Chapter 95 Recruiting people
Xu Yi didn’t have the mind to argue with a kid who hadn’t grown up yet. After throwing those words down, he left the inner halls of the Magicians Guild.
The old magician guarding the door saw Xu Yi come out and shook his head at him again. It was like Great Magician Camilla giving this precious recommendation quota to Xu Yi confused him and seemed quite pitiful.
Xu Yi could only smile at him and didn’t have a way to explain anything.
The situation in the hall was still the same as when Xu Yi walked in. It was still filled with people and was very noisy.
But when Xu Yi came out of the inner parts, he found quite a few eyes looking over at him.
Only people who received special recommendations could enter the inner room to enjoy preferential registration, this was a point that many people knew about. After seeing Xu Yi go in and come back out, it attracted their curiosity.
It was different from the doubt in the hearts of the old magician and the female magician. These magicians that were paying attention to Xu Yi didn’t know about Great Magician Camilla’s situation, so they were just envious of Xu Yi over the fact that he was able to receive a special recommendation spot.
Faced with these jealous looks, Xu Yi didn’t avoid them at all. Instead he welcomed everyone’s gaze and carefully looked back over them.
Based on the situation in the hall, most of the magicians here for the exam were young people. There were only a few magicians that were around the same age as Xu Yi.
This was not strange. The Lampuri Kingdom’s Magicians Guild was only responsible for certification tests of Fifth Grade or below magicians. Fifth Grade or below magicians were considered quite low among other magicians, so most of them were young people.
The older magicians either had very powerful magic strength, or they were limited by their talent and their magic power was long stabilized. Of course, it was impossible that they were bored and came here to participate in the exam.
This hall was around two hundred square meters and with Xu Yi’s rough estimate, he guessed that there were around two hundred magicians here. Adding in the magicians he saw outside and around Anvilmar City, just in Anvilmar City alone, there were over a thousand magicians here.
He had chatted with the Great Magician before and Xu Yi had asked out of curiosity just how many magicians the Lampuri Kingdom had.
Great Magician Camilla said that he didn’t know the exact numbers, but according to the statistics of the Magicians Guild from last year, there were currently over five thousand magicians in the Lampuri Kingdom.
If they added in the ones not in the data, it was likely to be closer to six thousand.
As for the entire continent, the Magicians Guild had announced a number three years ago. At that time, the recorded number of magicians on the entire continent was eighty seven thousand four hundred and sixty seven.
As for the ones that weren’t recorded, it was very likely that number was over a hundred thousand people.
Of course, the magician system was in a pyramid shape.
Of the over a hundred thousand magicians on the continent, there were only twenty seven Arch Magi and five hundred one to five star Great Magicians. The rest of the people were all normal magicians from the Primary Grade to the Ninth Grade.
In the Lampuri Kingdom, for a Three Star Great Magician like Great Magician Camilla, he could be considered one of the stronger Great Magicians. Most people were normal magicians that most people didn’t care about like the ones in front of him right now.
When Xu Yi was looking over the magicians, he was not thinking about the cruelty of the magician occupation, rather he was seriously considering a problem.
For strong magicians like Great Magician Camilla, the Lampuri Kingdom would offer special fund to support them. But for the normal magicians under the Great Magician Rank, they didn’t have any kind of income.
What did these magicians rely on to make a living?
Based on what Xu Yi had saw in Banta City, the Great Magician Camilla Magic Tower only had less than twenty magicians and the other companies hired a few magicians as guards.
Other than this, with how many people there were under the Fifth Grade and the lower Primary Grade Magicians, they wouldn’t even have this kind of opportunity.
Then for these magicians with weak power and couldn’t increase their power any more because of their talent, what was the final outlet for them?
Was it really like Still had said? They would find some companions with the same goal and adventure on the continent?
It had to be known that this path was very dangerous and there was an immeasurable number of adventurers that die each year because of this.
