The collapse of the market for magic materials in Holevin has not affected the normal lives of ordinary people.
After all, ordinary people are satisfied as long as they have enough food and clothing. Moreover, the crop yields in this world are quite high. Even if there are no druids, just one-third of an acre of land can feed a family. But the problem is that the territories and nobles exploit the ordinary people too much.
60% of the income is turned over, and you are already a conscientious noble.
Generally 80%.
Now the price of magic materials in the entire Holevin has reached a high level. Finally, Roland has also been affected by this price increase.
Although he could ask rich people to send several magic materials over for practice, the problem was that in addition to several kinds of enchantments, other magic materials and magic towers were also needed.
There are many students in the magic school, and they also need magic materials to learn some basic magic.
For example, the lighting technique requires the tails of fireflies as materials. These are almost worthless and can be found all over the mountains and plains in the summer.
But when students practice the basic trick of illumination, a lot of it is consumed.
Normally, I can buy it casually. One gold coin is enough for the magic school to use for three months. But now I want to buy it, not to mention the price is three times higher, and the inventory is low, so I can't buy more.
Everyone is stocking up.
In the end, the fire was burned to himself.
Roland looked at the report handed over by Vivian and sighed helplessly.
After thinking for a long time, Roland posted a post in the forum.
"Recently I have gained a little from practicing magic, so I have been in seclusion for half a year and suspended the enchanting business"
After this post came out, there was a lot of ridicule on the forum.
'Tsk, Roland got scared and deliberately stirred up the market. How much money did he make? '
'It's probably close to a thousand gold coins. '
There are many replies that are similar to yin and yang.
Of course there is support.
'It's a good boy to correct your mistakes when you know they are wrong. Next time you make a big move, think about the consequences first. You are the strongest mage among the players, and every move you make may make the entire player group move. '
The person who sent this reply was Roland's friend on the forum, the mighty O'Neal.
'It doesn't matter, I haven't got all the materials together anyway, and I guess I won't be able to get them together in half a year. '
'I'll come back to you in half a year. '
A few days after this post appeared, the magic material market in Hollevin finally stopped rising, and the overall price was slowly declining.
However, the prices of several materials are slowly rising.
It is the material required for the 'Auto-Repair' enchantment.
Players are not stupid, they know very well what truly valuable, 'hard currency' enchantments are.
Other sharp edge techniques and weapon reinforcements are just superpositions of attributes. Only the 'automatic repair' effect is a special effect that truly breaks through 'common sense'.
Stock up on other enchanting materials if you can. It doesn't matter if you don't have them. The automatic repair of equipment is too powerful to give up.
Especially those with the best equipment, they are still collecting the self-repairing materials without stopping at all.
Charles has gained the most among all players.
Under his orders, the 'Corucopia' Chamber of Commerce has been collecting materials for the 'Auto-Repair' enchantment.
Now one-third of the materials in the whole Hollevan have been purchased by their chamber of commerce.
And he started to travel to other countries, planning to collect automatic repair enchanting materials from other countries.
Roland was helping Charles make fourteen pieces of equipment. When he was taking a day off, Douglas came to the door.
Tell him again about Charles' frantic collection of materials.
Then he continued: "Roland, after forming a material monopoly, I am worried that Charles will use this material to threaten you to work for him in the future. Charles is a man who puts interests first."
Roland waved his hand indifferently.
"I estimate that in this world, there are no more than two palms of people who know how to 'automatic repair'." Roland paused and continued: "This is still the best thing to say. Based on my own guess, it can be done automatically." There may not be more than three people with repair technology, including me. So... It doesn't make much sense for Charles to hoard more materials. After all, there is an upper limit on output. The more materials he has, the more he will have to digest in the future. The more you have, the more you lose.”
Douglas nodded.
He admired Roland quite a lot.
In fact, most player mages admire Roland quite a lot.
After all, he is a pioneer among players.
"Just have your own ideas."
With these words behind him, Douglas returned to his manor.
This was just a small episode. Roland spent nearly half a month helping Charles enchant equipment.
As he becomes more and more proficient in automatic repair technology, Roland's success rate is also getting higher and higher. Now, on average, it takes about 1.3 times to successfully enchant.
Therefore, the enchanting time is greatly shortened.
In contrast, Roland has become more and more comfortable in using causal magic.
The 'unobstructed communication' magic that originally lasted only about 14 hours suddenly increased to 24 hours.
one day one Night.
It's a pity that Roland can't find more causal spell models, otherwise he would study them again and see if he can make new breakthroughs.
The insights that can be learned from just one automatic repair have almost reached the limit.
Half a month later, Roland delivered the goods to Charles.
