The effect of the "Firming Technique" instantly causes the soil to resemble solidified cement, and according to previous tests by the mages, the pavement retains its hardness for five months after casting. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 When the deadline is approaching, all you need to do is send an arcane golem to re-unleash the "Firmness Technique" along the way.

Luther, as curious as the crowd around him, ran to the freshly compacted pavement to feel it, and found that the solidified ground was almost like stone, and he couldn't lift the sand even if he rubbed it hard with his feet—he looked ahead, but saw that the tall arcane golem had gone four or five hundred meters away.

"At this rate, it won't be long before we can pave a road directly to other cities..."

The smooth, wide and hard roads are of great significance for transportation, and in this era, horse-drawn carriages are basically used for long-distance transportation, and bumpy roads not only delay the transportation speed, but also aggravate the wear and tear of carriages and horses. At present, if this road is built to Hollier City, it will take only three days to travel.

When the cost of transportation decreases and the speed of transportation increases, the "distance" for the people of a country is shortened. This also means an explosion of economic and cultural growth.

Luther was too ill-informed to realize the changes that "transportation" could bring to the whole world. After walking a few steps on the brand-new dirt road, he suddenly noticed that there was a construction site in full swing not far from the city gate—the roadbed that protruded from the ground for more than three hundred meters was obviously the work of an arcane golem, but it was not smooth, but paved with rubble.

Parallel timbers were erected every half a metre or so above the rubble, and Luther found that all the timbers had been treated uniformly, with the same width, thickness, and spacing.

On top of these sleepers are two "tracks" made from a whole log cut – Luther immediately thinks of the transport ships that travel back and forth in the city, and realizes that this is the line of Elson's "train" that has already begun to be built.

Although Ivota is the largest producer of iron ore in the kingdom, the current production is simply not enough for Roddy to lay steel rails. However, this place is different from another world after all, and "magic" has solved many of the original problems... Wood doesn't need to be air-dried and handled, and can be "cured" to achieve a durability similar to that of steel, with the only downside being that the arcane golems need to recast spells on a regular basis.

The area of the primeval forest of Ivota is too large to cut down the trees, and the wooden track combined with the maintenance cost is actually much lower than the steel track in terms of cost.

Luther saw several platforms being built at the beginning of the tracks, which connected to the rails of the transport ships leading to the city. However, the new track is not the same as that of the transport ship in the city, and the experimental train cars placed on it are also boxy, and have nothing in common with the "ship".

"The castle lord's thoughts are always strange..."

Luther looked into the distance, more than ten kilometers away in a place hidden by the forest, the orc laborers were building a brand new town, it is said that the architectural plan of the entire town is according to the drawings of the city lord Roddy, which is the largest transportation hub area of the future Elson territory, and is compatible with residential areas.

These are all heard on the city's bulletin boards and in classes, and are also mentioned in the recently released Age of Cullen. All this made Luther, who had been closed in the mountains for decades, sigh... He looked back at the Pachar Tower in the middle of the city, and had to sigh at his original choice.

Roddy, who was patrolling the Pachar Magic Tower, was shuttling through the laboratories of the various research groups of the "Elson Academy of Magic" with a serious face at this time, checking the progress of the projects he was assigning.

Although collectively referred to as the "Academy of Magic", it actually involves research in chemistry, physics, engineering, biology and other aspects. There are too many kinds of "magic" that have been invented in this world, and although many of them can't go on the battlefield and kill enemies, they have all kinds of miraculous effects in Roddy's eyes.

The two important inventions of "papermaking" and "movable type printing" were completed with little effort in the hands of the mage, because many of the complex processes were only a matter of a wave of the hand for the mage who controlled the elements. Roddy had just come out of the "canning" group, holding a high-temperature sterilized glass jar in his hand, using a fork to fork out the pickled pulp inside, nodded with satisfaction, and then stepped into the "magic vehicle research" group, which currently occupies the largest number of laboratories and workshops.

"Lord Castle, we have made a prototype according to your request, but there are still some problems that need to be solved in many places..."

"Oh? ”

Roddy replied as he strode towards what the researcher called a "prototype" - in fact, a three-wheeled spar energy vehicle made of exposed wooden frames.

This thing is naturally a vehicle made by Roddy based on the "car". With the "charging spar", Roddy directly skipped the stage of using fossil energy and directly developed the vehicle based on the "spar battery".

The enclosed miniature circle becomes an "engine" when a "charging crystal" is inserted. It is not large, and its weight of more than 30 kilograms is definitely light compared to those iron lump engines of several hundred kilograms in the impression. Once the circle is activated, the energy causes the drive gears to rotate and transmit power to the rear wheels.

It stands to reason that there is a gearbox structure in the middle of the engine to transmit power to the rear wheels, but at present, Elson has no engineers who can make such complex gears as gearboxes, so Roddy can only use an "energy limiting rod" to control the output power of the circle energy, so as to control the speed of the gears and achieve the purpose of controlling the speed of the vehicle.

The reason for the use of the three-wheel structure is that the current technology does not make a steering gear to ensure the differential speed of the dual front wheels when steering. Therefore, Roddy's plan is actually more like building a "three-wheeled motorcycle", and the steering directly relies on the handlebars connected to the front wheels, which is done purely by manpower.

The prototype in front of me does not have a shell, and the structure of the body is made of wood reinforced with "firmness", which is also because it is more convenient to modify the wood.

The car currently has only one driver's seat in the center, and the model is made according to Roddy's request with cushions and armrests. The "throttle" that controls the speed is the "energy limiting lever" located on the right-hand side. Pulling back is increasing output, pushing forward is decreasing, similar to an airplane.

The brakes are installed on the sole of the foot, with the left foot being the front brake and the right foot being the rear brake, all of which use a simple disc brake.

There was no rubber in those days, but the magicians found a substitute for the "Lunda Boar" - the skin of this wild boar was very tough and wear-resistant, and after being magically treated with a trap outside the wooden wheel, it was compressed and spelled by molds to become a solid tire with a wall of ten centimeters. Although the wheels themselves are made of wood, they are better adapted to bumpy road conditions than the pure wooden wheels of a normal horse-drawn carriage.

"Lord Castle, the problem now is what you call 'suspension', because the spring is too different and easy to break, so it is difficult to achieve the desired effect. (To be continued.) )