The Randall family kept transporting high-quality wood, cowhides, horns, animal tendons, fish gelatin, and iron to the hill camp, and the finished armament flowed out of the hill camp and distributed to the soldiers. Everyone thought that the hill camp was the lord's armament workshop. In fact, the mountain fortress is the largest military production base in Victor.

In the dead of night, the villagers took refuge in the safety of the villages, and the alchemy militia quietly transported supplies to the mountains under the cover of night, and pulled the prepared armaments into the hill camps. Randall's guards are limited, and even with all the alchemy humans, there is still a lot of surplus weapons and equipment produced in the fortress.

For three years, the mountain fortress had stockpiled a large amount of armaments, four cellars for hundreds of barrels of purple cane wine, and 12 rooms on the first floor were weapons storage rooms, which were neatly stacked with all kinds of weapons and armor.

"My lord, we have created 240 Thorsilver Heavy Crossbows from the tendons of the Ant-Man Leader, equipped with 6,000 steel crossbows, 7,000 iron crossbows, 200 Adamantite Gold crossbows, 150 Adamantite Gold crossbows, and 3 double silver crossbows and 50 Adamantite Double Silver crossbows for your exclusive use. ”

"90 silver crossbows, 300 ordinary crossbows, and 40,000 fine iron crossbows. 20 silver longbows, 80 yew wood longbows, and 10,000 iron arrows. 500 compound hard bows, 60,000 fine iron arrows. In addition, there are 2 double silver compound bows and 100 pure gold and double silver arrows for your exclusive use. ”

"80 pairs of silver ant-man armor. At your request, we've kept the remaining Ant-Man carapace, enough to craft 16 pairs of double silver full-body armor. ”

"There are 2,100 pairs of iron full-body chain mail, and 105 pairs of steel half-body chain mail, each of which is equipped with a set of rattan leather hard armor, a stainless iron helmet, stainless steel hand armor and hard leather combat boots, as well as an iron oak round shield, a fine iron long sword, and a fine iron one-handed spear. ”

Hundreds of green candles shine brightly in the storeroom, blue and white silver, blue iron, and silver-white steel, under the reflection of the candlelight, the brilliance flows, shining.

Ignoring the precious gold and silver equipment, Victor picked up a steel half-length chain mail and examined it carefully.

The so-called stainless steel is actually an alloy forged by iron mixed with a little fine iron. Stainless steel is much stronger than iron alone, and its properties are directly proportional to the iron content. However, any degree of steel is not as strong and corrosion-resistant as pure iron, but it is also much lighter than pure iron.

This steel ring bust chain mail, silver white color glowing with blue light, weighs 12 kilograms, made of stainless steel, double-layer riveting process, the ring eyes are fine and compact, and the workmanship is outrageous.

"Beautiful! worth at least 30 gold soles. Victor nodded, shook his head and sighed, "It's still too heavy, how much fine iron did you add?"

"The ratio of refined iron to iron is 1:1.5. Busso replied, "My lord, we need more iron to complete the production of 500 sets of steel ring armor." ”

Steel Ring Armor with Hard Leather Inner Armor is effective against all types of physical damage, including piercing, slashing, and blunt hits, which are standard for elite soldiers. The defensive performance of fine iron chain mail is more superior than that of steel ring chain mail, but its heavy weight is a great burden for elite soldiers, not to mention the ordinary soldiers of the Randall family. As a result, very few people use iron chain mail.

Victor has several thousand pairs of fine iron chain mail, and the alchemy militia has one set, and there are more than 2,000 sets left. These expensive chain mail, knights can't look down on them, elite soldiers can't use them, and they are almost waste. In order to meet the needs of ordinary soldiers, Victor purchased a lot of obsolete chain mail from the York family. However, the purchase of armaments is not a long-term solution after all, and as Randall leads the expansion of the army, Victor mobilizes iron materials and orders Busso to build 500 sets of steel ring busts, weighing no more than 15 kilograms each.

