Chapter 331 320. Smelting Room
Fortunately, Margarita still knows her responsibilities as the dean of the college.
After the signing meeting, she needs to store the contract in the college's file library, and Tissaya will work with her to apply protective magic to the document.
The two deans before and after can clearly sense that the current Valyrian steel business will likely be the main source of profit for Aretuosa College for many years to come.
After Lan En walked away from Margarita, who was smacking her lips and looking very unwilling, he followed her directions and went all the way down to the lower level of Arethusa.
This place was originally a warehouse-like place, built by hollowing out part of the huge rock on which Arethusa was located.
After Lan En came down, he walked around in the stone corridor with twists and turns, and finally came to a heavy door with an all-steel structure.
“咻~”
The young man looked at the heavy steel gate and couldn’t help but whistle.
Fresh scratches can still be seen on the frame structure of the heavy door, which are traces of the door being pressed into the rock wall.
This is the convenience of magic. Even in Lan En's home world, if this all-steel door of at least dozens of tons wants to penetrate into the hard rock wall without destroying the original building structure, this It's not easy either.
In Aretusa, no one would even feel the slightest movement during construction.
A small amulet was lifted up by Lan En and waved towards the crack of the door.
The heavy door opened by itself with a creaking sound.
Along with the dark red high-temperature metal light, a heat wave radiated from inside the door to the outside world.
Lan En raised his eyes and looked over, just in time to see a tall and thin figure carrying a sword walking towards the door.
"Hi, how are you, Berengar?"
The young man put away the door-opening amulet and raised his hand to greet his old friend.
The long-faced demon hunter now had dark circles under his eyes, but his expression was cheerful and excited.
"Are you overly excited? Do you need me to prescribe you some medicine?"
"Prescribe medicine? No, no need. I drank a lot of stimulants to get this equipment on track. Now I have to do a few more tests before it can start working day and night!"
Berengar laughed, stepped forward, hugged Lan En, and patted the young man on the back excitedly.
This unusually enthusiastic move left Lan En a bit at a loss.
"No, let go first. Does a promising job and equity make you so excited?"
"Excited? I'm not just excited!" Berengar was Lan En was not disappointed after pushing away, but was still very happy.
His cat eyes were shining.
“I am simply young again, Lan En! A decent, safe and wealthy job! Do you know how long I have been dreaming about this day? I have even forgotten how many dreams I have been in. Seeing that I have a widely recognized blacksmith shop, and now, you have helped me realize my dream, even far beyond the limit of my dream!"
Lan smiled and watched Belengar express himself to him. He himself doesn't like the job of blacksmith, but he respects the dreams of others.
After Berengar's excitement about seeing him calmed down, Lan En continued to speak.
"Then tell me, what have you done since you came to Arethusa? Have you spent all your time here? Indeed, this seems to be a big project."
Lan En walked towards the inside of the room, while Berengar watched the steel door completely closed before following him.
It seems that during this period he not only acted as a metallurgical technical consultant, but also served as the security guard of this room.
Speaking of this room, the smile on Berengar's lips became even more proud.
“Yeah, this is not an easy job.”
The long-faced demon hunter took two quick steps and walked in front of Lan En to guide him. This is a huge room that looks like a huge smelting chamber.
The rough iron ore was heated by the stove until it was dark red and shiny, and then processed and shaped by conventional techniques. After passing through a seemingly unnecessary conveyor belt, it was set aside to cool naturally.
Except for the huge scale, the process is almost the same as a blacksmith in a village smelting iron ore into iron ingots.
Technically, this smelting room is horribly crude.
But it is here that the commercial core of Valyrian Steel is located.
"There's nothing else to say. I just told the sorceresses about the technology and experience of ore smelting, and they used magic to complete the previous things. Magic is really convenient, but it's a pity that these sorcerers didn't like it at all before. Dirty blacksmith craftsmanship. The key is the conveyor belt."
Berengar took Lan En to take a closer look.
There is a groove on the conveyor belt, and there is a huge crystal ball, which supplies the magic power of the conveyor belt.
"Ms. Margarita and Ms. Tisaya extracted magical runes from the spell of Valyrian steel. As long as the original ore rolls around on this conveyor belt, it will be cast. The magic blood, or the biological tissue containing magic, is on top."
Berengar pointed to the top of the conveyor belt, where there is a pipe that is transporting something, connected to the conveyor belt. superior.
"Those are the monster materials that Aretuza put in the warehouse to eat ashes. The essence of water, the tongue of the tomb witch and so on. Anyway, the casting process is not picky, you can use them."
"These cooling The ore will be sent to ordinary blacksmiths outside, where there is no core technology, and it will be forged by ordinary people, and then it will be a qualified Valyrian steel ingot that can be sold.”
"Steel ingots? No one else knows the reforging technology of Valyrian steel."
"Don't worry." Berengar assured, patting his chest, "We will not engage in deceptive business. Buying steel ingots comes with The alchemy potion is a gift. The formula was prepared by Ms. Tishaya. It is cheap and easy to use. It can be used to replace the normal process of recasting the spell."
After saying that, Berengar opened his arms and stood in dark red. Show Lann in front of a pile of glowing ore.
"We can make a lot of money! Lan En! Woohoo!"
But the young man was not as happy as Berengar. He didn't care much about making a lot of money.
It’s just something I do when I’m short of money.
Moreover, compared to simple things like making money, when he looked at this set of equipment, what shocked him was not the profit contained in it. But the idea
Warlocks began to try assembly lines and automated operations. Use magic.
In the era before this, magic existed only as a luxury that a few people could enjoy or utilize.
People who control supernatural powers will only serve dignitaries and earn profits and power.
And now, they began to understand how effective it would be to use magic in production.
Perhaps this kind of thinking is just for convenience in their minds, but there is no doubt that the seeds that promote the advancement of the times are in it.
As a former history lover, Lan En now had a strange feeling that the era had reached the dividing line, and he was now part of it.
This feeling simply does not last long, and his current energy is mainly focused on the intersection of the celestial sphere.
If something like Dagon or something more powerful pops out of it, it will be out of date and meaningless to everyone.
"I hope your work here has not hindered the order I placed for you, Berengar."
Lan crossed his arms and looked at the old man with his head tilted.
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
Berengar looked serious at this time.
“As long as it’s an order you place, I’ll put it first. That’s my promise, man.”
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(End of this chapter)