Chapter 207: Jokes
about portable lamps are very popular, but few people ask about smart lamps.
The lighting war was one-sided from the very beginning.
However, the market in Shenjiao City is so big. The total population of the entire Heijiao River area is only nine million. Even if everyone has a portable lamp, the sales of lamps will be limited.
So the real battlefield is in the entire wind breath field.
Duke launched this business war, but he did not continue to follow up. The plan had been set long ago, and now it only needs to be executed step by step.
He can't always do everything by himself.
It’s time to collect your mind and focus on the practice itself.
"I've been asking for leave a bit frequently lately, but that's strange. My tutor doesn't seem to mind at all about your leave." Assistant Vikas would come to
Duke's office from time to time to walk around and share some information with him.
Duke said with emotion: "At first I thought the instructor was unkind, but after getting in-depth contact with me, I realized that the instructor was cold on the outside and hot on the inside. He tolerated whatever I did outside the tower. As long as I could keep up with his teaching progress, nothing would happen. Question."
He really thought that Mentor Penrose was a good person.
Penrose was originally very cold towards him. Even if he showed great talent, nothing changed. He once thought that Penrose didn't like him.
but now.
All he had to do was set aside one Thursday afternoon a week to be taught by Penrose, and Penrose would tolerate whatever Duke did the rest of the time.
Very easy to talk to.
"It's you, you are so talented, so the instructor will be so tolerant of you, and he won't even mind if you study with Lord Suktara." Assistant Vikas shook his head and said, "If it were the previous Shanfisi, 80% of the time he would be The instructor was fired directly."
"However, Shanfeisi's luck can be considered changed. I heard that his further studies at Scott's Master Tower went very smoothly and he successfully demonstrated his medical talent." "
But medicine is just a small path, treating ordinary people. The future is really limited."
"Maybe." Duke said perfunctorily.
Although the Seven Towers Federation has gradually abolished the aristocracy, Arcane Mage is still an uncrowned noble, aloof and does not look down upon ordinary people.
Even the erudite men who claim to benefit the lower classes of society and promote social development are only exploring the mysteries of spirituality through the study of natural history. Scholars are not very concerned about whether the study of natural history can benefit the common people.
If we talk about opening the Three Seas and becoming a monk, it is a complete rebirth.
Then becoming an arcane mage is another qualitative leap. It has basically completed an otherworldly change and no longer lives in the same world as the public.
"By the way, how is the production of your arcane cards going?" After chatting for a while, Vikas began to inspect Duke's studies.
"I'm trying to make a 1-ring arcane card - Hand of the Mage. It's expected to be successfully made in another month."
Although he was half-hearted during this period, doing research, starting a company, and learning alchemy, but I still practice my card-making skills diligently every day.
Common first-level civilian cards, including spirit dragon cards, spirit storage cards, slide cards, driver cards, magic spirit cards... There are more than thirty kinds of them in total. He has successfully made them all, but there is only one problem of proficiency.
Compared with civilian cards that only require psychic drawing and engraving, arcane cards are more complicated, so he has not yet successfully produced one.
In every production, there are countless changes in the use of spiritual power with different attributes, which requires a lot of exploration.
Although Xiaoyi has super computing power, it is like a supercomputer.
But after all, it is just artificial intelligence, not real wisdom. All analyzes of spirituality are based on big data.
In other words, Xiaoyi is the ultimate embodiment of rationality.
It's just that the spiritual arcana studied by arcanists is not entirely composed of rational parts, but also consists of a large number of perceptual parts.
For this part of the analysis, Xiaoyi seems a bit clumsy and needs Duke to grasp it.
Then.
Duke felt deeply that there was actually a huge gap between himself and the title of "genius arcane mage".
According to the example given by Master Penrose in his teaching, an arcane mage with card-making talent will follow spiritual guidance during the card-making process and choose the most accurate one among thousands of combination changes.
This is the emotional part of spiritual arcana.
This is also the reason why spiritual arcana is called "spiritual".
Without this part of the perceptual ability, one cannot become an excellent card maker, and Duke's ability in the perceptual part is relatively weak.
