There are many people in the Harland Mage Association who have successfully advanced, and now in addition to the three middle-level mages of Richard, Sophia, and Wendy, the Mage Association already has Annie, Butler, Hiss, and Röntgen as the backbone.

Anne, the grandniece of Gibson's butler and a member of the Haraland family, is a moderately gifted magician, having studied magic for more than a decade.

Butler and Hiss are from the Tower of Death and are co-opted by the Harland Mage Guild. Hiss is in his forties and has a relatively average talent. Butler is more talented, but he needs to spend time deducing the creation meditation method, and the speed of progression may not be as fast as Anne's.

Anne's meditation method is the same as that of Sophia, Richard, Wendy, and others, all of which are Highland meditation methods. This meditation book has a total of twelve layers, and it can be cultivated up to the nine rings.

Before the Nine Rings, Anne, like Wendy, didn't need to worry about meditation, because the more talented Sophia and Richard were ahead of them.

With Richard and Sophia leading the way, Wendy and Anne are slightly less difficult to learn magic.

Roentgen is a wild magician, and when she was young, she accidentally found a meditation book recorded by an ancient magician, which is quite complete and can be used to meditate on the five rings.

After becoming a mage through meditation, Roentgen has been living in Nolan. She originally wanted to join the Grant Mage Association, but the Grant Mage Guild was very conservative and did not recruit outsiders much. After the wild mage joined, he was very restricted, and he could only become cannon fodder, and it was extremely difficult to obtain magical knowledge.

Compared with the Grant Mage Association, although the Harland Mage Association is weak, it has a very open atmosphere, and as long as you make a certain contribution, most of the knowledge can be copied and accessed.

When the magician wants to leave, the Harland Mage Guild will not stop him.

Relying on the relaxed conditions, in recent years, the Haaland Mage Association has recruited seven magicians and more than a dozen mage apprentices, and these wild mages have also brought a lot of magic materials to the Haaland Mage Association, contributing to the development and growth of the Haland Mage Association.

When Röntgen joined the Mage Guild last year, he was still a second-ring magician, and after being exposed to a wealth of novel knowledge in the Haaland Mage Guild, he successfully advanced in March this year.

In December, there was also a breakthrough in another major study in the Haaland Territory.

The study, called the Glow Ray Gun, is an energy firearm that doesn't have a trigger and doesn't rely on gunpowder bullets. By consuming the magic power inside the magic crystal, it can release the second ring of magic scorching rays.

This firearm uses the lowest end of the blood steel material, which can be welded to the gauntlet, which is inscribed with a scorching ray rune, which is then connected to the magic crystal through a magic line pipe.

Due to the loss of mana transformation, a single magic crystal can only fire four scorching rays.

Richard arrived at the Harland Mage Guild, fiddling with the scorching ray gun in his hand, the magic in his hand surged, and fired a scorching ray at the target in the distance.

A crimson ray was emitted from the red steel pipe on the gauntlet, blasting the target thirty meters away.

Looking at the target that exploded in the distance, perhaps because the expectations were too great, Richard was not very satisfied: "The spell released by using the magic device is slightly weaker than the standard magic, and the destructive power is only about forty percent of the alchemy bomb, and it needs to be hit many times before it can pose a deadly threat to the snake man." It's not as powerful as an enchanted bow and arrow. ”

The research on the Scorching Ray Gun was mainly conducted by Wendy and Röntgen, and the project team was only established for two years. Wendy is very researched in the efficiency of magic energy transformation, and it took a year to make a breakthrough.

"Of course, there are advantages to the ray gun, at least the use of this weapon does not require a long training.

Training an ordinary soldier to become a third-order shooter with a hundred shots not only requires talent, but also takes at least ten years to temper. With the Ray Gun, as long as the eyes are not blind, it can shoot scorching rays at the enemy. ”

Seeing that Richard had belittled the Scorching Ray Gun as worthless, Wendy immediately retorted.

