Countess Elijah's awakening must have something to do with herself. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Warlocks' bloodline power is all latent power, figuratively like mutants in the X-Men, and if this latent gene is induced, the warlock's innate ability will awaken. There is no doubt that Countess Illya's family has a warlock heritage, and it is unlikely that she will awaken naturally at her age, so the trigger for the awakening of the bloodline ability should be Stephen. Similarly, Miss Fran's early awakening may also be a reason, Stephen himself is very likely to have obtained new characteristics by extracting divine blood, after all, the origin of all warlocks is similar.

Warlocks are born with a higher starting point than mages, but their growth is much slower than mages.

Basically, the protagonists with super high talent abilities in various stories in the tavern are considered potential warlock bloodlines, and the great arcane masters in the mage department have unrepeatable talents, and they correspond to the same as famous scientists in human history, which are basically unavoidable and unavoidable, constantly advancing the progress of arcane civilization.

Current research has shown that it is difficult for an Arcanist's son to become an Arcanist, but a Warlock's son can easily become a Warlock.

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The night passed.

Stephen woke up early the next morning, just in time to return to Windy City, and he was ready to recruit a group of laborers to go back.

Stephen is currently worth more than 300 gold coins, more than 100 silver coins, and about 200 pounds of silver. The silver had been refined by him recently, and the proceeds and output of the entire mine now belonged to Stephen, and according to his exploration of the deep veins, the mine had considerable silver reserves. At present, there are more than 500 tons of silver ore reserves in the area above 100 meters underground, and there is currently no tower structure to scan, and Stephen can only make a preliminary estimate. In the simplest formula, 500 tons of silver is equal to about 1102311 pounds. According to the fact that 100 pounds of silver is accompanied by about one gram of Mithril, it is roughly known that the reserves of Mithril are 11,023 grams, which is equivalent to about 24.3 pounds of Mithril.

That's enough data to keep Stephen in a good mood for a long time.

Ignoring the Mithril reserves in the deeper veins underground, the current Mithril reserves alone would be enough for Stephen to complete many important experiments.

What a great harvest!

All of Stephen's efforts paid off handsomely, and nearly 25 pounds of Mithril could be used in many places, knowing that refining a small floating ring, which is a device capable of lifting a 50-meter-tall wizard's tower, would cost about 1 pound of Mithril at most. By the time he had finished mining the Mithril mine, Stephen would have no problem raising 25 wizarding towers in one go. Of course, this is just a metaphor, the role of the wizard tower is limited to the interior of the planet, and the resources consumed by the real floating city are still very large, and all of Stephen's Mithril is estimated to be only enough to make a large floating ring.

Silver mining requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and Stephen can't just empty the entire vein.

Now, his initial plan is to open an elemental tunnel and build a basic elemental pool beneath the wizard's tower. The Arcane school uses water, wind, and fire to divide the basic elements, which is a bit like the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and a complete elemental pool must connect the four elemental planes at the same time, and extract elemental energy from them to graft a complete cycle. This is the most primitive energy supply device, and before the Grand Arcanists researched the Elemental Furnace, the casters of the Thursilver Age used elemental pools to provide energy. The Elemental Pool must be built on the leyline node, which can provide an infinite amount of energy, but this energy is stable but barren enough to do much.

To use a metaphor, an elemental pool is like a hydroelectric power station, producing energy as long as the elemental channels are still there.

Therefore.

An important factor in determining the upper limit of an elemental pool's function is the leyline node (river), and the Three Gorges Hydropower Station built on the Yangtze River must be very different from the capacity of a hydropower station built on an ordinary river.

The leyline nodes in the mining area are very average.

This is not the main artery of the continental vein, and Stephen estimates that at most it will be able to build a small elemental pool.

Under normal circumstances, there are only two or three leyline centers on such a continent, and basically such places will be targeted by wizards, and Stephen has no idea of fighting for them.

A small elemental pool can sustain the basic needs of a wizard tower, maintaining the daily recharge requirements of about thirty low-level golem golems, while providing regular applications for lighting, experimentation, transformation, and so on. The excess energy that cannot be used up can be stored, but because the element pool itself is not large, the energy storage is not very high, and it can reach about 1000 energy points at most.

If this energy is extracted by Stephen, it will roughly unleash a legendary spell.

Although Stephen thinks that the Golem is the main force in the planning of the mining area, there is also a shortage of nearly 1,000 manpower, and he currently needs about 100 laborers to help maintain the daily operation of the mine rails, as well as the work of shipping, refining, sorting, etc.

The miners of this era are obviously of poor quality overall.

They were basically out-and-out coolies, and Stephen needed to be a miner with a certain level of knowledge, at least literacy, to understand the operation of the mine rails.

In this regard, Stephen needs the help of Countess Elia, and he has no leisure to educate the aborigines in popular science, so he will find a way to dig up a group of literate buddies first. Basically, the guys in the Chamber of Commerce have a certain level of literacy, and Stephen doesn't need many people initially, let alone worry about the ill-intentioned guys, and when the time comes, everyone will just throw a hypnotic spell.

Stephen is not old-fashioned in this regard.

Then there is the need for craftsmen, Stephen currently has two projects to complete, the first is cement refining, which is related to the speed of completion of the wizard tower, and the timing of the follow-up plan. The second is glassware, the most commonly used laboratory equipment by wizards, glass is very expensive among the aborigines, and the clear glassware that Stephen needs is quite expensive, he needs a stable supply source, and at the same time make money among the aborigines. In the future, if you can't experiment, you need a test tube, and Stephen will have to do it himself, and it costs money to collect rare materials among the aborigines.

He prepared a preliminary proposal.

First on the list is winemaking, Stephen will ask the Countess of Illya to secretly buy some wineries, the cold climate in the north, the sales of high-grade soju can be predicted. Stephen definitely won't take care of this matter himself, a legendary wizard is too cheap to make wine and sell it, he just needs to look at the income table. Moreover, the alchemy device for purifying the alcohol content is too simple, and a little arrangement is a stable source of money, as long as you put more effort into the management personnel. Stephen wasn't worried about this, and whoever was not afraid of death would dare to reach out for his cake, and he would dare to chop that hand up and feed it to the dogs.

At present, there is still a funding gap of about 50,000 gold coins for the construction of the Wizard's Tower, and Stephen needs to arrange a large network of leylines.