"I have Xiao Yi to help me, but I am a bit weak in the emotional part. As long as my rationality is strong enough, I can still make cards skillfully... For a real card maker, his spirituality will guide him to draw the spell model in the most appropriate way. I rely on Xiao Yi to use Stupid calculations, each other!"
He sighed in his heart.
Tutor Vikas didn't know why, and also sighed: "Although I think you are too distracted and don't devote enough energy to card making, you have performed better than any student I have ever seen. ."
After a pause, he continued: "So for a talented Arcane Mage like you, you don't need me to make decisions for you. You can just allocate your study energy." "You have helped me a lot, and my success is inseparable
. Your teachings."
"Haha, I don't dare to take it seriously." Assistant Vikas said that he didn't take it seriously, but the expression on his face was quite proud.
If Duke can succeed, he will be able to get some credit.
in this way.
In the blink of an eye, it was mid-October, and the sales department of the Giant of Light continued to attack and achieved certain results in the eight major regions under the jurisdiction of the Wind Breath Realm.
However, with the third-level arcane mage Clelinda visiting Spike City in the Zaojiao region, and having some interactions with Mesta, the third-level arcane mage in Spike City, aura lights were spread across a large area in Spike City. Low-price dumping generally affects the sales of portable lights.
Subsequently, Rainbow Bay City in the bubble area, Angry Point City in the oil area, and Blade City in the Trial Knife Mountain area all had a large number of spiritual lamps sold at low prices.
It has had a negative impact on the sales of the Light Giant's portable lamp.
"Sir, the Runwan Family has already taken action. Five of the eight major regions have been strongly blocked by the Runwan Family." Vial came to Penrose Master Tower to report to Duke, "But our Legal Department, In accordance with your previous instructions, we have sued Runwanjia for infringement in eight cities in eight cities."
Duke responded while flipping through the newspaper: "Then follow the established plan and fight with Runwanjia for real. Don't be afraid of anything. As long as Runwanjia can't cover the sky with one hand, we will fight with him to the end and make our stall as big as possible." "Understood." "Go ahead. If you don't have enough money, tell me. At worst,
we
can raise another round of financing. ."
"I won't disturb your work, sir. I'll go back and make arrangements right now, and strive to win sales in more than four regions as soon as possible." After work
in the evening, Duke went straight to Tower 1 after dinner.
Before the teaching began, Suktara asked: "Do you need my help in the competition between the Giant of Light and the Runwan Family?"
She is the internal supervisor of the United Tower. Although she no longer manages things personally, Shen Shen As long as she wanted to ask about the big and small things that happened in Jiao City, no one could hide it from her.
"Teacher, everything is under control. There is no deviation from my plan yet. If something unexpected happens, I will ask you for support." "As
long as you have confidence." Suktara said gently, "Oh, by the way, I asked Lord Erwin during the meeting at the Union Tower today. He said that the Erudite Tower has applied for the title of Erudite for you. At present, the Erudite Tower in Runwu City has accepted the application and is in the inspection period." "
For Did I apply for the title of Erudite?" Duke said in surprise, "That's not true. Just inventing a portable lamp qualifies me to apply for the title of Erudite?" "Don't underestimate the portable lamp, Sir Erwin's evaluation of it
. Very high. And I found that many people in the castle have purchased portable lamps, especially the knights patrolling at night. Everyone has a portable lamp, which shows its influence." "This is really an unexpected surprise."
Duke smiled.
In fact, it is not surprising. The invention of natural history focused on two aspects. One aspect is value, and the other aspect is practicality.
There is no need to go into details about inventions of great value.
Practicality is also the focus of natural history. An invention may not have that much technical content, but it can be popularized and benefit the public. Therefore, this invention is also one of the major inventions of natural history.
The value of a portable light lies in its practicality.
"The competition between the Giant of Light and Runwanjia, and the infringement controversy between the portable lamp and the spiritual light lamp may have a certain negative impact on your evaluation for the title of scholar." Suktara said, "But if you come up with a strong With the technology of light hand lamp, there will be no more obstacles."
"Having said that, if I don't hurt the Runwan family, Lord Clarinda will still attack the giant of light sooner or later, so I can only Wait a minute, I have a trump card."
