Link took a hard breath of the cold dry morning air and let out a pleasant sigh.

The winter mist shrouded the gray hills in the distance, the sky that should have been blue looked a little dim against the mist, and the fierce sun in the desert looked a little depressed when it reached the rocks.

Glancing at the large expanse of cold shirt trees outside the camp, the bare branches of the fir trees stretched haphazardly into the air, and with the monotonous color of the earth, it looked a little hideous. Link, however, looked at the large expanse of fir trees outside the camp with great satisfaction.

With a loud crisp sound, a tall fir was cut down by the goblin slaves and fell to the ground, a group of ragged slaves hurriedly stepped forward and cut down the messy branches on the fir, two strong orc slaves walked forward with the commune's newly made logging saw, and the two worked together to process the tall fir into a shape suitable for handling, and the big goblin slaves took the opportunity to transport the branches of the fir trees, and carried the branches to the prepared clay charcoal kiln, and threw the ignited branches into it from the feeding port, raising the temperature of the charcoal kiln first, and preparing to burn charcoal later。

Listening to the rhythmic sawing sound of orc slaves, a smile hung on the corner of Link's mouth, and the sound of dwarven craftsmen scolding orc slaves came from his ears, looking at these irascible dwarven craftsmen, while scolding the bad wine in the mountains, while taking a big sip, Link shook his head, these dwarves were all dwarven slaves rescued in the desert camp, Link promised them to work for the commune for three years, and let them go home, and the remuneration was settled at the standard price during the employment period, and there was a bonus to take if they were willing to take an apprentice.

The Commune is indeed inseparable from these dwarven craftsmen now, although the smelting technology they have mastered is very backward in Link's opinion, but their forging skills are extremely scarce in the Commune now, the Feron Continent once had an unusually brilliant civilization, giants, djinns, dragons, elves, and humans have established a powerful civilization, but just like the European history of the earth, the Feron Continent is also in the stage of civilization destruction, faltering rebirth, and the technology of smelting pig iron has even been monopolized by dwarves and elves for thousands of years, even now, Mulholland and Ense, the two regional powers that are fighting each other in the Desperate Eastern Regions, are still using bronze weapons and armor。

Several orc slaves in the dwarf craftsman's scolding, laboriously lifted a basket of iron ore, poured the ore into the furnace, several orc slaves began to vigorously rotate the shaft blower from hydraulic to manpower, to the preheating chamber to transport air, semi-solidified pig iron liquid into the iron furnace, the dwarf craftsman took out a willow stick and began to stir the semi-solidified pig iron, with Professor Link's frying method to fry into steel, and then the dwarf craftsman began to heat and forge the newly made steel block, trying to forge it into a forging hammer, and then connected with the original water row in the camp to make a hydraulic forging hammer。

Looking at the semi-solidified paste-like steel in the frying furnace, Link shook his head, although the frying method is relatively simple, but the dwarf craftsman is still in the experimental stage, Link only knows a rough idea of this method, the specific proportion and frying timing still need to be tested by the dwarf craftsman himself, sometimes it can be fried to make high-carbon steel that can be used as a sophisticated weapon, sometimes it can only be fried to produce pig iron of better quality, and now the temperature of the furnace cannot reach the level of completely liquefied steel, only by completely liquefiing the steel, can the proportion of various components be accurately controlled, and high-quality steel and even various alloys can be made。

According to the dwarves, the dwarves' forging skills are well-known throughout the Faeron, but in fact, it is more about the production of magic weapons and magic armor, the dwarves mix refined steel into various magic materials such as moonstone, dragon blood, wind element essence, etc., and even engrave magic circles and runes on the inside of some high-end weapons and armor, so that the mage's arcane power and vitality are infused into it, making the best magic weapons and armor in all of Faeron.

However, in terms of general smelting technology, the dwarves have not made much progress, but only mixed pig iron and wrought iron to make it, and used experience to neutralize the carbon elements of the two to obtain steel. This technology is much simpler than the method used by humans to decarburize pig iron into steel, and the dwarves even think that the smelting technology of ordinary steel has developed to the extreme, and turn to research how to forge new materials such as hard pure gold, light mythril, and quartz fiberglass with good conductivity.

