"Magicians are not worth mentioning." The short young man was Palin. He had extraordinary hearing and could hear even a low whisper. He turned around with a smile and said, "The scholar is what I am proud of. It’s just a matter of ‘greatness’ or whatever, I’m not qualified yet.”
Reiff was surprised, both by Palin's identity and by his amazing hearing. He hurriedly saluted, but didn't know how to say hello.
"No need to be restrained." Palin said with a smile, "You are here to visit, right? Then just continue to visit. Uncle Wrought Iron and I have something to discuss."
After saying that, he took the wrought iron to the study room next to him and started talking in detail.
Palin's visit this time was for two things.
The first natural step is to invite Forged Iron to the Void Mask Playground to watch the retirement ceremony.
Palin's uncle Old Soth passed away a few years ago. Among the partners who went on adventures and did business with Old Soth in the past, there are currently only two longevity species alive, Wrought Iron and Rhythm. The former are dwarves, with an average lifespan of about 150 years; the latter are wild elves, with an average lifespan of about 180 years.
Wrought Iron is now almost seventy years old, equivalent to a human being in his early thirties, in his prime. After attending the funeral of an old friend, he came to the gold rush town and worked as a blacksmith.
Yunsu's race is rather strange. He ages almost as well as humans, but the time it takes for him to survive old age is quite astonishing. He is already gray-haired in his sixties and has basically lost his ability to work. Currently living in Mask of the Void Playground and working 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 when something happened this time, he personally came to invite him, not only to respect his elders, but also to help Uncle Wrought Iron support himself in the gold rush town. Support the scene.
With his current status, a personal invitation would be enough to dispel many people's greed for Uncle Forge's blacksmith shop and avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.
The second is to understand in detail the principle of the "magic furnace" and to inquire about the dwarven blacksmithing technique of smelting ore.
During this period, Sui Xiong's blast furnace experiments were not going well and failed countless times. He thought about it carefully and felt that he might be lacking in theory, so he planned to make up for his basic skills first.
To improve basic skills, the easiest way is to ask Morani for advice. But Sui Xiong felt that this was his private matter after all, and it wasn't worth bothering others with. After much deliberation, he found Palin.
Palin has spent most of his time in the library these years, and rarely goes out a few times throughout the year. He can be called a deep homebody. Sui Xiong felt that he must have accumulated a lot of knowledge after studying hard for so many years, and otakus seemed to be very talented in technology. Back then, he had a college classmate who was mediocre in gaming skills, but had a very good technical level. He made a homemade function with many keys. keyboard, sweeping the entire system - maybe Palin is also such a person
Facts have proved that although Palin is also a nerd, he is not a technical nerd. He knows very little about metal smelting technology. He just knows what kinds of ores can be extracted and can recognize some common or precious ores.
But Palin's mind was much more flexible than Sui Xiong's. Knowing that Sui Xiong's experiments had been unsuccessful, he suggested that Sui Xiong might as well make copies of several common furnaces and study them slowly.
Sui Xiong thought for a while and obeyed.
However, after a period of research, he still had no clue.
He was able to replicate those furnaces exactly and expand them to an astonishing scale. But this does not solve the inherent problems of those furnaces. Either the cost is too high or the efficiency is too low, and they all lack promotion value.
The key to the problem is that he does not really understand the design principles of these furnaces.
Sui Xiong indeed has great magical powers. He can completely copy even the most complex magic furnace with just a glance. But this does not mean that he really understands the design principles of this furnace - it is like playing with a scientific model. A person with strong hands-on ability can use various parts to assemble a variety of interesting models. Some can fly in the sky and some can swim in the water, but they may not actually understand aerodynamics, and may not even understand the law of buoyancy.
Sui Xiong is like this.
When he understood his shortcomings, he fell into distress.
This world does not have a complete education and scientific research system like the one on Earth. What craftsmen pass down from generation to generation is only experience, and there are not many things that can be truly studied in depth to form theories. Even if he wanted to learn, he would not be able to learn it for a while.
The mages have done a lot of research, but unless they consult with the Lord of Mysteries or the God of Spellcasters, there is no way to find the theory they want like looking for a needle in a haystack.
In this case, Palin volunteered himself, saying that he had been taken care of by His Majesty for many years and had been studying silently. Now it was time to try to apply what he had learned.
He first came to Sui Xiong's experimental site, observed several failed experiments, and then thought and studied for a while before setting off to find Uncle Forge who was good at forging, saying that he wanted to learn from the dwarf forging skills.
Knowing his purpose, Wrought Iron couldn't help laughing: "Little Palin, I'm afraid you will be disappointed!"
"Oh?" Palin was stunned, "Why?"
"Of course the forging technology of our dwarves is very good, but compared to the infinite power of the gods, it is not worth mentioning." Forged Iron said, "Even His Majesty the Mask of the Void cannot do things that the forging of our dwarves can't do. Technology certainly can’t do it.”
"That's not necessarily true," Palin said. "My Lord's power is infinite, but what He has to do is to develop techniques suitable for mortals. This is not something that can be achieved by relying on the power of gods. Perhaps from the forging technology of the dwarves, After getting inspiration, He can achieve success."
In this case, Wrought Iron naturally no longer had any doubts and explained his skills in detail.
Palin is not interested in the exquisite technologies that ordinary blacksmiths are particularly concerned about. He is more focused on the large framework of dwarf blacksmithing. He spent most of the day listening to the entire set of dwarf forging techniques, and then specifically asked about some of the smelting parts. Confident that he had basically mastered it, he asked about his experience in using the magic furnace.
Of course, the magic furnace is not a dwarf technology. It is a technology left over from the era of the elven kingdom. Using a complex magic circle, you can extract the energy of the magic crystal as fuel, burn the ore until it melts, and then use the power of magic to melt it. The molten metal and slag are separated and poured out in two batches to form metal ingots and waste slag.
This thing is very expensive to build, with one unit costing nearly 10,000 gold coins. The cost is also very high when used. Every time it is activated, magic crystals worth thousands of gold coins are consumed. Therefore, human spellcasters later conducted subsequent research and improvements on it, and launched a low-profile version—the one currently used by Forge Iron.
This magical forged iron furnace sells for four thousand gold coins, and requires a large amount of magic power every time it is used. But fortunately, it does not need to fill the magic power at once. It can be filled slowly in several times, and it can be started again when the magic power is filled enough. The wrought iron itself also has some magic. Although the magic is not strong enough, if it is filled slowly, it can be activated almost once a month.
To be honest, using it once a month is a bit of a bummer. Wrought Iron had long felt that he might have been deceived by the merchant and bought something that was not suitable for him. But after buying it and installing it, it would be a real waste to just put it on the shelf. So he would fill the furnace with magic power every day, making sure to open the furnace once a month and never let this thing sit idle.
Over the past few years, he felt that his magic power had increased quite a bit. It seemed that the act of replenishing his magic power every day was actually a good way to exercise.
The two chatted all afternoon, and the furnace had already cooled down, so Palin took matters into his own hands, adding selected high-quality iron ore into the furnace, then closing the furnace and filling it with magic power.
Just relying on words is not reliable enough after all. He wants to understand and master the knowledge of the use of magic furnace through his own practice, and see if he can get some inspiration from it to help His Majesty Void Mask's blast furnace research.