Due to oversleeping during the nap, Roland unfortunately missed the inaugural "Kolas Awards" ceremony last year. Because of this small negligence, he was also complained about by the two laureates - Lyudmila and Tonya - at that time. Roland didn't make the same mistake this year, and took the time to accompany his father to the award ceremony, took a look at the list of winners, and couldn't help but smile, the names listed on it were all his old acquaintances.

The winner in the field of culture and art is the famous Far Eastern printmaker Vladimir Alekseevich Bunin, whose work is a household name - when you pull out the silver money in your wallet, you can see that the portrait of His Majesty the King and the surrounding patterns are from his handwriting.

The next winner of the "Kolas Prize" was Duvalin for his pioneering achievements in the new field of "astral alchemy".

Duvalin's nephew, Jack, was also among the winners. Jack was joined by his old partner Kafta, who made a series of outstanding contributions to the field of military technology - the successful development of grenadiers, grenades and proximity fuses, the improvement of the rapid-fire magic crystal cannon, and the imitation of the most advanced individual air combat weapon "dragoon".

Matvey and Leonid received the award on the same stage. Matvey's improved Magic Locomotive laid the foundation for railway transport in the Far East, and Leonid won the prize for his invention of the more practical "differential" and the optimization of the steering system of horse-drawn carriages – a seemingly inconspicuous invention that was a crucial step from the age of horse-drawn carriages to the age of automobiles.

Matvey's protégé Isabel Lange is also among the winners. This young and beautiful Miss Mechanic is the director and chief designer of the first watch factory in the kingdom of Koras, and the cost of the clocks she improved has dropped significantly, and the "popular" pocket watches she created have become popular in all countries of Vares, becoming the most popular luxury brand among the burghers and young intellectuals.

Sukhoi and Morozov's uncle and nephew also took the stage to receive the award. Morozov's achievements are concentrated in the field of mecha engineering, and the "Yangbo Mecha" and "Steel Cavalry" designed and manufactured on the basis of the "Kharish device" have been tested in actual combat, and can be called the best naval and land combat mechanical armor in the world of Vares, and the old man Sukhoi is a well-deserved "father of airships" in the Far East, and the civilian airship he presided over has changed the traditional postal business, and the military airship is the proud trump card of the Korras Air Force.

The next two winners work on animals. Sir Edric presided over the construction of a large falconry base on Koras Island, which continuously transported giant eagles to the Koras Air Force, and Zoya engaged in research on the improvement of the physique of the Lothmon at the Dragon City Animal Husbandry Research Institute, which successfully made the Lothmon shed its thick long hair and walked from the highlands to the plains, providing an indispensable impetus for the railway traffic in the Far East.

Katya was the only financial practitioner among all the winners of the evening. Madame Vice-President did not take the 10,000 gold thalor prize seriously, but she liked the medal that His Royal Highness the Prince wore for her personally. This commoner girl from the North Bay never denied her aristocratic feelings, and for her three years of dedicated work at the central bank, Ms. Katya was deserved the title of "knight" for her outstanding contribution to the optimization and stabilization of the financial environment in the Far East.

Another more radiant lady of the night than Katya was the Archmage from Beacon Hill. The invention of the "money printing machine" and the "money detector" was not the main reason for Nikita's award, but her more outstanding contribution was the successful development of the world's first sewage and exhaust gas purification device in Vares, using "magic engineering", which received good results in field tests in the Karon Industrial Zone. The government has introduced an environmental law that requires heavily polluting factories to install purification devices to ensure that sewage and exhaust gases are purified to a harmless standard before they can be discharged.

The invention of the pollution purification device was not the work of Nikita alone. The idea came from Roland. During his visit to the Karon Industrial Zone, he felt that the environment was harsh, and that the exhaust gas and sewage were very harmful to the health of workers and even the surrounding residents, so he started to control the pollution.

Environmental engineering on Earth is quite complex, and Roland has no experience to draw on, so he has to turn to Valentina for help, after all, the druids are environmentalists and have a lot of experience in controlling pollution.

Valentina listened to his distress and quickly thought of a countermeasure: the 0-ring natural magic "Purifying Food", which purifies food and water that has deteriorated, rancid, poisonous, or otherwise contaminated into an edible and drinking state.

This magic technique only has 0 rings, and it is quite affordable to use it to control pollution. The fly in the ointment is that this magic can only take effect on pollutants within a few cubic feet, and the industrial zone emits as many as 1,000 tons of pollutants every day, which is too inefficient to purify completely with divine magic.

Valentina helped him come up with an idea, the basic idea was to invent a magic guide with "purifying food" as the core of the technology, which could continue to exert the purification effect and expand the purification range.

As the saying goes, there is a specialty in the arts, and although Valentina is a legendary druid, she is not very good at making magic guides, so she suggests that Roland seek help from Lighthouse Mountain.

The spell "Purifying Food" cannot be kept constant by conventional means, and Nikita's research on "Magic Engineering" is mainly focused on transforming those spells that cannot be constant into magic guides, so this task falls on her.

Nikita lived up to Roland's expectations and succeeded in inventing a purification device that perfectly met the needs of the factory in just half a year, and the cost of 1,000 gold thalers was not high, at least the medium-sized factories in the Karon Industrial Zone did not mind paying this environmental cost. As for the small workshops that were heavily polluted, had low production capacity, and were reluctant to spend money on purifying magic guides, Roland would rather close their doors.

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- The core spell of the pollution purification device: Purify the food (DND3R version)

PurifyFoodandDrink

Variation system

Ranks: Priest 0, Druid 0

Spell Components: Speech, Posture

Cast Time: 1 standard action

Distance: 10 feet

Target: 1 cubic foot/grade of contaminated food and water

Duration: Immediate

Immunity: Void if the will is passed (object)

Spell Resistance: OK (object)

This spell purifies food and water that is spoiled, rancid, poisonous, or otherwise contaminated into an edible and drinking state. This spell does not prevent natural decay or deterioration afterwards. Unholy Water and foods and drinks of similar significance are ineffective when treated with Purified Food, but this spell has no effect on any type of mob or magic potion.

Note: Each gallon of water weighs about 8 pounds. A cubic foot of water is about 8 gallons and weighs 60 pounds.