"The snow has stopped!"

All morning, Rafa stayed under the eaves, hoping that the heavy snow would stop soon, but God seemed to favor him very much, just after the lunch time in the big cafeteria of Icefield City, the wind and snow in the sky gradually stopped, except for the voices of people in Icefield City, there was silence outside the city.

"Ao Dai, quickly organize the knights to carry the sleepers!"

"Yes, Your Highness. ”

It is no wonder that Rafa is in such a hurry, since the installation of the steam engines and tracks in the two mines, the efficiency of mine mining has improved a lot, but due to the lack of transportation capacity, many of the excavated mines can only be stacked near the mines, and only a small part of them can be pulled away by ox carts and horse-drawn carts every day, which is completely contrary to his original intention of improving efficiency.

So for more than ten days, he urged the witches to speed up the production of steel rails every day, and the workers used to make guns in the ironwork factory gradually stopped, so in order not to be discovered by Philicon, he had to quietly ask them to stop assembling guns and build sleepers instead.

Luckily, the sleepers and gun racks were made of mahogany from outside the city, and Felicille didn't seem to have noticed it yet, but every time Felicille asked him how the firearms were going, he always said "It's going to be soon".

It's just that what I didn't expect was that after the rails and sleepers came out in a hurry, the heavy snow in winter didn't stop for three days, and it didn't stop until now.

"Lilith, come with me... Uh, sorry......"

Rafa rushed into the room excitedly, and the sleeping witches, who were curled up on the couch in front of the fireplace, were startled, but when they saw that it was Rafa, they shrank into the warm blanket.

"Why do you still have to work on a good day off?"

Lilith lazily lifted the clothes she had draped over her body and began to fumble with the glasses on the table.

Rafa kept her voice as low as she could, then handed the eyes on the table to Lilith's hand, "Sorry sorry, the snow has only stopped now......"

"Got it. ”

"Fili, are you going?"

"Don't go. By the light of the fireplace, Felihill was poring over the notes he had taken these days.

The two left silently, carefully closing the door, and silence returned to the room, save for the occasional sound of Felihill turning the pages.

"Let's go! we're going to open the roadbed before the knights get out of town. ”

As soon as he left the room, Rafa picked Lilith up horizontally, greeted Audrey, and ran out of the City Lord's Mansion as quickly as possible.

Due to the presence of the "cleaning team", the streets of Icefield City are always clean, and the snow has long been cleared, so it is not slippery to run.

"Slow down, I'm so cold. ”

Although Rafa was not afraid of the cold, Lilith, who was not wearing much, was so cold by the cold wind that whirred that she hurriedly buried her head in his chest.

"Sorry, it's coming soon. ”

Picking a few alleys with few people, Rafa ran out of the city, but there were large patches of snow outside the ice field, and he was afraid that the knights on the city wall would see it, so he carried Lilith to a rock about one person high, and prepared to cast his magic here.

"This time it's not about digging, it's about paving, paving down the slopes of the two caves, and then converging into a road. Rafalith and Audre were crouching behind the rocks, gesturing at the hillside in the distance.

"Huh, what?"

"Paving stones, or small pieces of stones that don't easily fall apart. Except for the land cultivated by the farmers themselves, the ground outside the ice field is a hard ground similar to the Gobi Desert with gravel mixed with soil, which can be completely unearthed, but he considers that water may be diverted here to irrigate the land in the future, so it can be easily drained if it is paved with slag.

"Do you see those over there?" Lilith pointed to the rubble emerging from the snowdrift in the distance.

"Yes, you can, as long as it's roughly laid out, we'll take care of the rest. ”

Lilith tightened her clothes, "Okay. ”

Then Lilith closed her eyes and began to perceive another ability derived from her magic, perception.

Because "peeling" is a very delicate magic, it often requires a close look at the internal structure of things, so her perception is also very powerful, and it stands to reason that she can even see the way without her eyes, but it is too magical, and she still likes to wear glasses as easy and simple things.

Rafa could feel the ground tremble slightly as a ripple spread into the distance, and then a snow-covered stone hill in the distance collapsed suddenly, forming a small crater.