"Clerinda, this person is used to being domineering."
"Teacher, can you tell me about your Excellency Clarinda, in the book "The Spirituality of the Black Dragon River Land" , there isn’t much written about him.”
“Clalinda…” Suktara fell into memories.
Clarinda was a generation younger than Suktala. She was born into a family of arcane mages who were not aristocrats. She had shown outstanding talent since she was a child. After being promoted to arcanist, she chose arcanism as her future evolutionary direction.
He advanced to the 3rd ring smoothly and made outstanding achievements. He established a great reputation and was considered to advance to the 4th ring sooner or later.
It's a pity that God did not fulfill his wish.
While participating in an overseas development war, Clarinda was severely injured by a dragon, and even the spiritual core in the spiritual sea was shattered.
Although he was rescued later, his spiritual core was re-condensed.
However, with the broken and reorganized spiritual core, it is already difficult to make progress, especially when it comes to practicing arcana.
As a last resort, he retreated to the next best thing and wanted to find some way in the arcane field.
It's a pity that he didn't have the talent of an arcane scholar, so he didn't have any expertise in any field. In the end, he inherited the family's Runwanjia Spiritual Weapon Factory and focused on making money.
"Maybe it's obsession. I guess he really wants to get a scholar title to prove himself." Suktara shook his head and said, "Unfortunately, the patents he can buy are not up to the standard of the scholar title. After all, Who would sell a really good invention for takeout? This is the basis for the advancement of a scholar."
He said.
Suktara mentioned a joke: "A few years ago, Clarinda went to the Erudite Tower to cause a scene and almost got into a fight with Mr. Erwin." "What do you mean?
" Duke became interested.
"It seems that Clarinda bought a patent called continuous coating technology from somewhere, and asked Erwin to apply for the title of scholar for him. Erwin thought that the invention was not high enough and refused to apply for him, so he There's a fuss."
"Ah!" Duke exclaimed.
Suktala gave him a strange look: "What are you doing? Arcane mage is also a human being, and naturally has seven emotions and six desires. It is normal to have some friction." "No,
teacher, what should I say... This matter about Your Excellency Clarinda , speaking of which, the source is still with me."
"In you? What do you mean, you weren't an arcane mage a few years ago, you were just a child who didn't grow up, right?" Suktara didn't know why.
Duke smiled and said, "To be precise, when I was fifteen years old, I was working in a card repair shop. I didn't have half a penny in my pocket. In order to raise money to buy the awakening potion, I racked my brains to think of ways to do it, and finally I thought of it. A good idea."
He told the story at that time: "I saw the card repairmen using the paste box to dig and pick and search, so I thought if it could be possible... I sold this idea to the shop owner at the time , and later the shop owner told me that he changed hands and sold it to someone else..."
"What a coincidence, you invented this continuous coating technology?" Suktara was really surprised.
"My invention is good, but I have resold it. Since it was bought by Clarinda, it is his technology." "
Haha, you are quite open-minded, but you don't mind if the teacher shares this fun thing with the outside world." Would you like to share something with your friends?" Suktala is an old-hearted person, smiling like an old naughty child, obviously having some bad ideas in mind.
Duke smiled and said, "I don't mind."
After going around and around, the technique of continuous slurrying fell into Clinda's hands, which gave Duke a chance to ridicule her.
"You want the title of scholar?" He smiled secretly in his heart, "You can come and ask me, but I may not give it to you."
After chatting about common things and gathering their minds, the master and the disciple started teaching. One taught sincerely, and the other learned sincerely. Time flies.
...
"Philibel, how have you been recently?"
"Teacher, I just hang out in Faling Tower every day, but you always get what you want, find a suitable successor, and keep smiling." Faling Tower Director Philiber smiled and took the arm of her former teacher, Suktala.
After helping Suktara sit down, she smiled again and said: "I also heard that you are so cruel that you even drove Sorel away." "
That boy Sorel, oh, that's really true. It's a pity. I originally thought that if I couldn't find a successor, I would just make do with him... But who would have thought that spirituality brought me Duke. This kid is a natural arcane mage." "You always mentioned it
. Duke was full of praise. It seems that Duke really fulfilled your old wish."
