There are more and more devils, and less and less of us. The holy city of Taquila has fallen, and we have fled. Climb over mountains, cross rivers, and escape as far as you can from the gates of hell. But next time, where can we escape
"What do you think?" In the office, Roland closed the book of illusion and asked the scroll.
"If the knight remembers correctly, this is really a great coincidence." Scroll pondered for a moment, "The contents of the treasure map are consistent with the essays recorded in the ancient books, which can be said to prove from the side that the church once lived in the wilderness. Cities were built in the depths of the earth to resist the devil. The location marked on the drawings may be the defense towers, outposts, warehouses or other facilities they built."
"You mean... it's not really a treasure map?"
"Of course, the Church is not a bandit or a pirate. There is no need for them to hide their treasures and leave a blueprint for future generations."
Roland nodded, "That's right. So... is this actually a map?"
"Nine times out of ten. Although it is unclear why the church did not record the history of this period, I think there must be more than one remains buried in the Eastern Forest." Scroll analyzed, "If the facilities marked at this location are only It is an above-ground building, and it is difficult to have anything left after hundreds of years. But if it has a storage warehouse such as a basement, it is likely to be another underground relic. Through it, we may be able to find some clues. "
"What clue?"
"Why did the church hide the existence of the devil? Why did they resist the devil, but kept it a secret?" She paused, her voice lowered a little, "And... why do they hunt witches as devils?"
Roland didn't know how to comfort him, so he had to be silent for a moment, and then slowly said, "Unfortunately, I don't know if he drew it accurately or not. According to what he said, the original picture is not as neat as it was drawn by hand."
"Would you like Nightingale to visit the knight's house?"
"It's not very appropriate," Roland vetoed. "For a family that can pass a treasure map to hundreds of years, the storeroom may be full of God's Stone of Retaliation and traps. We'll talk about this later," he compared with his fingers. It is longer than the side of the triangle, "Anyway, we can't reach this place now. If we consider this point at the foot of the North Slope Mountain as a mining area, the location of the six-pointed star is at least 50 kilometers away from us, which is almost from Border Town to Changge Fortress. The distance is long. Except for the lightning, which can be reached in one day, everyone else has to walk for two to three days. What if you encounter a devil on the way... I don't want you to make any mistakes."
"You can first let the lightning probe this woodland from the air, maybe you can find something." Scroll suggested.
"It's a feasible plan." Roland stood up, "I'll tell her when she comes back. Now I'm going to the North Slope Mine, you should prepare the teaching materials for teaching first, you need to copy more. Find Soraya if you want to, and I have to continue teaching them tonight."
Roland combined the enlightenment teaching he received when he was in elementary school with the court education method of the Fourth Prince, and instilled them into the scroll, including classification memory, phonetic transcription reading and writing, and reciting phrases. With these, he believed that the other party would become a good teacher.
"Yes, Your Highness." Scroll saluted.
The backyard of the firing room in the North Slope Mine Area is now more than twice as large as before, and there are still two unfilled holes in the ground where the embryos of the twelve-pounder guns are cast. When Roland arrived in the backyard, Anna was practicing her new abilities, and there were two finished products that looked like steel pipes on the table.
He picked up one and looked at it. The whole steel pipe was perfectly round, and the parts without pores on the surface were smooth and smooth. The round hole in the middle was the same as the outer wall. Aiming at the sunlight, you could see a straight highlight area. Roland stuck the wall thickness at both ends of the card with his fingernails and found that they were basically the same.
Roland was amazed, "How did you do this?"
"Look," Anna picked up a freshly cut steel rod and placed it flat in her hand. A thin black wire was inserted from the end until it completely penetrated the rod body, and then rotated around the center once, and the hole was completed. .
Amazing ability, he thought, cutting objects with high-heat magic wire, and at the same time controllable precision, Anna is enough to push the town's industrial products to a new level with one person. He suppressed his excitement and said, "Let's do some basic tests first."
Basic tests include ability range, ability intensity, and duration.
Nightingale also appeared from the mist, and she was responsible for observing the changes in the magic power in Anna's body.
The results show that, in addition to the significant increase in the strength and duration of the ability, the black flame's effect range is still between five meters, and it can only be accurately controlled within three meters.
At the same time, it is still a summoning ability. The Stone of God's Retaliation can cancel the effect of Black Flame, or when Ana orders Black Flame to enter the range of the Stone of God's Retaliation, it will also disappear suddenly.
It seems that unless you evolve to be able to use magic directly, you will not be able to bypass this hurdle. Roland thought.
However, Anna's new ability still has earth-shaking significance. Using black flames to make industrial mother machines and regenerate various types of machine tools can be regarded as a shortcut to a rapid increase in the level of machining.
However, industrialized production is not something that one person can accomplish. For example, the kiln built by Jean Carl on the northern slope of the mountain has now been completed. After it was put into use, it was found that the firing of clay bricks was ok, but the temperature of the cement was not up to the standard, so that the cement needed in the border town still relies on Anna to produce it. When she is an adult, she can do it even if she does not stay in the dusty room. Calcined.
It is not impossible for Roland to solve the problem that the furnace temperature cannot rise. For example, it can be used with a steam engine to blow air to increase the furnace temperature, and then set up exhaust gas circulation channels to improve the utilization of heat dissipation. But the production of the steam engine is also inseparable from Anna. From the casting of key components to the welding, she has to complete it by herself.
It can be said that the current industrial products in Border Town are based on Anna's abilities. Once she is gone, the so-called industrial development will be nothing but a mirror.
During the Month of Demons, everything Roland did was for emergencies. Now that the threat of demonic beasts no longer exists, and Changsong Fortress has provided a large number of people and funds, he naturally wants to change this situation.
Start with the basics first.
He asked Anna to cut out a steel sheet that was two fingers wide and about one millimeter thick, and then picked out the standard centimeter-long iron ruler that was made earlier, took a small distance as the fixed length of the black line, and arranged it repeatedly until ten black lines were reached. Roughly the same length as standard centimeters. Then let the black wire climb up the steel sheet, ablating vertical marks one after another. Under the control of the black line, the distance between each vertical mark is almost exactly the same.
Roland intends to start with a ruler, make a batch of original samples of various measuring tools, and at the same time unify the weights and measures. These standard units will also be written into norms and manuals, which will be added to the upcoming universal education. (. If you like this work, you are welcome to come and vote, your support is my biggest motivation. Please come.)