Path of light

Chapter 457 458. Forging Workshop

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

However, the magic furnace left in the city of Padstow will be transported by a carriage hired by Lysander to the temporary camp at the foot of the Padstow Plateau, and then Kaka will transport it to the south of the plateau with the gryphon cavalry.

After leaving four hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war for Channing, Roy only stayed in the Southern Mithril Mine for one night before setting off for the Gasai Mountains.

After passing through the Sudarso Mountains and walking north along the edge of the wilderness for three days, Roy took six hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war to the black iron mines in the southern part of the Gasai Mountains.

The black iron mine here has resumed production, but the furnace in the mine was smashed by headhunters. The mixed-blood elf miners can only dig out 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 400 gray dwarf prisoners of war to the other two black iron mines.

Of the three black iron mines, only the furnace in the northern black iron mine was not destroyed. Therefore, Roy set up the forge workshop in this castle and mobilized all gray dwarf craftsmen from the three black iron mines. .

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

The manager of the North Black Iron Mine is Walker. He is also one of the first batch of mixed-blood elf miners rescued by Roy. He later joined the mine guard. When Roy left the Pagisto Plateau, Walker became He became the manager of the North Black Iron Mine.

According to Roy's request, Walker summoned nearly a hundred gray dwarf craftsmen in the Northern Black Iron Mine, and also established a forging workshop.

In addition to smelting iron ingots day and night in this black iron mine, gray dwarf craftsmen also work in shifts to forge iron at the twenty forging benches in the forging workshop day and night.

After the iron ingots are smelted in the magic furnace, the gray dwarf craftsmen do not wait for them to cool down completely, and immediately send them to the cutting board at the forging station for repeated beating.

Gray dwarf craftsmen master the carburizing process of forging.

They would sprinkle some carbon powder on the iron ingot while hammering it repeatedly.

In the end, these gray dwarf craftsmen will follow Roy's requirements and beat each iron ingot into a steel bar about four meters long and only as thick as a thumb.

Mine owner Walker carried out the tasks assigned by Roy almost to the letter.

Accompanied by Walker, Roy took the last two hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war into the Northern Black Iron Mine.

These two hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war were gray dwarf craftsmen with forging skills selected by Roy from among a thousand prisoners of war. When they enter the Northern Black Iron Mine, they will also work in the forging workshop.

Of course, it is not ruled out that there are liars among the two hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war. Whether they can stay in the forging workshop still needs to be observed for a while.

Two hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war lined up to enter the black iron mine behind the castle. As soon as they entered the mine compound through the long and narrow passage, they saw a large group of gray dwarf miners standing behind a row of stoves. They were wearing leather aprons and were dressed in red. With his upper body covered, he stood in front of the hot chopping board, holding a square-head hammer and continuously hitting the iron ingot. The sound of clanking and banging continued throughout the forging workshop.

A group of gray dwarf prisoners of war were stunned on the spot. Unexpectedly, the forging workshop here was full of the rough style of the dwarves.

They thought that life in the mine was to go into the mine and dig day and night, but they didn't expect that there was such a large forging workshop waiting for them here.

Most of the yard is covered with rain-proof sheds. These stoves are on the edge of the sheds. There is a cutting board next to each stove, and there is a sink behind the stove.

The shelves not far away were already piled with steel bars. Roy didn't expect that Walker managed it well. During the time he left Pagisto Plateau, the forging workshop had been manufacturing this kind of steel bars. The huge shelves were stacked with steel bars. They were all bundles of steel bars, and it looked like there were at least several hundred bundles.

On the other side are mountains of black iron ore, and huge hammers are constantly hitting the black iron ore, making a muffled sound.

After the black iron ore is screened, it must be smashed into fingernail-sized pieces by a punch before being poured into the furnace for calcination.

The magic furnace here is very old and has only three outlets.

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

The ordinary molten iron flowing out of the groove in the middle of the furnace has a relatively large output. The smelted iron ingots will be immediately hooked away by the gray dwarf craftsmen and dragged to the front of the chopping board, waiting for the gray dwarf craftsmen to forge them. At least 100% of the molten iron can be produced every day. Produce hundreds of ordinary iron ingots.

What flows out of the top position of the furnace is waste slag. In the past, these waste slag would be dumped directly after cooling.

But now, according to Roy's request, a thermal insulation diversion channel is connected to the top discharge port, leading to the open space on the left side of the furnace. There are nearly a hundred square molds in the open space.

The slag lava flows into the square mold, and after condensation, it turns into square stones. There are oval hollows in the middle of the stones, which suddenly turn these stones into solid hollow bricks...

The large amount of slag lava flowing out of the magic furnace every day turned into hollow bricks. In the past two months, the entire black iron mine was almost filled with piles of dark gray hollow bricks.

Walker even wants to use the hollow bricks to raise the surrounding walls.

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

"Boss Roy, what do you plan to do with these waste minerals? There is no room for them in the yard of the mine. I can only spend some time every day to transport these stones outside the castle. If there is no use for the time being, I will Make the mine fence higher."

Walker said following Roy.

Roy paused before saying:

“I will transport all these supplies in a few days, please hold on.

The two hundred gray dwarf prisoners of war I brought here this time will stay in the forging workshop for a few days to observe, pick out those gray dwarves who can't forge, and then arrange for them to mine.

The forging workshop needs to be expanded as much as possible, and I will continue to apply for gray dwarf prisoners of war from the Silver Pegasus Legion..."

Walker followed Roy and nodded quickly in agreement.

