Downer had always thought that Lucia might have the same identity as Roger, the son of a certain duke, and that she might have royal blood if she had been a bit bolder to guess, but in the end, the mystery was more astonishing than all the speculation.

Lucia was the princess of the Femon Empire and the only daughter of King Auston.

Roger's mother was the queen's sister, and every prince and princess of the empire would follow in the footsteps of Louis Montmont the Great, starting with the Tris Academy of Magic.

The Tris Academy of Magic has not produced outstanding students in recent years, but it has been able to maintain a luxurious lineup taught almost entirely by formal magicians, and the quota of magic crystals has never been reduced, precisely because this academy has a special significance to the Femon Empire.

Of course, none of these Donners knew.

On the way back to the Academy of Magic, Captain Kaz politely asked him about the robbers, and Donner told him the truth. He didn't mention any speculation that the kidnappers might have been disguised as soldiers and that the target should be Lucia, but he recounted everything that had happened in its entirety, leaving it to Commander Kaz to judge.

Downer knew what it could mean if there was an incident of kidnapping of the princess by the army on the territory of the empire. Therefore, he made up his mind to only say what he saw and never use his imagination.

After listening to Donner's description, Commander Kaz's expression did not change at all, and of course, he would not ask for his opinion. In his eyes, Donner was probably just an ordinary student who happened to be in the right place. It was only when he heard that Donner was able to cast magic without reciting a spell that he was slightly startled, and when he heard how they were fleeing, he did not forget to remind him that the horses should be released while fleeing.

In front of the Crimson Knights, Donner finally saw Lucia showing the demeanor of a princess, with an elegant figure and a slightly distant smile, which was completely different from her usual.

For Donner this time, the kidnapping turmoil will be over after returning to the Academy of Magic, as for the investigation that Lucia, Captain Kaz and the Academy of Magic must do, and even the undercurrents that may be surging in the entire empire, it has nothing to do with him.

He immediately returned to his original familiar track and continued to study and cultivate at his own pace.

The self-created meditation method still grows four divine elements each day of water and fire, and for the time being, it seems that some futile figure drawing is still persevering, and the magic potion class strives to identify and record the characteristics of different plants, and the spell class pretends to lip shape. And the magic formation class he was interested in was not officially opened until the fourth grade.

For a long time, in addition to continuing to practice the six-element attack magic, Donner began to try to build a twelve-element defensive magic (i.e., a six-element nested model), and after the first successful cast, he also tried to use the nested model with a multi-system of divine elements, but the experiment unsurprisingly failed.

Almost all models will collapse the moment they are cast, and the only one that doesn't collapse is the worst. The model of the Water God Element's nested Fire God Element, after casting a very small ice ball, just left his hand and burst instantly.

Even though Donner's fire elemental resistance was much stronger than that of ordinary low-level magic apprentices, he was still injured by the force of the explosion, and he had to ask the Pharmacy Professor to apply a potion to him, and he paid the price of a magic crystal.

Wesley has been successfully promoted to a mid-level magic apprentice since he got the new meditation method, and his idle attitude has also been slightly restrained, and he seems to have become diligent, I don't know if it is stimulated by Donner's cultivation progress, or because he is worried about the beauties of the magic continent.

During the holiday in early April, Donner was in the lab to see the unusually excited twin Lori, an alloy of light iron and a slightly rarer light metal, which showed much higher strength than light iron in a certain proportion of composition and cooling rate, and even the dwarf Aidarua was amazed by this.

After seeing Donner's creation like turning stones into gold, the attitude of the twin Lori towards him changed from curiosity and doubt at the beginning to complete trust and a little worship, and the title of Donner the Great Demon King was fixed in one fell swoop.

Probably because of their familiarity, the two girls began to show their chattering nature, and whenever they both began to chatter, the dwarf Idarua avoided them. Donner, who was tasked with directing the experiments, could only listen to their ramblings.

"Lord Donner, what do we call this synthetic metal?" Ellie Manda poked her fingers into her dimples, her big eyes looking upwards as if she was considering an important question.

"yes, yes, what's it called, huh...... Is it okay to call it the Demon King Light Rail?"

When Arimia said the name, the more she pronounced it, the more appropriate it became, and her sister seemed to feel the same way, and the two looked at each other and made an exaggerated smile. It seems that coming up with a nice name for an invention is more exciting than the invention itself.

Donner was worried that if that name was called, if someone knew about his relationship with him in the future, it would really give him the nickname of the Demon King. So he deliberately put on a serious expression, and asked the twin Lori to take the experimental results first, and asked, "When was the strength tested?"

The two sisters replied that the test would be done as soon as the experiment was over, about four days ago.

"Now test it again. Donner commanded.

