Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 71 - Wizard Commerce Plan (Please Subscribe)
Chapter 71: Chapter 71 Wizard Commerce Plan (Please Subscribe)
As rationality took the high ground, Jolod’s emotions also calmed down.
“Richard, what’s the principle behind this… machine?”
As a wizard, and an Alchemy Wizard at that, the machine before him was like a ravishing beauty making suggestive gestures, leaving Jolod, the old lecher, itching with curiosity.
“Ahem, teacher, that’s a bit against the rules,” Richard murmured.
Jolod’s face turned red with embarrassment, as he quickly came to his senses.
Knowledge requires an equivalent exchange; this is an immutable iron law of the Wizard World. But after considering his own collection, Jolod realized he had nothing that could compare to the machine before him.
“This…”
Jolod became so anxious that sweat poured down his forehead. If he couldn’t unravel the secret of this machine before him, he felt like he wouldn’t be able to sleep peacefully for the rest of his life.
“Uh, teacher, I have a proposal. How about you listen to it?”
“You say,” Jolod said, locking his gaze onto Richard with an intensity that seemed as if it could bore a hole through him.
“It’s like this, teacher. I plan to use this technology to start a Wizard Commerce, with me contributing the technology and you contributing the capital. We’ll share the profits seventy-thirty, how about that?” Richard ventured.
In fact, once Richard was certain that Magic Potions could be mass-produced, he had this idea in mind.
Selling Magic Potions at a single Academy seemed like underutilizing his technology.
“Good, I agree!” Jolod immediately agreed without a second word. Then, with a flash, he vanished from the room, returning less than a minute later with a black scroll in his hand.
“This is a Soul Contract produced by the Tower of Truth; even a Great Wizard must adhere to its stipulations.”
As he spoke, Jolod adeptly wrote on the Soul Contract, including details about the profit-sharing, confidentiality, and penalties for breach of contract. He seemed quite skilled at it.
“Take a look at the contract. If there’s no problem, sign it.”
Richard took the contract and read it carefully from top to bottom.
It wasn’t that he didn’t trust Jolod, but rather he had never seen such a complete and formal contract, and he took the opportunity to learn how to write one.
After all, that too was a form of knowledge.
Satisfied that everything was correct, Richard signed the contract.
As the contract turned to ashes, an invisible force settled upon them both.
At this moment, Richard and Jolod not only had a master-disciple relationship but also a more solid bond of mutual interest.
“Now you can tell me the principle, right?” Jolod asked eagerly, looking at Richard.
“No problem.”
Richard walked over to the machine and quickly disassembled the outer casing, revealing the machinery inside.
“This is the output, this is the Alchemy Pot, this is the Magic Power stabilizer…” Richard pointed out to Jolod each part of the machine, “The principle that allows the machine to stably produce Magic Potions isn’t anything miraculous. It’s just that I found that when making Magic Potions, once each step’s Magic Value reaches a certain standard, the Potions can be produced consistently.”
“It’s that simple?”
Jolod looked at Richard in disbelief, finding it hard to believe that a machine capable of near-miraculous feats worked on such a simple principle.
He only needed to spend a bit more time confirming the Magic Potion formulas.
Richard handed over his precise recipe to Jolod. After reviewing it, Jolod felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.
“Ha ha ha… So that’s how it is.”
Jolod suddenly burst into laughter, tears nearly springing to his eyes.
“The principle is so simple! To think those old fools pondered for so long, only to come up with a solution of using Soul Slaves to make Magic Potions, ha ha ha…”
From those words, Richard sensed an issue.
“Teacher, what do you mean by that?”
Jolod steadied his spirit and explained to Richard:
“Richard, I guess your creation is not the first of its kind, at least several thousand years ago, the Magic Potion Commerce of the Tower of Truth had discovered this secret.
But they protected the secret too well.
So much so that unless you, a genius who discovers it on your own, nobody knows how they did it.
Before this, I and a few friends from the Alchemy School tried to explore this secret, and after hundreds of years of research, we concluded that the Magic Potion Commerce bred a group of clever Magic Potion Slaves.”
Jolod couldn’t help but laugh again.
“Not the first…” Richard stroked his chin, an astonishing idea leaped out from his heart.
“Teacher, I have a question I want to ask you.”
“Go ahead.”
Richard organized his thoughts, “Teacher, is the stuff you’re researching very profound? I mean, is it that kind of extremely complicated matter that many wizards find difficult to solve?”
Jolod was taken aback, “Of course not, many wizards are researching the same things as I am.”
“Then…” Richard hesitated, “is it possible that the things you are researching might have already been explored by some wizard you don’t know?”
“…Indeed possible, or rather, surely some wizard has already explored it.”
Jolod looked at Richard, what astonishing and scandalous thing had his student thought of this time?
“That’s exactly right.”
Richard seemed to have unraveled some enigma, revitalized by the revelation.
“What did you think of?” Jolod asked curiously.
“Nothing.” Richard shook his head and left the room with Jolod.
Just then, Richard finally confirmed something.
The vast majority of wizards in the Wizard World are reinventing the wheel.
The so-called reinvention of the wheel, meaning that wizards are constantly repeating the same research. In fact, in Richard’s past life, this kind of situation also occurred from time to time. But due to information transfer and technical exchanges, this phenomenon generally only appeared in the technological confrontations between nations.
But in the Wizard World, due to wizards’ paranoid protection of knowledge, the technical exchanges throughout the Wizard World are actually extremely limited.
If a wizard wants to research a certain discipline, then they might even need to start from the very basics of that field.
Yes, start exploring, not start learning.
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Wizards have an exceedingly long lifespan, with a One Ring Wizard’s lifespan reaching a thousand years, and a Three Rings Wizard able to live up to ten thousand years. When it comes to a Great Wizard, the basic unit of a wizard’s lifespan switches to epochs, meaning ten thousand years.
Given such prolonged lifespans, the theoretical development level of the Wizard World should have far surpassed what it is today.
But instead, the Wizard World has become like this.
Richard had always been somewhat puzzled before, but today he found the answer.
If wizards need to start from scratch when exploring certain aspects of knowledge, then it is possible for the Wizard World to become the way it is now.
Because a discipline is not just something that one person can complete alone, it often requires many people with different perspectives to perfect it.
Moreover, one’s perspective is fixed, and with aging, this ossification becomes more and more serious.
Just like Jolod, an Alchemy Wizard who lived for thousands of years, could never think of the knowledge to mass-produce Magic Potions.
If knowledge is not exchanged, many technologies will not be circulated, which also means that many techniques would be confined to a certain wizard or Academy.
And this problem is almost insoluble; in this world where knowledge can be converted into power, people all want others to share knowledge and then enjoy the benefits themselves.
“However, this could also be a good thing.” Richard murmured to himself, “My thoughts aren’t so scandalous after all. The Wizard World is so vast; there’s always some wise person who appears.”
“Some things in the future can be pursued boldly and with confidence.”
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