On February 1st, in the lord's room of the Iron Mine Castle, Rand sat in front of a large map, listening to a report by Doryaf the Innocent about the construction of the reservoir.

"Your Majesty, according to your request, all the construction teams have completed the first phase of construction, which is the southwestern part of the reservoir," Dolyav reported, taking out a large stack of forms, which recorded the situation of each construction team, including the quality of construction, the redemption of points, the learning ability of the team leader, and the overall situation of the team.

Rand flipped through the form and asked, "Who do you think is the best among them?" ”

Doryaf replied, "I think the latest good captains are Empers Gallop and Umoni, not only are their works of the highest quality, but their men are able to keep the construction of the engineering team on schedule even after they go to Dragon's Tooth City to recruit students. ”

"In the Galloping Academy, they are the better ones, but not as dazzling as the Uffy, Britt, and Dandilian," Rand was not surprised by the students in the academy and asked instead, "but what I want to know is, overall, which team is better?" ”

Doryaf replied: "In terms of team management ability, the demon supporters of the minor nobles and commoner families are better, they can generally quickly mobilize the motivation of all the demonsless, but in terms of construction quality, the team from the imperial capital is better and faster. ”

"Oh? Why? Aren't they having a hard time mobilizing the Demonsless? "Rand came interested.

"But they are more familiar with magic, and they are more daring to punish the non-demon," Dolyaf said, "they can see that their own team is slower than the surrounding teams, they can unleash punishment type magic to terrify the non-demon, and in the last few days, they can also give the non-demon some sweetness and motivate them, so the quality of the construction of these families is higher." ”

"I see," Rant nodded.

"If you want me to say, you should learn from them," Gu Leia said with a smile, "You see that group of middle-level knights in the imperial capital are not very capable, they are all majestic in front of the people, they are more powerful than you, and the rewards and punishments are clear, if Dandilian falls into their hands, he will be sold as a slave long ago." ”

"yes, I'm really sorry for myself in this regard!" Rand said with a wry smile.

In the entire territory, even from Hindukr to Dragon's Tooth City, Rand is known for his good temper, and his knights, agents, and even monsters often take the initiative, including those like Jenny, Detapara, and Tierney.

There are also Dandy Lianne and Gatsby who are almost out of control, and more people like Petemane Wolf who are crazy about making money if no one cares about it, and someone who cares about it is loyal to the king and loves the people.

However, Rand encouraged and rewarded his subordinates more, and punished him almost none, even if Dandilian really damaged many students of the Galloping Horse Academy, Rand was only temporarily exiled to the north.

Don't talk about Gu Leia and others, even Dandilian herself has also reminded Rand that he can treat himself as a model and deter others.

"I didn't deal with Dandilian before because Queen Padmila left a list for me to do my best to keep the bloodline of the Red Dragon Family." Rand explained a little,

"To tell the truth, I think these rewards and punishments are more suitable for the prime minister to put forward the list, and I am the king to approve it. If it were up to me to distinguish and evaluate them one by one, this king would be too bad. ”

Seeing Gureya covering her mouth and smiling, Rand couldn't say that she was suffering, the situation from the afternoon to the evening of December 11 was too complicated and involved too many people.

On that day, the students led by Dandilian only obtained the knightly qualification and did not join any knights, so their actions in the Night Qicheng City lacked constraints.

In the afternoon, Gruena led them through the portal, and Li Qi Red Dragon also sent a letter of conscription, recognizing their identity as knights of Dragon's Tooth City.

In this way, the actions of the young people on that day can be regarded as complete procedures, and Rand really can't find a suitable reason to punish them in the future.

However, they were faced with an extremely high-risk war operation, and if it hadn't been for Greya's timely rescue, the entire army would have been wiped out long ago.

After carefully reviewing the situation of the day, Rand believes that he still has too few subordinates to form an effective bureaucratic system, whether it is the Running Horse Academy, the various portals of Night Qicheng City, or the personnel management of the territory, there are too many loopholes to drill, and everyone is busy with things within their responsibilities on weekdays, and few people can see the loopholes, but when it comes to the emergency situation on the night of the 11th, the disadvantages will be concentrated.

Seeing all kinds of problems in the territory, Lante made up his mind to introduce teenagers from all over the country on a large scale, and at the same time open up multiple upward channels to select talents as soon as possible.

Only when there are enough people can the territorial system he designed be powerful, and he can be freed from the busy personnel work.

With this in mind, the iron ore reservoir is of even greater significance to Rand: to build a new core city, test a magic furnace that can run in water, raise their own mermaid tribes, build a magic algae and underwater monster breeding industry, and create a talent selection channel. With so many purposes coming together, it is no less important to Rand than any other city.

Knowing the progress of the construction of the reservoir, Rand took Grea to the cave by the lake where the fire ammonites were stored.

In recent days, the elf Elsa and Sophia have completely leveled and transformed the entire cave, and after several tests, they have found that the fire streak ammonite can only maximize the efficiency of magic transformation if it is fully immersed underwater.

As a result, the cave containing ammonites was transformed into two levels, the lower floor being an underwater magic furnace room completely submerged in the lake, and the upper layer being a completely dry ground magic furnace room.

The layout of the ground floor room is much the same as that of the other magic furnace rooms, with a thick metal pillar standing up from the floor to the roof.

However, unlike other magic furnaces placed on the ground, the horizontal height of this magic furnace called "ground" magic furnace is actually 10 meters underground, and its tank responsible for storing magic elements is also embedded in the rock formation above the roof, because the main function of this magic furnace is to supply magic to the magic patterns and magic circles at the bottom of the lake, rather than to provide magic to the air above.

The location of the metal pillar is directly opposite the place where the fire crest ammonite is placed in the underwater magic furnace chamber.

Compared with the ground magic furnace room, the underwater magic furnace room has a larger space, and the 50-meter-diameter and 30-meter-high room is like a large circular swimming pool, or like a super large fish tank in an aquarium: there is a 4-meter-high, 10-meter-long super large window in the southeast of the room, and on the other side of the window is the observation room, and Rand and others can see the situation of the underwater magic furnace room in the observation room.

Although the space between the underwater magic furnaces is huge, the huge fire pattern ammonite snail shell has occupied a small half, and the surface of the shell exudes a dark red light underwater, flickering and dimming, like breathing, and the blue light on the surrounding rock walls also flickering, echoing the red light.