The delivery location is in the Magic Tower.
After checking the equipment one by one, Charles nodded. Then he sat across from Roland and said with a smile: "The equipment is perfect. I am very satisfied. You are very good at your craftsmanship."
"Thank you." Roland said lightly.
He felt that this Charles seemed to be more stubborn than the last time they met.
"Are you really not going to get any equipment in the next six months?" Charles asked.
Roland nodded.
He posted on the forum that he wanted to process equipment, just for free practice materials. Now that he has almost mastered the automatic repair technology, there is no need to work so hard. Not only does it confuse the prices of magic materials in the entire market, it is also disliked by many players, which is unnecessary.
Douglas and Charles earned 480 gold coins from the processing fee alone. If the remaining excess materials are included, he earned at least 700 gold coins.
Even if you have to support a magic school without any other income, it will be enough to "burn" for more than ten years.
Moreover, the tax revenue from Delbon City, the income from the Magic Tower industry itself, and the variable amount of gold coins sent from Sha Diao, the three together amounted to a small sum every month, and he had temporarily escaped from the economic crisis.
"It's such a waste." Charles said: "At such a good time to make money, you don't strike while the iron is hot and make more money, but instead stop... There is no need to pay attention to those people who are barking on the forum. Many times, when you make money, it is your ability. . Rich people, people will lick you all the time, and most people don’t care how you get your money.”
Roland frowned slightly, but then he said: "I'm just a little tired. Besides, I've really gained something. I need to retreat and study quietly for a while."
Charles shook his head and said: "Your economic concept is not good. Opportunities and opportunities must be grasped once they appear, otherwise they will slip away."
Roland looked at the other party quietly. He felt that the other party had something to say later.
"It's easier if you're just worried about the materials." Sure enough, Charles continued: "I have asked my Chamber of Commerce to obtain the materials for automatic repair enchantments, which is about one-third or more of the entire Hollevin. "
Roland was stunned for a moment: "It turns out that such a big fluctuation in magic materials is the work of your Chamber of Commerce."
"It's a joke, it's a joke." Charles' chubby face glowed with pride: "I think we can cooperate."
Roland was stunned for a moment. He suddenly remembered what Douglas had said to him more than ten days ago.
So effective
"What kind of cooperation method?" Roland couldn't help but ask.
"I provide the materials." Charles leaned forward slightly and said with a somewhat excited expression: "You are responsible for processing, and then I take the equipment to the customer to sell it. How about one-stop service? By then, we will be able to monopolize the entire Hollevin, and even the entire world’s market for automatic repair equipment.”
"So how much money will I get?"
"I'm responsible for producing materials, responsible for channels, and responsible for customers." Charles looked at Roland with burning eyes: "You only need to be responsible for processing. You don't need to do anything else. Five gold coins and one piece of equipment. How about it? If the customer is satisfied, we can If the price is raised, of course, if the customer is not satisfied, the processing fee will have to be reduced.”
Roland was stunned for a moment, then chuckled.
This Charles' idea is really interesting.
According to what he said, it seems that Roland is really relaxed. He only needs to process equipment and does not have to do anything. He is very profitable for collecting five gold coins. He ate up the entire market by himself.
But they forgot one thing, Roland is the real upstream of the industry.
Why should I work for you, even if you have the materials, customers, and channels.
But I am the equipment producer, and I don’t lack your money.
Besides, I also have channels, such as the player forum.
Roland shook his head and said, "Sorry, I'm not interested. I'm really not short of money right now."
Charles' expression was a little unhappy: "Almost all the materials for the entire Holevin are with me. If you want to make automatic repair equipment in the future, you will have to find me. And I don't believe that you are the only one in the entire Holevin who has the technology to automatically repair equipment. .I said, such opportunities don’t come around all the time.”
"Then you can find other people who know automatic repair technology." Roland said calmly: "I really don't have time."
Charles' expression became more and more unhappy, but then he smiled again: "It's a pity, it turns out that you are just an ordinary person. You don't want to seize the opportunities you get, and you don't dare to seize them. Brother, men must dare to fight, otherwise their achievements in life will not be high. Where to go."
Roland clasped his hands together: "I think he should always be a little taller than you."
Roland's expression was calm, but there seemed to be a hint of sarcasm in the corner of his mouth.
Charles looked stunned, then a little angry.
He stood up, took a deep look at Roland, then shook his head, turned and left the magic tower.
Roland was at the window, watching Charles leave the Magic Tower Square and throw the bell.
Vivian walked in.
Roland said to her: "Have someone go to the Mercenary Guild and pay them to help me look up the information on the Sons of Gold organization, 'Corucopia'. The more detailed the information, the better."