Chapter 251 Magic Spring
Early the next morning, under the protection of the Guard Knight and the White Bear Knight, Perficott walked around the mountains outside Death Valley and set out for the discovered cliff.
There were no disturbances along the way, but when passing by a mountain spring, Purficott unexpectedly stopped and inspected the spring.
"It's really interesting. The energy concentration of the spring water here is so high. If the mages in Langton knew that such a place existed, they would go crazy." Purficott held a stick filled with spring water. test tube, a look of interest on her face, and her right eye was blooming with green light.
There is magic in this world, there is no need to elaborate on this.
However, the magic power in this world is very scarce, and even the most powerful mage may not be able to defeat a knight of the same level in a one-on-one battle.
And this was a perception established before the industrial revolution.
With the development of the industrial revolution, the knight's equipment has been strengthened by the development of science and technology. Although it was almost eliminated before Perficott came up with the steam knight armor, the improvement in combat effectiveness But there is no doubt about it.
If measured purely by combat effectiveness, knights after the Industrial Revolution can probably beat themselves before and after the Industrial Revolution.
The mage did not gain much improvement in this process.
The reason is also very simple, because their magic power will not increase qualitatively because they have better equipment.
Better equipment only allows them to use their magic power better, but the total amount of magic power will not be qualitatively improved. Although more powerful spells can be cast through more subtle spells, Use smaller energy to leverage larger miracles, but compared with the improvement obtained by knights, the improvement of mages is too limited.
In fact, the same is true for the alchemists, but the alchemists turned more to academic research and embraced industry and science, unlike the mages who were still obsessed with their towers and always insisted on magic. of purity.
After all, the magic power in the entire world is very thin. After the mages leave their towers, it will be very difficult to replenish the magic power once it is consumed.
However, there are also some special places in this world. Those places have a relatively richer magic environment, which allows mages to exert more powerful power and also allows them to recover better. The power consumed by oneself, and these places are what the mages call magic nodes.
There is such a magic node in Langton, the capital of the empire. It is said that the reason why the capital of the empire was built here was that the original builders hoped to use the power of the magic node to use magic to build a city wall that would never fall.
The city wall was finally built, but no one knows whether the city wall will never fall, because this wall has not played any role in the past hundreds of years. It has always been just a decoration.
Internal conflict within the empire does not require breaking down the city walls, only sending troops into the city; while invasion by foreign enemies has never happened in the hundreds of years since Langton was founded.
So more than a hundred years ago, a king used the power of the magic node for other purposes. It was a barrier covering the palace, which could make the palace feel like spring all year round.
The mountain spring in front of her was just an inconspicuous spring that she saw. The energy escaping was already no less than the magic barrier of the palace.
One can imagine how crazy those mages would become if they knew that there was such a spring filled with magic power.
After all, the springs have such abundant magic power, so the underground water veins must contain even more amazing energy. And Purficott also figured out why a "giant dragon?" survived in the oil lake. If there was abundant magic power in the underground here, it would be understandable to nourish such a creature.
Perfect studied the spring carefully and saw that its spring water seeped out from a stone crack, so he did not continue to explore.
After all, such a natural magic spring is rare, and she doesn’t want to ruin it.
So she just took some magic spring water and soil samples around the spring and prepared to go back to study, but she did nothing else.
Although she is an alchemist, with the help of Jade Record, she can do some research and use of magic power.
After collecting the collected samples, Purficott and others continued to move forward. It took some time until they reached the cliff that the exploration team members called in the afternoon.
Arrived at the edge of the cliff, Purficott looked down. From here, he could have a good view of the entire valley.
This is a crescent-shaped valley. The overall terrain is concave, as if it was formed after the underground collapsed. This can be slightly inferred from the surrounding cliffs and the broken terrain in the valley. Come one or two.
But these were not the main points that attracted Purficott's attention. At this time, her eyes were attracted by the huge oil lake at the bottom of the valley.
She was sure that it was an oil lake. The dark lake surface reflected the bright light of oil, and it looked like it had rich reserves.
"If this were in the original world, I'm afraid someone would go crazy." Looking at the oil lake, Purficott couldn't help but sigh. If there was such a place in the original world, countries around the world would really not hesitate to launch a war. Rob.
After all, even if Purficott used his omniscient eye to conduct analysis, he could only come to the outrageous conclusion that the lake in front of him was entirely composed of oil.
Although this is just a small lake, if the "water" in the lake is all oil, it will be the easiest oil to mine in the world. After all, just throw a pipe down and get it. Just pump it, and there is no need for a series of troublesome processes such as drilling and exploration.
And it can emerge from the ground to form such an oil lake. One can imagine how rich the oil contained under the ground is.
There are two problems that need to be solved urgently if we want to exploit the oil here. One is naturally the problem of hydrogen sulfide gas in the valley.
This highly toxic gas poses a fatal threat to the human body. If this problem is not solved, it will be extremely difficult to lay oil production pipelines and equipment.
The second problem is the "giant dragon?" that Purficott has seen at this time. It is resting by the oil lake at the moment, surrounded by piles of rotting corpses and The bones look evil.
"Samantha, are you sure you can kill that dragon?" Purficott looked at the "dragon?" and asked Samantha.
(End of this chapter)