For the past few nights, Herland had been watching Josiah and her sister, Hiri, work on Hearthstone. She had also been providing technical assistance from the side.
In fact, Herland had never thought that this magic machine would bring her any benefits. After all, she couldn't imagine anyone would be willing to spend so much money on a storage unit inside a bunch of inscriptions.
Even if there was, it would be the kind of inscriptions with "teleportation" and "conversion" inscriptions. Inscriptions like hers that could only store pictures had no market in Noland.
However, she enjoyed the process of making Hearthstone with Josiah and her sister, Hiri. Because Josiah's understanding of inscriptions was unheard of, even more profound than the best teacher in her school.
Operators, sentences, and logical expressions had completely subverted Herland's understanding of inscriptions.
From her point of view, the inscription was a very simple thing. She could create ice by giving the 'Freeze' inscription to the air, and then give the 'Explode' attribute to the ice to use a very simple 'Ice Explosion Spell'.
The complicated spells she learned in the Advanced Magic Academy didn't require more than a hundred inscriptions to master. Even the most advanced spells required thousands of inscriptions at most.
However, the application of inscriptions Josiah taught Herland called "programming" required thousands of inscriptions to perform a very simple function.
It was very complicated, so complicated that Herland only learned a little bit from Josiah.
However, the game "Ping Pong" piqued Herland's interest in this new application of inscriptions. After all, this application might not even be mastered by the best archmage in the academy.
Today, when Herland returned to her alchemy workshop from the Advanced Magic Academy, she was shocked speechless by the scenery inside the alchemy workshop.
If not for the name "Herland Leuder" placed at the alchemy workshop's entrance, she would have thought that she had walked into a shop that sold raw crystals, and it was a very high-end one at that!
Herland pushed open the door of the alchemy workshop in disbelief and cautiously stepped inside.
This slightly narrow alchemy workshop was completely submerged by a large pile of raw crystals, and they were not the kind of inferior raw crystals that could only store one or two inscriptions.
As far as Herland could see, every piece of Origin Crystal was shockingly high in quality.
She estimated that more than half of the raw crystals were so expensive that she wouldn't be able to afford them even if she used her scholarship for an entire year. As for the other half, she probably wouldn't be able to afford them in her entire life.
Where did these crystals come from?
Herland took a few steps in the alchemy workshop and didn't dare to go any further. She was afraid that she would accidentally step on the raw crystal and lose a few months' worth of food money.
Just as Herland was puzzled, the sound of a carriage coming to a stop came from outside the alchemy workshop.
Herland looked out the window and saw that it was a carriage used for transporting goods.
Three dwarves jumped down from the carriage and carried what looked like a cage towards her alchemy workshop.
"Miss Herland, you're back?"
Josiah walked down from the upper floor of the alchemy workshop. Josiah had already used the lower floor as a raw crystal warehouse.
"These raw crystals … Where did they come from?"
Herland watched as Josiah stepped on a few raw crystals that were worth a few thousand gold coins. Her chest felt a little tight.
Leuder's family was diligent and thrifty, and it wasn't just her sister Hiri. Herland had been living a poor life recently, so she would keep the raw crystals of even the worst quality.
"I bought them from the dwarves. They'll be much cleaner after they're assembled."
"…"
Before Herland could reply, the door to the alchemy workshop was pushed open. A few dwarves from the Frostaxe clan walked in and placed the cage on the ground.
"The great elder asked us to capture them. We won't be responsible for sending them here!"
The leader of the dwarves greeted them, put down the iron cage, and directly pushed the door open and left.
If this kind of service attitude was put on Earth, it would definitely be given countless bad reviews.
Putting aside the dwarves' service attitude, the efficiency of the delivery was top-notch. Josiah had reached an agreement with Frostaxe in the morning, and by dusk, Frostaxe had sent over a pile of raw crystals that filled the entire alchemy workshop.
There was also a … little pet that came with it.
Josiah walked up to the cage and saw a tortoise-like creature inside.
"This is … an Protocrystal Lizard?"
Herland looked at the dazed creature in the cage in disbelief. She had only seen such creatures that lived underground in books.
"An Protocrystal Lizard?"
Josiah had only heard from Frostaxe that it was a special little pet. Noland's dwarves seemed to have reared many different kinds of lizards, but this creature was less than half a meter long and had a glowing crystal on its back. It looked more like a tortoise than a lizard.
"It's a very rare creature. The crystal on its back is a very high quality crude crystal. It can store more inscriptions than these crude crystals … It's just that it's not very suitable as a material for spellcasters to create magically guided machines."
Herland didn't expect to see a real living creature.
Rumor had it that the crystal on the back of each Protocrystal Lizard could be engraved into the center of a national teleportation circle, but nobody needed a teleportation circle that could escape. Even the slightest movement would destroy the entire structure of the circle.
"Will the crystal on their back lose its effect after they die?"
Josiah casually took out a raw crystal from the ground and tossed it to the lizard. It slowly crawled to the crystal, opened its mouth, and swallowed it.
"That seems to be the case in the books." Herland had read many books, but she didn't know as much as her younger sister, Hiri, who had traveled extensively.
"If you can't kill it, you can only raise it … Then Hearthstone's server will be yours."
Josiah tossed another raw crystal to the lizard. He turned his head as slowly as a sloth.
A famous game company on Earth, Ubisoft, used a potato as their server. It didn't seem wrong for Josiah to use a lizard as his server.
The crystal on the lizard's back could store up to a hundred million inscriptions, and this was only its infant form. Once it shed its skin and the server was upgraded, it could reach tens of billions.
"Did you buy all these raw crystals from the dwarves?"
Herland knew that as the producer of "Beauty and the Devil", Josiah definitely had a lot of funds on hand. After all, there was a wave of discussion about "Beauty and the Devil" in her school.
For example, her best friend Sansa, the girl who believed in the Holy Light, had always hoped to meet the actor playing Belle or Zenas.
"Buy? To be precise, I traded three cards and a portrait of a hero, "Josiah said.
"Cards?" Herland was prepared to hear Josiah say a number close to a hundred thousand, but three cards and a portrait of some hero could be exchanged for so many raw crystals?
"The Epic card, Bloodhowl, the Legendary card, Grom Hellscream, the Legendary card, Alexstrasza the Red Dragon, and the Dwarf's Hill King, Magni Bronzebeard. These three cards and a hero's portrait allowed me to buy these Primordial Crystals for half the price."
Josiah explained to Herland.
"This … Isn't a Hearthstone card bag only three gold? How did you do it? "
When Herland and Josiah were making Hearthstone, Josiah had also mentioned the price of the card bag.
Three gold was enough for her to live on for a few days, but it was nothing to the dwarves who had mountains of gold.
A card bag could produce five cards, and just three cards could be exchanged for close to a hundred thousand raw crystals?
Why?! Herland couldn't understand at all.
"How did you do it? Because the Great Elder of the dwarves is a Hearthstone player. "
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