The task is not very difficult, but it seems to be not much different from the first tower task Duke received. They are all about the role of spiritual materials in the structure of the spell model.
So after receiving the project, Duke asked Mulali to recruit spiritual apprentices.
"Only five spiritual apprentices are enough."
"Yes, sir."
Duke doesn’t plan to recruit too many people into this research group, just enough to maintain the group’s normal experiments.
If it weren't for the purpose of learning card-making knowledge, he would have just gone out and worked alone.
A good study of communication technology and film and television technology will be enough for him to gain both fame and fortune, and it will be more than enough for him to build his own mage tower.
Have some tea.
Read the newspaper.
In the past few days, local newspapers have reported endlessly on the insect invasion. Three arcane mages were killed at once, which was a huge blow to Shenjiao City.
The Cuihai Valley development war also suffered heavy losses. The appearance of the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon directly caused all fifteen safe camps to be evacuated.
Before hunting the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon, no arcane mage dared to station in a safe camp.
Various mercenary groups have also retreated to Sheshou Town, and they no longer dare to go hunting in Cuihai Valley privately. Without the protection of arcanists, the mercenaries go to Cuihai Valley to deliver food to high-level spiritual beasts.
"The invasion of insect waves is not always a bad thing. For this city, the Black Jade Horseshoe Dragon relies on the pressure of its bloodline to gather a large number of spirit insects in the surrounding areas and drive them to die. This is equivalent to clearing out the threats around this city in advance and obtaining a large amount of arable land.
."
Commentators in newspapers always have new interpretations of the insect invasion.
Duke did not agree with this: "It is not difficult to hunt spiritual beasts. The reason why Shenjiao City does not expand outward is that the population cannot keep up."
The Heijiao River area is equivalent to the area of a province, but its population is only the size of a city.
It cannot be developed at all.
In the final analysis, the Seven Towers Federation has expanded too fiercely in recent years. Although it has entered the rapid development of the industrial era, the abolition of the aristocratic exploitation system has only been short-lived, the lives of the people at the bottom have not improved for a long time, and the baby boom has not been enough.
The Seven Towers Federation originated from the Storm Empire.
At that time, the Storm Empire was still an empire based on knights, and arcane mages were suppressed, so several arcane mages left the empire and started businesses in the jungle.
Then the Seven Towers Federation was established, but at that time, the Seven Towers Federation only changed the ruler from knights to arcane mages. The system was no different from that of the Storm Empire - in the Storm Empire, knights enslaved civilians, while in the Seven Towers Federation, arcane mages enslaved people.
civilians.
In short, everyone did not regard civilians as human beings, killing them at will, and even using them as experimental subjects.
Until they go further and further on the path of spiritual arcane magic, the arcane mages' vision becomes higher and higher, and the territory they occupy becomes larger and larger.
Only then did he slowly reform the system, improve people's livelihood, and prohibit the exploitation of civilians by nobles.
Duke took a sip of green tea and thought in his mind: "It seems that the development of the spiritual and arcane field has been boiling with fire, and the flowers are blooming. The Seven Towers Federation has also become the most powerful human political power, but the progress of sinking to the bottom of society has
Still not fast enough."
"According to the history I know, the Erudite Tower was originally ranked last, and it was not until hundreds of years ago that it was promoted to the fifth position today."
"Except for the Offa Tower and the Star Tower, which only stand in the Offa Holy City, among the five local towers, the Erudite Tower ranks third, with a higher status than the Faling Tower and the Observation Tower."
The seven towers of the Seven Towers Federation are the power structure of the Federation.
The Offa Tower has the highest status, followed by the Union Tower, the Star Tower third, the Element Tower fourth, the Erudite Tower fifth, the Observation Tower sixth, and the Magical Tower last.
"As the most direct power institution connecting the top and bottom of society, the Erudite Tower is not doing a good enough job!"
Put down the newspaper.
Duke walked to his laboratory table and began to study the 1-ring slide card.
He has been studying the slide cards for a long time, and he can draw and carve out the spell models on the slide cards with his eyes closed.
"So the corresponding loop that the slide card can emit light is this part." Now he was going to analyze the function of each part of the loop, "Does the light-emitting structure in the Lingfeng Lamp also take advantage of the function of this part of the loop of the slide card?
”
Thinking of this, he immediately rang the bell.
