The alloy produced by the volcanic salamander was tentatively named "Black Ridge Gold", and the three metal elements that make up the alloy were later obtained by subtracting runes.

In the research, it was found that both the alloy itself and the three metal elements discovered subsequently had excellent properties, but they also had certain disadvantages and were not universal materials that could be used once and for all.

Moreover, for a force of the national level (although the population is only more than 60,000), it is indeed a bit too thin to master the laboratory preparation method of only three metal elements and one alloy.

Therefore, the search for new metals, the research of new alloys, and the exploration of large-scale smelting methods have never stopped.

The volcanic salamander is also like a treasure, bringing new value in this regard.

One of the most obvious is the discovery of a class of metalloids, and the corresponding veins have been explored and determined in the following days.

At this point, how to extract these new metals from their natural compounds more quickly and on a larger scale has become a proposition that some witch doctors are pondering.

Although the properties and application prospects of most of these metals are unknown, there is only a way to further study them when they are in their hands, right?

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Broadly speaking, these metallic elements can be divided into two categories according to their "extraction" support;

Some of the metals already have the corresponding "extraction" method, and the witch doctors can easily obtain the corresponding elements from the raw ore with the help of spells.

However, the number of witch doctors is limited, and there is a more important role in high-end scientific research than mining, so it is impossible for them to do such an uneconomical thing.

On the other hand, some metals that do not correspond to the "extraction" method have to study their conventional smelting methods or master the basic laboratory preparation methods.

For the former, i.e., the metal with the corresponding means of "extraction"....

In terms of large-scale production, the witch doctors once again turned their minds to the volcanic salamander, deciding to try to sketch out a biosmelting method based on their own peculiarities.

The technical assumptions in this regard are roughly as follows: using the ability of the volcanic salamander itself, replacing its natural spells with totems, changing the specific category of metal it refines, making it only work on a specific metal element, and further improving efficiency and yield;

And for different metals, there can also be different salamanders to deal with, making it a professional alchemy beast.

Of course, ideas are ideas, reality is reality, and witch doctors have to work hard to achieve this idea.

There are several main problems that are being faced now ....

First, the use of totem technology;

The existing totem inscription technology in the Republic, in addition to the body of a troll, has only achieved 100% application of the wind wolf species;

In addition, the application of inscriptions on the black blade-toothed beast has also made a great breakthrough based on a large number of dissections and cultivation.

And if you want "humans" to artificially manipulate the types of metals that salamanders can refine, then the totem must also be able to be engraved on them.

In order to do this, it is necessary to go through the same process as the Wind Wolf and the Black Bladetooth, and a large number of dissecting samples are required to support it.

second, accurate positioning of organs;

When a volcanic salamander uses a spell-like spell, not all tissues in the body are acting (not counting energy contributions), at least the claws, tails, and even a large number of organs and muscles are not involved in the operation of the spell-like process.

Therefore, the witch doctors do not intend to spend energy on taming the whole salamander one by one, if they can accurately cultivate the most needed part of the tissue and use it as a living metallurgical biological machine, then it should be much more efficient in terms of energy utilization and manufacturing efficiency.

And this, it is necessary to accurately locate the organs involved in the process of spell-like magic, and find out how they operate, and then transform them accordingly according to the needs of the totem operation.

Whether it is totem inscription or organ positioning and transformation, the realization of the two before and after requires a large number of dissection experiments as the support to achieve it.

In other words, the headquarters needs to obtain more live samples of volcanic salamanders....

There are also two different routes to obtain it;

First, assign the mother tree culture cabin for live cultivation;

This is extremely important for both the early sample culture and the later modification of the corresponding organs, so Nesta has set up dozens of culture chambers to support this research.

Second, continue to trap more volcanic salamanders;

Although the process can be a bit cumbersome, it is clear that direct sample capture will be more efficient when stacking quantities in the early stages than the relatively long production cycle of the culture chamber;

Therefore, how to catch volcanic salamanders faster and more efficiently has also become one of the current research projects.

