As the saying went, "Ten years is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge."
Frost was not necessarily a gentleman, but he was also the type of person who believed that "ten years is not too late".
In order to avenge what he had done in the past, he had endured silently for a long time. While secretly planning, he had also built a good relationship with several Legendary Masters under the Church of the Void Mask. For this reason, he had even condescended to help the Knights train as a living teaching material.
Finally, he got his chance.
At the end of last year, Gerrard had finally completely mastered his power. Since then, he could not only change the size of his body at will, but also control his power freely. He had also gained many extraordinary abilities.
Although he still looked like a human, he was essentially a powerful legendary creature, even stronger than many giant dragons.
Sensing the opportunity, Frost immediately launched his plan and encouraged Gerrard to find himself a powerful mount.
Gerrard's original intention was to find a celestial warhorse or something — after all, this big guy was an honest man and not greedy. But Frost could not let him just find a Celestial Warhorse. She tried to persuade him again and again, saying things like, "A real expert should ride a giant dragon to show off in the city," and "A hero should have a mount that is worthy of him. A Celestial Warhorse is not worthy of your identity as the commander of a regiment under the command of His Majesty the Void Mask." She also said things like, "A good mount must first be able to fully display its owner's strength. With your strength, a giant dragon is more suitable." She had said so many times.
Although Gerrard's strength had been greatly improved, he did not become smarter. On the contrary, because of the great increase in strength, his way of thinking was more direct, or more straightforward. If it were placed in some Xianxia novels, it would be the legendary pure heart of a child who was "untainted by even a speck of dust."
He originally wanted a powerful mount, and after being encouraged by Frost several times, he let go of his scruples and took his subordinates to the Burial Peak in the depths of the Graystone Mountains. He set up a huge enchantment with people as nodes, surrounded the entire Burial Peak, and then went to negotiate with Taraiston.
The negotiation between the two sides was not pleasant at all, and the former Burial Peak, which directly became the "Burial Hill" afterward, was the proof. In the end, Taraiston, who was beaten black and blue, reluctantly lowered his head and became Gerrard's mount according to the principle of "a wise man does not fight when the odds are against him".
Frost was very dissatisfied with this result. He had thought that Tarayston, as the overlord of Burial Peak, would rather break than bend, and that he would rather die than surrender. However, he did not expect that this evil dragon was so flexible that he actually lowered his head and allowed himself to be ridden by others. The revenge that he had planned for so many years had not been fulfilled, which made Tarayston very unhappy. No one knew how many times he had been sulking in his heart, and how many times he had frightened the people who came to the warehouse to get their supplies.
Today, Leon had come to visit on the green dragon Galstoby, and this had finally caused the anger that he had been suppressing for a long time to completely explode. He ran out and scolded Tarayston harshly, causing the old dragon's fragile heart to almost shatter into pieces. Especially after losing face in front of his own kind, he finally vented all the anger that he had accumulated over the years. Suddenly, he felt that the sky was high, the clouds were white, and the flowers were red. Even the people who came to collect the supplies all looked gentle, simple, and kind.
Therefore, that night, there was another rumor in the amusement park.
"Did you notice? Our warehouse manager seems to be in a good mood today. "
"Nonsense, I'm not blind! He actually smiled at me today! "
"Yes! Usually, when we come to get something from him, his eyes can scare people to death. But today, he is smiling … it is so strange! "
"It's more than just a smile! Usually, when he wants to get something, he has to look left and right, and he even has to be picky about every stitch and thread. He is even stricter than a housekeeper! But today, he just took a look at the receipt and directly delivered the goods. He didn't make things difficult for me at all. It's unbelievable! "
"… Do you think he is in love?"
"It is possible! Look at his silly smile, it really looks like he is in love … "
"Oh my god! That cold-faced ghost can also be in love? Which girl is so powerful that she can take this guy in? "
"She is really kind and merciful!"
"Let us drink to that great lady!"
"Okay, cheers!"
As the saying goes, "The truth will travel, but the rumors will fly." Within a few days, the rumor that "Master Shuang was in love" had spread like wildfire in the amusement park. There were even several versions of the rumor. One of them was that the other party was his sister, Miss Xian, and his sister, Miss Snow Flower, was the antagonist. There was also the doujinshi version where the other party was a bearded man, and Master Shuang was still a little boy.
As for how these rumors reached Frost's ears, and how Frost was enraged like a mad dog, trying to find out which bastard was talking nonsense, it was something that would happen a long time later …
After Leon's visit, Sui roughly dealt with the affairs of the church and began to plan a big event.