Mulali was still recruiting spiritual apprentices. The person who heard the bell was her attendant Andre. After knocking on the door and coming in, he asked: "Sir, what are your orders?"
"Go to the equipment department and get me some spiritual lanterns."
"Okay."
Not long after, Andre came back with five spiritual wind lanterns. After Duke got the spiritual wind lantern, he directly took apart one of them.
There is a special energy loop in the wick. When spiritual energy is injected, this energy loop can be activated.
"It's very interesting. The energy loop of the lamp wick is an incomplete loop, or a section of the loop is cut off. The remaining part is cut out an energy line in the most direct way, and is firmly welded to the core to ensure a
The successful operation of the cutting ring."
A formal ring has the ability to operate on its own.
Incomplete rings require manual intervention to operate.
The "core" of the spiritual weapon is an incomplete ring. Cut off the required parts of the complete ring and stimulate its operation through artificial means.
"If I slightly modify the loop of this core... No, no, no, I don't even need to modify the loop of the core. I just need to add a fixed reflector outside the lampshade and put a shell on it.
Isn’t it just a flashlight?”
Sometimes what restricts the emergence of a new thing is not technology, but a little inspiration.
The scholars of the Seven Towers Federation could easily invent spiritual wind lamps and various household lamps. However, they did not think of fixing the light path for them so that the light can be gathered to illuminate a small area and become a flashlight.
"A leaf blinds my eyesight. I'm so used to using the Spirit Wind Lamp that I almost forgot to invent a flashlight." Duke laughed at himself. There was a flashlight on his sand hawk.
But I rarely use it, so I forgot about the idea of a flashlight.
Before he was promoted to Arcane Mage, he had thought about inventing a flashlight, but he had to wait until he was promoted to Arcane Mage before he could register a patent.
Otherwise, it is easy to be robbed.
Dangdangdang.
Mulali knocked on the door and came in: "Sir, five spiritual apprentices have been recruited, one of whom is the Dras leader of your previous research group. The laboratory and consumables have also been applied for you, Laboratory No. 3 on the fifth floor.
Cleaning up."
"Let Dras continue to be the team leader and lead the team to conduct experiments... I will go over after the laboratory is tidied up and the consumables are in place."
"Oh, okay."
"By the way, little Lili." Duke suddenly thought of something.
Mulali immediately responded: "Sir, what are your orders?"
"Invite your aunt and uncle over for dinner tomorrow night."
"Okay."
By the time the laboratory was cleaned up in the afternoon and the consumables application had been approved, Xiaoyi had already compiled an experimental plan for Duke.
According to the experimental plan, Duke quickly assigned tasks to the research team, and everything went on in an orderly manner.
"Dras, help me lead the team."
"Sir, please rest assured that Dras will strictly follow your arrangements and lead the team to carry out the test mission."
"Well, we have cooperated well before, and I believe it will be the same this time." After Duke arranged the tasks, Ben Ben became the boss.
Wait until the next day.
Duke has made a crude flashlight. He slightly modified the Lingfeng lamp and retained the card core and card machine interface.
The flashlight is as thick as a thigh.
But it is indeed a qualified flashlight, which can focus the light on one point, which is several times stronger than the light of the Lingfeng lamp.
Duke held it in his hand and bumped it, very satisfied: "Improve the appearance, then write a patent invention application, and then go to the Erudite Tower to apply for a patent."
Evening.
Aunt Virginie cooked a table of dishes.
Butler Morris and Murali were at the door of the villa, welcoming Eupils and Murusi, who were carrying red wine as souvenirs.
"Aunt, uncle, sir, you are waiting for you in the room."
"Mu Lali, you have grown taller again, and now you are even taller and more charming." Mulus put her hand on her niece's shoulder and said with a smile.
After speaking, he whispered in Mulali's ear: "Our Mulali is already a big girl, but she has not learned to show the charm of a mature woman. If you have time, go to your aunt's house and ask her to teach you how to become a mature woman."
More charming."
Mulali blushed immediately, but did not reject her aunt.
After the dinner started, Duke got down to business with Upears: "I plan to set up a company, but I don't have the right people to help me manage the company, so I would like to ask you to do a favor and support some of my managers. Of course, you are also welcome.
Invest."
"Of course it's no problem to support the management staff." Upears agreed, "I don't know, sir, what do you want to do when you open a company?"
