For Andrei and his followers, there is still much more to the curse of the swamp that they have not yet understood. But they already had an intuitive understanding of the bog's richness from the beginning. The wilderness of the Demon Realm is full of weeds and ferns, perennial shrubs are very sparse, and tall trees are even rarer. But on the edge of the swamp, Andrei saw bamboo for the first time in the world, and it was a large and lush bamboo forest.

Bamboo is a very easy plant to work with, and it can be said that you can do a lot with it with just a knife, which is good news for exiles who lack tools. It's just that the whole team only has a few daggers sharpened with the sharp teeth of beasts, except for a few pieces of clothing worn on their bodies, which can only be used to skin and cut flesh and deal with prey. The only two narrow scimitars that could be called weapons belonged to Mora, they were polished from the fangs of the beasts, and in Andrei's opinion, they were a bit like the Notai knives in his memory, with beautiful arcs and a length far beyond the control of ordinary people, which complemented the snake demon's height of nearly two meters and superior arm length.

This weapon is probably just right for slashing people and killing monsters, but when it is used as a machete and axe against bamboo, I'm afraid it won't be long before the "durability" will be reduced to zero. Fortunately, in addition to sharp blades, there is another sharp weapon against plants in the course of human wisdom - fire.

Led by Garuda and another male, the Snake Demon Savaloon, a dozen cowardly demons piled up flammable materials such as dead leaves on the roots of the bamboo poles, and then they ignited a raging flame under the gaze of the Flame Demon.

Igniting these dry combustibles with mana is easy for a mid-tier firefiend, and Garuda has already shown Andre his powers.

It took more than ten seconds for the fire demon to condense a fireball the size of a human head, and then it only took a breath of time for the fireball to ignite a three-person tall tree, and finally the innocent tree and its branches were all turned into black char in half an hour.

"The tree has fallen~!"

With the sound of sparse shouts, the bamboo pole that was burned at the bottom was finally overwhelmed...... There was a dense low sound between the touching of branches and leaves, and finally in the dull sound of falling to the ground, the thick bamboo pole finally lay quietly flat among the dead branches and leaves on the ground. The two ugly-faced blackened demons cheered for joy as if they had just joined forces to defeat an invincible foe.

Let them be excited, Garuda smiled happily. The task of the demons will be even more tedious and arduous, as they will have to burn the thick bamboo poles into a single bamboo tube with smaller, more difficult to control flames.

"Remember His Highness Andrew's words, try not to let the fire grow bigger, and call for others to come and help as soon as there is any sign of getting out of control!" Garuda watched as the cowardly demons cleared a clean ground, and under the supervision of the snake demons, they prepared to do the same, and continued to prepare to bring down another equally thick bamboo.

The group of short men shouted in high spirits, seemingly keen on such destructive activities.

No one in the exile was more familiar with the flames than Garuda, but it seemed that the Venerable Children of the Abyss had other, more important tasks for the Firelord. He didn't know what that was going on, but it was more important than having these cowardly demons play a "game" of fire.

The cowardly demons looked enviously at Garuda's strong and broad back, except for the coldest season of the year, most of the time, the cowardly demons like bear children were actually more afraid of flames than curious.

But today is completely different! The great children of the abyss have given them a rare opportunity, and the great Garuda has "lent" them his powerful and dangerous flame to manage and use. The demons watched excitedly as the seemingly weak flames licked the thick bamboo poles that even their teeth could not shake, and these red elves gradually eroded the bamboo poles into crunchy carbon black. The cowardly demons are constantly adding flammable materials to maintain the temperature of the flames, and in their simple imagination, this may be an important opportunity for them to advance to the powerful fire demons in the future!

On the other side of the camp, three succubi lead their men in harvesting dark green or brown vines from polished stones. The cut vines will be placed on a stone platform, and others will grind them into wisps of plant fibers from round stones. Most succubi are familiar with rope weaving, and the most common material used is their own hair, which is almost the strongest and rarest braidable material they can obtain, and many leather garments are tied by succubi woven from their hair.

All people were ordered not to eat raw food, raw water, and beware of snake bites. According to the Venerable Children of the Abyss, these things are likely to be the main way for the curse to spread, raw food, snakes and insects everyone understands, but what kind of "cooked" method is water!? Not to mention those ignorant cowards, even Garuda, who is most familiar with flames, can't understand, but this does not prevent those timid and cowardly guys from cherishing their own lives, and they dare not try to challenge the power of the legendary "curse". Although these orders are very convenient for the demons who are accustomed to raw food and raw water.

Mora and Dirad took the Daughter of Canor and several other Horned Demons to search for food and the special minerals mentioned by the Children of the Abyss. Garuda walked slowly to the edge of the swamp, where His Highness André was overseeing Livia and her cowards...... Playing with mud!?

"If your hands and feet come into contact with raw water, remember not to eat until cleaning, and your hands that come into contact with unclean water must not touch the mucous membranes of your eyes and anus. André commanded the demons to find a loess surface with sparse vegetation and let them dig it with rudimentary tools such as bamboo sticks and broken bamboo chips. "Do you understand the mucous membranes? ”

The cowards nodded unsuitably, even for the sake of their own lives, they did not dare to disobey the orders of the children of the great abyss!

It was not until the soil was free of black corruption and rubble that André ordered the demons to take some clean loess, mix it with water from as clear a puddle as possible, and knead it into large and small mud balls.

Making ceramics is an ancient craft with a long tradition. However, the excellent physical properties of ceramics make it possible to explore and develop the role that ceramic technology can play in new fields even in the era when nanomaterials are widely used.

Naturally, it was impossible for André to carry out those plans that seemed to be in the air, and even if he could complete the clay pots or clay pots of the Stone Age were enough to satisfy him. In order to ensure that his team had access to clean food and drinking water, Garuda's ability to manipulate the flames was a strong guarantee of success in achieving this goal.