Link pondered for a moment, and realized that if he wanted to continue to develop the smelting technology, he could only increase the temperature further, "Do you want to use a burning hand?" Link laughed at himself after thinking about it, it was almost the same to have a constant wall of fire on the forge that could burn permanently, but if he did this, the value of various magic materials alone would cost tens of thousands of gold coins. If you want to increase the temperature, you still need to strengthen the temperature of the forging furnace and develop refractory materials, but not clay bricks for charcoal.

Balusahua, who was watching the excitement from the sidelines, let out a sneer: "Is it interesting to engage in these things? Even if you make steel, it's just an ordinary product without enchantment, and the low-ranking officers in the Ghost City are equipped with a full set of magic armor and magic weapons!"

Link stared at Balusahua's white porcelain mask, looked at the pitch-black hollowness of the eyes on the mask, and said, "Even the Yin Soul City can't afford to equip all soldiers with magic armor and magic weapons that cost thousands of gold coins!

Link played with the +1 enchanted dagger that Balusawa casually gave him in his hand, the small dagger was extremely sharp, even without arcane vision, he could see that the dagger had a hint of coldness, and he casually took a low-quality dagger captured from the goblin, and the two collided, the inferior dagger broke into two sections without accident, while the enchanted dagger was as smooth as new, but if you tried to insert the enchanted dagger into the new steel made by the dwarven craftsman, the enchanted dagger could not sharpen the iron like clay, but was only inserted very shallowly into the steel block, and the tip was still a little bent.

"Are you serious?" asked Balusahua with a smile on her face.

In the face of Balushawa's inquiry. Link didn't answer, looking at the enchanted dagger in his hand and fell into thought, if you can build a blast furnace and really liquefy steel, as long as you make 100 forging steel, the quality will not be worse than +1 enchanted weapons, but the cost is much lower, and the cost and efficiency will be further reduced if you build a hydraulic forging machine in the future.

Unlike himself and Njata who came from a barren desert, Balusa is a great nobleman in the Netherworld, a guest of the Netherworld, who had traveled and scouted in Waterdeep before the Netherlands returned to Faeron, and had a wide range of knowledge.

By asking Balosahua, Link felt that the current Faeron was inferior to many ancient empires in terms of arcane civilization, and was in the stage of devoting himself to recreating the glory of the past, and the mage began to study the full differential equation and integrated geometry from the perspective of the practical application of spell casting, and the classical probability theory has been proposed from the perspective of the success rate of spell casting, and some mages have begun to study the essence of spiritual power and the composition of world matter.

But unlike the great changes brought by modern scientific research on the earth to the people of all countries, the research of the mage has not brought changes to the common people, and it is only the arcane aspect that has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the most advanced machinery in Feron is the arcane steam machine of the dwarf, but due to the high cost, there is almost no possibility of civilian use, and now the most complex machinery that the ordinary people of Feron can use is the wind mill and water drainage, there is no printing and papermaking, all the products are made by hand, only small manual workshops, and there is no industrialization.

The craftsmen of the cities kept their crafts strictly secret, or were forced or voluntarily to join various guilds for protection, and technological innovation brought not wealth, but the punishment of the guilds and the exclusion of their peers, and the artisanal workshops controlled the entire market according to strict proportions, and the new capital and labor were immediately devoured.

Farmers in the countryside do not apply manure, fight the raging goblins with pitchforks, pray to the goddess of agriculture to make their land abundant, and burn the fertile fields on their own land, practicing a system of rotational farming.

Link didn't know how powerful many empires were, but judging from the history books that the Imaska Empire was able to industrialize the production of golems on a large scale, the productivity of their civilians would never be as low as it is today.

In response to Balushahua's inquiry, Link gave an answer that was not what he asked: "Modern mages are actually hindering the development of Faerun's productive forces. ”