"Magicians are not worth mentioning." The short young man was Palin. His hearing was extraordinary, and he could even hear his whispers. He turned around and said with a smile, "Being a scholar is what I'm proud of. But forget about 'greatness'. I'm not qualified yet."
Lai Fu was startled. He was both surprised by Palin's identity and his amazing hearing. He hurriedly bowed, but he didn't know how to greet him.
"Make yourself at home," Palin said with a smile. "Are you here to visit? Let's continue the tour then. I have something to discuss with Uncle Wrought Iron. "
After saying that, he brought Wrought Iron to the study next door and began to discuss in detail.
There were two reasons for Palin's visit.
The first was to invite Wrought Iron to the Void Mask amusement park to watch the retirement ceremony.
Palin's uncle, Old Soth, had passed away a few years ago. Among the companions who had adventured and done business with Old Soth in the past, there were only two living long-lived ones, Wrought Iron and Rhyme. The former were dwarves, with an average lifespan of about 150 years, while the latter were wild elves, with an average lifespan of about 180 years.
Right now, Wrought Iron was almost seventy years old, which was equivalent to a human's early thirties. He was in his prime. After attending the funeral of his old friend, he came to Gold Rush Town and became a blacksmith.
On the other hand, Yun Lv's race was rather strange. His aging was similar to that of a human's, but he could stay alive for an astonishing amount of time. At the age of sixty, his hair had already turned white, and he had basically lost the ability to work. Currently, he lived in the Void Mask Amusement Park and worked as a librarian in Palin's library.
When Palin was an accountant in Uncle Soth's caravan, he had a good relationship with Uncle Wrought Iron. So this time, he personally came to invite Uncle Wrought Iron to help him maintain his image in Gold Panning Town.
With his current identity and status, it was enough to dispel many people's greed for Uncle Wrought Iron's smithy and avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Secondly, he wanted to understand the principle of the Magic Furnace in detail, as well as inquire about the Dwarf Smithing Art's ore smelting skills.
During this time, Sui Xiong's blast furnace experiment did not go well, and he failed countless times. He thought about it carefully and felt that he might be lacking in theory, so he decided to make up for his basic skills first.
The easiest way to improve his basic skills was naturally to ask Morani for guidance. But Sui Xiong felt that this was his own private matter after all, and it was not worth bothering others for it. After thinking about it, he found Palin.
Palin had spent most of his time in the library over the past few years, and he rarely left the library. He could be called a deep otaku. Sui Xiong felt that Palin must have accumulated a lot of knowledge after studying so hard for so many years, and it seemed that all otakus were very talented in technology. He had a college classmate who was not good at playing games, but he was very good at technology. He made a keyboard with many function keys and was invincible in the department. Maybe Palin was also such a person?
As it turned out, although Palin was also an otaku, he was not a technological otaku. He knew very little about metal smelting technology. He only knew what kind of ores could be refined and could recognize some common or precious ores.
But Palin's mind was much more flexible than Sui Xiong's. Knowing that Sui Xiong's experiment had been unsuccessful, he suggested that Sui Xiong might as well make a copy of several common smelting furnaces and study them slowly.
Sui Xiong thought about it and did as he was told.
However, after a period of research, he still had no clue.
He could make a copy of those smelting furnaces without any mistakes, and he could also expand them to an amazing scale. But this could not solve the inherent problems of those smelting furnaces. Either the cost was too high, or the efficiency was too low, and there was no value in promoting them.
The crux of the problem was that he did not really understand the design principles of these smelting furnaces.
Sui Xiong was indeed resourceful. As long as he looked at it, he could make a complete copy of even the most complicated magic furnace. But this did not mean that he really understood the design principles of this kind of smelting furnace. It was like playing with scientific models. A person with good hands-on ability could use various parts to assemble a variety of interesting models. Some could fly in the sky, and some could swim in the water. But he might not actually understand aerodynamics, and he might not even understand the law of buoyancy.
This was the case with Sui Xiong.
When he understood his shortcomings, he fell into distress.
This world did not have a set of perfect education and scientific research system like the earth. Craftsmen only passed on their experience from generation to generation, and there were not many things that could be deeply studied and formed into theories. Even if he wanted to learn, he did not know where to start.
The sorcerers did have a lot of research, but unless he consulted with the Master of Mystery or the God of Spellcasters, there was no way to find the theory he wanted, like looking for a needle in a haystack.
In this case, Palin recommended himself, saying that he had been taken care of by His Majesty for many years and had been quietly learning. Now it was time to try to put what he had learned into practice.
He first came to Sui Xiong's experimental site, observed several failed experiments, and then thought about it for a while. Then he set out to find Wrought Iron, who was good at forging, saying that he wanted to learn from the dwarf's forging technique.
Knowing his purpose, Wrought Iron could not help but laugh. "Little Palin, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed!"
"Oh?" Palin was stunned. "Why?"
"Of course, the dwarf's forging technique is very good, but compared with the infinite power of the gods, it is not worth mentioning," Wrought Iron said. "What even His Majesty the Void Mask can't do, the dwarf's forging technique certainly can't do."
"That's not necessarily true," Palin said. "My Lord's power is infinite, but what he wants to do is to research skills suitable for mortals, which is not something that can be achieved by relying on the power of the gods. Perhaps after getting inspiration from the dwarf's forging technique, he will be able to achieve success. "
In this case, Wrought Iron naturally no longer had any doubts, and he carefully described his own skills.
Palin was not interested in the delicate skills that ordinary blacksmiths were particularly concerned about. He paid more attention to the general framework of dwarf's forging technique. After spending most of the day, he listened to the whole set of dwarf forging technique, and asked about some of the content of the smelting part. Confident that he had basically mastered it, he asked about the experience of using the magic furnace.
Of course, the magic furnace was not dwarf technology. It was a technology left over from the era of the Elven Kingdom. Using a complex magic array, it could extract the energy of the magic stone as the fuel, burn the ore until it melted, and then use the power of magic to separate the melted metal from the slag, which was poured out in two batches to form metal ingots and waste slag.
The cost of this thing was very high, and it cost nearly 10,000 gold coins. The cost of using it was also very high. Every time it was activated, it consumed magic stones worth thousands of gold coins. So later, human spellcasters carried out follow-up research and improvement on it, and introduced a lower version — which was the one Wrought Iron was using now.
Wrought Iron's magic furnace was sold for 4,000 gold coins, and every time it was used, it needed to be filled with a lot of magic power. But fortunately, it did not need to be filled with magic power at once, and could be slowly filled several times, and it could be activated when the magic power was enough. Wrought Iron himself could more or less use a little magic power. Although his magic power was not strong enough, if he filled it slowly, he could activate it about once a month.
To be honest, using it once a month was a bit of a cheat. Wrought Iron had long felt that he might have been tricked by the merchant and bought something that was not suitable for him. But he had already bought it, and he had installed it. It would be a real waste to just leave it on the shelf. So he filled the furnace with magic power every day, ensuring that it would be turned on once a month, and he would never let this thing sit idle.
In the past few years, he felt that his magic power had increased quite a bit. It seemed that filling the furnace with magic power every day was a good way to exercise.
The two talked for an afternoon, and the furnace had long since cooled down, so Palin personally added the selected high-quality iron ore into the furnace, then closed the furnace and filled it with magic power.
After all, it was not reliable enough to rely on words alone. He wanted to understand and master the knowledge of using the magic furnace through his own practice, and see if he could get some inspiration from it to help His Majesty the Void Mask in his study of the blast furnace.
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