Inheritor Of Magic: The Magi King

Chapter 1147: 1147 New Industrial Revolution

Wolfe sat at his desk, reading through the reports that were coming in from all over the world.

The attempts to spread industry using magical sources was working far better than they had expected, thanks to the witches of the One World Army spreading their latest and greatest invention. The card clock array.

Now, that didn’t actually create a factory, most of the largest industrial facilities still relied upon magical power generators and shipments of raw materials made with earth magic. But the card clock array was revolutionary in its own way.

The witches had realized that with the facilities being powered by money storage cubes, which were refilled with the sales of their products, they could have the workers clock in and clock out with a company logo embossed card.

You put the card in when you got to work, you took it out when you left. But you got paid constantly as you worked. It was brilliant in two different ways. Not only could workers be assured that they were going to get paid on time, but the bosses could offer cash productivity bonuses for the day.

With all the changes, everyone had been worried about getting paid, what currency it would come in, if that local currency the boss wanted to use would still have any value, and whether it would be on time.

Now, they didn’t have to wait the usual two weeks to get paid, they had it at the end of the shift, and there was no confusion with conveniently lost or incorrect pay sheets.

As Wolfe read the reports, it sounded ridiculous to him, but the deeper he got into the paperwork, the more that he realized the level of uncertainty about being able to buy and afford any of the new technologies that were coming out had been hindering progress.

Food was finally becoming affordable all over the world again, though there were some shortages still, thanks to targeted growing to bring the price of essentials down.

But now that there were enough Garden Charms spread around the world, the next crop would be enough for food prices to stabilize on most goods, and only regional specialties would remain outlandishly expensive.

The portals had gone a long way to helping the situation as well.

With the Guardians working together to bring food into their major cities from the regions that had the most, Wolfe hadn’t seen any reports of starvation.

The regions with more food than they could possibly eat were largely in the Frozen Wastes and Sylvan Coven, where the witches had created massive underground gardens and enhanced them with higher level spells to turn out constant crops.

That had made King Petros quite pleased. Getting enough witches to move to planets with none of their people was a losing proposition. But getting them to grow everything that his worlds were short on was much easier.

He even had good things to trade them, and magical devices were becoming increasingly common, as the artificers traded with the Witches and became fantastically wealthy.

And it wasn’t even some world altering sort of device that had become their largest selling item. It was the most simple and obvious of them all.

The trending magical device of the season was for styling hair.

It came in two different versions, one was a bracelet that you could tap and change with mana to adjust or fix your hairstyle, and the other was a small token that could be placed inside a pocket.

Inner pockets for charms and amulets had long been part of Witch fashion, so that had caught on immediately.

It wasn’t like they couldn’t do their hair with their own magic. The device just made it easier and allowed them to do it without a friend or a mirror.

Now, even the most physically demanding jobs could be done with impeccable style.

The artificers for the castle, who had access to artificial gems and precious metals for their craft, had made them for everyone from the Queens to the newest of maids and the children at the school.

While the artificers were doing fantastically well, the largest change for the common people of both Wolfe’s home world and the many worlds of the Fallen Empire was the introduction of air travel.

The pair of Royal Airplanes were far from the last ones ordered, and King Petros had founded Empire Airlines, which now flew to seventeen capital cities and ten tourist destinations on his world.

They were the only ones with airports so far, but things were changing fast.

Someone had come back from visiting Forest Grove with a military cargo truck in their storage device. Once they had it home, they started doing deliveries between the capital and a city a hundred kilometres away, replacing a whole wagon caravan with one truck.

That had sparked a buying frenzy, as everyone wanted the trucks, which came armoured against weaker bandits and could outrun a horse.

They were a merchant’s biggest possible advantage in the wilderness, even if the ride over a dirt wagon track at high speeds wasn’t a lot of fun.

Wolfe pored over the reports, status updates and requests until he finally got to one that wasn’t just a status update.

Nikki, the Mimic that he had hired as a spy, had uncovered some actual Kingly work for him to do.

There was talk of an underground auction, where they were selling people with magical work contracts. Magical contracts would force the employee to comply with the terms for as long as they remained employed, but very few used them anymore, as they were prone to the most extreme forms of abuse.

“What do you think we should do about that?” Priya asked from over his shoulder.

She had needed a break from her own paperwork, and the document had caught her eye.

“I think that we should send the Royal Guard, along with a few disguised Wrath Demons, to go check it out. If it’s really a job fair, as they’re pretending that it is, then fine. If it’s a slave market using work contracts for indentured servitude, they will handle it.”

“Not going yourself?” She asked.

He would be able to hide his own power and appearance, as well as easily read the magical contracts from a distance. But there were many other tasks to take care of, including the remainder of this stack of reports.

Being a King was far more paperwork than he had expected, even with the Guardians and Representatives doing all the actual work.

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