Arcane Linguist

Chapter 254 The so-called "Roland's Law"

"No, we are surrounded by monsters!"

In the deep ruins, a wanderer screamed.

A large number of skeletons and zombies appeared in the dark tunnel, and terrifying monsters surged in like a tide, surrounding the team.

Several combatants tried their best, but they were still defeated and wounded, and the situation was precarious.

"Don't be afraid of difficult battles, Siris Magic Card will help you!"

Suddenly, a graceful angel descended with wings spread and dropped a stack of playing card-sized Siris magic cards.

Among the team, the only remaining person with fighting ability was a thick-set barbarian man. He subconsciously caught it and immediately panicked: "I...I don't even know the words!"

"The Siris magic card can be used even if you don't know how to read. It helps a lot if you tear it in half!"

"Oh, good!"

The barbarian man quickly followed suit.

The holy light shines brightly, and the strong power of light drives away evil and filth and banishes the undead.

Those skeletons and zombies immediately disappeared.

The team members burst into tears and hugged each other: "It's so great to be saved!"

"I must buy the Siris Magic Card when I go back!"

"I...I can also cast spells!"

Barbarian also danced.

……

"Um, what the hell?"

Huge projection screens are hung high on buildings in city blocks, and high-end otherworld products bring an alchemical shock to the world.

The Lena people, regarded as backward aborigines by the Atrein people, would often come out to watch during the break after dinner, treating the projection screen as a giant-screen movie.

As long as a few songs, dances, and plays are mixed into the advertisements, it is enough to satisfy this world where civilian entertainment is lacking.

At this moment, several adventurers were passing by the square in the city, and they happened to be looking at the western view and enjoying the advertisement that had just been played.

Everyone couldn't help but complain: "Why are there so many undead in the cave of the ruins? There are no mausoleums or negative energy fields around...

Also, if you really see so many undead coming out and still fighting to the death, do you think we adventurers are stupid? "

"Block the road and guard the door. Isn't there a corridor and a door at the back? Those undead have no brains and won't use terrain to restrict them?"

"Where does this angel come from? Given so many magic cards at once, is this from the Light Cult or the Black Fire Legion?"

"Is it amazing to hit people with magic items? That pile costs at least tens of thousands of gold coins. Which adventurer can afford it?"

But complaints are complaints, this advertisement is well-produced, and it is clear that it was summoned by several mages using the "Monster Summoning Technique" at the same time, and it was filmed only when a high-level mage was in charge to control the scene.

The big productions and scenes in the wizarding world never rely on special effects, but on real things.

There are so many undead, and there are scenes of the adventure team tearing up cards and fighting, and it is obvious to the naked eye that the funds are burning.

Not to mention the natives of Reiner, even adventurers like them from Atrein have never seen it.

Facts have proved that no matter how imbecile the plot is, as long as the funds are sufficient and the scenes are shocking and exciting, people will love to watch it.

Humans are such visual animals.

What's more, the heroine who plays the angel is very beautiful and has a hot figure.

The adventurers who had been climbing mountains and digging holes in the ground for many days tacitly cursed and watched. They just finished reading several series of similar-style advertisements before walking towards the tavern in the lower city with unfulfilled interest.

"Don't mention it. The Siris Magic Card has become very famous recently. It makes me want to buy a set."

"But that's too expensive. The price is several times that of the spell scroll!"

"Spell scroll? You have to be able to buy it. The spell scroll in Reiner's world is rare, and the price has been rising crazily recently. Compared with the Siris magic card, it is not much cheaper. This is still Why not just give this new product a try.”

Everyone walked and talked.

The magic card is combat power, which is just like productivity. Technology companies, equipment manufacturers, and software authors often like to flaunt the so-called productivity.

Even if you don't actually need such a piece of hardware or software, and don't need most of the equipment and tools, you will often unconsciously equip one out of anxiety about falling behind and becoming obsolete.

As if with the slogan of combat effectiveness, precious money spent on buying these things that may not be used for a long time can be regarded as having a reassuring place to go, rather than being wasted for no reason.