The normal full-body steel ring armor, the ratio of 1:3 to fine iron can be called excellent, and the total weight is 15 kg. The half-body steel ring armor made by the alchemy auxiliaries has a ratio of 1:1.5 to iron and weighs 12 kilograms. Despite his best efforts to increase the proportion of refined iron, the iron was still insufficient.

The Centaur Hills are rich in refined iron and lack iron ore resources. Although iron is not a scarce resource, the lords of Gambis are unhappy with the Yorks' dominance of fine iron. Without the royal family taking the lead, the lords spontaneously restricted the flow of iron into the Centaur Hills, just to force the York family to open up the trade of fine iron for iron, and the exchange ratio was 1:1.

How could the House of York agree to such outrageous terms, the Nevilles currently control the market for fine iron and iron, and according to their pricing, fine iron is six times the price of iron in Gambis. The Duke of York sought a price ratio of 1:5, and resolutely refused to sell fine iron until the goal was achieved. The Duke of York's reason is also very strong: once the price of fine iron is loosened, it will be difficult to increase the price again, unless the fine iron is sold to the Sassians. However, Gambis's own demand for fine iron has not yet been satisfied, and the act of selling it to the Sassans is no less than betraying the entire White Tower camp.

The York family has a rich heritage, its own iron reserves, and there is no shortage of ready-made weapons and armor, and Sophia's chamber of commerce helps them transport iron, although the trade volume is not large, but it can also maintain a small scale of armament renewal.

Around the price of fine iron, the two sides are still in the game. This will make Victor miserable.

According to the agreement of the pre-god notarization, the York family was supplying metal ingots to Randall, and the price was cheap, but the refined iron accounted for a large proportion, and the iron material was pitiful. In order to save iron, Randall's farm tools are made of copper.

If it weren't for Sylvia's increased supply of iron, Victor would not have been able to produce military equipment for ordinary soldiers.

"Forget it, suspend the production of steel ring chain mail. Refined iron is worth a lot of money, and I'm going to die if I make a 1:1.5 steel ring chain mail. Steel is still forged at a ratio of 1:3, and as much material as there is chain mail. ”

"These refined iron equipment can't be used by ordinary people, so only 500 sets are kept for backup, and the rest are all returned to the furnace for smelting. Victor said helplessly: "Take me to the vault to see." ”

"Yes. My lord. ”

The vault is located on the second floor of the castle and is dedicated to storing valuable materials, mainly Ant-Man carapaces and rare materials. Pushing open the door, Victor saw a pile of silver shimmering metal ingots, which were silver.

Silver ore has been refined as much as 1,100 pounds as an associated mineral of Mithril Ore, and this small pyramid made of silver ingots has caused Victor to be dizzy.

Four years ago, Victor had so much silver that he could wake up laughing in his dreams. Now, this silver is just a hot potato.

Gold, silver, and copper, as carriers of money, are strictly regulated. The circulation of these precious metals is not only concerned by the royal family, but also by local lords and chambers of commerce, who are also very wary of precious metal trading, even if it is only the trade of utensils.

The flood of money leads to inflation, and the value of the goldsol accumulated by the lords in various places also depreciates. For the aristocracy, this is no less than someone stealing their wealth.

The private minter is the enemy of all. If Victor learns that someone is using private coinage to extract his own resources, he must knock out all his brains.

In fact, the issuance of money is regulated by the Church, or more precisely, in the hands of the Church.

Every 36 years, representatives of the kingdoms carry gold ingots to the kingdom of Eyre, where they negotiate fiercely under the organization of the church and the Silver Tower, deciding how much gold soles to issue. There is another method for the distribution of the Kinsol, which is not directly related to the number of gold ingots carried by the kingdoms.

Each kingdom could issue silver sols independently, and the senate decided the number of issuances, but they were also subject to the supervision of the church. The right to issue purple gold coins is instead an autonomous act of the royal family. However, the Purple Gold Coin is actually a bond issued by the royal family, which is guaranteed by the credibility of the major royal families, and it is mixed with precious pure gold, which is extremely valuable in itself.

The church is responsible for casting the bronze sol. However, the purchasing power of copper sols is almost equal to the value of copper, and the Sassan Empire once smelted copper sols into copper ingots, which were used to make agricultural tools and arrow clusters to make up for the lack of iron.

