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There is strength in numbers. The exploration team had a large number of people, so it didn't take much time to build the camp.

This was also thanks to the solid foundation laid by the pioneer team before. The ground was leveled and compacted, the surrounding vegetation had been cleared, and even the tents had been set up long ago. Moreover, they did not set up ordinary tents, but the kind that were specially thickened and reinforced, with two layers inside and outside, windproof and waterproof, and the effect of heat insulation and cold protection was outstanding. Even though it was freezing cold at this moment, once you walked into the tent with the fire pot lit, you could immediately feel the warm atmosphere. Living in such a tent, no matter how cold the weather is, you don't have to worry about frostbite.

The main task of the exploration team was to set up the equipment needed for exploration and build the small smelting plant.

They used a magic furnace, which was very expensive and consumed a lot of magic power every time it was used. Generally, it required a mid-level magician to preside over it before it could be used more frequently. There were naturally mid-level magicians in the exploration team, and there were three of them. With the combined strength of the three of them, they can roughly open the furnace once every two days, which is almost enough.

Theoretically, as long as there is enough magic power supply, the magic furnace can be used without fuel. But in order to ensure the stability of the magic furnace, the exploration team still prepared a large number of magic crystals, with a total value of at least tens of thousands of gold coins.

If necessary, these magic crystals will be the fuel of the magic furnace. However, unless it is absolutely necessary, no one would be willing to consume magic crystals to smelt ore - the silver mine itself is certainly not worth the price, and in its associated mines, even the expensive mithril is not worth consuming magic crystals to smelt.

The reason for preparing these magic crystals is just to be prepared.

It is not easy to build a magic furnace. This thing is quite complicated and delicate. It needs to be done by people who are dexterous and strong, and it can only be built successfully under the guidance of professionals. Most people in the exploration team can only help, and only the four people in the elite group can really take the lead.

As the top spellcaster in the elite group, Sid was undoubtedly the core force in building the magic furnace, and everyone else was cooperating with him. He had never shouldered such a heavy responsibility before, and he couldn't help but feel a little nervous, and almost made mistakes twice in a row.

If others were like this, one of the three mid-level mages would definitely have cursed. But Sid was no less powerful or prestigious than them, and even as a rising star, his future prospects were even better than theirs, so even the arrogant mages showed enough patience, comforting him with kind words and explaining repeatedly without getting tired of it.

When Sid succeeded in building the furnace core for the third time, not only did he exhale a long breath and smile, but everyone also breathed a sigh of relief and laughed.

The most difficult part of the magic furnace is to build the core. After the core is built, the rest is nothing more than some physical work. As long as you can sense the flow of magic power, it is unlikely that you will put things together incorrectly. The four people in the elite group of the exploration team can all sense the flow of magic power, and three of them can even cast spells, so of course they will not make such low-level mistakes.

About half an hour later, when it was getting dark, the magic furnace that was almost as tall as three people was finally built. With a low hum, bluish-white electric light flowed in the furnace, turned quickly, and finally turned into a small vortex and disappeared into the core in the center of the furnace.

This means that the furnace was built correctly and can operate normally.

Even though they were very confident before, it was not until this time that everyone was really sure of the success and couldn't help cheering.

This magic furnace was specially made by the Dwarf Kingdom. It used a lot of special materials and the latest research technology to greatly improve its smelting efficiency and effectively filter out impurities in the ore. The former is fine, but the latter is extremely important for smelting. Many times, the difference between good steel and scrap iron, between high-quality metal ingots and garbage slag is actually just a little impurity.

Although this furnace can not filter out many impurities, this little bit is already a difference as high as a mountain compared to ordinary magic furnaces.

It is so wonderful that the difficulty of manufacturing is naturally very high. The cost of raw materials alone exceeded 20,000 gold coins. If the R\u0026D cost and the hard work of the master blacksmiths were also included, it might be worth about 50,000 gold coins.

This price is really crazy. You know, the average magic furnace is only 4,000 to 5,000 gold coins. The price of this thing is almost ten times that of an ordinary magic furnace!

It is so precious that everyone can't be careless. This is also an important reason why Sid was so nervous before. With his wealth, an ordinary magic furnace of only 4,000 to 5,000 gold coins would not be so nervous that he failed twice in a row.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly and it was built safely and steadily, and tens of thousands of gold coins were not wasted.

After this magic furnace was built, everyone rested for a while, and built another magic furnace before the night fell completely.

But that one didn't enjoy this treatment. Dudu Shanqiu brought a few strong men and built it easily, and it took less than 20 minutes.

"I'm very good at this job." Dudu boasted while working, "When I was learning smelting, I built at least hundreds of such furnaces. I could do it with my eyes closed. There is absolutely no way I could make a mistake."

"Did you make any mistakes?" Hopps asked with a smile.

"Of course... I did." Dudu laughed, "How can anyone in the world be good at it from the beginning? When I first learned to build magic furnaces, I broke seven or eight of them."

Everyone's face twitched when they heard this. Seven or eight magic furnaces, wouldn't that be thirty or forty thousand gold coins? ! The Dwarf Kingdom is really rich. They spent so much money just to let the young people practice...

"Don't believe his bragging!" An older dwarf who led the team sneered, "It's true that seven or eight statues were broken, but they were a group of thirty or forty people at the beginning. And the broken core can be recycled and remade. Ordinary magic furnaces are not the new ones this time. If the core is broken, it's broken. It costs only a thousand gold coins to re-melt it."

"...Save some face for me!" Dudu shouted, "I treated you to a drink yesterday!"

"We dwarves are an honest and trustworthy nation." The older dwarf laughed, "Don't brag here, let's go and drink! I'll treat you today."

"Where do you have wine to treat you? Didn't you finish drinking before?"

"Just because I say you've finished drinking, you believe it? How old are you, and you're still so naive."

"You just said that we dwarves are an honest and trustworthy nation!" Dudu was almost furious.

The older dwarf stroked his beard and laughed as he asked, "Which is more important, drinking or being honest?"

Dudu pondered for a while and said hesitantly, "Drinking is more important."

"Why are you asking? Let's go drink!" The older dwarf came over and slapped him on the back, looking around, "Let's go drink together, I have plenty of wine, enough for today!"

Okay, the coding is over. Is this the third chapter of yesterday, or the first chapter of today? Thinking...

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