my magic industry

Chapter 3 Ellen Gregg

With the halo of a mage and a jazz, although Xia Lin is a 15-year-old boy from a slum, he still has a certain social status. After all, no one dares to neglect a mysterious mage.

So he easily followed the enthusiastic pointers of the pedestrians to find the Horsetail Grass Avenue, and then found the Greg Chamber of Commerce with a pearl bird drawn on the wooden sign at the door.

The Greg Chamber of Commerce looks like an ordinary two-story store from the outside. Inside the house, shelves and hangers are used to display fabrics of various materials and colors. The colorful colors of those fabrics amazed Xia Lin.

It turned out that he had thought about whether to start with the dye industry. After all, he remembered the synthesis method of aniline violet and other dyes, but Xia Lin had no capital, and he had no way to start with the raw materials and equipment needed for the synthesis of these dyes, so he gave up on this. idea.

Now it seems that there are enough kinds of dyes in this world. If it cannot be mass-produced industrially, I am afraid that the chemical dyes he synthesized may not be competitive with these natural dyes.

"Hello, is Master Ellen Gregg here? My name is Charlene Karl, and I'm his classmate at the Imperial Academy of Magic. I'm here to find him for something."

Xia Lin stepped into the store, and immediately recognized the man who was sorting out the books behind the table in the back half of the store as the steward. He stepped forward and tapped the table with his index finger, and asked the man with a gentle smile on his face.

"Charlene Carr?"

The steward, who was still immersed in the numbers, raised his head impatiently, but the moment he saw Xia Lin's attire, his attitude immediately changed 180 degrees, and a warm smile appeared on his face.

In this world, the mage's robe is a symbol of status, even if Xia Lin's face is still childish, the manager does not dare to neglect.

Seeing a mage badge and a jazz badge on Xia Lin's chest, he was even more convinced that this was his young master's classmate, and his tone became a little more humble:
"Your Excellency Master Xia Lin, you came just in time. Master Ellen will come to the chamber of commerce to check the account books soon. Why don't you sit in the reception room upstairs and I will tell him when Master Ellen arrives."

"Is that so? That's fine!"

Xia Lin pretended to hesitate for a moment, then agreed.My heart was relieved.

He finally successfully passed the most difficult "doorman" level. As long as he passes this level, there is at least a 70.00% chance of seeing that Ellen Gregg.

And as long as she sees the Lord, Xia Lin has the confidence to persuade him to give herself a chance to show the power of the spinning jenny.

Under the guidance of the steward, Xia Lin sat down in the reception room. When the servant at the side asked what drink he wanted, Xia Lin thought for a moment, then ordered a cup of black tea, and began to taste it slowly.

Tea, a miraculous plant, has just been discovered in the south, but tea-related drinks have already become popular in the imperial capital.

This so-called black tea is not made by fermenting tea leaves, but a drink that is boiled with brown sugar and spices.

Xia Lin had only heard of this drink from Harper before, and it was said that a cup would cost fifty copper coins, so this time he just tried it.

Fortunately, although the taste of this black tea is a bit weird, the sugar added in it still makes Xia Lin very satisfied.

While Xia Lin was enjoying the black tea, the lord Ellen Gregg he was waiting for was sitting in the carriage, frowning and worrying about his father's condition.

Since his father followed His Majesty to the south ten years ago and was cursed by the natives, his physical condition has been deteriorating.

A year ago, Viscount Greg could barely suppress the curse by relying on the strength of his own Silver Knight, but now he has been unconscious for a long time, and can only rely on the potion refined by the alchemist to maintain his life.

Therefore, Ellen provoked the mainstay of the family early on, and began to accept and handle various affairs of the manor and the chamber of commerce three years ago. Fortunately, with the help of the loyal stewards cultivated by the family and the help of the male servants, he has done a good job in the past few years. Not bad.

But after his father died of illness, he didn't have the confidence to fully control the Greg Chamber of Commerce.

After all, as a family that has been passed down for nearly 200 years, although the Gregg family is not big, it is also not small. In addition to the business controlled by the steward and the servants, there are many businesses that are handed over to the side branches of the family to manage.

However, Ellen, who was still young and only capable of being a first-level mage, happened to lack the prestige to suppress those side branches.Unless he can show the ability to lead the development and growth of the Greg Chamber of Commerce.

Thinking about the future of the family, Ellen got out of the carriage and walked into the family's chamber of commerce, only to see the steward in charge of checking the account books of the chamber of commerce approaching him as if he had something to tell him.

What can the chamber of commerce do?Could it be that there is something wrong with the account book?
Ellen was in a hurry, but she heard the steward say:

"Master, your classmate Xia Lin Karl is waiting for you in the reception room!"

"Student? Who is Charlene Karl?"

Ellen looked dazed. As a nobleman, he had never had any interaction with ordinary students like Xia Lin in the academy.

Even in class, these aristocratic students are taught separately from the common people, and usually he will not deliberately inquire about the news of the common people students. It's just ordinary students who are more in the limelight.

"Young master... don't you know him? The boy who is about your age is also wearing a mage robe, with a ring of mage badges and jazz badges on his chest. He should be a graduate of this year, so I let him come in and wait for you Yes! Speaking of which, he did not inform his servants of his family, I was negligent!"

The steward's expression changed slightly, and he quickly explained.

"Is this year's graduate? Probably a sergeant student! What does that kind of person want me for?"

"Forget it, since I'm here, I'll meet you! Although we don't know each other, we are indeed classmates. Go and get some pastries."

After hearing what the steward said, Ellen became somewhat interested in the civilian sergeant who came to him, and he waved his hand and walked upstairs.

Ellen didn't have any prejudice against common people, but she didn't have the motivation to know common people. After all, nobles and common people were not in the same social circle at all.

However, since a sergeant came to his door seriously, he didn't mind entertaining him once, to show off his aristocratic demeanor, and to see what the sergeant wanted from him by the way.

At this time, Xia Lin had already drank half of the black tea, and the rest of the black tea was placed there so that the waiter would not come to refill the cup.

When Ellen walked into the reception room, he was leisurely admiring the decorations and oil paintings in the reception room.

He was very concerned about an oil painting of several men wearing armor and riding war horses on a hill, waving whips at the distant river and jungle.

After all, the materials of the armor worn by these protagonists seem to be pure gold and mithril, which are said to cost dozens or even hundreds of gold lunt per pound.

These two magical metals can only be associated with gold and silver. Their excellent strength, stiffness, toughness, and magical properties make the armor made of them even wearable by mages without affecting their spellcasting.

It is also because of this that there has always been a group of fanatical alchemists on the mainland, delusional to use the power of alchemy to turn ordinary gold and silver into these two metals.

"This is the scene when my father followed the great emperor to conquer the southern land ten years ago. On the screen are all the most trusted courtiers of the emperor. The man in the red cloak is my father."

Ellen didn't know what Xia Lin was paying attention to. He saw that the sergeant student he had never met was very concerned about the oil painting, so he explained.

"Really? Have we won this battle?"

Xia Lin had heard the sound of the door of the reception room opening a long time ago, and he asked with great interest, as if he was really interested in this painting.

"Win, but also lost, we defeated the coalition forces of the native tribes.

But when the enemy was routed, the native witch doctor cast a terrible curse on His Majesty the Emperor.

My father was by His Majesty's side at that time, he rushed over without hesitation, but he did not block the curse, but shared the power of the curse with His Majesty the Emperor.

All these years, my father and His Majesty have suffered from this curse, and even the priests of the church can't do anything about it. "

(End of this chapter)