Ministry Magician
The first thing Mary did after receiving Leon’s 3-piece set of shampoo, conditioner, and body wash was to actually try it out.
Mary’s hair, reminiscent of a fox, had a very attractive color that stood out on the good side, but on the bad side, it was frizzy like the fur of a beast and it was difficult to tidy up.
However, Mary’s hair, which had been washed with Leon’s shampoo and conditioner, had brittle hair calmly settling down, and the luster was flowing.
Previously, Mary had a lively image like a tomboy, but now she has changed like a calm beauty.
“What the hell? How did you come up with these things?”
“Shampoo focused on making hair neat by using surfactants, while neutralizing hair that had increased in acidity with shampoo with conditioner and coating the surface to keep moisture and nutrients.”
“Well, I don’t know what you’re talking about, but this will definitely make money.”
And what Mary did was to move the shampoo, conditioner, and body wash from giant 100-liter bins into tiny bins each.
But the barrel was extremely small.
No matter how sparingly you use it, the capacity is enough to disappear when you use it once or twice.
“Are you planning on selling it by dividing it like that?”
At Leon’s question, Mary waved her finger and bit her tongue.
“Do you know what is the most important thing in selling original products?”
“what is that?”
“It’s marketing.”
And what Mary did was to give away free shampoo, conditioner, and body wash in those tins.
It was not just given out, but was given to female students who were interested in the scent of her body or the condition of her changed hair after wandering around with her hair fluttering on purpose.
“This is a secret, but my father has been looking for very good beauty products from abroad. I don’t have that many, but it’s you, so I’m giving it to you.”
They gave it away as if it were a special item that should not be known.
Seeing that, what Leon thought of was a sample shampoo sold in packs for promotional purposes.
However, the reason why it was shared secretly rather than openly was probably to use the advanced strategy.
The opponents are not the common people, but the children of the Academy’s powerful aristocrats.
They had a lot of money and there was no need to buy anything special.
However, if you think of it as a very special item with a limited quantity, you will stimulate their desire to purchase.
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Just by looking at the students who were interested in seeing Mary’s hair waving and waving, which was originally famous for its frizzy hair, you could clearly feel how great the publicity effect of its performance was.
The next day, when some of the students whom Mary handed out samples boasted a pleasant scent and beautifully wavy hair, the promotional effect spread beyond the walls of secondary school, from elementary and high school students to professors.
Although Mary shared it as a secret, it was impossible to keep the secret, and the words that spread from whisper to only tell you, led many students to Mary’s front.
What was really surprising to Leon was that Leon had given her 100 liters of each item, but Mary brazenly told the lie that there were not many items and placed a limit on the number of items sold.
10 products per day in 100ml bottles.
Naturally, the students who were very interested in it started competing on their own prices, and the price began to skyrocket.
“Ten gold.”
To purchase a 100ml shampoo, the students spared no expense in paying 10 gold.
According to Leon’s common sense, shampoo, conditioner, and body wash were everyday items that were used every day, but Mary’s luxury strategy started selling them for use on special days, such as going to a social gathering.
According to that calculation, the price of a 100L shampoo bottle that was mass-produced because it was cumbersome to recreate it every time would be 10,000 gold.
Leon, who watched the whole scene from his side, could not hide his disappointment.
Fearing that the family would be found out, I secretly crossed the castle walls, hunted monsters, and processed the by-products to earn less than 10,000 gold at most. Shampoo is of equal value.
Even conditioner and body wash were more expensive.
Shampoo is basically a product that focuses on cleaning power, but body wash and conditioner are more popular than shampoo because they have a visual effect that moisturizes the skin and hair, making it moist and elastic.
“Lord, lord. sorry.”
Leon couldn’t help but be puzzled at the sight of Veronica, who suddenly bowed her head deeply and trembled.
“What? what. Why all of a sudden?”
“I didn’t even know this was such an expensive thing…”
Leon then remembered that he had given Veronica shampoo, conditioner, and body wash.
With a modern sensibility, it was distributed in a 1.2L large-capacity container, so if you count it simply, the price that was given to Veronica was close to 400 gold.
It was the same price as the money she had spent to buy her from a slave trader.
“I don’t care too much. This is nothing compared to your worth.”
“master······.”
Leon was clearly aware.
‘It seems that he has a sense of business as much as he grew up under a wealthy man.’
It was still a long way from Leon to sell all the 100L that Leon had passed, but the passing score was good enough.
* * *
When Leon had entrusted Mary with the sale of the 3-piece detergent set, the blueprints for the automata that Vincent had requested from the family arrived.
“By the way, is it okay to show these things to others? Isn’t it pretty advanced information if it’s about the blueprint of an automata?”
Mary asked, but Vincent didn’t seem to care at all.
“Of course, my father told me to be careful not to leak blueprints, but knowledge only rots when it accumulates. Sometimes we need to exchange theories and share knowledge to progress.”
It was a sound that Principal Preschell would be pleased to hear.
Leon grinned at Vincent’s words and checked the blueprint of the automata that Vincent gave him.
Of course, the most important thing to check is the design of Automata’s artificial intelligence.
‘Are you going to use the core made by processing the Manastone?’
