"I'm sorry, I'm late. ”

As a group of strangers watched, Alan stepped through the castle gates.

Raphael, who looked over, continued: "To apologize, you will be treated tonight." ”

I haven't seen him for a few days, and Raphael still looks like a middle-aged handsome guy, but his clothes are a little sloppy, and his personality is still not very good.

"No problem. Alan smiled and responded cheerfully, before he began to formally look at the rest of the strangers.

At this time, with his arrival, the group that had been sitting at the long table on the first floor stood up politely, and only sat down again after he had taken the main seat.

"Quite a lot of people?" Alan muttered secretly.

In addition to Raphael, there were six mages who came, and sitting opposite Raphael was a middle-aged mage who was not smiling, with good facial features, neat short hair, and a fairly clean robe all over his body, and in the face of Allen's gaze, he only nodded slightly, and said nothing.

Raphael introduced: "This is Mr. Simon, an official alchemist, Elder Deresa is very good at talking this time, so I'll just..."

Alan looked at Simon with a little surprise, originally just thinking that he could go to the water tower and hire a few apprentices, because what was recorded in his drawings was not very clever, but he didn't expect to get a full-fledged alchemist.

Although I don't know how powerful the official alchemist is, it is obviously much better than the alchemy apprentice!

"Thank you, Raphael. ”

He didn't blame Raphael for taking matters into his own hands, but thanked Mr. Advisor, and then looked at Simon: "Welcome to Bay City, Simeon." ”

"I'm looking forward to this outing. Simon still had no expression on his face, but the words in his mouth showed kindness.

After thinking about it, Alan said: "I want to hire you as my alchemy consultant, the usual work is basically only done by apprentices, except for special circumstances, you can do your own experiments at will." ”

"Since I'm barely an alchemy apprentice, I might ask you some alchemy questions. ”

"What do you think of 10 gold coins a month?"

"Thank you for your generosity, Lord Allen. Simon nodded, didn't say anything, and agreed to the price.

Raphael shouted from the side, "Alas, Boy Allen, are you also going to consider giving me a salary increase?"

Alan raised his eyebrows and said as if serious: "If you agree to be my full-time magic advisor, I will consider giving you the same price as Lord Simon." ”

"Forget it, it's good now. Raphael immediately lost his voice.

Alan looked at the others.

Raphael introduced in turn: "These are Dickey, Beth, Man, Qi, and Vincent, all of whom are alchemy apprentices with the right conditions. ”

Alan smiled and nodded, and then said: "The daily work is to make magic items, not high-end goods, it should be very simple." ”

"I'll hire you for one gold coin a month, do you think it's okay?"

There were still two acquaintances among the apprentices, but the occasion was not suitable for saying anything at the moment, so Alan just nodded slightly.

The apprentices looked at each other and said they were fine. This is what Raphael said on the island about salary and work, there is nothing to bargain about.

Although there is no shortage of alternatives like Raphael in the group of mages, generally speaking, mages are still relatively withdrawn, and they are also quite easy to deal with, as long as you can talk to him, as long as the conditions are reasonable.

"So, does the Water Tower have any extra alchemy tools for sale?"

Alan looked at Raphael again.

Raphael shook his head and said, "Because of the Bright of the Stars, many mages basically can't go out, and the tools in the Water Tower are currently in high demand, although Elder Delan intends to sell them, he has to wait until the Bright of the Stars passes." ”

Simon suddenly answered: "My alchemy tools can be transported and used, but it will have to wait until the stars shine. ”

During the Bright of the Stars, all the monsters or monsters will frantically attack the countless cities in the Star Empire, although the water tower is not a city, but it is also within the range of monster attacks, although the monsters can't help this powerful mage organization, but it is not so convenient for them to travel or enter the island.

"Can't wait that long. Alan thought for a while and said helplessly: "Then I can only buy it from Oliver first." ”

"He sells this part-time?" because he had met Mr. Dwarf before, so Raphael knew him well.

