After listening to Lord Chateau's explanation, Charles Harlan fell into deep thought for a while.
His intuition told him that Lord Chateau should be hiding something; but his reason told him that if there was really any way to produce quickly, Severnton would have already heard about it.
Prince Pasteur's request needs to be taken seriously, but the relationship with Lord Chateau needs to be maintained even more.
Without much consideration, Charles Harlan made his choice, "Prince Pasteur was just too worried about the war to make such a request. Lord Chateau, I will truthfully tell Prince Pasteur your answer."
, I believe he can understand.”
From Prince Pasteur, he could only get monetary benefits, but from Lord Chateau, he could get more.
Charles has never forgotten that the reason why he was able to talk to Prince Pasteur and gain respect from him to a certain extent was not because Lord Chateau provided him with a steady supply of demon-slaying amulets.
If this line is broken, Prince Pasteur's side will probably be broken too.
Which one is more serious or less important cannot be judged.
Charles said that Prince Pasteur could understand, which was not an empty statement. Maybe the other party could not understand, but he had to pretend to understand.
This is the situation. After all, even the other party said it was a request or a hope, not a request or a transaction.
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After the Prince Pasteur episode, Chateau and Charles discussed the order quantity for the Demon-Slaying Talisman next month. When Chateau suggested that the output might be doubled next month, Charles was really surprised, happy, and a little scared.
Happily, the output has doubled, and his voice over Prince Pasteur has increased. What is surprising is that the Tower of Time may indeed have some secret method for rapid production, but this is none of his business.
As for fear, if he had used Prince Pasteur to pressure him just now, he might regret it now.
"Lord Xia Duo, being able to cooperate with you is the most fortunate thing for me."
"Hopefully, the future is still very long, and I hope our cooperation can also be long-lasting."
In fact, Xia Duo's impression of Lord Harlan was not very good. He was too impatient and focused too much on immediate interests. However, as a current collaborator, he still had the obligation to remind him a few words.
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The specific gradient quotation of the Demon-Slaying Talisman had been negotiated before. This time, Shado did not have too much entanglement with Lord Harlan and maintained the previous negotiation results.
After sending Lord Harlan away, Chateau sat in the reception room for a while, carefully thinking about the impact of Prince Pasteur's request. It would be easy to find an excuse to refuse now.
I am afraid that the other party will cause trouble with the Northland Alliance. If everyone knows about the trouble, maybe mass production will not be a secret.
In fact, for now, many Mage Tower organizations have reached the threshold of division of labor and cooperation in the production of magic items, but they may not have done special mass production design to reduce the cost to an overwhelming level for a single person.
degree of advantage.
As for standardized mass production, that is another threshold. Xia Duo has a background of aborigines in the pre-industrial era, so he can lead the way with standards from a high position.
In fact, the standardization process on earth gradually developed after the industrial revolution, and did not appear at the beginning.
The earth is like this, and if it develops naturally here, there won't be much difference.
"I am the variable!"
Xia Duo thought that every time he hoped for a stable development opportunity, various things would come to his door. This was the case with Miser Energy, and it was also the same with the current preparatory stage of industrialization.
Perhaps you can comfort yourself with the sentence "Heaven will give great responsibilities to this people", but Xia Duo really does not want variables that are too beyond his control to occur.
It is enough to have one variable like yourself, but too many variables are really troublesome!
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After thinking for a moment, Shado set off for Iolum's laboratory.
"Teacher, I just left in a hurry and didn't have time to ask, what went wrong with the production of David's automatic string component preparation machine?"
As soon as he arrived at the laboratory, Shado saw Iolum busy in the suspended field in the center of the laboratory. As for the other students mentioned before, there was not even a shadow of him.
At this moment, he had every reason to suspect that Iolum was trying to trick him into coming back.
Of course, this was just a joke. When he saw Iolum's face, he knew that his cheap teacher was probably going to be cruel this time.
His eyes were almost red, and his eyes showed deep exhaustion. Xia Duo even suspected that he might not have even taken a break after being away from Iolum for the past two days.
"You came!"
When Iolum opened his mouth, his hoarse voice seemed to frighten even him. He coughed heavily before he adjusted himself and said:
"I just asked Brod, and he said he couldn't understand the component design drawing plug-in. Brod and the others were in the laboratory next to them. They studied the drawings of the David String Component Automatic Preparation Machine that you left behind.
The actual production hasn’t started in two days, so go help them!”
"Okay! But—teacher should go take a rest!"
Shado glanced at the half-completed experimental version of the independent Austrian fire device behind Iolum, and reminded him, "Don't let several days of work be destroyed by fatigue."
"I understand, you go first!"
When Iolum did this, Shado did not insist anymore. After all, he was only fulfilling his obligation to remind everyone. We are all adults and are responsible for our own decisions. Iolum must know the importance of it.
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Alfa Federation, Laboratory 012.
When Xia Duo entered, he only saw five people including Brod, and he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. Iolum had lived hundreds of years, and the number of students was certainly not something that could be counted on one hand.
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But in this situation, having more people is not necessarily a good thing. Before, he was really worried that Iolum would call dozens or even hundreds of people at once, so he would have to re-evaluate Iolum's mental state at the moment.
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He didn't want to be tied to a broken ship that was destined to capsize.
Fortunately, Iolum has not been dazzled by the urgent desire for an independent arcane fire device. Knowing that in this situation, the fewer people who are aware of it, the less likely it is to reveal flaws.
At this moment, in the laboratory, Xia Duo's arrival undoubtedly attracted everyone's attention, and Brod strode towards him:
"Xia Duo, you are finally here, let me introduce you."
With that said, he guided Xia Duo to the four people who were trying their own magic to make David strings, and then introduced them one by one:
"These are the teacher's students - Lowe, Boges and Olsson; the remaining one is both my student and my brother, and of course the teacher's student - Galvani. Among them, Lowe is the senior Austrian
Magician, although the others are a little behind in timing, their talents are not inferior to Luo Wei."