After accumulating a certain amount of information, they would throw out the latest results. They would make others stop their research and spend time to understand the so-called 'latest' results to attack their confidence. This process was repeated several times, and many people who printed magic scrolls would choose to stop their own research. They would wait for the results of Kabambai Academy's research and use it for their own business.
In terms of profit, perhaps Kabambai Academy's magic scroll printing business wouldn't be the largest, but it could become the leader of the industry. And the price they had to pay was the trouble that came with trying to monopolize it.
After hearing this explanation, whether it was Great Magician Kabambai at the time, Uzov Gantia later, or the craftsmen of the Technical Guild now, they all had the same thought: sinister.
Although a certain someone wanted to explain that this was a basic operation on Earth.
But after confirming the attitude of those big shots, everyone present couldn't help but rub their fists and prepare for a big fight. As long as they could live a better life, who wouldn't love it?
The development of the following days was more or less as a certain someone had speculated.
As for the long-standing proposition 'you can't have your cake and eat it', there was a new saying in the days before a certain someone transmigrated: only children make choices, I want them all.
But the reality was, was there really a way to get them all?
Lin You guessed Great Magician Kabambai's choice. Everyone who heard it could understand why the old man made such a choice.
Perhaps on Earth, those big bosses would say that no matter how high one's knowledge was, they were still working for them. But on the path of knowledge, these people couldn't reach the peak, they only obtained money. Or to put it bluntly, stock price, that is, value in the eyes of others.
In the Lost Land, money really wasn't that important. Although it could do a lot of things, it couldn't kill gods, it couldn't kill dragons, it couldn't kill many extraordinary existences. In the Lost Land, there was no Desperate Gambit skill. Money had no meaning in the eyes of those existences. This was the biggest difference between the Lost Land and Earth.
Therefore, Great Magician Kabambai didn't choose the path that could make the most money, but instead chose to contribute to the civilized world, leave a good reputation, and expand his influence. As for the sinister idea mentioned by a certain someone, it could only be understood, but not said.
Of course, there were those who were quick-witted and thought of the knowledge that a certain someone generously spread, including the forum … Perhaps there was something fishy about it? Was this something that could only be understood but not spoken out?
No one asked. Anyway, if there was money to be earned, everyone would be a bastard if they didn't. Grand Magician Kabanbai had a high enough status, so he chose to benefit the world. The others were not as high as him, so they chose to take care of themselves and their families first. There was nothing wrong with that. It was just everyone taking what they needed.
Therefore, when this technology was of great strategic importance, the young Sharp Advance officers in the military library of the Guevana Empire strongly suggested that this technology be taken back to the country, and even suggested that it be put in front of the Emperor, although printing machines were not considered common in the Holy City, they were almost everywhere.
Mages who were confident, ambitious, or cash-strapped would choose to buy a basic Manroland printing press. Then, he would think of a way to modify it and study the method of printing Magic Scrolls. Mages who did not lack funds would directly buy the improved version of the Manroland printing machine. This was the final version used by the printing workshop in Kabambai Academy to print magic scrolls, and it did not include any further research and improvements.
Because the improved models were much more expensive, there was no lack of greedy Mages who wanted to upgrade for free. At this time, Grand Magician Kabambai would find a group of people to have a heart-to-heart talk with those who dared to make such a request.
In short, everyone was willing to pay in the end.
Other than the printing press, the first version of the most important Magic Scroll printing method was also put on the Society of Sorcerers' Knowledge Platform at a sky-high price, Xbar Kiel (10,000 gold), for people to buy.
It had to be known that even for strategic spells, commonly known as Forbidden Spells, the highest price was Armageddon's MMMDC Kiel (3,600 gold). Xbar Kiel's price was savage!
However, Grand Magician Kabambai also made it clear that this printing method was not for a single spell, but for a systematic method of making Magic Scrolls. How could it be compared to a Forbidden Spell? Not to mention, Xbar Kiel's price was not even enough to build a single floor of a Magic Tower. In exchange for a hen that could lay golden eggs every day, how could this be considered expensive!
For those veteran Mages who did not intend to get involved in the Magic Scroll printing business and only cared about the progress of this research, including the Mage Saint Tower Master of the Holy City's Six Towers, if Grand Magician Kabambai chose to hide this method. For the sake of the Lost Land, for the sake of the World of Sorcerers, perhaps they would come out together to pressure their old friend to change his mind.
However, since Kabambai was willing to make it public, although there was a price, it was not an impossible condition. Therefore, those who wished to obtain this knowledge had the right to consider whether it was worth it to pay such a price in exchange for this knowledge.
Wasn't this how a transaction worked? One person offered a price, and the other person would buy if they felt it was worth it. If not, they would not buy. Of course, bargaining was not impossible. Even using force to force the other party to lower the price was common in the Lost Land. However … Thinking of Kabambai's detestable old face, the Mages of the Holy City had to admit that the price to make him yield was much higher than Xbar Kiel.
