From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 229 The treasure-like volcanic salamander

The alloy produced by the volcanic salamander was temporarily named 'Black Edged Gold', and the three metal elements that made up the alloy were later obtained by deleting runes.

During the research, it was found that both the alloy itself and the three metal elements subsequently discovered, although each has some extremely outstanding characteristics, they also have certain disadvantages and are not universal materials that can be used once and for all.

Moreover, for a country-level force (although it has a population of just over 60,000), it is indeed too weak to only master the laboratory preparation methods of three metal elements and one alloy.

Therefore, the headquarters has never stopped searching for new metals, researching new alloys, and exploring large-scale smelting methods.

The volcanic salamander is also like a treasure, constantly bringing new value in this regard.

The most obvious one was the discovery of a type of metalloid element, and its corresponding veins were successively explored and determined in the following days.

At this time, how to extract these new metals from their natural compounds more quickly and on a larger scale has become a proposition that some witch doctors are thinking about.

Although the properties and application prospects of most of these metals are unknown, only when you have them in your hands can there be ways to further research, right?

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Roughly speaking, these metal elements can be divided into two categories according to their ‘extraction’ support;

For some metals that already have corresponding means of 'extraction', witch doctors can easily obtain the corresponding elements from the raw ore with the assistance of magic.

But the number of witch doctors is limited after all, and they play a more important role in high-end scientific research than mining. It is impossible to let them do such uneconomical things.

In other words, these three types of metals were originally part of the 'waste' for them, but over the course of countless years of evolution, the salamanders have been able to utilize these wastes and become a means of attack.

Second, it is some important element present in pottery.

But this did not stop the witch doctors. Two plant-based witch doctors, by giving specific vibration frequencies to the roots of plants, simulated this sound signal for a long time without their own participation;

And this comes to mind:

The process of extracting metal elements may be that at least part of the work is to remove the components of this "life gas element" from the compound.

Of course, the focus of 'trapping' is on 'lure'. In order to achieve this purpose, the witch doctors first thought of food.

‘Why not develop a food that is most valuable to them and can be absorbed most efficiently, just like sugar water is for ordinary land animals?’ they thought.

With this idea in mind, several types of ‘food’ were discovered that showed high digestive efficiency and few metabolic impurities during feeding experiments;

For the former, there is a corresponding ‘extraction’ means for metal

In terms of large-scale production, the witch doctors once again focused on the volcanic salamander and decided to use its own special characteristics as a model to try to outline a biological smelting method.

After both 'food temptation' and 'mating temptation' have been successful, trapping volcanic salamanders is equivalent to having everything ready and only needing the east wind;

By analyzing the body structure of salamanders in three sizes: seven meters, 20 meters, and 40 meters, the witch doctors found that the small salamanders have limited pressure-bearing capacity and need to be born in shallow magma when they are young.

Only after it grows to a certain size can it go deep underground.

At this moment, it actively swam to the area where the witch doctors had previously dumped the bait, and then swallowed the magma there in big mouthfuls.

Although these substances are highly toxic to ordinary organisms, they seem to be excellent nutrients for volcanic salamanders.

And for different metals, there can also be different salamanders to deal with it, making it a professional alchemy monster.

But when they used similar spells, the three metals were no longer in their excrement.

And those that can be utilized by them, that is, the parts that are digested in the magma, seem to be other types of elements in the natural compounds of metals besides metallic elements.

Whether it is totem inscription, or organ positioning and transformation, the realization of both requires a large number of anatomy experiments as support before it can be achieved.

As these two items push and promote each other, more and more metal elements can be obtained through 'extraction', including the two conventional ones previously provided by the horn hoof species.

Metal.

In addition, great breakthroughs have been made in the application of engraving on black Smilodon animals based on extensive dissection and cultivation.

2. Accurate positioning of organs;

When the Volcano Salamander uses a magic-like spell, not all the tissues in the body are acting (not counting energy contribution). At least the claws, tail, and even most of the organs and muscles are not involved in the operation of the magic-like spell.

If you want to do this, you must go through the same process as the Wind Wolf and the Black Smilodon, and you need a large number of anatomical samples as support.

