Chapter 779 780. Conversation
Eight thousand sets of ring-type Kraken armor can accommodate two magic airships. The armor tailor-made for the Kraken is a bit large. If it is placed neatly in a wooden box, the size of the wooden box will be larger than that of an ordinary wooden box. The box is larger, and items can be stored in the two floors below the deck of the magic airship.
Some wooden boxes can also be placed on the deck. The mixed-blood elf guards filled all the available space. One ship only contained more than 3,700 boxes.
In order not to affect the transportation of gray dwarf prisoners of war, Roy took two magic airships to Sun Island Bay.
Following Roy was the great magician Grimes.
I didn't feel anything good when I was on the airport terminal. When the magic airship took off again, Grand Magician Grimes stood on the bow and looked down at the plateau city again, only to realize that this city was very carefully designed and built.
The Great Magician Grimes did not see a drainage channel on the street, so he asked Roy:
"Roy, are all the drainage channels in your city designed to be culverts?"
Roy leaned on the side of the ship with one elbow and said to the great magician Grimes:
"Well, only the section near the Tuolai River is a nullah, look!"
He pointed to the area in the plateau city near the lower reaches of the Tuolai River and said:
"The only open channel is over there. The drainage channel reaches here and collects half of the city's sewage. Therefore, this drainage channel is constantly widened and deepened. Finally, because it was too wide, it was changed to an open channel. It is not easy to build an underground channel. Very clean.”
The Great Magician Grimes looked along the defensive line of Roy's fingers. Where is the drainage channel? It looks more like a fork of the Tuolai River deep into the plateau city...
Roy continued to introduce the Plateau City to the Great Magician Grimes:
"The rainfall in the plateau city is not very heavy, but there is also a rainy season for nearly a month, which lasts from late September to the end of October. Before entering the rainy season, the drainage channels need to be desilted."
The Great Magician Grimes looked at a water supply line raised overhead and asked Roy:
"I heard that Plateau City has a very complete water supply pipeline. Why not use magic rune boards to store water in fixed locations in the city?"
"In addition, I discovered that fountains have also been built at the street entrances of the Plateau City. Many of the fountain statues at the street entrances of the Silver Moon Elf cities have water-gathering magic rune boards installed inside. Isn't this more convenient?"
In Grimes' opinion, the magic fountain should be a standard feature of a city.
Moreover, magic facilities symbolize the degree of civilization of a city.
The water pipeline in Plateau City made Archmage Grimes feel that this city did not pay attention to the convenience that magic brought to the elves.
Roy stretched out his upper body and looked down at the entire plateau city.
The water supply pipeline extends from the upper reaches of the Tolai River to the city hall of the plateau city. It is Mullin's most proud work.
Roy said:
"It is definitely more convenient to use the magic rune board, but the cost of use is a bit high for me.
When the Plateau City was originally built, there were only more than 10,000 elven residents in the city, and the Plateau City had no output.
If magic rune boards are installed at the fountains at each street entrance, the entire city's daily consumption of magic crystal fragments will be a big expense. The mixed elves living here simply cannot afford it, and I can't afford it. It is impossible to send money to the plateau city endlessly.
But it is cheaper to lay water supply lines in the city.
The main reason is that we have natural geographical advantages here. The Tuolai River meanders into the wilderness from the northwest.
Before it enters the wilderness, especially in the Kasai Mountains, the water level of the river varies greatly, so it is easy to find water points upstream. ”
At this time, the magic airship has risen nearly a thousand meters. Not only is the plateau city under its feet visible, but even a long section of the Tuolai River is in everyone's sight.
The Tuolai River gradually becomes gentle after entering the wilderness. In this section of the Gasai Mountains, the channel drop of the Tuolai River is very large.
Most of the water in the Tolai River comes from melted snow from the snowy mountains of the Gasai Mountains, and the other small part comes from the convergence of some small tributaries in the western part of the Nicobar Mountains.
Roy said to Grimes:
"Another point is that I have a forging workshop that can produce water pipes."
This may be the most important factor, Archmage Grimes thought.
