Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 49 Preparations before departure
  "Master Rorschach, the oscillating quartz you ordered has arrived." Talling's voice sounded in Rorschach's dormitory.

Alchemy materials such as oscillating quartz can be ordered through the Chamber of Commerce affiliated to the Magic Guild. As a reminder, Tower of Stars enjoys the guild's door-to-door delivery service.

After getting it from the mailroom, Rorschach went directly to the alchemy classroom. "What's going on?" For some reason, no one seems to be taking alchemy-related courses in the Tower of Stars. The classroom is always idle, and the instruments last time had to be wiped with a thick layer of dust before use.

The alchemy classroom has extra protection and is suitable for verifying the information Rorschach obtained on the leather armor.

Oscillating quartz is gray in color and is a hexagonal columnar crystal. From a box of large and small crystals, Rorschach picked out one that was just thick enough to hold and began to inject magic power into it.

The crystal in his hand turned from gray to clear, but there were no other changes.

Injecting magic power into objects is something Rorschach often did before. Usually the magic power soaks into the object very smoothly, and then it reaches a limit and the object starts to glow. The crystal in his hand was different. Rorschach felt that the process of inputting his magic power was very sluggish and slow, and it was far from the limit of the crystal's ability to absorb magic power. It was like a bottomless pit.

This won't work, we need to find another way.

Rorschach picked out a small crystal pillar that could be completely covered by his palm, and used [Magic Drive] to guide the ether in the environment to condense towards the quartz. Finally, in addition to the crystal itself being slightly transparent, it also began to tremble.

not enough. Rorschach still felt that the oscillating quartz was absorbing magic power like a bottomless pit. When the injection stopped, the quartz immediately violently released its magic power, and then nothing happened.

Walking in this direction, Rorschach saw that there was quartz powder produced by collisions in the box, like gray-white sand. He tipped the corner of the box and poured out a palmful of powder, injecting magic power again.

Finally it seemed to reach an extreme point, and the sand in my palms trembled and rolled as if it was boiling.

That does not work! Rorschach quickly cut off the ether, found a piece of silk cloth from the classroom cleaning cabinet, covered his mouth and nose, then used the [Mage's Hand] to hold up the handful of quartz grains, and tried again. It is very difficult to use [Magic Drive] at the same time. Fortunately, Rorschach's proficiency is high enough and he can do it with full concentration.

Inject, pulse, "boil" and then explode.

In a corner of the classroom, tiny grains of sand erupted and scattered, accompanied by a strong impact of magic power. To Rorschach's experience, it was like a silent but short and sharp roar, [Mage's Hand] and [Magic Power] Drive] were interrupted by "silent screams".

Dizziness and stinging swept over him, but Rorschach was still very excited and tried successfully! He patted the quartz fragments on his body, looked at a box of crystals, sorted out small and broken ones, and used [Decomposition Technique] to mass-produce sand grains.

You also need to test the scope, it is best not to affect yourself.

After that, he found a light spell scroll with an energy storage circuit to ensure that it was always activated, and operated it again. As the oscillating quartz sand exploded, the scroll was indeed extinguished.

Through multiple experiments, Rorschach roughly understood that the range of explosions and forbidden magic operations was roughly a spherical area with a diameter of five meters from the center of the explosion.

At this time, Rorschach felt something in his heart. He opened the panel, and sure enough, there was an additional [Rorschach's Forbidden Scream (White)] spell.

However, the entry for this spell is different. It consists of "Magic Condensation" and "Oscillating Quartz Sand". The latter entry is gray and cannot be copied and moved.

There is also a long-lost comment from the panel: Casting spells with the help of foreign objects is the behavior of the weak, but it is very effective. If you don't pay attention to the distance, you can disgust the caster's own spell, but it is very effective.

You name it, as long as it works. During the cleaning phase, Rorschach kept using the [Air Cannon] to sweep the ground, gathering the quartz powder scattered on the ground together and then cleaning it up.

Oh one more thing
  Rorschach figured that the days were almost there, so he took out a letter and wrote to his parents and teacher Caroline to introduce his current situation.

In a letter to his parents, Rorschach introduced the situation of Valuana, the capital of the Holy King, complained about the sharp increase in the price of bread, and that he was about to go on a business trip to a far away place, and talked about the king. His Majesty wants to canonize a great magician, and the destination of his business trip is the future fiefdom of these upstarts. In the letter to Teacher Caroline, he talked about his achievements in "alchemy" and his questions about magic power. Going out, Rorschach found that it was getting harder and harder to wait for a taxi.

When he finally got on the bus, he asked the coachman. The coachman's answer was: "Master, as there are fewer and fewer people riding in the car, aren't there fewer and fewer people driving? Things are hard now. Customers who were willing to take our cars before would rather walk." , wealthy men still have their own cars.”

The coachman, who was wearing thin clothes, blew his nose mid-sentence: "My colleagues have all gone to other provinces to catch freight carriages. I can't bear to leave my young daughter, so I have to stay here in the royal capital. Sooner or later, I will have to find someone else." Things to do.”

In the Magic Guild, Rorschach is already familiar with sending letters. It is worthy of being the guild node of the royal capital, and the magic circle tables for transmitting letters are divided into eight tables according to the directions.

After coming out of the guild, Rorschach did not go back to the Magic Tower. Instead, he wandered to a commercial street. He found an open-air seat in a teahouse and sat down. The house diagonally opposite had a signboard of "Pacharuka Trading Company."

He sat and waited for a while, and then a clerk came out of the house opposite.

"Master Rorschach? Have you brought the promised goods?"

Rorschach threw out a parchment tube: "Three pieces of [Lighting Technique]". According to the market price, each piece is about ten silver. But Rorschach is here to collect his "paycheck."

The other party nodded and accepted it, then put a small bag of gold coins over.

One and two only have four gold coins, which belong to the kingdom. "Less. My asking price is eight coins."

"That's the price."

Rorschach secretly used [Mage's Hand] to clamp the staff: "Eight coins, I agreed with your boss." Theoretically, there are still twelve golden eagle coins to be sent to the home of Ziyi's parents. Now Rorschach is also a little worried.

Faced with the challenge, the employee remained calm: "Sir, this is the price you negotiated with the boss, but we employees have to support our families, and our managers have to maintain the business. Please understand the difficulties of the people below!"

Rorschach felt disgusted by this well-dressed, oily-headed and powder-faced "underling": "Then the deal is cancelled. I will discuss it directly with you bald bosses after I return to the empire."

The face of the guy who was blatantly deducting money finally changed: "Sir, you will only put the trading company on the fire! We are all colleagues, why should we do this? You see, I really don't have any money in my hand, and you still want gold coins?" You can find our manager!"

Rorschach stopped talking nonsense and took no gold coins. He used [Mage's Hand] to withdraw the scroll and prepared to get up and leave.

"Six! No more!" The man gritted his teeth and saved the mage.

Luo Xia sat back and opened the money bag, asking the other party to take out two gold coins and add them in: "I understand what your company means, and I also understand that you have rules. But cutting it in half is too much, right?"

"My young master, you don't understand the market. Alas, I'm going to be scolded by the manager."

Rorschach was indifferent to the performance of the trading company employee and silently watched him return to the trading company while drinking tea.

　The first two chapters are a bit watery, I will add another chapter over the weekend.

　　
  　
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