Chapter 206: Lighting War:
Assistant Sorel left the Suktara Master Tower and prepared to go outside to concentrate on research. This was something Duke only learned about when he was invited to attend the farewell party.
The farewell party was held as a buffet in a cafeteria in the castle.
In addition to Teacher Suktara and the three first-level arcane mage students, several arcane mages who had left before also rushed back.
Duke found an opportunity and raised a toast to Sorel who came over: "I didn't expect you to leave so soon, Director Sorel. I also want to find an opportunity to ask you some questions in the field of life."
Sorel Stopped.
The red wine glass in his hand swayed slightly, and his eyes lingered on Duke for a long time, until Duke felt a little scared in his heart. Then he said calmly: "You are very good, Duke. I hope you can continue to be so lucky and inherit the teacher's life." Research."
Without drinking, Sorel left without any interest in talking to Duque.
"Sir, Mr. Sorel, you are so rude." Assistant Murali came over with a wine glass, "Sir, he didn't even drink your toast. Why is he so arrogant? Isn't he just a second-level arcane mage?" In a few years, sir, you will definitely become a second-level arcane mage."
She was really a little angry, feeling that the entire Su clan in the restaurant was hostile to her and Duke.
"Be low-key, little Lili." Duke chuckled, "Everyone has their likes and dislikes. I'm not the federal currency golden dragon. Everyone likes me and respects me." He sent Mulali away
.
Duke simply found a corner by himself and silently watched other people socialize.
This level of neglect did not cause any fluctuations in his heart. In his previous life on earth, he ran a soybean oil factory. As a small factory owner, he experienced a lot of cold treatment.
Not to mention being coldly treated, I have also experienced being humiliated.
"But having said that, Sorel and the Su clan's attitude towards me is indeed a bit wrong and very hostile." Duke swung his glass, showing no interest in drinking. "Logically speaking, I didn't do anything, just because I became a student of Teacher Suktara, so you are hostile to me?"
This theory makes no sense.
Duke then thought of other aspects: "The hostility towards me must be due to a conflict of interest between me and them. What kind of conflict of interest could it be... It should be related to my becoming Teacher Suktala's successor. Could it be that they think Am I here to rob the mage tower?"
Although he had no intention of robbing the mage tower, he couldn't bear the thought that others would think so.
"Yes, Maurice said that Master Suktala's Tower has been undergoing a major purge recently, and many people from the Su clan have been purged... They must think that this is Teacher Suktara, who wants to abandon the Su clan. After all, the two parties are not really blood relatives." The
blood of the Su clan today is the blood of Suktala's brother or younger brother, not Suktala's own blood.
There will be betrayal and abandonment even among blood relatives, let alone relatives separated by one layer.
"But why is Sorel hostile to me, and the three first-level arcane mages don't seem to be very enthusiastic about me. Is it because of the Su clan?" "No!" Duke didn't believe it
,
so Rael and others would fight against an arcane mage like him for the sake of ordinary people.
Therefore, there must be a conflict of interest between them: "Then what conflict of interest is there between Sorel and me?"
Thinking of Sorel's sudden departure, Duke vaguely speculated something: "Could it be that they feel that the teacher Will the resources of the Mage Tower be tilted towards me, so you are hostile to me? And because you can't get the resources, Sorel left?" It seems that he has figured it out
, but in the end it is just speculation.
Duke thought for a while and then gave up and continued to think deeply: "Forget it, it's none of my business. As long as it doesn't affect me, I don't care why Sorel left!" He took a
sip of wine and his mood returned to free and easy: "I rely on my ability. After being cultivated by Teacher Suktara, why should I care about other people's opinions? Even if Teacher Suktara wants to give the Master Tower to me, I have nothing to be embarrassed about and I will accept it!"
Duke, who thought it through, said Eat and drink as usual, regardless of whether others are enthusiastic or indifferent to you, it is right to make your stomach comfortable first.
After eating and drinking, the farewell party is over.
Duke took Mulali away and before he returned to Tower 2, he saw Assistant Subbotan waiting at the door with a smile on his face.
"Your Excellency Duke, sir, please go to class as usual."
"Um..." Duke took out his pocket watch and took a look. It was already after eight o'clock. Unexpectedly, Suktara would not miss it even tonight, "Teacher just You're coming back from the farewell party, why don't you take a break?" "
Your Excellency, you left early from the farewell party, took a bath, and then asked me to come over and inform you." "
Okay, I'll go to class right away."