Thinking of this, Xu Yi’s eyes looking over these magicians had a trace of sympathy, while also revealing traces of anticipation and excitement.
As the Frestech Chamber of Commerce developed and the output of the two workshops increased, they wouldn’t be able to hold on with just having the Baron Rickto Magic Academy students making the Magic Arrays.
So Director Shearer had complained to Xu Yi about this. He said that he had taken half of the magic department’s students to work for him and it had even affected the planning of the school.
Xu Yi was very clear on this point. The main task of students was studying, so they couldn’t spend large amounts of time working for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce. Xu Yi needed to find some people to take over for them.
The problem was that Banta City was a small city and there weren’t that many magicians there, so Xu Yi didn’t have a way to recruit enough people at all.
Xu Yi had been worried about this before, but now that he saw the hall filled with magicians, Xu Yi found that this problem that had troubled him for a long time could suddenly be solved!
Xu Yi suppressed the excitement in his heart and after calming down, he revealed a gentle smile as he walked towards the nearest magician looking over him.
“Hello, I am Xu Yi. I’m from Banta City, can I ask where you are from?” Xu Yi looked at this young magician who was over twenty and asked him this question.
The young magician clearly never thought that Xu Yi would come over to introduce himself, so after being stunned for a second, he forced out a smile as he nodded at Xu Yi.
“Hel…..Hello, I am Cesar, I come from Wales City.”
“Wales City? That is a beautiful city.” Xu Yi immediately praised, “I’ve heard that there are many rivers in Wales City and the city is constructed on the water, is that right?”
“Un…..It’s indeed very beautiful.” Cesar casually said before he finally couldn’t stop himself from asking Xu Yi, “You said you are from Banta City and I only know Great Magician Camilla in Banta City, so were you recommended by him?”
Xu Yi looked back at the door her had just came out of before looking back at the doubtful Cesar and giving a slight nod.
“Yes, it was indeed Great Magician Camilla who recommended me for the exam.”
“Then…...Are you a relative of Great Magician Camilla? Oh, I’m sorry, I am not doubting you, but…..Only you don’t have a magician’s badge on your chest, so I think you shouldn’t have passed the Primary Grade test, right?” Cesar then asked.
Xu Yi looked at his empty chest before looking at Cesar’s chest. He found that there was a finely made magician’s badge on Cesar’s chest. Based on the design of the badge which was two lines under the rippling water, it meant that Cesar was certified as a Second Grade Magician by the Magicians Guild.
“That’s right, I indeed haven’t passed the Primary Grade test.” Xu Yi said with a nod, “I think you must be very curious on why I received Great Magician Camilla’s special recommendation, right?”
Cesar smiled, neither agreeing to it or denying it.
“The reason why I received a special recommendation from Great Magician Camilla is not because I have a special relationship with him and of course it isn’t because my talent is outstanding. Rather it is because……” Xu Yi paused and deliberately left him hanging. When he saw that Cesar was completely focused on him, he finally replied with a smile, “It’s because I have some original thoughts in terms of magic machine research.”
“I’m sorry, you said…..magic machines? What are those?” Cesar asked in a confused manner.
“It’s like this……”
With Xu Yi’s explanation, Cesar very quickly understood what magic machines were.
“You’re saying that you study magic not to make yourself stronger, but rather to research these magic machines?” Cesar looked at Xu Yi with a look of disbelief.
This fellow wasn’t that much bigger than him, but he actually said he was the chairman of a company in Banta City and that Frestech Chamber of Commerce actually made magic machines. This was even more strange.
What were these magic machines and what could they do?
“Don’t you feel that being able to allow people to enjoy the convenience magic brings is a very wonderful thing?” Xu Yi tried very hard to entice Cesar, “Our Frestech Chamber of Commerce is lacking outstanding magicians like you to contribute to this cause. What about it? Cesar, are you willing to join our company?”
For a while, Cesar didn’t know what kind of expression to show Xu Yi.
