goddess of revolution

Chapter 201 The confrontation between Aurora and Rowena
Li Qi lay down on the bed in the infirmary again. Fortunately, this time he didn't have to take off his clothes or lie on his stomach. His face was burned.

It took only one day for Artur to come up with a new verification model, which Li Qi named FPG (Fireball Propelled Grenade).

The shape of the shell inserted from the muzzle is a big mallet, with rows of holes drilled on it, which looks like burnt corn from a distance, and it has a common name: stick cannon...

In this experiment, Li Qi still insisted on going into battle by himself, and of course strengthened his body protection, wearing an iron can.

The test was successful. The fireball flew three to 400 meters with the shell, and then blew the shell into countless fragments.

But the moment the fireball ejected with the cannon, the "tail flame" still made Li Qi's face blurred.The air outlet grille and eye slits of the full-face helmet were not covered, and Li Qi was disfigured in an instant. If he hadn't been wearing crystal sunglasses, his eyes would have been burnt out.

This time the injury was milder than last time, but it was very painful and scary.

As for the disfigurement or something, the magical world is pretty darn good.Eve can recover from a scorched corpse into a beautiful girl with a dewy body. For such a wound, she can just apply a layer of ointment and it will heal the next day.

"Since the chamber doesn't explode, it means the idea is correct. Next, we will test the range, accuracy and power to further improve the design."

"I don't have to go into battle anymore, but the shooter's protection needs to be strengthened. Fireproof shoulder pads, gloves and masks must be equipped. In addition, a retractable shield should be placed on the muzzle..."

Li Qi discussed the details with Arthur on the bed, and Tina helped him apply the ointment. She had already regarded this matter as her own reserve, and she had the opportunity to talk about salary increases and get blessings.

Naturally, he didn't have the time to interact with Tina at this time: "This model can roughly be finalized, what's the situation in terms of cost?"

Artur sighed: "The price of the materials is more than 1 gold bushels, mainly the base material of the fireball circle, and the fine gold is too expensive. Other components, including the barrel and shells, are almost negligible."

In the past, a magical weapon that could replace the fort magician to a certain extent cost only more than 1 gold bushels for materials, which was enough to make Artur jump and shout ridiculous, how could it be so cheap! ?
Now he also finds it ridiculous, because it is too expensive...

"The magic circle can't be simplified any more, the problem lies in the material," Artur said helplessly: "The molten lizard skin at the base of the magic circle can be replaced by other materials, but it won't be much cheaper, after all, it is an adventure In exchange for blood and sweat, the businessman doubles. As for magic metals, although the mines are controlled by churches or nobles, the smelting technology is monopolized by the Mage Union. All magic metals come from the magic furnace in the Storm Islands , they have the final pricing power."

These bloody monopolies!
Li Qi became increasingly displeased with the Association of Mages, an organization that monopolized all the lifeblood of the magic industry.

Although it is said that the magician industry was created by the magicians themselves, it has grown to the current scale, and it is no longer the exclusive domain of the magicians themselves. .

Speaking from a young age, just because magic metals were monopolized by the Mage Union, the cost of magic guns was reduced to more than ten gold bushels, and there was no room for reduction.More than a dozen gold bushels seems cheap, but to the bottom, it is still a lot of money.

The price of basic magic metals such as copper and mithril can still be tolerated, and high-level magic metals such as fine gold and magic steel are completely sky-high!The material cost of a small magic cannon is tens of thousands, and the shipping price has to be doubled. How can this be popularized on a large scale?
The price of the small magic cannon couldn't keep going. For the large magic cannon, Li Qi's promise to Zold would drop to less than one-tenth of the original price, and the possibility of fulfilling the promise was no longer so optimistic.

On a larger scale, if the monopoly of the Mage Federation on magic metals is not broken, social progress will be impossible to talk about.

The foundation of the magic industry is magic metals, and all kinds of magic metals support the entire industry.This is not a basic system that can be shaken by one or two new materials. Just like oil, coal, and steel, monopoly organizations keep prices at extremely high levels, and the following demands and applications cannot be stimulated.