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On the other hand, the other part of the metals, which do not correspond to the means of "extraction", are also closely related to the salamander.....

In their study of the salamanders, the witch doctors found that their food seemed to be some or several non-metallic elements in the magma, but that the metallic substances that the Republic was trying to obtain were mostly unusable or only a little bit of residue for them.

When using sorcery-like spells, "residue" refers to magma-like material expelled from their parotid glands;

When not using quasi-spells, "residues" refer to everyday metabolic waste, such as magma-type feces, etc....

After analyzing these "residues", the witch doctors identified many of the remaining metal compounds except for the "Three Brothers of the Black Ridge Gold", which led to the hypothesis of "unusable residues".

The parts of the magma that can be exploited, that is, those that are digested, appear to be the rest of the natural compounds of metals except for the metallic elements.

Upon further confirmation of the composition of their "feces", the witch doctors discovered that the missing elements, which were "eaten" by the volcanic salamanders, were quite varied;

Several of these have been identified:

First, it is an important component of the "life gas" that is widely present in the atmosphere;

Second, it is an important element that exists in terracotta.

This discovery made the witch doctors a clearer understanding of the "life gas", and realized that this gas should be an important reason why some metal elements cannot exist in nature as elemental elements;

And from this, I thought:

The process of extracting metal elements may be, at least part of the work, to remove the components of this "life gas element" from the compound.

With this understanding, they had a clearer understanding of the operation of the "extraction" part of the rune group, thus accelerating their understanding of the "metallurgy of non-magic participation";

Then, from it, the corresponding manifestation of "Metallurgy of Spell Participation" in the rune group was derived.

As these two promote each other, the number of metal elements that can be obtained through "extraction" is increasing, including the two conventional metals previously provided by shoes.

First, a metallic, white or silvery-white substance;

The metal has good ductility and thermal conductivity, a higher unit density than steel and wood, and has excellent acoustic conductivity.

But it's too soft and it's only so useful in its elemental state, at least for now.

Second, it is a soft metal with purple-red element, good ductility and high thermal conductivity.

When comparing the two metals with samples provided by hornhoes, the witch doctors found that their properties were quite different;

Therefore, they believe that the smelting process of horn hoof should involve the rest of the elements in the metal element, and the finished product obtained is also an alloy.

In addition to these two, several other metal elements with different properties are also obtained in this process, and more surprises are obtained in their respective residues, such as toxic gases, certain atmospheric compositions, some strong corrosive liquids, etc.;

In this way, the processes of various reactions and the types of compounds are classified and summarized, which makes new disciplines such as chemistry further developed.

Moreover, although these metal elements still exist in the form of chemical compounds in the excrement of volcanic salamanders, their properties are extremely unstable;

Normally, they will slowly revert back to their stable state before being consumed by salamanders in the hot conditions characteristic of magma, and will be eaten again by excretions, or other members of their kind.....

In addition, when not using talent spells, there are still three Black Ridge Gold brothers in the salamander's excrement;

But when they were used, the three metals were absent from the excreta.

In other words, these three types of metals were originally part of the "waste residue" for them, but over the years, salamanders have been able to use them as a means of attack.

If you use a disgusting way to explain it, then the attack method of the volcanic salamander is almost equivalent to using feces as a weapon.

Although this makes the witch doctors feel uncomfortable, they still have to be used....

It's just that in the period that followed, most of the witch doctors' attitudes towards these unlucky test subjects became a little more open.

Having said that, this excrement, which is rich in metal compounds and has a rather unstable state of existence, greatly reduces the workload of the witch doctors, because the extraction of the metal element is much less difficult than that of the rest of the prevalent compound forms of the element.

As a result, more manure is needed, and more salamanders are needed to have manure.

The problem is that there are only seven test subjects, and three have died unexpectedly in previous experiments;

Especially the one that was dissected to take the magic crystal, it was already doomed before the operation began.

To avoid this, you need to have more anatomical experience; In order to increase the accumulation of anatomical experience, more test subjects must exist.

