Volume 1 Chapter 109 (1/2)

Fifth Grade exam

After meeting the king, Xu Yi was even busier during the next two days.

The king not only ordered ten thousand small Magic Harvesters from Xu Yi. Other than this, of the other five kinds of agricultural magic machine that Xu Yi brought, he ordered between five thousand to ten thousand units of those.

For such a large order, to accomplish this, there was no doubt that there were many details to take care of. So during these two days, Xu Yi had been negotiating with the people sent by the king and members of the agricultural department.

It was impossible to reach a complete understanding in just two days, but after receiving the care and promotion of the king, the negotiations had progressed very smoothly. In just two days, they had already set up a preliminary plan.

According to the suggestion of the king, the Lampuri Kingdom and the king would be buying six different kinds of agricultural magic machines from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, with numbers going from five thousand to ten thousand units.

Of course, with the current ability of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, naturally they couldn’t received such a large order. But since currently other than the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, there were no other companies that could make agricultural magic machines, they decided to let the Frestech Chamber of Commerce deliver in batches.

The first batch for magic machines was five hundred units and they needed it before the spring harvest.

Agreeing to this batch order actually gave Xu Yi a strong headache.

Although after bringing in the hundred dwarves from the Angola Tribe, the production speed of the magic machine workshop had increased, it would still be very difficult for them to complete three thousand agricultural magic machines before next spring’s harvest.

The reason why Xu Yi had agreed was because the king wouldn’t allow the order number to be below five hundred units. If it was below this number, it was hard for Xu Yi to show the benefits of mass production and it was not possible for the king to be determined to invest in this project.

After all, behind a giant order of tens of thousands of agricultural magic machines, it required the king and the agricultural department to pay a large amount of several million gold coins.

This amount was not something the Lampuri Kingdom’s finances could support, so the king proposed to Xu Yi that the kingdom would use its resources to pay.

Xu Yi naturally welcomed this. Although his request for a piece of land was rejected by the king, his request for an iron mine and a Magic Crystal mine was accepted.

According to the preliminary agreement between the two sides, Xu Yi would obtain two iron mines near Banta City for now, as well as three Magic Crystal mines to the northwest of Banta City which were quite far away.

Since Xu Yi didn’t understand anything about these mines, this was only a preliminary agreement. Once Xu Yi and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce investigated these mines and were satisfied with them, the agreement would come into effect.

And after taking these mines, Xu Yi must follow the requests of the order. He had to finish all the requested small agricultural magic machines for the order and he had to change the farmland inside the kingdom according to the agricultural department’s requests.

So there was a large amount of pressure on Xu Yi right now.

Before next year’s spring harvest, if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce couldn’t finish the first batch of orders, not only would they not be able to gain the mines, they would also lose the trust and support of the king.

If this really happened, it would be a large hit to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce without a doubt. This would also greatly affect the long term plan that Xu Yi had in an irreversible manner.

So this first batch had to be complete and there couldn’t be a single mistake.

But as a mechanical engineer, Xu Yi had extremely fine requirements for his work, he wouldn’t allow even half a mistake. So he was already used to this kind of pressure and had even learned to create power from this pressure.

Although this first batch of orders of agricultural magic machines were very big, Xu Yi felt that he could use this chance. He would make the changes that he was already prepared to make to the production magic machines, making the Frestech Chamber of Commerce even stronger.

As long as he grabbed this chance, there was no doubt there was great prospects for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

After working for two days, the third day was the Magicians Guild’s Fifth Grade exam.

According to Xu Yi’s original plan, he was supposed to participate in the Fourth Grade exam yesterday, going straight from the Primary Grade to the Fourth Grade. But after thinking about Viscount Leslie’s sudden request and considering it over, he finally decided to skip the Fourth Grade exam and directly participate in the Fifth Grade exam.

The magicians participating in this exam was far less compared to the amount on the first day. After Xu Yi looked over the examination ground, he found that including him, there were less than fifty people here. There weren't even as many people as there were on the first day in a corner.

It was different from the Primary Grade exam, Xu Yi didn’t know a single one of these magicians.

After all, those that dared participate in the Fifth Grade exam, they were already magicians of the Fourth Grade. It was impossible for there to be many Fourth Grade Magicians and it was very hard to break through to the Fifth Grade, so there were few magicians that participated in the Fifth Grade exam each year.

At the Primary Grade exam, Xu Yi who was already twenty seven was considered a bit old, so he was looked at by people with gazes of despise. But here at the Fifth Grade exam, he was considered rather young, making people feel he was an outstanding talent, so it attracted the gaze of the others.

When the others noticed that Xu Yi didn’t even have a magician’s badge on his chest, they were even more shocked.

This kid can’t have even skipped the Primary Grade exam and directly came here for the Fifth Grade exam, right?

In front of everyone’s shocked gaze, Xu Yi reported his name to the Magicians Guild staff member in charge of the exam.