"Isn't it? Speaking of Duke, I remembered a funny thing." Suktara's rosy face showed a smile. An Ran said, "Do you still remember the joke Clinda made in the Erudite Tower two or three years ago? I didn't know until I found out that the continuous coating technology he bought was invented by Duke!" "Ah, that's how it turned out to be
. , What a coincidence."
Not long after, Philiber, who was dawdling around, invited his two arcanist sisters to have dinner, and then told the matter as a joke.
Erudite Tower.
Aziguli, the head of the legal department, looked at her secretary calmly: "Are the lawyers of the Giant of Light still causing trouble?"
"Yes, sir, those lawyers didn't do anything out of the ordinary. They just grabbed someone when they saw them and talked to them about the case of the Giant of Light against the Runwan family. They also said that they were staying in a hotel not far away. , just to wait for the results."
"What a cunning move!" Aziguli sneered, "Arcanist mages from the countryside will also know this trick, so don't pay attention to it." The
secretary did not leave, but hesitated. Know how to speak.
Aziguli frowned and asked, "Is there anything else?"
"There is something, I don't know if I should tell you."
"Say!"
"Yes, sir, I heard it from outside... I heard it from outside..." The original inventor of the continuous slurry coating technology that Lady Clarinda came to the Erudite Tower to discuss was actually Duke. It was said that Duke sold the technology in order to save money to buy the awakening potion. "
Is it true?" Aziguli's brows furrowed even deeper, "Duke was actually the one who invented the technique of donating pulp?" "
I have asked about the source, and it is said that it came from the mouths of several Arcane mages. , there should be no mistakes, right?"
"Okay, what a mess, so what if it was invented by Duke, the patent right is in the hands of Clarinda, then it is Clarinda's invention!" Aziguli said with a stern face. , "I'm warning those employees who are gossiping, to shut their mouths!" "
Yes, I'm going to warn those employees who are gossiping." The secretary left in a hurry.
Aziguli corrected a few documents in the office, looked at the time, then got up and went to the meeting room in the Erudue Tower for a meeting.
In the conference room, Chief Director Erwin had arrived early.
After seeing Aziguli, he greeted with a smile: "Come and sit down first. There are two people who haven't arrived yet. Let's wait." "
Okay, chief director." Aziguli sat uprightly on her own on the chair.
Erwin put one foot on the chair without any image, tilted his body to the other side, and said in a normal tone: "Aziguli, I want to ask you, you are familiar with Clarinda, there is something I don't know if you are clear about it."
"Excuse me."
"Runwanjia has been having a lively fight with the Giant of Light recently. Regarding the patent infringement case, what does Clarinda think? Do you really want to continue the infringement?" "
Chief Director, The infringement case is still under trial, and I am collecting relevant evidence. I am afraid it is too early to declare infringement now." Aziguli pushed back without being soft or hard.
"You are in charge of the legal department, you have the final say, haha." Erwin smiled, "I want to ask if the continuous supply coating technology in Clinda's hands when she came to the Erudite Tower to cause trouble two years ago is from I bought it from Duke, and the buying and selling together is quite lively."
Several other Arcane mages agreed with Erwin and laughed.
The conference room was filled with a happy atmosphere.
"It's groundless, Chief Director, why bother joking about it." Aziguli was the only one who didn't laugh, and pushed back the joke with a cold face, "Besides, since patents are allowed to be traded, what's so funny about buying and selling patents? !"
Erwin didn't care about Aziguli's attitude at all: "Of course patents can be bought and sold, and our Erudite Tower also encourages buying and selling, but if you want to rely on the patents you bought to challenge the title of scholar, this is a big joke. Fortunately, I didn't apply for him, otherwise I would be embarrassed to see Duke." "I
only know that I have to act according to the rules, but I have no interest in tracing back to the source. Besides, the sale of patents is all voluntary, and I don't cherish it. , Why should others complain for him?"
"That's what I say, but scholars still have to rely on their true ability to win, don't you think so." Erwin looked around at everyone.
Several Arcane mages nodded: "That's the truth."
Aziguli looked on coldly, and stood up when he saw this: "Am I here for a meeting or to chat? Chief Director, if nothing happens, I will leave first."