The Industrial Revolution!
He had read a lot of online novels before he traveled to this world. In those novels, the travelers often wanted to carry out the Industrial Revolution, such as burning glass to make guns, lining up to shoot people to attack cities with cannons, and making iron with blast furnaces to synthesize fertilizers. It was like magic. Modern industrial products were invented one by one and quickly spread. The productivity level of the territory increased gradually, and within a few years, it would catch up with the advanced level of the world, and even be able to beat the world with its tiny territory.
Sui Xiong felt that as a time traveler, he still had such a great ability. In terms of ability, he was confident that those historical time travelers could not beat him. As everyone knew, most people who liked to climb the technology tree were historical time traveler novels, and the protagonists were basically ordinary people with ordinary bodies. Since those ordinary people could do it, there was no reason that he, who was so powerful, could not do it.
So he decided to retreat for a period of time and start the Industrial Revolution first!
Well … what should he start with?
He thought for a while and made a decision. First, he would start with blast furnaces!
What was the basis of modern industry?
Steel!
To start the Industrial Revolution, of course, he had to start with increasing steel production!
To increase steel production, of course, he had to start with the legendary "blast furnaces" technology!
So he built a blast furnace in an inaccessible place in the depths of the Ashes Forest, where he had experimented with papermaking. He got a lot of iron ore and coal, threw them in, and began to burn them.
Of course, there were some small episodes in the process. For example, he did not know the shape of a blast furnace. After thinking about it again and again, he made a long chimney with a big ball under it. He thought it might be possible that the so-called "blast furnace" looked like this.
Another example was that he did not know what kind of iron ore and what kind of coal to use. Based on the idea that "the Industrial Revolution is to use the simplest materials to make the most advanced results", he used scattered pyrite and peat, which had a low heating value but was very common.
Another example was that he did not know what kind of structure should be inside a blast furnace, so he mixed the pyrite and peat evenly together and stuffed them in.
Then, he was distressed to find that it did not seem to be easy to burn. The fire was not strong at all, and it even went out after burning for a while.
What was going on?
Sui Xiong thought hard, and finally thought that maybe it was because the world was different, and the coal in this world was not strong enough.
He had traveled to another world, and wanted to develop the technology of blast furnaces, but the coal was not strong enough. What should he do? Waiting online, urgent.
But there was no Internet …
Fortunately, he was not the kind of person who had a one-track mind like Gerrard. As the saying goes, when you are poor, you can change. He thought for a while and came up with a solution.
Didn't he want to burn it? Didn't he want a high temperature? There were other ways!
For example … fire elemental creatures or something …
He used magic to catch a powerful fire elemental from the fire elemental plane, which was conservatively comparable to a senior adventurer. He put this fire elemental into his homemade blast furnace. He wanted to use the raging flame on this guy to melt the mixture of iron ore and peat, and then make molten iron.
Good idea. Well, good idea.
The temperature of the fire elemental was not low. Soon the peat was completely dried, and then … it burned fiercely.
Question: What is the phenomenon of burning fiercely in a narrow space called?
Answer: Explosion.
With an earth-shattering bang, the unlucky fire elemental was immediately blown into a pile of ashes, and Sui Xiong's homemade blast furnace became a mess of red hot gravel. As for iron ore and peat … those splashing around, and some iron slag falling on Sui Xiong were their final products.
Fortunately, Sui Xiong was so powerful that he was comparable to the legendary unbreakable Vajra Vajra. He suffered the violent explosion at almost zero distance and was splashed by countless molten iron slag. He just grimaced in pain a few times and soaked in the water to rest for a while. Then he ran back to rebuild the blast furnace, put in the materials, and began to try to improve it.
Not long after, there was another earth-shattering bang.
Then Sui Xiong once again soaked in the water with dust all over his face, took a rest, and ran out again to rebuild the blast furnace, adjust the proportion of materials, adjust the structure, and do experiments again.
Then, not long after, there was another earth-shattering bang.
Explosion after explosion, the forest soon became a white land — no, it was a black land, because the ground was full of a mixture of iron slag and ashes. God knows how many unlucky fire elemental creatures died with grievances, turned into black ashes, and scattered in every corner of this land.
If Marx saw this scene, he would definitely sigh, "When the blast furnace came to this world, from head to toe, every pore was dripping blood and dirty things …"
Alas, if this was in a historical novel, how many times would the protagonist have died …
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