Ordinary people are like this. Adventurers who often lick blood with their swords and go into various ruins, dense forests, and dangerous places are even less likely to miss such a thing.

What's more, the Siris Magic Card is not only good at advertising and marketing, it also has practical uses above the qualification level.

……

The next day, the adventure team came to the dealer in the city together.

They thought that after all, this kind of thing was a high-end consumer product worth dozens or hundreds of gold coins, and it was impossible for too many people to afford it.

When I arrived at the venue, I was shocked by the long queue at the door.

"Why are there so many people?"

I hurriedly inquired about it, and then I learned that I happened to catch up with the opening of this store.

Various spell cards originally priced at 75, 88, and 98 gold coins are now priced at 66.

Quantities are limited, first come first served.

When the store's inventory is gone, there are still certain discounts, but you get 70 to 90 gold coins.

This gave them a sudden sense of urgency and they hurried to join the team.

During this period, some people were giving away some gifts.

"what is this?"

"Hello, sir, this is an entertainment product launched by Hilt Company, the Siris Phantom Magic Card, and this kind of simplified Chinese character reading card.

They can help you have fun and learn while taking risks..."

Well, no one can say no to both.

What's more, it's free.

The adventurers put them away silently, and then discovered that the surrounding Lena people were also playing with them.

Those who can come to such a place to spend money are never really poor people. Since they can afford magic cards, they naturally also have entertainment and entertainment, and can also provide education for their children.

Some parents even have to learn and grow themselves.

Recently, with the opening of the Reiner World, more and more people have mastered the channels to communicate with the Atrehine people by learning Atrehine, Seris and other foreign languages, and they have indeed gained opportunities for promotion and salary increase. .This has created a comprador-type middle class among civilians, who are often the most motivated to pursue these things.

……

"Mr. Roland, the first sale of the Siris Magic Card was a great success. Not only did we sell out all the existing stock, we also signed supply agreements with the Church of Light, the Bloodfang Mercenary Group, and the East Lena authorities.

Now the supply is completely outstripping the demand. We hope to continue to expand production and increase supply! "

In the mage tower, Moberon happily reported the recent good news to Roland.

Although Roland didn't care much about business matters and entrusted the industry to him, as a descendant of a down-and-out noble, Mobrun understood deeply that the mage in front of him was the key to his fortune.

Whenever he had the opportunity, he would run to the mage tower every two days to ask for instructions and reports from Roland, and he was extremely diligent.

He is not the kind of old yellow guy who works so hard that in the end his name is even forgotten by his boss.

"Well done, I also have good news for you, that is, with the successful re-engraving of Bi Sheng No. [-], Scood and Thibo have successfully reduced the cost of this magic card."

Roland said to Moblan.

The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he showed a sincere smile of satisfaction.

"Really? It's so fast. Doesn't it mean that it will take another year and a half to achieve this step? According to the previous road map..."

Moblan was a little shocked at first, but then he was ecstatic.

"With something as practical as this, increasing efficiency and reducing costs is equivalent to increasing profits."

"That's right. The market's acceptance is limited. It's several times more expensive than an ordinary spell scroll. It's already the limit. The next step is to reduce costs.

As for those expensive mithril cards, magic crystal cards, and phantom magic cards and legendary cards that can be used to summon various phantoms, they do not belong to this track. It can only be said to be a different approach and does not solve its own problems.

I was surprised that they were able to do this. It seems that the development of some things is not a simple linear growth, but exponential.

Roughly every year in the future, the cost and overall effectiveness of Siris Magic Cards will increase exponentially. "

What Roland did not elaborate on with Mobron was that he felt that this thing was somewhat similar to Moore's Law in the computer field.

Moore's Law is the experience of Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel. Its core content is: the number of transistors that can be accommodated on an integrated circuit will double approximately every 18 months.

In other words, processor performance doubles every two years while prices drop to half what they were before.

He transformed this statement into Roland's law.

"Doubling every year, this...how is this possible?"