The Children of the Abyss chose a thick clay pot the size of half his hand from the jokes of the cowards, and the mud water had not yet dried, which was not a good semi-finished product for the first firing of pottery, but he did not have time to try it slowly. In a short period of time, the demons can barely absorb a little bit of water from the roasted food, but in a few days, the long-suppressed thirst will make the ban on not drinking raw water and raw food useless. Drinking raw water is only possible to infect intestinal bacteria and parasites, but real thirst can make people's will very weak, and even André himself is not sure how many days he will be able to last in that situation.

The cowards found a dry place to build a stone stove under the orders of the children of the abyss, and Andre carefully placed the mud pot on the stove filled with flammable materials underneath, and beckoned to Garuda, who had been quietly observing the whole process behind him.

"Wet mud embryos are not a good choice, but this is only the first trial production, you have to be careful that the water vapor may form bubbles or cracks in the mud embryo during the evaporation process, it doesn't matter if it is difficult the first time, maybe you can get more experience from it to avoid failure after that. Andrei had to raise his head slightly to meet the tall Firefiend's pale red eyes, though Garuda had lowered his figure as much as he could in respect. The Son of the Abyss put his hand on the Flame Demon's shoulder and explained carefully: "Also, the entire embryo body must be heated evenly, otherwise there may be cracks due to the imbalance of heat rise. At first, the heat can be a little smaller, and as for how much fire it will take for the embryo to sinter into one, you need to grasp it yourself. ”

Unfamiliar words such as evaporation, heat swelling, and sintering made Garuda's brows wrinkle together, but the Flame Demon understood that the team had no reason to say no to His Highness Andre in this embarrassing dilemma. He nodded earnestly and replied very firmly, "Yes, Your Highness." I will live up to your commission!"

"Very good! You can slow down a little for the first time, if you master the zero boundary point of clay embryo burning, I believe that the subsequent firing work will be smoother. Andre patted the arm as thick as the thighs of the fire demon encouragingly, "No one has any experience for the first time, but you are undoubtedly the most suitable for this job among everyone, don't put too much pressure on yourself!"

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The Flame Demon sat in front of the stone stove, his arms encircling the flames in the air, and the slowly infused magic kept the flames hot. Under his instructions, the cowardly demon next to him kept adding dead branches to the bottom of the stove and plucking the burning wood from time to time to prevent the flame from deviating from the mud embryo in the middle of the stone platform.

In order not to increase the pressure on the fire demons, Andre ran to the other side to try to guide the cowards to weave ropes, although he actually wanted to witness the whole "first time" that meant a lot to everyone.

Garuda sat in front of the stove, and the fire demon had a vague sense of the mud embryo in the center of the flames. The heat continued to blow across the firefiend's arms, chest, and cheeks, and he enjoyed the scorching currents that blurred his vision. If he didn't use the dead branch as fuel, it would probably be difficult for him to sustain the flame with his magic alone.

Fire is a symbol of destruction, and Garuda is usually reluctant to show this power in front of others. Usually force is to be hidden, and at a critical moment, it is best to use it to deal a fatal blow to an enemy who does not know much about it. It's just that with the invasion of the heat, the sweating fire demon felt that he was beginning to control the flames of this stove more and more skillfully and easily.

"Maybe this is also a good way to cultivate?" the flame demon who had comprehended it thought to himself.

The water in the mud embryo had long since been evaporated, and Garuda had carefully heated the mud embryo to a stable temperature following the instructions of the Children of the Abyss. If he had burned a piece of wild boar, the Fire Demon felt that he should have burned it through by this time. However, it was only a lump of mud, although it was evident that the cowardice who made it had done enough work to ensure that the clay embryo was free of impurities, and that it was evenly thick and rounded. But it's a mud ball after all, what flowers can it burn?

What exactly does His Highness mean by "sintering"?

This cannot be blamed for Garuda's shallowness. To him, there was no difference between fire and sword, both were sharp weapons that killed his opponents, and as for roasting meat with flames? that was a bad habit that the lords had learned from the natives of Garandia during the Great War, and where would the roasted food be as rich in water as fresh food? It was a senseless waste! Only the powerful demons on top could afford to waste precious drinking water in this way.

If Andre could know that his subordinates had degraded cooked food to nothing in their hearts, the noble son of the abyss would definitely teach the fire demon a good lesson and make him understand the significance of cooked food in the history of human evolution!

The bewildered Garuda was still struggling with how far the mud had to be burned in order to be called "cooked", but the flash of inspiration suddenly remembered another use of fire in that legendary otherworldly civilization!

Smelting steel!

Garuda remembered the alien weapons in those epic stories that made the powerful demons sink in that great war, and heard that there were also some powerful fire demons in the demon world who successfully reproduced this process, but the details were naturally not known to a mere Qatari fire demon. But as soon as he thought of those lords of the Barlow Flame Demon and the flaming decapitating sword in their hands, Garuda suddenly felt that he might have touched the secret of the Barlow Fire Demon's strength!

The scorching magic power kept stirring in the fire demon's body, and an imperceptible red light flashed in Garuda's eyes, as calm as he couldn't help but be tempted by the desire to gain great power!

Now that he has decided to find the right direction, the Fire Demon will no longer keep it.

"Increase the fire!" Garuda commanded the cowardly demons around him to continuously throw combustibles into the stone stove, urging the pale red magic power to enter, and the powerful heat surged, making the cowardly demons on the side scream for fear of burning.

Iron weapons!

Thinking that His Highness might be revealing to him the secrets that only a few high-ranking demons can master, the magic power in the body of the Flame Demon seemed to become even more turbulent!