Demon Lord

The effect of the Strengthening Technique makes the soil instantly look like solidified cement. According to previous tests by the mages, this kind of road surface can maintain its hardness for five months after casting the spell. When the deadline is approaching, you only need to send arcane puppets to re-release the fixation technique along the way.

Luther was as curious as the crowd around him. He ran to the freshly compacted road surface to feel it, and found that the solidified land was almost like a stone, and he couldn't raise the dust even if he rubbed his feet vigorously. He looked ahead, but saw By the time the tall arcane puppet had gone four to five hundred meters away.

According to this progress, it won't take long to pave a road directly to other cities...

The significance of smooth, wide and hard roads for transportation is self-evident. In this era, horse-drawn carriages are basically used for long-distance transportation. However, bumpy and bad roads not only delay the speed of transportation, but also increase the loss of carriages and horses. Now if this main road is built to Houlier City, it would take only three days to reach the road that originally took about ten days.

When transportation costs decrease and transportation speeds increase, distance decreases for the people of a country. This also means that the economy and culture will usher in explosive growth.

Luther was short-sighted and did not realize the changes brought about by traffic to the whole world. After walking a few steps on the brand-new dirt road, he suddenly discovered that there was a busy construction site not far from the city gate. Instead, it was covered with gravel.

Wood was placed in parallel every half a meter above the gravel, and Luther found that all the wood had been treated uniformly, with exactly the same width, thickness, and spacing.

And on top of these sleepers, there are two rails made by cutting the whole log. Luther immediately thought of the transport ships driving back and forth in the city, and realized that this was the Elson train that had already started construction. line.

Although Efta is the kingdom's largest iron ore producer, the current output is not enough for Rody to lay steel rails. However, this place is different from another world after all. Magic solves many original problems... Wood does not need to be air-dried and processed, and it can also be cured to achieve a durability similar to steel. Just cast the spell once.

The primeval forest of Efta is too large to cut down all the trees. The wooden track combined with the maintenance cost is actually much lower than the steel track in terms of cost.

Luther saw several platforms being built at the starting point of the railway tracks, and these platforms were connected to the transport ship tracks leading to the city. However, this new track is not the same as the track of the transport ship in the city, and the experimental train carriages placed on it are also boxy, and have nothing in common with the ship.

The City Lord's thoughts are always weird...

Luther looked into the distance,

In a place covered by forests more than ten kilometers away, orc laborers are building a brand new town. It is said that the architectural planning of the entire town is based on the drawings of the city owner Rody. It will be the largest transportation hub in Elson's territory in the future. area, and is compatible with residential areas.

These contents were heard on bulletin boards and classrooms in the city, and were also mentioned in the recently released Karen Era. All of this made Luther, who had been closed in the deep mountains for decades, sigh with emotion... He looked back at the Pasha'er Demon Tower in the center of the city, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion for his original choice.

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Rody, who was inspecting the Pasha'er Demon Tower, was shuttling through the laboratories of the various research groups of the Elson Academy of Magic with a serious face at this time, checking the progress of the research projects he had assigned.

Although collectively referred to as the Magic Research Institute, it actually involves research in various aspects such as chemistry, physics, engineering, and biology. There are too many kinds of magic invented in this world. Although many of them cannot go to the battlefield or kill the enemy, they have various miraculous effects in Rody's eyes.

The two important inventions of Papermaking and Movable Type Printing took almost no effort in the hands of the mage, because many complicated crafts are just a matter of waving hands for the mage who controls the elements. Luo Di just came out of the canned food research group, holding a high-temperature sterilized glass jar in his hand, using a fork to fork out the marinated fruit inside, nodded in satisfaction, and then walked into the most occupied place. Magical Vehicle Research group in laboratories and workshops.

My lord, we have already made a prototype car according to your requirements, but there are still some problems that need to be solved...

Oh? Tell me.

While answering, Rody walked towards the prototype vehicle that the researcher said was actually a three-wheeled spar energy vehicle made of a wooden exposed frame.

This thing is naturally a means of transportation made by Roddy based on the car. With the charged spar, Rody skipped the stage of using fossil energy and directly developed the vehicle based on the spar battery.

The enclosed miniature magic circle becomes an engine after inserting a charged spar. Its size is not large, and its weight of more than 30 kilograms is absolutely light compared with those iron lump engines with hundreds of kilograms in the impression. After the magic circle is activated, the energy will rotate the drive gear and transmit power to the rear wheels at the same time.

It stands to reason that there is a gearbox structure in the middle where the engine transmits power to the rear wheels, but currently Elson has no engineers who can make complex gears like gearboxes, so Roddy can only use an energy limiting lever To control the output power of the energy of the array, thereby controlling the speed of the gear rotation, to achieve the purpose of controlling the speed of the vehicle.

The reason why the three-wheel structure is used is that the current technology cannot make steering gears to ensure the differential speed when the dual front wheels are steering. Therefore, Luo Di's plan is actually more like building a three-wheeled motorcycle. The steering is directly dependent on the handle connected to the front wheel, and it is done purely by manpower.

The prototype car in front of me has no shell yet, and the structure of the body is made of wood reinforced with the fixing technique, which is also because it is more convenient to modify the wood.

This car currently has only one driver's seat in the center, and the model has been made with cushions and armrests according to Roddy's request. The throttle that controls speed is the energy limit lever located on the right hand side. Pulling back increases the output, pushing forward decreases it, similar to an airplane.

The brake device is installed on the sole of the foot, the left foot is the front wheel brake, and the right foot is the rear wheel brake, all of which are disc brakes with simple structure.

There was no rubber in this era, but the magicians found the pig skin of Runda Wild Boar to replace the pig skin of this kind of wild boar. The skin is very tough and wear-resistant. The compression and spell setting finally became a solid tire with a wall thickness of ten centimeters. Although the wheels themselves are still made of wood, they are more suitable for bumpy road conditions than the pure wooden wheels of normal carriages.

My lord, the problem now is the 'suspension' you mentioned. Because the springs are too different and easy to break, it is difficult to achieve the desired effect.