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"Magicians are not worth mentioning." The short young man was Palin. He had extraordinary hearing and could hear even a low whisper. He turned around with a smile and said, "The scholar is what I am proud of. It’s just a matter of being ‘great’, I’m not qualified yet.”

Reif was surprised, both by Palin's identity and by his amazing hearing. He hurriedly saluted, but didn't know how to say hello.

"No need to be restrained." Palin said with a smile, "You are here to visit, right? Then just continue to visit. Uncle Wrought Iron and I have something to discuss."

After saying that, he took the wrought iron to the study room next to him and started talking in detail.

Palin's visit this time was for two things.

The first natural step is to invite Forge to the Void Mask Playground to watch the retirement ceremony.

Palin's uncle Old Soth passed away a few years ago. Among the partners who went on adventures and did business with Old Soth in the past, there are currently only two longevity species alive, Wrought Iron and Rhythm. The former are dwarves, with an average lifespan of about 150 years; the latter are wild elves, with an average lifespan of about 180 years.

Wrought Iron is now almost seventy years old, equivalent to a human being in his early thirties, in his prime. After attending the funeral of an old friend, he came to the gold rush town and worked as a blacksmith.

The race of Yunsu is rather strange. It ages almost like humans, but the time it takes to survive old age is quite astonishing. He is already gray-haired in his sixties and has basically lost his ability to work. Currently living in Mask of the Void Playground and working as a librarian in Palin's library.

When Palin was an accountant in Uncle Soth's caravan, he had a good relationship with Uncle Wrought Iron, so when something happened this time, he personally came to invite him, not only to respect his elders, but also to help Uncle Wrought Iron support himself in the gold rush town. Support the scene.

With his current status, a personal invitation would be enough to dispel many people's greed for Uncle Forge's blacksmith shop and avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.

The second is to understand in detail the principle of the "magic furnace" and to find out about the dwarven blacksmithing technique of smelting ore.

During this period, Sui Xiong's blast furnace experiments were not going well and failed countless times. He thought about it carefully and felt that he might be lacking in theory, so he planned to make up for his basic skills first.

To improve basic skills, the easiest way is to ask Morani for advice. But Sui Xiong felt that this was his private matter after all, and it wasn't worth bothering others with. After much deliberation, he found Palin.

Palin has spent most of his time in the library these years, and rarely goes out a few times throughout the year. He can be called a deep homebody. Sui Xiong felt that he must have accumulated a lot of knowledge after studying hard for so many years, and otakus seemed to have technical talents. Back then, he had a college classmate who had mediocre gaming skills but very good technical skills. He made a homemade function key super With so many keyboards, he can defeat all the invincible players in the system - maybe Palin is also such a person?

Facts have proved that although Palin is also a nerd, he is not a technical nerd. He knows very little about metal smelting technology. He just knows what kinds of ores can be extracted and can recognize some common or precious ores.

But Palin's mind was much more flexible than Sui Xiong's. Knowing that Sui Xiong's experiments had been unsuccessful, he suggested that Sui Xiong might as well make copies of several common furnaces and study them slowly.

Sui Xiong thought for a while and obeyed.

However, after a period of research, he still had no clue.

He was able to replicate those furnaces exactly and expand them to an astonishing scale. But this does not solve the inherent problems of those furnaces. Either the cost is too high or the efficiency is too low, and they all lack promotion value.

The key to the problem is that he does not really understand the design principles of these furnaces.

Sui Xiong indeed has great magical powers. He can completely copy even the most complex magic furnace with just a glance. But this does not mean that he really understands the design principles of this furnace - it is like playing with a scientific model. A person with strong hands-on ability can use various parts to assemble a variety of interesting models. Some can fly in the sky, and some can swim in the water, but they may not actually understand aerodynamics, and may not even understand the law of buoyancy.

Sui Xiong is like this.

When he understood his shortcomings, he fell into distress.

This world does not have a complete education and scientific research system like the one on Earth. What craftsmen pass down from generation to generation is only experience, and there are not many things that can be truly studied in depth to form theories. Even if he wanted to learn, he would not be able to learn it for a while.

The mages have done a lot of research, but unless they consult with the Lord of Mysteries or the God of Spellcasters, there is no way to find the theory they want like looking for a needle in a haystack.

In this case, Palin volunteered himself, saying that he had been taken care of by His Majesty for many years and had been studying silently. Now it was time to try to apply what he had learned.

He first came to Sui Xiong's experimental site, observed several failed experiments, and then thought and studied for a while before setting off to find Uncle Forge who was good at forging, saying that he wanted to learn from the dwarf forging skills.

Knowing his purpose, Wrought Iron couldn't help laughing: "Little Palin, I'm afraid you will be disappointed!"

"Oh?" Palin was stunned, "Why?"

"The forging technology of our dwarves is of course very good, but compared to the infinite power of the gods, it is not worth mentioning." Forged Iron said, "Even His Majesty the Mask of the Void cannot do things that our dwarves' forging can't do. Technology certainly can’t do it.”

"That's not necessarily true." Palin said, "My Lord is infinitely powerful, but what He wants to do is to develop skills suitable for mortals, which is not something that can be done by relying on the power of gods. Perhaps after getting inspiration from the dwarf's forging technology, He can succeed."

Since this is the case, the iron forger naturally no longer doubts and tells his skills carefully.

Palin is not interested in the exquisite techniques that ordinary blacksmiths are particularly concerned about. He pays more attention to the overall framework of dwarf forging. He spent most of the day listening to the entire set of dwarf forging technology, and then asked about some of the contents of the smelting part. Confident that he has basically mastered it, he asked about the experience of using the magic furnace.

The magic furnace is of course not a dwarf technology. It is a technology left over from the era of the Elf Kingdom. Using a complex magic array, the energy of the magic crystal stone used as fuel can be extracted, the ore can be burned until it melts, and then the molten metal and slag can be separated by the power of magic, and poured out twice to form metal ingots and waste slag.

This thing is very expensive, and one machine costs nearly 10,000 gold coins. The cost is also very high when using it. Every time it is activated, it consumes magic crystals worth thousands of gold coins. So later, human spellcasters conducted subsequent research and improvements on it, and launched a low-end version - the one that Forged Iron is using now.

Forged Iron's magic furnace is priced at 4,000 gold coins, and a large amount of magic power needs to be filled every time it is used. But fortunately, it does not need to be filled with magic power at one time. It can be filled slowly in several times, and it can be started again when the magic power is filled enough. Forged Iron himself knows a little magic. Although the magic power is not strong enough, if it is filled slowly, it can be started about once a month.

To be honest, it is a bit of a pit to use it once a month. Forged Iron has long felt that he might have been fooled by the merchant and bought something that is not suitable for him. But it has been bought and installed. If it is put aside like this, it would be a real waste. So he fills the furnace with magic power every day, ensuring that the furnace is opened once a month, and never lets it idle.

In the past few years, he feels that his magic power has increased quite a lot. It seems that the behavior of filling magic power every day is actually a good way to exercise.

The two chatted for an afternoon, and the furnace had already cooled down, so Palin personally added selected high-quality iron ore into the furnace, then closed the furnace and filled it with magic.

It is not reliable to just talk about it. He wants to understand and master the knowledge of using the magic furnace through his own practice, and see if he can get some inspiration from it to help His Majesty the Void Mask's blast furnace research.