210. War and Fortune
Although the white rock rhino had been dead for a long time, the magnificent earth-type magical aura of this intermediate monster was constantly emitting. The closer it got to it, the clearer it felt that there was an invisible pressure pressing on the shoulders. Just a few steps into the room, Alia couldn't help holding my arm and stopped. Her chest was undulating violently, and Betty, who was standing behind her, was in the same condition.
Unexpectedly, even though the Baiyan rhino was already dead, its body still had the magic effect of a "gravity field". In this case, the life magic pattern on Baiyan rhino is still running.
I quietly released the wind-type stone drum totem. Almost at the same time, two small wind circles appeared under the feet of Alia and Betty to reduce the pressure on them.
Only then did I find that a middle-aged man wearing a black tweed cloth coat was standing in front of the left leg of an adult Baiyan rhinoceros specimen. He looked at Baiyan rhinoceros's legs with thick skin as thick as armor, with a gloomy face on his face. He turned his back to us, as if he was too focused and did not notice that we were walking in.
We were next to the other front leg of Baiyan Rhinoceros, and I stretched out my hand to touch the skin of Baiyan Rhinoceros’ legs. But before my fingers touched the rhinoceros’ skin, I felt a solid earth-based magic element attached to the skin surface of Baiyan Rhinoceros. However, when my fingers touched the skin surface of Baiyan Rhinoceros, a rebounding force emanated from the skin of Baiyan Rhinoceros, and the hand that I placed on the leather of Baiyan Rhinoceros’ legs suddenly pushed away.
My body was pushed back by this rebound force, and even Alia took a step back with me half a step, and she let out a 'ah' sound.
The middle-aged man turned around and looked at us, with a disturbed look of shock and anger in his eyes.
But when his eyes fell on Alia, the shock and anger on his face immediately became silent and filled with a smile.
He walked quickly towards Alia and me, with a big step, almost running posture. He opened his arms and looked at his enthusiastic look, as if he wanted to hug Alia, but Alia seemed to have no intention. Alia hid half of her shoulder behind me, deliberately giving up half of her body to avoid the man.
The middle-aged man had a very thick skin. Seeing that he couldn't hug Alia, he stopped, reached out and twisted a short, dark beard on his upper lips, and said to Alia with a smile: "Alia, come and see, I've found the white rock rhinoceros leather you want."
He must be an admirer of Alia, because I found that from the beginning to now, his eyes had never left Alia's face, and that obsessive look was obvious, so I made a very hateful move, and I took a step forward, just blocking between him and Alia, blocking his sight.
In this way... his eyes fell on me, and his way of looking at people was a bit special. He first went to the blue deer leather boots on my feet, moved upwards, and saw me wearing a magic robe, then stared at the silver magic badge on my chest, and then his eyes suddenly became clearer, and then said to Alia: "Alia, is this magician..."
"My name is Jijia." I reached out and said to the middle-aged man humbly.
Only then did he raise his head and his eyes fell on my face.
Then he blinked, as if he didn't believe what he saw, and then he found that there was no change in front of him, so he rubbed his eyes again. He stared at my face and said in a distorted voice: "Ah! I know you, you often appeared in the magic newspaper some time ago. I am very happy to see you, Lord Jijia Magician."
My face turned dark and I thought to myself: Is this the celebrity effect caused by magic newspapers? This feeling is not good at all!
Alia held one of my arms with her hands, stood beside me like a bird, and said to me: "Geeja, this is a famous high-level leather master, Sisi Mond, in the imperial capital."
Unexpectedly, this man was actually a master of skin making. Alia introduced Sisi Mond to me, and then asked Sisimond, "Oh, Sisi, do you know Gillia?"
Sisi Mond didn't seem to mind Alia standing beside me in ambiguous way, with no dissatisfaction on her face.
He patted his forehead and said, "Alia, even if you don't say it, I should have thought of it long ago..."