Li Qi asked: "Is the technical threshold for smelting magical metals high?"

Arthur shook his head: "I haven't been exposed to this link before..."

Then his eyes lit up: "Master Rowena's mentor is running the magic furnace, and she should know a lot of inside information."

Coincidentally, Aurora came back a few days ago and has been looking for him, wanting to talk about the next step of the "Propaganda Department", Teresia also put her in this department.

………………

Rowena Magic Tower, Aurora stared blankly at her aunt for a long time, and finally smiled helplessly.

"Invite Li Qi to live in the magic tower for two days, and live with me?"

She sighed: "Auntie, since you and Li Qi are already very familiar with each other, and the business cooperation is also very close, let me tell the truth."

Rowenna interrupted her: "You want to say that you and him are actually just good friends, and there is no relationship between men and women. Before that, you wanted to help Li Qi, so you pretended to have that kind of relationship with him in front of me?"

"Uh……"

Aurora was a little surprised, she thought she had tricked her aunt about her acting skills.

Rowena said: "Let me tell the truth, if you are not the earl, the elegant saint, the queen's celebrity, or my little niece. Then no matter what you think, I will make you Li Qi's woman. "

Aurora was angry: "Auntie! Why do you..."

"Why am I so mercenary?"

Rowena spread her hands: "I am a legendary magician, do you still expect me to have the same emotions as a mortal?"

"but……"

"But it's not that I don't care about feelings, but I regard feelings as a weight of extraordinary value. I can go this far with Li Qi, Aurora, the relationship between you and him, even if it's just friendship, plays a vital role important role."

Rowena asked: "Also, are you sure you really only regard Li Qi as a friend?"

Aurora didn't hesitate: "Of course we are friends!"

Added: "very good... friend."

Rowena smiled and said, "It's so good that you don't need acting skills to pretend to be a lover?"

Aurora turned her face away: "Where is it!?"

"Aurora, the women of the Behemia family all have a problem. What they think in their minds and what they do with their bodies often contradict each other."

Rowenna looked at her niece with a little emotion: "What the body does is the desire deep in the heart, but because I don't recognize my own heart, I can't understand the performance of the body, so I make up lies for myself and deny my heart. "

"Didn't you notice it yourself? As soon as you came back, you couldn't wait to ask Li Qi to come over. He said that you had to be two days late for something. These two days, you have been restless and restless. When you read a book on the balcony, you may even turn the book backwards." have no idea."

Aurora raised her beautiful willow eyebrows, and seriously retorted: "I'm thinking about the task that Teresia gave me! Don't treat me like a silly woman who only knows about love and love!"

Rowena sneered: "But why are you dressed like this? It took several hours. Is this related to work?"

Aurora was stunned, and Rowena continued to attack: "The last time I saw Aurora, she was the number one courtesan of the Kingdom of Hadron, but now Aurora sitting in front of me is simple and pure. Saintess."

"In the past few hours, you have spent all your efforts to prevent Li Qi from seeing the traces of makeup, and at the same time to fully show off your beauty. As for your plain dress, you decided on it after trying on hundreds of clothes. right?"

Aurora's jade-white cheeks flushed, she lowered her head and said, "That, that's because, from now on, Li Qi is my boss!"

She raised her head and said confidently: "Yes, he is my boss, and I must give him enough respect!"

"respect?"

Luo Wenna laughed: "Slap the table and jump in front of the book of trade winds, let Li Qi quickly roll over, you really respect your boss."

"aunt!"

Aurora became angry from embarrassment: "You are still single until now, and you have never been in a relationship since you were a child. What qualifications do you have to talk to me about such things?"

"Yes, Aurora, you have a lot of experience." Rowena's disdain was undisguised.

Aurora's cheeks went from reddish to flushed, her eyes fluttered, and her mouth still refused to admit defeat: "Everyone in Hadron knows that Aurora-Behemia is a veteran in love!"

"Ah ha ha……"

Rowena held her belly and hammered the sofa, without the demeanor of a legendary magician: "This is the funniest joke I've heard this year, Aurora, do it again!"

