As for the other instruments and supplies in the real room, they are also the same as the magic real yàn table, which is not the same as the utensils in the dark blue, but at least three full grades. The limited royal alchemy table alone in Deep Blue alone is twice as expensive as everything in the three magic real yàn rooms on Floating Island 73 combined.

Two assistants, a man and a woman, both in their twenties, were already waiting in the room. The male is an eighth-level mage, while the female is a tenth-level mage. When Richard entered, they were carefully cleaning and wiping down various magical instruments with a young girl who was doing handymanship.

The figure of the handyman girl was familiar, and when she looked up and turned around, Richard was taken aback: "Coco?"

The young girl was the same Coco she had seen at the dinner party where she was choosing a mate. That night, in the dim light and the peculiar volcanic environment, Richard was impressed by her fresh and effeminate temperament, but that was all about it, and he basically forgot about it afterwards. If you are impressed by Cheng Dù, she is far inferior to Daimei and Vinika.

Seeing Coco again here was a bit of a surprise to Richard, as it seemed that her father, who was a knight, could not give her extra support. The Akmund family will provide some financial support to the younger generation on the floating island, but most of them are paid for free teaching, and they provide little subsidy for their daily life.

Although the price of Faust is not as exaggerated as it seems in the dark blue, it is reflected in different aspects. Deep blue is filled with all kinds of ultra-high-end, which can be defined as super luxury to the outside world, so it seems to be amazingly expensive, while Faust is at a surprisingly high price in the low-end basic necessities, such as food and clothing. After all, Faust itself, including the entire Eternal Plateau, does not produce crops, and the cost of transportation from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain alone is not a small amount.

When she saw Richard, Coco also looked a little cramped and nervous, and took a step back, as if she wanted to hide herself behind her assistant. However, the space in the real room was very limited, and she hurriedly stepped back, and immediately ran into the shelf where the magic potion was placed, and a dozen test-tube flasks on it shook for a while, and almost fell off a few of them.

The female mage frowned, and scolded sharply: "Coco! Why are you always so clumsy! If you bring down this shelf, can you afford to pay for it? What if Young Master Richard does the same when he is studying magic? The family lets you work here, it's a very rare opportunity, don't always want to take this opportunity to do something else, Young Master Richard's partner is not a position you can hope for!"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Coco turned pale and apologized, tears beginning to roll in her eyes, but she couldn't hold back. Hearing the female mage's final accusation, she stammered in defense: "No, I didn't mean that, really not!"

"Really, no!" the female mage laughed, and even the male mage frowned. Becoming Richard's partner is undoubtedly the best choice for all Akmund girls, and even girls like Daimei and Vinika, who are chased by the stars and the moon, are willing to become Richard's partners together.

Bloodline is the most important factor, and Richard's talent, future, and appearance are also very important weights. After Trial Night, the news that Richard had become a core member of the family also spread, which meant that he had officially entered the sequence of those in power, or that it was too early to talk about power, but at the same time, Richard was only 15 years old, and the first qiē had just begun.

As for Cocoa, there is no right to choose or refuse at all. So she said that she didn't want to be Richard's partner, which made both assistant mages feel too hypocritical. The purpose of coming to Akmund on this floating island is very obvious.

In Norland, strength is the foundation of life, temperament comes from blood, family background, education, training and one's own strength, and the value of a woman is the sum of the previous factors. For example, Cocoa, only the beautiful appearance and watery temperament can be used, but these two advantages are not uncommon. In the slightly larger slave market, you can find a dozen half-elf girls with looks and temperaments that can match her. And Coco's weak body and the mage level that has only reached the second level so far show that she has no talent in magic and combat at all. In this way, it is impossible for her to become a talented woman, because if she can't even release second-level magic, how can she have a wealth of knowledge of magic and alchemy? Even if she endorses, the intellectual advantage of high-level magicians is big enough to make ordinary people despair.

As for art, painting, poetry....... what are these things?

If Coco's unskillfulness was tolerable, her final defense touched the bottom line of the two mage assistants. It seemed that she also recognized the problem, so she no longer distinguished, but hung her head and let the female mage reprimand, only this time she finally couldn't hold back the tears anymore and let it flow down her cheeks. The job seemed to be important to Coco, so despite the mage's harsh words, she didn't refute or walk away. In Norland, where there is a clear gap in class and power, in the case of Coco, the consequences of walking away are not as simple as losing a job.

Richard frowned and said, "Okay, this matter is over, after all, nothing has to lose." Now I'm going to start doing the real yàn, let's start the alchemy platform first!"

As the male mage began to inject magic into the alchemy table, Richard handed the female mage a list that had already been prepared, asking her to fetch all the magical materials listed. While waiting, Richard stopped Coco, who was about to leave, and asked her to send her a list of all the magic materials in stock.

When Coco handed Richard a thin booklet and was about to retreat, he was stopped by Richard and given a list of magical instruments that Richard had just written. Richard's request was for her to prepare all these utensils and use them later.

Coco looked at Richard with complicated eyes, nodded vigorously, and went to work seriously. She also knew that this was a kind of maintenance in disguise, if she could do everything that Richard had told her properly, she would naturally get more work, and here, she was not afraid of having too many things, she was afraid that there was nothing to do, and in short, she would not be transferred out of this magical room for no reason.

By the time the mage had prepared the materials, Richard had already gone through the inventory list from beginning to end, and then sighed. Akmund's inventory materials are not only different from those of the deep blue sky in terms of quality, but also in terms of quantity. In the entire inventory, Richard did not see a few second-level materials, let alone third-level and fourth-level precious materials. Norland's classification of magical materials is also the same construction system, and the core materials necessary for secondary construction are secondary materials, and those whose value is equivalent to these core materials are also called secondary materials.

According to the list in hand, not only did most of the non-standard builds that Richard himself researched lack materials, but some of the standard builds also lacked some key magic materials that could improve their quality. From the point of view of material reserves, Akmund was definitely the poorest of the fourteen wealthy families, not even as good as some of the great nobles who could only settle in the main city of Faust.

At this time, Richard's mind came back to Steelstone's initial assessment of Akmund: "They are poor!"

The second thought that flashed through him was that the build materials that Winnington had given him the other day didn't seem to have come from Akmund's inventory, but he wasn't too interested in it and quickly put the idea behind him.

ps: Today's three watches?