Chapter 17: The Crisis of the Amethyst Cave

"This afternoon, I did another experiment with the Flame Explosion Technique, and the Flame Explosion Technique was finally performed by me again, but because I didn't take into account the problem of how to quickly send it after the Flame Explosion Technique was successful, I shattered a magic test bench and a newly repaired window, and now it is very difficult to write, so I have to tie a quill pen to my hand. www.biquge.info I'm glad that I finally understand the basic principles of the Flame Blast, and it's not that the Flame Burst made up by those Divine Sticks is a gift from the Fire God to the fanatics......"

“...... There are different particles in the air, they are tiny, and they have no color, but they do, and those particles are bursting, some are mild, and they seem to repel each other and depend on each other. I used the metal staff and the fluff of the Pyrramon to create a small electrostatic field, those raging particles seemed to like this force field, they ran to the force field, more and more, and then I increased the energy of the force field, and then a small spark seemed to touch the nerves of those raging particles, so that they all burst all of a sudden, the explosion power of countless particles at the same time is quite amazing, if I didn't react quickly, that dazzling fire would have blown away my right hand, it seems that I need to immediately research a way to quickly launch the explosive force field, maybe it's a good idea to find a wind archmage to carve a wind circle on the staff......"

“...... That bastard's heart is really dark! Drawing a magic circle will cost me 500 gold coins, and I can't get that much after two years of hard work in the academy, and it seems that I will have to borrow money from the academy again. This wind circle confirmed that my thinking direction was still correct, but the wind speed generated by the circle was still too low, and the direction was relatively divergent, and it was impossible to accurately send the energy force field to the specified direction. Tomorrow I still have to study it with those megalomaniacs in the Alchemy Academy....."

“...... Those guys are really arrogant maniacs who have no one in their eyes, and they actually say that my ideas are whimsical, and I don't need to give advice, and I don't need to say that other people's different opinions are useless, how can such a person be a teacher in the academy, those students have been taught by such a rotten and dull pedant to be stupid and obsessive, and dare not challenge the experience and conclusions of my predecessors, how can knowledge be sublimated, and how can the world progress. Hey....."

"Today Carolins from the Ministry of Labor's Department of Industry came here, and I told him about my confusion. This guy heard that I had managed to unleash half of the Flame Burst without chanting a spell, and his interest was higher than mine. He came up with a very creative idea to see if there was a mechanical solution to the problem. He asked if it was possible to design a container that would collect all the particles that burst together, and then use a controlled mechanism to generate a spark inside the container after a period of time, and use that spark to detonate the particles, so that it would be possible to complete the fire explosion. I think it's a very good idea, and of course, the first thing to do is to solve the problem of how to extract the raging particles and put them in a closed container, which is really not a big problem......"

"Oh my God! They're going to make grenades! Scientists aren't normal. Liang Ke followed this clue and slowly sifted through the messy notes to find useful information, and finally found an idea that transcended the times, which stunned Liang Ke.

"What kind of egg, am I amazing?" Egg learned from Liang Ke's memory, it seems that this kind of egg is really powerful.

"Don't interrupt, if you really let them make a grenade or something, then I'm afraid our brothers won't be able to mix up in the future. Then look down. ”

Liang Ke quickly flipped the pages of the book back, carefully reading the details related to the study of this flame blasting technique, and it was not until the content of the notes was almost over that Liang Ke saw the results he wanted to see.

“...... The experiment failed again, and we still haven't found a way to collect those particles, those space magicians can seal particles into another dimension, but there is no point in using one magic to perform another magic, it's like taking off your pants before farting. I'm a little old, and I don't have much time left, so it seems that I have to put a stop to this time-consuming experiment so that the rest of the unfinished business can be completed as soon as possible, and the age of magic will continue, and the mages with pointed hats can continue to laugh......"

Call...... Liang Ke let out a sigh of relief. Separating the gas and storing it in a pressure vessel is not a very simple matter in the technologically advanced earth, and it is even more difficult to achieve here.

"In fact, they have walked into a misunderstanding, if they can find a solid or liquid to replace the gas, then this problem is much easier to solve, and the effect is the same. Liang Ke exchanged ideas with the egg.

"I said big brother, you look at the problem from another level, of course you think it's easy, but the peak of the power they know is magic, and Jonah dares to challenge it, and his thinking will of course be imprisoned in the field of magic. If that old guy had taken the chemistry class you had in a few days, I'm afraid he would have won your Nobel Prize. ”

"You look at my memories again, you say, what have you watched?" Liang Ke pinched the egg viciously.