Casting copper sol is thankless, so let's give it to the church.

Instead, Victor minted a small amount of silver sol to test the creation rules of the Alchemy Tower. Unfortunately, the king did not buy the private coins, and only concluded that the four private silver coins were worth 1 copper sol.

There was no way, Victor could only cast these silver ingots into silverware and crafts, and then slowly make a move. He didn't come to see silver today.

"Busso, where's my Mithril, Adamantite, and Thorium?"

"My lord, here it is. ”

Busso dragged three chests of fine iron out of the corner, and when he opened them, Victor saw three rare metals.

Inside the chest on the far left are four purple-gold metal ingots, which are Adamantite.

Pure gold, along with copper, is the strongest and most corrosion-resistant metal known. Crafted from fine iron mixed with a small amount of adamantite gold, the Adamantite weapon is unrivaled in sharpness and heavy and durable, and will not be broken by other alloy weapons. Stainless gold armor is cast with stainless steel mixed with pure gold, which is indestructible, and non-adamantite weapons cannot be broken, and the result of the collision depends on the content of each other's adamantite gold. That's why Victor created the Adamantite Crossbow.

Adamantite gold is unrivalled in its robustness, but it is lighter than the same volume of iron. The four small pieces of adamantite in the chest weighed only 3.7 pounds, and their market price was 37,000 gold soles, while the king gave them a price of 35,913 gold soles.

Adamantite equipment is ridiculously expensive, and their importance to knights is undeniable, and many small families are unable to provide Adamantite equipment to their family knights, which leads to a brain drain.

Inside the middle box is a small silvery-white metal ingot, which is the size of a thumb and weighs only 75 grams. However, such a small ingot of metal can be exchanged for a 7.5-pound adamantite ingot. Because, it is the king of precious metals, the transcendent metal in the true sense of the word - Mithril.

Due to its elemental affinity, Mithril allows high-ranking knights to exert their full combat power. When the Silver Knight reaches his old age, most people will go through the trial of life and death, hoping to resonate with the 36 elemental positions between life and death, communicate with the elemental sea, and thus obtain the hope of advancing to the pinnacle. Although Mithril equipment may not allow the Great Knight to survive the trial of life and death, the Great Knight without Mithril equipment is 100% immune.

Mithril equipment is related to the hope of the Silver Knight to advance, so Mithril is a strategic material and has no price. Moreover, the production of Mithril is extremely scarce, Victor dug the Mithril mine for three years, smelted half a ton of silver, and the Mithril refined was only 135 grams. Of these, 50 grams of Mithril were exchanged for 5 pounds of Adamantite, leaving only 75 grams of Mithril.

No one will sell Mithril, and the value of these 75 grams of Mithril is difficult to measure in gold coins, but the Alchemy Tower has put a price on Mithril, and this 75 grams of Mithril is worth 210,000 gold soles!

Mithril was of little use to the Randall family, and Victor also had dual silver equipment, but he did not sacrifice these Mithril to the Alchemy Tower.

Not everyone in the high-ranking knights of the York family has Mithril equipment, and sooner or later, the Mithril Mine under Randall's Territory will be exposed. Leaving these Mithril behind, Victor can use them to appease the high knights of the House of York in the future. Victor didn't do this to curry favor with the Yorks, purely for Sylvia.

No matter how powerful Sylvia is, Victor treats her as his own woman, and he doesn't want Sylvia to be blamed by his subordinates because of Mithril's problems. Leaving room for one's own woman is Victor's style, and it has nothing to do with personal strength.

Victor can buy hearts and minds with Adamantite and Mithril in exchange for benefits, but he will never take out Thoryin!

In the alchemy empire's material system, Adamantite Gold and Mithril belong to the second class of materials, and Thor Silver is the third class of materials. But in Victor's eyes, the value of Thorium was immeasurable, far exceeding that of Adamantite and Mithril.

Serium can be fused with most materials and give them the properties of a memory metal. Tsersilver equipment can also be restored to its original state if it is deformed by external forces. For industrial civilization, Tseryin has gone against the sky.

