"The number of demons is increasing, and we are becoming fewer and fewer. The Holy City of Taquila has fallen, and we are fleeing in all directions. Over the mountains, across the rivers, and as far as we can from the Gates of Hell. But next time, where can we escape to? "
"What do you think?" In the office, Roland closed the Book of Illusion and asked Scroll.
"If that knight didn't remember wrongly, this is an incredible coincidence." Scroll pondered for a moment, "The contents of the treasure map match the essays recorded in the ancient books, which can be said to prove that the Church once built a city in the depths of the Barbarian Land to resist the demons. And the location marked on the map may be a defense tower, outpost, warehouse or other facilities they built. "
"You mean... it's not the real treasure map?"
"Of course, the Church is not a bandit or pirate, they don't need to hide the treasure, and also leave a map for future generations."
Roland nodded, "That's right. So... this is actually a map? "
"Nine out of ten. Although I don't know why the Church didn't record the history of this period, I think there must be more than one ruin buried in the forest of the Eastern Region. " Scroll analyzed, "If the facility marked on the map is just a building on the ground, after hundreds of years, it will be difficult to find anything. But if it is accompanied by a basement or a storage warehouse, it is likely to be another underground ruin. Through it, we may be able to find some clues. "
"What clues?"
"Why does the Church want to hide the existence of the demons? Why did they resist the demons, but keep it a secret? " She paused, and her voice became a little lower, "And... why do they want to hunt witches as demons?"
Roland didn't know how to comfort her, so he was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "Unfortunately, I don't know whether his drawing is accurate or not. According to him, the original map is so neat that it doesn't look like it was drawn by hand."
"How about asking Nightingale to go to the Knight's house?"
"Not very appropriate," Roland rejected, "A family that can pass a treasure map for hundreds of years may have a storage room full of God's Stones of Retaliation and traps. We'll talk about it later, "he said, pointing out the length of the triangle." We can't reach it now, anyhow. If the North Slope Mountain foot is regarded as a mining area, then the location of the hexagram is at least 50 kilometers away from us, almost the distance between Border Town and Longsong Stronghold. Except for Lightning, who can arrive in one day, the others will have to walk for two to three days. What if we encounter demons on the way … I don't want anything to happen to you. "
"You can first let Lightning explore this woodland from the air, maybe she will find something," Scroll suggested.
"That's a feasible plan." Roland stood up. "When she comes back, I'll tell her. I'm going to the North Slope Mine now, so you can prepare the teaching materials for the class. If you need to make more copies, you can ask Soroya. We still have to continue teaching them tonight. "
Roland combined the education he had received when he was in elementary school with Prince Roland's palace education method, and instilled them into Scroll, including categorized memory, phonetic symbols, reading and writing, and reciting phrases. With these, he believed that Scroll would become a good teacher.
"Yes, Your Highness," Scroll saluted.
The backyard of the North Slope Mine was now more than twice as large as before, and there were still two holes in the ground that hadn't been filled, where the embryos of the twelve-pound cannon were cast. When Roland arrived at the backyard, Anna was practicing her new ability, and there were two steel pipes on the table.
He casually picked one up and looked at it. The steel pipe was perfectly round, and its surface was smooth without any air holes. The hole in the middle was the same as the outer wall, and when it was aimed at the sun, he could see a straight line of light. Roland used his fingernail to check the thickness of the wall at both ends, and found that it was basically the same.
Roland was amazed, "How did you make this?"
"You see," Anna picked up a freshly cut steel rod and placed it flat in her hand. A thin black line was inserted from the end until it completely ran through the rod, and then it rotated around the center, and the hole was finished.
Amazing ability, he thought. Using high-temperature magic to cut objects, while at the same time being precise, Anna alone was enough to push the town's industrial products to a new height. He suppressed his excitement and said: "Let's first do some basic tests."
The basic tests included the range of the ability, the strength of the ability, and the duration.
Nightingale also appeared from the fog, she was responsible for observing the changes in Anna's magic.
The results showed that in addition to the strength and duration of the ability being greatly improved, the range of the black flame was still within five meters, and it could only be accurately controlled within three meters.
At the same time, it was still a summoning ability, and the God's Stone of Retaliation could remove the effect of the black flame, or when Anna ordered the black flame to enter the range of the God's Stone of Retaliation, it would suddenly disappear.
It seems that unless I evolve to the point where I can directly use magic, I can't get around this obstacle. Roland thought.
However, Anna's new ability still had earth-shaking significance. Using the black flame to make industrial machines, and then producing all kinds of machine tools, the level of mechanical processing could be regarded as a shortcut to quickly rise.
However, industrial mass production was always not something that could be accomplished by one person. For example, Carr had built a furnace on the side of the North Slope Mountain, and one had already been completed. After putting it into use, it was found that the firing of clay bricks was okay, but the temperature of the burning of cement was always not up to standard, so the cement needed by Border Town still had to be produced by Anna – fortunately, after reaching adulthood, she could complete the calcination even without staying in the dusty room.
Roland had a way to solve the problem of the furnace temperature not rising, for example, he could use the steam engine to blast to raise the furnace temperature, and then set up the exhaust gas circulation channel to improve the use of heat dissipation. But the production of the steam engine was also inseparable from Anna, from the key parts of the casting to the welding, everything had to be completed by her.
It could be said that the current industrial products of Border Town were based on Anna's ability, once she was gone, the so-called industrial development would be nothing more than an illusion.
During the Months of the Demons, everything Roland had done was for emergencies, but now that the threat of the demonic beasts no longer existed, and Longsong Stronghold had provided a large number of people and funds, he naturally had to start to change this situation.
"Let's start from the most basic. "
He asked Anna to cut out a two-finger-wide, one-millimeter-thick piece of steel, and then picked out the previously set standard centimeter-long iron ruler, taking a small distance as the fixed length of the black line, and repeatedly arranging it until the ten black lines were roughly the same length as the standard centimeter. Then he let the black line climb up the steel piece, and burn out a vertical mark. Under the control of the black line, the distance between each vertical mark was almost exactly the same.
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