060 "City of Electricity"
The enthusiasm of the gnomes was much higher than the king had imagined.
Just a week later, the airship arrived from the Thorn Islands.
Before that, a series of dwarfs arrived by boat, and the floating island was moving to the next destination, Yi Songzo, and was generally moving along the main trunk of the Masunya River, and the merchant ships on the river could see the floating island as soon as they looked up.
In addition, the discharge device on the floating island is too bright at night, and it can be seen by the naked eye of humans more than ten kilometers away, and the elves can use this lightning as a lighthouse to find the location of the floating island from afar.
Although a bunch of dwarf craftsmen came, the electricity load on the floating island did not increase. Mainly even if it is a dwarf, electricity is a rare thing, and you have to have a discharge core to use it.
And the discharge core is actually a magic prop that has a constant lightning spell, and this thing is usually a large airship that a dwarf is willing to put one, mainly used to drive the engine of the airship.
And the gnomes don't have electromagnetism, they don't even have the concept of magnetism, they just know that constantly turning the electrodes upside down can make the iron handle fixed on the track reciprocate.
So their motor is the most primitive mechanical motor, and this motor is so primitive that it requires a person to constantly switch the positive and negative poles of the current with a mechanical device - because the discharge core is putting direct current.
The gnomes built a disc-shaped device for switching between the positive and negative poles, and then connected to the pedals of the bicycle, and when the motor was running, a person constantly pedaled back and forth to switch the positive and negative poles.
In addition to this primitive motor, they also discovered that continuous power would cause the metal to heat up and glow, but no one thought of using this to heat food or emit light.
Maybe it's too convenient to do these two things with magic, and with electricity so scarce, no one thinks about it at all.
In fact, only low-grade dwarf airships will be driven by electricity. The most high-end dwarf airship is a magic engine with constant magic to drive the propellers.
Well, now, with such a strong, stable, and continuous electrical energy, the gnomes have no experience in making electrical appliances, and a large amount of electricity can only be turned into lightning and released between two sticks.
The first way the gnomes came up with this was to use it as a weapon - but this idea was immediately overturned, because the electricity on the materialist side could not be used anywhere.
Faced with this situation, Wang had no choice but to continue to transfer electromagnetism knowledge to this plane, first teaching the gnomes to make electromagnets, and then teaching them to build real direct current motors.
There are also incandescent lamps that are basically built from scratch, because there is no chemistry in this world, and the tungsten that makes incandescent wicks in other planes has not been found at all.
It may have been mined occasionally, but there was no way for this plane to refine it, and it didn't realize that it was a metal that was different from iron.
However, there is magical alchemy in this plane.
After all, it's a plane of idealism.
Wang used the materials brought by the dwarfs, opened the furnace himself, and made a pot of tungsten alloy (yes, a pot did not use the wrong quantifier), and the world's first incandescent lamp was finally born.
While Wang was happily rubbing things with a group of dwarf craftsmen, on the morning of September 30, Rosalie said to him with a serious face: "The number of dwarfs on the island has exceeded three hundred. The gnomes were all immersed in making things, and yesterday alone, three gnomes were electrocuted and a dozen were injured.
"Sister Artori is already complaining to me that most of the resurrection spells she prepares run out every day, and all kinds of healing spells are seriously consumed.
"In addition, the humans on the island dare not approach the attack and defense of the gnomes, for fear of being electrocuted, you have to restrain the gnome craftsmen!
"You'll have to pick someone who can manage the gnomes."
Wang: "Can't you manage it?" ”
Rosalie: "How do I manage it?" ”
Wang: "I don't think you can manage human beings very well?" ”
"But the gnomes don't listen to me, so they don't care what I, the princess, say! They didn't even salute me when they saw me. Rosalie sighed, "I know you're addicted to spreading over here...... Spread electromagnetism, but you have to take care of things, and the gnomes will listen to you. ”
"They have to do relevant experiments, and they all use electricity, and the transmission lines are only distributed around the power generation device, that is, around the gravitational core. Theoretically, they're only going to experiment in this part of the island. ”
Rosalie clasped her hands to her chest: "Yes, but you have drawn the boundary on the ground, and your dwarf craftsmen have spread their workshops around the boats where the inhabitants live. ”
Wang hurriedly glanced at the ground map of the floating island on the large conference table in the central control room: "God, did they spread the wires so far?" ”
Rosalie: "Didn't you notice?" In addition, the church on the east side of the island and the Kailin Temple in the middle have been reported to have been injured due to electricity leakage. ”
Wang: "Alright, let's redraw the dwarfs' quarters and prohibit them from building workshops outside the area. Also, I asked them to choose a representative -, I always thought they were going to pick Bobby's guy. ”
The gnomes don't seem to like human interaction very much, and since the first group of gnome craftsmen came to the island, they have pushed all the communication with the "lord of the castle" to the unlucky guy Poppy with three hairs on his head.
The king thought for a moment and said, "Let Gaines be the head of the gnomes, he knows almost everyone, and there must be a way to make these dwarf craftsmen obedient." ”
Rosalie: "I think so. But I don't understand, how can you do this to save the world? ”
Wang: "Well, the Order has an army, no, in fact they have a whole country as their backing, and it is difficult for us to defeat them with only an elite squad of decapitation." Before we can reach their masters, we'll be killed by an endless stream of troops. ”
Rosalie: "I know, I know, so we need to have an army too." Now, what about the army? ”
Wang: "Aren't we building electric ballistas and electric trebuchets?" And flying in the sky is an advantage, if we can put enough electric motors on the floating island, we can fly directly above the head of the enemy army and throw stones, the effect is the same as trebuchet. You can also throw blazing glue! ”
Rosalie: "So if the enemy lands on the floating islands, your dwarf army must have a way to protect the trebuchets, engines, and fiery glue, right?" ”
Wang scratched his head: "This ......"
Rosalie: "Or is that lightning fence that looks so powerful that it can destroy enemies that fall to the ground?" ”
Wang: "Well, no, you can't count on it. ”
Rosalie: "Why did we look for Nelenes' relics in the first place?" ”
"No, this is not Nelenis's relic, this is the core of the extradimensional colonization machinery that Nelenis wants to activate." Wang gestured and explained, "Electricity is just a windfall. What we're looking for is actually a relic of the ancient civilization to which Nelenes belongs, and the Arcane Federation used it to create a common pool of spells. I was going to make something like this so Elizabeth could cast other magic......"
At this time, Elizabeth suddenly burst into the central control room and shouted: "King! I can cast a fireball! ”
The king stopped talking and turned his head to look at her: "What? ”
Elizabeth: "I can cast a fireball!" When I woke up this morning, I knew with certainty that I could put it out! ”
(End of chapter)