Chapter 11: Burning the Fire

When I saw Elle again the next day, she had changed into soft silk clothes, washed all over her body, her long wavy hair draped over her back, and she looked very youthful and beautiful as she was stuffing delicate pastries into her mouth.

It was evident that she liked the dress very much, it was probably the softest and most comfortable dress she had ever worn, so she held her sleeves high as she ate, for fear of getting a little soup.

Rafa sat down on the throne, "I don't understand what Felihill told you to let your guard down so quickly. ”

Hearing him ask this question, Elle gave him a wary look and said vaguely, "She... She said that the food was full, and I was relieved. ”

"If I can recruit witches with a full meal, then I must recruit all the witches from the entire Western Continent. Naturally, Rafa would not believe this naΓ―ve reason.

"Really... Really?"

"Of course. ”

He thought that Elle would say something surprising, but there was no follow-up, and Elle just ate and didn't say a word.

"Huh, why don't you eat vegetables, why don't you just eat meat and cakes?" Watching her eat, Rafa noticed that all the crispy and tender vegetables in the food in front of Elle were motionless, but the meat had been eaten clean.

Elle gave him a blank look, "If you were to eat wild vegetables for a few years in a row, you would become like me." ”

Rafa could only smile awkwardly, it seemed that the life of the witches was indeed very difficult.

"Whew"

Ai Lei let out a sigh and touched her slightly bulging belly, "If I could eat so much every day, I would be willing to do whatever I wanted." ”

"Oh, really?" Rafa looked her up and down.

She quickly shrank back, and a flame jumped into the air, "You... What do you want to do?"

"Fire, of course. ”

He then took Elle to Philicon's "domain", where there was a makeshift hut in the clearing, surrounded by piles of materials he had asked Seapheus to prepare overnight, several different colors piled up around the room, and no one knew what he was going to do.

When she came to the venue, Felihill was coming out of a laboratory, and the reason she was able to come to her territory today to sit in the experiment was to keep it a secret, and on the other hand, she also wanted to see what Rafa wanted to do, because Rafa always surprised her, and with the help of the witch today, who knows what he could make up for it?

As soon as she saw Felihill, Elle immediately greeted her happily and exclaimed affectionately, "Sister Fili!"

However, Felihill has never been approachable, so he just replied indifferently, and then looked at Rafa, "Let's start, I'm busy." ”

"Sister Fili doesn't know what he's going to do?" Elle was a little puzzled, it seemed that Felihill hadn't made the relationship between the two clear.

"Ahem, of course it's to repair the wall that you blew down yesterday," Rafa brought Audair to the two of them, "You must know that it's winter, it's the day when the wolf cavalry goes out hunting, and we are short of manpower, so it's not easy to complete the wall according to the original standards." ”

"I'm sorry... But I'm not a mason......."

"But now you are. ”

He took out a scroll of drawings and gave everyone a brief explanation of the principle according to the sketches he had scribbled haphazardly.

The first person who was skeptical was Audair, "Is it really fake? Is there really a wall that can be solidified overnight? If so, wouldn't it be possible to build a new city in a fraction of time?"

"Theoretically, this is true, but as I said earlier, this thing called 'cement' needs a high and stable temperature when it is fired, and although it can be done with coal or firewood, it is too resource-intensive and unstable, so the output of this thing in a short period of time must not be high. ”

"So you want Elle's magic to replace coal and firewood?" asked Felihill.

"That's right. ”

"It's just fire, I'm the best at it!" Elle breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that it was so simple.

"In that case, let's get started. ”

Then, according to Rafa's recipe, Audrey sent a variety of different ingredients into the room, and then Elle came to the door, and the rest of the people sat down in the distance, sipping the hot tea that the maids had prepared.

"Don't look here, if you burn well, I'll let you eat enough. Rafa shouted to Elle, who had turned her head and was slow to get to work.

With positive encouragement, Elle wiped the saliva from the corners of her mouth, turned her head to close her eyes, and slowly stretched out her hands.

