I really just want to be a big lord

Chapter 99 The Devil's Raving

Beishan Manor, outside the study room, Salveira stood guard by the door, looking through the window in the corridor, looking at the blue sky in the distance.

In the study behind him, Master Kaios was negotiating with the guests. It seemed that it was a big business involving more than 10 magic coupons and involving the Marquis.

She didn't really care what kind of business the master was talking about, and she couldn't help them anyway.

What she cares about is the master's safety, master's health, and master's mood. Anyway, as long as the master is in the study at the back, she will feel at ease standing here.

She is no longer wearing the previous set of black fine-level armor, but a set of rare-level leather armor that is also black, but looks like aristocratic decorative leather armor, protecting important parts such as the chest and shoulders.

Yes, the master has upgraded her equipment again...

This set of rare-level leather armor is obviously for noble ladies to show off. On the basis of satisfying the functionality of rare-level equipment, it also has a very strong sense of design. It is said that it was made by a noble designer with the title of baron hand.

After the master bought it, he also asked his current "technical team" to modify it, increasing the defense strength and some practical enchantments.

Now this set of leather armor is weightless when worn on the body. It fits very well. When using aura, it will automatically give gains. If the energy is stored in advance, it can even automatically open a magic barrier when encountering an enemy. Blocking physical damage is equivalent to bringing a mid-level magician with you to apply buff magic, so although it is leather armor, the physical defense is not worse than the previous full metal armor.

And even from the point of view that she thinks she has no aesthetics, this set of leather armor is very beautiful, oh, because this set of leather armor does not cover the whole body, so the master specially asked someone to design a set of "battle clothes" for her, It is also divided into spring and summer and autumn and winter, as well as a cape when riding a horse...

What happened was that when she went to the city with the master, she was even mistaken for a noble lady.

How much magic coupons did the master spend for this set of rare leather armor?She didn't know, and even if she asked the master, he would definitely not tell her.

But she speculated that it should be at least more than [-] magic coupons, not counting the cost of inviting the "technical team" to add new functions and new enchantments later.

and……

Not only is the leather armor on her now rare, but her long-handled broadsword was originally an excellent weapon. It was taken by the master two months ago for the "technical team" to modify, and now its power has risen to a new level. I suspect that if it is graded, it can also reach the rare level.

In addition, there is a metal bracelet on her left hand, which is also a rare equipment. After opening it, she can directly summon an earth elemental puppet with the strength of a high-level aura warrior and a high-level magician for a short-term auxiliary battle.

In addition, some scattered magic scrolls, excellent knuckle tigers, one-time magic hidden weapons, etc., will be stuffed to her one after another, so that she can "consider which ones to bring according to the situation" - yes, There were so many that she couldn't bring them all at once.

In the words of the master, this is "arming her to the teeth".

At first, she was a little apprehensive. When wearing that rare leather armor, she was a little worried about breaking it, and felt that she was not worthy of such good equipment.

She even felt that her worth was far inferior to this leather armor.

But what Keos said later made her feel relieved:

"Vera, you are like my arm now. When you become stronger, I become stronger. The stronger you are, the safer I will be. The stronger you are, the more confident I will be. Understand? I will arm you , is arming myself.”

Yes, she and the master are one.

But to be honest... Sometimes when she thinks about her identity, she also has some doubts.

She and the master no longer have a soul subordination contract. It was because she had to agree to Guan Yaoxing's conditions, in order to help her quickly break through to the 10th-level high-level, and now she is a 10-level high-level aura. He proposed to re-establish the soul subordination contract with the master, but the master did not agree.

The master said that he was afraid that the establishment of a soul subordination contract would affect her ability to continue to improve. Anyway, whether there is a contract or not, he will absolutely trust himself.

When Salveira thought about it later, it was true that whether she had a soul contract or not, it would not affect her loyalty to the master.

But without a contract, the master trusted her so much, which made her feel... hard to describe.

Outside the window, in Beishan Manor, a group of auras who had just finished training in the training ground were returning to their residence in a group.

