my magic industry

Chapter 57 The Holy Grail War
However, all sorts of miscellaneous matters were arranged, and after the first issue of the newspaper was set for October 10rd, on September 3th, Terry, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, went to Karl's laboratory to find Xia Lin.

This time it was not for Xia Lin to guide him in reviewing manuscripts, but the reporters under the newspaper office were all inexperienced and did not find any news worth mentioning.

Those informants who had just developed in the newspaper office were not very enthusiastic when they heard about the newspaper's solicitation of news. As a result, most of the quarto pages of the Imperial Capital Xunbao were not filled with content, so the editor-in-chief Terry wanted to consult Xia Lin Opinion, whether to delete half of the page.

"No, how can we cut down the page in the first issue! If the content is not enough, at worst we will serialize a long story on the spare page! As for the specific content of the story, let me think about it first.

You should first hire a young scholar with good writing skills, who has written epic stories and is familiar with folklore stories, preferably someone who is in urgent need of money. I think I will hand over the outline to him after the story is finished! "

Stern words denied Terry's idea. In Xia Lin's view, the inaugural issue of the first issue of the "Emperor Capital Xunbao" must not be fooled like this.

Instead of cutting the page, it is better to learn from the wisdom of the predecessors and serialize a story in the newspaper to fill the vacant page, which can attract some popularity along the way.

As for the story, Xia Lin had to think carefully.

After sending Terry away, Xia Lin thought about the story requirements for serialization in the "Emperor Capital Xunbao".

First, the story must conform to the general aesthetics of the nobles and businessmen who are the main reader groups in this world, such as knights, dragons, and magicians. At the same time, it must have enough gimmicks, otherwise the purpose of increasing newspaper sales through stories will not be achieved. .

Second, it is best not to have gods in the story. Although the Holy Church of the Sassen Empire is much lower-key than the Evil Light Cult in the north, Xia Lin probably won’t be sent to the stake if he wrote this content, but in a In a world with extraordinary power, writing about the gods in other stories, Xia Lin felt that it was a bit too much.

Third, the story should not be too long or too short. If it is too long, Xia Lin will have to waste a lot of time revising the outline. If it is too short, it will not be able to stimulate the sales of the newspaper.

After deciding what kind of story she wanted, Xia Lin found a pen and paper and started brainstorming.

Then he found that he couldn't even come up with a story that met the criteria.

In the classic fantasy works of online novels, the existence of gods is absolutely indispensable, and the protagonist, as a time traveler, wears all kinds of cheats. If there is no major modification, it cannot be shown to the readers of this world.

The other things he remembers are "Azeroth Chronicles" and "Harry Potter", not to mention, the problem is bigger than those online works, at least a world of Titan Creation and wizards riding brooms It is difficult for people to understand and substitute.

What does it mean to hate a book when it is used? This is probably the most appropriate scenario.

Xia Lin couldn't help regretting why she hadn't read Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and the famous "A Song of Ice and Fire" in her previous life, so she didn't even have suitable material for the manuscript.

After much deliberation, the unwilling Xia Lin quickly went through the cultural works he had read in his mind, and suddenly found an anime that was not included in his target selection at the beginning: "fate/zero".

"fate/zero" tells the story of seven heroic spirits from different eras and legends who came to modern times under the summoning of a magician and fought with each other for the omnipotent wishing machine.

Xia Lin unexpectedly found that this story seemed to meet her requirements.

First, the setting of Guan Gong vs Qin Qiong is enough to catch people's attention in the first place no matter which world it is in. Coupled with the holy grail of a universal wishing machine, it can attract a wider audience of readers.

Second, Artoria's character design is very suitable to establish a noble female king image in the readers' minds, which is convenient for the enlightened faction to promote Princess Dorothea in the future.

Third, this story is very convenient for Xia Lin to carry out magic reforms. Magicians are replaced by magicians, and their motivation to pursue the source is replaced by the pursuit of the essence of magic.

Then, replacing a few of the heroic spirits with the protagonists in the heroic epic circulated in the world will not create too much sense of disobedience, and it will also increase the appeal of the story to the knight class of the empire.

As for the modern background, it doesn't seem too abrupt to directly delete and modify it to match the background of this era.

After Emiya Kiritsugu's reformation, Crete Emilia can use a kind of magic equipment of Xia Linkouhu, powered by magic crystals, and can continuously launch a ring of magic missiles.

In addition, this magic equipment can also launch another special spell with curse power, which can cast a unique curse on the target. As long as the mage uses magic power, he will suffer extremely serious backlash.

As for Fuyuki City, it can be placed in the Kingdom of Clansedia, which is far across the Fran Sea.

But as for why the Kingdom of Clansetia had a name in Sassen, Xia Lin didn't bother to care about such unnecessary details.