Therefore, they had to accept their fate.
The Mage Saint Babak Abnahan, the captain of the First Magician Brigade of the First Legion of the Guevana Empire, once again set foot on the land of the Holy City. After circling it once, he returned without saying anything. He also wrote a report to the group of young officers in the military library:
Although not many people knew about the method of printing Magic Scrolls, they were all important figures. With these people as the center, their influence almost encompassed the entire Holy City. In particular, the knowledge of printing technology had already been recorded in the Society of Sorcerers and the Great Library. Therefore, if the Empire wanted to keep this secret, they would have to send troops to massacre the city.
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As a big city on the same level as the Empire's capital, the Holy City of Estali had private Magic Towers everywhere in the city except for the Great Library. In addition, it was full of Mages. If they wanted to massacre a city like this, it would be easier to massacre the Empire's capital. At least there were not that many Magic Towers.
Therefore, no matter how unwilling the group of radical young officers were, they could only give up on the idea of monopolizing this technology. The Guevana Empire took a step back and bought ten sets of equipment for printing Magic Scrolls in one go. They also bought a set of the printing method that was regarded as extremely expensive, intending to madly produce Magic Scrolls as reserves for war.
This act of spreading printing machines and printing methods quickly led to the first difficulty that someone had envisioned – the problem of insufficient raw materials.
In this era of low productivity, it was meaningless to speed up only one part of the entire industrial chain because the speed of the supporting industries upstream and downstream did not increase.
The raw materials for making Magic Scrolls produced around the Holy City, as well as the accumulated inventory over a long period of time, were all swept clean. In the past, these reserves and production were enough to meet the needs of a huge Mage city like Estali in terms of making Magic Scrolls. But after the printing machine was reformed, it was completely insufficient.
If the Holy City itself and the surrounding areas did not have the materials to make Magic Scrolls, the materials could only be transported from further areas. And the finished Magic Scrolls always had to be transported to other places to be sold, because there was no demand for Magic Scrolls of the same magic within the Holy City. Then the problem of transportation was brought to the table.
These two major difficulties suddenly caused the newly emerging printing industry to run into a lot of headaches.
According to the law of supply and demand, at this time, the price of things should increase endlessly until the supply could exceed the demand. But Magic Scrolls were not a necessity for the people like food. Not to mention, the inflation on Earth was basically due to panic, and there were some people who speculated and added fuel to the fire, causing a serious financial disaster.
In the past, adventurers only brought one or two Magic Scrolls to save their lives, and even if they did not bring any, they still dared to go to the end of the world. Could it be that the adventurers of this era did not dare to go out without Magic Scrolls?
So there was no room for this thing to increase in price.
What kind of magic had what kind of price. If the price was too high, the adventurers would not pay. Take C 'Kiel (100 gold coins) for a one-time use Water Purification Scroll. Adventurers would rather travel back and forth a few times, or carry a big bucket of water on their own journey. Even if they traveled for ten years, they wouldn't be able to spend C' Kiel. This was the reality.
If any economic activity was separated from the consumer side and only considered the cost, failure was inevitable.
And in the chaotic battle for the limited raw materials, the printing of Magic Scrolls, and the sale of Magic Scrolls, only Great Mage Kabambai was stable.
Because this situation was hinted by the young mage who Teaches Mathematics. But as long as his focus was on research, he did not care whether he could sell more Magic Scrolls or not.
But people were always forced to come out. Some quick-witted mages had already started to improve the production of raw materials for Magic Scrolls, as well as the transportation problem.
It was like a series of carriages pulled by people, and one of the carriages turned into a locomotive and rushed forward.
Perhaps the locomotive would be slowed down by the other carriages when it started, but as long as the locomotive kept pulling, the overall speed would always increase. Or one of the carriages would break away, lose speed, and finally stay in place forever. But very few people would choose to smash the locomotive and let all the carriages move forward at the same speed as before.
The atmosphere in the Holy City of Estale was like this now. An unimaginable vitality burst forth from the center of the printing machine.
Even those mages who lost their income from handmade Magic Scrolls because of the popularity of printing presses turned around and threw themselves into the business of printing presses. Because they were good at handmade, in the process of research and improvement, these people had an advantage over other mages because they knew more.
As for those magic apprentices who were already annoyed by the low success rate and high cost of production, they decisively gave up. They could not be a scribe, and they could not even make Magic Scrolls. This group of people should have resented the initiator of all this.
But they found that the printing presses all over the world needed the skills they had been practicing for a long time. Naturally, they gathered in the printing presses all over the world and used their talents in another way.
Different from the textile and light industry, it led the first wave of industrial revolution on Earth. Another industry in the Mystic Lands showed the same signs in the Holy City of Estari.
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