Wait for Duke to pass By the time he arrived, Suktara had already prepared teaching materials and was waiting for Duke to arrive with a smile on his face. He really didn't waste any time.
After gathering his thoughts, Duke focused on his studies.
"The spirituality contained in each kind of spiritual material is different. Even if the spiritual materials of the same variety are selected according to the same standards, there will be countless differences in spirituality. Only by grasping this gap can you refine Prepare the required spiritual materials."
"We alchemists have been passed down from ancient times to today. Even the birth of the profession is older than the arcanist mages. As long ago as the knights conquered the forest, the alchemists had already begun to refine gold and crack it. The mystery of material transformation."
"Duke, you are born to be an alchemist, I can feel your talent." "
Don't waste it, teacher, I will train you to be a qualified alchemist!"
Suktara said During teaching breaks, he would always describe Duke's future blueprint and encourage him to continue exploring in the field of alchemy.
The pie cannot attract Duke.
But the joy of learning knowledge allowed him to patiently listen to Suktala's teachings and cooperate with Xiaoyi to raise various doubts.
Interactions are frequent and teacher-student relationships develop rapidly.
At least in Suktara's mind, it was becoming more and more certain that Duke was her successor given by spirituality to make up for her regrets in the last stage of her life.
Dang Dang Dang.
Butler Sully came and knocked on the door to remind him that the teaching practice was over.
"Teacher, I'll take my leave first." Duke began to pack up the materials on the table, which were all ordinary spiritual materials used as teaching materials.
Suktara smiled and nodded: "Go to rest early, kid."
Leave Tower 1.
Calling his sleepy assistant, Duke took advantage of the moonlight and walked on the main road of the castle. The street lights were still on, and there were patrolling knights patrolling not far away.
suddenly.
A man emerged from behind a big tree in front of Duke. He was no stranger. He was Surair, the administrator of the mage tower and castle.
The leader of the Su clan and the lord of the castle.
At this time, Surair was so drunk that he stopped in front of Duke and stared at Duke with his red eyes.
There was no wave on Duke's face. Xiaoyi and the spiritual plant in the castle were always breathing in resonance, so as long as there was a spiritual plant, no one could hide from him.
He had known for a long time that Surair was hiding behind the big tree.
"You are a villain!" Su Laier suddenly grinned and smiled sinisterly, "With evil intentions, you came to the Suktara Master Tower!"
Duke's expression did not change.
Mulali couldn't stand it anymore and immediately fought back loudly: "You are the villain. My husband is a genius arcane mage. Master Suktara invited him several times before he agreed to come to study. You villains, don't Confusing right and wrong!"
"Fart! Duke, you don't dare to admit it, right? What kind of arcane mage are you? You covet other people's mage towers. You can't earn it yourself! Aren't you a genius arcane mage? If you have the guts, just build it yourself. Mage Tower, don’t you feel ashamed to come here and snatch my Su family’s Mage Tower?”
Su Laier pointed at Duke’s nose and asked loudly.
However, he found that Duke and Mulali, who was still angry before, were looking at him with indifferent expressions without saying a word.
He became more and more arrogant, widened his eyes and roared: "I dare not speak anymore, I got into my head, haha, I knew you were just a villain!" He scolded fiercely,
Duke and Mulali in front of him, His expression remained unchanged and he didn't speak.
The patrolling knight escorts seemed to have been given instructions. They were indifferent to the yelling and cursing here and patrolled straight ahead.
Not far away, on Tower 1, a window was pushed open.
Suktala stared down with cold eyes, only to see Surair alone, pointing at the air in front of him and yelling curses, and the curses became more and more intense.
The real Duke and Mulali had already reached the gate of Tower 2 and entered without looking back.
What was left in front of Surair was just the arcane magic of illusion cast by Duke.
"Sully."
"Old Madam." Butler Sully bowed forward.
"You know how to deal with this embarrassing thing."
"Yes, old lady."
"Get rid of it as soon as possible. I don't want these people to cause any disturbance between me and Duke. If it doesn't work, find someone else. Come and do it."
Su Li took a deep breath: "Please don't worry, old lady."
...
