Twenty-six-year-old Mr. Gaye Berns is a magician from Royal Capital.
The so-called magician is a craftsman who makes all kinds of strange and weird machines, such as the Music Box that can play music, the little man who can walk on his own after being wound up, and other such things. In short, they are all things that others think are very imaginative and exquisite.
For example, the clock in this world was created by a certain magical weapon master. However, when that master invented it, he probably did not expect that it would soon become popular across the continent, replacing the corona and the hourglass as the most important timekeeping tool.
The things made by magicians are very popular among the upper class, and some people are even willing to pay a lot of money to have them customize some strange devices for themselves.
Of course, the most popular ones are children from wealthy families, especially boys, who always have an innate interest in machinery.
Of course, children from poor families also like it very much, but their family background makes them basically insulated from magicians. Whether they want to buy their works or learn their techniques, it is a lot of money.
Artificers generally live a pretty good life relying on their craftsmanship and technology, as well as the profits they bring.
But Gaye Berns is an alternative in this industry.
He was born in a lower-level noble family, and his family was relatively well-off. Since he was the second son and could not inherit the family title, his father sent him to a master of magic weapons whom he knew well, hoping that he could make a difference.
When Guy was a child, he was immediately fascinated by the strange devices in his teacher's house. He stayed there all day long and couldn't even call home during dinner.
To be honest, in the eyes of the teacher, Gaye Berns's talent in this area is still relatively mediocre, but this child's strong interest in machinery and his perseverance made him very satisfied.
Berns's teacher taught him everything he could and hoped that he could inherit his legacy.
After Berns completed his studies, he began to be active in the Crystal Radiance area as a real magician.
But it didn't take long for him to do something that was resented by his colleagues - this kid actually taught the children from poor families the manufacturing methods and principles of various machines. The fee was very low or even free of charge, just because the other party said "Wow~ This is so interesting."
Is this a big deal? So many unpredictable technologies have been spread out in an extremely cheap way. In the future, won't everyone be able to become an artificer? Then wouldn't the artificer profession become as worthless as farmers and blacksmiths? Even Berns's teacher reminded him that if he continues like this, he will offend many colleagues.
But Berns still adheres to his usual style.
Finally, some colleagues couldn't bear it anymore. They fabricated charges through the nobles they were friends with, and threw Berns into prison, where he was asked to "reflect" for a year. This was the result of his teacher interceding for him in front of a group of industry leaders.
On the day he was released from prison, some gangsters came to his door and warned him: Don't let us see you at Crystal Radiance in the future, stay away.
Berns knew that it was not these gangsters who didn't want to see him, but the people behind them.
Just when he was hesitant about where to develop, he happened to be recruiting people in Crystal Radiance at Hansel, including the profession of Artificer.
Northwest Bay? It's a bit remote. But I was about to leave Royal Capital when I met someone who was recruiting people there. Could it be that this was the path God showed me? So Gaye Berns, with confusion and hope, signed up for Hansel.
And I discovered there that there were several other colleagues who could not stay at Royal Capital due to various reasons. In short, everyone had their own problems that were difficult to recite.
In this way, Berns said goodbye to his family and set foot on the road to Northwest Bay with a large group of people.
After arriving here, the ordnance factory's Flintlock Gun development work encountered a bottleneck. The local craftsmen were struggling with how to manufacture qualified spring sheets.
With the attitude of giving it a try, they asked the craftsmen from Royal Capital for advice. It happened that Gaye Berns had a lot of experience in manufacturing high-quality spring blades, and he was not a person who liked to hide his technical skills, so he taught the craftsmen the spring blade manufacturing process that he knew.
This earned him a large reward and high prestige among the craftsmen.
Of course, he didn't know at that time what the high-quality springs that craftsmen needed were used for. The military industry department would not immediately open it to foreigners like them who had just arrived. They had to go through various long-term tests.
The official job assigned to Berns was at Lakeheart Town Mechanical Factory, responsible for the development of a new type of carriage equipped with a spring shock absorber device.
There he saw a strange machine called a "harvester". This monster could easily replace several farmers in harvesting large tracts of grain, greatly saving time and labor.
Berns seemed to have opened the door to a new world in an instant. He had always had a vague point of view in his mind before, but at the moment he saw the harvester, he finally refined it with great clarity: machinery is not just for viewing and playing, it should play a greater role in more fields! When he first arrived at Lakeheart Town, he still had this faint sense of superiority in his heart. After all, this place was remote and too secluded. Most people had probably never even heard of the profession of magician, let alone seen those wonderful inventions.
But at that moment he became humble, and there were already people walking in front of him on this land. This silly, big, black and thick machine may not be as sophisticated as the Music Box, but its role is far greater than that of the Music Box, which can only be used for entertainment.
When he learned from the craftsmen in Mechanical Factory that the original design of the harvester was proposed by Earl Greiman, Berns looked forward to the opportunity to meet this lord.
On this day, he came to Mechanical Factory's workshop as usual and was busy around an experimental carriage Carriage. Suddenly someone came in and asked for him by name.
Gaye Berns was very reluctant to be interrupted from his work, even if the other party was a fellow from Crystal Radiance - the current leader of the lord, Chief Secretary Berna Wood.
Berna greeted him warmly, "Mr. Berns, it's been a long time. It seems you like your current job very much."
"I really enjoyed it. Mr. Chief Secretary, what do you want from me?"
It would be better if no one bothered him, he added to himself.
"I came today on the order of Earl Greiman. The lord would like to invite you to sit in his office at two o'clock in the afternoon."
"Invite me? To his office?"
Berns is a little happy, isn't this what he expected?
"Please reply Earl Greiman, I will definitely go on time."