"This kind of little test is something that a dwarf can't get wrong. Sister Ellie Manda said.

"Yes, yes, why do you need to test again?" echoed her sister Elimia.

However, at Donner's insistence, the two sisters had to flatten their mouths and test again. When the results came out, the two almost identical little faces immediately showed wonderful expressions that were both excited and a little embarrassed.

"Wow...... How can it be so hard, hey, I really tested it wrong last time......"

"Yes, yes, it's a shame, I actually tested it wrong, Manda, and you still said it must be right?"

"Don't you say you can't be wrong!" the sister patted her sister on the head, who pouted but couldn't defend herself.

"Okay, you guys are right, it's normal, some alloys harden after a while after cooling. ”

The twin sisters immediately asked if they would continue to harden if they were left out for a longer time.

Downer gave a negative answer, and although the aging hardening of the alloy may actually occur for a long time, it is generally close to the peak within a few days.

Ignoring this little oolong, the test results just now still made the two sisters blush with joy. The hardness of this alloy, after three days of storage, has increased a lot, and it is already close to ordinary steel.

Immediately, something that made them even more excited was that Donner had a new assignment to assign.

This time, the alloy was based on the other ingredients, and the object was replaced with a variety of expensive and rare metals, especially those with excellent strength or toughness, such as dwarven steel, or the more expensive mythril. The amount of portions added this time is controlled at a smaller ratio, ranging from 1 part per 10,000 to 1 hundredth.

Due to the large difference in density between the additives and light iron this time, in order to avoid delamination, Donner instructed the two sisters to stir quickly after heating to a high temperature to help fuse.

After arranging his work in the laboratory, Donner chatted with the dwarf Idarua about his brother's studies at the Knight Academy. Aidarua scoffed at Middle-earth's approach to training knights.

"The way you train knights in Middle-earth is just nonsense!"

"Why?" Donner didn't know much about the Knight Academy's curriculum, but he was still curious to hear the other party's words.

"Don't you know that Middle-earth has never produced a high-level knight above the seventh order? I heard that in your place, a formal knight under the age of eighteen is considered a genius, ha, at this age in the Knight Federation, it is not a genius until a second-order knight, and the dwarven warriors of our Far North Country can reach the level of a fourth-order knight before the age of fifty. ”

"Fifty years old?" Downer felt was clearly unfair to the comparison.

"Don't you know that we dwarves are only fifty years old, and we have a lifespan of at least four hundred years?...... But the dwarven miners who mine ......"

Hearing this, Donner remembered Natia Vida's sad expression when she talked about the fate of the dwarves, but he immediately remembered another question.

"How old is that gnome adult?"

Adarua couldn't help but snicker, the expression on his face seemed to say, "You just remembered to ask this?"

"Gnomes are forty years old and adults, and the average life expectancy is five hundred years, whew. ”

"Well, aren't they just children!" Donner pointed in the direction of the house, the door was closed, and the twin sisters couldn't hear their conversation.

"I didn't say no, you just asked me how old they were, and they were all sixteen!"

Donner was so angry with the other party that he couldn't say anything, he really didn't expect that the legendary upright and fiery dwarf would have such a cunning side.

Adalua was still laughing, in fact, with his bearded face, even if he really laughed, Donner might not be able to see it, but his expression when he couldn't help laughing was even more exaggerated, and it was clear at a glance.

Donner then remembered why he had to sneak out every time he did an experiment, he must have seen himself doing an experiment with two children, and he thought it was funny.

"Did they really go to engineering school?"

"Yes, these two children of Natia Vida are both famous prodigies in the Far North, and they graduated from the engineering college a year ago, and the average child has not yet enrolled at this age. The two of them are clamoring for experiments every day, but who would really take their two children to do experiments?"

This dwarf actually covered his mouth when he said the last sentence, for fear that Donner would not know that he was laughing.

"What rank of knight are you?" asked Donner hatefully.

"I'm not a knight, although we also cultivate fighting spirit, but dwarves are not called knights. ”

"Oh, you just know what I mean, what level of knight is it?"

"Level 5 Dwarven Warrior!" Aidaroa said, not forgetting to straighten his chest, he finally stopped smiling.

Donner was shocked by this answer, you must know that the leader of the Crimson Knights, who almost symbolizes the top force of the empire, is only a fourth-level knight, and the dwarf in front of him is actually one level higher than the other party. He couldn't help but look at the dwarf carefully, as if he had just met each other, and Adarua was a little uncomfortable with him.

"What do you want to do?"

"Can you teach my brother?"

"Our dwarf's training methods, he can't stand it. ”

"Try it. ”

Early the next morning, Donner brought Richard and Kelly to meet Aidaroa, and from that day on, they began to experiment with the dwarves to train warriors.