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Not only Stanley who was telling the story was excited, but Lind's eyes also lit up when he listened.

Why does this sound so much like a blast furnace?

Linde didn't know much about iron and steel metallurgy, but he knew some key words, such as blast furnace. Although Linde didn't know what a real blast furnace looked like, from Stanley's description, it was clearly a blast furnace!

This is also a time traveler! ?

"Odds change but evens don't?" Thinking of this, Lind asked tentatively.

"What did you say, young master?" Stanley blinked in confusion.

"howareyou?"

"what?"

"Dinosaur frog?"

"Master, what are you doing..."

He tried using Chinese, English and Japanese, which were all the languages ​​Lind knew before he traveled through time, but the blacksmith in front of him didn't understand a single word he said.

If he wasn't a time traveler, how could he have thought of the blast furnace?

"Where did you learn to design this furnace?" Linde asked puzzledly.

"I didn't learn it from anywhere. I figured it out on my own." Stanley scratched his head a little embarrassed. "I started thinking about it after you said to make the furnace bigger and saw the magical power of magic with my own eyes."

"Um... am I..." Having said this, Stanley looked at Linde with some anticipation.

At this moment, Lind was so shocked that he was speechless.

Figured out the blast furnace by yourself! ?

If what he said is true, then he is definitely a talent!

Originally, Lind just wanted to ask about iron rust prevention, but ended up coming up with such a bold but brilliant insight! ?

"Your name is Stanley, right?" Lind looked at him with a pleased expression. "Are you interested in becoming the director of the steel plant?"

Chapter 174 Using Magic to Activate the Technology Tree

Stanley's idea shocked Linde, and he proposed a design for a blast furnace.

More importantly, he is a native of this world!

When the other party just proposed the idea of ​​a blast furnace, Linde subconsciously thought that the other party might be a time traveler, and he even tried to probe him a little. Then Linde realized that he was arrogant.

Although the other party was just a blacksmith who could barely read, weren't these ordinary craftsmen the ones who invented these new technologies in history? ?

In the world before time travel, civilization developed from hunting and gathering to the information age. Is there anything for time travelers?! ?

The progress of civilization and the development of science and technology have never been achieved by one person alone. The appearance of Stanley made Lind's eyes light up.

"Steel, steel plant?" Stanley was stunned and didn't understand what Linde said again.

"It's a factory," Lind explained. "You can simply think of it as a blacksmith shop that's hundreds of times bigger than yours!"

Hundreds of times!? Stanley's eyes widened, and then...

"Hundreds of times, how big is that?" Stanley scratched his head in confusion.

"…How much is two times one hundred?"

"What is multiplication?"

"What about nine plus seven?"

"Um, um... sixteen?"

"Congratulations, you answered correctly, your score will increase by one."

Stanley looked at the young master in front of him with a bewildered look.

Linde's excitement was completely extinguished. It seemed that Stanley was able to come up with the blast furnace because of his professional knowledge. His familiarity with ironmaking technology made him think of a way to increase the efficiency of ironmaking.

This kind of sudden technological progress is hard to come by, so it is better not to leave the task of building the technology tree entirely to these natives. You still need to work harder yourself.

The original plan was interrupted by Stanley's wild imagination, but the other party's idea of ​​blast furnace was indeed feasible, Linde immediately agreed with the other party's plan and approved the trial production. Of course, Linde did not expect the blast furnace to succeed in one go, and he was mentally prepared for success to come several times.

Next, Linde asked his own question, how to prevent rust.

"Don't worry, young master. I have quenched all the iron and it won't rust in a short time." Stanley replied to Lind's question.

"In a short time, will it still rust over a long period of time?" Lind asked.

"Well...it's like this." Due to the other party's friendly attitude, Stanley told the truth.

"Zinc, do you know?" Lind asked after recalling the chemistry knowledge he had before the time travel.

"Zinc? What is that?" Stanley looked confused again.

Well, it’s another technology point that was not selected.

"Linde!" Just as Linde and Stanley were having an in-depth discussion on metallurgical technology, Ilfa shouted to Linde outside the blacksmith shop.

"Madam, I'm coming out." After hearing this, Lind nodded to Stanley and walked out.

After Lind left, all the blacksmiths and apprentices, except Stanley, breathed a sigh of relief.

"What are you doing?" Stanley looked at his colleagues in confusion.

