Banshee Fort, artisan area.
Zhou Qingfeng leaned on the lounge chair in the rented bedroom, thinking hard. His "broken light" still hasn't progressed, but the plan to attract talents is fairly smooth. More than one hundred people were invited to dinner, and 23 candidates with decent qualities were selected.
These people all came from all over the Northland, and gathered in the Banshee Castle with the most opportunities to seek development. Begging and begging, often desperate.
According to Seth's report on the information network, these people have different abilities, but none of them meet Zhou Qingfeng's requirements. However, their behavior is still reasonable, at least they didn't deliberately lie during the test last night, and they didn't show special greed.
that's enough.
After all, poor ability can still be cultivated, and some problems are often due to poverty and can be tolerated. However, it is often difficult to correct the vices such as continuous lies.
Harmonious villages are basically completely illiterate, and training is more difficult. The manpower recruited by Banshee Fort has some foundation anyhow. Therefore, similar enrollment will continue to provide talents for Zhou Qingfeng.
There are two troubles now. One is that the action last night caused quite a stir, and the next day it became the biggest news in Banshee Fort. This is easy to attract the attention of interested people. The second is how to arrange these candidates. Eating and drinking Lazard is not easy to manage.
"This matter has to be solved by Roma." Zhou Qingfeng wanted to put these people under Roma's name as apprentices, just to conceal the troubles that broke out last night. "I have to visit Roma myself. As long as you spend money, this matter should be resolved."
Regarding the messy'lamps' test items on the desktop, Zhou Qingfeng had to leave them first. The simpler the design, the more superb skills and materials are required. Now that he has a plan, he is stuck on skills and materials, and he has a headache.
Leaving the residence, walked slowly from the craftsman's area to Roma's house in the civilian area. The streets that were deserted a few days ago are crowded at this moment. There were several carriages on the narrow road, and Zhou Qingfeng couldn't get in.
Find a coachman to ask a few words, and they all came to see Roma. As an upstart who joined the Banshee Fort wizard group, a lot of people came to visit these two days ago. The real rich and powerful did not come, but low-level knights and merchants came to visit, as if they wanted to marry.
Considering that the fat man Roma is not too old, he turned into a sweet pastry in the blink of an eye, Zhou Qingfeng smiled unconsciously. He asked Sophia to contact the hidden servant he had given to Roma and report the situation in his house, only to find that Roma had moved.
"This damn fat man, I don't even say a word when I move." With the help of the hidden servant, Zhou Qingfeng quickly locked Roma's new address. According to Adrian's investigations in the past few days, the fat man's new home is already in the noble area of the city. "What does he want to do?"
Zhou Qingfeng turned around and went to the noble district in the city. Compared with the loose management of civilian areas, the streets in the noble areas are guarded by guards. Checkpoints were even arranged inside and outside the houses of the nobles. Strangers will be interrogated when they appear, and it is difficult for outsiders to enter.
But Zhou Qingfeng's ability to'dark stealth' was not for nothing. In the dim environment, he freely concealed his traces, deceiving some ordinary guards without any problem. He jumped over the wall and came to the backyard of a splendid private house.
There is a warning array on the wall of the private house, and the technique is quite clever. Zhou Qingfeng's study of alchemy in the past few days has broadened his horizons. With the help of his super affinity for the magic net, he penetrated the magic circle and got in.
In a large room in the backyard of the private house, Zhou Qingfeng's hidden servants were busy surrounding an alchemy experiment platform. In fact, these hidden servants are controlled by Sophia, and Roma can only be said to be indirectly controlled.
There is no one in the laboratory. There are rows of test tube racks on a wooden table, all filled with tin opaque test tubes. This is a finished product packaged for portability and use. Open the test tube cover, there is a red physical potion inside.
In addition to physical potions, Zhou Qingfeng also saw something else. There are several arcane array plates for testing on a table, and the runes drawn on them all have the function of'absorbing energy, gathering energy and transforming'.
"This bastard is copying Lao Tzu's idea, and also wants to make cheap lamps." Zhou Qingfeng looked at him with laughter. Last time Roma advised him not to engage in this project, but he secretly began to ponder, "I really deserve to be a disciple of Fabro."
Roma's understanding of runes is far less profound than Zhou Qingfeng's, and there is no such vast database as the'Gate of True Knowledge' for reference. The lamps he made were very crude, and there was no cheap lava stone for energy, so it was totally unpractical.
But although Fatty's thing was unsuccessful, he gave a new idea-he did not consider keeping the rune and formation constant, but simply put a'lighting technique' on it.
"The light technique is bright enough to solve the lighting problem. But the low-level arcane light has no temperature. And the temperature is even more important to the North Land than the light." Zhou Qingfeng rejected Roma's idea, but he saw Among the merits.
"Perhaps I shouldn't think about solving the problem at one time. If the rune is not constant, the heat energy in the lava is extracted by magic, and the goal is achieved by repeated casting of manpower. The premise is that I have a large number of low-level wizards, at least apprentice ."
It is more difficult to have a large number of wizards than to invent a "cheap and advanced lamp". Even a group of apprentice wizards are not leeks in the ground, they can't grow out casually.
But this problem is not necessarily for Zhou Qingfeng. He felt that he had found a way, but he suddenly heard voices from outside the backyard, so his figure flashed and hid in the shadow in the corner of the laboratory.
It was Roma who was coming to the laboratory with the wizard Jason, who likes to wear a pointed hat. He reported his achievements in the past two days, respectful and humble, but still concealed his deal with Zhou Qingfeng.
This fat man looked a little silly, but he didn't lose sight of being a merchant family, and he was exquisite. He walked into the laboratory before Wizard Jason, clapped his hands continuously according to the set gestures to stop all the hidden servants who were working, and served two cups of hot tea instead.
Wizard Jason saw only two cups of hot tea from the Hidden Servant, he laughed happily, and said, "Rome, you are such an interesting guy. This time I took the initiative to reduce the price to sell physical potions, and let me be in Your Excellency Phils. There is also brilliance in front of you."
"You have helped me a lot, and I should naturally reciprocate it." Roma laughed and pointed at the potion bottle sealed on the countertop. "I am getting better and better now, and I will surely get all orders this time. Everyone is satisfied."
The wizard Jason was really satisfied with the stamina potion, and asked sternly, "Rome, I'm here to ask something. You are from Coldwind City, do you know a guy named Victor Hugo?"
Roma was taken aback, and his expression remained unchanged. "You mean the leader of that little force in the Black Forest? I have seen it, but I'm not familiar with it. What happened to him?"
"It's about the elven ruins. Now everyone in the entire Northland knows that Victor Hugo controls the'Silver Leaf City'." The wizard Jason said in a deep voice, "It is said that the long-legged family of Coldwind City failed to kill. He, Lord Phils is interested in him."
Oh..., Rom sighed and sighed, but shook his head: "I left Coldwind City a few months ago and don't know much about this guy. But he should be pretty good, not easy to deal with. ."
"You'd better be prepared. Your Excellency Phils will call you in these two days, and it is likely to ask about this person. If you can say something, you will definitely get a greater appreciation." Jason kindly reminded you. , Regard Roma as a friend.
Roma naturally nodded again and again, then flattered a few words of thanks. Wizard Jason came to report the matter and left after speaking. He squeezed a sweat, and whispered while holding the experimental platform: "This is a trouble, what should I say?"
"Tell me the truth." A sneered voice came from the corner.