Above the mage!

Chapter 187: Waiting for a Scroll (Part )

Nolan Continent is very big.

On this vast continent, stories are happening every moment.

Most of these stories are like a drop of water in the ocean and will not cause any waves.

But there are also some stories that, at the beginning, are just like the most ordinary drop of rain entering the sea. They become silent for a moment, quite dull and ordinary, but many years later, they set off a tsunami that sweeps away everything.

The year 9366 in the Norlan calendar.

The southeast corner of the Nolan continent map border.

A coastal area adjacent to the Strait of Norodom Bazar.

This is the first port and the first trading city of Nolan Continent. It is also the most important shipping center hub between Nolan Continent and Terra Continent, where Linhai City is located.

It is the most prosperous city in the entire mage plane, bar none.

On the huge, grand and majestic Gate of the Sun.

The four emblems representing the four major chamber of commerce families in Linhai City are shining brightly, symbolizing the eternal glory of the four major chamber of commerce families.

This seems to be the case.

Linhai City, a city that is no longer young, still exudes the lively vitality of an eighteen-year-old girl.

As long as Linhai City exists, the four major chambers of commerce families that control this city will never decline, or in other words, they will become stronger with the support of Linhai City.
That's how it should be.

History has proven time and again that human civilization, no matter under what system, at what time and space, will inevitably fall into the atmosphere of "bureaucracy" as long as classes appear and structures are established.

Anna stood silently in front of the small building that belonged to her family.

As one of the four richest families in this city, or even on this continent.

This small building belonging to the Oakenley family is not made of gold as rumored, and there is not even any golden luster on the surface.

But everyone in the family knows that everything in the family originated from this small building.

It originated from the original owner of the building, Eddie O'Kenley.

One day many years ago, when the Oakenley family was not yet the Oakenley family it is today, he developed the first Oakenley alchemical weapon in the small building.

From that point on, the O’Kenleys began to be the O’Kenleys.

This small building was later converted into the "Lingsi Building".

Within the family, all inventions and creations that are considered valuable can be reported to Lingsi Building and evaluated by the family.

The outstanding ones can even rise to fame with a single invention.

Everyone has troubles, even children who have been riding on private magic airships since childhood, not to mention ordinary people.

Anna is very upset now.

She never knew that the family's Lingsi Building now requires money to report Lingsi?

If I remember correctly, "respecting technology" has always been the family's motto, right?
The obese Glenn O'Kenley leaned against the gate of Lingsi Building, looked at the silent and rustic Anna, and asked expressionlessly: "Have you thought about it?"

Anna grabbed the hem of her neat but plain dress with both hands and twisted it hard.

Seeing this, Ge Lang turned around and pretended to leave.

"Wait, Lord Gran." Seeing Gran was about to leave, Anna couldn't help but called him.

Under his impatient gaze, with some rustling sounds, she took out an exquisite crystal card that did not match her attire.

"This is the pension for my husband issued by the family. He has been testing alchemical weapons for the family for exactly one hundred and thirty-one years. One hundred and thirty-one years is this crystal card. Take it." Anna moved her lips and said with difficulty.

Ge Lang took the crystal card and said, "Give it to me."

Anna then carefully took out a scroll that she kept close to her body and handed it to Gran carefully.

"Lord Ge Lang, this is He Xi's research. He has always been a talented child. This research is extraordinary. You must help report it to the family." She couldn't help but add in a low voice.

When she thought of the words and deductions in the scroll that she could not understand at all, she remembered the confused feeling when she first came into contact with runes, and her heart was filled with awe and pride.

Because these things were written by her son.

Gran took the scroll and walked towards the Lingsi Building without even looking at it, not even bothering to pay any attention to Anna.

Anna looked at Gran holding the scroll and entering. She continued to twist the edge of her skirt with her hands and said to herself, "You must help report it to the family."

She knew how much ridicule and disdain her child had encountered overtly and covertly, and how much suffering he had endured over the years. As a mother, she just wanted to prove that her child was good.

She also believed this very much.

Even what was on the scroll, she didn't understand anything.

Even the things on that scroll have always been called useless by others and the wishful thinking of a madman.

The quaint wooden door slowly closed.

Glen O'Kenley, who walked into the Lingsi Building, suddenly sneered and muttered to himself: "How can truly valuable inventions and creations come about so easily?"

"How can it be so easy to reach the top in one step?"

As one of the directors of the Audit Department of Lingsi Building, he is naturally not a loser who only cares about money.

He had already read the scroll that Anna handed over and had confirmed that it was worthless.

It was precisely because he concluded that it was worthless that he dared to extort money unscrupulously.

"Basic rules of runes? Deducing magic circles through logic and calculation?"

"The array was not constructed by adjusting the runes, but was calculated on paper first?"

"Kids playing house?"

"It's full of nonsense."

"What a ridiculous idea.

"What would it mean if these theories worked?"

"This means that the core technology of the Rune family will be caught up by the Oakenley family. The Oakenley family will become the only family among the four major merchant families in Linhai City that has mastered the two core technologies of 'alchemical weapons' and 'rune construction' at the same time."

"is it possible?"

The O'Kenley family, along with the Igor family, the Ain family, and the Rune family, are the four major chamber of commerce families in Linhai City, and they jointly control Linhai City.

Their business spanned two continents and they amassed endless wealth.

Each family masters a core technology, which serves as the pillar industry of their family.

The core technology of the Igor family is the "magic airship". They have mastered the most advanced airship power and airship weapon technology, and use it to monopolize "transportation".

The core technology of the Ion family is the "Orik Crystal" which has high magic density, safety, longevity and reliability.

They can compress the magic power of tons of magic crystals into a small crystal and keep it stable.

Whether it is an airship, a large alchemical weapon, or a super-large magic circle, their operation is inseparable from the Orrick crystal.

The Aurek crystal represents "energy".

The Oakenley family has mastered the most superb magic alchemy skills, inherited the ancient alchemical secrets, and is at the forefront of alchemical weapons, creating countless amazing alchemical weapons.

In their grand workshop "The Crucible of the Sea" in Linhai City, new crafts are born and circulated every day.

O'Kenley's alchemical products are in short supply all over the world.

Alchemical weapons represent "arms".

The last Rune family masters the "Rune Construction" technology, which represents the most powerful individual power.

They have the largest number of Rune Constructors in the world.

Of course, since the "Rune Construction" cannot be mass-produced, the wealth of the Rune family is not as great as that of the other three families.

However, the one in Linhai City is also the only set of eighth-level rune structure "Ode to the Sea" in the world. It was made by the Rune family and is now firmly in the hands of the Rune family.

This set of "Hymn of the Sea" alone is enough to make the Rune family's position impregnable.

There has only been one eighth-level rune constructor so far, so there is only this set of eighth-level rune construction.

Now, some people say that it is possible to bypass the rune adjustment rate through calculations and draw magic arrays at a higher level?

And this person is just a second-level rune master.

In Gran's view, this was nothing but the ridiculous and naive delusion of a low-level rune master.

It's like the poor guessing that the nobles must have two bowls of soy milk for every meal, one bowl to drink and one bowl to pour out.

If this isn’t ridiculous, what is?
(End of this chapter)