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As a professional mage, Palin's magic power is much stronger than forged iron.

Especially in recent years, for some reason, his magic power has suddenly increased rapidly, and his own strength has also improved by leaps and bounds. Five years ago, he was just an ordinary mage who had just entered the intermediate level, but now, he has reached the level of a high-level mage or even close to the peak of the high-level level. Not only is his magic power as strong as a rushing river, but there are also many spells in his mind inexplicably, as if someone has injected power and knowledge into his body.

He once asked Sui Xiong about this matter. Sui Xiong studied it and finally judged that the problem was with his soul.

Palin had actually died in the trap of the Death Cloud Spell. When Sui Xiong arrived later, his soul was no longer in his body and entered the underworld. At that time, Sui Xiong did not know how to recall the soul. He used the remaining thoughts in his body and used the means of earth science to revive him. In other words, he is actually incomplete at present. Strictly speaking, he is just a moving body, similar to undead monsters such as zombies and skeletons.

But Palin is not that kind of low-end thing. He is still alive and retains complete life functions. There is still a connection between his body and his soul that even gods cannot perceive.

Perhaps it is because of this connection that when his soul becomes extremely powerful, it will feedback to the physical body, making the physical body quickly stronger.

But... it can make the physical body from an intermediate magician to close to the peak of the high level, and even seems to be continuing to improve, with the meaning of breaking through the legendary realm in one breath... How powerful is his soul?

Sui Xiong talked about this with the know-it-all Weiye. Weiye thought that perhaps Palin's soul was not in the underworld, but went to hell and became a big man in hell.

Hell is a special world. It is located on the edge of the "material side" of the world ring and is adjacent to the "negative side". At the same time, it is connected to the "spiritual plane" through the Styx, and even many places in it have passages leading to the "positive" side, which is extremely strange.

The main borders of this world are the underworld and the abyss. In fact, it is a dividing point between the underworld and the abyss.

The evil souls should fall from the underworld into the abyss after death and turn into demons in the abyss, but Hell stops them and punishes the evil. When this punishment cleanses the evil of the soul, it will be sent to the Styx and start the reincarnation of life again.

Whenever the demons from the abyss want to invade the material plane in a big way, they often pass through Hell first, because except for some very special demons, most demons do not have the ability to break through the barriers of the World Ring. If they want to reach the "material plane" from the "negative", they can only pass through the Huashan Road of Hell.

At this time, the legions of Hell will be dispatched in large numbers to stop them, ruthlessly destroy them, and repel the invasion of demons again and again.

In other words, Hell is both the final judgment place for punishing evil and the front line against chaos.

When Sui Xiong dragged a world back to the material plane from the abyss, he was able to easily break through the barrier of the world ring because he had the support of the god of justice, Jorgadman, and the Lord of Order sent several "positive" small worlds to neutralize the "negative" power of the world he dragged. This is a special case and cannot be used as evidence.

Generally speaking, the more powerful the demons are, the stronger the "negative" power they have, and the more difficult it is to get rid of the "negative". Although weak demons are easier to get rid of the "negative", they are not strong enough. So whether it is a strong demon or a weak demon, if they want to invade the material plane, they can only go through hell.

Then, there is nothing else.

The supreme rulers of hell are ten strong men called "Kings of Hell". They all have powerful powers even among gods. They are the supreme judges and the supreme leaders.

Under them are the judges called "Dukes of Hell", the border commanders called "Marquis of Hell", and the local lords called "Counts of Hell". There is no strict correspondence between these three and the titles in the human world. They are just slightly similar in status, that's all.

Further down, there are the chief officials called "Viscounts of Hell" and the military officials called "Barons of Hell". They often work in pairs to rule an area together.

Under them, there are many powerful soldiers called "Knights of Hell", each of whom is transformed from a powerful soul. These Knights of Hell patrol the territory day and night, not letting go of any disturbance or any clues. No sinful soul can escape their arrest, and no demon can break through their obstruction.

Because of the frequent battles, the strength of the innocent souls in hell often increases quickly, especially those souls serving in border areas. Some of them can even be promoted from mortals to barons or even marquises in just a few decades.