" Okay, you have to be busy, so you don’t have to attend this meeting." Erwin waved his hand.
Aziguli stood up and left directly.
After the meeting was over, Erwin returned to his office. After the secretary closed the door, he immediately asked: "Grandpa, why did you offend Mr. Aziguli again?
" Grandpa, the chief director, was elected in a friendly manner?" Erwin picked up the tea cup and put it into the hands of his secretary and great-grandson, "Hurry up and get some water for your great-grandfather. You want to help in any big event."
" Isn't this a harmonious way to make money? Besides, our family has never had any conflict with His Excellency Aziguli's family." "Actually, your
great-grandfather has long been unhappy with Aziguli and Clarinda, and the two colluded in confusion. Relying on the Runwan family to grab patents everywhere, I don’t know if I think the Runwan family is the tower of erudition." Erwin looked disdainful, "It’s too ugly to eat." "Isn’t everyone doing this?" the secretary muttered
. In a word, in his opinion, it is natural for arcane mages to monopolize resources.
"He can grab any bowl of rice, but he can't grab the food in the Erudite Tower. This is your great-grandfather's territory!" "
Great-great-grandfather, after Sir Keithon retreats, you are not allowed to go to the Union Tower to take charge! "
Haha, quit?" Erwin stretched out his leg and kicked his great-grandson, "I have been thinking about Christian's quit all day long, so he is really willing to quit. If there weren't Williams and Stephen Wings competing with me, Besides, hey, he may not be willing to withdraw."
"But Mr. Christian has said in public several times that he will withdraw." "
It's just talk, whoever takes it seriously is a fool."
"How can you be so untrustworthy..."
" Alas, my great-great-grandfather really feels like I want to send you outside to train and hone your skills. If you stay with me, you will be exposed to wind and rain. I feel like I have raised a fool." Erwin looked at his innocent great-grandson
. , couldn't help but shook his head: "Tomorrow you hand in your resignation report yourself and go find a place to practice outside. I don't care where you practice. In short, don't appear in front of me until you are promoted to arcane mage." "Ah, great grandfather!" "Quickly
!
" Get lost."
Erwin was still a little angry after driving away his favorite great-grandson.
Suddenly he thought of Suktara: "This old woman is thicker than me... I should have been shameless and asked Duke to come to me. Such a good seedling was snatched away by Suktara! Isn’t it good to be an alchemist and a scholar?”
If we talk about the invention of the portable lamp, it can only be regarded as an accidental inspiration.
Then knowing that the continuous coating technology was actually invented by Duke, Erwin understood that Duke's talent in natural history was definitely unusual.
Moreover, there is also built-in spirit storage card technology, which is also an invention that he is quite praised for.
"With such three kinds of technical blessings, the title of Erudite Sage is bound to be inevitable. If I become his teacher, this will definitely be a big bonus when evaluating the title of Erudite Sage in the future!" Erwin rubbed his chin. , "Do you want to snatch it away?"
After thinking again and again, he finally sighed: "Forget it, the old woman and I are old acquaintances. We have known each other for more than a hundred years. It is really embarrassing to snatch students away." I don't know
myself Suktara, who almost had her student robbed, is currently sorting out years of notes in her mage tower.
Her one hundred and sixty years of life.
Dedicated to the field of alchemy, I don’t know how many experiments I have done and how many notebooks I have left behind. Some research topics have long been forgotten by me.
Now take it out and sort it out, just in time for teaching at Duke.
"Since fifty years ago, I have focused almost all my energy on the direction of ring replication materials. Alas, the most regrettable thing is that I failed to advance to the fourth ring and personally feel the structure of the projection ring." Suktara wiped
out There was dust on the notes, and when I opened the pages, I felt a mixture of emotions.
To the past, to the future.
There are too many thoughts.
After a long time, she slowly closed the note: "When Duke gets on the right track, I will give up this old face and also ask for Christian Fury, Williams, Irvine, Stephen Wings, and that Bernoulli, cooperate with me to cast the ring of projection and do the last experiment!"
The valuable experience left behind by the experiment was her last help to Duke.
It was also her last effort in the direction of replicating materials.
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