In fact, the application prospect of Serium in another world is also quite extensive, enough to change an era.

Take, for example, making a yew longbow. The craftsman first chooses yew wood with excellent elasticity, supplemented by horn, beef tendon and fish gelatin, to make the bow body, and then dries a whole cow back tendon and puts it in a special solution to remove the fat, which is called tanning. The tanned beef tendon bowstring is enough to make a longbow.

What about the cost and performance of the yew longbow?

Yew grows slowly, has poor regeneration ability, and is a precious wood, while the cow tendon bowstring needs a whole cow, and if the cow tendon bowstring encounters water, it is basically wasted. There are also nobles who use spider silk bowstrings, and the cost is too high. Let's not talk about the range and power of the yew longbow. The worst thing is that even if the yew longbow is well maintained, it will not last for 10 years. In fact, ordinary armaments have a service life, and even a fine iron sword will rust, become brittle, and become unusable after a long time.

The Thur Silver Longbow is different.

Serium can be incorporated into most solid materials, displacing perishable parts that give them the properties of memory metal. This means that there is no need to choose yew wood for the bow of the Thur Silver Longbow, and any kind of hardwood can be turned into an extremely resilient material, such as the common hemlock. As for the bowstring, you don't need to pay attention to it, you can also use beef tendon, or hemp rope woven with sisal fibers, as long as it is incorporated into the silver, they will immediately become a metal bowstring with excellent performance.

The power and range of the Thorium longbow far exceeds that of the yew longbow, and no matter how you pull it, it will not break, and it can adapt to any environment. The most important thing is that the Thurium longbow will not corrode, rust and deform! According to the alchemy auxiliaries, ordinary Thurium equipment can be used for 30 years without maintenance!

As far as Victor knows, the Alchemy Empire uses Thorium for infrastructure, such as vehicles.

Whether the Alchemy Empire has bearings or not, Victor doesn't know, but he knows very well that no matter how the Thuryin carriage runs, its axles and wheels will not break easily.

In addition to the Thorsilver carriage, there are also Thursilver battleships. Just think of the Thorsilver ship running rampant on the Jinshui River, and Victor is extremely excited.

The third fine iron box contained two semi-liquid spherical metals, about the same size, one blue-white, the other a standard silver-white, and although they were close together, they were distinct and never compatible.

Victor pointed to the silvery-white ball of clay metal and asked, "Busso, what is this?"

Busso replied, "My lord, the silver is a type of silver. The blue-white is the second type of silver. 54 pounds of first-class theric silver, and 51 pounds of second-class theric silver. ”

"You can already refine a type of Thoryin?" Victor said in surprise, "It seems that the Fire Elemental Crystal is indeed the Red Crystal!"

"Yes. Busso said, "My lord, the fire elemental crystal you asked Jack to bring is indeed a red crystal. As soon as we got the red crystal, we immediately revamped the furnace. With the large furnace in place, we were able to refine 54 pounds of a type of silver from the slag of the old Thor. From now on, your Thur silver will be of the same kind. ”

The production capacity and quality of Thurium is not only limited by Thurium ore, but also by the furnace. In the beginning, Busso used charcoal as fuel to refine only three types of silver, and later used oilwood fuel, which could refine two types of silver. However, the Fire Elemental Crystal must be used to refine a type of Thorium, otherwise the temperature of the furnace will not be enough.

It takes 30 days to refine the third type of ther, and only 8 days to refine the second type of ther. Since the purity of Class 2 Thurium is much higher than that of Class 3, the consumption of Thurium to craft equipment is also 4% lower than that of Class 3. It only takes 3 days to refine a class of silver, and the consumption of silver is reduced by 6% compared to that of a third type of silver!

With the Flame Crystal, the production efficiency, quality, and quantity of Thorium have increased dramatically. But Victor's focus was not on Thoryin.

"You just said that you use slag to refine a type of silver?"