He was currently a Second Grade Magician and wasn’t strong enough to be treated importantly by any company. Now this Xu Yi had appeared to invite him to this Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it actually moved his heart a bit.
But thinking about the fact that this Frestech Chamber of Commerce was in a small place like Banta City, producing these strange magic machines, he had a few scruples.
“This…...I’m sorry, I only want to focus on researching magic right now, my strength isn’t enough…..”
Xu Yi suddenly raised one finger, “Ten gold coins each month.”
Cesar almost choked on his saliva.
Ten gold coins a month? Although Cesar hadn’t been invited by a company before, he knew that many companies invited magicians they liked and the lowest starting wage was twenty gold coins.
Of course, those that companies wanted were ones that were strong enough to be guards, so they clearly weren’t weak Second Grade Magicians like him, but rather at the lowest they were Fifth Grade Magicians.
The price that Xu Yi gave was very fair for a Second Grade Magician, but after hesitating a bit, Cesar still rejected his offer.
“I’m sorry, I’m not that lacking in money now. Compared to rushing to earn money, I like to use this to raise my magic level.” Cesar said with a serious look, “Chairman Xu, many thanks for your good intentions. If we can work together in the future, I will consider your Frestech Chamber of Commerce.”
Xu Yi was a bit disappointed, but he still retained his smile as he gave a slight nod, “Alright, since you’re not willing Cesar, of course I won’t force you. But our Frestech Chamber of Commerce has our doors open to you always. If you ever change your mind, you can come to Banta City and I will always welcome you.”
Cesar nodded with a faint smile.
No matter what, it was quite good knowing this chairman Xu.
After Cesar left, Xu Yi realized he had made a mistake.
Based on Cesar’s clothes, his family background clearly wasn’t bad. Without economic pressure, with the common knowledge of the Sines Continent, he would of course treat raising his strength as the most important thing and it wasn’t strange at all for him to reject him.
Xu Yi wasn’t that disappointed. After realizing this problem, he changed his target to magicians that didn’t look that well off.
After asking seven people, the results he obtained weren’t too satisfactory.
Perhaps it was because there wasn’t enough acceptance for a new thing like the magic machines, but even though these seven magicians all seemed like they were in the same situation. Xu Yi had only interested three people. Of the three, only one of them promised Xu Yi that he would come to Banta City to take a look.
As for the remaining four, they all had pretty much the same reaction as Cesar.
Xu Yi was helpless about this.
To change the situation, he would have to first change the thoughts of all the magicians on the Sines Continent.
As for this, it was very clear he couldn’t do that right now.
“Yi? Aren’t you Xu Yi? Xu Yi! It really is you!”
At this time, a voice filled with pleasant surprise suddenly came from beside Xu Yi.
Chapter 96 Old classmate
Xu Yi turned around in a surprised manner and found three people who were around twenty years old standing beside him. The one who called out was a young man with a head of light red hair.
After being surprised for a bit, Xu Yi also revealed a look of pleasant surprise. He punched the young man with light red hair on the shoulder, “Erwin, it’s actually you! Why are you here?”
The youth called Erwin gave a laugh before strongly hugging Xu Yi. His lips curled as he said, “Aren’t you speaking nonsense? Participating in the Magicians Guild’s certification exam, which magician would miss this? Look, didn’t you come in the end?”
After saying this, Erwin looked over Xu Yi and had a surprised look, “Yi? Xu Yi, looking at your current appearance, you seem like you have some money? No wonder you came to the certification exam, you always said that you didn’t have money before.”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “It’s alright.”
This Erwin was a classmate from the Senkaiser School and they lived in the same dorm. Although Xu Yi was older than the others in his dorm, they were all still young people and it was easy for him to get along with them. Adding in the fact that Xu Yi was more mature than them, had more knowledge, and had high talent in magic, he became the big brother for these people.
Thinking about his other roommates, Xu Yi looked at the two youths behind Erwin before asking, “After graduating, have you been in contact with Roy and the others?”