"You are so brave." Stanley's colleague, another blacksmith, gave Stanley a thumbs up. "You dare to say so much in front of the noble grandfather, aren't you afraid that you will be hung up and beaten if you fail to complete the task!?"

"No, Master Linde is not that kind of person." Stanley smiled, and his smile was very sincere.

"You really... If your new furnace fails, you will implicate all of us." Another blacksmith waved his hand.

Walking out of the blacksmith shop, Linde thought as he walked that he still needed an expert in metallurgy. He was not majoring in this field. Although he was okay in chemistry, it was only high school level chemistry after all. He had forgotten a lot and was definitely not as good as a professional.

If it's a metallurgical expert... an alchemist?

Lind thought of the alchemists who were being chased away as heretics in the Holy Empire.

The so-called alchemist is not the same as a magician. According to memory, the so-called alchemist is closer to a chemist. In the Holy Empire, for some reasons that Linde is not clear about, alchemists are treated as reserve believers of the strange god and are excluded and suppressed.

Speaking of alchemists, does the Ghost God have this knowledge?

As Linde thought of this, a blue phantom appeared in front of his eyes again.

"Disappear smoothly." The moment the phantom appeared, Lind immediately asked the other party to leave in a gentle and easy-going manner. These evil gods are really omnipresent.

"Who were you talking to just now?" Outside the blacksmith shop, Ilfa heard Linde's voice and looked at Linde with some curiosity.

"It's nothing, just a bird." Linde replied with a smile.

"Is this the magic storage device?" Lind walked over and saw a red stone pillar appearing on the charging magic rune.

This stone pillar is about one meter in diameter and only 20 centimeters high. It looks like a millstone. The stone pillar is connected to the charging magic rune, and you can see waves of water-like lines moving.

Are these water-like patterns ripples of magic?

"The magic storage device is ready." Illufa stood up from the ground, clapped his hands, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve. "Although it's not big, it's enough."

"The charging rune will automatically channel the free magic power in the air into the Salaman Stone. When used, the Salaman Stone will release the magic power stored in it. Although the magic power is not large, it is enough to power the blacksmith shop."

"Hmmmm." Linde nodded continuously as he listened, then observed the thing carefully.

"Report." Soon, Lind raised his eager-to-learn hand like a primary school student. "How did you turn those scattered stones into a whole?"

"It's very simple. Use the Hand of Shifting to put them together." It was Alisa who answered. "Use the Hand of Shifting to put the similar-cut pieces of Salamanthus together. Then, apply a little force and that's it."

After saying that, Elisa also demonstrated it on the spot. She lifted up two pieces of Salamanthus in the air and then put them together. After a while, the two Salamanthus were put together.

This phenomenon made Linde marvel, not only the Salamanthus Stone, but also the Shaping Hand of Elisa.

"I've never seen you use this magic before." Linde asked curiously.

"It's just an entry-level earth magic." Alisa waved her hand, her lips curled up slightly with pride. "I didn't do it directly because I was afraid that I couldn't control the strength and exploded the Salamandra."

"Yeah, yeah." Linde nodded continuously.

"...What do you want me to do now?" Noticing Linde's burning gaze, Alyssa subconsciously stood behind her mother.

"Ma'am." Linde smiled slightly, looked at Ilufa, and pointed at the Salaman Stone. "Do you know what this is?"

Chapter 175 Artificial Magic Ore

Ilufa was stunned by Linde's question. After hesitating for a while, Ilufa asked in confusion: "What is what? Isn't this the Salaman Stone? Didn't you bring it back?"

"Of course I know this is Salaman stone. I brought it back. What I mean is, ma'am, do you know what the composition of this stone is and why it can store magic power?" Lind further explained what he meant.

After hearing Lind's question, Ilufa was confused. What ingredients? Isn't it just salamanthus? What else could it be?

Looking at Ilufa's blank expression, Lind knew that the other party did not understand what he meant. Lind meant that Ilufa did not know the specific composition of the stone, or to put it more professionally, what the molecular chemical formula was.

But judging from Ilfa's expression, this expert in magic, the former Saint of the God of Magic, did not know the specific composition of the Salamanstone.

"Let me change the question." Linde thought for a moment and reorganized his words. "How is Salamanthus distributed in nature?"