Salveira knew that the master had actually upgraded the equipment for all the contracted servants during this time, like Harvey and Lu Hao, they also got more than one piece of excellent equipment, and other talented and better-performing guards or Magicians are also equipped with the least excellent weapons.

Of course, no one has obtained rare equipment like her.

For other lords, let alone high-level aura fighters, even top-level holy spirit guards, or even super-level martial saints may not be able to have rare equipment.

Even if there are, basically they save up the magic coupons to buy them.

In addition, Kaios also promoted a dozen talented teenagers from the territory to the training camp, and purchased a dozen young contracted servants from other places, most of whom were junior magicians.

Salveira could feel that the master had a sense of urgency.

But whether this sense of urgency came from the pressure of the Marquis of Steel Heart or from other places, she was not quite sure.

Anyway, what she can do now is to try her best to improve her strength, so that she can be worthy of so many rare-level equipment, and also let her ability become the master's right-hand man, protect the master, and chop those dregs who dare to disobey the master into pieces .

Well, crushed to pieces.

……

In the study, it was Earl Hughes who was conducting "big business discussions" with Caios.

In fact, a few months ago, the day Hughes went to the "Creator Sales Center" and happened to meet the butler Charn of the Marquis of Steel Heart, he didn't go to buy the "Evil Refining System".

However, he said that he has bought 10 sets in full, which is not a lie, but he does not need to be present to buy the "Magic Refining System".

He went there that day, actually to discuss other business, and happened to meet Cha En and his party.

In fact, not long after Zhan, Pabul and the others left, Keos arrived.

The reason why Hughes came to Chenglue Factory to discuss cooperation was because he wanted to discuss the business of supplying raw materials.

Most economic territories need to be transformed artificially, such as magic plant farms, common crop farms, factories, fish ponds, and so on.

But there are still some economic territories that are born with high-value output, such as some forests, islands, and lakes where special magic plants can be found.

Hughes has a large area of ​​this kind of economic territory in his hands. Because Kaios has sufficient magic coupons from the beginning, he purchased the required raw materials in large quantities very early. A few months ago, the relationship with Earl Hughes was already The last six-figure magic coupon was traded.

Today Hughes came to Beishan Manor again to discuss a more comprehensive and larger-scale purchase of magic materials. Even Kaios entrusted them to mine new magic materials and collect them in batches. The amount involved was not Sylvie. Pull the guessed 10 level, but at least 50 level.

Of course, this is not a big order that Hughes can take by himself. It is said that "they" will involve several lords, including the Marquis Grant who has a close relationship with Earl Hughes.

Moreover, this cooperation will last for a long time, and it is possible that the final amount will be far more than 50.

After the basic agreement was almost reached, Earl Hughes said with some emotion: "Baron Keos is really amazing. In just half a year, he has achieved such a scale."

Kaios said with a smile: "I just happened to meet Shengyou Palace to launch a new magic plant. The production volume has increased significantly. With the support of noble people and the help of friends, it is only possible to stand right on the cusp."

Earl Hughes shook his head: "Not everyone can find the outlet. But Baron Keos, I don't quite understand. Since you have such a large demand for materials and Earl Vaux's support, there is no shortage of magic. Why don’t you just buy the economic territory yourself and provide the materials yourself? Even if you don’t provide all of it yourself, you can provide about half of it?”

Kaios smiled and said: "There is a specialization in the art industry. Even if there are enough magic coupons, it will not be so fast to form a stable output if you have to start from scratch. This time is more important to me. Besides, magic coupons It’s not something that can be earned by one person, the more people involved, the bigger the plate.”

Hughes nodded with a smile: "Baron Keos is grand."

He said, thinking of something, frowned slightly, hesitated, and asked: "Baron Keos, I have a question, it may not be appropriate, but I still can't help but want to ask..."

"Earl Hughes is really polite. If you have any questions, just ask, as long as I know, there is nothing I can't say." Kaios said boldly.

