coobybook Chapter 451 The Essential Difference of Labor Force
Chapter 451 The Essential Difference of Labor Force
"There's nothing we can do. It's winter now," Gunn said helplessly, spreading his hands and looking at the heavy snow outside the window. "The customers who charge their thermal down jackets alone account for one-third of all the customers who charge. And our Campbell Territory is not as rich in fire elemental mages as Capet Territory. Therefore, those mages who can cast fireballs have become popular. There's nothing we can do about it if they are more expensive..."
Afterwards, Gunn told the two about many welfare subsidies available to charging mages: after each charging work, they would be provided with some nutritional packages to help restore magic power, they would enjoy discounts when purchasing magical equipment in specific stores, they would receive certain subsidies for their children's education in magic schools, they would be provided with some ordinary jobs that did not require the use of magic, and so on.
Obviously, the job of Charging Mage is definitely an excellent job within the system, but due to the particularity of the work content, there is no full-time position yet. Youla was quickly persuaded by Gunn, and then signed a part-time contract at the suggestion of Bai Hao.
Charging magical devices is not a complicated task. You only need to inject magic power into the magic circle that has been arranged in advance. You don’t even need to have any contact with the magical device.
Soon, after a brief learning experience, Youla was taken to the charging room by the staff. She was going to take over from a water elemental mage whose magic power had been consumed by 80%, and was mainly responsible for charging the children's magic toys.
At Bai Hao's sincere request, Gun agreed to let him enter the charging room where Youla worked for a visit. After all, it was not a confidential or dangerous place.
Since Bai Hao disguised himself as Bai Yue who could not use magic, Gunn was very relieved. However, before going in, he still symbolically reminded Youla to take good care of her sister and not let her get hurt accidentally.
Bai Hao was the first person to propose the concept of after-sales service, so the various instruments and magic arrays for charging magical devices were naturally designed by him personally. The charging methods use two very compatible magic arrays, namely the magic gathering magic array and the energy dissipating magic array, which correspond to the charging magician and magical devices.
As soon as he entered the charging room, Bai Hao saw the extremely familiar dark green energy-gathering platform. This was a solid stone platform made of a composite magic-friendly material. On it was laid a magic-gathering array that could adapt to various elemental magics. There were two magic-transmission pipes underneath that connected to the charging platform outside.
Whether it was the clear rune circuits on it or the shiny magic stone blocks, Bai Hao could tell at a glance that this place was regularly maintained, and there was even a thin layer of wax on the surface of the stone platform.
The general process is very simple. Whenever someone outside places a magical device on the charging table, Youla will output his wind element magic power on the stone platform. Then the energy gathering array will send the magic power to the charging table outside through the magic transmission tube with minimal loss.
The energy-gathering array on the charging platform will convert Youla's magic power into low-density magic power suitable for magical instruments. After all, Youla is responsible for charging children's toys, most of which contain magic cores with extremely low energy consumption. Youla's magician's magic power cannot be directly injected into them.
Some self-righteous wizards always want to charge themselves at home, but they don't know that the strength of their own magic power is not suitable for magical devices, and must be harmonized and transformed through magic circles. If they force charging directly, it will definitely cause damage to the magical devices.
The magical equipment sold by the Campbell family is always marked with a warning prohibiting self-charging, but unfortunately, there are still many wizards who do not heed the advice, and damage to equipment caused by self-charging is not uncommon. More than half of the after-sales repair services are such orders.
Youla sat in front of the stone platform, feeling a little nervous. She didn't want to mess up on her first day at work. However, in Bai Hao's opinion, Youla was obviously worrying too much. Whenever the green signal indicator light on the stone platform lit up, Youla would put her hand on the finger print on the stone platform, and then inject a little wind element magic power.
After repeating the operation dozens of times, Youla was already able to work while chatting with Bai Hao. For an ordinary magician, this job was not difficult to get started, unless it was a magic apprentice who could not even control his magic power.
Although the magic power injected into the energy-gathering array was very little each time, there were quite a lot of children queuing up to charge their toys today. When Youla had just exceeded 300 charges, the signal light on the stone platform suddenly turned red, and then a staff member came in to inform Youla that the work was over.
Bai Hao used his divine vision to casually scan and found that Youla's magic power reserves had dropped to 20% to 30%. It seemed that this triggered the warning of the stone platform, which meant that Youla's first part-time job as a charging mage had come to a successful conclusion.
As soon as they left the charging station, Youla excitedly showed Bai Hao a standard gold coin minted by Campbell in her hand. For ordinary people, this was already several days or even nearly a week's salary, but a low-level magician only needed about an hour to earn it, and then waited for another day to have full magic power again.
Even the lowest-level mages have a better quality of life than the average person. Supernatural powers allow mages to make money more easily. There is an essential difference between the labor force of mages and that of ordinary people. Although the Life-Preserving Magic Stone is now working hard to narrow the gap between the two sides, it still cannot completely eliminate the difference.
Unless everyone can succeed in open source and become a magician, this is obviously still a fantasy so far, even Bai Hao himself thinks so.
"Let's go, Xiaohao," Youla raised her head proudly, pulled Baihao and chuckled, "Your sister Youla will take you to eat delicious food, and I will reimburse you for today's expenses!"
Bai Hao shook his head and said casually, "With your gold coin, we can't even eat half full in the inner city of Campbell."
"Ah! Are the prices in your Campbell County so high?" Youla couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Most of the inner city areas of noble territories are like this, which is why ordinary low-level mages can only live in the outer city areas," Bai Hao comforted him in a gentle voice, "But with one gold coin, the two of us can eat until we are stuffed to death in the outer city areas!"