He knew that it was because Lilith had stripped all the stones from the entire dirt bag, and the dirt had not moved at all, which was why he had the strange scene just now.

"It's just here, isn't it?" Lilith pointed to the snow leading from the mine to Icefield City with a fine sweat on her forehead.

Receiving Rafa's affirmative answer, Lilith gasped and held out her hand again.

Countless rubble began to pour out of the air, and began to fall from the edge of the hillside in the distance, like a "stone" rainstorm.

"Why is a witch still oppressed by the church when she has such power?" Audrey sighed at the sight of the stones flowing like a waterfall.

"Because the church happens to have something that can restrain magic. Lilith took control of the stone flow and answered Audele's question.

"It's called the Broken Stone, right?" Rafa asked, looking at the slowly moving stone waterfall.

"That's right, it's the Demon Breaking Stone, as long as it touches that thing, even if it's as powerful as Heda, it doesn't have the ability to fight back at all. ”

"Rest assured, it will not be magic that will defeat them in the future, but steel and fire. ”

As he spoke, a stone road that was not wide had been paved near Icefield City, and he estimated that some knights must have found out, but it didn't matter, the knights were loyal to him and wouldn't talk nonsense.

"Great, Lilith!"

Looking at the neatly paved stones, Rafa couldn't help but admire.

"Send me back, I'm so tired... It's so sleepy......" The moment Lilith withdrew her magic, her whole person staggered a little and staggered two steps, but fortunately Audair hurriedly supported her, and she didn't fall.

"Audrey, send Lilith back. ”

"Yes. ”

Ever since Audair had seen Rafa break the concrete wall with his bare hands, he knew that his master was already much stronger than himself, and it would be a burden to need his own guard, so she left his side more often, and she did not hesitate to leave the order.

Audrey was afraid that the armor on her back would hurt Lilith, so she also followed Rafa's example and hugged her in her arms, and then slowly walked towards the City Lord's Mansion.

Rafa climbed to the top of the stone and stood, watching Audre enter the walls, and it was not long before the knights, carrying the sleepers, finally came out of the gates.

The process of carrying the sleepers was slow because Rafa required the craftsmen to make sleepers that required two knights to lift a sleeper.

Luckily, it was Rafa's six-day day off, and the workers in the city were fine, and Rafa was nice to them, so they now came out to help lift the rails behind them.

The strength of the number of people is not just talking, because it is a rest day, almost the entire people in Icefield City are thinking of watching the excitement, but seeing that the knights and workers are so hard, so even the old aunts who are more than half a hundred years old also follow to help that, and the huge convoy is suddenly in full swing.

This is exactly what Rafa wanted to see, and he himself joined the team to carry the sleepers, and he picked up a sleeper and carried it on his shoulder, which attracted a burst of reverence from everyone.

Then the knights did as he commanded, and placed the sleepers at a certain distance on the gravel path that jumped out at an unknown time, and then the slow procession carrying the rails began to put the rails on the sleepers.

It's a pity that there are too many steps to fix the sleepers, and it takes some time, but the people who are working hard do not complain, so the inverted "human" shaped railway from the mine to Icefield City was finally laid in the evening after an afternoon of intense construction.

Rafa then ordered Andrew to take the carts in the cave to fill the coal mines piled up at the mouth of the cave, and then slipped the carts down the hillside.

Although it was dinner time, the new railway was still full of people watching the excitement on both sides, after all, he also contributed to it, even if many people still don't understand what it's for, how can they see the end?

This is the result that Rafa wants, as long as everyone realizes that these powerful or strange things are created by themselves, then their ability to accept new things will be much higher than before, which can be regarded as a preparation for them to accept witches in the future.

The minecart filled with coal mines, like a swarthy hill, roared down the hill under the action of inertial force.

When it swept over the crowd on both sides of the railway, people who didn't understand it finally understood the role of the railway, and everyone couldn't help but applaud.

Since the walls of Icefield had not yet been demolished, the railroad had only been built outside the city, and he was going to remove part of the walls and let the minecarts slide directly into the ironsmith.