"I've seen everything I need to see. ”

"What shouldn't you see?"

"You put together what you shouldn't see with what you should see. ”

"I'm going to eat an omelette tonight"

"You won't get better even if I'm cooked......"

Just as Liang Ke and Dan were having a good time, Tucker hurriedly ran up the stone steps.

"Master Aragorn, father and high priest please go to the smelter at once, they seem to be in trouble in the newly excavated mines, and many of our dwarven warriors have been wounded. ”

"Oh, let's go right away. Liang Ke rode up Sanduo, stretched out his hand and pulled Tucker up, swept down the stone steps like the wind, and went straight to the smelter.

The last time he fell from the crack in the ice was the smelter, but at that time, Liang Ke only had time to look at the injury of his teeth before fainting.

This smelter covers an area of one acre square, and the location chosen is excellent, just on the confluence point of many ore veins, and the geological situation of Naronto is really unique, it actually contains a variety of different mineral deposits such as coal, iron, gold, tin, etc., and I don't know how the ancestors of the dwarves found such a treasure of feng shui. The caves are high on the belly of the mountain, the mouth of the mine is open and flat, slightly sloping downward, and the trestle extending from the hole is fixed with steel rails, on which the cast iron ore wagons continuously transport cinders and ores, and then automatically dump the materials into the blast furnace under the trestle.

There are more than a dozen blast furnaces scattered in the huge space, the shortest blast furnace is also ten meters away, the four strong armored rhinoceros next to the blast furnace pull the huge winch, drive the bellows to produce continuous strong winds, blowing the coke in the blast furnace to burn, emitting a scorching high temperature, so that the ore quickly melts into molten iron, the molten iron slowly flows from the blanking chute below the blast furnace into the heavy teapot, and then carried by two strong dwarves into the sand mold next to it, after natural cooling, those iron flows into a piece of pig iron ingots. The process is then repeated by another blast furnace, and the iron ingots are turned into steel.

Behind the blast furnace is a forge factory, where hundreds of dwarven craftsmen wield hammers around the small furnaces, hammering, quenching, and grinding the steel ingots into tools, equipment, and weapons. Liang Ke was surprised to find that the dwarves' operating tables were all different, convex or concave, inlaid with molds of different lengths and sizes, and each dwarf would turn around and throw it to the next person after beating it a few times according to a certain rule, and so on until it was formed. It's hard to believe that these dwarves have mastered the ropes of assembly line production and started using standard molds to improve efficiency and quality.

Liang Ke and the others bypassed the smelter and came to a newly dug mine. In order to facilitate the future unloading, the mine was also opened at a high position, and a temporary trail was built with muck under the mine to facilitate the miners to transport the residual soil and gravel up and down. The trail was full of dwarves, some whispering in groups of three or five, and some gathered around their injured companions to check on the condition of the injured, and the air was filled with a tense and dignified atmosphere.

"Brother Aragorn is here!" Barton saw Liang Ke from a distance, and separated the group to meet him from the path.

"Patriarch Patton, what's going on?" Liang Ke saw that there were about a dozen injured dwarves lying on both sides of the trail, the injured were blue-faced, their brows were tightly locked, they were holding their heads and moaning, they looked very painful, and some of them were talking nonsense, but strangely, they didn't seem to have suffered any skin injuries.

"Here's the thing, as you know, the other day we discovered a new vein of amethyst, which is the cave in front of us. Amethyst is a very good magic material, and if you put it on your staff, it will have a great effect on the increase in magic effects, which is undoubtedly a great asset for us. So, the high priest and I and the craftsmen went day and night along the veins to dig deeper. The excavation of the mine is progressing smoothly, and we have obtained dozens of high-purity amethyst ore in a few days, and if we cut it, it is estimated that we can obtain thousands of high-quality amethysts. As the excavation work deepened, we found that the further down we excavated, the higher the purity of the amethyst, and the larger the volume of the raw ore. The High Priest deduced from experience that in the depths of the mine, there should be the legendary amethyst marrow, which is the mother body that gave birth to the amethyst ore......" Patriarch Patton introduced the situation to Liang Ke as he walked, and in a blink of an eye he had come to the front of the mine, and the High Priest of Naronto hurriedly greeted Liang Ke and took over the conversation.

