Roy didn't know much about the floating device that the old gray dwarf miner was talking about.

However, the magic furnace left in the city of Padstow will be transported by Reshand's hired wagon to a temporary camp at the foot of the Padesto Plateau, where Kaka will carry it to the southern part of the plateau with the griffin cavalry.

After leaving Channing with four hundred gray dwarven prisoners of war, Roy spent only one night in the Southern Mithril Mines before setting off for the California Mountains.

After three days of walking north through the Sudasso Mountains and along the edge of the plains, Roy arrived at the Southern Black Iron Mine in the Garthi Mountains with six hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war.

The black iron mine here has resumed production, but the furnace in the mine has been smashed by the headhunters, and the half-blood elf miners can only dig up a large amount of black iron ore from the mine every day.

Roy left two hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war in the South Black Iron Mine and sent another four hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war to the other two Black Iron Mines.

Of the three Pyrite Mines, only the furnaces in the North Pyrite Mines were not destroyed, so Roy set up the Forge Workshop in this castle and also mobilized all the Grey Dwarf Craftsmen in the three Pyrite Mines.

When Roy arrived at the North Black Iron Mine, he could see a thick column of smoke rising into the sky from the distance......

The manager of the North Black Iron Mine is Walker, who was also one of the first half-blood elf miners rescued by Roy, and later joined the mine guards, and when Roy left the Pajisto Plateau, Walker became the manager of the North Black Iron Mine.

At Roy's request, Walker gathered nearly a hundred gray dwarf craftsmen in the Northern Black Iron Mine and set up a forge workshop.

In addition to smelting iron ingots day and night, the twenty forging tables in the forge also have gray dwarven craftsmen working around the clock to forge iron.

After the iron ingots were smelted in the magic furnace, the gray dwarf craftsmen did not wait for them to cool down completely, and immediately sent them to the cutting board at the forging station to be beaten repeatedly.

Grey dwarf craftsmen master the carburizing process of forging.

They will sprinkle some toner as they hammer the ingot repeatedly.

Finally, the Grey Dwarf craftsmen would hammer each ingot into a steel bar about four meters long and only the thickness of a thumb, as Roy had requested.

Walker, the owner of the mine, carried out the tasks assigned by Roy almost to the letter.

Accompanied by Walker, Roy entered the Northern Black Iron Mines with the last two hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war.

The two hundred Grey Dwarf prisoners of war were selected by Roy from among the 1,000 Grey Dwarf craftsmen with blacksmithing skills, and they would also work in the forge when they entered the Northern Black Iron Mine.

Of course, among the two hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war, it is not excluded that there are liars, and it remains to be seen whether they can stay in the forge for a while.

Two hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war lined up into the black iron mine behind the castle, and just entered the mine compound through the narrow passage, they saw a large group of gray dwarf miners standing behind a row of stoves, wearing leather aprons and shirtless, standing in front of the hot cutting board, holding a square hammer and constantly beating the iron ingots, and the tinkling sound of the whole forge continued.

A group of gray dwarf prisoners of war froze in place, unexpectedly the forge here was full of dwarven rough style.

They thought that life in the mine was to enter the mine and mine day and night, but they didn't expect that there was such a big forge waiting for them here.

Most of the courtyard is covered with shelters, and these stoves are located at the edge of the sheds, and each stove has a cutting board next to it and a sink behind the stove.

The shelves not far away were already full of steel bars, and Roy didn't expect Walker to manage them well, and during the time he left the Pagisto Plateau, the forge had been making this kind of steel bar, and the huge shelves were stacked with whole bundles of steel bars, and it seemed that there were at least hundreds of bundles.

On the other side is a mountain of black iron ore, and the huge hammer is constantly smashing the black iron ore, making a rumbling sound.

The black iron ore is sifted through and smashed into fingernail-sized pieces by a hammer before it is poured into a furnace for calcination.

The magic furnace here is very old, with only three outlets.

Molten black iron will flow out of the groove at the bottom of the furnace, and the production is very rare, and only about ten magic black iron ingots can be condensed every day.

