With Rafa's arrangement, the witches who became "regular workers" began their respective work, and they were busy for a while, but Felihill was much more leisurely, sitting at the small round table, silently watching everything in front of them.

And since Felicier didn't drive Rafa away, he also witnessed the witches at work again, knowing that when they used to work, Felicille would always "send off" guests in advance.

Because the ironworks had a limited amount of iron, and Heddah's flames were much stronger than Elle's, Rafa simply divided the group again, with Elle starting to assemble the steam engine with the parts already ready, while Heddah began to make irons on the spot.

Hedda didn't know what this strange lord was trying to do, but she decided to do it, because since she had admitted her identity as a member of Icefield City, she naturally had to do something, and it was just using fire, even if she didn't use it to make iron, she would find time to practice controlling the flames.

Her method of smelting iron is also very violent, directly using extremely hot flames to envelop the iron ore and the materials required by Rafa, and then start smelting.

The temperature was very high, and the color of the flames in the huge fireball had changed to a blue-blue that Rafa had never seen before, like a ghost's eyeball, but the strange thing was that the people around them were light-hearted, but they felt that the temperature had risen slightly, and there was no burning feeling.

Needless to ask, this obviously requires a witch with natural magic to have amazing control over magic to do so, so she doesn't have to change her clothes once a day to do it.

After Rafa's command and the addition of some raw materials, the red molten iron began to flow down, but Rafa deliberately let Hedda keep something, so this molten iron should be close to molten steel, although he knew that it was definitely not the hardest steel, but he had no good way to improve the strength of the steel.

"Katya, it's up to you. ”

"Hmm. ”

Katya on the side was waiting for this moment, stretching out his hands, and the ice-blue magic visible to the naked eye probed towards the molten steel flowing down.

Two completely different forces collided together, and a violent white smoke burst out, captivating everyone's attention, but fortunately Lena had not yet set off, evoking a breeze that blew the heavy white vapor into the sky.

As expected, Audair soon came over to report that someone outside asked if the City Lord's Mansion was on fire, and Rafa could only ask her to find a reason to cook.

The molten iron that touched Katya's water quickly solidified, and she was directing her water to form a concrete shape, and the molten iron left on it gradually took shape in the outline of the water.

Although it seemed like it was all very simple, Rafa knew that without the help of the witches, it would take years or even ten years for the scene in front of him to appear.

After a while, thanks to Katya's guidance, the first piece of steel was easily formed on the ground.

It was a long strip of swarthy iron in the shape of a brick, surrounded by Katya's water, which could take the red molten steel that flowed down from it and guide it into shape.

As the iron grew larger, Hedda didn't feel anything, but Katya couldn't bear it, because every time the molten iron flowed down, it would violently consume her mana, so when a very large piece of iron took shape, she was already sweating profusely, and the two of them had to stop.

"What you are talking about, can it really extend to the entire continent like an official road in the future, and it can allow people to reach another place without much effort?"

As soon as she said this, Felihill, who was looking down at the book, also raised her eyes slightly, Rafa had never mentioned this to her.

"Of course! I'm sure you've seen a powerful steam engine, right? No, that's the big guy Elle is working on. Rafa sat down next to Felicille and gestured to Elle, who was radiating flames to fuse the steel plates.

"Of course we've seen it, Sister Lena has taken us to see it a few times! That iron lump 'bang' monster can pull up the very heavy iron frame full of stones after it screams, and it saves a lot of trouble. Shirley, who was standing behind Katya and casting her magic spell, said busily.

"Yes, being able to replace human labor with machines is a manifestation of productivity progress, and what I want to do is to do my best to accelerate productivity progress. ”

"But what does that have to do with the thing you just said leads to the world?" Katya gracefully put down her teacup, and the other witches looked at him silently, as if waiting for his answer.

"Ladies, use your imagination. Rafa pointed to his head with his index finger, then looked at Philisille, "Fili, you've guessed what I'm going to do, right?"

Sensing that everyone's eyes were on him, Felihill closed the book and pondered, "You've been clamoring to combine the steam engine with that 'rail'......"

"It's really worthy of Fili, I got to the point at once!"

Ignoring his compliment, Felicille continued, "Being able to go anywhere else without much effort...... she frowned slightly, and an amazing idea began to take shape, "It should be... ...... towed by a steam engine"

"Yes, yes, what else?" cried Rafa in surprise.

Felihill glanced at the big guy at Elle's feet, "This big guy can't walk the rough road like a cow or a horse even if he puts it on wheels, so ......"

"So what?" said Rafa, looking at Felicille excitedly, he really wanted to pour all his knowledge into her, so that she should be able to easily understand the true meaning of the world.

"So I think you're trying to blaze a new trail, a path that can only be walked by a steam engine, and what you mean by being able to go somewhere else without much effort means pulling people forward like ore in a mine, right?" Philisille was taken aback when he said the idea, and if it could be realized, then replacing human labor with tireless machines might really change the pattern of the world completely.

"You're a genius! Fili!" Rafa excitedly took Felicille's hand.

"What are they happy about?"

Seeing the excited two, the rest of the witches looked at each other a little, they didn't understand what they were saying at all, only Hedda looked at Felicille and Rafa thoughtfully.

"It's an amazing idea, but do you know how hard it will be to forge a new path?" Filihill withdrew his hand quietly.

Recalling the tender little hand he had just held, Rafa smiled and said, "Of course I do, so I'm just going to experiment now, not only to lay railroad tracks in the mine, but also to build a railway from the mine to Icefield City, so that everyone can open their eyes first." ”

"Railroad? Is that what the project really is called?"

