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"Oh, really? You can really make magic tools. That's what I'd expect from you, Mister Ai.
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"I don't know, Sura. I think this grimoire will sell well.
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"...... Is it correct to say that this is an earthenware pot magical tool? The function is to cook rice well. I had thought you were trying to make a more radical magical tool.
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The abandoned village where we started living.
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In the center of the village, there was a house where the chief of this village once lived.
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It is the largest building in this abandoned village.
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We went in there, and the mercenaries covered the surrounding area with a wall using [Wall Building].
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Those who have low magic power use [Brick Building] to create bricks and prepare to build a house.
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While I left such work to them, I ordered Ai to create magical tools.
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The first of these magical tools was an earthenware pot for cooking rice.
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"It's useless if it doesn't sell. By the way, it seems that Vulcania has been making magic tools recently, but the ones that sell well are the ones used on a daily basis. I guess things that are used at home tend to sell well.
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"Indeed. Rice is a common food here in the Orient, so there must be a lot of people who would like to get their hands on it. By the way, how do you use this?
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"Let's see. Before you press this button, you have to sharpen the rice and put it in the earthenware pot and fill it with water up to the level of the mark. Once you have done that, the rice will finish cooking on its own. All you have to do is wait.
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"I see. There are many ways to cook rice, such as being careful to control the heat, but you are saying that you don't have to go through all of that trouble.
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"That's what I mean. By the way, you can also keep it warm for a while. It's an excellent way to keep your rice warm.
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"Hmm. I knew that Master Ars has been buying magical tools from the Briaria Magical Kingdom, but I didn't think that he had established the means to make magical tools in this way. No, perhaps it is not so difficult in the Kingdom of the Sky.
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Sura looks at the grimoire with admiration.
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She asked me if I could try it out to see if it was really useful, so I decided to give it a try.
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I immediately allow her to cook the rice to make sure that the magical tool Ai made is really good.
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As a result, very tasty rice is cooked in an earthenware pot, and we continue our conversation while tasting it.
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"Hmmm. This will certainly earn you some money. It's a useful tool, and I'm sure it will find a buyer.
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"Right? Even this kind of magical tool is not very common, so it should sell for a pretty good price. I think it would be a good way to make some money."
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"But there is one thing that concerns me. I wonder if you have passed this story on to the Orient?
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"To the Orient? No, I didn't give any details."
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That's not a good idea. If you are going to sell such a valuable item as a magical tool, I think it would be better to talk about it. Or rather, I think it would be better to sell it only to Mr. Banagher for the time being.
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"Why not? Wouldn't you make more money if you sold to someone who would pay a higher price? If you sell only to Mr. Banagher, the price might not be that high, right?"
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"There are probably some drawbacks. However, the technology of magic tools, especially magic circle technology, should be unknown to the general public. We don't know how many people will come to take advantage of it. Or someone with power may target this village. In order to ward off such a firestorm, it is important to have a cooperative relationship with Mr. Banagher, who is also a powerful man in this country.
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Hmmm.
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That may be true.
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If there is something that can only be made in this village of Barca, there is a possibility that forces will come to target it.
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It may be more than just one or two.
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Sura has a point in saying that it is better to leave such things to Banagher than to deal with them one by one ourselves.
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We could make magical tools in the village of Barka and leave them to Banagher to sell.
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However, that would make it impossible for us to gather merchants, which was our original goal.
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"No, I think that would be fine. Small steps at first are fine, Mr. Alphonse. Let's start small and work our way up. Besides, there is another reason for forming a cooperative relationship with Mr. Banagher. It is the relationship with the Brillia Magical State.
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"Of the Brillian Magical State? What does that have to do with anything?"
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"Of course. Did Mr. Alphonse study at the Academy of Nobility in Brillia? And what would the Brillia Magi think if the village of Barca, where Master Alphonse is based, started making magical tools and they spread throughout the small nations? I am sure they will think that Mr. Alphonse stole the information and started to make money. Perhaps he will ask us to stop the sale, or even issue a stronger warning.
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"...... Maybe so. Does that mean you're going to put Mr. Banagher between us and them so they don't say that?"
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"Yes, that's right. How about this? For the time being, we will keep the fact that we are making magical tools a secret in the village of Barka. We make magic tools in secret and sell them through Mr. Banagher. Ostensibly, we can pretend that Banagher who made the magic bows also made the clay pot magic tools. In this way, Banagher will have the prestige and the profit of sales, and Master Alphonse will have the wholesale price of the magical tools. Of course, you must first promise that you will have Lord Banagher deal with any problems that may arise.
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"Great. Let's just push people to do the hard stuff. Okay. Then let's start with making magic tools in secret. And then let Banagher sell them to us for a price. I'll have the clumsy ones who can't make magic tools work as merchant guards.
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I later asked Kristina about Sura's proposal, and she agreed with me.
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I guess it is dangerous to start selling magic tools out of the blue.
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From the merchant's point of view, if they suddenly start selling magical tools on a regular basis, people around them might get suspicious about where they are buying them from, which might lead to a big problem.
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So, in order to adopt Sura's idea, I visited Banagher once and talked to him.
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Banagher was surprised that I had suddenly made a magical tool and brought it to him.
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He asked me how I had made it.
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But I did not tell him about the manufacturing process, but only about the business deal, which was finally agreed to as Sura had proposed.
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We, the people of Barka village, would make the magical tools, and Banagher would receive them and sell them on the market.
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Since there were no major battles for a while, we worked hard to earn money by making clay pots.
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