When the coal from the mine cart was unloaded, the newly built steam locomotive was belatedly put onto the tracks.

It was a very rudimentary steam locomotive, and since it was not used yet, it was still the main body of the original steam locomotive, but with slight modifications, turning it from a fixed minecart to a locomotive that could move slowly on the tracks.

While this design is obviously not enough, it simply does not need it.

The only job of this rudimentary steam locomotive was to push the empty wagons back to the mine, so he didn't need much capacity.

Seeing the novelty appear, many people who wanted to go back to eat stopped to look at the novelty.

Because the principle of this thing is exactly the same as that of the steam engine in the mine, except with an extra brake, Rafa found the young man who controlled the steam engine in the mine and asked him to control the big guy, and he himself stood by the open-air operating table.

"Bang bang bang!"

With the familiar strange scream, the young man who controlled the steam locomotive finally put his mind at ease.

Then, according to the familiar operation, he pressed the linkage valve, and the wheels placed on the rails turned slowly, and the entire steam locomotive began to push the small mine cart in front of him to move forward slowly.

"It's moving, it's moving!"

Amazed people began to follow the locomotive slowly.

Rafa looked at the people who were walking with him, and suddenly had a plan, lifted the linkage valve, pressed the extra brake lever, and stopped the locomotive again.

He shouted at the curious people, "It's not too fast, come up if you want to!

Hearing the invitation of the third prince, the crowd suddenly stirred, and began to scramble to climb onto the minecart, regardless of the remaining slag inside, all of them smiled and huddled together.

In the end, the five small minecarts sent down were all packed to the brim, and although they didn't look very elegant, everyone had a happy smile on their faces.

"They're all standing firm!"

"Roar!"

Laughing and shouting, the people in the minecart let out a response unique to the Aura Country.

Loosen the brake lever and press the linkage valve, the machine monster screamed, and the steam locomotive pushed the small mine cart full of people in front of it and began to move slowly.

"Roar!"

The people on the minecart sensed that they were moving, let out cheers, and waved their hands at the crowd outside the cart that had not been able to get on.

Although the road from Icefield City to the mine was almost uphill, this small steam locomotive was also powerful, and the speed of running was not too slow.

Although this speed is not fast, it has reached the point where people on the locomotive can sense the cold wind blowing on their faces.

After walking for a while, the locomotive, and the people running around it, finally reached the foot of Mount Augin, where the inverted "human" shaped railway meets.

There is a movable turnout, at which point the switch is broken to the "right position", which is the route to the coal mine.

So just when the people in the car thought that they were going to crash into the crotch of the word "person", the car suddenly made a turn, avoiding the end of hitting the "crotch", so that the people in the car, especially the person lying in front of the five cars, breathed a long sigh of relief.

At the stage of climbing, the speed of the steam locomotive has dropped significantly, but fortunately, although the speed has decreased, it is still moving steadily, and there should be no problem.

Amid the roar of the steam engine, the group finally reached the platform connected to the mine railroad in its entirety, where Rafa quickly pressed the brake lever to lock the wheels.

The weight of this steam locomotive is really low, not even as heavy as the people in front of it, and if you don't brake early, you may rush into the mine due to the force of inertia.

When they reached the end, the unfulfilled people were reluctant to come down, and at last Rafa had to come up with a reason to let the others enjoy it once, which tricked them into coming in with another group of people.

Then he let go of the brakes and had a push in front of the small iron cart, pushing the cart down the hill.

"Occasional roar!"

Because of the great force of inertia, the car full of people slid quickly, and the whistling wind blew past his ears, causing the crowd on the car to shout, and even Rafa himself couldn't help but scream.

Today is a memorable day for the entire Icefield City, because the appearance of this railway, and the appearance of other railways on the entire continent in the future, will be based on this railway.

While it's too early to say how to change the world, its potential to change the world is real.

In order to keep most people entertained, and to make sure that the railroad was fine, Rafa asked the lad who understood his operation to drive the motor car back and forth several times.