After listening to Wendy's rebuttal, Sophia agreed with her statement very much, and continued to add: "Actually, this weapon has another advantage, like the enchanted armor, soldiers of the warrior class can also use it. What would it be like if a squadron armed with several scorching ray guns fired hundreds of scorching rays together on the battlefield? ”

Seeing that Wendy and Sophia were very satisfied with this magic prop, Richard knew in his heart that his requirements were too high. After thinking about it objectively, Richard said: "The cost of this magic prop is higher than that of the alchemy bomb, but the power is much weaker than the alchemy bomb, and the cost performance is not as good as the alchemy bomb, but it exceeds the burst arrow." And the size is relatively small, so it can be directly equipped on the gauntlet. If there is a surplus of blood steel at the end of the year, you can try to make some. ”

Hearing Richard say this, Sophia immediately answered: "Since you want to make a scorching ray gun, I'm afraid the consumption of magic crystals will be very large. Although we have a lot of magic crystals in stock right now, we should save some money in the future. Most of those messy magic crystal research should be stopped. ”

Sophia is very unhappy with the squandering of magic crystals and the messy research done by the mages and the Institute.

As of December of this year, there are more than 400 magic crystals used in scientific and magical experiments in Harland's territory, some of which are very unscientific. In Sophia's mind, the Magic Crystal is a very precious resource that should not be wasted on worthless research. It's just that Richard attaches great importance to the institute, and Sophia did not openly express her dissatisfaction.

Listening to Sophia's complaints, Richard nodded and said: "There is no progress, and there is no direction for research that can be stopped first, but there is progress and promising research, we should still support it."

Fort William's Mage Tower is nearing completion, we will have a third artificial mana well, and the charging technology that Wendy has researched this year has improved again, increasing its efficiency to around six percent.

Next year, we will have about 2,200 magic crystals to charge, which is enough for us to use. ”

The three of Richard discussed for half an hour, and then left the shooting range together and arrived at Fort William's Mage Tower.

Fort William's Mage Tower was built near the Earl's Court, about sixty or seventy meters from the western city wall.

After more than ten years of operation, the area of Fort William has tripled, and a large number of institutions and houses have been built outside the city walls, especially the southern city, which has expanded the most, and now the southern city has more than 40,000 people.

The buildings of the western part are mainly government offices and the Earl's Court, although they have also expanded a bit, and are mainly official institutions, which are not very chaotic.

Haaland's territory controls the two mage towers, and he is more familiar with the internal situation of the mage towers, because with the legendary dragon crystal as the energy room, the construction of the mage tower is not too difficult.

Since his return in July, Richard has mobilized more than 6,000 indentured slaves, plus more than a dozen low-level mages to help, and it took nearly four months to successfully build the mage tower.

The Fort William Mage Tower has five floors underground, six floors above ground, and the top of the Mage Tower is inscribed with the Six Rings of Magic Petrification Ray Spell.

Because the magic power of the dragon crystal is more abundant than that of the legendary demonic beasts, this mage tower energy room can release sixteen petrified rays in a day. In contrast to the two mage towers in the swamp basin, Fort William mage tower Richard has set up a single defensive spell that focuses on attacking elite personnel.

After the construction of the Fort William Mage Tower was completed, the Harland Mage Guild immediately moved its headquarters. After all, magicians are also human beings and like to live in prosperous places.

Although the marsh basin is well developed, it is not as prosperous as Fort William, and there are plenty of recreational activities.

Today, there are about thirty magicians living in the petrified tower of Fort William, and more than forty people live in the two mage towers of fire and lightning. The remaining thirty or so magicians were incorporated into the army.

Comparatively speaking, the mages who are incorporated into the army are paid a little higher, and the conditions are more difficult.

Richard and others presided over the Petrified Tower, and the two mage towers in the swamp basin were temporarily managed by the two three-ring mages of Roentgen and Hiss. Less than three years after joining Haraland's realm, he was able to manage a mage tower, and most of his magical knowledge had access to it. Such a change made Roentgen feel extremely happy. She constantly writes to her magician friends and recruits members for the Harland Mage Guild.

In mid-December, good news came from the Chemical Research Institute, and after years of exploration, researchers extracted aniline from coal tar. Aniline was mixed with sulfuric acid to make sulfate, and then potassium luoate was added to make the first synthetic dye, aniline violet.

This discovery represents a groundbreaking discovery by the Harland Territory Chemical Research Institute.

The dyes in the Dawn plane are all natural dyes, mainly from plants and minerals in nature, such as blue dyes extracted from indigo and woad, red dyes extracted from cochineal insects and safflower plants, and purple dyes extracted from mosses and shellfish snails.