At this time, I heard Roy pointing to the Gazai Mountains in the distance and saying:
"There are three black iron mines over there in the Jasi Mountains. They produce about seventy or eighty carts of black iron ore every day. After smelting, these black iron ores will produce nearly thirty tons of ordinary black iron. Please note What I said is that nearly twenty tons of ordinary black iron are smelted and produced every day.
Although the thirty tons of ordinary black iron placed here may only be as big as six boxes, the output is like this every day, and over time, a lot will be stored.
In fact, the owner of the mine here before smelted black iron ore just to obtain the rare magic black iron inside.
Eighty cartloads of black iron ore can only smelt out a piece of magic black iron as big as a fist. ”
As he spoke, Roy made a gesture with his fist.
Then he said:
"Although magic black iron is very valuable, the magic crystals burned by these three magic furnaces every day are almost as valuable as the magic black iron produced.
They use elf slaves to mine, and there is not much labor cost. As long as they dig it out, they will make money.
The 17th Silver Pegasus Legion entered the Pagisto Plateau, and we rescued the elven slaves from various mines.
Earl Swinburne asked me to manage these mines. Without the elf slaves, I have to maintain the normal operation of the black iron mines.
The labor costs and the cost of maintaining the mine add up to a lot. But if it is just for the little bit of magic black iron burned out, the three black iron mines will all lose money in operation.
If the black iron ore cannot be made to have a higher utilization value, the black iron mines will be closed before long.
I initially tried every means to purchase an ore refiner and a magic furnace from the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom, and used the most economical diversion method to smelt the magic black iron.
During the process of smelting black iron ore in the magic furnace, due to the density relationship, the melted ore will be divided into three layers in the furnace. This will automatically separate the magic black iron, ordinary black iron, and slag directly. The molten juice will flow to both sides of the furnace. In addition to magic black iron, ordinary black iron and slag can also be obtained from the shaping mold.
The Silver Moon elves don't like this pitch-black black iron. They think black iron is a metal that has no beauty at all.
They prefer copper and silver products to black iron.
Imperial merchants do not need this kind of cheap black iron. Their merchant ships cannot transport these worthless black iron back to their homeland.
Therefore, most of the black iron ingots produced on the Pagisto Plateau cannot be sold.
It can only be stored in the open-air stockyard outside the black iron mine, and the slag in the furnace is dumped directly.
In fact, I also thought of many ways during that time, and really wanted to turn the black iron mine from a loss to a profit.
Ordinary black iron couldn't be sold, so I built a forging workshop near the black iron mine. Initially, I wanted to forge some metal parts from ordinary black iron, and sell them to the trading houses of the Silver Moon Elf Kingdom. What to build? At that time, I was trying to build a water pipe, but I was never able to build it.
When the magic furnace smelts black iron, it will also discharge a large amount of waste slag. At that time, a dwarf craftsman proposed to me to build a house with stones solidified from slag.
I found this advice to be very good and adopted his advice.
Dwarf craftsmen used hollow bricks made from slag to build some sheds and warehouses near the black iron mine. I found that the effect was pretty good.
Later, we won the war with the plateau headhunters, and how to deal with the prisoners of war of the plateau headhunters became a new problem.
At that time, I wanted to build a prisoner-of-war concentration camp to centrally manage the old, young, sick and disabled among the plateau headhunters.
As for so many healthy plateau headhunters, if you don’t find something to do for them to consume their excess energy, they will only cause trouble in the camp. Therefore, the idea of building a prisoner of war concentration camp was changed to one by the Tuolai River. Build a small city.
The black iron in the forge is used to make steel bars, and the slag is used to make hollow bricks. These materials are all readily available.
The labor is those plateau headhunters, and it is also free labor.
The small town behind was built smoothly.
By the time the city's infrastructure began to be improved, the forging process in the forging workshop could already create closed square water pipes.
Therefore, after conducting on-site inspections, the current governor of Plateau City decided to lay a pipeline from the upstream to direct the water from the Tuolai River to the highest point of Plateau City, and build a reservoir here.
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The water supply pipelines in the city were also installed bit by bit later. The main reason is that the water pipes are produced by the forging workshop and do not require extra money. ”
Roy said all this in one breath, and he also wanted to explain that the small town did not use magic fountains because he wanted to save a lot of daily consumption of magic crystals.