I was confused by his words, and then he heard him say, "The first time I saw Lord Jijia in the magic newspaper, it was summer. At that time, Lord Jijia pressed a fire-phosphate bomb on the face of Duke Ryan Boothman, which was so satisfying!"
He looked full of annoyance and said to Alia: "Maybe you don't know, Alia, I'm completely impressed by Jijia Magician for just this thing. Over the years, I have always wanted to do this to that old guy Ryan, but unfortunately I don't have the courage. Alia, sorry, please forgive me for being so cowardly."
I think he is like a drama artist, with all kinds of rich expressions on his face very well. If he doesn't go to the opera house to be a performer, it would be a loss for the opera house.
Sisi Mond lowered his head, and it seemed that there were many complicated emotions on his face, pain, regret, annoyance, etc.
"No one thinks you are cowardly, Ceci." Alia frowned with her straight nose, and felt disgusting like eating a fly on her face, but she said something like a quick and comforting thing in her mouth.
"Ah, Alia, I feel much better when I hear you say this!" Ceci Mond raised his head and said.
At this time, Alia's charming appearance made Sisi Mond look obsessed, making me feel like I was standing on the stage at this moment.
Fortunately, our topic then turned to the high-end white rock rhinoceros leather. Alia asked Sisi Mond: "Sisi, didn't you say that there were a batch of white rock rhinoceros leathers in the shop? You might as well use this rhinoceros specimen to perfunctory me! Who doesn't know that these specimens you have been here for decades, and I'm afraid the magic on the leather will be gone."
"Of course it's not these leathers. Alia, you probably don't know how much effort we have spent to place such a white rock rhinoceros specimen in this room. With such a white rock rhinoceros placed here, it makes it easier for us to choose which part of the leather on the white rock rhinoceros to make leather armor." Sisi Mond explained.
When talking about leather making, he immediately became very expert. He began to introduce to us the advantages and disadvantages of leather in various parts of the body of this Baiyan Rhino. The prices of rhino leather in each part are somewhat different, because the high-end leather of Baiyan Rhino is suitable for well-made heavy armor, so it is not the best leather with soft abdomen, but the best thick leather with solid front legs and back, and the leather in these parts contains the most earth magic.
Of course, his hard-working explanation is to make us understand why the price difference is the same as the hard-skin armor made of Baiyan rhinoceros skin.
Standing in front of this white rock rhino specimen, I asked Sisi Mond: "Sisi, if I were to make one hundred sets of hard leather armor from the white rock rhino's back and front legs, can your leather shop provide so much leather?"
Sisi Mond took us out of the specimen chamber and said as he walked: "Of course, this time an adventure group encountered a group of white rock rhinos on the edge of the Utter Hills. They stayed in the Utter Hills for nearly a year and almost killed all the adult male rhinos in the rhino herd, before returning to the imperial capital with the trophy. I think what you should consider now is to pay the fee of one hundred sets of white rock rhinos hard leather armor."
Following this topic, I asked casually: "Oh, then how many magic crystals do such a set of white rock rhinoceros hard-skin armor require?"
Finally I had the opportunity to ask about the price of leather armor. I was still a little nervous about this. After all, it was a hard leather armor of a level 3 monster, and I guess the price would not be too low.
Sisi Mond paused for a moment before asking me: "Are there any requirements for the specifications of these hard leather armor?"
I thought about it carefully and said, "The specifications of leather armor are required to be easily worn by the strongest warrior in the Empire!"
"Then... is the largest one?" Sisi Mond calculated and said to me: "Your Excellency Gilliam, you can actually count it in more detail, which can save a lot of money."
Then he explained to me: "After all, every knight in the construction will be slightly surprised. The price of this high-end leather armor also has a lot to do with how much leather it uses. Therefore, when many lords customize leather armor, they will order some of them, namely, medium and small, respectively. This quantity is often very specific."
