, can only be regarded as commonplace for mages.

Most mages are homely, and few are willing to leave their mage towers if they don't have to. Wouldn't it be nice to study arcane and discover the truth in a quiet and safe laboratory?

Only those Plastic Barbarians who need to test the power of their spells with actual combat will often go out and fight often.

Orondo had been in his castle for twenty days in a row, which was all too normal in the atmosphere of Dalaran.

Even Solanlian wouldn't have any problems, because sometimes she would stay in the mage tower continuously, experimenting day and night.

This is the life of a mage, and when you encounter interesting or useful knowledge that requires a research room, you really don't want to move a single step.

Twenty-one day.

Orondo didn't want to leave the castle either, because the dear human mentor had just opened her Mount Hyjal to him, and although he still had to wear clothes - 2~3 times a day was also a great spiritual satisfaction for Orondo.

In the morning of the 21st day.

At the notice of the Purple Fat Man, Orondo had to go down to the first floor of the castle, a large arcane shooting range and a large space that doubled as a meeting room, to receive one of his few friends in Dalaran, Lord Kel'thugad.

Kel'thugad was three years older than him, now 17 years old, and was a tall, lanky human mage with messy black hair, a well-rounded face, and a thin body. If you have to find a template on Earth, Kel'thugad at this time looks a lot like Severus Snape in Harry Potter when he was younger.

It's all messy long black hair that doesn't look good at first glance, and it's all the same with a slumped face all day long, expressionless all day.

"My friend. What's the matter? Orondo said politely.

Having spent many times in a year, Orondo already knew Kel'thugad's character. This is a guy who doesn't care much about etiquette, only practicality and knowledge. Usually always paralyzed, only when dealing with knowledge and truth or cats, will he look like a young man.

Kel'thugad looked at Orondo, who was shorter than him, and then turned his head to look at the two arcane elements outside the gate behind him, and his heart was full of envy and admiration.

To be able to let the arcane elements guard the door, or to have the arcane elements of their own wisdom to guard the door, Kel'thugad felt that he couldn't do it now.

Unlike the other four elements common to the surface of Azeroth, the Arcane Elemental is a very cunning entity that is not easily enslaved.

And Kel'thugad knew that in his friend's castle, there were no less than ten servants of this cunning and intelligent arcane element.

"I have come by order of the general issue of the Monthly Kenrito." Putting away the envy in his heart that Orondo had many arcane elemental minions, Kel'thugad's voice was as cold as ever, "Orondo, do you have any papers to publish this month?" ”

When he said the latter sentence, Kel'thugad's tone fluctuated a little.

It turned out to be for this.

Kel'thugad was one of several editors of the monthly magazine Kenrito, a young genius known to Dalaran. At this time, if Orondo had not appeared, Kel'thugad would have been the most famous genius mage in Kenrito at the moment.

Without Orondo's butterfly effect, in the original plot, this young mage who looked very much like Severus Snape at this time would have become one of the most influential mages in Dalaran more than 20 years later, a member of the Dalaran Council, and one of the Lord Kenrito.

Then, after another ten or twenty years, he would go astray and be disgusted by Dalaran. Eventually, he traveled to Northrend, the Northern Rift, to worship the King of the Dead, and received a great deal of psychic knowledge from the Lich King, eventually becoming the first Lich of Azeroth.

That's from the "original plot". For now, Kel'thugad is still the cold mage who is indifferent to outsiders, and only has a slight mood swing when he is a friend of Orondo.

"Yes." Orondo thought for a moment and replied. "There are some research results that I would like to publish in the Monthly Journal of Kenrito. But I have a request, and you can't be the master of this request. But dear Kel'thugad, you can bring back this request of mine and let the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine know. ”

"Say it, Orondo. I'll relay it for you. Kel'thugad said calmly.

Only cats and knowledge can move him.

"I need money. Lots and lots of money. Orondo said politely, looking at Kel'thugad: "I am willing to publish my paper in the monthly journal Kenrito." Six papers have been published in the past. I remember that in the past, the monthly magazine usually sold only two or three thousand copies, but the last issue should have sold more than 10,000 copies. ”

"14,867 copies." Kel'thugad reported a number.

