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He was not interested in meddling in the affairs of the aboriginal nobles, and Countess Illya also needed to train herself, this woman was wise and ambitious, but her wrists were still a little jerky. Before leaving, he instructed Lady Elijah to find a learned scholar to teach Fran the words, and that if she wanted to become a wizard, she must be able to read all the words. Now that the silver mine and the nearby fifty square kilometers of land belonged to Stephen, and after so much thought to finally get the Mithril Associated Mine, he must go over and take a good look at how to mine it.

There were less than a dozen guards in the mine, and Stephen sent them away as soon as he arrived.

To be on the safe side, he first set up a large area of warning spell traps around him, and then went directly into the mine to explore the situation.

"Sure enough, it's Mithril Associated Mine!"

As the first piece of silver ore was dug out by Stephen, a trace of rich essence elemental power immediately poured into his body. If the elemental energy obtained from mining iron ore is like thin air, then the elemental energy obtained from mining Mithril ore is like a viscous liquid, which has been greatly improved in both quantity and quality. Mithril was born from the Elemental Tide, and only in the world where the Elemental Tide broke out, Mithril itself is a magical mutant metal, not only silver can be converted into Mithril, but other metal elements can also change the essential structure to become Mithril.

In the idea of the Arcane Empire, everything is made of elemental particles, and the most basic elemental particles are born from the source sea.

The Grand Arcanists believe that the Source Sea is the beginning of the multiverse, and where all energy and all matter is born. Alchemists inherited this philosophy and learned the art of converting other metal elements, such as copper, into gold, by altering the elemental particles inside the metal, which was completed by rearranging the elemental particles. Another experiment that confirms this concept is 'elemental annihilation', in which both soil and metal are completely annihilated and the volume is greatly reduced, and the mass and density increase dramatically after the elemental collapse. The characteristics of this annihilation matter are almost the same, a ton of soil may eventually become the size of a grain of rice, and the final annihilation material is extremely hard and extremely dense, and some of the mass will disappear in the transformation, but a cobblestone-sized annihilation material may be more than a ton.

Although countless arcanists are convinced that this idea is correct.

However, it is a pity that it is extremely difficult to convert matter in real experiments, and the legendary creation 'Philosopher's Stone' can only convert gold on a small scale, and many rare materials cannot be transformed at all.

Mithril is one of them!

Since the time of Thorium, countless gifted Grand Arcanists have attempted to study the art of transforming Mithril, but all of them have failed. However, in the process of failure, they also succeeded, and an alternative metal called 'Thoryin' was refined, and then the Adamantite Gold was transformed into a new magical metal, 'Ogin', and so on.

This study of elemental transformation has led to the creation of a large number of alternative materials for Mithril, and at its most glorious time, the Arcane Empire even had three Astral Fortresses, twenty-seven dimensional colonies, and more than one hundred and fifty high-level floating cities.

Although all of these were destroyed in the war with the gods.

But these glorious pasts are forever etched in the hearts of all spellcasters, and Stephen also longed for the era when he dared to speak out to the gods!

Mithril Ore is extremely difficult to extract.

It is possible to refine about a gram of Mithril from about a hundred pounds of silver, and there are very few Mithril Bonanzas in the multiverse, and the one that Stephen obtained is obviously not a Bonanza. Either way, having Mithril was a good start, and after an initial survey, he set out to set up the mine's mining line.

First of all.

Stephen needed a complete underground mining system, including mine rails, vehicles, mining golems, and powerplants.

It should be the easiest thing for Stephen to lay out a mining railroad track, and he has already stockpiled a lot of iron ore, which can be completed in three to five days. The most accessible vehicle is naturally a minecart, and the integrated magic energy carrying quenching device is now a no-brainer. The most trouble-free power plant is the Magic Energy Transmission Structure, which uses a stable supply of magic energy, and the Soul Smelting Engine, which extracts the energy of the soul crystal.

But!

None of these conditions could be met at the moment, and the only thing Stephen could use was a steam engine, using coal as fuel.

The high-end magic energy process has extremely high requirements for materials, and he doesn't even have a production line for magic energy forging steel now, and he can't make anything decent. Fortunately, the magic crafts were developed after the Arcane Empire, and wizards had already thought of many alternatives before that.

Naturally, the most important thing for a primitive mining system is manpower.

Stephen now has a steady supply of human resources, the Golem Golem technology, which has been around since the Thorsilver era.

Golem technology has evolved three times, the first being in the Thorium Age, when wizards created a kind of minion and assistant with simple intelligence. The second time in the Arcane Empire, the powerful Arcanists used the rune secret method to form intelligent constructs, officially created the tower spirit construct, and gave the golems corresponding expertise and skills, making them more 'smart' and 'powerful', and the combat ability of the Golem Legion was also greatly improved during this period. The third leap forward was after the Arcane Empire was defeated by the gods, and the core structure of the tower spirit was upgraded again, and the greatly improved artificial intelligence was applied to the golem to develop the magic power armor.

Stephen was going to use the earliest Golem puppet craft.

The golem puppets of this period have obvious characteristics, low energy consumption, simple intelligence, easy control, easy maintenance, etc., although primitive and simple, but can be competent for most of the tedious and repetitive work.

The more sophisticated the golem, the more demanding it is for routine maintenance.

So what Stephen is going to make is the 'Clay Golem', which has the combat ability equivalent to a level 7 warrior, has the ability to repair itself, and can execute simple commands, with the focus on greater strength. The materials used to make low-level golems are very simple, but the key points are 'soul core' and 'activate and construct life'.

The Soul Core gives golems simple intelligence, allowing them to do less complex repetitive tasks.

Activate Construct Life is a spell that focuses on turning them into living creatures, transforming them into living beings similar to earth elementals. But both of these points require the use of a very important thing, that is, the [Soul Crystal], which in some aboriginal worlds is called the power of the [Soul], which is the product of the dissipation of the soul after the death of life.

The soul is a carrier, and the energy it contains is the power of the soul, and the transformation into an entity is the soul crystal.

It's a pity.

Soul Crystals are difficult to produce naturally, only some special beings will drop the original Soul Crystals (gray crystals), and in most cases, a new carrier must be prepared to obtain Soul Crystals.

Normally, wizards use gems to transform soul crystals.

The cost of a clay golem is around 500-1000 gold coins, and a large part of this cost is used on the soul core, according to the size of the clay golem, wizards need to prepare a large gem to serve as the carrier of the soul core. Stephen's luck was good, he just happened to have a diamond from Lady Illya, which was enough to make a small soul crystal. In order to ensure the strength of the soul core, Arcanists often use 'artificial diamonds' to transform soul crystals, and crystals are also one of the alternatives, but they are too fragile on their own.

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(PS: Golems originated in Judaism and are free-moving dolls infused with clay by witchcraft, while in the Old Testament they represent unformed or soulless bodies.) ）