"Spiritual weapons, some of my own inventions."
"Sir, he is actually a polymath." Yupiers marveled, but he was not that surprised. After all, it has become the consensus of ordinary people that arcane mages are omnipotent.
However, the polymath he refers to is not the title of a polymath, but an elegant name for a polymath.
"I invented a small gadget, but it is very interesting. There should be a big market for it." Duke briefly talked about the idea of the flashlight, "I call it a 'handy lamp', which means a lamp that can be carried with you. It is better than the Lingfeng lamp.
More suitable for handheld use."
He has the real thing, but he is too embarrassed to show it.
Mainly because the first version of the portable lamp he designed was too rough and ugly to be used.
But even if it was just a simple description, after a brief thought, Upears' eyes shone: "It's like a car light, right? Mr. Duke, this is a great invention, and it should be more practical than the Lingfeng lamp in some situations." Handy lights are really similar to car lights.
But no scholar has ever thought of removing the car lights and holding them in his hands for use.
"How about it, Mr. Upers, are you interested in investing?"
"Very interested!"
Before the dinner was over, Duke had finalized the cooperation with Upears. Although the company had not yet been established, Upears decided to make an initial investment of 800 gold dragons and obtain 15% of the company's shares.
At the same time, Duke did not forget his assistant: "I will reserve 15% of the investment amount for your father, which is also 800 gold dragons. Murali, send a letter to your father as soon as possible, welcoming him to send someone to negotiate.
Invest."
Mulali smiled sweetly and nodded vigorously: "Sir, I will write a letter tomorrow morning."
After the dinner, Eupils solemnly said: "Mr. Duke, the funds will arrive in three days. As for the management personnel, I will go to the company to make arrangements tomorrow and have them come as soon as possible to prepare a new company for you."
"Thank you for your trouble."
"Haha, it's all for the golden dragon."
After the Eupils and his wife left, Duke called his guard captain Vivian over again: "If I remember correctly, you said before that your father works in a mercenary group?"
"Yes." Vivian replied, "My father is one of the deputy leaders of the Boiling Water Mercenary Corps."
Vivian's father is the illegitimate son of Vikas' mentor. He has no Sanhai talent and is just an ordinary person. Vikas arranged to work in the Boiling Water Mercenary Corps and became the deputy commander in charge of logistics.
"I remember that the leader of Boiling Water is called Vesker. Is he your uncle?" Duke asked.
Vivian nodded silently.
"Your father must be uncomfortable working under Wesker." Duke asked again.
Vivian still nodded silently.
Wesk is the legitimate son of Vikas's mentor, so he obviously won't be so polite to his illegitimate brother.
Vivian also suffered a lot of discrimination since childhood.
Duke then said: "How about asking your father to come and help me and work in my new company. If he can come up with 800 gold dragons, I will also give him 15% of the company's shares."
Vivian raised her head and glanced at Duke in surprise.
A hint of gratitude flashed in his eyes, and then he nodded heavily: "I will tell my father to let him work in your company."
"Very good, this is how we are a family." Duke smiled and patted Vivian's hand.
Vivian did not dare to look directly into Duke's eyes and turned her head to one side, but did not take her hand away. A blush appeared on her fair face.
……
"Sir, I have received the money, a total of 55 gold dragons." Mulali exchanged the public account spirit dragon card.
She went to the Union Tower to receive a reward for Duke for resisting the insect invasion. The corpses of spirit insects left behind by the insect tide had been cleaned up and converted into money, part of which was used as a reward and distributed to all arcane mages and knights participating in the exhibition.
Mercenaries.
"Well, thank you for your hard work, little Lili. Take a good rest in the office and practice meditation. Your recent progress has been very weak."
"I know." Mulali stuck out her tongue.
As a spiritual apprentice, Mulali is actually very talented, but she does not have the perseverance to work hard, and she just wants to be lazy when she has some time.
"By the way, boss, I received a reply from home. My father hinted that he was too busy to come to Shenjiao City, but my mother and uncle would come together and should arrive in the afternoon to discuss investing in a new company.
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"Well, you go pick them up and have dinner together in the evening."
"Okay."
Looking at the girl who was cheering and bouncing as she walked, Duke couldn't help but smile and shake his head: "She's still a child."