"Sir, why are you dragging me away? I still want to scold that Su Laier." Mulali, who returned to Tower 2, Wu Zi was furious.
"Why don't you curse? This is the teacher's castle. You have to give the teacher face no matter what." Duke gave the assistant a slap in the face.
"Then you can't be scolded by others in vain."
"There are a thousand ways to solve problems, and scolding is the most impractical method." Duke waved his hand and prepared to take a shower.
Mulali was still unconvinced and snorted: "Swearing is the most comfortable thing."
The next day was Saturday, so he didn't have to go to work at Penrose Master Tower. Duke was called over to class early in the morning by Suktara.
In Suktara's words, her life is running out and she is seizing the day.
The class lasted until noon before I had free time.
On the way to dinner, I met Butler Sully, who hurried over while wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"Your Excellency Duke."
"Mr. Sully, is something wrong?"
"I'm sorry that due to some factors, I couldn't let you enjoy peace and quiet in the castle. The old lady scolded me. Now everything has been resolved. No. If anyone bothers you again." Butler Sully said quickly, "Your knights can rest assured to train in the castle."
Duke nodded happily: "Although I don't know what happened, thank you very much, Sully Sir."
"This is what I should do."
"I also hope that you can take my place and tell some people that when I moved in, I only wanted to learn alchemy knowledge from the teacher. I have no other pursuits." Duke said calmly, "I have my own career outside."
"Your thirst for knowledge is admirable, but please rest assured that no one will pester you again. This is what the old lady meant.
" After a pause, Butler Sully smiled slightly: "I only serve the old lady, there is no doubt about it." "
I understand, thank you, Mr. Sully."
"May the spirit favor the old lady and you."
and Sully After the butler's conversation, Duke truly felt that the atmosphere in the entire castle had changed. No one from the Su family dared to look coldly at him anymore.
Vivian takes the escort knights for training, and there will be no blind knights looking for trouble.
on the contrary.
When Duke was taking a walk, a patrol of knights passed by. The first knight left the team and came directly to Duke.
"Your Excellency Duke, the new knight captain of Suktala Mage Tower, Herdos greets you." "
Hello, Captain Herdos." Duke returned the salute and then asked curiously, "I feel it. The breath of phantom beasts, are you a phantom beast knight?" "
Your perception is amazing. Indeed, I am a phantom beast knight. It was cultivated by Lord Suktara that I have the strength I have today." Hel Doss was about forty years old and nearly two meters tall. "If you have anything to do in the castle, just give me an order."
After saying hello, Herdos said goodbye and left.
Duke watched the other party running away on horseback, feeling quite emotional in his heart. The power of the 3rd level Arcane Mage should not be underestimated.
Although Suktala did not train a descendant of arcane mage, there were 2nd level fantasy beast knights among the knights under his command.
"As a noble, the Black Snake family has only trained Muhans Black Snake, a 2-ring fantasy beast knight..." "
Of course."
Duke thought: "If the teacher has descendants, I am afraid he will also launch a pioneering war. , compete for a noble title, and start their own family... Unfortunately, the Su family failed to live up to expectations, so the teacher's life goal became to find a successor."
Time flies.
September 15th arrived in a blink of an eye.
Duke specifically took leave for this point and sat at the headquarters of the Giant of Light Spirit Weapon Company, watching Runwanjia launch a competing product, the Spirit Light Lamp.
As soon as possible, people bought a batch of Lingguang lamp series lamps.
Disassemble and study one by one.
"This is simply a change of shape of the portable lamp. The lamp head, the buttons are copied, and even the design of the card machine interface is copied!" A designer from the R&D department loudly rebuked, "Sir, we must sue Runwanjia for this patent. Infringement."
"If we were to file a lawsuit, it would at best be regarded as structural infringement. The light-emitting structure is still the light-emitting structure of the Lingfeng lamp." Another designer said thoughtfully.
"The appearance of infringement is nothing, the key is the infringement of adults' creativity!" "
Yes, as long as the people in the Erudite Tower are not blind, they can definitely tell the difference between the portable lamp and the spiritual wind lamp." "I'm afraid of distinguishing it
. Even if they don’t admit it, they will waste time litigating with us.”
"Then let's file a lawsuit!"
Everyone in the company shouted indignantly.