The ordinary molten iron flowing from the groove in the middle of the furnace will produce a relatively large amount of molten iron, and the smelted iron ingots will be immediately hooked away by the gray dwarf craftsmen, dragged to the cutting board, and waiting for the gray dwarf craftsmen to forge them, which can produce at least 100 ordinary iron ingots every day.

At the top of the furnace is waste slag, which used to be discarded when cooled.

But now, according to Roy's request, a thermal deflector was connected to the top outlet, which led to the open space on the left side of the furnace, where nearly 100 square molds were placed.

The slag lava flows into square molds, which condense into square stones with oval hollows in the middle, turning them into sturdy hollow bricks......

The large amount of slag lava that flowed out of the magic furnace every day turned into hollow bricks, and for nearly two months, almost the entire black iron mine was surrounded by this dark gray hollow brick.

Walker even wanted to use these hollow bricks to raise the surrounding fence.

Roy returned to the North Black Iron Mine and was pleased with Walker's recent performance.

"Boss Roy, what are you going to do with these waste ores, now the yard of the mine can no longer be loaded, so I can only spare some time every day to carry these stones outside the castle, if there is no use for the time being, I will increase the mine wall a little higher."

Walker said as he followed Roy.

Roy paused before saying:

"I'll get all these supplies out in a few days, and you hold on a little longer.

This time, the 200 gray dwarf prisoners of war I brought with me will stay in the forge for a few days to observe, pick out those gray dwarves who can't forge, and then arrange for them to mine.

The forge will be scaled up as much as possible, and I will continue to apply to the Silver Pegasus Legion for grey dwarf prisoners......"

Walker followed behind Roy and nodded his head in response.

Roy came to the magic furnace, and when he saw the metal melt flowing from the furnace, he asked the old gray dwarf craftsman next to the furnace:

"Can you understand Elfish language?"

The old gray dwarf nodded and said, "Understood!" ”

"Can you translate Elven into Dwarven then?" Roy asked again.

"A sentence that isn't too difficult should be ......," said the old gray dwarf craftsman, clearly lacking confidence when he said it.

"Then you can help me translate it, I have something to say to all the gray dwarf craftsmen."

After Roy finished speaking to the old dwarf craftsman, he jumped onto a dumping table next to the furnace, and then said to Walker, "Walker, you stop the forge for a moment, and all the gray dwarf craftsmen are coming here." ”

Walker hurriedly gathered all the gray dwarf craftsmen in the forge workshop, plus two hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war, and the empty space in front of the magic furnace was crowded at once.

After the forge and hammer stopped, the entire black iron mine became much quieter in an instant.

Roy stood alone on the unloading platform, looked at the more than three hundred gray dwarves in front of him, took a deep breath, and then said loudly:

"Guys, you're going to be living here for a long time.

This is a black iron mine, and your job is probably mining, smelting, and blacksmithing.

Of course, what you do depends entirely on what you're good at......

Under normal circumstances, you can take a break after working ten hours a day, and you will be provided with two meals a day.

However, it is worth noting that you will have an overseer who will be responsible for grading your work every day.

Don't underestimate this score, those who have excellent grades for 30 consecutive days will have the opportunity to be promoted to foreman, this score will be closely related to your future life, these points can be exchanged for vacation and limited living materials, such as a dress or a glass of rum or something.

If you do not meet the passing criteria for three days and have no reason, you will receive a first warning and will be punished lightly.

If you do not meet the passing standard for six days, you will receive a second warning and all members of your team will be punished if you do not have a written report.

If you don't meet the standard for 10 days, then you have to be ready to change jobs, and I can tell you with great certainty that the next job will never be as easy as the first one.

The gray dwarf artisans here should be able to explain to you that they should be used to it by now.

And I'll say a little bit about your benefits, you work in the mines, and you get one day off for six days of work.

And if you are willing to spend points, you can go around the plains outside......

It's worth noting that it's best to keep a little bit of points in your hand.