Without stopping, he is beating the metal material with fighting spirit to make a more exquisite portable lamp.
Because there needs to be a card machine interface for installing the spirit storage card, the portable lamp cannot be made very delicate and still looks a bit bulky.
However, compared to the portable Lingfeng lantern, the portable lantern is undoubtedly much more refined.
"Dou Qi is so easy to use. My hands, combined with Dou Qi, are more powerful than electric welding or hammers. The metal is as docile as mud in my hands." Duke looked at the metal material and was beaten into the desired shape by himself, and he was very satisfied.
.
Before leaving get off work, the portable lamp finally took shape.
The thickness and length of an adult's arm are about the same as an arm. The overall lamp head is slightly larger and holds the card core of the original Lingfeng lamp.
There is a card machine interface at the end, and the card slot can barely fit a 1-ring spirit storage card.
Taking out a spiritual energy storage card from the drawer, Duke directly inserted the spiritual energy storage card into the card slot of the lamp, and then pressed the button.
The light from the lamp head trembled, and then a bright beam of light shot out in the office.
"Beautiful, no different from the flashlights on earth. With subsequent improvements in shape and energy consumption, it will basically be finalized and launched on the market!"
That night, Duke entertained Mullaly's mother and uncle at Villa No. 17 in Beverly Manor, and Mr. and Mrs. Upears also accompanied him.
The matter of the Eight Hundred Golden Dragon Investment Company was basically not mentioned. As the current patriarch of the Black Snake family, the Muhans and his wife did not take this private money seriously at all. Even if Duke asked for it for nothing, they would be willing to give it, let alone invest.
Company.
"Shacron, what do you do in Snakehead Town?" Duke asked Mulali's uncle.
"The deputy captain of the Snakehead Town Security Knights, Mr. Duke." Shakron is a 1st-level grand knight and a vassal of the Black Snake family.
"Very good."
Originally, Duke wanted to recruit Shakron to work in his new company, but considering that he was a vassal of the Black Snake Family, he decided not to do so. The Black Snake Family was even more in need of people than he was.
In the evening, Mrs. Shasha stayed in the villa and stayed in the same room as Mulali.
Duke originally wanted Shakron to stay one night, but Shakron was taken away by Eupiers. It was a rare trip to Shenjiao City, so he definitely wanted to go out and enjoy himself.
The next day was the weekend, and Duke held a banquet in the villa again.
In addition to Shasha, Shakron, Upears, and Mulus, there are also Vivian's parents, Vial and Milauna, as well as several managers of Youshi Clothing Company.
Register the company, sign the share agreement, and the company is established in just one day.
"The giant of light means that our company will rely on the magic weapon of the random lamp to flex its muscles in the field of light sources and grow into a giant!" Duke said the meaning of the company's name with a smile, which attracted a round of applause from everyone.<
/p>
Vivian's father finally chose to resign as the deputy leader of the Boiling Water Mercenary Group and came to the Giant of Light Spirit Weapon Company as the general manager.
The financial manager is served by Mulusi.
Other positions are either filled by managers supported by Youshi Garment Company or recruited from the public.
Duke only has a consultant title and is not prepared to participate in the company's management. He also does not have the time and energy to worry about the development of a small company.
On the second day after the company was established, he went to the Erudou Tower.
"Your Excellency Duke, I am your exclusive guide. Do you need any help?" After Duke showed the blue magic card representing the arcane mage, the Erudite Tower sent a beautiful female staff member.
Serve him exclusively.
"I want to apply for a registered patent, what should I do?"
"According to the patent law of the Seven Towers Federation, you need to submit an application, specification, claims, abstract, drawings and other documents to the Boxue Tower... After receiving the application, we will gradually review and approve it within one year and announce it to the public." "Within a year?" Duke frowned.
The exclusive guide explained with a smile: "You are a distinguished arcanist, so your patent application will be reviewed within seven working days. Once approved, it will be announced to the public immediately and an invention patent certificate will be issued to you." p>
"Okay, help me apply." Duke motioned to his followers and handed over the relevant materials.
As an arcane mage, he enjoys privileges wherever he goes. Ordinary people may have to go through the procedures for several days or months, but Duke completed them all in one morning.
"This is your application receipt letter. Your Excellency Duke, you can send someone with the receipt letter at any time to inquire about the progress and receive the patent invention certificate."
