The old blacksmith Hammer's eyes widened as he looked at the strange machine that was speeding up with astonishment and bewilderment.

Its core was full of magical brilliance, the repulsive mechanism that could be described as simple was reciprocating under the action of a simple magic circle and a series of mechanical structures, the heavy flywheel was driven by the connecting rod and crankshaft to spin rapidly, spinning faster than any windmill, waterwheel and man-shaken crank, he knew deep down how heavy the big iron wheel was, it was something that could easily break a person's bones when turned, but it was driven, and it was easily driven.

And the two rune craftsmen standing next to him saw more and thought more.

They are the servants trained by the magician, if the rune master is the "circuit engineer" who designs the blueprint of the magic circle, then the rune craftsman is the "mechanical engineer" who is responsible for making the mechanical part of the magic mechanism, and they naturally know much more about this than the ordinary blacksmith.

Rune craftsmen usually make all kinds of traps and magic props, and they are naturally no strangers to the most basic gadgets like the repulsion circle, but they never thought that this simple, trick-level thing could have such a magical effect - only a set of effective mechanical structures is needed to make the repulsion circle that can only be used to push trap doors or falling stone traps automatically switch in a loop, although the entire magic engine is based on magic power. But the inner workings of it are very different from any previous magic items!

In the Magic Engine, magic is no longer the only and all power, it is no longer used crudely, but is transformed, amplified, and turned into more ...... in a more subtle and indirect way Practical stuff.

At first, they were asked to work with a group of blacksmiths and blacksmith apprentices, and the rune craftsmen still had a little resentment in their hearts, but after seeing the finished magic engine, their resentment was involuntarily replaced by a certain realization: they finally realized what the stewardess named Heti meant when they first arrived in the land, "put aside all old thoughts and shackles, and submit to the new order of the land" - compared to the new things they saw in the land, Those rules and constraints are really not worth mentioning.

An apprentice blacksmith stared at the running magic engine and muttered, "This is the ...... we made"

Hammer quickly interrupted his apprentice: "No, this is the wisdom of the Duke and Viscount, and Lady Hetty. ”

"No," Gawain interrupted Hammer, "that's what you made, and there can be no doubt that the credit goes to everyone who has worked hard, so that whoever has contributed to the creation of the Magic Engine will not only be rewarded, but will also be honored—the name of each and every one of you will be recorded, and the nameplate will be inlaid on the first generation of Magic Engines, and recorded in Cecil's history books." ”

The craftsmen and apprentices looked at each other, and Hammer twisted his beard so hard that he didn't even notice that he accidentally pulled off a few of them, until the two rune craftsmen from the royal capital who had seen more or less of the world saluted and thanked him, and the old blacksmith finally reacted and hurriedly followed suit.

Gawain, on the other hand, retracted his gaze and looked at the prototype of the Magic Engine that was still functioning with irrepressible joy and excitement.

It is very noisy, the flywheel also drives the whole machine to vibrate violently in the rotation, due to the error in the accuracy of the parts, these are unavoidable problems, Gawain can be sure that a considerable part of the power of this machine will be lost in the friction of those non-compliant parts, and its output power and overall life will also be discounted, but these are the details - the most important thing is that the machine is running as he expected.

Solve the problem first, and then consider the good and bad.

Gawain looked at the primitive machine almost in fascination, but suddenly, a trace of doubt and worry came to his eyes.

But this subtle change of mood quickly faded away.

On the other side, Hetty has already begun to test the power of this machine: she directly uses the plastic hand or gravity to slowly apply pressure to the output shaft of the machine, and after trying it several times in a row, she can't help but say with admiration: "The power of this machine is very large, I probably tried it, when it turns at full speed, it can even pull up a half-ton iron block directly vertically, and if you use the pulley set or reduction gear you mentioned before, its power is not known how much it can be amplified." In addition, this is due to the fact that we use relatively cheap rune materials, and the connecting rod is also made of ordinary steel instead of the stronger purple steel, so its room for improvement is quite huge. ”

Rebecca doesn't know all kinds of useful auxiliary magic, and she can't throw a big fireball to test the health bar of the machine at this time, so she scratched her chin next to her and thought about something more practical: "Ancestor, what do you think this machine can do?" ”

Gawain gave the girl a funny look, "Tell me what you think." ”

"A lot of monotonous and repetitive work that requires a lot of effort seems to be given to it, such as having it take the mill? The big saw that drove the sawmill? It's definitely strong enough, and it doesn't have to worry about the wind direction or the river! ”

"It can be used to drive a waterwheel, it can pull a minecart from the mine, it can be used to pump water from the mine, it can drive a sledgehammer to forge steel, with a suitable mold, it can also press a whole steel plate directly into armor or other parts like a biscuit - it can also be placed in a brick kiln factory and drive other machines to press the bricks, instead of needing a dozen serfs to make billets one by one with wooden frame molds as is the case now......"