Due to the limitations of raw materials and extraction processes, the output of dyed fabrics is small, and the price is very high, so it can only be used as a luxury product, and the market size is relatively small. Compared with chemical synthetic dyes, the disadvantages of natural dyes are very obvious, such as incomplete chromatography, poor printing and dyeing fastness, especially after being rinsed and exposed to soap, color mixing and fading will soon occur.

Once the Haaland Territory succeeds in developing synthetic chemicals, it will inevitably sweep all the naturally dyed cloth into the garbage.

But do you want to make aniline violet on a large scale? Richard will have to think carefully for a while.

The royal family of Grant is also in the business of making dyed cloth, and the Haaland family has to avoid making enemies everywhere until they have enough strength.

Because of the brown sugar industry, the Harland family has offended the Southern Earl, and the steel industry has squeezed the interests of Duke Edward.

In a world where a big fist makes sense, powerful forces will covet the interests of others. Sometimes it can be negotiated and coordinated, and sometimes conflicts will erupt, which often depends on the balance of power between the two sides, geographical location, external situation and many other factors.

Moreover, Richard is still a vassal of King Roger, according to the simple values of the Dawn plane, vassals cannot compete with the feudal monarch for power and profit, and the feudal monarch is naturally a head higher in general righteousness. A conflict with King Roger would be very troublesome for the Haaland family.

If Richard sells at a large price and grabs the market, I am afraid that conflicts with other nobles will break out.

Once a business conflict breaks out with the Grant family, it will be beaten up, more interests will be ceded, and the speed of rapid development will be interrupted

The best thing to do is to avoid impacting the original market and develop new markets to sell to other countries. But in doing so, it would offend the local nobles who controlled the dyed cloth.

As an outsider, it is impossible to compete with the local nobles.

The only thing that Haaland's territory can fight for is the Grand Duchy of Starnik market, through the relationship between the Church of the Goddess of Wealth and the Watson family, it will give up a lot of profits and hit the Hughes family market.

Whether there is an expected market or not, the laboratory's research must continue. Even if the laboratory product is still very far from the industrial product, it may take ten or eight years. in order to solve the troubles of the process.

Coal chemical industry is a crucial field for industrial development, and the research in this direction cannot be interrupted.

After discovering aniline violet, the chemical department couldn't help but get excited, and the waist pole straightened a little.

The Institute of Chemistry has been established for more than ten years, and the only thing that is commendable is the establishment of a smaller sulfuric acid plant, which uses the lead chamber method to produce sulfuric acid.

There are salt lake mines in the territory of Haaland, which can produce potash ore, table salt, soda ash, etc., relying on natural minerals, and the chemical sector has begun to make progress.

Now aniline purple has been refined from coal tar, which is equivalent to taking a new path.

The coke oven was established in Haland's territory for more than ten years, and it has developed from an ordinary earthen kiln to a coking plant, and coal tar is a by-product of coal coking.

This kind of thing was treated as black paint by the chemical department, and in Richard's eyes, it was completely outrageous.

Richard knew in his heart that coal chemical industry is a very important branch of the chemical industry, and coal tar can be refined into benzene, aniline, asphalt, fuel oil and other substances, each of which has great use.

There are coal mines in the Haaland territory, and a coking plant has been built, which has been gradually improved from earthen kilns to coke ovens.

After the coal is mined, it is cleaned and screened by the coal washing plant, and after crushing, it is made into refined coal powder and sent to the coke oven, where it is produced after high-temperature dry distillation, and then sent to the steelmaking plant to make steel.

In the first few years, the gas produced during the dry distillation of pulverized coal was directly emitted into the atmosphere, which not only polluted the environment, but also wasted coal gas and coal tar.

At Richard's request, the coking plant began to add gas condensing units and set up cooling towers to separate and collect coal tar from pulverized coal distillate gas.

How to build a cooling tower and collect coal tar is a very difficult thing.

Because of Richard's previous life, the construction of the cooling tower was also unclear.

Without Richard's guidance in the general direction, the engineers in Haaland's territory were completely blinded and could only continue to ponder and improve the process. After several years of continuous experimentation, the process of separating a large amount of coal tar is still immature.

It was not until the discovery of red glue and the availability of sealing materials that the process gradually matured, and the coking plant produced coal tar stably.

This time, the extraction of aniline from coal tar to the synthesis of aniline violet is actually a laboratory achievement, and there is still a long way to go before industrial production. When the process is mature, Richard estimates that it will take at least six to ten years.

(End of chapter)