"Well." Seeing Linde asked a question he knew the answer to, Illufa felt relieved. "The Wind of Magic, Alisa has already told you about it, right?"

"Yeah." Lind nodded.

"The magic wind blows from the extreme north to the extreme south of the world. Due to terrain and other reasons, some magic winds will form places with relatively high magic concentrations in specific locations. These places are called magic eyes. If the location of the magic eye happens to have a magic stone with corresponding properties, a corresponding magic ore will be formed."

Linde frowned slightly. This answer was almost the same as no answer.

"That is to say, the magic ore must be concentrated near the magic eye in order to show its properties, right?" Linder pondered. "Which came first, the ore or the magic eye?"

The corners of Ilfa's mouth twitched when he heard this. Why does this child have so many weird questions?

"That... I don't know either." Ilfa smiled bitterly and shook her head. "But I remember that a scholar once proposed that magic ore was formed by being affected by high concentrations of magic wind for a long time."

"Is there any evidence for this?" Lind asked.

"...No, only guesses."

With Lind's continuous questioning, Ilufa felt like he was back in his student days, feeling embarrassed by his teacher's continuous questioning. But then Ilufa realized that he was obviously older, so why did he act as if he was older?

Because he has always been too precocious and has knowledge and abilities far beyond his peers, Illufa often subconsciously treats Lind as an adult.

Lind squatted down and picked up a piece of salmanite on the ground. This salmanite was only the size of a palm and was slightly hot, about 45 degrees Celsius. It was slightly crystal-like and hard.

On the way back, Lind played with these stones carefully for a long time. Every time he turned them in his hands, a question would pop up in Lind's mind.

What is this stone made of?

"Can magic ore be artificially created?" Lind looked up at Ilfa.

"No." Illufa denied without hesitation. "Alchemists have been trying to artificially create magic ores, but since many alchemists are believers of the strange god, the Holy Empire has very strict regulations on the research of artificial magic ores."

"As far as I know, until I came here, magic ore cannot be artificially created."

Can't magic ore be artificially created? This is not good news for Lind.

If he wanted to develop the technology tree and productivity, based on Lind's knowledge from his previous life, three things were essential: extensive energy, sufficient resources, and universal power components. Originally, it would take an unknown amount of time to complete these three things, but magic provided Lind with another route.

The blacksmith shop has achieved initial success. Through the standardized use of magic runes and the use of Salamanthe as an energy storage device, it can achieve a similar function to the generator in the previous life. However, if it wants to expand it, a very big problem lies ahead: where can it find so many Salamanthes?

After a long journey and a fight with the followers of the Plague God, it took a lot of effort to get so many Salaman Stones. Just a blacksmith shop used up almost one third of the Salaman Stones. If one wants to further expand the scope of use, the number of stones is obviously not enough.

Aiwozhen Island was not very big. Linde had asked the Earth Mother Goddess, and according to her, Aiwozhen Island was only about the size of four Tongliao. The Earth Mother Goddess did not know whether there were other magical ores on the island, but referring to the situation in the Holy Empire, it was estimated that there would not be many.

If there is no way to massively increase the amount of magic ore, then this approach can only be used as an emergency measure and is not universally applicable. Linde still has to think of other ways.

According to Ilufa's explanation, the appearance of magic ore is somewhat accidental. There must be an uncharged ore located near the corresponding magic eye in order for the ore to store enough magic power and manifest the properties of the magic ore.

It feels like the right time and place have to be right for it to appear. In this case, there should be quite a few magic ores that display the properties of magic ore without the effect of magic power.

However, it is still unclear which came first, the Magic Eye or the Magic Ore. To be on the safe side, you'd better not expect that there are many undiscovered magic ores in nature.

If we could figure out the composition of this magic ore and find a way to artificially create it...

Then, Lind thought of a question he had thought about before, what is the essence of magic.

How to determine the molecular chemical formula of an unknown mineral? Linde was a complete layman. Although he knew about spectroscopy and flame color reaction, he had no tools.

"Dear sirs." Just as Lind was thinking, Stanley, the blacksmith, came out of the blacksmith shop and saluted respectfully. "There is something I must report to you. The iron ore is running out."

"Ah? Ah." Linde was stunned for a moment, then reacted. When he took Ilufa to blast the mines, the ore he brought back was only enough to last for about ten days, so the time was almost up.