There was no elegance on the face of the elegant saint, and she was suppressing the anger that was about to explode.

Luo Wenna said again: "Twice unrequited love, never said a word to the other party, once sent a love letter to the wrong person, and turned the whole castle into a place of decadence with shame, you are simply a master of love."

"In the eyes of outsiders, you are very unrestrained, but that is because you regard unrestrainedness as etiquette. You are good friends with Theresia and Sylvie. All the men in the kingdom who admire you have no courage to attack you, but they all think that Who did you attack?"

"I'm sure, you're still..."

Aurora jumped up, trembling, and said in a sharp voice: "Whether I have experience or not, it is absolutely impossible for me to think more of him than a friend! How old is he!"

"This is how you deceived yourself." Rowena shook her head and said, "How old do you think you are? You only turned 20 this year! Only one year older than Teresia, and two years older than Li Qi, just two years old. Your mature temperament in front of outsiders is all trained in the elegant church."

Aurora found another shield, and its solid thickness made her feel at ease: "Auntie, stop joking, Li Qi will marry Catherine, how can I be his mistress?"

Rowena fully demonstrated a legendary magician's disregard and disdain for worldly morals: "Isn't it enough to treat Li Qi as a lover?"

She stabbed Aurora again: "When you were 14 years old, didn't your 'first love' who had an unrequited love also have a wife?"

Aurora's body was as stiff as a sculpture, and her eyes were out of focus: "That, that's just young and ignorant!"

"So, I really misunderstood?"

Luo Wenna's words changed suddenly: "You really don't have any feelings for Li Qi beyond a friend?"

"I……"

Aurora was silent, and the scenes of getting acquainted with Li Qi flashed in her mind.

Then she found that Li Qi's eyes that seemed to see through all the truths of the world, and his face that said with a smile that he believed in love, for the sake of the great love of Lady Scarlet, that he was not afraid of being enemies of gods and demons, seemed to have really sunk into the bottom of her heart , can't even be dug out.

Thinking of how he shattered her attempt to convey kindness and love through etiquette, and when he persuaded herself to comfort Theresia, she always had a tone of pity, and her heart suddenly swayed.

It is true that Li Qi and I are not just friends.

Li Qi seems to be hiding something that she has been searching for all this time. It is something that enriches her heart and makes her feel no longer afraid in the face of all sufferings, and no longer hesitates in the face of all changes. It seems to be... Love ?

No no, impossible!
Aurora quickly denied her absurd idea, you see, before, she just treated him as a cute little brother and gave him benefits as she wished, didn't she feel fluctuating in her heart?

Wait... When I went to Theresia's side, I said goodbye to him.He joked that there were no benefits, why did he just get angry, and didn't dare to really send his chest over?At that time, it seemed to be afraid of something.

"I... I really, and he are just friends, and I just want to be friends."

Feeling that this direction was extremely dangerous, Aurora said this subconsciously, and firmly stood her ground.

"yes……"

Rowenna let out a long breath: "Then I can rest assured."

Eh?
Just when Aurora felt something was wrong, she heard Rowena continue: "Then, you have no right to object to my relationship with Li Qi."

Aurora was stunned for a while, and then flew into a rage: "What—! Auntie, what are you thinking!? You, how old are you!"

Rowenna's face darkened: "Why are you talking about my age? In the legend, I'm still young enough to pinch water!"

Aurora's forehead showed blue veins: "Anyway, don't even think about it!"

Rowena pouted: "What does this have to do with you!?"

The two women quarreled in the living room until Tarling said, "The guests have arrived."

The aunt and nephew looked at each other and turned their heads with a cold snort.

Li Qi, who was teleported into the hall, greeted Rowenna first.

Seeing Aurora, just about to speak, Aurora, who looked more like a simple and elegant girl practicing in a temple than a countess or an elegant saint, snorted.

"Talk to my aunt, she has something very, very important to tell you!"

After she finished speaking, she took big strides that she had never seen before, and left angrily.

Li Qi was at a loss...

(End of this chapter)