Roy came to the magic furnace and looked at the molten metal flowing out of the furnace. He asked the old gray dwarf craftsman next to the furnace:

"Can you understand Elvish?"

The old gray dwarf nodded and said, "I understand!"

"Then can you translate the Elvish language into the Dwarf language?" Roy asked again.

"A sentence that is not too difficult should be fine..." the old gray dwarf craftsman said, obviously lacking confidence when he said this sentence.

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

After Roy spoke to the old dwarf craftsman, he jumped onto an unloading platform next to the furnace, and then said to Walker: "Walker, please stop the forging workshop and all the gray dwarf craftsmen come here. "

Walker quickly summoned 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 suddenly filled to capacity.

After the forging workshop and rams stopped, the entire black iron mine instantly became much quieter.

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:

“Everyone, you will have to live here for a long time from now on.

This is a black iron mine, and your jobs probably fall into three categories: mining, smelting, and forging.

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

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

However, it is worth noting that there will be a supervisor responsible for giving you grades every day you work.

Don’t underestimate this score. Those who have performed well for thirty consecutive days will have the opportunity to be promoted to foreman. This score sheet will be closely related to your future life. These points can buy you vacations and limited living supplies, etc., such as A piece of clothing or a glass of rum or something.

If the score fails to meet the passing standards for three consecutive days without any reason, you will receive the first warning and be lightly punished.

If the score fails to meet the passing standard for six days in total, if there is no written report, a second warning will be given and all members of the team will be punished.

If your ratings are not up to standard for ten days in total, then you should be ready to change your job. I can tell you with certainty that the next job will never be as easy as the first one.

The gray dwarf craftsmen here should be able to explain the specific details to you, and they should be used to it by now.

In addition, let me talk about your benefits. If you work in the mine, you will get one day off after working for six consecutive days.

And if you are willing to spend points, you can just go for a walk in the wilderness outside...

It is worth noting that it is best to keep some points on hand.

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

For those prisoners of war who dare to escape from the black iron mines privately, the punishment is also very severe. I will not introduce it here. I just hope that you will not take risks..."

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

The gray dwarf craftsmen standing in the forge workshop below have long known this set of rules, and were not surprised by what Roy said.

But the new gray dwarf prisoners of war who came here were a little surprised. They didn't expect that they would have these benefits, and they could even take a break every few days.

Many gray dwarf prisoners of war began to discuss in private.

…

After Roy stayed in the North Black Iron Mine for just half a day, he left the North Mithril Mine with a team of twenty mixed-blood elves.

Continue heading north towards Tianpu Canyon.

He built a city wall at the mountain pass at the southern end of Tianpu Canyon specifically to block the headhunters from the northern part of the plateau. This wall is currently stationed with a mine guard team of 500 people.

Pass through the mist-filled Tianpu Canyon and walk north along the glacier.

Walking out of the Sky Falls Canyon is the camp Roy built in the northern part of the Pagisto Plateau.

Nearly two thousand mixed-blood elf warriors from the mine guard are stationed here. From here, they can provide support to any area in the northern part of the plateau at any time.

In addition to the two thousand mixed-blood elf warriors stationed in the camp, it is also the largest material transfer station in the northern part of the plateau. Almost all the trophies collected from the northern part of the plateau are stored in this camp.

Roy came outside the camp and saw a large group of argali sheep on the grassy slope opposite. It was initially estimated that there might be more than 2,000 argali sheep.

These argali are mounts captured from plateau headhunters, and they are most suitable for forming plateau pack teams.

Walking into the camp without even a wooden fence, the pile of discarded weapons at the entrance of the camp was particularly conspicuous. A large number of rusty war blades were piled up in random directions, in addition to a large number of short flying spears.

The mine guards also collected some magic supplies from the headhunter tribe in the northern part of the plateau.

However, these were not the most numerous people in the camp, but the captives of the plateau headhunters.

There were almost no young headhunters among these captives. They were almost all old headhunters, women, children, etc. They set up tents in the camp, and all the headhunters crowded in front of the tents.

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

The number of these headhunter prisoners was about three thousand. What made Roy a little dumbfounded was that most of the headhunter prisoners were picked up by mixed-blood elf warriors while patrolling the northern plateau.

Only a small number of captive headhunters were captured from battles between mixed-blood elf warriors and local tribal headhunters.

Many headhunter tribes were left behind due to various accidents during large-scale migrations, and these straggler headhunters were almost all old people and children who were not physically suitable for long-distance treks.

Once these headhunters fall behind, they will immediately face survival problems.

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

Just as these headhunters were lying on the frozen tundra waiting to die, the mixed elf warriors of the mine guard passed by on argali. As long as the headhunters were still breathing, the mixed elf warriors would pick them up. .

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

In addition, Captain Helic also wrote a letter to Roy. He also captured a group of headhunters at the entrance of the Ancestral Land by the mixed elf war group. In his letter, he asked Roy if he could use these headhunters. Prisoners of war were exchanged for some military supplies that were urgently needed on the battlefield.

Now this batch of supplies has been delivered to Captain Helic by the Griffin Regiment, and the headhunter prisoners of war are also escorted by a group of mixed-blood elf warriors and are heading towards the camp.

Roy came to the camp in the north of Tianpu Canyon to prepare to receive these Headhunter prisoners of war...

When he walked into the camp and saw the old, young, sick and disabled headhunters, Roy had a headache.

This group of headhunters may not have enough physical strength to pass through the Tianpu Canyon and reach the southern part of the Gasai Mountains. Thinking of this, Roy set his sights on the group of argali sheep on the grassy slope opposite the camp...