The exclusive guide handed a reply letter to Duke's entourage and continued: "In addition, if your patent is authorized, you will also need to submit the patent authorization document... You already know the relevant information, and I wish you will be promoted to a scholar as soon as possible.
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……
Five days later, Duke’s portable light invention patent successfully passed the review.
Along with the invention certificate, there was also an honorary appointment letter from the Erudite Tower to him as a "Eruditionist". I hope Duke can continue his efforts, invent more erudite things, and contribute to the people and society.
Before Duke could leave the Erudite Tower.
Then a middle-aged man in brocade clothes quickly came forward and said: "Your Excellency Duke, please stay."
"Who are you?"
"Please allow me to introduce myself. I am the business manager of Runwanjia Spiritual Equipment Factory, Stephen Sun." The middle-aged man smiled and bowed, "I learned that you have applied for a patent for a portable light, and I would like to represent Runwan
A spiritual weapon factory buys this patent."
"Buy my portable light patent?" Duke smiled and shook his head, "Sorry, I won't sell it."
Stephen Sun said: "We, Runwanjia Spiritual Weapons Factory, have always been willing to give up on invention patents. Don't you want to listen to my quotation?"
"Oh, then please report it."
"Thirteen hundred golden dragons!" Stephenson gave a price that he thought was quite high. "Our chairman, Mr. Clarinda, is very friendly to an arcane mage like you who has the potential to be a scholar, and is willing to give you a satisfactory price."
The high price.”
"Your Excellency, Observation Tower Director Cleninda?" The smile on Duke's face remained unchanged, and he started walking towards the shuttle parked on the side of the road, "Sorry, I still don't want to sell it."
Clarinda is a level 3 arcane mage.
From his ancestors, he inherited the Runwanjia Spiritual Weapon Factory, and today it has developed into the largest spiritual weapon manufacturer in the Black River River.
"Isn't 1,300 gold dragons enough for your ideal price?" Stephenson asked.
"Maybe it seems like a lot to you." Duke got on the shuttle and looked at Stephenson standing outside the window, "but it's far from the value in my heart."
The shuttle started, rushed out silently, and disappeared on the street in an instant.
Stephenson was left frowning with disdain: "It's just a small invention. If it weren't for the identity of the arcane mage, it wouldn't be worth three hundred gold dragons!"
The shuttle stopped in front of a low building in the western suburbs.
The low building is being renovated. The sign in the foyer has just been taken down, and workers are replacing it with a new one.
"Giant of Light Spirit Weapon Company."
This is Duke's new company, which purchased a small building as an office. As for the factory, it is across the road, and it is still a wasteland.
However, the construction team has already moved in. Large trucks pulling a large number of puppets are rushing to this wasteland to build it into a factory that can emit billowing black smoke as quickly as possible.
"The R&D department has just been established. We have hired two designers from Runwanjia Spiritual Equipment Factory and are optimizing and finalizing the portable lamp." General Manager Vuillard reported to Duke, "The marketing department has also been established and is ready to start from
Starting from the urban area, one store after another opened spiritual weapon shops."
"Where are the ads?"
"The sales department is responsible for advertising. Because the product has not been designed yet, we have not yet formulated a publicity plan."
"Yeah." Duke nodded.
He has a lot of sales ideas in his mind, but he doesn't intend to get involved in the company's operations. If there is time for a business war, it is better to release the magic hand twice more to increase his proficiency.
He said to Viard: "I have asked someone to write a patent production license, and the follow-up patent application for portable lamps is also planned. Don't limit yourself to portable lamps. Let the R&D department use their brains to develop portable lamps.
On this basis, develop more forms of lamps."
"Yes, I will follow your instructions." Viard took a deep breath.
In the Boiling Water Mercenary Corps, he is nominally the deputy commander, but in fact he is suppressed, not because he is unpopular as an illegitimate son.
It's because I haven't awakened Sanhai and am just an ordinary person.
In the Arcanist family, there is no difference between ordinary people and trash.
But now he finally got a chance to show off his talents and he was thinking of doing something good, not to make people in his family look down upon him, but to help his daughter.
Looking at Duke's leaving figure, he knew that his daughter would have an illegitimate child sooner or later.
"Life in the Arcana Master's family is not that easy. Vivian is too rigid, so I'm afraid she won't be easy to like."