I scratched my head and thought about the orc warriors in Xinliu Valley. They all looked tall and seemed to be about the same height. Fortunately, the hard leather armor did not look like tight leather armor and needed a ruling, so I said to Sisi Mond: "Everyone chooses the largest number."
We walked along a corridor on the second floor of the leather making workshop to a door. The door frame of this door was simply marked with the words "No. 2".
Sisi Mond held the wooden door with one hand, reached into his arms with the other, took out a bronze key. He put the key into the keyhole and said to me: "Okay, since that's the case, Alia and I have been friends for many years, so I'll give you a friendly price, a set of white rock rhinoceros hard leather armor, one hundred and ten magic crystals!"
I don't know if this price is expensive or cheap. It seems that the batch of magic patterned structures customized by the scholar Yekis for Mrs. Cecilia were only at this price. So I glanced at Alia and found that she blinked at me quietly. It seemed that she also recognized the price very much, so I said readily: "Okay, then I'll order it like this. I want to customize one hundred sets of white rock rhinoceros hard leather armor."
"...Your Magister Jijia is so happy, okay! Please come and have you guys." Sisi Mond was a little surprised, and he didn't expect that I made such a decision without even thinking about it.
He walked into this room first, and Alia and I followed him. This was a warehouse full of shelves. The shelves were filled with magic boxes. Each magic box had very detailed labels and nameplates under it. Sisi took us to search along the shelves one by one. Finally, he stopped in front of a row of shelves, and then reached out to open the magic box in front of him. A super thick earth-based magic aura spread out from the magic box.
My eyes fell on a large piece of leather in the magic seal box. It was indeed a piece of leather for the forelimb of the rhino. It could be seen from the shape of the leather that there were ten pieces of this kind of leather piled up in such a magic seal box. Then, Sisi Mond opened all the other magic seal boxes on the shelf one after another, and the leather inside was all in the same part.
"Master Giga, if you think it's OK, I'll use these leather materials for a hundred sets of white rock rhinoceros hard leather armor?" Sisi Mond asked me.
"…yes," I said to Sisimmond.
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Walking out of this leather workshop, I touched the wallet around my waist with a wry smile. Unexpectedly, the Astrologer Guild bought the magic crystals of thirty fish-skin hoods, which cost me most of them within a day, and there was still a large amount of money waiting for me.
But at this time, the giant spiders in the silk reel workshop were almost exhausted. Even if they were feeding them with goblin slaves every day, they would probably not last long.
The action to hunt giant spiders on the plane of Jero must be put on the agenda as soon as possible, otherwise Alia's textile workshop will face the risk of out of stock, and I do need this income to support the huge daily expenditure of nearly 2,000 people in Xinliugu.
I have no plans to make a fish-skin hood yet, and this incident is so unpleasant. Scholars Sean and Scholars have almost the same attitude as those of Yekis, which is to keep me low profile.
But I also ordered a hundred black horses from Zach, the son of the Duke of Samoyed. The vast and sparsely populated Durva Province has many pastures, which produce the best quality war horses in the imperial capital. The black horses are also the best quality of these war horses. Although I don’t know when these war horses will arrive in the imperial capital, I have to prepare the money.
As I got into Alia's magic caravan, I couldn't help but rub my forehead with some pain.
Alia said to the coachman loudly: "Go to the airport town!"
I really have endless things to do this day. It seems that I can't go to the Magic Institute tonight.
Recently, although scholars of Yekis have designed primary magic pattern components in several times, and they are the most powerful and save magic power... or in other words, they continue to consume magic power to maintain a certain magic state, the effects of those magic pattern components are not ideal. They either consume too much mana or the magic effect is minimal.
He seems to have been working hard to find a balance between the two recently, and I just took the opportunity to have some free time, just need to make a sufficient number of "Demon Snake Tooth" magic pattern construction every week to meet his order needs.
Recently, Noah and Senior Vernon seem to have been very close. The two of them were mysteriously and didn't know what they were trying on.
Chapter completed!