"Today, we still excavated in an orderly manner according to the plan, and when it was close to evening, the craftsmen used a pickaxe to remove a piece of high-purity raw ore again, but found that there was an empty space behind it, and when we widened the gap, a huge amethyst cave appeared in front of us, it was really an amethyst cave composed of a whole raw ore, the surrounding cave walls were completely covered with high-purity amethyst, and the center of the cave was a hill made of countless huge spiky amethyst. This was completely beyond our original guess, and the excited children cheered and rushed towards the amethyst mountain, and it was at this time that something terrible suddenly happened. The miners who rushed into the cave fell one after another, then rolled and howled in pain, and the others rushed to the rescue, only to fall to the ground like the wounded people as soon as they stepped into the cave. Seeing that the situation was not good, I immediately stopped the rescue operation in the cave and had people pull the injured out of the cave with hooks and locks. As you may have seen, these injured people did not have obvious skin injuries, but they appeared to be in great pain and moved erratically. I used Chuck's Light, oh! that is, the same method I gave you to heal, I treated them, but it didn't seem to work, you know, no matter how badly injured before, how serious the poison, Chuck's Light would have a healing effect, which made me both puzzled and worried, so I asked the Aragorn brothers to come and see if you had a cure, and asked the brother to help. After speaking, the old man looked at Liang Ke earnestly.

"The high priest is polite, Aragorn should do his best, and I will see everyone's injuries first. After speaking, Liang Ke squatted down and communicated with the egg while looking at the injured.

"What do you think, great Lord Achilles?"

"At this time, I remembered Lord Achilles?

"Don't talk nonsense, human life is at stake, hurry up. ”

"These guys are poisoned. The egg concluded with great certainty.

"Poison, didn't Narondo say that his light should have an effect on poison?"

"His Chuck Light is actually a very advanced life magic, which has an effect on almost all injuries and poisons, but the old man has not learned everything, so every time he casts it, he needs to burn some of his own life essence as a catalyst for the magic to be effective. The only injury that his magic can't handle is the poison of these unlucky people now, and one of them is an undead spirit toxin, you can also think of it as a kind of necromancy, this toxin should not be in this world, but it is a common thing for those necromancers in hell to use it. ”

"Is this toxin serious?"

"It depends on what you think, on the surface, this toxin will not be removed, it will always exist in the depths of the soul of the poisoned, they will always hold their heads and cry, and after a long time, I am afraid that they will die of physical exhaustion, of course, it will take a long time. But in essence, they are all fine at all, because this toxin is just a reflection of the most terrible thing that the poison giver has ever experienced, so when this toxin is regarded as magic, it is a great fear technique. Actually, now these guys are scared like watching a horror movie, but on the surface, the experience of the poisoner should be terrifying. ”

"Lord Achilles, time is pressing, let's not be superficial and essential, you are from hell, and you are an omnipotent expert in dark magic, can you help them remove the toxin?" Liang Ke looked at those painful dwarves a little anxiously.

"No! As I said just now, they are poisoned, not really hit the Great Fear Technique, if they are hit by the Fear Technique, I will dispel it. This kind of poison is very relevant to the person who applied the poison, and the person who is poisoned sees the experience of the person who applied the poison. If we want to unlock the bell, we need to tie the bell, and we must find the poisoner. ”

"You mean someone in that cave poisoned them?"

"It's a very idiotic question. ”

“...... Eat an omelette tomorrow morning. ”

"You won't feel much ...... either"

Liang Ke was defeated again in this confrontation, and he pinched the egg in his hand fiercely, venting his frustration and unwillingness.

"Patriarch Barton, High Priest, they seem to have been infected with an undead toxin, which can only be removed by the poisoner, and no one else can help, so I have to go into the mine to get the poisoner out, and I have to trouble the two of you to show me the way. Liang Ke got up and said.

"What?Necromancer?Since the Great War of the Demon Gods, there has been no such thing as a necromancer on the continent for thousands of years, how can an undead virus appear in our Holy City?" the High Priest exchanged a look with Patriarch Barton in shock.

"I can't explain this, but it's really a kind of necromancy toxin, time is pressing, let's go now!" Liang Ke asked Sanduo to stay outside, and turned around and walked towards the mine, Patriarch Barton and the high priest gathered a few warriors from the clan to quickly follow and lead the way for Liang Ke.