Chapter 367: Big News

'This is another revolution in airship technology!'

'The Royal Mage's Guild has improved the mana transport pipeline and power furnace, resulting in a huge increase in mana conversion and utilization. ’

'We've found a variety of new materials that can dramatically reduce the cost of airships!'

'God bless Kurkut—oh, you didn't say that, after all, the news that airships can be mass-produced is amazing. ’

Looking at the words on the 'newspaper', Kalent took a sip of the black tea on the table, the birds outside the window chirped, and the afternoon sun basked on the table, bringing a touch of warmth to the cool spring breeze.

As a viscount of the Kurkut Empire, Kalent thought that sitting by the window in the afternoon, watching the green grass in the garden and the flowers about to bloom, drinking afternoon tea was the most relaxing thing for him.

After a busy morning, you need a good rest in the afternoon, which is what Kylent has been insisting on.

Especially after the advent of this new type of paper, a thing called 'newspaper' appeared in the national capital.

I heard that this kind of thing has appeared in the time of the Arcane Empire, but at that time, the 'newspaper' was still parchment, and even the wealth of the Arcanists could not afford to waste these parchments, so each community could only subscribe to one 'newspaper', and after reading it, those parchments still needed to be recycled.

I have to say, that's really too troublesome, or the current kind of 'newspaper' is better.

If you come across a piece of news that you like very much, you can cut out that part, and if you finish reading it, you can discard it without any waste and pollution.

Although the whole newspaper was reporting a news story from top to bottom, Kylent was still very interested when he read it.

In this era, there are very few sources of information that can be obtained by ordinary people, and even nobles like Kylent can only obtain new information by talking to others except books.

This is too slow, and a lot of the information you get is likely to be repetitive, because everyone may have their own unique perspective on something, but if you need to talk to people all day to get new information, it is too boring and very inefficient.

Taverns and inns are a great place to go, whether it's true or not, adventurers and merchants there can name a lot, but a nobleman like Kylent can't go there.

In the past, if Kylent wanted to know anything new, he needed to talk to the nobles and wealthy merchants, which was too troublesome.

Now that this kind of 'newspaper' has come out, even if you are sitting at home, you can wait for this 'new information' to be delivered to your door, and I have to say, it is so convenient.

The compact text was pieced together into a piece of news, not very messy, but the spacing between them was not very precise, and the scent of ink still remained on the paper, so that even the layman could tell that the newspaper was 'hand-copied', or rather, copied by mage's apprentices using [copying].

Although mage apprentices are able to follow their mentors and receive 'help' from their mentors, that 'help' is not without a cost, and they will have to pay back that price when they become full-fledged mages.

Good mage apprentices are able to repay these 'loans' by helping the mentor with them, but many more mage apprentices don't have that opportunity and need to do other work to repay the loan.

A newspaper is expensive for a commoner because it is copied by a mage's apprentice with a spell, and 'knowledge' is valuable, it is just a matter of how much.

The Kurkut Empire used 'Latinia' gold coins, while silver coins were minted and called 'top hats', or 'silver top hats', which had an exchange rate of one to eleven with 'Latinia', while copper coins were inevitably minted privately, so the exchange rate with silver coins was basically maintained at one to twelve.

The price of a newspaper is one silver coin, which means that there are basically not many people who can buy a newspaper except for the nobles and wealthy merchants, and few people will buy a newspaper.

Fortunately, like the 'newspapers' of the Arcane Empire, this "Norman Weekly" is only published once a week, and it costs up to four silver coins a month, which is not a high price for the nobles.

Even the down-and-out aristocracy will grit their teeth and subscribe to a newspaper, because in the capital of Norman, 'reading the newspaper' has become a trend, a trend that is popular in high society.

If you don't read the newspaper, you may be ostracized at the party or dance because you can't keep up with the conversation.

Kelent sat by the window, reading every word of the newspaper in the afternoon daylight, savoring the 'taste'.

While a lot of the news isn't very well written—at least not as good as the opera writers he frequents, the 'writer' is not very good, but that's enough.

When an opera is placed in front of the audience, it has been carefully modified by the author, and the words and sentences reveal a kind of 'carefully crafted' flavor, and the birth of a script is often about half a year to a year away from 'imagination'.

In comparison, the news in the newspapers is good enough.

"Airship, ......"

Kelent put down the newspaper and looked out the window, three days after the airship named the Sheffield took to the skies.

For the past three days, the airship bearing the royal surname has been hovering above the national capital, and the newspapers of the previous weeks have reported on the birth of this airship.

To be honest, looking at the airship, Kelent felt a heartfelt pride welling up from the bottom of his heart.

That's the pride of their empire!

Tuk tuk!

Kiron was leaning against the window admiring the 'heroic' appearance of the airship conquering the sky, but there was a knock on the door.

He frowned, for he had ordered that no one would disturb his teatime if it wasn't for some urgency.

After adjusting her sitting position, Kalent said in a deep voice, "Come in." ”

"Old man......"

Kelent's butler pushed the door and walked in, placed a newspaper on Kelent's desk, and then respectfully took two steps back and stood in front of Kelent.

"Well, it's ......" Calent pointed to the new newspaper and looked at his butler suspiciously.

"Sir, this is a 'supplement'. The butler said respectfully, "This has just been delivered, and since you have subscribed to the Norman Daily, the courier has brought you this paper." ”

After listening to the butler's explanation, Kellert looked at the two newspapers on the table and fell into deep thought.

Both were delivered today, and he knew what a 'supplement' was, but he couldn't understand why even a 'newspaper' had a 'supplement'.

After thinking for a moment, Keller picked up the newspaper that had just been delivered, and he decided to take a look at what was going on.

This newspaper definitely needs to be paid, and although Kirent subscribes to the newspaper, he doesn't want to spend 'unjust money'.

"The civil war in the Kolo kingdom is over, and Krylov III is firmly on the throne?"

Kyent underestimated: "What is there to report about this......"

Then, he continued to read it again, and read out the rest of the news, which took up half of the page—

"Serena Screaming Wind, the discoverer of a new type of paper and the head maid of the Sorrowful Wind Leader, has successfully recreated the 'Magic Energy Furnace' ......"

Kalent blinked, and then looked at it carefully, "'Successfully recreate the Magic Energy Furnace'...... 'Magic Energy Furnace'......"

He was a little confused, as if he had heard the word somewhere, but he couldn't remember it clearly.

"......Sizzle" knocked on the door of her head, and Kalent's eyes roamed the room, recalling memories of the word.

Then he saw the airship outside the window, outside the window......

"Magic Energy Furnace ......" muttered in his mouth, and Kelent's eyes suddenly widened, slapped the table and stood up, and exclaimed: "Magic Energy Furnace!"