"He said he happened to have a spare pair, but the price was more expensive, otherwise I would have bought it from him before. ”

"How much?"

"Two hundred gold coins. ”

"It's dark. ”

"He's always been like that. ”

"The water tower only costs a hundred gold coins, and it is guaranteed to be fresh and unused. ”

"Maybe I can take you to bargain then. ”

"Is there a commission?"

“......”

The two chatted back and forth, during which Alan instructed the butler to draft six employment contracts, which the mages signed after a little reading.

This kind of contract is actually not binding, but the mages generally have a strong spirit of contract, unless the character is too bad, otherwise they will generally not violate the good agreement.

After signing the contract, Alan led a group of mages out of the castle and came to a two-story stone house not far east of the square in front of the castle.

The house was a large house, with a furnace and various iron-making equipment in the yard, and its previous owner was a blacksmith, and the sound of the blacksmith could be heard every day when Alan first arrived. However, it may be because he was too industrious, and the blacksmith made money and has now moved to the business district.

Because the house was close to the castle, Alan bought it when he found out.

"This is the workshop and the dormitory, the servants have finished cleaning, there are many rooms inside, and I have asked Lord Simon to help distribute them, toiletries and all kinds of trivial things later, I will ask the servants to buy them and send them later. ”

Simon nodded, and then suddenly asked, "Your Excellency Allen, how do you get to Emerald Street?"

Alan replied: "Follow this road to the sharp corner grocery store, and then follow the road in front of the grocery store to the west for about a kilometer, and then turn left, what, what are you going to do there?"

Simon nodded and said, "I need to go there and find an alchemist to accompany me." ”

"Alchemist companions?" Alan subconsciously thought of Oliver, and thought that today was the day of the opening of Oliver's Alchemy Hut, but there was no one before the water tower...

Alan asked tentatively, "You're talking about Oliver, right?"

Simon said, "I don't know what his name is, Elder Deresa only said that I should go to 17 Emerald Street to find an alchemist and negotiate a wand business. ”

"Sure enough. Alan nodded secretly, and then said happily: "Then I wish you all the best." ”

"I wish me all the best. Alan added secretly.

He had already harvested a lot of energy groups before, and there were many more that needed to be fermented, and now with the addition of the water tower, at some point in the future, his energy group would probably explode!

"I'm looking forward to it. ”

Muttering secretly, Alan took out a scroll from his arms and handed it to Simon: "You can go back and take a look at the magic items in this drawing first, I think it won't be long before we can start work." ”

"Okay"

Simon nodded.

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After settling the alchemists, Alan and Raphael returned to the castle.

In fact, according to Raphael's character, if there was nothing to do, he couldn't wait to go to Bar Street to be happy, after all, he had been away for many days.

It's just that Alan had promised before that he would pay Raphael a handsome sum as long as the trip went well.

Otherwise, Raphael wouldn't have listened to Allen like this, and let him run back and run back.

Got a bag of gold coins from the butler, Raphael just shook it and laughed, and then hurriedly prepared to leave, but as soon as he turned around, he suddenly patted his head: "I almost forgot!"

"What?"

"Elder Deresa has written you a letter for me to pass on to you. ”

"Letter?" Alan didn't know.

He didn't know any other Water Tower Mage except Raphael, so how could he write to himself?

And the elder of the water tower?

Raphael flipped through his carry-on package, then took the envelope and handed it to Allen: "No, this is it, I don't know what is written in it." ”

A snow-white letter, there was nothing unusual, and after Alan reached out to take it, the envelope suddenly spontaneously combusted without wind!

Seeing the fierce flames, Alan hurriedly threw away the letter, and then under his gaze, the letter that had just been taken out of Raphael's pocket burned into a pile of paper ashes in a blink of an eye, burning the red carpet under his feet!

Looking at the pile of dust, Alan couldn't help but look at Raphael in surprise: "What's the situation?"