Ch 12. Variable Speed Magitech Fan

The young slave is covered in bleeding lacerations and looks terrifying, but there are no internal wounds.

Xuyi sends the slave to the best infirmary in the city. After a thorough medical examination, the doctor confirms that his condition is not life threatening. So Xuyi leaves the slave at the infirmary so that he can receive proper medical care, and returns to the wizard tower.

When he reaches the wizard tower, his colleagues are surprised to see him.

"Hey, Xuyi, didn't you apply for a whole day-off? Why are you back so soon?" Reim asks in his loud Deejay voice.

"My business is settled, so since I am free, I come back to see if there is any work to help with." Xuyi answers jovially.

"Oh. I thought you have left for good."

"Reim, this you wouldn't know. Magitech fans are selling SO well, even if Xuyi is not coming back, he will be filthy rich just selling magitech fans. He won't need this filthy tough job at this shabby wizard's tower."

Hearing this cynical comment, Xuyi frowns a bit, but then he laughs it off.

In the time he has began mass producing magitech fan, he has taken quite a few day-offs.

Elder-Wizard Camilla did not make any comment on this. On the contrary, a few of his colleagues began to say things behind Xuyi's back, and when talking to him, they are always making cynical comments.

Since this was how they treated him since his arrival, he had long since stopped caring about what they say. Besides, it did not affect him in any way.

"Venna, how is the analysis of the sigil going?" Xuyi walked straight up to her and asks in whispered tones.

"I am almost done." Venna replies while taking out a Sigil drawing, and spreads it out on the table. "Look here. I totally agree with your idea of using the Lieder Node to neutralise the conflicting elements within this sigil. I have conducted many experiments, and now I have determined that this model is the most suitable, do try and see if it functions properly."

"If you say it is the most suitable model, then it must have been to best model of redesignation."

Even when he says so, Xuyi still pores over the Sigil's design, and verifies that the model of redesignation proposed by Venna is very suitable.

"This is great! Venna, thanks for your help." says Xuyi and then he reaches into his pocket. "Of course, besides thanking for your help,  payment is payment. It will still be 10 gold, deal?"

Venna blushes slightly, a little abashed: "10 gold is too big a sum, I only spent one night on this sigil."

"That is because you are a genius. Knowledge is priceless, so 10 gold is nothing in comparison." 

Venna thinks it through, and feel she should not be too modest herself, so she nodded and keeps the money away.

After Xuyi has left, Reim comes to Venna with a mighty frown.

"Venna, what are you and Xuyi is chatting about? It looks suspicious."

Venna glares at him angrily: "What do you mean suspicious? What's suspicious?!"

Reim got startled, and apologises profusely: No, no no no! I was saying....mysterious. Yes. It looks mysterious. What did you talk about?"

"Well, it's nothing much. Xuyi asks me to help analyse a sigil, then gave me 10 gold for it, that's all." Venna doesn't think this isn't something that needs concealing, so she just tells Reim nonchalantly.

"Ten golds?!" Reim yelps in surprise, and immediately draws everyone's attention which gives him another start. He promptly lowers his voice: "For just analysing one Sigil, Xuyi gives you 10 gold? Is it some kind of deceit?"

"What can he gain from deceiving me?" Venna gives Reim a scornful glance. "This is not even the first time, last few times he paid me almost immediately. So I trust him."

"Not the first time?" Reim is even more surprised. "Venna, are you and Xuyi doing something behind my back? Something….something….."

Venna suddenly fly into a rage: "You better watch your mouth! What do you mean doing something behind your back? Who ARE you to me? Must I report to you everything I did?"

Venna was saying these very loudly, and everyone in the room heard her. Everyone turns to look at Venna and Reim. And naturally sees this as the argument between a pair of lovebirds.

And then they turn to look at Xuyi. They couldn't understand, why by just half a minute of conversation with Venna can fuel an argument between the two lovebirds? This Reim chap, he is not usually the jealous type…

Xuyi has no time to care about how the couple is arguing, after getting the Sigil drawing from Venna, he immediately begins his work on it.

This sigil is an improved version of the sigil used in magitech fans.

The first version of the magitech fan sigil is made in a hurry, so it actually has a lot of imperfections. Now that Xuyi is preparing to greatly increase magitech fans' production, he naturally needs to develop a better version of a magitech fan.

One of the improvements on the sigil is allowing the control of the magitech fan's rotation speed, which is an upgrade from the unchangeable speed from the first version magitech fan.