Indeed, the Manastone is the crystallization of the soul substance made by the gathering of the souls of monsters.
Since you can’t create a soul from nothing, you have no choice but to process manastones, which are soul substances that can be obtained easily, and use them as artificial intelligence for golems.
However, when I checked the blueprint, it seems that the reason Automata was born was just a coincidence.
I just created and added a power engine to the magic doll created by magic to enhance the output of the golem, but it seems that the magic doll is autonomously maneuvering.
Naturally, there was not much information available about artificial intelligence.
If the theory about the artificial intelligence that resides in Automata had been firmly established, even if it was not Leon, the artificial spirit would have already been created.
In comparison, as Leon studied the horns of the Morg Lizardman High Priest, the principle of necromancy naturally focused on the ‘soul’.
Asmodian horns are the body organs that make them special, just like the celestial light rings.
Basically, the horn acts similar to an antenna that amplifies the spirit waves of the demons, but in the case of Morg Lizardman High Priest, he was specialized in ‘receiving’ rather than ‘sending’ of the mental waves.
Rather than strengthening the scope and power of his own magic, he was specialized in analyzing the mental waves of others.
Using it, the moment a creature dies, it magically embodies the spirit wave, that is, the soul, that the creature had while it was alive, and inhabits the corpse.
It is possible to continue conscious activity by replacing the soul, which was originally supposed to be created by the activity of nerves, with magic.
The problem is the function of the spirit.
The original spirit refers to a spiritual existence that shares the spirit wave and magical power through contract magic with the spirit magician and deals with the power of nature by using the spirit magician’s magic power.
However, at this time, the spirits had high intelligence like wizards, so they were not able to handle the forces of nature.
Spirits are fragments of the power that dwells in nature.
As spiritual beings formed by the agglomeration of fragments left when God exercises power on this earth, their existence itself is like proof of God.
If we omit that background and look at only the principle, the spirits have a mental wave with properties similar to natural magic, so it is a ‘magic resonance’ that occurs naturally.
When God exerts power with his own will, the phenomenon that ‘will’ does not disappear and remains is the existence of a spirit.
Of course, in order to create a spirit with such abilities, it is a prerequisite to understand the principle of ‘Magic Resonance’.
Fortunately, however, Leon already had the magic resonance induction technique.
Leon started drawing a magic circle on the floor.
It was the principle of creating a spirit from the soul material of a manastone by installing a slot in the core that is in charge of the power engine in the blueprint of the automata handed down from Vincent, and inserting a mana stone into the slot.
Specifically, it is an auxiliary magic circle created by analyzing the principles of necromancy. Based on Leon’s magic resonance induction method, it creates ‘a spirit with a mental frequency similar to natural magic’.
Speaking of the result, Leon succeeded in creating an artificial spirit.
“Oh My God. You can really create a spirit.”
However, the shape of the completed artificial spirit had to be different from that of the real spirit.
The low-middle-class wind spirit Sylph that Mary had contracted had the shape of a girl the size of a palm, but the spirit Leon created was just a mass of light.
Since a spirit is a being derived from ‘God’s doctor’, it has an ego from birth.
However, the artificial spirit created by Leon was not even able to draw his own form because he was just born.
It is only sealed inside the flask, and without any help from the outside, it just shines as if it would disappear at any moment.
However, if Leon is right, spirits have the ability to learn.
It was calculated that if we could share the soul with contract magic, it would be possible to achieve spiritual growth while conveying Leon’s thoughts to the spirit…
“The contract magic doesn’t work.”
“In the beginning, contract magic was created by the power of God. The concept of allowing humans to use the fragments of power scattered on the ground is contract magic, but these spirits are not spirits from the gods.”
It was the same with necromancy.
The reason the undead originally created with necromancy obeyed the command of the necromancer was that the magic contained the power of the immortal demon Nebulus.
If Leon was really a necromancer who served the demon of immortality, then it would be possible to control the artificial spirit created by applying that necromancy and manipulate it at will.
But Leon had no intention of selling his soul to the devil.
“There must be a way. There’s a way…”
From then on, Leon spent the whole day preoccupied with something as if possessed by something.
What came into Leon’s sight at that time was the scene of bullying in a remote place.
A female student was surrounded by three male students and being bullied.
The girl’s identity is Angelica, a student from commoners who is rare even in the academy.
She was a magician.
I heard that a magician is a type of wizard known to be able to tame beasts, insects, and even monsters and dragons. She succeeded in taming slimes at the young age of 5. It seemed to have been done.
But that was the end.
Although Angelica developed her talent as a magician at the young age of five, nine years after that, she could only tame a slime, and not even an insect, let alone an animal.
Looking at it, Leon thought.
‘This is it.’
The artificial spirit created by Leon is, so to speak, a newborn baby.
Even if Leon applied for a spiritual contract, there was no response because even his ego had not yet sprouted.
But if it was that, it was the same even if it was a slime.
Slime is caused by infection with slime fungi, a single-celled protist.
If we can understand the principle of ministry magic to tame and handle such slimes, wouldn’t Leon be able to communicate with the artificial spirits by sharing a contract?
At that moment, the image of Angelica falling over her shoulder caught Leon’s eyes.