Erwin shrugged his shoulders, “We all drifted apart after graduation, we can’t contact each other even if we wanted to. If it wasn’t because I bumped into you today, I wouldn’t even know what you were doing. That’s right, what are you doing right now? Did you find a good job? It’s been just a few months and you already have enough to participate in the certification exam.”
Xu Yi smiled without responding before looking at the other two youths, “You’re not going to introduce me to your new friends?”
“Oh, I almost forgot.” Erwin patted his head before pointing at the tall and buff youth with a righteous face and saying, “These two are my adventurer comrades. He is Rooney.” Then he pointed at the thin and somewhat short youth to the right, “This is Bob. Hey, Rooney, Bob, this is my classmate from the Senkaiser School, his name is a bit strange, he’s Xu Yi. But he’s a good person and was a good friend when we were back in school.”
Rooney and Bob shook hands with Xu Yi while Xu Yi looked at their chest. He found that Rooney’s magician badge was the same as Cesar and Bob’s magician badge only had a single ripple, showing that he was the lowest Primary Grade Magician.
Erwin was the same as Xu Yi, he didn’t have a badge on his chest to represent his rank at all.
Seeing Xu Yi’s eyes fall onto their chests, Rooney and Bob also looked at Xu Yi’s chest. Seeing no badge at all, they couldn’t help revealing surprised looks.
Erwin keenly noticed this point and quickly explained, “Hey, you two, don’t look down on Xu Yi. Don’t think that he’s bad because he doesn’t have a badge, his talent is actually really good, he was already almost a Grade Three Magician when we were back in school. Whenever we called him to participate in the exam, he always said he had no money and rejected us.”
“No money?” Rooney and Bob’s eyes looking at Xu Yi filled with even more surprise. Rooney couldn’t help asking, “Erwin, the students of your Senkaiser School wouldn’t all be the same right? All unwilling to participate in the Magicians Guild’s exam?”
“Hey, don’t compare me to Xu Yi. He had no money and I couldn’t pass, it’s completely different, alright?” Erwin corrected him.
Xu Yi patted his shoulder, “Alright, no matter what the past was, since you came this time, you just need to pass. Erwin, I think that with how you are now, you should have confidence in passing the Second Grade Magician exam, right?”
“Pretty much, there should be no problem.” Erwin confidently replied. After saying this, he looked at Xu Yi, “Don’t just talk about me, you were called a rare magic genius back in school by the teachers. After not seeing each other for half a year, your strength should have increased quite a bit, right? Tell me, are you planning on passing the Fourth Grade Magician exam this time?”
Hearing Erwin’s attention, although it caught Rooney and Bob’s attention, they weren’t that surprised.
Xu Yi looked to be several years older than them, so it was normal that his magic power was stronger than theirs.
“Un, pretty much.” Xu Yi very casually nodded, “This is not important. Erwin, why did you become an adventurer? Don’t you think that it is very dangerous?”
Erwin gave a sigh, “So what if it’s dangerous? I’m not a fellow with incredibly good talent like you, being able to quickly become a high level magician and not having to worry about food or board. If I become an adventurer, what do you think I can? With my bit of magic, I’m not even qualified to be an assistant to a Great Magician.”
Rooney and Bob on the side revealed depressed looks, it was obvious they faced the same problems as Erwin.
Xu Yi looked over the three of them and thought that the problem he thought about earlier wasn’t baseless, it really did exist.
“Erwin, what if I told you that there is a work where you don’t have to face any danger and you have spare time to research magic, where the work itself is related to magic and can increase your magic power? Would you be willing to take it?” Xu Yi asked.
Erwin laughed, “Hei, Xu Yi, after not seeing each other for half a year, when did you learn to boast? How could there possibly be such a good job, you don’t need to tell such lies even if you’re trying to comfort me, right?”
The eyes of Rooney on the side twinkled ashe said, “The job you’re talking about, how much money can it give?”
Xu Yi raised one finger, “That depends on the situation, but it won’t be less than ten gold coins per month.”