"Yes. One monthly magazine costs 10 Dalaran gold coins, and last month's monthly magazine sold more than 148,000 gold coins! A staggering number! ”

Orondo said.

But among them, in addition to fame. I don't have any gains, not a single copper coin. ”

"As far as I know, the cost of a copy of Kenrito Monthly is less than 300 copper coins! That is to say, every month, the monthly magazine can easily earn hundreds of thousands of Dalaran gold coins for Dalaran. ”

"I wouldn't say anything if it had nothing to do with my thesis and my research. But it's clear that there is a very clear relationship between monthly sales and my papers. ”

"I earned at least 100,000 Dalaran gold coins a month for the monthly magazine, but the monthly magazine didn't give me a copper."

"Is that reasonable?"

"It doesn't make sense."

Orondo looked at Kel'thugad and said again, "So I want you to go back and tell the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine." If you want me to continue to publish my research results, you can. However, I am required to enjoy at least 50% of the profits from the sales of the monthly magazine. ”

"I'm done talking."

Orondo concluded.

Sir Sephorosa began to die and ask for money.

After creating Nani, he is now a pauper. Although the [Sephorosa Boutique] magic shop can provide him with a profit of seventy or eighty thousand Dalaran gold coins every month, this amount of money is becoming more and more insufficient for Orondo.

Magical exploration, arcane experiments are too expensive. Even with the Eye of Truth, the process of Orondo's exploration was almost wasteful, but it was still too expensive.

For example, if Orondo does a simple Aneuron metal phase test, it requires at least 4 types of Acanon metals, each of which weighs at least half a dallaran pound.

Atomic metal is very expensive no matter what kind, and a pound of Mithril, if it is a dallaran pound, will cost almost 800 dallaran gold coins to buy.

Not to mention the more expensive Arcanon metals like Thorsilver.

Even if it is a cheaper Arcanon metal, such as real silver, a Dalaran pound will cost more than 200 Dalaran gold coins.

Therefore, the simplest Aoneng metal phase test, the material cost is almost thousands of Dalaran gold coins......

It is equivalent to the output of 100 human farmers who have to work hard for a year and have to go smoothly. Or the annual income of 25 farmer families, and just like that, the annual expenses of farmers and families are still not deducted.

Fa Ye Fa Ye, a master word requires a lot of krypton to get a lot of gold.

So under normal circumstances, ordinary mages will only do one or two arcane experiments after a few months or even a year or two, and then they will make some progress.

Without him, it's too expensive.

And Orondo has produced so many research results and gained so much knowledge in a year, and the money burned is also amazing.

Since the opening of the [Sephorosa Boutique] magic shop, almost 300,000 Dalaran gold coins have been empty. Solan Lian has saved up supplies for I don't know how many years, and she has also been made a lot of clever things by him...... Even Egwen's place, he also asked for a lot of benefits by knocking on the side of his face!

If it weren't for these two rich female mentors, he wouldn't have produced so quickly.

This is also because of the Eye of Truth, and his waste in experiments and tests is basically equal to nothing, and he rarely fails.

That's it, so much output and so many research results in one year.

It was too expensive to make Nani, and the material money spent on it alone was worth almost 120,000 Dalaran gold coins, which wiped out Orondo's liquidity at once.

So he really wants to make money now, so he wants to get a piece of the pie with a copy of "Kenrito".

Of course, Kel'thugad knew what money meant to a mage, even though he worked part-time as editor of the monthly Kenrito for no pay, just so that he could see the academic results as quickly as possible.

"Reasonable." The cold mage's response was unexpected by Orondo. "I'll convey your meaning to the editor-in-chief."

"Hey, hey!" Orondo patted him on the shoulder.

"Thank you. Hey, come here, Kel'thugad. I have a new idea, an idea for cat food, go, go and check it out in my lab. ”

And so.

The greasy iceberg paralyzed young mage who looked like Severus Snape had his eyes lit up and followed Orondo to research cat food.