Therefore, more dung is needed, and if you want dung, more salamanders must exist.

The problem isn't just about this.

The existence state of these types of substances is not stable. When they are put into high-temperature magma, they can easily react with certain components and transform into other substances commonly found in magma.

In this way, this plan was officially established as one of the options. This may be another village with hidden flowers and bright flowers.

As for the ingredients that need to be used in the plan, after many experiments, based on the attraction of the reaction products to the axolotls, the most cost-effective category in terms of time cost and effect was selected and entered into a large-scale process.

Preparation stage.

1. Allocate mother tree cultivation chambers for in vivo cultivation;

Therefore, they believe that the smelting process of horned hoof species should add other elements to the metal element, and the finished product obtained is also an alloy of some kind.

This requires accurately locating the organs involved in the magic-like process, and figuring out their operating principles, and then transforming them accordingly according to the needs of the totem's operation.

The Republic's existing totem engraving technology, except for the troll body, has only achieved 100% application on the wind wolf species;

The injured salamander reminded Nesta of his old friend the Burrow Wolf, and based on the latter's condition, he speculated that they might have fought against each other for some reason back then, and it was most likely that the Burrow Wolf fought two.

Because the other advanced salamander is only in "nearly intact condition".

After catching the higher species, even if the other salamanders become more difficult to catch, they will only be a little more troublesome for the Republic.

Even while in captivity, the witch doctors observed the creatures' frequent matings and decided to use this as bait.

Therefore, Nesta and the other four entered the quiet room again and began to focus on analyzing various information about the two higher species that had awakened.

The base of the volcano group seems to be a birth space, while the dozens of craters above are places like kindergartens. Only when the little salamanders grow up, will they dive deeper and live deeper;

So, something different happened after all, right?

After continued exploration, the witch doctors discovered that it was not the bait that worked;

Instead, after the bait reacts with the magma, the substances converted change some physical properties of the magma in that area;

And the characteristics it exhibits are exactly the feeling of "rich nutrition" experienced by salamanders.

However, some witch doctors believe that this is fishing for nothing. Once this behavior is carried out a few times, the salamanders may not be fooled again.

The problem is that there are only seven experimental subjects, and three of them died unexpectedly in previous experiments;

Especially the one whose brain was cut open to extract the magic crystal, the outcome was already doomed before the operation started.

In addition, among the captured big ones, the one at 20 meters should be an individual that is about to mature. The three at 40 meters may be parents or guardians?

But this has nothing to do with the witch doctors. They just want to take advantage of this and find a faster way to trap them.

In this kind of research, the two higher species became more and more clear to their 'ears'

Among the advanced species of salamander, one is in nearly intact condition, and the other is seriously injured. Both are about 130 meters in size, and live far apart in the depths, more than 500 kilometers from the surface.

In the magma.

After making this judgment, we then conducted targeted infrasound exploration of the volcanoes, and many of the points that had puzzled the witch doctors before were gradually solved;

To avoid this situation from happening, you must accumulate more anatomical experience; and if you want to increase the accumulation of anatomical experience, you must have more experimental subjects.

As a result, the direction of progress immediately changed, and the plan to capture higher species was once again put on the agenda.

But at the same time, capturing higher species plays an irreplaceable role for the troll community;

This was the original intention of exploring the volcano. How come it is now turned upside down due to various minor discoveries?

When using spell-like spells, 'residue' refers to the magma-like substance expelled from their parotid glands;

When not using magic, 'residues' refers to daily metabolic waste, such as magma-type feces, etc.

After analyzing these 'residues', the witch doctors identified many other metal compounds besides the 'Three Black Length Gold Brothers', hence the speculation of 'residues that cannot be used'.

In addition, based on the comparison between wind wolves and ordinary salamanders, the witch doctors have long come to the conclusion that the intelligence of wolves should be much higher than that of salamanders. They hope that this will also be reflected in advanced salamanders.

Bar.

What are the main problems we are facing now?

1. Application of totem technology;

However, its texture is too soft and its uses are limited in its pure form, at least for now.

