Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 98: Share your worries
The 648th year of the Demon King Calendar.

May 7th, night.

The first waterwheel built on the riverside has been completed. Although it is only a small waterwheel, it is enough to verify whether it is useful.

But on the day the waterwheel was successfully completed, it was requisitioned by Olde. No one knew what she was tinkering with inside it, but people passing by could always hear the tinkling sound coming from it.

Passersby thought, don't get involved in the magician's business. What if someone doesn't like you and turns you into a frog?
The territory of Leon is only this big, and the news spread quickly, so everyone took a detour when passing by the waterwheel.

“Did you really make compressed cookies?”

Viola crossed her arms over her chest, not quite believing what Oldie said.

"After several attempts, I finally succeeded."

Olday was kneading dough on the chopping board, with flour all over her face.

The making of compressed biscuits does not require high technical skills and the recipe is simple, but it is almost impossible to succeed if you make it at home without the right tools.

Grains such as barley, wheat and oats are ground into powder and flour, cut into small rectangular pieces, pierced with holes with wooden sticks, dried in the shade, and then baked in the oven.

The finished product is a very firm, hard cookie.

"It takes a whole day to dry in the shade. This is the finished product I made before. It also has a long storage time."

Viola took a bite and immediately frowned:
"It's not tasty. It's too hard. It's different from the compressed biscuits you brought from Jun Shang."

Zora tried it, but it didn't work.

Soldiers need to eat enough to have the strength to fight, but just eating this kind of biscuits requires a lot of effort and teeth.

"After all, it's not a compressed biscuit."

Alde snapped her fingers, and immediately a string of blue light flew over from the side, picking up the biscuit plate and flying towards the millstone on the side.

They were invisible servants created by magic, capable of carrying out simple commands.

Pour the biscuits into the stone mill and grind them into fine powder-like particles.

Olde gathered it in a large bowl and poured olive oil and salt into it.

“Isn’t it a bit redundant to turn cereal powder into biscuits and then grind the biscuits into powder?”

“If you don’t do this, the grain powder will be raw, and the subsequent process will not roast it.”

After Oldie mixed the powder and oil in the large ceramic bowl, she dug out a steel mold.

"This is the mold I specially went back to the Academic City to ask the dwarves to make. The mold made by the local blacksmith in Leon Territory is not strong enough and is too soft."

The blacksmiths in Leon Territory usually make farm tools, and they can't make high-end things. In this regard, it really depends on the dwarves.

Pour the powder into the mold, cover it with a lid with a bulge inside, and then place the mold under the hydraulic ram.

The hydraulic ram is a power-storage hammer that uses the power of water to operate. The rotation of the waterwheel lifts the huge ram little by little through gears, and is equipped with a latch to prevent it from suddenly falling down when it is halfway through storing power.

When the power is fully accumulated, pull the switch and the huge hammer with full power will hit the steel mold with a clang.

After repeating this several times, Olde opened the lid on the back of the mold, pushed it with his finger, and took out the finished product.

It was originally a mixture of powder and oil, but now it has become solid and looks really like compressed biscuits.

"Although there is a certain difference between them and Jun Shang's compressed biscuits, the properties are almost the same."

The advantages of compressed biscuits are high energy, easy storage and carrying, and although they are hard, they can be soaked in hot water and turned into porridge.

This is much more convenient than making a fire, baking bread and cooking.

Making this thing is easy, except that it requires more than six tons of pressure to shape the cookies. That’s why it is difficult to make this thing at home, and you need to buy special hydraulic tools.

Alde used a hydraulic hammer which was barely enough, and had to constantly adjust the ratio of oil and powder in order to form it. It took a lot of effort.

"Then we need to wrap them in oil paper and store them in boxes. With the current production capacity of the Leon Territory, we probably can't mass-produce them for the time being."

One of the main reasons is insufficient fat.

The vegetable oil in this world is mainly olive oil, and Leon Territory does not produce olives, so if you want oil, you have to wait for merchants to come. But the trade routes on the road have been blocked, and before the sea transportation is smooth, the oil cannot be transported at all.

"Only when the paper mill is completed and the crops peanuts and rapeseed granted by the Lord mature on a large scale, can compressed biscuits be mass-produced. I doubt whether the Lord anticipated this, which is why he asked you, Viola, to build a paper mill and cultivate new crops." "Of course, the Lord's thoughts are so great that no mortal can guess!"

Viola is still as always, "Your Majesty is right."

But Oldie doesn't think so. Even if he is a god, there must be things he didn't take into account.

And this unexpected place is exactly what Alde wanted to try.

So she followed Viola's words and said:

"Since the Lord is so great, shouldn't we also share His worries?"

Viola was not stupid. She knew there was something behind the words and became alert immediately:
"What on earth do you want to do?"

"Nothing, I have to go back to the academic city in a couple of days to prepare for my new paper, but before that, I have something I'm very curious about..."

"Just tell me straight."

"That's easy. What the Lord lacks now is the Demon King's Ring, so his power is insufficient."

"We have been asking around, but there is almost no news unless we leave Leon territory."

"No, you and the Knights of the Imperial Guard have overlooked one thing."

"What is it?"

"I heard from my father that it is said that the Avarus royal family possesses a treasure that can contact the Demon God."

Although Orde is also a member of the royal family, she is not a direct descendant. She is not qualified to see it, let alone study it.

She didn’t care about it at all before. After all, the Demon King was just a legend and it was questionable whether he existed or not.

But now there is no need to doubt his existence, so this treasure is extremely suspicious.

"What do you want to say?"

"Have you ever thought that the treasure is actually one of the Demon King's Rings?"

Viola hadn't really thought about this question, because the thing didn't look like a ring at all.

Under Oldie's expectant eyes, Viola hesitated again and again, then reached into her collar and took out a necklace.

She pointed to the pendant and said:
"This is the treasure you heard about."

The pendant of the necklace is an oval black object that looks like metal and is as smooth as a shrunken egg.

If this thing is thrown on the ground, no one will pick it up, and there is really no sign of it having any element related to a ring.

"Can I study it?"

"You can, but you can't leave my sight."

In addition to the fact that this thing was passed down from generation to generation by the royal family of Avarus, Viola believed that it was also an important reason why she was able to gain the attention of the Demon King, so naturally she was unwilling to let it go easily.

"Don't worry, I'll study it right in front of you."

Having said that, Oldie has never done anything to make Viola feel at ease.

She held the necklace, muttering something, and from time to time there was a flash of magical light, as if she was checking whether there was anything inside the pendant.

"Give up. Father has asked many powerful magicians to study it, but they haven't found any problems."

"Indeed, magic is completely undetectable. It looks like an ordinary metal product."

Hearing this tone, Alde seemed to be about to give up, but the next moment, she picked up the awl on the table and pricked her finger.

"It's not that they are not proficient in magic, but that they lack the most crucial royal bloodline."

Orday squeezed out a drop of blood and dripped it on the pendant. The next moment, the pendant, which was originally made of black iron, lit up with a brilliant magical light.

Layer upon layer of petal-like structures quickly blossomed, and as Viola and Zora stared in amazement, a golden ring appeared in the center of the pendant, floating slightly...

(End of this chapter)