So, the question again came back to the cultivation and capture of salamanders.....

At this time, the cultivation of the culture chamber has been launched, and the trapping program carried out simultaneously with it has also entered the planning stage.

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Through the analysis of the volcanic salamanders, the witch doctors now understood what they were doing when they left their lair deep in the underground magma and went to the crater lava pool.

Through the analysis of the body structure of the salamanders of seven meters, twenty meters, and forty meters, the witch doctors found that the baby salamanders have a limited ability to withstand pressure, and need to be born in shallow magma when they are young, and grow to a certain size before they can go to the depths of the earth.

With such a judgment, and then to conduct a targeted infrasound investigation of the volcanic group, many points that puzzled the witch doctors before will be solved one after another;

The base of the volcanic group seems to be a fertility space, and the dozen or so craters above are like kindergarten-like places, and only when the young salamanders grow up will they dive down deeper to live;

In addition, among the few big ones that were captured, the one at twenty meters should be an individual that is about to mature, and the three at forty meters may be parents or guardians?

But it had nothing to do with the witch doctors, they just wanted to use this to find a quicker way to trap them.

Of course, the focus of "trapping" is on "trapping", and in order to achieve this purpose, the witch doctors first thought of food....

"Why not develop a food that is most valuable for them and can be absorbed most efficiently, just like sugar water is for ordinary land animals?" That's what they thought.

It's in this line of thinking that several categories are feeding

"Food" with high digestion efficiency and low metabolic impurities was found during the food experiment.

Although these substances are comparable and highly poisonous to ordinary creatures, they seem to be excellent nutrients for volcanic salamanders.

But this alone is not enough, the volcanic salamander lacks smell and vision, on the contrary, the body surface is the most sensitive to touch and hearing, which is also reflected when eating....

They usually use their sense of hearing to determine the general direction of nutrient-rich magma;

Later, while swimming, he senses the viscosity of the target magma and other factors through his sense of touch, and obtains a judgment on whether it is worth eating or not.

However, these compounds or elements produced by the witch doctors at this moment have not left an imprint on the "smell" and "touch" knowledge accumulated by the volcanic salamanders over the ages, so they lack a realistic attraction to them.

And that's not all......

These types of substances are not in a stable state of existence, and when they are thrown into hot magma, they can easily react with certain components and transform into other substances that are ubiquitous in magma.

Seeing that this method seemed to be ineffective, the witch doctors, who were disappointed that they had built the magma lake around the "human", found that the salamander, which had not moved to the "bait" before, actually moved;

It now swam to the area where the witch doctors had dumped the bait, and gulped down the lava.

So, after all, something was different, right?

After further exploration, the witch doctors found that it was not the bait that worked;

Rather, the decoy reacts with the magma, and the transformed material changes some of the physical properties of the magma in that area;

And this characteristic is exactly what salamanders experience as "nutritious".

In this way, this plan was officially established as one of the options to be selected, which may be another village.....

After many tests, the components needed in the plan were selected as the most cost-effective ones based on the attractiveness of the reaction products to the salamanders, and entered the stage of large-scale production.

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In addition, as a possible "distant relative" of the troll, the salamander's desire to mate should not be underestimated;

Even in their prisoner state, the witch doctors observed the creature's frequent mating and decided to use it as bait.

Due to the limitations of their own conditions, the courtship behavior of salamanders is based on touch and hearing, among which hearing is the most important.

In this process, the witch doctors purposefully screened and found two special signals that appeared very frequently from the vocal signals before mating;

After that, they were simulated through magic, and they successfully attracted the attention of male and female salamanders.

At this point, the "***" plan also has an eyebrow, and all that is missing is how to send this signal efficiently.... It's not like sending dozens of witch doctors to lure him in, that's a bit of a loss.

But this is also difficult for the witch doctors, two plant-based witch doctors, by giving the plant roots a specific vibration frequency, without their own participation, to simulate this kind of sound signal for a long time;

As long as a specific part of the root system is inserted into the magma, the signal will be able to attract the corresponding target.