"A steady flame... Slowly raise the temperature until the iron sword inserted in the material melts, and then stabilize the temperature......"

Elle silently recited Rafa's advice in her heart, she had never deliberately practiced controlling the size and temperature of the flames, she had always used it once in a while when she was in danger, and now it made her feel a little awkward to ask her to use magic without any worries.

After a period of silence, a red flame ignited in the room, and the hot breath suddenly burst out, and even the three people sitting in the distance could feel a slight burning of their skin.

Elle, who was closest to the flames, was swept away by the scorching air, and the sleeves at the front of her arms, which were closest to the flames, had already begun to burn.

"My new clothes!" Elle glanced at the clothes that had burned on her arm, this was the only new dress she had gotten in years, and it had only been worn for a morning before it was burned, and she was a little distressed, and the flames in the room began to beat scattered.

Rafa saw her concern and hurriedly shouted at her, "Don't be distracted, Felihill has a lot of beautiful clothes, I'll ask her to send you a room when the time comes!"

As soon as these words came out, the delighted Elle immediately calmed down, and the flames in the room immediately stabilized.

Felihill glanced at him silently, her eyes threatening to crush him.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry... We'll allocate the funds to buy you new ...... then," he now finally understood that even a woman like Felihill, who didn't seem to eat the fireworks of the world, would care about beautiful clothes.

"Ten thousand gold coins. Felicille's answer was succinct.

"It's... Wouldn't it be too much......" Rafa was a little embarrassed, although he knew that the clothes of the top nobles were custom-made, and the price was not low, but at most it was only ten or twenty gold coins, but he didn't expect her to ask for so many as soon as she opened her mouth.

"The price of my clothes in a room is at least 30,000 gold coins. ”

"Good, good, just 10,000!" he secretly swore that he would never make any more promises in the future, especially when he touched Felihill's things, lest he really become a tool for her to work.

Elle's flame was steady, so the firing process went smoothly, but by two hours, the mixed materials in the room had turned into the off-white powder that Rafa had expected.

"It's still missing, but it shouldn't be a big deal... Stop, Elle!" After watching from a distance for a while, he finally stopped Elle.

"Whew..."

Elle let out a sigh, then impatiently pounced in front of the three of them and began to feast.

Rafa also couldn't wait to get to the small doorway, scooped out some powder with a shovel, and then grabbed a handful with his hands and pinched it.

"Delicate enough, it should be fine. ”

"Is this what you call a wall?" Audrey suddenly wanted to laugh, she would never believe that this pile of powder could make a wall that would solidify overnight.

"Don't keep thinking about the city wall, this thing can also build houses and roads... It's so useful. ”

Next, Rafa came out and mixed cement with sand and gravel, and then built a cement wall more than one person high with some gravel.

"Alright, let's see tonight. ”

In the questioning eyes of everyone, he waved his sleeves and took Audair to inspect the city.

Coming to the city wall again, looking at the huge void that was blasted out by Elle, he suddenly remembered the witch who stayed above the convoy on their way to Icefield City, although he knew that Elle should have nothing to do with the witch, but the strength of that witch was undoubted, if she could be recruited, many things that were tied up could be solved.

In order to prevent the wolf cavalry from invading Icefield City again, he ordered the entire knight order to temporarily garrison near the hole, and by the way, clean up the broken foundation under the hole, the use of cement is best combined with the foundation, if it is used directly on the hole, it is likely to collapse due to the instability of the foundation.

Then he came to the vibrant vegetable greenhouse, due to the careful care of the farmers, the recent batches of vegetables are growing very well, but he knows that this is only temporary, because if there is no fertilizer, repeatedly use a piece of land, sooner or later the land will be less fertile, but he did not think of a good way for the time being, so he can only settle on it, and it is a big deal to change the land at that time.

When he walked in the greenhouse area, many residents who didn't want to participate in the greenhouse came to him to apply for their own greenhouses, and Rafa readily agreed, not afraid that others would do something wrong, but afraid that others would not do things.

