There is strength in numbers, and the exploration team had a large number of people, so it didn't take long to set up the camp.
This was also thanks to the solid foundation laid by the pioneer team before. The ground was leveled and compacted, the surrounding vegetation had been cleared, and even the tents had already been set up. And what they set up was not an ordinary tent, but one that was specially thickened and reinforced, with two layers inside and outside, windproof and waterproof, and the effect of heat insulation and cold protection was outstanding. Even though it was freezing cold at the moment, once you walked into the tent with the fire pit lit, you could immediately feel the warm atmosphere. Living in such a tent, you don’t have to worry about frostbite no matter how cold the weather is.
What the exploration team mainly does is to set up the equipment required for exploration and build the small smelting plant.
They use a magic furnace, which is very expensive and consumes a lot of magic power each time it is used. Generally, it requires a mid-level mage to preside over it in order to use it more frequently. There are naturally mid-level mages in the exploration team, and there are three of them. Combining the power of the three of them, we can roughly open the furnace every two days, which is almost enough.
Theoretically, as long as there is enough magic power, the magic furnace can be used without fuel. However, in order to ensure the stability of the magic furnace, the exploration team still prepared a large amount of magic crystals, with a total value equivalent to at least tens of thousands of gold coins.
If necessary, these magic crystals will be the fuel for the magic furnace. But unless absolutely necessary, no one is willing to consume magic crystals to smelt ore - the silver mine itself is certainly not worth the price, and in its associated mine, even the expensive mithril is not worth consuming magic crystals to smelt. .
The reason for preparing these magic crystals is just to be prepared.
It is not easy to build a magic furnace. This thing is quite complicated and delicate. It needs to be dexterous and strong, and it must be built smoothly under the guidance of professionals. Most of the people in the exploration team can only play a supporting role, and only the four people in the elite group can really take the lead.
As the top spellcaster in the elite group, Sid is undoubtedly the core force in building the magic furnace, and everyone else is cooperating with him. He had never shouldered such a heavy responsibility before, so he couldn't help but feel a little nervous, and almost made mistakes twice in a row.
If others were like this, one of the three mid-level mages must have cursed. But Sid is no less than them in terms of strength and status. Even as a rising star, his future prospects are higher than theirs. Therefore, even the arrogant mages have enough patience to comfort them with kind words. Take the trouble to explain again and again.
When Sid succeeded in building the core of the furnace for the third time, not only did he let out a long breath and smiled, but everyone also breathed a sigh of relief and laughed.
The most difficult thing about the magic furnace is to build the core. After the core is built, the rest is just physical work. As long as you can sense the flow of magic power, you are unlikely to spell things wrong. All four members of the elite exploration team can sense the flow of magic, and three of them can even cast spells. Of course, they will not make such a stupid mistake.
About half an hour later, when it was getting dark, the magic furnace, which was almost as tall as three people, was finally completed. Along with a low buzzing sound, blue-white electric light flowed in the furnace, quickly turned in a circle, and finally turned into a small vortex and disappeared into the core in the center of the furnace.
This means that the furnace is built correctly and is functioning properly.
Even though they had been very confident before, it was only now that everyone was truly sure of success and couldn't help but cheer.
This magic smelting furnace was specially made by the Dwarf Kingdom. It uses many special materials and the latest researched technologies to greatly improve its smelting efficiency, and at the same time, it can effectively screen out impurities in the ore. The former is fine, the latter is extremely important for smelting. Many times, the difference between good steel and scrap iron, between high-quality metal ingots and garbage slag is actually just a little impurity.
Although this refining furnace can filter out not many impurities, but this little bit is already as high as a mountain compared to ordinary magic refining furnaces.
It is so wonderful that it is naturally very difficult to make. The cost of raw materials alone exceeds 20,000 gold coins. If the research and development costs and the hard work of the master blacksmiths are also included, it may be worth about 50,000 gold coins.
This price is really crazy. You know, the average magic furnace only costs four to five thousand gold coins. The price of this guy is almost ten times that of an ordinary magic furnace!
It is so precious that no one can afford to be careless. This was an important reason why Sid was so nervous before. With his wealth, a mere four to five thousand gold coins in an ordinary magic furnace, he really wouldn't be so nervous that he failed twice in a row.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly, it was built safely, and tens of thousands of gold coins were not wasted.
After the magic furnace was built, everyone rested for a while, and before the night fell completely, they built another magic furnace.
But that one didn't enjoy this kind of treatment. Dudu Shanshan and a few strong men built it easily, and it only took less than twenty minutes.
"I'm proficient in this job." Du Du continued to boast while working, "When I first learned smelting, I built at least hundreds of furnaces like this. I can do it with my eyes closed. Absolutely impossible to go wrong.”
"Then did you make any mistakes?" Hopps asked with a smile.
"Of course... I have." Du Du laughed, "How can anyone in the world know how to do it from the beginning? When I first learned to build a magic furnace, I broke seven or eight of them."
Everyone's face twitched when they heard that, seven or eight magic furnaces, wouldn't that be thirty or forty thousand gold coins? ! The Dwarf Kingdom is really rich. It spends such a huge amount of money just to let young people practice their skills...
"Don't believe his bragging!" an older dwarf who led the team sneered, "It's true that he broke seven or eight statues, but they were in a group of thirty or forty people at the beginning. And the broken core is still okay. Recycle it and make it again. Ordinary magic furnaces are not the new ones this time. If the core is broken, it will be broken. It only costs about a thousand gold coins to re-make it."
"...Save some face for me!" Dudu shouted, "I invited you to drink yesterday!"
"We dwarves are an honest and trustworthy people." The older dwarf laughed, "Stop bragging here, let's go and drink! I'm treating you today."
"Where can you treat me with wine? Didn't you finish drinking it before?"
"You believe I'm done when I say I'm done? How old are you to be so naive?"
"You just said that we dwarves are an honest and trustworthy people!" Dudu was almost furious.
The older dwarf stroked his beard, laughed and asked, "Which is more important, drinking or being honest?"
Dudu thought for a while and said hesitantly: "Drinking is more important."
"Then why are you asking? Let's go drink!" The older dwarf came over, slapped him on the back, and looked around, "Everyone, let's go drink together, I have a lot of wine, I have enough for today!" "