Moblan was so shocked that his pupils trembled.

Not only Mobrun was shocked, but the East Lena Mage Tower and even the arcane community as far away as Atrein and other other worlds learned about it and were also in an uproar.

"how can that be?"

"The spell scroll industry has never experienced this kind of growth."

When Scord and Thibault heard about Roland's prediction, they expressed their support in the news media.

Also supportive are a group of people led by the Magic School.

Tecno Magic Equipment Research Institute, Tecno Journal, and Mechanical Gear Association said: "How is it impossible? The magic industry is invincible, that's how exaggerated it is!"

"Don't forget, the spell scroll industry in the past was a manual workshop, a labor-intensive industry!
Most of their costs are reflected in the labor of the mage! "

"But don't those magic materials account for a large proportion? As far as I know, magic ink and magic paper are very expensive."

"No matter how expensive they are, how expensive can they be? Just think of it as a few gold coins per portion. Then how many gold coins per scroll is the actual cost?
Also, please don’t forget that magic ink and magic paper are expensive because the related industries have not yet developed.

No matter how large the production capacity of a handicraft workshop is, how big can it be?
And if mechanical automation is used for mass printing, the demand for it will be unprecedentedly huge. By then, a large number of orders will inevitably promote the progress of related industries. "

"By the way, aren't you worried that those mages will lose their jobs because of this?"

"Yes, if all printing is done automatically and mechanically, where will low-level mages find jobs in copying scrolls?"

"You can become an adventurer, a wild mage!"

"Anyway, copying scrolls is hard work. The labor equivalent to a mage's copying and casting spells is only worth a few gold coins. It's better to go to Lina, venture out, and open up the wilderness..."

Somehow, the topic on Magic Network gradually became distorted.

But in fact, this is not a crooked building, but a natural conflict between handicraft workshops and industrialization derived from Moore’s Law.

All the mages exclaimed: "The automatic printing machine is eating people!"

Soon, experts and scholars from the "Arcane Review" published commentator articles.

"Recently, Mr. Roland, the famous high-level arcanist, nominee for the Arcane Star, winner of the Morning Star Award, member of the Reiner Council, and founder of the Seris School, made a prophecy:

Roughly every year from now on, the cost and overall effectiveness of Siris Magic Cards will increase exponentially..."

They elaborated on the dispute between the two factions from a relatively neutral perspective and traced it back to the past and present of the Siris magic card industry.

The fantasy of "printed scrolls" is not unique to contemporary times.

As early as the invention of printing on ordinary paper, there were masters who had such an idea and studied it tirelessly.

However, due to the characteristics of the language and the limitations of rune inscription technology, these attempts failed without exception.

It has been developed to the current arcane era, but it has not yet been completely conquered.

Roland brought the Seris language, a series of characters in Jiajin Seal Script, Official Cursive Script, and Running Slips. After magical transformation, the Seris runes began to appear.

Naturally, this kind of rune has also been used in related explorations.

The result was that a major breakthrough was obtained from two low-level mages.

But even so, its development path has not been smooth sailing.

The cost of the initial Siris magic scrolls was high, and there was no way to compete with traditional magic scrolls in the commercial field.

The core technology for manufacturing it, "scroll printing", has also gone through different stages such as block printing, movable type printing, automated printing, etc.

It wasn't until Roland's "Serys Rune" and "Rune Language" succeeded that he got another breakthrough in the form of a phantom magic card.

The result is that starting from Rune Language, Skold, Thibaud and others seemed to suddenly have an idea and create "Bi Sheng No. [-]", and then successfully reproduced it recently.

This also means that this industry has passed the most difficult early stage of research and development and has truly gained commercial benefits.

All parties involved in the investment, as well as the Arcane Committee, fully affirmed it, and various supports came one after another.

It is really possible that it will follow this law and grow crazily at an exaggerated rate of doubling every once in a while, until it expires after more than ten or twenty times.

In the end, just like a chip, the "material cost is only 10 yuan", and the high added technological value is the true reflection of its huge profits.

(End of this chapter)