Barbarian savages?

Ronan was a little surprised when he learned from the white-haired old village chief that there were still a large number of humans living in the depths of the permafrost.

In fact, Ronan cares more about the ancient legends of the frozen ground in the mouths of the old people than these barbarians.

The faith of the empire was completely controlled by the church, and religious belief has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people under the inertia of time for three hundred years, and for ordinary people, the existence of religion is like food and air, a part of everyone's life.

And the appearance of the vampire, the Eye of the Moonstone in his hand, and the Lord of the Red Moon in his mouth all told Ronan.

The existence of gods is not necessarily an ethereal rumor.

A large reason why Ronan left Triumph City and came to the remote corner of the Cold Wind Territory was to avoid the eyes of the church.

As a result, there are legends of gods and goddesses here.

Hearing the news, Ronan's mood was unexpectedly good.

There is very little or no news of miracle sightings in this world.

Judging from his current understanding of this world, even if those so-called gods really exist, even the Lord of the Church, I am afraid it will be difficult to interfere with reality.

The concentration of magic that existed in the world was too low, and Ronan had not felt it when he relied on the abilities given by the system before.

After all, with 1 point of mana, you can do all kinds of incredible things, and there are no side effects.

But when he learned the two magic trajectories from the vampire, he realized how useless magic was.

A total of 40 points of mana is often exhausted after only one or two experiments, and the effect after spending mana is not satisfactory.

The speed at which Ronan's mana regenerates depends on his level and the mana concentration of his surroundings, and the amount of mana regeneration at 2 points per hour is really sighing.

With a wave of his hand, a hundred-foot tower was built, and a branch of a tree separated the sea, raising his hand to block the day into night.

From the myths and stories recorded in the canon of the Church, as long as there is a certain degree of truth, then the amount of magic required is a huge amount, and the environment of this world cannot bear it at all.

So it was the battle of those gods that a long time ago exhausted all their magic power, so they hid one after another?

Ronan didn't feel that the gods had that kind of ability, he was more inclined to the high concentration of magic in the previous world.

Later, under a certain law of nature, the magic power fell into a low ebb, so that these gods had to close themselves off and disappear into this world.

If it is true, it is undoubtedly good news for him, which can allow him to have enough room to grow during this window period of the gods.

And if he wants to become stronger, in addition to relying on the system upgrade, he now has a new path.

Collect different mana trajectories to uncover the mysteries of the mana transformation formula.

This group of barbarians who believe in the ancient legends of the tundra may be able to give him a good harvest.

After thinking about it, Ronan was suddenly stunned, and then a happy smile appeared on his face.

One of the prospecting teams he sent out, in the process of digging back and forth many times during this time to replenish his magic power, finally dug up what he wanted.

Ronan's gaze casts.

It was on a hill near the village of Licorice, where four crows were bored and croaking on the branches.

And at their feet, the interior of the mountain was already densely packed with countless caves, spreading towards the bottom in all directions.

A blackened mole emerged from it, holding a swarthy mineral in its hand.

Coal mines? In the sunlight, Ronan looked at the coal in his hand.

The location of the deposit is not too deep from the ground, but the area of the mountain is too large, and the location has not been dug before.

As it stands, open-pit mining is entirely possible to remove the topsoil above the coal mine and mine it quickly.

There is no need to dig tunnels into the ground for mining.

Ronan found Old Mo and began to discuss with him about mining.

"My lord, according to your orders, we have recruited relevant miners in Blackstone City, and they will use a black powder to blast open the pit and help the miners quickly break the surface stones, this method has been guaranteed in the iron ore mining of the Iron Stone Collar before."

Ronan nodded, there was already a relatively mature use of gunpowder in this era, not in weapons, but in the technology of mining ore.

In fact, due to the existence of the Bachelor's Castle, a multi-academic organization of scholars, coupled with the inflow of technology from overseas trade.

Many of the technologies of previous lives that were ahead of their time have already been developed.

Gunpowder, papermaking, printing, steam power, etc., Ronan had heard of it.

However, in the eyes of the feudal aristocracy, these technologies were regarded as toys for inferior people, and they were invariably rejected.

But the aristocracy didn't use it, it didn't mean that the merchants didn't use it.

To take a typical example, in the aristocratic library library, the writing was recorded on richly decorated parchment paper, which was expensive and scarce.

But in the center of the Chamber of Commerce, in order to facilitate the recording of transactions and make more profits, merchants have long abandoned the traditional parchment paper and used linen paper, which is more convenient to write and less expensive.

The same is true of gunpowder, which the nobles regarded as the dung of the devil for fear of getting their hands dirty.

But the chambers of commerce of the Dantuma Alliance have already used it to develop a mature mining process.

A merchant organization with power all over the empire, tsk, the nobles of the empire are really not afraid of death.

Ronan thought to himself that for the time being, with the suppression of extraordinary powers, the merchants were still just tools in the hands of the nobles, which could make their lives more comfortable.

But when the technology develops further, it's hard to say.

But not necessarily, maybe before the technology explodes, the concentration of magic power will rise first, and then there may be a god who can tear the battleship out of nowhere.

"With the coal mines, miners need to be recruited, boilers need to be built, steam pipes need to be laid inside the town, and hopefully my people will have a warm winter this year."

At present, the number of workers in his territory is insufficient, and he needs to continue to absorb the population from abroad.

In order to build the castle, steel began to be scarce, and boilers and pipes had to be purchased from the Hemman family of Ironland.

Ronan calculates the next financial expenditure, and all the laborers in his territory must also be paid regularly, and it is not a way to continue to sit and eat.

It just so happens that now that there is a coal mine, in terms of the reserves discovered by Ronan, the thickness of the coal seam in the top layer is close to 20 meters, and it can be sold for large orders while meeting its own needs.

"In order to smelt steel, the Iron and Stone Collar just needs a large amount of coal mines, and the commercial rights of Blackstone City, which I managed to get before, should also come in handy at this time."