“Ten gold coins per month? That is not much, but there is no danger and there is spare time, so the conditions are quite good.” Erwin rubbed his chin and looked very satisfied, “Hey, Xu Yi, this all sounds quite good, but aren’t you just playing a joke? Such a good job, can you give me it?”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile and gave a serious nod, “That’s right, I’ll give it to you.”
When the moon rose in the sky, Xu Yi leisurely walked back to the office.
The housekeeper had long prepared dinner, but it had already gone cold since Xu Yi came back so late. But thinking about how the Lord Count ordered him to give him special treatment, the housekeeper wanted to order the kitchen to prepare a new set, but that was stopped by Xu Yi.
When he was walking in the streets, Xu Yi had found a small roadside stall to take care of dinner, so naturally he didn’t need to eat again.
“Housekeeper Lahm, you don’t need to waste all this effort. It is very likely I’ll be eating outside most of the time during this period, so there won’t be many times when I eat here. You don’t need to specially leave a meal for me.” Xu Yi gave an order to the housekeeper.
Housekeeper Lahm thought about it before nodding in agreement.
Xu Yi had arrived here today with Viscount Leslie, so it seemed that other than having a special relation to the Lord Count, the other connections he had here weren’t normal.
“That’s right, chairman Xu, according to the Lord Count’s orders, the news of your arrival has already been reported to the agricultural department and the king’s special guards. If nothing unexpected happened, there should be a notice coming in two days. It’s best if you don’t go too far in the next few days. If you are going out, it’s best if you tell me where you’re going so it’s easier for me to find you.” Housekeeper Lahm then said.
“Alright, I’ll be careful.” Xu Yi was a bit helpless. There were no cell phones in this world, so it was truly hard to find someone.
After talking to Housekeeper Lahm, Xu Yi prepared to head to his room to rest.
While he was walking, Xu Yi remembered today’s experience and was quite satisfied.
After his preliminary inspection, he found that Anvilmar City really was a blank market. As long as Baron Hannas successfully set up the ?Anvilmar Times? or the ?Anvilmar Morning News?, he could depend on this to easily take part of the market.
Compared to a small city like Banta City, Anvilmar had a larger market without a doubt. Just based on the people Xu Yi saw when he was walking around, he could tell that Anvilmar City had several times more people compared to Banta City.
The Magic Fan could sell ten thousand units in Banta City, so with a conservative estimate, it could sell over fifty thousand units in Anvilmar City.
Of course, Xu Yi had already decided to give out the basic manufacturing techniques for the Magic Fan, so there would be many competitors for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce next summer.
But Xu Yi was not worried at all. Just in terms of Magic Fans, there were many aspects where he could easily defeat the competitors.
Not to mention that this technology all came from him, which was equal to having the competitors’ lives in his hands. It was very easy for him to counterattack them if he wanted to.
Other than this, the success that satisfied Xu Yi was the most was that including Erwin, Rooney, and Bob, there was a total of eight magicians who were interested. They had a desire to come to Banta City to see the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
Eight magicians perhaps weren’t that important, but Xu Yi was very happy to see a trend in them. It was that they were weak magicians who couldn’t advance like Erwin, so they were willing to take another path.
With the appearance of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, perhaps it will give these magicians a new path to work hard in.
“It was like this to begin with. It’s not like every magician can become powerful Great Magicians or Arch Magi, so what is bad about working for a living?” Thinking about the strange expressions Erwin’s group of three had when they heard he started a company and were producing magic machines, Xu Yi couldn’t help smiling.
Thinking about the magic machines, Xu Yi thought about the things in the storage room. He stopped moving and started heading towards the storage room.
Those things were related to the success or failure of this trip to Anvilmar City, there definitely couldn’t be any accidents that happened.
As soon as he saw the corner of the storage room, Xu Yi suddenly saw a spark appearing in the darkness. There was a roaring flame that suddenly exploded and instantly surrounded the entire storage room.