This discovery gave witch doctors a clearer understanding of "life gas", and they realized that this gas should be an important reason why some metal elements cannot exist in nature as simple substances;

After having this understanding, they became clearer about the working principle of the 'detachment' part of the rune group, thus accelerating their understanding of 'metallurgy without magic participation';

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As for the other part, those metals that do not have corresponding means of 'extraction', their path forward is also closely related to the salamander.

In the study of the salamanders, the witch doctors found that their food seemed to be some kind of magma, or some non-metallic elements. Instead, it was the metal substances that the Republic tried its best to obtain, but for them, most of them were

It cannot be used, or only a little bit of residue can be used.

Of course, this was originally the purpose of the previous arrests.

After returning to the topic, through comparative analysis of various acoustic signals emitted by large and small salamanders, the four witch doctors have stronger abilities to identify and analyze various signals coming from deep underground.

Two, continue to trap more volcanic salamanders;

Although the process will be a bit troublesome, directly capturing samples is obviously more efficient than the relatively long production cycle of the culture chamber when accumulating quantities in the early stage;

Therefore, how to capture volcanic salamanders faster and more efficiently has also become one of the current research projects.

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The existing salamander samples have played a considerable role in the analysis of higher species by Nesta and other four advanced people;

Second, it is a soft metal with purple-red color, good ductility and high thermal conductivity.

Therefore, it is better to use good steel on the blade and try to use this method to trap the two higher species among them.

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Through the analysis of volcanic salamanders, the witch doctors have now understood why they leave their lairs deep in the underground magma and go to the crater magma pools.

But this is just incidental work. The most important achievement is to confirm the status, orientation, body shape and other items of the two advanced species through comparison with ordinary species, and analyze their eating, mating and other actions.

Frequency and corresponding acoustic signal fluctuations.

Of course, ideas are ideas and reality is reality. To realize this idea, witch doctors will have to work hard to study it.

In other words, the department needs to obtain more living samples of volcanic salamanders

There are also two different ways to obtain it;

For other metals that do not have corresponding means of 'extraction', it is necessary to study their conventional smelting methods, or to master basic laboratory preparation methods.

However, the preliminary work can be carried out by four advanced witch doctors;

Their unique ability to capture ultra-long-range signals can be far more efficient than ordinary witch doctors in related projects.

Then, the corresponding expression form of "Metallurgy with Magical Participation" in the rune group was deduced from it.

But having said that, this kind of excrement that is rich in metal compounds and has a very unstable state has greatly reduced the workload of the witch doctors, because the difficulty of refining the metal elements is much lower than that of other common elements.

The difficulty of refining the existing compound form.

Due to limitations of its own conditions, the salamander's courtship behavior is based on touch and hearing, of which hearing is the most important;

During this process, the witch doctors, through purposeful screening, found two special signals that appeared very frequently in the vocal signals before mating;

After that, they simulated it through magic techniques and successfully attracted the attention of male and female salamanders respectively.

Because the two advanced volcanic salamanders do not show a strong desire to mate or eat, those plans for ordinary species may not be directly applicable to them.

Witch doctors also have many ideas about capture methods

For example, plant a ring of fire-resistant plants around a volcanic crater, encourage their roots to spread into the magma, and attract enough salamanders to accelerate their hardening;

After that, you only need to extract the magma inside, or lift the solidified net-like root system like fishing, and you can ensure harvest.

So, the question once again returned to the cultivation and capture of salamanders

By this time, the cultivation of the culture chamber has been carried out, and the trapping plan to be carried out simultaneously has also entered the planning stage.

However, the few compounds or simple substances produced by the witch doctors at this moment have not left an imprint on the 'smell' and 'tactile' knowledge accumulated by the volcanic salamanders over the ages, so they lack practical appeal to them.

Seeing that this method seemed to be ineffective, the disappointed witch doctors surrounding the 'artificial' magma lake discovered that the salamanders that had previously been motionless towards the 'bait' actually moved;

But this alone is not enough. Volcanic salamanders lack the sense of smell and vision. On the contrary, the surface of the body is the most sensitive to touch and hearing. This is also reflected when eating.