"Baron Keos, I heard that my contracted servant York... Oh, he came with me today. The magister downstairs now has a little research on magic circles, refining weapons, and alchemy. Before I Didn't he buy 10 sets of 'Magic Refining System' from you? He saw the operation process of that system, and said that the price is too cheap, and he will definitely lose money. 3500 magic coupons are not enough for the cost price. Kaios Baron, if you are really selling at a loss, it is not as good as my 10 sets... I will make up for the magic coupons, at least enough to cover the cost..."

Keos laughed and said: "Earl Hughes misunderstood, I am now going to ship nearly a hundred sets of Guangchenglue factory in a month, and Qingyang factory in Oz City will start work in two months, and it will be three months a month." About ten sets of shipments, not to mention the loss, one set will lose 100 magic coupons. I will lose more than 1 magic coupons a month. Will I lose 40 magic coupons? Oh, this is still the case when everyone pays the full amount, but in fact more than half of them are rented, so I will lose 50 magic coupons even a month?"

In fact, Dominique came to ask him a similar question a few months ago with concern.

When Kaios heard Dominic say with certainty that his "magic refining system" would cost 3000 magic coupons, he was really surprised and puzzled.

But Dominique said that several contracted servants of the lord have made judgments. If they are asked to do the configuration of the "magic refining system", the cost ranges from 5000 to 7000, but 3500 is impossible.

Kaios' first reaction at the time was...these contracted servants offered too much price, was this trying to earn the price difference from the lord?
But then he realized that it was impossible. In this world with soul subordination contracts, how could there be so many contracted servants who would dare to take the price difference from the lord.

But this cost calculation is indeed somewhat beyond Keos' expectations. Even if he can keep the cost relatively low because of purchasing raw materials in large quantities, he did not say that there will be such a difference. How do the contracted servants of the lords judge? of?
However, after communicating with several of his contracted servant magicians, he suddenly discovered that the cost price they estimated was also very different. Although it was lower than the estimates of those outside, they were all at 4000. Above, the most reliable think that the selling price of 3500 is the cost.

You must know that although they did not directly participate in the R&D and production of the "Magic Refining System", they knew about the entire production process and the procurement of raw materials.

It also took a lot of effort for Kaios to find out why they all calculated the cost so much higher.

In the study, Keos picked up a pastry on the side plate, and said to Earl Hughes using the set of words that he explained to Dominic before:

"Look, this pastry is like our 'Magic Refining System'. Flour, eggs, milk, etc. are the materials provided by you, Earl Hughes. In your opinion, what needs to be done to change from raw materials to this pastry?"

But he didn't wait for Earl Hughes to answer, he said directly: "I know that you have never made pastries, Mr. Earl. First, we need to stir the ingredients such as flour, eggs, milk, sugar, etc., make bubbles, then pour the mold and put it in Baking in the oven, when the time is up, there will be delicious pastries out of the oven. If you need more pastries, we can call more servants, change to a larger pot, and change to a larger oven. If you still can’t finish baking at one time , Just divide it up and cook it a few times. No matter how you change it, the cost of labor, oven, pot, firewood, flour and eggs can be calculated.”

Earl Hughes was thoughtful: "So, Baron Keos, you don't use an ordinary pot or an ordinary stove to make 'pastry'?"

"Not bad." Kaios said, "Here, I made a huge magic container that can automatically stir and foam, and a magic device that automatically pours molds, and I made a magic device that can hold as many pastries as you want. The huge oven after baking. They don't understand how much the magic container, magic device, and huge oven cost, because they haven't seen it before, so they haven't calculated it."

Earl Hughes nodded half-understood. He probably understood what Kaios meant, but he had more doubts. However, he also knew that the question had reached its limit, and any more questions would involve other people's production. It's a secret.

Unexpectedly, Kaios continued: "This magic container, magic device, and huge oven are actually a magic circle. Earl Hughes, when doing the 'magic refining system', when each batch of materials needs to be preprocessed , I will have a dedicated large magic circle for batch processing, which is why other people can't figure out my cost."