After the success of the two methods of "food temptation" and "mating temptation", the trapping of volcanic salamanders is equivalent to everything being prepared and only owing the east wind;

Now, as long as you solve the problem of targeted and efficient capture, you can start to act.

Witch doctors also have a lot of ideas for how to capture them.....

For example, planting a ring of refractory plants around a crater will spur the growth of its roots into the magma, and accelerate its solidification after luring enough salamanders;

After that, the harvest is ensured by simply extracting the magma inside, or lifting the solidified net-like root system like fishing.

However, some witch doctors believe that this is a fishing for the sake of fishing, once such an act is carried out

After a few times, maybe the salamanders won't be deceived again.

Therefore, it is better to use good steel on the blade, and try to trap the two higher species in this way.

After catching the higher species, even if the rest of the salamanders will become more difficult to catch, it will only be a little troublesome for the Republic.

But at the same time, capturing the higher races has an irreplaceable role for the troll race;

And this was the original intention of this exploration of the volcano, why is it now turned upside down because of various secondary discoveries?

This statement is a wake-up call for witch doctors who have already studied the brain, reminding them that "population" is the foundation of everything.

As a result, the direction of progress immediately changed, and the capture plan for higher species was once again put on the agenda.

However, it would be nice to leave the preliminary work to the four advanced witch doctors;

Their unique ultra-long-range signal capture capabilities are far more efficient than ordinary witch doctors in related projects.

Therefore, Nesta and the other four entered the ashram again and began to analyze the various information of the two awakened higher species.

On the other hand, the preliminary preparations for the trapping of ordinary salamanders are also being carried out simultaneously, but their launch time may be slightly delayed for a while.

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The existing salamander samples have played a considerable role in the analysis of higher species by four advanced scholars such as Nesta;

Of course, this was originally the purpose of the previous arrest....

After returning to the theme, through the comparative analysis of the various acoustic signals emitted by the large and small salamanders, the four witch doctors have a more powerful ability to identify and analyze the various signals coming from the depths of the earth.

They successively determined the distribution and approximate number of their populations, and judged the differences in size and strength of the individuals.

However, this is only incidental work, and the main result is to confirm the status, orientation, and body shape of the two higher species through comparison with ordinary species, and analyze the frequency of their eating, mating and other actions and corresponding sound signal fluctuations.

In this study, the two higher species became more and more clear in their "ears.....

Among the higher species of salamanders, one is in near-intact condition, and the other is not lightly injured, and both are about 130 meters in size, and live in deep magma far from the surface, more than 500 kilometers from the surface.

The wounded salamander reminded Nesta of her old friend Cave Wolf, and combined with the latter's state, she speculated that they might have fought each other back then, and it was likely that the Cave Wolf was a dozen or two, because the other higher salamander was only "in near-perfect condition".

This is undoubtedly a good thing, at least there may be less pressure to capture the operation.

In addition, based on the comparison between the wind wolf and the ordinary salamander, the witch doctors had already come to the conclusion that the wolves should be much more intelligent than the salamanders, and I hope this will be reflected in the higher salamanders as well.

That being said, more specific action plan planning is in a certain dilemma;

Because the two higher volcanic salamanders do not show a strong desire to mate and eat, those solutions for common species may not be directly applicable to them.

So what to do....

In pondering this question, Nesta recalled the peculiar pressure coming from the depths of the volcanic massacre;

And the same sense of oppression was also shown in the cave wolf back then.

In addition, the sense of separation between two higher species of the same race, which was even more than their distance from the surface, made him have a guess.

Could it be that this higher creature has extremely strong territorial characteristics? This may be a key part of the "trapping.....

In this way, the use of cave wolves in the operation should also be a top priority.

Nesta informed the four witch doctors of this idea, and they supported it

Everyone felt that there was nothing wrong with giving it a try.

As for the method of trying, it is also quite simple and crude.....