After all, the Holy Grail War was held in the Kingdom of Cransetia, which is thousands of miles away, in order to make use of the fact that most of its readers are not familiar with it, so that it can be conveniently fabricated in all aspects. .

The more it was changed, the more feasible it became. After consulting the relevant historical knowledge of a professional, Ferran Eide, a scholar, and borrowing two of the most widely circulated epic story books in the empire from him, Xia Lin successfully translated "fate/ zero" and renamed it the more accessible "Holy Grail War".

After his magical transformation, the new version of the Holy Grail War has become the following lineup:

Saber: Arturia Pendragon, the knight king from the historical (fictional) British kingdom that has perished.

Mage: Crete Emia (Emiy Kiritsugu): A famous mage killer on the mainland, a one-ring mage, who uses magic equipment to launch magic bullets to assassinate the enemy.

rider: The legendary founder of the Sassen Empire, the Dragon Knight Sun King Albis Ahlica.

Magician: Webber Velvet: A student of the Clock Tower Magic Academy of the Sassen Empire, a mage of the first ring, stole the holy relic because he was dissatisfied with his mentor who looked down on ordinary students.

archer: There are written records in history, the oldest king of the Oia Theocracy, Oia blessed by God.

Magician: Tekomi Dosaka (Tokiomi Tosaka): The head of the alchemist family with a long history in the Kingdom of Cransetia, a three-ring mage, who is good at a unique magic technique, and can use precious magic stones Store magic in.

Berserker: The strongest Knight of the Round Table, the Knight of the Lake, Lancelot who respects Artoria but betrayed her because of Guinevere.

Magician: Caria Mart (Matou Kariya): The heir of a mage family with a long history in the Kingdom of Cransetia, but he is unwilling to learn the family's insect magic and achieves the first ring through a special method.

caster: Gilles de Ray, Count of the Kingdom of Austin, known as Bluebeard, was killed by the devil because of the failure of the nobles in the war with the "Holy Church Independence" 200 years ago, and the saint who guided him was burned to death by angry ignorant believers Temptation to fall.

Magician: Linoske Wuliu (Yusheng Ryunosuke): A native of the Kingdom of Clansedia, a murderous young man who enjoys killing people.

lancer: Diarmuid, the shining knight of Enshiluo Kingdom, betrayed his monarch because of the curse of tear mole.

Magician: Kenneth Elmeloy Archibald: Professor of the Clock Tower School of Magic, one of the twelve monarchs, and a four-ring mage.

Assassin: The leader of Assassin, an assassination organization in the Kingdom of Prius, is Hassan, who has ever-changing abilities.

Magician: Clay Cotemini (Kotomine Kirei): Priest of the Evil Light Cult, a man with extremely powerful melee combat ability and an empty heart.

With the changes in the background and heroic spirit settings, the main story line has also been adjusted to a certain extent. After spending a day and a half coding out the outline, Xia Lin came to the newspaper office to see if Terry had found a suitable ghostwriter.

Xia Lin is not very interested in spending precious time serializing a story every day.

The candidate that Terry found was Grote Fell, a rare scholar of commoner origin, who had a good research on epic stories, and even wrote and published a book of "The Epic of Selam Noel" by himself.

However, researching these did not bring him much money, and publishing in this era was a self-financed behavior. In the past, he could only earn money by being a literacy and poetry teacher.

In the imperial capital where noble merchants gathered, as a scholar, it was very easy to find a job as a tutor.

However, Grote once said at a banquet that merchants are moths of the empire. After this sentence spread, it offended many merchants and enlightened nobles who ran industries.

After finishing his previous job, Grote Fell found that he couldn't find a suitable job.

Therefore, when it was heard in the academic circle that Terry Elton was looking for someone who had written an epic story, he volunteered to sign up, and was selected by Terry as the first person because he quite met Xia Lin's conditions. Candidates.

"I have listed the outline and the content of Chapter 1 for you in this story, first try to write a chapter along the outline to familiarize yourself with this style of writing, if you pass, you will get a salary of 25 silver mals per ten days !"

Xia Lin handed the outline of the Holy Grail War and Chapter 1 to Grote Fell and said to him.

"Do I have to do such a thing, Mr. Terry?"

Grote took the manuscript and asked Terry, who was on the side, with a troubled look on his face.Before coming here, he didn't know that what he was going to do was actually this kind of thing.

Writing a story according to the outline given by others is a kind of humiliation to any scholar who has written his own work, except of course, compiling a new version of an epic story based on historical data, which is a re-creation.

And the salary of 25 silver mars for a ten-year period is actually not much in his opinion as a poetry teacher in an aristocratic family. The only advantage is that he can give full play to his writing skills and work part-time at the same time.

