After seeing the king, Xu Yi was even busier for the next two days.
His majesty didn't just order ten thousand small Magic Harvesters from Xu Yi. Other than that, he also ordered five thousand to ten thousand agricultural magic machines that Xu Yi brought.
For such a large order, there were many details that needed to be taken care of. So Xu Yi spent the past two days negotiating with the people sent by his majesty and the officials from the Agriculture Department.
Of course it was impossible to complete the negotiations in two days, but with the king's attention and encouragement, the negotiations went very smoothly. In just two days, they had already decided on their initial intentions.
According to his majesty's suggestion, the Lampari Kingdom would buy six kinds of agricultural magic machines from New Flyer in his majesty's name, which ranged from five thousand to ten thousand units.
Of course, with New Flyer's current production capacity, they definitely couldn't complete such a large order.
But because other than New Flyer, there weren't any other companies that had the technology to make agricultural magic machines, they finally decided to let New Flyer provide them in batches.
The first batch was five hundred of each kind of agricultural magic machine, which was to be delivered before the spring planting tomorrow.
Agreeing to this order actually gave Xu Yi quite a headache.
Although with the addition of the hundred dwarves from the Angola Tribe, the production capacity of the magic machine workshop had greatly increased, to complete an order of three thousand agricultural magic machines before the spring planting next year, it was still very hard.
Xu Yi agreed because his majesty didn't agree to lower the first batch of orders below five hundred units. Because if it was lower than this, it would be hard to show the advantage of scale production that Xu Yi mentioned, so he couldn't make his majesty make up his mind.
After all, for an order of several tens of thousands of agricultural magic machines, it required his majesty and the Agriculture Department to pay a large sum of several million gold coins.
This was a sum that the Lampari Kingdom's finances couldn't support, so his majesty proposed to Xu Yi to use the kingdom's resources to pay for it.
Xu Yi naturally welcomed this. Even if his request for a piece of land had been rejected by the king, his request for an iron mine and a Magic Crystal mine had been satisfied.
According to the preliminary agreement between both sides, Xu Yi would receive the two iron mines in Banta City and the three Magic Crystal mines to the northwest of Banta City that had already left Banta City's territory.
Because Xu Yi didn't have any understanding of these mines, this was just a preliminary agreement. Once Xu Yi and New Flyer inspected these mines and were satisfied with them, this agreement would come into effect.
After receiving these mines, Xu Yi had to follow the order and complete the small agricultural magic machines by next year. He also had to help the Agriculture Department reconstruct all the farmland in the kingdom.
So right now Xu Yi was facing a large amount of pressure.
Before next spring, if New Flyer couldn't complete the first batch of orders, not only would they not be able to obtain the mines, the more important thing was that he and New Flyer would lose the trust and support of his majesty.
If this really happened, it would without a doubt be a heavy blow to New Flyer. It would also have an irreversible impact on Xu Yi's long term plans.
So this batch of orders had to be completed and there couldn't be a single mistake.
But as a mechanical engineer, Xu Yi's work was very precise and didn't allow the slightest mistake. So he was already used to this pressure and even learned how to use this pressure as motivation.
Although the first batch of orders and the following orders for agricultural magic machines were very large, Xu Yi felt that he could use this chance to reconstruct and expand the magic machine workshop, which would increase the development of New Flyer.
As long as he seized this chance, there was no doubt that New Flyer's prospects would become very good.
After being busy for two days, the third day was the day of the Sorcerers Guild's Fifth Grade exam.
According to Xu Yi's original plan, he should have participated in the Fourth Grade exam yesterday and directly went from a Primary Grade Magician to a Fourth Grade Magician. But thinking of Viscount Leslie's request from the other day, Xu Yi considered it and finally decided to skip the Fourth Grade exam and directly participate in the Fifth Grade exam.
The number of magicians participating in the exam today was much less compared to the first day of the Primary Grade exam. When Xu Yi came to the exam site, he found that including him, there were less than fifty people. It couldn't even compare to the people in the corner on the first day.
It was different from the Primary Grade exam site, Xu Yi didn't recognize a single magician here.
After all, magicians that dared to participate in the Fifth Grade exam had to be at least a Fourth Grade Magician.
There weren't many Fourth Grade Magicians and it was very hard to break through to the Fifth Grade, so there were very few magicians participating in the Fifth Grade exam each year.
In the Primary Grade exam site, Xu Yi who was already twenty seven years old seemed a bit old, so people would look at him with disdain. But in the Fifth Grade exam site, he was much younger and it was easier for people to feel that he had outstanding talent, so naturally he attracted the attention of others.
When everyone saw that Xu Yi didn't have a single magician badge on his chest, they were even more surprised.