As Grimes listened to Roy's story about the origin of the Plateau City, he realized that it had only been six years since the construction of the Plateau City.
He joked to Roy: "It's hard to believe that it only took a few years from the construction of this small town to the present. This does not meet the 'elf speed' at all."
Roy chuckled:
"Actually, I thought that for a long time, I would have to carefully manage these mines on the Pagisto Plateau, and also manage the plateau headhunter prisoners of war.
That’s why a livable town was built.
I just didn't expect that the city would be built before I could finish it, so at the invitation of Captain Tiprado, I led the mine guard team to the Bay of Sun Island, intending to drive away the murlocs there. Unexpectedly, a group of monsters took up residence on Sun Island. Siren..."
The two of them can still chat easily. In the Dark Land, their personalities were very compatible, so the great magician Grimes took Roy to hunt around.
"Haha, I'd love to hear how you defeated those sea monsters?" Grimes said.
Roy thought for a while and responded:
"Actually, the process was quite dangerous. I even wanted to give up on the Sun Island for a time..."
Roy was on the magic airship, constantly telling the Great Magician Grimes about his experiences in the Partington plane.
……
Two whole ships of ring-shaped Kraken armor were finally safely transported to Sun Island Bay.
The two magic airships descended slowly from the wind current layer. When the magic airships broke through the clouds, the Sun Island Bay below them became particularly clear.
On the north coast pier, eleven magic airships are moored on the shore.
This shows that the Siren Assault Group is currently not at war, which also makes Roy feel a little relieved. What he fears most is that during the period when he and Zezena are away from Sun Island, the Dark Faceless Legion besieges the Bay of Sun Island. The demon warriors are forced to fight...
Without Jiezena's leadership, once these Kraken warriors were defeated, their morale would definitely plummet.
There were some griffin cavalry patrolling in the sky. When the Great Magician Grimes saw these griffin cavalry, he also felt very strange.
"The elf riding the gryphon... To be honest, I haven't seen it in many years!"
Grimes held the railing with both hands, looked at the gryphon cavalry flying towards the magic airship, and said with emotion.
"They are the original people of the Partington plane. They have lived here in the Bay of Sun Island for a long time. These griffins were summoned back from the Eagle Nest at the top of the griffon barrier." Roy introduced.
When the Griffin Cavalry saw the magic airship, they immediately flew over to inspect it.
A gryphon landed on the deck.
When its wings are spread out, they can almost reach the sides of the ship on the left and right sides. Their size is larger than that of the Silver Pegasus.
A mixed elf cavalry jumped off the back of the griffin, saw Roy standing on the roof of the ship, and immediately saluted Roy.
"Boss, you are finally back. The siren messenger from the sea has been waiting for you on the dock for almost a week."
The griffin cavalry's expression was a little exaggerated, and he shouted at the top of his lungs when he saw Roy.
"I understand, is Commander Tiprado in the camp?"
"The leader has gone on inspection to the outer islands and won't be back until night!"
After the griffin cavalry reported the basic situation of Sun Island Bay to Roy, they flew away on their griffins.
Looking at the entire Sun Island Bay from the Magic Airship, the beautiful Sun Island Bay is like an exquisite blue pearl dotted on a green streamer.
The magic airship quickly landed in the sea around the North Coast Pier. The moment the bottom of the ship touched the sea, waves splashed to both sides more than ten meters high, and the ship's hull also violently swayed from side to side under the huge earthquake.
The crew members standing on the deck were instantly wet by the splashing seawater...
There was no way, although there were still four flotation devices operating at the moment of falling into the water, these two magic airships were almost fully loaded with cargo.
It was so heavy that the moment it fell into the water, the hull swayed greatly. If the sails had not been lowered in advance and a sea breeze followed, this magic airship would probably have overturned in this sea area.
Then the well-trained crew immediately raised the sails and adjusted the sail angle according to the captain's instructions. The magic airship drew a graceful arc in the sea and quickly docked at the dock.
After the magic airship slowly docked, Roy saw a female siren warrior curled up and leaning at the end of the dock corridor, looking here from a distance.
She climbed out of the sea, and her lower body turned into two long legs. After the green scales on her body disappeared, the long skirt made of shells and seaweed had a retro beauty.
(End of chapter)