"Yes, sir. Busso nodded, "After the inner wall of the furnace is inlaid with fire element crystals, the fuel consumption is reduced by 2 percent, and the temperature is increased by 1.5 times. This large furnace is sufficient to extract the silver from the slag. ”

"So, Mithril slag can also be refined?"

"Yes. ”

After getting an affirmative answer, Victor couldn't help but stir up, "Those iron ores of mine can also be refined!?"

"Absolutely. ”

There is a vein of iron ore on the western side of Randall's collar, but it is of inferior quality, with very low iron content and little mining value. Otherwise, Sylvia would not have given this large territory to Victor, and they didn't have the friendship they have now.

The alchemy empire's smelting technology has given the iron ore its mining value, and Victor is no longer bothered by the lack of iron. And this advanced technology will bring more benefits: Victor can make a lot of money just by purchasing rough ore and refining all kinds of metals.

However, these were not the reasons for Victor's excitement, and he had a vague startling idea in his head, but he had not yet figured it out.

"Thoryin...... Fire Elemental Crystal ...... Large Furnace ......"

Victor restlessly circled around the room as he stopped and muttered, "No......! Energy...... Energy?!Materials!Energy!"

"I see!" Victor clapped his face, "It's a steam engine!"

Victor turned his head abruptly and asked in a trembling voice at Busso, "Busso!

"My lord, I don't have any information about the steam engine here. ”

A steam engine is a machine that boils water with fuel, boils it, uses the water vapor to push the pistons, and then drives the ship. Thorium solves the problem of materials, and Flame Crystals solves the problem of fuel...... With or without explosives, there is steam when the water is boiled anyway...... You get the idea, will you do it?"

Victor described incoherently for a long time, and then looked at Busso with a blank eye.

In Victor's expectant eyes, Busso shook his head firmly and slowly, "I don't understand. I'm not going to do it. ”

"You're going to build Thorsilver warships! Don't tell me that the ships of the Alchemy Empire are propelled by oars or sails, right?" exclaimed Victor.

"My lord, we are only responsible for making the hull, and the power part of the battleship is done by the alchemist. In addition, the battleship did have masts and sails. ”

"Alchemy Technology ......"

Victor shook his head depressedly, he only knew how a steam engine worked, but he didn't know how to make a steam engine at all.

Difference in profession makes one feel worlds apart. If anyone could replicate a steam engine with just a little superficial physics knowledge, Victor would have whipped him with a big-eared scraper. Victor was able to make white sugar because of his experience in making sugar locally. Still, the production of white sugar has not been without its challenges.

The development of the tech tree must follow the laws of the world, and it must be accumulated over a long period of time. Alchemists master alchemy technology, and the steam engine may be just an inefficient machine for them, or perhaps the steam engine simply cannot adapt to the laws of this world.

Victor has no way to restore the alchemy civilization system through the knowledge of Scaly Claw, let alone move the technology tree on Earth to this world. However, the successful use of the fire element crystal still gave him new ideas.

"Busso, other elemental crystals...... Well, let me put it another way! Blue Wind Element Crystals, Green Water Element Crystals, Yellow Earth Element Crystals, what are these crystals used for?"

Busso could understand what Victor meant, and he said, "My lord, all kinds of energy crystals are second-class collections, and I don't know the purpose of other crystals except for red crystals. ”

"Hey, I'm guessing the water elemental and wind elemental crystals are the power of the Thor Silver battleship. Directly manipulating the flow of water and air is the alchemist's means. Victor shook his head and sighed again, "Since this is an energy crystal, the energy of the red crystal will always be exhausted. How long will these flame crystals last?

"My lord, the quality of these red crystals is not pure, and they can only be regarded as three types of red crystals. Large furnaces need to be set with four of these red crystals, which are replaced every 50 days. You sent 17 red crystals, which can only be used for 200 days. ”

"I see. Victor nodded, and then asked, "Are there any other surprises for me?"

"My lord, the swift bird population has expanded to 118 individuals. Now, you can draw 30 adult Swift Birds to form your Swift Bird Light Cavalry. ”

Victor was immediately interested, and despite the fact that it was getting late, he pulled Busso and walked out.

"Take me there. ”