Volume 1 Chapter 125 (1/2)

Herd mentality

This female elf Agnes had suddenly appeared. Although it had shocked Still and Vivian, no one else knew other than the two of them, so it didn’t create much of a stir.

Banta City’s people still lived their normal lives and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce steadily moved forward according to Xu Yi’s instructions.

The development of the production magic machines went smoothly.

With Great Magician Camilla helping full force, the core Magic Arrays for the Magic Punch Presses had been quickly finished. Great Magician Camilla was responsible for the most important Magic Array positioning and initial changes, and the remaining changes were all left for the assistants in his Magic Tower.

Because Great Magician Camilla’s Magic Tower had worked with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce several times, so even though the workload was quite heavy this time, they were still very organized and Xu Yi was very satisfied with their progress.

In line with Camby and the dwarves’ progress in designing the production magic machines, if nothing expected happens, Xu Yi estimated that they would finish the series of Magic Punch Presses within a month. Then it would only take them a short period of time to put it into use.

Although it was a bit longer than the time he gave Seveni, with Xu Yi’s estimate of the production capacity of the Magic Punch Presses, as long as the Magic Punch Presses became operational, Xu Yi estimated that the first batch of three thousand agricultural magic machines would be complete a month before the deadline. The agricultural department would have plenty of time to arrange these agricultural magic machines.

Of course, in Xu Yi’s opinion, the development time for the Magic Punch Presses was too short.

Although they had Xu Yi tempered mechanical engineering knowledge from earth as a foundation, so they didn’t need to research the basics when it came to these Magic Punch Presses, the production magic machines studied in such a short period of time would definitely have some flaws.

Xu Yi was aware of this, but he had no other choices.

In order to complete the order from the king and the agricultural department in time, Xu Yi had to do this.

Although Xu Yi felt that most of this research fund was wasted on this kind of rushed research project, as long as he could seize this change, it wasn’t something that couldn’t be accepted.

Not to mention that they would be developing a series of production magic machines. Whether it was for Great Magician Camilla and the magicians under him, or Camby and the dwarves in the magic machine workshop, they would all gain plenty of experience from this.

This would create a solid foundation for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s future development. As long as Xu Yi kept putting in manpower and resources, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce would gradually improve on their magic machines.

What was more important to Xu Yi was that the magicians and dwarves that were a part of this would be influenced. This would gradually form a theory system for magic machines.

Xu Yi had transmigrated from earth, so of course he knew the importance of theoretical foundations to establishing an industry.

The magic machine industry on the Sines Continent could be considered a product of his promotion, so the foundations weren’t solid at all.

If one day Xu Yi came across a problem involving magic machines that he couldn’t solve, it would mean that there would be no one in this world that could solve it.

So when it came to research, Xu Yi kept instilling people with his own mechanical engineering knowledge. He pointed out the key points of combining this knowledge with magic, giving them a complete explanation.

He did this because he hoped that other than him, there would be more qualified magic mechanical engineers on the Sines Continent.

Other than being busy with researching, although this period of time was very busy, the happiest person was actually Heinz.

After the Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner had sold over five thousand units in Banta City and the surrounding cities, they began promoting the new Magic Lamps and a new wave of buying came in.

Compared to the high twenty five gold coin price of the Variable Temperature Magic Air Conditioner, which was mainly targeted at rich families, the more beautiful Magic Lamp that was even considered a piece of art by many people was being sold for only one gold coin, mainly targeting normal families.

As for the price of one gold coin, when most people saw the appearance of the Magic Lamps on the four billboards outside the city, they felt it was very appropriate.

There were even some people who thought that this price was too low because some rich people cared about style. This Magic Lamp could already be considered a work of art, it couldn’t have the same price as a normal product.

Not to mention the Magic Crystal Lamps that appeared before on the Sines Continent were not only inferior in appearance, the effects were also much worse.

Those Magic Crystal Lamps had prices of several hundred gold coins, then even if these Magic Lamps didn’t have exaggerated prices, they should be at least worth several dozen gold coins, right?

Of course, with people thinking the price is low, naturally there would be those who thought it was high.

Some families that weren’t as rich felt that one gold coin was considered quite a bit. Although this Magic Lamp did look very good, making people want to buy it, to actually take out a gold coin to buy a single lamp was something that they hesitated to do.

But after the «Banta Times» ran a new article based on the Magic Lamps that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce had released, it changed the thoughts of these people.

For a normal household, if they used candles or oil lamps to light up their house at night, based on the calculation of one candle or oil lamp per room, they would spend five-ten copper coins a night. They would be spending between two to three silver coins each month.

But if they used the Magic Lamp, they would only use a single Low Grade Magic Crystal each month, which cost less than sixty copper coins.

This number wasn’t clear in just a month or two, but if they calculated by years, one could save over twenty silver coins each year using the Magic Lamp instead of candles or oil lamps.

In just four years, they would have saved up enough for a Magic Lamp.