They usually use their hearing to determine the general direction of nutrient-rich magma;

Later, while swimming, the viscosity of the target magma and other factors are sensed through touch, and the judgment of "whether it is worth eating" is obtained.

This statement is a wake-up call to the witch doctors who have already studied the upper brain, reminding them that 'population' is the foundation of everything.

In addition to these two, several other metal elements with different properties were also obtained in this process, and more unexpected surprises were obtained in their respective residues, such as toxic gases, certain

Atmospheric components, certain highly corrosive liquids, etc.;

In this way, the processes of various reactions and types of compounds were classified and summarized, which enabled further development of new subjects such as chemistry.

Although this makes the witch doctors feel uncomfortable, they still have to make use of what should be used.

However, in the following period, the attitude of most witch doctors towards these unlucky experimental subjects became more liberal.

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In addition, as a possible ‘distant relative’ of the troll, the salamander’s desire for mating cannot be underestimated;

The technical idea in this regard is roughly as follows: using the ability of the volcanic salamander itself, using totems to replace its natural spells, changing the specific types of metals it refines, so that it only works on a specific metal element, and further improving

efficiency and productivity;

At this point, the 'sex lure' plan has also taken shape. What is missing is how to effectively send out this signal, so as not to send dozens of witch doctors to lure him. That would be a big loss.

Under normal circumstances, they will then slowly return to the stable chemical state before being swallowed by the salamander in the high-temperature environment unique to magma, and then be eaten again by the excretor or other members of its kind.

In addition, when innate spells are not activated, the three black gold brothers still exist in the salamander's excrement;

After further confirmation of the composition of its 'feces', the witch doctors found that the missing elements, that is, the elements 'eaten' by the volcanic salamander, had quite a lot of categories;

On the other side, the preliminary preparations for trapping common salamanders are also being carried out simultaneously, but the launch time may be slightly delayed.

If we explain it in a disgusting way, the volcanic salamander's attack method is equivalent to using feces as a weapon.

As long as a specific part of the root system is extended into the magma, this signal can attract the corresponding target.

Therefore, the witch doctors do not intend to spend their energy to tame the complete salamanders. If they can accurately cultivate the most needed part of the tissue and use it as a living metallurgical biological machine, then in terms of energy utilization,

, in terms of manufacturing efficiency, it should be much more efficient.

This point plays an extremely important role in both the early sample culture and the later modification of corresponding organs. Therefore, Nesta has specially set up dozens of culture chambers to support research in this area.

One is a substance with metallic luster, white or silvery white;

This metal has good ductility and thermal conductivity, has a higher unit density than steel and wood, and has extremely excellent sound conductivity.

Moreover, although these metal elements still exist in the form of compounds in the excrement of volcanic salamanders, their properties are extremely unstable;

Having said that, planning a more specific action plan is in a certain dilemma;

They successively determined the distribution and approximate number of its population, and judged the differences in body size and strength among the individuals;

Several of them have been identified:

1. It is an important component of the ‘life gases’ widely present in the atmosphere;

Now, as long as targeted and efficient capture methods are found, action can be taken.

This is undoubtedly a good thing, at least the pressure faced during the capture operation may be reduced.

When comparing these two metals with the samples provided by the horn-hoofed species, the witch doctors found that there were considerable differences in the properties they exhibited;

And if you want to 'artificially' control the types of metals that salamanders can extract, then totems must also be engraved on them.

What should I do?

While thinking about this issue, Nesta recalled the special pressure coming from deep underground in the volcanoes;

The same sense of oppression was also expressed by the cave wolf back then.

In addition, between two advanced species of the same race, the feeling of separation left behind at this time even exceeded the distance between them and the surface, which made him have a guess.

Could it be that this kind of advanced creature has extremely territorial characteristics? This may become a key part of 'trapping'.

In this way, the use of cave wolves in operations should also be a top priority.

Nesta informed the four witch doctors of this idea and received their support. Everyone felt that there was nothing wrong with trying it.

As for the method to try, it is quite simple and crude.

(End of chapter)