"Mr. Grote, this is the owner of our newspaper, His Excellency Charlene Karl, and the title of the "Emperor Capital Xunbao" was even bestowed by him upon request from Her Royal Highness.

His request is my request, if you can't do it, please go back! "

As one of Xia Lin's subordinates, Editor-in-Chief Terry would naturally not veto Xia Lin's proposal, and said to Grote with a straight face.

"Then... let me try first!"

Unemployed for more than half a year and cash-strapped, Grote reluctantly took the outline manuscript to the seat allocated for him by the newspaper office in order not to ask his friends for help anymore, and began to read the manuscript provided by Xia Lin.

But after reading this, a look of shock appeared on his face.

The opening chapter of the outline describes the universal wishing machine Holy Grail and the war surrounding it to summon heroes from different eras in history. This setting alone makes Grote's mind explode, as if opening a new world. The gate of the world is ordinary, and the whole person is sluggish in place, with only one thought left in his heart:
So the story can still be written like this?
After being shocked, he managed to regain his senses, and Grote immediately eagerly read the following content. The noble knight king, the oldest human king, and the founder of the Sassen Empire, chose betrayal between love and loyalty because of the curse. The knight who became the monarch, the earl who fell because the saint he followed was killed by a believer...

The heroic spirits who appeared on the stage are either familiar or unfamiliar, but the continent is so big, even Grote, who specializes in epic poetry, can't just believe that these heroic spirits he doesn't know don't exist.

One thing they have in common is that they all have legendary experiences worthy of being sung by people, so they turned into heroic spirits and reappeared in the world under the power of the Holy Grail and the holy relic.

What an exciting story this is!Heroic spirits from different ages fight each other for the omnipotent wishing machine!The more he looked at the continuous inspiration in Grote's mind, the more he felt that he could write several pages of epic in less than half a day when he started writing.

But when he glanced at the outline in shock and was deeply saddened by the ending of the story that the holy grail polluted by the evil of this world was destroyed by the sword of victory promised by the knight king Artoria, Chapter 1 provided by Xia Lin The manuscript came into his eyes again.

After reading the manuscript of Chapter 1, Grote suddenly became entangled again:
"Your Excellency Xia Lin, do you have to use this plain style of writing?"

"Yes, what I need is not an orthodox heroic epic, but a long story. In order to fill the pages of newspapers, you must learn to use this style."

Xia Lin sat on a chair beside him and explained to Terry the main points of running a newspaper, and nodded when he heard Grote's words.

"Okay, I can give it a try! Please wait a moment!"

Although Grote usually writes epic stories, he also has a lot of research on ordinary folk stories. In his opinion, the language style of the sample draft provided by Xia Lin is very similar to those stories.

Although it was a pity that Grote could not write this story into a new epic in the way he was best at for the bards on the mainland to sing, but he could also accept this extremely interesting story written in the folk style.

Grote opened the inkwell, picked up the dip pen and began to write.

Although the inspiration is like a spring, but the writing speed of the dip pen can't be faster. Xia Lin waited while drinking tea, and began to think about whether to get the typewriter out.

However, although the principle of a typewriter is similar to that of a typewriter, the requirements for machining accuracy are higher than those of a typewriter, especially the spring on it. After thinking about it, Xia Lin gave up this currently impossible idea.

It was not until evening, when the blood-red sunlight poured into the newspaper office through the open wooden windows, and a layer of carpet was laid on the ground, that Grote finally completed the 2-word manuscript for Chapter [-] requested by Xia Lin.

After receiving the manuscript and reading it again, Xia Lin found that Grote was really talented, but he only grasped the language style of the novel the first time.

Moreover, his writing style is quite good. After the language is plain, he still maintains the grand feeling unique to epic stories, and he has a good grasp of the characters of the magicians and saints in the story.

Under Grote's uneasy expression, Xia Lin smiled:

"Congratulations, Your Excellency Grote Fehr, your talent has allowed you to get this job. Starting tomorrow, please provide two chapters of manuscripts per day according to the outline. After the first issue, you only need to provide two chapters every ten days. chapter.

If the response is good, I will consider letting the newspaper publish this novel, and then as a ghostwriter, you can get 5% of the royalties!
One more thing, in order to avoid some troubles, a pen name is required for serialization in newspapers, I think we can use the pen name of 'Mushroom'! "

　Brothers, I recommend everyone to read "The Realm of the Secret Witch" written by a master at the same time as me. When I was not writing a book, I really liked "Crossing to the Plane of Conjuration" written by this master. The supernatural atmosphere created in it is very full , If you like this subject matter, you can try it.

　　My recommendation on the street is useless to the big guy, but I am very happy to be able to leave my own title in the big guy's book.

　　


(End of this chapter)