During this period, he also began to instruct Siphus to form a small "railway team" to maintain and control the railway, which was the prototype of a larger railway bureau in the future.

"Andrew, remember to oil the minecart and the machine, what? Castor oil is not enough? Then use lard! In short, oil often. ”

Rafa knows that mechanical friction is very amazing, and if the machine is not oiled, especially the axles and gears, the loss will be unimaginably fast, especially now that it takes a lot of time to produce, the machine is almost non-stop, so if they are not maintained, it will be very troublesome and waste time to replace parts.

"Whew!"

The excited people were still touching and looking at the steam locomotive that was sliding down the mountain, and the muffled shouts of the city walls were heard, and then many knights in full armor and armed weapons began to rush out of Icefield City.

"Oh no! The wolf cavalry is coming!"

The moment he heard the trumpet, he knew what was happening, but the newcomers who heard the trumpet for the first time still looked up at the city gate in a daze.

"The wolf cavalry is coming!

Rafa took a deep breath and shouted hard.

Hearing the three words of the wolf cavalry, the dazed people finally came to their senses, and they were immediately frightened and panicked, and hurriedly ran towards the city gate, fortunately, there were knights who ran out to command the panicked crowd, so there was no panic and stampede.

Rafa, on the other hand, ran to the top of the steam locomotive and watched in the distance.

"More than a hundred giant wolves!" With Rafa's eyes, he saw at a glance that the giant wolves licking their scarlet tongues were attacking Icefield City with red eyes, "There are still more than a thousand meters, enough time, but these iron bumps are about to be put outside, I hope those guys don't mess around and destroy ......." He glanced at the big guy who was still steaming under his feet.

"Your Highness, go quickly!"

At the critical moment, Audrey didn't know where to jump out.

"Got it. ”

Stretching his back, he jumped off the locomotive and followed the crowd slowly, and only after the people in front of him had completely entered the city did he lead the knights into the city without hurry.

Closing the newly cast heavy iron gate, the wolf cavalry rushed to the plain four or five hundred meters away from Icefield City at this time.

"Yo, it seems that there is not enough food in the mountains, so they have to come out to try their luck. ”

Rafa, who didn't seem to be in the slightest, stood on the wall with his hands folded, staring at the giant wolves that were coming towards Icefield City.

Captain Kono picked up the cylinder made by the City Lord's Mansion and could see clearly in the distance, and put it on one eye.

I have to say that Madame Fili has made some good things, and only such clever people as Her Royal Highness Rafa and Madame Fili can make such exquisite things, and it is wonderful that they can see things from far away with the combination of two pieces of glass at different distances!

Putting down this thing called a "telescope", Kono said with some concern, "It seems that this time it is not only the wolf cavalry, but even the werewolves are coming." ”

"It's the first time I've seen a werewolf. ”

Getting closer, Rafa finally got the front look of the rough-looking werewolves.

Using his own telescope, carved with the shield symbol of the Light Shield Family, he carefully looked at the werewolf on the back of the giant wolf, and Audrey was also a little stunned.

"I really don't know how the previous Aura Empire defeated these hideous monsters!"

"Of course, the empire defeated them with the help of the witch's magic, and after the victory of the war, the empire was afraid of the witch's power, so it wanted to get rid of the witch. Rafa secretly speculated in his heart that although he had never had such a thought in his memory, he estimated that it should not be much different from what he had guessed.

But now Audrey's worries are not unreasonable, because those werewolves are so staggering in size that even the smallest werewolves are almost twice as tall as the strongest knights.

They also have strong limbs with sharp claws, and their huge wolf heads are no different from the giant wolves under their crotch, except that they can walk upright, so they are called werewolves.

When they wave their claws, no one will question their strength.

"If a heavily armed knight fights a werewolf, the knight will never have any chance of winning. "That's on the minds of all of you.

"Audrey, take a few men to the workshop, and bring all the assembled guns here, and Syphus, tell Madame that the time has come to use the bullets. ”

"Yes!"

"Yes, Your Highness. ”

Audair and Syphus each bowed their heads and quickly retreated.