Weiye guessed that maybe after Palin's death, his soul came to hell and became a knight fighting against demon invasions on the border. After more than ten years, he has made many military achievements and his strength has been greatly improved. Recently, he has even been appreciated by a marquis and became a Hellboy.

If that is the case, the feedback from his soul will greatly strengthen his body, so that his strength will advance by leaps and bounds to the current level.

Of course, all this is just speculation. Hell is very repulsive to the visit of gods. Although it will not attack like the abyss, if a god comes to hell, he will definitely be surrounded by the inhumane and powerful kings of hell, and it will not take long for him to leave in disgrace.

Sui Xiong felt that he was thick-skinned enough, and he once planned to go to hell to look for Palin's soul. But Weiye advised him to give up this idea.

"What if we find it?" Weiye asked at the time, "Let him return to his body and revive again? Don't be silly! He is already a warrior of hell, and may even be a powerful hell baron. Maybe he will become a marquis of hell in the future... Why should he give up everything and return to the world to be a wizard who looks after the library?"

Sui Xiong thought about it and it seemed to be true, so he gave up the idea.

Later, he told Palin about these things. Palin also felt that since he was alive and well and had survived without a soul for so many years, there was no need to find his soul back. And if he found his soul, which one was more important, the soul or the body? This problem was difficult to solve. Anyway, he didn't want to bow to the guy who might have been fighting and killing in hell for more than ten years, not to mention that he might be swallowed or even destroyed.

So the matter was left alone. For Palin, the only impact was that his strength was greatly improved, which was a huge benefit for nothing.

At this moment, with his powerful magic power, it took only a short time to fill the magic furnace with the magic power required. Then, under the guidance of the forge, he started the furnace, and saw that the originally dark furnace was glowing red, and the powerful magic power flowed in it, and soon generated an astonishingly high temperature, burning the iron ore inside until it melted.

The first thing to melt was the rocks with a lower melting point, which turned into viscous magma. When all the rocks melted, the forge guided Palin to open the discharge port and discharge the magma.

After the magma was initially drained, the discharge port was closed and the second part of the magic circle on the furnace was activated, so the temperature in the furnace was further increased, and the compound iron slowly melted and mixed with the remaining impurities. A large amount of poisonous gas will be produced in this process. Fortunately, the furnace has a filtering function, so just be careful not to be burned by the discharged hot exhaust gas.

After a period of time, the iron in the furnace was completely melted. At this time, the third part of the magic circle was activated, and the molten iron and useless residue were separated. The molten iron flowed through the discharge port into the stone trough covered with mud to isolate the high heat, turning into iron ingots, and the residue was then poured into the waste pit.

After a set of processes was completed, it was the routine to clean the furnace. Forged Iron did not let Palin do this. Even though Palin had become very strong, he was still thin. Cleaning the furnace is not an easy job, and it is not suitable for him, a weak scholar.

For the next few days, Palin lived in the blacksmith shop of Forged Iron. He opened the furnace twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. The rest of the time he spent thinking and studying carefully, pondering the principles of iron smelting, and thinking about what was wrong with the "blast furnace" studied by His Majesty the Void Mask.

He drew a lot of pictures, analyzing and studying the magic furnace from various angles. Then he compared the dwarf's smelting technology with the magic furnace, trying to find similarities between the two.

He also went to other blacksmith shops, paid those blacksmiths some money, and learned their smelting methods.

Those blacksmiths certainly couldn't afford the magic furnace. They used traditional skills, first making iron billets full of holes like sponges, and then forging them to get solid iron ingots.

Palin continued to study and study, trying to integrate various technologies and finally integrate them into Sui Xiong's "blast furnace".

This was a long project, and until the day when the retirement ceremony was about to be held, he still couldn't find much clues.

These days, if he has any achievements, in addition to some fragmentary notes that are not yet valuable, there are many extra iron ingots in the blacksmith shop.

Apart from anything else, at least for a long period of time in the future, the old iron forger will not need to open the furnace to smelt iron anymore. These iron ingots are enough for him to use for a long time...