General Manager Vuillard came to Duke: "Mr. Duke, are we going to sue Runwanjia for infringement now?" "
Of course." Duke put down the light lamp he was playing with, "Haven't the lawyers been contacted? There is nothing wrong with the Lingguang Lamp. He just plagiarized the product. He went to the Erxue Tower to sue Runwanjia for infringement, and then contacted reporters to stir up the lawsuit." "Yes." "By the way,
how
much does this Lingguang Lamp cost?"
"The lowest Lengguang Lamp, Priced at 35 copper dragons, our cheapest portable lamp is priced at 45 copper dragons... However, Runwanjia has not launched a portable lamp with a built-in spiritual storage card. They have not launched any products with built-in spiritual storage cards." "The reason is simple
. , the built-in spirit storage card technology is unique to me. If they plagiarize it, it will be easy to determine the infringement. Only the structural creativity of the portable lamp can be competed with the improvement and optimization of the spirit wind lamp, and the people behind Runwanjia can bear it."
Duke smiled and didn't care, but said: "Follow the original plan. If they lower the price, we will also lower the price. We will also lower the price for agents in other cities. We will compete for the market even if we lose money!" We raised 110,000 gold dragons
.
Just to fight a price war.
Duke didn't panic at all. Instead, he expected the Runwan family to follow up quickly and fight from Shenjiao City to the entire Fengxi territory.
"Yes!" Viard responded excitedly.
He is one of the few people who knows the technology of strong hand lights, and also knows Duke's entire business competition plan. There are not many tricks, but they are quite clever.
He can definitely tear off a big fat piece of meat from the Runwan family, let the Giant of Light eat as much as he wants, and then truly gain a foothold in Shenjiao City and even the entire Seven Towers Federation.
"Okay, go ahead and call Shakron over."
"Yes."
Shakron is the brother-in-law of Hans Black Snake, the uncle of Mulali, and the deputy captain of the Snakehead Town Security Knights. 1st Ring Great Knight.
"Mr. Duke." Shakron saluted.
"You're welcome, Shakron." Duke smiled, "My name is Uncle Muhans, and you are his brother-in-law. We are all a family."
Shakron smiled and replied, "Yes, a family."
"How about it? Are you tired from having two jobs?"
"Fortunately, the mayor gave me a while off and allowed me to work on the second phase of the factory first, so it's not that tiring." "
That's good. The second phase of the factory must be kept confidential."
"I understand, please rest assured."
Shakron has been appointed by Duke as the deputy general manager of the Giant of Light Spirit Weapon Company and the director of the Sheshou Town Factory.
Responsible for the secret construction of a new factory in Sheshou Town, which is used to produce a series of high-light hand lamp products.
The current series of portable lamps, table lamps, and headlamps alone can compete with Runwanjia's Lingguang series, but it is unrealistic to defeat Runwanjia.
Even if you win the patent infringement lawsuit, the other party can still make sales while losing money.
However, the patent pool of strong light hand lamps is much deeper than that of portable lamps. If Runwanjia dares to infringe, the giant of light can just rely on the infringement fees and make money happily.
In fact, many scholars who hold patents on spiritual weapons do not set up factories or companies themselves, but rely on patent licensing to make money.
Runwanjia has obtained the exclusive agency rights for many patents in Shenjiao City.
"I asked Mulali to arrange for us to have lunch together at noon." After Duke finished talking about the business, he extended an invitation to Shakron and others.
Following Duke's instructions, the entire Giant of Light took action.
The Giant of Light has promoted the products in all the spiritual weapon stores where Runwanjia sells its products, supplementing the products and setting the prices at the same standard as Runwanjia.
Wherever Runwanjia places slide card advertisements, there are also slide card advertisements for Giant of Light.
In addition, Giant of Light also provides subsidies. Every time a lamp is sold for Giant of Light, the store will be given a subsidy of one copper dragon or two bronze dragons, prompting the store owner to proactively sell the Giant of Light's portable lamp to customers instead of the aura. lamp.
In addition, the legal department of the Giant of Light directly filed a lawsuit against the Runwan family to the Erudue Tower.
At the same time, they spent a lot of money to publish an infringement lawsuit in newspapers, exaggerating Runwanjia's patent infringement on the Giant of Light. They did not respect knowledge, the laws of the Seven Towers Federation, and even less respect for the spiritual arcana.
A battle about lighting started vigorously.
