"Hey! Don't go!"

Carl tried to persuade him to stay, but the guy just ran away in big strides and disappeared into the alley next to him.

Seeing that the other party was unwilling to say more, Karl did not force it.

After walking for a while in the dormitory area, he finally found Bob and Bourbon's residence.

After knocking on the door, Carl waited for a moment.

After a while, the door of the courtyard opened.

Bob came out looking like he had been up all night.

"Ka, Karl..."

Just looking at the other person's appearance, Karl thought he was infected with something he shouldn't have.

But when Carl looked into the house, he found that Bob's room was full of videotapes.

No, buddy! Are you also part of that industry chain? Seeing Carl's face turn black, Bob panicked.

"Hey! Carl! It's not what you think. We are just making a little money."

Bob and Bourbon were there when the idea for the illusion device was born.

Although they didn't understand it at the time, with the commotion at the Tower of Wonders, they also realized how remarkable Carl's idea was at the time.

The two had been waiting for Karl to come and help them get rich since the New Year, but the New Year was over and Karl still hadn't come.

As luck would have it, several seniors from the School of Illusion heard about the relationship between the two and Carl, so they came over with their own portable illusion devices and re-recorded videotapes.

The two were thinking about making some extra money, so...

"Alas, you two have endured so long to become mages, why are you impatient now?"

After listening to Bob's confession of the crime, Carl looked at the room full of videotapes in silence, not knowing what to say.

With this amount of spread, the two of them would have to stay in Carl's previous life for a while.

"Hey, isn't this because I want to pay off my student loan as soon as possible? Although transcribing illusions is a bit tiring, at least I don't have to worry about sales. You know, the low-level spell scrolls of our illusion school can't be sold at all."

Scratching his head embarrassedly, Bob looked around, wondering whether he should kneel down and apologize to Carl.

"Okay, I'm late, but don't let our tower master and your dean know that you two were involved in the SQ videotape. I'm afraid they will hang you up and beat you."

The industry related to the phantom device has just started. If those people knew that their students were making profits by selling colored videotapes, Carl felt that they would not be happy.

"I know! We are still very cautious. So this time you come here..."

As if rubbing his hands with flies, Bob looked at Carl expectantly.

"Originally, I was thinking of having you and Bourbon use Phantom to record a rubber hose animation, and then wait until after the Ninefold Path Competition to launch the Phantom Device while it's still popular, and then sell the videotape. But now the situation..."

"Wait, what is rubber hose animation?"

As soon as Bob asked the question, he saw Carl take out a stack of drawings from his dimensional bag.

Inside are cute anthropomorphic animals, whose bodies are completely inconsistent with real body structures and whose arms are bent like rubber tubes.

However, despite being so weird, Bob thought they were funny.

After carefully looking at a few pages, Bob discovered that the pictures seemed to tell a story.

"Is this... a fairy tale?"

After analyzing the context for a moment, Bob suddenly woke up.

"Yes, this is the way I originally found for you two to make money. The kids will definitely like it."

According to Carl's original plan, they should do animation first, and then wait for the equipment related to the Phantom Device to mature before switching to the gaming industry.

If they can take off with the east wind, maybe they can become good friends of hundreds of millions of children.

The guys who are playing with fear have taken over the lower-level market first with their wild growth momentum.

After hearing Carl's idea, Bob was embarrassed.

If there was a crack in the ground, he could crawl into it right there.

"Is it too late to turn back now?"

Who doesn’t want to make money while standing?

There was no way before, but now that he had the opportunity, Bob still wanted to return to the shore.

"What about all the videotapes in this room?"

"Uh~, I'll find someone to handle it right away!"

Scratching his head, Bob ran out of the dormitory. After a while, several people who disguised their appearance with magic came to Bob's dormitory and packed up all the videotapes in the room and took away.

Bourbon, who was catching up on his sleep upstairs, heard the noise and ran down. Seeing that the room full of videotapes he had been busy saving for so long had been packed up and sold, he stared with his eyes wide open and asked in disbelief, "Is this not happening? Didn't we say we would make a good profit when the price goes up in a while?"

"Hey! Carl has a new way to make money!"

Holding the stack of drawings, Bob eloquently told Bourbon about the future employment prospects, which confused Bourbon.

"Shit! Let's study this from now on! We don't need actors and we don't have to worry about getting caught. Isn't this much more prestigious than before!"

Obviously, Bourbon also knew that what he had done in the past should not be made public.

"Then you guys study it first. I'll go back and study this portable phantom device. By the way, can this thing play sound?"

Seeing that Carl was interested in this thing, Bob and Bourbon didn't hide anything and told him everything they knew.

“No, this thing can only activate the phantom in the tape, it can’t play the sound, and we were worried about this for a long time.

If it weren’t for a senior who was a part-time mechanic who came up with a way to use a glass pyramid as a display device, the images broadcast wouldn’t even be three-dimensional.”

Hearing this, Karl was speechless.

Because of the existence of magic, the phantoms played by the phantom device are directly the effect of naked-eye 3D plus Dolby sound effects, but this seems to have limited the idea of ​​simplifying the equipment.

Even though Karl's master Mooreban tried his best to simplify it, he could only reduce the effect of the phantom device to a size of 50 square meters.

But if we give up the virtual reality-like effect and only play flat images, a simplified Phantom device would have been available in every household long ago.

"You don't have to set such a high standard. Okay, you guys study it first, and I'll come back to see your finished product in a couple of days.

You can also come up with some stories and make them into animations.”

After explaining all this, Carl left the Tower of Illusion. He planned to talk to his master about the portable illusion device.

…

"Hiss~, this thing..."

Looking at the structure of the portable phantom device, Mooreban was speechless for a moment.

He admitted that his previous thinking was indeed problematic.

Since it is sold to ordinary people, the picture quality does not need to be that good.

What's wrong with a flat surface? Can't we see things?

"I didn't expect that the popularization plan I thought about for so long would be worse than a group of people selling SQ videotapes! Who can I complain to?"

Taking out a piece of metal from his dimensional bag, Mooreban used his magical skills to create a new portable phantom device.

I found a videotape that I had used for testing and put it in. The image was projected onto the wall, and at the same time, sound came from the device.

(End of this chapter)