Path of light

Chapter 779 780. Conversation

Eight thousand sets of ring-type siren armor filled two magic airships. The armor tailored for sirens was a bit large. When neatly placed in wooden boxes, the size of the wooden boxes was larger than that of ordinary wooden boxes. The two layers of space under the deck of the magic airship could store items.

Some wooden boxes could also be placed on the deck. The half-blood elf guards filled all the available space. A ship only carried more than 3,700 boxes.

In order not to affect the transportation of gray dwarf prisoners, Roy took two magic airships to Sun Island Bay.

Following Roy was the great magician Grams.

I didn't think it was anything special when I was at the airport pier. When the magic airship took off again, the great magician Grams stood on the bow and looked down at the plateau city again. Only then did he find that the city was very attentive in design and construction.

Great Magician Grams didn't see a drainage canal on the street, so he asked Roy:

"Roy, are all the drainage canals in your city designed to be underground canals?"

Roy leaned on one elbow beside the side of the boat and said to Great Magician Grams:

"Well, only the section near the Tolai River is an open canal, look!"

He pointed to the area near the downstream of the Tolai River in the Plateau City and said:

"The only open canal is over there. The drainage canal here collects half of the city's sewage, so this drainage canal has been widened and deepened. In the end, because it was too wide, it was changed to an open canal. It is not easy to dredge the underground canal."

Great Magician Grams looked along the line of defense that Roy pointed to. That was not a drainage canal at all. It looked more like a branch of the Tolai River that went deep into the Plateau City...

Roy continued to introduce the Plateau City to the Great Magician Grems:

"The rainfall in the Plateau City is not very large, but there is also a rainy season of nearly a month, which is almost from late September to the end of October. Before entering the rainy season, the drainage canal needs to be desilted."

The Great Magician Grems looked at a water supply pipeline erected in the air and asked Roy:

"I heard that the Plateau City has a very complete water supply pipeline. Why not use magic rune plates to store water at fixed locations in the city?"

"In addition, I found that fountains have also been built at the intersections of the Plateau City. Many fountain statues at the intersections of the Silver Moon Elf City have water-gathering magic rune plates installed inside. Isn't this more convenient?"

In Grems's cognition, magic fountains should be the standard configuration of a city.

And magic facilities symbolize the level of civilization of a city.

The water pipeline in the Plateau City made the Great Magician Grems feel that this city did not pay attention to the convenience that magic brought to the elves.

Roy leaned out his upper body and looked down at the entire Plateau City.

That water supply pipeline extends from the upper reaches of the Tolai River to the city hall of the Plateau City. It is Mulin'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 built, there were only more than 10,000 elves in this city, and the Plateau City did not have any output.

If magic rune boards were installed in the fountains at the intersections, the daily consumption of magic crystal fragments in the entire city would also be a considerable expense. The half-blood elves living here simply cannot afford it, and I can't pay the Plateau City endlessly.

But laying water supply pipelines in the city is more economical.

The main reason is that we have a natural geographical advantage here. The Tolai River flows from the northwest all the way into the wilderness.

Before it enters the wilderness, especially in the Jiaxi Mountains, the water level difference in the river is relatively large, so it is very convenient to find a water point upstream."

At this time, the magic airship has risen nearly a thousand meters. Not only is the Plateau City in full view, but even a long section of the Tolai River has entered everyone's sight.

The Tolai River gradually became flat after entering the wilderness. In this section of the Kashi Mountains, the riverbed of the Tolai River has a very large drop.

Most of the water in the Tolai River comes from the snowmelt of the Kashi Mountains, and a small part comes from the confluence of some small tributaries in the western part of the Nicobar Mountains.

Roy said to Grahams:

"Another point is that I have a forging workshop that can produce water pipes."

This may be the most important factor, the great magician Grahams thought.

At this time, Roy pointed to the Jiaxi Mountains in the distance and said:

"There are three black iron mines in the Jiaxi Mountains. There are about 70 to 80 carts of black iron ore produced every day. After smelting, these black iron ores will produce nearly 30 tons of ordinary black iron. Note that I said that nearly 20 tons of ordinary black iron will be smelted and produced every day.

Although these 30 tons of ordinary black iron are placed here, they may only be as big as six boxes, but with such a daily output, there will still be a lot of storage over time.

In fact, the mine owner here smelted black iron ore only to obtain the rarer magic black iron in it.

Eighty carts of black iron ore can only smelt a fist-sized piece of magic black iron."

As he said, Roy gestured 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 equal to the value of the magic black iron produced.

They use elf slaves to mine, without much labor cost, as long as they dig it out, they will make a profit.

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 combined are not much. But if it is just for the little magic black iron that is burned out, the three black iron mines will all lose money in operation.

If the black iron ore cannot be made to have 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, which automatically separates the magic black iron, ordinary black iron, and slag directly. The molten juice flows 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 losses to profits.

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 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 make 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 is not at all 'elf speed'."

Roy chuckled:

"Actually, I thought that for a long time, I would have to carefully manage these mines on the Pagisto Plateau, and I would also have to manage the plateau headhunter prisoners of war.

That’s why a livable town was built.

I just didn't expect to finish building this city, so at the invitation of Captain Tiprado, I led the mine guard team to the Bay of Sun Island, intending to drive away the fish-man spirits there. Unexpectedly, a group of murlocs were entrenched 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 would like 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 while..."

Roy was on the magic airship, constantly telling the Great Magician Grimes about his experiences in the Partington plane.

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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 Sun Island Bay. 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 griffin 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 hull also shook violently from side to side under the huge earthquake.

The crew members standing on the deck were instantly wet by the splashing sea water...

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 shook 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.