Of course, these benefits are based on your honest work in the mines.

For those prisoners of war who dare to escape from the black iron mine without permission, the punishment is also quite severe, I will not introduce it here, I just hope that you have better not risk yourself......"

After Roy finished speaking, the old gray dwarf craftsman finished translating these words.

The Grey Dwarf craftsmen standing in the forge below had long known this set of rules, and there was no surprise to Roy what he said.

But the new gray dwarf prisoners of war were a little surprised, they didn't expect to have these benefits, and they could take a break every few days.

Many of the Grey Dwarf POWs began to talk in private.

……

After staying in the Northern Black Iron Mine for just half a day, Roy left the Northern Mithril Mine with a team of twenty half-blood elves.

Continue north towards the Tempestine Canyon.

He built a wall at the southern end of the Tempus Canyon to keep out headhunters in the northern part of the plateau, and a 500-strong mine guard was currently stationed on this wall.

Pass through the misty Skyfall Canyon and follow that glacier all the way north.

Out of the Skyfall Canyon is Roy's camp in the northern part of the Pagisto Plateau.

Nearly 2,000 Half-Blood Elven Warriors of the Mine Guards are stationed here, and from here they can support any area in the northern part of the plateau at any time.

In addition to the two thousand half-blood elven warriors stationed in the camp, it is also the largest material transit station in the northern part of the plateau, and almost all the loot collected from the northern plateau is stored in this camp.

When Roy came to the outside of the camp, he saw a large herd of argali, probably more than 2,000 on the grassy slope opposite.

These argali were mounts captured from highland headhunters, and they were best suited to form highland caravans.

Walking into the camp, which didn't even have a wooden fence, the pile of discarded weapons at the entrance of the camp stood out, with a large number of rusty blades piled up on top of each other, in addition to a large number of short flying spears.

The Mine Guards also collected some magical materials from the Headhunter tribe in the northern part of the plateau.

However, it was not these who were the most numerous in the camp, but the captives of the highland headhunters.

There were hardly any young headhunters among the captives, almost all of them were old headhunters, women and children, etc., who set up tents in the camp, and all the headhunters sat in front of them.

The old people sat in the middle, and the women sat in the corner with their children in their arms.

The number of captives of this part of the headhunters was about more than 3,000, and what made Roy a little laughable was that most of the headhunter captives were picked up by half-blood elf warriors when they were patrolling the northern part of the plateau.

Only a small number of Headhunter captives were captured by half-blood elf warriors in battle with local tribal headhunters.

Many of the tribes of headhunters have fallen behind due to various accidents during large-scale migrations, and these headhunters are almost all elderly people and children who are not physically fit for long-distance travel.

As soon as these headhunters fall behind, they immediately face the problem of survival.

Because once they leave the tribe, they will not be able to survive the harsh environment in the northern part of the plateau.

While the headhunters were lying on the frozen tundra waiting to die, the half-blood elven warriors of the mine guards rode by on argali, and as long as there was a headhunter who still had a breath, the half-blood elven warriors would also pick them up.

They have been doing this kind of thing for more than a month, so there are a large number of headhunters gathered in the camp at present.

In addition, Captain Helik also wrote a letter to Roy, in which he also captured a group of headhunters at the entrance of the Ancestral Lands of the Half-Blood Elven Warband, in which he asked Roy if he could exchange these headhunter prisoners of war for some urgently needed military supplies on the battlefield.

Now that the supplies had been delivered by the Griffons to Captain Helik, the headhunter prisoners of war were also escorted by a group of half-blood elven warriors and were rushing to the camp.

Roy came to the camp in the north of the Skyfall Canyon to prepare to receive this group of headhunter prisoners of war......

Walking into the camp and seeing the old and young and sick people of those headhunters, Roy had a headache.

Thinking that the headhunters might not be able to make it through the Temploos Canyon to the southern part of the Garthier Mountains, Roy set his eyes on the herd of argali, on the grassy slope opposite the camp......

(End of chapter)