[Comprehensive Anglo-American] Gem Merchant

Chapter 97

Loki Odinson has been traveling in the Nine Realms in recent months. The little prince, who is dissatisfied with his adoptive father, wandered around several different planets after leaving Asgard. The silver tongue of the god of tricks made him He was very successful everywhere, and his contacts were so wide that he even earned the title of "Number One Magician of the Nine Realms".

Although no one knows whether this No. [-] is worth it—most of the names of magicians are very exaggerated, and from the perspective of ordinary people, they are even very second. It may be the number one in knowledge reserves, or it may be in Lu In terms of the application of En runes, Alphonse, who is good at jewel magic, will also be dubbed the title of "Lord of Jewerly".

Of course, Rocky's own mystic attainments are indeed outstanding, even compared to the Warner Protoss who are good at magic, they are among the top ones.

Although he has a lot of dissatisfaction with Odin, every time he introduces himself, the green-eyed little prince still introduces Odinson's surname and his identity as an Asgardian without losing his grace.With this identity, he first traveled carefully to Vanaheim, the hometown of his mother, and then went to Alfheim, the land of elves, and Nidawi, the land of craftsmen. After that, the little prince stopped walking. The Nine Realms, confined under the rule of Asgard, began to move towards the planet where other civilizations in the universe are located.

Asgard's royal education is obviously very rich, even Sol, a bad-brained guy, can learn the tree language that he can choose, and all kinds of partial dialects are simply at his fingertips, so these Life is even smoother than life confined to Asgard.

Occasionally, he would see ravens hovering above him.

In the legend of Midgard, the raven is the eye of Odin.

For this, Loki once smiled and expressed his disdain, but occasionally when he woke up during the journey, he would see the current currency, gems and some suitable magic dresses beside the bed in the temporary room.Although he didn't apologize for the bad old man's behavior, he still accepted those unspoken gifts with his lips curled up.

He originally thought that this kind of life would continue for decades or even hundreds of years. After all, there are still many years before Sol can truly inherit the throne. Go to take over Gungnir, who symbolizes the kingship, and wait until the day he becomes the king of Asgard, his brother will definitely have the position of prince. Loki dismisses this, but there is still no one The corner of his mouth curled up where he noticed.

When the gem merchant in the atrium is about to die, he must remember to get back the congratulatory gifts at that time. After all, the life of the atrium people is too short and it is a pity——

Such thoughts came to an abrupt end when the news that Sol lost an eye.

Perhaps the Nine Realms had been at peace for too long, and some forces that had been suppressed by Odin began to move around. In the battle against the counterattack of the dark elves, Saul Odinson unfortunately lost one of his eyes.

"I've only been away for a few months!"

The little black cat was so angry that he blew his beard and stared: "That idiot just blinded one of his eyes! It's the only time in 1000 years that I didn't make trouble for him, and he only has one eye left." ! Sol the bastard!"

He can't be king!It's better to usurp the throne!

Alphonse crossed his arms and watched the black cat's tail curled up high. It was obviously completely fried.

"So, you need me to buy you a magic eye?"

Alphonse asked with some surprise: "The one in the atrium? I thought you would entrust Nidawi's craftsmen to forge a suitable eye. After all, it would be more suitable if the armor was made by God... Sol is God Asa, the eyes supported by human magic circuits, I think it may not be so suitable for him."

"Of course it's not used directly, it's just used as a basis for improvement."

Loki, who turned into a black cat, showed a disdainful expression—why does a cat have such rich expressions—he curled his lips: “From the perspective of mysticism, although most people in the atrium have lost their magic power Favor, but not all of the small group of people who still have magic power (Od) can’t look forward to it, after all, you have bred so many people in the past few thousand years, and you can always find a few pairs of suitable eyes.”

The black cat's paw stepped on the tempered glass of the counter, with a somewhat condescending tone: "Then, for a while, I will temporarily live with you."

On the other side, El-Melloi II, who was refreshed after a full sleep, squatted in Tony Stark's laboratory, outlining a complex magic circle with mercury.

"Air spar is a type of Andalusite, which is characterized by a cross-shaped pattern on the cross section. In the era when there were many free alchemists in this world, this stone was once widely used Heals fevers and drives away evil spirits."

He bent down and placed a piece of empty spar whose magic power had been activated by Alphonse in advance in the center of the magic circle. Kekop knowledge: "Because of its special cross-shaped pattern, this ore is even endowed with religious significance-of course, this part of knowledge is not necessary for us magicians."

"Let's skip the basic science, Professor Weber."

Tony Stark sat aside and lazily watched El-Melloi II busy: "There is no need to emphasize to me that these things can be found on Wikipedia. Just contact me and start talking—the El-Melloi family indeed owes a lot of money, but I think your purpose must be more than that?"

El-Melloi II showed an aggrieved expression as if he had been punched by someone: "Okay, okay...I mean, I hope you understand one thing, and this is what we are doing— —The barrier between science and the mysterious world is not as big as you think."

Tony turned his head to look at the long-haired magician, and suddenly remembered the phrase "In the beginning, all science was like magic."

The lecturer at the Clock Tower took a deep breath, with a calm and solemn expression: "Although Alphonse belongs to the Department of Law and Politics at the Clock Tower, and works for the Department of Astronomy, the magic he and his sister use is more inclined to the Department of Ore. The magic form of (Gishia), after all, gem magic is originally such a thing, it is essentially to compress power into a carrier, and then find ways to release it."

"It's like a mobile hard drive, or a war-style self-discipline missile."

Tony Stark gave two examples.