In just one week, the Giant of Light received good news.
According to the investigation team's tracking of data from several spiritual weapon stores in Shenjiao City, relying on price cuts and subsidies, the sales volume of portable lamps far exceeds that of spiritual lamps, and is several times that of spiritual lamps.
We have also negotiated with a group of agents in other cities to provide a series of portable lamp products to agents at low prices, blocking Runwanjia's export routes.
The giant of light holds the patent, and is not afraid of losing money at all. It will always make money back one day.
Runwanjia must either strangle the giant of light to death and then buy the patent rights; otherwise, if it fails, it will have to pay huge patent infringement fees.
"Keep working hard, don't be afraid, we have plenty of golden dragons!" Duke said enthusiastically at the company meeting, "Keep an eye on Runwanjia, if they lower their prices we will also lower our prices. Unless they join forces with the arcane mages from other places to suppress us, they will never retreat. Half a step!"
"Sir, what if we are blocked by an arcane mage from outside the city?" Coritia, the deputy general manager of sales, asked.
"Then take a step back and put products directly into ordinary spiritual weapon stores. If it doesn't work, withdraw from this city, or directly cooperate with local spiritual weapon factories for production. The Wind Breath Domain has eight regions. If we win half of them, we will win! "
After a pause, Duke continued: "And we should not just focus on the Wind Breath Realm. The twelve realms of the Seven Towers Federation are all our battlefields... The geographical distance between the realms is too far, and the transportation of products is inconvenient. We directly cooperate with the locals to produce and earn some patent licensing fees!"
The territory of the Seven Towers Federation is so vast that even airships cannot traverse it.
An area like Shenjiao City is basically equivalent to a province on Earth; the Wind Breathing Area is even as large as half of China; so the Seven Towers Federation is basically equivalent to the total area of the Earth's continents combined.
In such a vast area, the route distance is also continuously lengthened. Some dangerous routes can only be traversed by airships and warships, making it really inconvenient to trade goods.
So patent licensing is the best way.
If the Giant of Light can occupy half of the Fengxi field, it can be regarded as a giant company and has successfully dominated the lighting and light source market.
So, another week has passed.
Time has entered October in a blink of an eye, and autumn has quietly arrived. Some trees on the streets of Shenjiao City have begun to turn yellow and fall leaves.
Runwanjia, whose sales were miserable after being beaten by the giant of light, finally came to their senses.
"Sir, the Giant of Light is not honest. Their sales team colludes with the spiritual weapon shops and subsidizes one or two copper dragons for every product sold. So those shop owners are trying their best to promote portable lamps and even sell ours The spiritual light is hidden in the corner."
The sales manager lowered his head and reported to Chairman Clelinda.
Clarinda, who is a third-level arcane mage, was so angry that her liver ached: "What a bunch of trash. Now that they know it, they still don't imitate it! They subsidize one or two copper dragons, so we will subsidize two or three copper dragons!"
" Yes, sir, I will make arrangements right away."
"Also, how about contacting partners in several cities outside." "
We are already talking, but...but the price offered by the Giant of Light is the same as ours, and they have Patent rights, so...for now, we are still fighting for it..." The sales manager stumbled back. They did not expect that the Giant of Light would dare to fight hard.
The discounts even given are lower than those given by Runwanjia.
"What a bunch of trash. If I count on you, Runwanjia will just close down!" Clinda waved the sales manager to get out.
Then he called his secretary: "Send a letter to Lord Mesta in Spike City and tell him that I am planning to visit Master Mesta Tower. It is a private visit and does not require academic preparation." "Okay, sir." "
Write
separately Write a letter to Lord John of Rainbow Bay City and Lord Lovekis of Fire Oil Land...invite them to come to my mage tower as guests." "
As you wish."
The secretary went to work.
Clarinda rubbed her temples with a sinister look on her face: "Young little 1st level arcane mage, how dare you compete with me head-on!"
He made a fist with one hand and squeezed his fingers loudly: "Since I was injured in the war, , the spiritual core was permanently damaged, and I had to change from an arcanist to an arcane scholar, so I was suppressed everywhere. I couldn't get a scholar title. Now even a small first-level arcane mage dares to go against me!" The more I think about it
! More and more angry.
Clarinda now just wants to vent all her anger on the Giant of Light, and completely crush this small company that dares to compete with him.
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