On the second day of Donner's condensation of the five gods, it was a vacation day in mid-November, and as at the beginning of the month, he took the carriage from the academy to and from Dorne City early in the morning, driven by the simple and easy-going Uncle Mira, and Donner still forced a few coppers into the other party. Uncle Mira liked this sensible young man very much, and he would talk about college things along the way.

"Donner, you know what? It's been three years, and not a single graduate has been favored by the Imperial Academy of Magic. When I was younger, it wasn't like that, when I ...... The Tesri Academy of Magic, that's a well-known name, it's me, who drives the car, and I have a face when I go out. ”

"They say that the Dean doesn't care about the college anymore, and that he seems to be a different person since the death of his young wife...... Hey, I remember when they got married more than ten years ago. Can you believe it? On the day of the wedding, the dean looked like a middle-aged man, and he was already over 100 years old at that time. ”

"Oh, Mr. Victor, they say that Mr. Victor is a weirdo, I don't agree, he doesn't lose his temper with anyone, but...... I just don't like to be clean, by the way, I heard that he doesn't have a good relationship with the dean, but who can say for sure what happens between these big people?"

I listened to the gossip all the way, and arrived at the Knight Academy near noon. Donner still found Richard first, and then went with Richard to visit Mr. Merkel, where the brothers met acquaintances at Merkel's house.

"Donner, you're finally here, you know, I'm not the only one waiting for you this time, Kelly, come out, Donner is here!"

After a while, Kelly also came down from upstairs, as if she was embarrassed by her uncle, and she didn't know what to say to Donner.

"Haven't you been asking me about Donner these days? Why don't you talk when you see people? Do you still think Donner is mute?"

"Uncle!" the girl's face turned red with shame, and she longed to find a place to hide.

"Okay, okay, come in, we'll be able to meet more often in the future, you don't know yet, do you? Kelly is also coming to study at the Knight Academy. ”

"Congratulations, Kelly. Donner replied with a smile.

"Really, that's great!" Richard reacted more directly than his brother.

After the lunch was hastily over, Merkel immediately rushed to the armory workshop with Donner and Kelly, and Richard had to practice on vacation, so he didn't follow.

In the weapons workshop, Donner asked Merkel to process a large number of parts, large and small, scattered, occupying a large area, but fortunately, the workshop was large enough not to affect production.

Donner took the drawings, asked the workers to sort and place the parts according to the requirements, and asked for the necessary tools, and then began the installation in an orderly manner by himself.

Merkel and Kelly watched from the sidelines, with slightly different mentalities, of course. Merkel was already mentally prepared to wait for the teenager in front of him to surprise him again.

Before today, Kelly may have only been attracted by the quiet temperament of the Donner that was very different from that of the inhabitants of Lant Island, but now, she saw a completely different Donner, no longer the calm and breezy of sitting on Lante Island. He was attentive and focused, occasionally contemplating, and then the parts of different shapes were skillfully combined in his hands. At this moment, the hazy feelings in the girl's heart seemed to become concrete.

It was almost evening, when the whole machine was finally installed, and he suddenly remembered something important.

"Mr. Merkel, do you have any horses here? Preferably ponies with stamina. Donner would have liked to ask if there were any donkeys, but he wasn't sure if there were any donkeys in the world.

"Pony with stamina?" Merkel thought for a moment and gave a few words to the leader of the workers around her, who brought back a pony after a while.

Donner had never seen such a short horse, it was only a little larger than a goat, but its limbs were extremely thick.

"This is a pony from the chaotic land of the north, don't look at it small, very strong, ordinary horses don't move goods, it is easy. ”

Donner didn't know what the Lands of Chaos was, but now was not the time to care. He led the pony to the wooden frame at one end of the machine, tied a piece of rope to its chest, and had it led around in circles. At this time, the wooden stake in the center of the machine began to rotate, driving the rope to pull up the eight forging hammers in turn, slowly rising, and then falling down in turn, the pony kept circling, and the action of the forging hammer kept circulating.

Then Donner picked up a piece of red-hot iron, walked to the forging machine, and placed it under the hammer that was about to fall, and in a short time the iron was beaten into a sheet of iron of uniform thickness.

That's right, this is the simplest animal-powered forging machine, and thanks to Merkel's efforts, the experienced blacksmiths in Dorne have made a set of gears by hand.

At this time, all the workers had stopped their work, looking at this strange machine, and one by one their mouths grew, but no one spoke. In the past, it took a blacksmith to do a small half a day's work, but this monster completed it in a while, and these workers who deal with iron lumps all day long can best understand the value of this machine.

Merkel thought she was ready for surprises, but when the mystery was revealed, she was still shocked. This is not only to double the efficiency, this machine can almost replace half of the small workshop.

"Donner, you scared the hell out of me......"

"This pony of yours is much better than I estimated. Donner scratched his head embarrassedly, "A few key parts, still a bit rough, may need to be replaced regularly, if possible, preferably with the kind of dwarven steel material." ”

Kelly looked at Donner from afar, with mixed feelings. When she was in the island of Lante, she guessed that it was the difference between the rich and the poor in the family that made Donner deliberately alienate her, and she was also worried that her parents would dislike Donner's oral disease, but she didn't care about these things, and she was not in a hurry, she believed that as long as she persisted, all this would not be a problem. Then Donner spoke, and went to the Academy of Magic to work as a professor's assistant, but she was afraid, afraid that she would not be worthy of the other party. She pestered her parents, wrote letters to her uncle, and finally won the opportunity to come to the Knight Academy. She chases Donner, from Lante to Dorne City, and she wants to change from the young daughter of a tavern owner to a female knight, because she is afraid that one day she will only be able to look at the other person's back from afar. But now, he has created such a miraculous machine, but it is still so peaceful. Was it because it was a trivial matter in his eyes? Was it the same with the sword that made his grandfather so much praise?

Because the forging machine was far more efficient than expected, Merkel insisted on giving up 30% of the profits, and Donner agreed. Before, he insisted that only two percent, because of the disparity in status between the two sides, he did not dare to ask for fair cooperation, in case the other party was happy for a while, but afterwards he was resentful, and in the end it was his weak self who suffered. Even if Merkel is indeed loyal and reliable, after all, there is a big family behind him, and it is difficult to predict.

After deciding on the distribution plan, Donner asked Mr. Merkel to help him buy some magic metals with the expected proceeds, and the latter readily agreed, telling him to be safe. The next day, after Donner got the magic gold, he said goodbye to Richard Kelly and returned to the Academy of Magic.