"Ore science is a relatively traditional subject, so his habits are more inclined to the thinking of traditional magicians. In this regard, Strange and I, who are unorthodox magicians, may be better at combining modern technology. Some—Of course, I’m not boasting about it, but as the king of modern magic, I’m explaining some of the facts.”

El-Melloi II's white gloves brushed across the edge of the mercury magic circle: "For example, when you were in the clock tower, you should have seen many alchemy beings sweeping inside the building, we also call them 'self-discipline dolls' ', they all have limited intelligence and basic functions, which can replace some complicated labor."

His eyes fixed on Tony Stark: "What do you think of it?"

Tony also stared back, not to be outdone: "How can I know how a lump of clay has wisdom and automatically salutes and greets others to help carry things... Wait."

He suddenly thought of something: "You mean, the little bum in my lab can do something similar?"

A flash of thought flashed through my mind. Tony Stark was originally one of the small group of humans with the best brains in the world. Of course, he immediately figured out what the man in front of him was explaining to himself. what.

—He seemed to be lecturing.

The star lecturer of the clock tower, in his Tony Stark's underground laboratory, is telling himself a occult course that only he can understand and apply to himself.

The genius scientist's eyes narrowed slightly.

"It's just using different means to achieve the same purpose. For example, what you call ordinary intelligent machines, artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence that has passed the Turing test, etc., for us, there are also ordinary alchemical life, the soul's Stitch monsters and even homunkulus. You think it is hard to understand that clay, mercury and traditional gems are used as the core to drive alchemical life, but medieval magicians can't imagine vacuum tubes, magnetic field lines and atoms. Fission—people at the time saw radiation as an inescapable curse.”

"In fact, you have already been able to create the basic artificial soul, Mr. Stark. Human beings thousands of years ago could not imagine invisible magnetic and electric fields, and could not understand Maxwell's equations and the gravitational perturbation of celestial bodies. It is difficult for you in the magic circuit to understand what is mana and what is ether. A civilization with ten fingers will naturally develop a decimal culture because of the way of counting fingers, and only have on and off, yes or no, Computers that are powered on or off take binary as a matter of course...I mean, so does magic, Mister Stark."

Races that can embrace magic will spontaneously develop civilization towards this tendency, including but not limited to Asgard, Vanaheim, Alfheim and Atlantis.The magicians of Midgard are a special group. After all, magic circuits are foreign objects that are forcibly opened inside the body. Compared with those lives that can directly get along with magic power, they are even rarer in the mysterious world. A group that is more difficult to learn magic.

Therefore, human beings who can use magic circuits are exploring the road of magic, and human beings who have no idea about it turn to the direction of science. There are also many such civilizations in the universe.

Tony Stark took a sip of hot cocoa, and pushed a cup in front of Webber Velvet.The aroma of chocolate permeated the laboratory. After a long time, when the heat had filled the other party's glasses, Tony Stark finally said, "Why did you suddenly tell me this? Don't say it's because of the clock tower monarch's personal Interest—Even if your occupation is a lecturer, you can’t help but say a few words to everyone you meet. Al once told me that you have very strict control over knowledge, and people of different levels can only get what they meet. The knowledge of the limit of ability, otherwise it will cause some very dangerous consequences.”

"Indeed."

El-Melloi II replied: "This is one of the reasons why I chose to tell you that you are the most suitable person to get in touch with this kind of knowledge among the non-magic humans I know-even if most people know these mystical fields It is also difficult to break through the barriers, and even some family outcasts who were born in the family of magicians but do not have magic circuits will fall into madness because of this.”

Tony Stark nodded in agreement. Although he did not lack compliments from others, the affirmation from a clock tower monarch still made him feel very satisfied-this group of magicians will not all have eyes On the top of the head, there are still people who know the goods.

"For another reason."

Weber lit a new cigar again: "Because you are the only person I have seen in these years who wants to save Alphonse and is really capable of doing so."

Tony Stark's original relaxed and satisfied expression disappeared.

Brooklyn, Edfield Jewelry.

The little clerk went back to S.H.I.E.L.D. to recover a batch of gold and then walked slowly into the store. In a sense, the store manager really made an outstanding contribution to the gold reserves of the U.S. treasury. After all, no one is better than traditional magic tricks. The teacher prefers to pay his bills in gold.

Currency will always experience appreciation and depreciation in value. If it experiences an economic crisis, it may cause very large transaction fluctuations, but relatively speaking, the price fluctuation of gold has always been able to remain within a safe range. Although according to the year Different, the price of gold exchange currency always fluctuates up and down, but generally speaking, the difference is not very big.

For most magicians, trading in gold seems much safer.

Well, this is probably one of the problems caused by financial globalization... Accompanied by the sound of wind chimes, as soon as the clerk opened the store door, he saw a black cat squatting on the glass display case of his store. Stick out your tongue and lick the chocolate ice cream.

The ice cream is covered with chocolate ganache and layers of whipped cream. It looks very tempting... no!

With the skill of a SHIELD agent, he rushed forward and tried to snatch the food from the cat's mouth: "Boss!! Cats can't eat chocolate! They will die!"

Alphonse raised his head suddenly, and saw his clerk bump into the invisible barrier with a ferocious expression, making a loud bang.

Alphonse: "..."

The instigator's black cat licked its paw, showing a look of contempt.Even if it is compressed into the size of a cat, many defensive spells prepared in advance in human form can still take effect-this is the inspiration brought to him by Alphonse's jewel magic.

Alphonse said awkwardly: "... Let me introduce, this is Lord Rocky Odinson, you have met before."

Clerk:? ?

The author has something to say: Reminder: Cats really can't eat chocolate.