"Yes, a road paved with steel rails and a steam locomotive work together to make it a real railway. ”

"I'm looking forward to your plans. Felihill reopened her notes and began to jot down the simple-sounding but difficult plan.

Katya, who had rested for a while, said that it was ready to work, so the witches began to get busy again.

However, Felihill seemed to be a little tired of their clumsy method of using water to help shape the iron, so he let Lilith out.

Rafa seemed to have guessed something, but when he saw Lilith's amazing methods again, he finally understood the meaning of Felihill's words, "There is nothing that Lilith can't accomplish."

Lilith pushed the heavy frame of her glasses, looked around the huge piece of iron that had been forged for a while, and then stretched out her hands, and her ten fingers jumped like pulling a doll.

Then an astonishing scene happened.

The huge iron began to be "deconstructed", like a sharp dinner knife cutting through tofu, and the tiny gaps began to appear on the iron, and many thin lines radiating light appeared on the huge and hard steel.

Barely a few breaths later, Lilith had stopped.

"Alright. With a sigh, Lilith stood in front of the huge iron block with her hands on her hips.

Although the current iron does not seem to have changed from just now, everyone knows that the current iron has changed dramatically.

The impatient Hedda struck first, and a fireball popped out of her finger and slammed into the middle of the iron.

"Bang"

A dull thud followed, followed by an even louder crash.

The iron that seemed to fit together collapsed.

It was only then that everyone could see what Lilith had done to the iron.

These were five large cauldrons that had been cut out, and it seems that Philicill meant to use them to carry the flowing molten iron.

"How did you do that......" As he walked over to the giant crucible, Rafa noticed that the edge of the cut crucible was as smooth as a mirror, reflecting his distorted face.

"I just stripped the thin layer of iron from the middle of the iron, so they couldn't be connected together. As she spoke, Lilith waved her hand, and several extremely thin sheets of "iron paper" appeared on the ground.

Lilith's performance once again refreshed everyone's impression of this clumsy girl with not very good eyes, and it turned out that the strongest magic might not be Heda, but Lilith.

By observing the witches' surprise, Rafa deduced that Lilith was separated from the others when she was working, otherwise they would not have been so surprised.

The work began to proceed in an orderly manner, and the mountains of iron ore were soon melted down, and the flowing molten iron began to flow into the cauldron, which did not melt because Katya wrapped the outside of the crucible with a stream of icy water.

Rafa also took advantage of this opportunity to also start drawing drawings of gun racks, he counted that the parts in Felihill's warehouse could assemble a total of about eighty guns, which was an extremely staggering number, and if there were enough bullets, he could even use the power of his own 500 knights to 2,000.

But bullets are the most important problem to be solved, without bullets, even a well-made rifle is not as good as a knight's sword.

"Fili, what is the hardest part if you want to make gunpowder in large quantities?" was about to put the drawing in his pocket, but Felihill reached over and handed over the drawing, and Rafa just asked about gunpowder.

"Of course it's the raw materials, I haven't heard of some of the ingredients you said last time, so I made some of them according to the most understandable method, and the result is the explosives and those bullets that injured you last time, although I can expect that the power should still not be as good as the best method you proposed, but... It's enough. ”

"So...... Ms. Fili already has an 'optimal solution'?"

"Take it. With that, Felihill pulled out a short note from her note, and it seemed that she had already prepared.

"Fili, you're my angel!" Rafa cried out again as she took the note.

"Abandon these cliché compliments. Although she was silent on the surface, the tip of her pen trembled unexpectedly.

Towards evening, all the ore that had been brought in today had been fired, and six or seven huge pieces of iron lay across the "hard-hitting" site that had only been briefly repaired after being blown open by Heda.

According to Rafa's estimate, these steel blocks are not much, but they are enough for two mines to be spread from the inside to the outside of the hole.

The next thing is to leave it to Lilith, although these pieces of iron are not connected in long strips, but it doesn't matter, as long as Lilith cuts, it doesn't matter if the rails are connected with a little gap.

As before, after listening to Rafa's dancing strokes, Lilith began to peel it off.

She first cut the somewhat irregular pieces of iron into mirror-smooth rectangles, and the scraps that fell were just in time for Elle and Hedda to melt down the steam engine and make some tiny parts in their hands.

Although there will be some deviations in the hand, after the red steel is chilled, the effect will not be similar to that of the workshop.

"The word 'gong' is not in the Aura language, is it?"

Staring at the word "work" drawn by Rafa at her feet, Lilith began to wonder if he was speaking in the words of that country.

But as soon as you know the shape, everything is simple, and after a brief thought in your mind, the invisible peeling begins.

"Bang dang!" "Bang dang!"

Long strips of iron began to fall off the cuboid, and the shape of the word "gong" was exactly the same as Rafa had imagined.

He was so excited to imagine a minecart with iron wheels sliding on the tracks, so much so that when the steel had been cut and everyone was exhausted, he energetically went to the ironsmith to inspect the little iron cart he had asked Barrow to build himself.

When he saw that the little iron car was not much different from what he had described, he promised to reward Barrow with a gold coin.

When he returned to the City Lord's Mansion after inspecting the various workshops, he was also a little exhausted, and after a hurried dinner, he immediately entered a state of steady, looking forward to the arrival of tomorrow.

Speaking of the feeling of "anticipation", he remembered the original world, the world that was dangerous and precarious.

He already has too much to look forward to compared to the place where he didn't dare to have any expectations, so how could he not cherish the present?