Volume 1 Chapter 5 (1/2)

Mass production

“A total of one hundred and thirty seven fans?” Xu Yi had a bit of a headache as he looked at the preorder form Heinz gave him. For a while, he didn’t know if he should be happy or worried.

The popularity of the Magic Fan didn’t surpass his expectations. In this kind of extremely hot weather, everyone wanted something that could cool them down a bit. However, arranging large scale Frost Arrays was too expensive for most people, so with the appearance of the Magic Fan, it satisfied most of their needs.

Thinking about it, a large scale Frost Array would require thirty gold coins to install and it would cost over a hundred gold coins each month to maintain it. Instead, compared to a Magic Fan which costs two gold coins and had a consumption of less than a gold coin each month, it was much cheaper.

Even if the effects of the Magic Fan couldn’t compare to the large scale Frost Array, it could still let people cool down a bit which was enough for them to alleviate some of this summer heat.

But no matter what, Xu Yi never thought that in just a single day, Heinz would have taken preorders for one hundred and thirty seven Magic Fans.

Moreover, according to Heinz, there were many people that didn’t have the resolve to buy it since they didn’t see the product. Once there were enough Magic Fans, the order quantity would surpass one hundred and thirty seven.

“Dear Xu, no matter what, you have to make these hundred and thirty seven Magic Fans as soon as possible! This is a matter that will affect our future reputation!” If Hienz was normally polite to Xu Yi before, now he viewed Xu Yi like a mountain of gold. His voice was filled with expectations and he even added in a few words of flattery, “Of course, if you can, make as many Magic Fans as you can! Believe me, there are definitely more people in Banta City that need Magic Fans! Even if there are no people left in Banta City, I believe that people in other cities will need them!”

Xu Yi somewhat couldn’t resist the fervor Heinz had and thinking about the seven gold coins and one silver coin Heinz gave him, excitement also filled his heart.

“Alright, I’ll do my best to complete them!”

But it was easy to agree, only it was hard to actually do something.

If he wanted to complete the preordered hundred and thirty seven Magic Fans, Xu Yi definitely couldn’t do it alone.

Even if he was very adept at making Magic Fans, for Xu Yi to do it alone, he would need at least three hours for each fan. Multiply that by one hundred and thirty seven, that was a total of four hundred and eleven hours, which would mean spending half a month on working straight!

After sending Heinz off, Xu Yi considered it. He first went to the blacksmith that he had make the outer casing for the Magic Fans and ordered another two hundred sets of outer casing before rushing back to the Camilla Magic Tower.

He used his lunch break to go meet Heinz and when he returned to the lab, his coworkers are also there.

Xu Yi under everyone’s surprised gaze brought back a large sack of cool ale which he distributed to everyone. When he came in front of Rem, he didn’t reach out to take it, rather he asked with a frown, “Hey, Xu Yi, just speak if you need something. My mother taught me that after you eat something from someone else, your mouth will become soft. If you don’t tell me what it is, I won’t drink your ale.”

Hearing Rem say this, the other people who had taken the ale and were prepared to drink it all put them down. They gathered around to look curiously at Xu Yi.

Rem’s reaction surprised Xu Yi a bit. He looked at Rem and revealed a smile. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he raised his voice to say, “Everyone, I do have something that I need everyone’s help with. Of course, this ale is just a little gift, it doesn’t count for anything. Everyone can relax and drink it, I haven’t put any poison in it.”

Xu Yi’s relaxed words drew a wave of chuckles before he continued saying, “As for asking for everyone’s help, naturally I have a reward prepared. This can be considered outside work, is there anyone that is interested?”

“What kind of reward is it?”

“What is it that we have to do?”

“How long? Is it hard work?”

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Everyone was focused on different things, but they were most concerned about the reward.

While they assisted Great Magician Camilla in his magical research, although they received a monthly salary, it was firmly fixed and it couldn’t be discussed. So when these coworkers learned about the rewards, many of them were interested.

“This work isn’t too hard for everyone and you won’t spend that much time on it. As for the rewards, it depends on how much work is done. The more work down, then the more rewards there will be. The specifics are like this……”

When they heard Xu Yi tell them that they only needed to inscribe a simple Revolving Wind Array, everyone let out a sigh of relief. To them, this low level Revolving Wind Array didn’t need them to spend too much time and it wasn’t that difficult for them.

When they heard from Xu Yi that each complete Revolving Wind Array could earn them ten silver coins, everyone became very excited. Even Wella whose expression hadn’t changed became a little excited.

According to what Xu Yi said, this work was very simple. They just had to make a few Revolving Wind Arrays and they could earn several gold coins. It really was relaxed work.

After Xu Yi finished speaking, of the sixteen people in the lab other than Xu Yi, there were ten of them who agreed to do this work.

The remainder who didn’t agree included Rem and Wella, as well as those ranked at the top in terms of magical power in the lab.