Gawain casually said what he thought was the most important application direction at the moment, while the people around him were confused one by one, they had never had the concept of replacing labor with machines, even if there were windmills, mills, water mills and other things in this world, they were all quite crude things, how could they suddenly think of various machines that could be connected to the magic engine?

Hammer, on the other hand, couldn't help but light up when he heard that the machine drove the sledgehammer to forge steel and directly forged steel plates into armor parts, and his professional intuition made him realize in an instant that this was a bright path.

Rebecca's eyes were sparkling the whole time - basically as soon as Gawain popped out of her mouth, she could follow a lot of lever bearings and gears in her mind, although those things were not yet a usable machine, but she felt that as long as she gave herself a little time, she could toss the things that her ancestors had conceived one by one!

But at this moment, Hetty frowned and said with some worry: "The key is that we only have one machine...... Building a new magic engine is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it has to be within range of the magic web to function, which is problematic. ”

As she spoke, she pulled the lever to cut off the energy of the magic engine, calming it down: this thing wasn't very noisy, it was spinning here, and everyone around it had to shout.

"It doesn't cost much to lay the magic net, after all, they are all basic runes, and the blueprints are also ready-made, but it is a problem that the machine is not easy to manufacture...... The main thing is that it's too time-consuming to make these parts by hand," Gawain rubbed his chin, "but this can't be helped, we still have to make the ...... by hand now"

Just then, a voice with a metallic trill suddenly interjected: "Ahem, I have something to say." ”

Nicholas eggs, covered in silver and silver, slowly floated over.

Rebecca rejoiced at the sight of the shiny metal ball: "Dandan, you have an idea?!" ”

"I'm not called Dandan!" Nicholas Egg suddenly rose two or three meters into the air (if it weren't for the roof, I'm afraid it would have planned to fly higher), and the voice from the sphere was angry, "You at least call me an egg!" ”

Rebecca wasn't intimidated by the ball at all: "Ahhhhhhh ”

Nicholas Egg: "......"

"Don't fight her, you can do your way," Gawain interrupted the war of words that was about to begin, and looked very seriously at the metal ball that was slowly floating back to normal height, "I know you're good at controlling metal, don't you ......?"

"yes, I finally know what I can do here!" Nicholas Egg's voice sounded particularly pleasant, and as he spoke, the clanging sound of various metals colliding sounded all over the shed, and the metal scraps that were piled up in the corners and ready to be reheated were floated around the silver and white metal ball, "I can help you strike iron!" ”

As his words fell, the metal scraps floating in the air creaked one after the other, as if there was a huge pressure acting on their surface, and they began to slowly deform, and Gawain soon discovered that this deformation was not just an external force—some metals showed obvious signs of melting, they were not just being squeezed, they were being forged!

In just a few minutes, the metal turned into large and small, intricate parts and all kinds of bizarre knick-knacks, and even lifelike metal sculptures of everyone on the scene.

There was complete silence in the shed.

Nicholas Egg seemed to be very pleased with the results of his performance, and he triumphantly placed the parts on the ground, and then delivered the metal sculptures to everyone: "How? That's a lot more efficient than you, isn't it? ”

Hammer took over the metal sculpture of his own, but his hands trembled slightly—such a powerful ...... Will there be a need for a blacksmith in the territory in the future?!

Is it really the same as the lord said last time, the blacksmith who hammers things with a hammer is going to be useless? It's going to be useless so soon?

The rune craftsmen at the scene were also in the same panic, and even Herty and Rebecca were shocked and felt that with this ball, all the craftsmen who worked with metal in the territory would probably lose their jobs......

Only Gawain, although he was also shocked by the speed at which Nicholas Egg quickly shaped into a metallic form, then his attention was completely on the other side-

He looked at the lifelike metal sculpture in his hand, at its eyebrows and hair, which were precisely reduced according to strict proportions, and suddenly looked up at Nicholas Egg: "How accurate can you achieve?!" ”