Sunshine City, the royal capital of the Aishin Empire, is one of the famous and prosperous cities on the mainland, and Aishin, which is already famous for its commerce, has made this city even more commercially capital.

In a world where power is respected, the prop-related industry is definitely an indispensable workhorse in the business system, and Meryl's Prop Shop is located on Wind River Avenue in Uptown.

Located on the dividing line between the Mage District and the Academy District, this commercial avenue is distinctive, with hundreds of shops filled with a large number of shops dealing in magic items and equipment, accounting for more than eighty percent of all stores.

Gathering together can indeed form the role of production and consumption, even ordinary people who are just shopping around will be interested in the dazzling magic costumes, and it seems that they will unconsciously think that if they can have one or two of them, they will also be able to realize their dream of flying to the sky.

However, the diversity of choices also brings challenges, and the close display of each other forms a direct contrast, making the competition between peers extremely fierce.

One by one, the shops could not hold on and closed down, and new stores entered the wrestling, among which Meryl is one of the top stores on this street that has been standing all year round, and it relies on neither low prices nor rare products that appear every now and then, and the reason why it has been favored by many customers for a long time is because of its tradition.

That is, all the goods are not bought and sold, they are handmade by the craftsmen hired by the store, and they do look lofty on the surface, but don't forget that this is not a futuristic world where luxury is rampant, and the seniority and fabricated sense of superiority that have been accumulated over the years can attract many extravagant classes to pay for it.

The ultimate purpose of magic props is to use and deter, and the level and power are the only criteria to measure their value.

So the investment in making it all by your own craftsmen is too big, and it's not destined to make too high-grade equipment, because you can't have an actuary in charge of the country's economic strategy sit in an insurance company's office to calculate the current season's earnings for customers.

But in this situation, Meryl's business model can still be marketed, because of an unwritten unspoken rule in the magic equipment industry, "Once sold, it doesn't matter if it's true or not!"

In a store where there is mutual trading, no one can guarantee that the source of their goods will be reliable, just as no man can guarantee that he will always be able to keep his guns down!

For most people, it is not a rare conscientious merchant who deliberately pretends to be confused and uses fakes to make black money, as for finding one or two fakes in a relatively resource-poor environment, at best, it can only be regarded as your own bad vision, but you can't use this as an excuse to find the seller's bad luck, of course, there is indeed a powerful demon king of the mixed world who returned to kill the boss's family after spending a huge amount of money, but that is a special case after all.

It's just that there is an exception to this, that is, custom equipment, personally entrust the manufacturer or its affiliated business to make equipment, not to mention whether the quality is guaranteed, at least when the use effect is not good, the merchant is responsible for its reputation and reputation, and this kind of full production by their own craftsmen feels like a professional who is specially subordinate to you to tailor the general honor, so that these customers who actually do not reach the level of private customization have the illusion of their own dignity, and naturally they are not so concerned about spending a little more money to buy a comfort。

Phoenix had a soft spot for the shop when he chose the location for his internship, because it was here that he bought a set of alchemist-specific tools when he first entered the school, and although he later had more advanced tools as he progressed through the grades, the set of enlightenment tools was permanently kept in his home laboratory as a souvenir.

Thinking that at that time, as a young master who had just left home, he was really fascinated by the prosperity of goods in front of him, and since then he has vowed that one day he will also open such a tasteful magic shop, and talk about transactions with all kinds of tasteful guests every day, and he can foresee how colorful that life will become.

When I first arrived here with a letter of introduction from the academy, everything went smoothly, and the identity of the top student of the alchemy department of the academy was warmly welcomed by the head of the store.

After a brief greeting, he expressed his hope that he could rely on his ardent hopes during the few months of internship, and then he was assigned to the first alchemy working group, and the bitter days of Phoenix began after that.

Because of the peculiar business model, Meryl has a very large artisan workshop located in the back block of the shop, where all the artisans work every day. According to the different types of goods, craftsmen are divided into alchemy, forging, tailoring, leather making and other departments, and each department is divided into four or five working groups, numbered from small to large to represent the difference in production level and commodity grade from high to low.

Out of the importance of his own ability and the academy he represents, there was nothing wrong with directly assigning him to the highest group, but his life has not been smooth for the past week.

Phoenix, who had just passed the senior alchemist certification, was on par with the other alchemists in the group in terms of professional rank, which could be said to be very suitable, but he felt a hostility and contempt from the attitude of the others.

Originally, he thought that this was because of his young age, which made it difficult for people who didn't know him to trust, but he believed that the situation would change, with Xiao Yi's example, he thought that as long as he showed his real skills, he could change the views of these people, but the truth was not satisfactory.

In fact, the first team is rarely involved in the production of various reagents for sale, but needs to try to continuously improve and purify the effects of various reagents based on customer feedback, so that Meryl's reagents can have unique effects and good reputation in the market.

Although his research and innovation ability can only be ranked in the middle and lower reaches of the class, don't forget that the topics given in the college are all difficult topics that have been summarized and summarized over thousands of years in the vast subject materials, and the demand generated by this store that deals in high-quality pharmacies is not at the same level at all, so in his opinion, it should be very easy to work.

But on the first day of work, he was directly dismounted, and when he handed over the improved formula of 'physical fitness potion' that he had written in a short time to the person in charge of the group, the steward named Laining directly threw his results into the garbage heap.

Of course, the other party gave an explanation, because the part of his plan that suggested using Starlight Grass would greatly increase the cost of the potion, and directly complained about the "young master of the rich and noble family", and then assigned him to observe the work of other colleagues that day.

It does make Phoenix a little unhappy that he is not good at teaching, but when you think about it, what the other party said does make sense, this is a profit-oriented business environment, and academic research at school regardless of cost is completely different styles.

But as long as he figured out the basic strategy and policy direction, he was absolutely confident that he would be able to hand over the qualified homework, but after a few days of continuous blows, he found that things were not as simple as he thought!

(End of chapter)