It can't be that this kid wasn't even a Primary Grade Magician and he came to participate in the Fifth Grade exam, right?
In front of everyone's surprised gazes, Xu Yi reported his name to the Sorcerers Guild staff member in charge of the exam.
After the staff member in charge of the exam heard his name, he looked at Xu Yi in surprise. Then he knit his brows and said in a deep voice, "Xu Yi, are you sure you want to participate in the Fifth Grade exam?
I have to remind you that although you have Great Magician Camilla's special recommendation and can skip levels to participate in the exam, you only have one chance. If you fail, you won't be able to get a special recommendation in the future and your evaluation in the Magicians Guild will drop a level because of this.
I hope you understand the consequences. "
Hearing the staff member's words, the surrounding people understood.
So this kid actually had the special recommendation, no wonder he could directly participate in the Fifth Grade exam.
Everyone looked at Xu Yi with a trace of disdain.
Since this kid wasn't even a Primary Grade Magician, why did he think he could pass the Fifth Grade exam?
This was too much of a joke.
But other than disdain, there was even more doubt in everyone's hearts.
Since this fellow had received the special recommendation of Great Magician Camilla, he should have a very strong talent for magic, which was why Great Magician Camilla appreciated him.
Perhaps he was a magic apprentice that Great Magician Camilla secretly took in, concentrating on studying magic. The reason why he didn't participate in the Sorcerers Guild's exam before was because he wanted to shock everyone in this exam.
Thinking about it, a young magician participating in the Sorcerers Guild's exam for the first time could actually directly become a Fifth Grade Magician, how shocking of a piece of news would this be.
Xu Yi never thought that the people around him would have all these strange thoughts. Actually he didn't care if he could pass the exam or not, he didn't even care about participating in the Sorcerers Guild's exam.
If it wasn't for Great Magician Camilla and Stiel urging him, he would have been too lazy to participate in the exam.
If it wasn't for Viscount Leslie's request, he wouldn't have directly participated in the Fifth Grade exam.
Actually his current strength was between the Fourth and Fifth Grade Magicians. If he participated in the Fourth Grade exam, he had a 90% chance of passing.
But if he participated in the Fifth Grade exam, his chance of passing would drop to 50% or even lower.
Compared to the Primary Grade exam, the Fifth Grade exam didn't have much miscellaneous content. There was only a written exam and an actual combat exam.
There was no need to mention the actual combat exam. The written exam was to test a magician's attainments in magic theory, so it was also very important.
What Xu Yi didn't expect was that the Fifth Grade exam's written exam was actually related to Fifth Grade Magic Arrays.
In order to study magic machines, Xu Yi's understanding of Magic Arrays far surpassed other magicians of the same level. He had even discussed various Fifth Grade Magic Arrays with Great Magician Camilla a long time ago, so he knew all the details like the back of his hand. Naturally this exam wasn't hard for him.
In less than half an hour, Xu Yi had already easily finished the written exam.
Seeing Xu Yi leave the exam room, the surrounding magicians participating in the exam all looked at him with shocked gazes.
This fellow, could it be that he was a true genius?
Could it be that his true strength far surpassed that of a Fifth Grade Magician?
However, in the actual combat exam that began an hour later, these magicians who had just been shocked by Xu Yi were all stunned.
It wasn't that Xu Yi's performance wasn't good, but in the actual combat exam, Xu Yi's magic was only at the level of a Fourth Grade Magician. Even if he could occasionally use one or two Fifth Grade Spells, it was clear that his control over them wasn't that good.
No matter how they looked at it, Xu Yi's true strength was only at the level of a Fourth Grade Magician, so it would be very hard for him to pass the Fifth Grade exam.
So everyone looked at Xu Yi with strange gazes again.
This fellow, could it be that he was just purely arrogant?
After the actual combat exam, Xu Yi's performance didn't fall to the bottom of the forty seven magicians participating in the exam, but it was very clear that he was below average.
According to the tradition of the Sorcerers Guild, there was a limit to the number of magicians who could pass the exam each time. Therefore, under normal circumstances, Xu Yi definitely wouldn't be able to pass the Fifth Grade exam.
Feeling the mocking and ridiculing gazes from the crowd, Xu Yi's expression was calm, and he was unmoved.
As a mechanical engineer, he was very particular about being realistic. His current strength was indeed between a Fourth and Fifth Grade Magician, so it was expected that he wouldn't be able to pass the Fifth Grade exam. It wasn't unacceptable.
Moreover, he didn't really care about the results of the exam.
However, after waiting patiently for two hours, the results of the exam were announced. Everyone, including Xu Yi, was stunned at the same time.
Xu Yi's name appeared on the list of those who had passed!