This modification sounds really simple, but effectively means a total remake of the sigil. Actually, Xuyi is able to do this by himself, but it will surely take a lot of his time. So he went and sought Venna's help, hoping she can modify the sigil design according to his specifications.

Venna had shown great interest in Xuyi's magitech fan 1.0 version. When Xuyi asks her help to improve the sigil design, she agreed unhesitantly.

As one of the most powerful wizards in the laboratory, Venna's knowledge of sigils is much broader than Xuyi's. And she finishes modifying the sigil to Xuyi's specifications in no time at all.

Xuyi is very glad of this. He knows one man is not an islandand everyone is a master of his trade. And Venna's expertise is in sigils, that's undeniable. And consulting an expert is never wrong.

Each time Venna helps him solve a wizardry problem, Xuyi pays her 10 gold as remuneration.

Venna keeps saying that 10 gold is too big a sum, but Xuyi thinks it is just too little.

If you compare to getting experts to solve your problems back on Earth, if you do not offer a high enough price, the experts will not bother to even talk to you.

And more importantly, Xuyi gets to save a lot of time, and he can then focus on the integration between wizardry and modern technology. To enable the function of variable fan speed, the structural design will need to be altered accordingly. And in the whole Connaisance Continent, there is only Xuyi who knows how to do a machine's structural design.

It is now already late July. The hot weather will not sustain for more than two months, and if the second version of magitech fans is to be launched before the summer ends, Xuyi needs to act real fast.

Time flies when Xuyi is absorbed in his research and development works, when Xuyi finally finishes the prototype drawings of magitech fan version 2.0, he finds he is the only one left in the laboratory.

Xuyi has a good long stretch, and as he is packing his things to leave, the door suddenly opens, and Stelvia sticks her head in.

"Hey, Xuyi, I knew you'll still be here." Stelvia waves hello, and let out a cheeky smile.

"May I help you with anything? Or has Elder-Wizard Camilla summoned me again?" Xuyi replies with a smile.

Although he hasn't talked to her much, but since she has helped him get this job, Xuyi is grateful to her, so he has been much friendlier towards Stelvia compared to his colleagues.

"Why? Can I only see you only for wizardry matters?" said Stelvia with a girlish snort.

Xuyi shakes his head in amusement, he will not believe that she has come to see him just to have a chat, but he is not so stupid as to debate this with a nineteen years old teenage girl either.

"If it is not about wizardry, then what else can it be? You wouldn't have found me dashing, and has taken a fancy on me?" Xuyi couldn't help teasing her a bit.

Stelvia's cheeks flushes beet red, and stares at Xuyi angrily, "You men are all alike. Shameless! Stop your nonsense and follow me. We'll find someplace to eat. On my treat."

"On your treat?" Xuyi thought inwardly, I bet you 100 bucks you want me to help with something troublesome.

"What? You don't believe me?" She then resorted to dragging Xuyi by his arms, and heads out.

"Hey missy, you are going to make people gossip me more. I am agreeing you now."

The restaurant Stelvia is taking him is not far. It's just some restaurant near the wizard tower.

The restaurant is not some overly extravagant place, but its atmosphere is serene, and they serve some local specialties, which is refreshing and tastes good. Xuyi can easily see the effort Stelvia has put into this dinner treat.

During the meal, Stelvia stutters quite a few times, but couldn't say a single word. Xuyi finds this amusing, and he keeps his silence and goes on eating.

Seeing the meal will be over soon, Stelvia could not bear it any longer, she started very softly: "Uh....Xuyi, can you to help me with something?"

Xuyi smiled, and replied, "What is it? Seeing that you buy me dinner, I will help you wherever I can."

Hearing this, Stelvia is ever more exasperated. No matter what, she is still a beauty, and even if she did not buy Xuyi dinner, shouldn't any gallant man offer his assistance at a word's notice?

This Xuyi makes it sound like because she bought him dinner, he will be obliged to help. And he even sounded like he is forced to help. This Xuyi deserves a good spanking!

But now she is asking him a favour, so she needs to swallow her girly pride, and eek out a smile: "Uh...it's like this, do you remember the first day you came to the tower, and you brought a miniature piano?"

"Yeah, I remember, what of it?"

"Do you have it with you now?"

"No, I don't. That music box is not small, I wouldn't be carrying it around all the time." Xuyi shakes his head."

"Of course you won't." Stelvia muttered to herself. But then she proposes, "Why don't we go over your place to get it?"