After a day in the city, and a conversation with the blacksmiths and farmers, these commoners, who had seen the big men for the first time in their lives, saw for the first time the kindness of the three princes of the empire, and most of the residents had a very good impression of him, only a few blacksmiths had little feeling for him, because his arrival did make some peasants profitable, but it did not produce any benefit to the blacksmiths.

Rafa didn't think about how to mobilize these blacksmiths for the time being, because he didn't know what was going on in the mining area after that, so he had to wait for the caravan to bring back some people.

After a day of wandering, he returned to the City Lord's Mansion in the evening.

On the way to Felihill's territory, Audair said to him, "Your Highness, how about we make a bet?"

Rafa raised an eyebrow, already guessing her thoughts, "You want to bet that my wall isn't solidified at all?"

"Not bad. ”

"It looks like you think I'm going to lose. ”

"I never doubted that you would succeed in the future, but I don't believe in those powders. ”

He laughed secretly in his heart, "Okay, tell me your conditions." ”

"Forgive Ao Dai, my condition is that if you lose the bet, can you have a good fight with me, I want to see your true strength. ”

"That's it, even if you don't bet, I can fight you. ”

"Anyway, that's my condition, you say your condition. ”

"My conditions..."Rafa stopped and stared at the mask covering half of her face for a long time, Audair suddenly felt a little bad, but since it was her own bet, she would carry out even if it was an unbearable condition.

"Hmm... If I win, sing me a song."

"Huh?" Audrey was a little surprised, but she didn't expect that this condition was a little far from what she had imagined.

"Uh... Isn't this going to work? So I'll change ......."

"Okay! No matter what the conditions, as long as I lose, I will do it. "In the past, Audrey would definitely not dare to make a bet on the prodigal son Rafa, but now from the conditions he proposed, it can be seen that the current Rafa is no longer the Rafa of the past.

With the permission of the maid at the entrance to Felihill's territory, they came to the middle of the clearing.

At this time, Felihill was sitting at the morning table reading a book, and Elle was lying on the table and falling asleep, it seemed that the loss of magic power was indeed great if the flame had been maintained for so long.

Seeing the two coming, Felicille raised her head, and Elle woke up vigilantly, and when she saw Felicille in front of her, she let out a sigh and fell asleep with her head down.

Rafa went straight to the one-man tall concrete wall and pinched it with his hand.

"Click"

He pinched it so casually that he broke down a corner of this wall.

"Hmm... Not bad, enough. ”

"Poof...," Audair laughed rarely, "Ahem, Your Highness, this is your loss, right?"

In the face of Audele's questioning, he did not refute it, and threw the gravel in his hand on the ground, "It was my verification just now, and now it's your turn." ”

"There's nothing to verify, you can break it off, don't I ......?"

Audair came to the wall and broke it casually like Rafa, thinking that the wall would be easily crushed like a cake, but the wall in her hand seemed to have turned into a piece of steel, and it didn't move at all.

"This ......" she secretly increased her efforts again, but she still couldn't destroy the wall in the slightest, and at last she let out a loud cry and hammered a big hole in the wall with one punch.

Rafa took a few steps back, "Ahem, ahem, if that were the case, I would have lost." ”

"No, I lost. Audelle was depressed, she couldn't understand why it was so strong when it was just a pile of powder.

"Save that song for now, and sing it to me when you're done. ”

"Yes. Audrey couldn't help but blush a little at the thought of singing, and if it weren't for the mask covering her face, Rafa would have laughed when he saw him.

Felihill came to the concrete wall and looked at it for a long time, then held out his hand to Rafa, "Take it out." ”

"What... What?" Rafa was startled, not understanding what he owed her.

"That sketch. ”

"Ahem"

There was no way, he could only hand over the graffiti that he didn't know if others could understand.

"You can go, you have to borrow Elle to come back tomorrow. ”

"Well, there's one more tool man. ”

"When will you pay back the 10,000 gold coins you owe me?"

"Farewell!"

As soon as it came to money, Rafa immediately took Audair and ran away.