Earl Hughes was stunned: "Special magic circle?"

"That's right, a special magic circle. During the manufacturing process of the 'Magic Sealing Basket', a total of eight special magic circles are used for all the components, and nine special magic circles are used for the 'Magic Refining Tool', but two of them are magic circles. The formations are shared, so in order to build the 'magic refining system', I made a total of fifteen large magic formations." Kaios explained.

From the perspective of other magicians, to decompose the various components of the "magic refining system" in reverse, it will be natural to use their understanding and general methods to brainstorm the processing steps of all components.

For those materials, there are many steps that require magic power for refining and enchanting. Each procedure needs to be manually operated by a magician, or a worker needs to use an enchanting table to operate.

For magicians to operate, one is that there are not so many magicians, and the other is that low-level magicians do not control magic power so stably, and they are prone to failure, wasting materials, but there are fewer high-level magicians, and it is impossible to do it This kind of work, so basically use the enchanting table.

Using the enchanting table will consume a magic rod, which is an estimated consumption and an unavoidable cost.

However, Kaios did not use this piece-by-piece processing method to process magic materials. Instead, he asked his team to design a large magic circle for a certain material, and directly processed them in batches.

If only one piece is processed, the cost of this magic circle will be horrifying. If only one batch is processed, it is still unacceptably high, but if it is processed batch by batch, the cost will continue to drop.

And Kaios has been mass-produced from the very beginning, so the cost is not high from the beginning, let alone now.

When the magicians outside were guessing that the cost of the "Magic Refining System" was 6000 or more, his cost had already increased from 2500 at the beginning to around 2200.

Kaios also quickly understood that although there are many factories in this world, these are factories rather than workshops of different sizes.

When the lords and nobles of this world set up factories and design production processes, they all have one idea:
Try not to consume mana if you can do it, especially the manpower of ordinary citizens.

Things like building a dedicated magic circle for processing a certain material or a certain object, unless it is completely impossible to do it with an enchanting table, will never be considered, and I dare not even think about it.

So more is still the concept of step-by-step processing from 0.1 to 0.5 to 1. Most magic products, even if they learn the method of Kaios, can’t do it-when it comes to semi-finished products, different materials are mixed together. enchantments interact with each other.

But when Kaios was designing this "magic refining system", he had already planned to do this. He had already made arrangements for each component to be processed separately and then assembled, which is 0.1+0.1+...+0.1= 1 way.

Kai Osborne thought that this production method should not be considered very special. He also opened the assembly workshop of Chenglue Factory to the nobles who came to buy the "Magic Refining System" to visit. Even if he didn't see the magic circle for processing materials, It should be easy to see by looking at the assembly.

But what I didn't expect was that even those recognized masters of alchemy and weapon refining miscalculated his cost.

Because of this, Kaios also realized that this set of production methods is of advanced significance in the concept of this era, so he did not hesitate to open an assembly factory outside the other main city of Oz, continue to speed up production and speed up " The popularization of the magic refining system".

In the study, Keos not only told Earl Hughes what materials and structural components were processed in the fifteen exclusive magic circles he made, but he even proposed to take Hughes to see those magic circles with his own eyes.

Hughes didn't expect that the sentence "As long as I know, there is nothing I can't say" that Keos just said was true, he was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said:
"Baron Keos, these are the core secrets of the 'creator', it's not appropriate to take me to see them."

Keos laughed and said: "This is indeed a secret. If it is other people, naturally it cannot be shown to them, but you are different, Earl Hughes. You are my important partner. And... Didn't you say it before? However, you and Marquis Grant have also considered making similar products, but only after considering the cost? If I tell you that the cost of the 'Magic Refining System' is less than 3000 coupons, are you interested in doing it..."

The last sentence lingered in Hughes' ears like the devil's babbling. He widened his eyes and looked at Kaios in disbelief.

(End of this chapter)