The Defeated Dragon

At the earl's birthday party, what surprised Liszt the most was that the indifferent relationship between him and Ronasa Golden Ears resumed.

Perhaps this is the noble's instinct to act. After the passion, they return to their respective life trajectories.

non-interference.

Apart from some emotions, he didn't have much other thoughts, so he returned to Huahua Town after taking a rest in the afternoon. The affairs of the territory are intricate, without him as the backbone, it always makes people feel uneasy. However, after returning to the territory, he found that there was nothing urgent to deal with.

So he went straight to the burial place on Heima Island to extract the magic power of the fire dragon.

Infusing magic power into the fire dragon bones can also be done by the knights under him. Extracting the magic power of the fire dragon and pouring it into the fire dragon jar can only be done by himself, after all, only he has the secret skills of fighting qi. Once you get the hang of it, canned dragon magic comes at a fast pace.

About four tons of volcanic glass can be extracted a day, filling nearly eight cans of fire dragon jars.

After extracting the magic power of the fire dragon, the volcanic glass was immediately sent to the newly built crystal workshop in the port town, and handed over to the crystal craftsman Brad to carve the utensils.

Volcanic glass is not as hard as crystal, but much harder than glass, and has good permeability, making it suitable for making glassware. Cups, wine glasses, teacups, teapots, decanters, glasses, test tubes, and vials for potions—all of these are not for sale.

The reason is simple, volcanic glass has the effect of blocking the magic power of fire dragons, so he guessed that this material can also block the magic power of other dragons.

Then its value is hard to estimate.

In his spare time, Liszt also went to the blacksmith shop to find a blacksmith stove, blast leather bag and charcoal, and conducted high-temperature experiments—he remembered that glass could be melted and blown repeatedly.

So I want to melt the residue generated when Brad carved volcanic glass, and knead it into other shapes for secondary use.

The charcoal was burning in the blacksmith's furnace, and the servants kept stepping on the blower bag, blowing the charcoal in the stove into flames. The volcanic glass is placed in the furnace and burned in an iron tank—he is not sure what the melting point or softening point of the glass is. If it is higher than the melting point of iron, the experiment will definitely fail.

Fortunately, the volcanic glass began to melt when the tin can was just turning red.

It quickly melted into a bright soft mass.

Liszt ordered the operating servants to pour out the ball of volcanic glass and place it on another piece of red-hot iron. Then let a retinue knight insert an iron pipe into the soft glass and blow hard. The knight's lung capacity is very large, and the soft glass will start to expand with a light blow.

After expanding into a spherical shape, Liszt stopped him and pulled out the iron pipe.

After a little treatment on the mouth of the bottle, an ugly glass bottle is freshly baked. Then a master from the Huolong Brick Factory came to help complete the annealing process. The annealing was discovered by the workers of the Huolong Brick Factory.

However, the bricks splashed with water are easy to break.

So the workers, stimulated by the lord's reward, after a long period of exploration, found a reasonable annealing process, which greatly reduced the crushing strength of the fired products. There were ten workers, so they were rewarded with ten silver coins each, and became the first batch of master craftsmen in Huolong Brick Factory.

From a simple worker to a qualified craftsman.

Because volcanic glass is a new product, the master chef does not know what temperature is the appropriate annealing temperature, so he can only explore slowly. However, after the volcanic glass cooled, he took the initiative to report to Liszthui: My lord, there is one thing I don't know if you want to know.

Tell me. Liszt has always encouraged the citizens to discover new things.

The master is not very old, about 20 years old, named Artest, a serf from the Eagle Kingdom: You know that the Huolong Brick Factory is always looking for new materials for calcination, once a serf from the Thorn Caravan brought a It is a kind of yellow-white rock, which can still feel a little transparent when facing the light.

See Liszt listening carefully.

Artest said nervously and expectantly: I will throw this rock into the kiln for calcination,

But they were weird, melted into a puddle very quickly, and when I took it out, it quickly changed into another... Like, like this volcanic glass you let me anneal, only cloudy .

Um?

Liszt raised his eyebrows: Like volcanic glass?

Yes, it is also soft, solidifies quickly, and is somewhat transparent. I handed it to the master craftsmen in the brick factory to watch it together. No one can figure out what its use is, and it shatters quickly. We identified it It is not suitable for calcination, so this kind of rock is abandoned. Artest said.

His words touched Liszt a lot.

If the guess is correct, the substance Artest calcined is the glass he has been waiting for for a long time—primitive glass made of quartz.

The stones brought by the serfs in the thorn caravan must be the raw material of glass—quartz.

Liszt once looked for quartz. He tried to stuff all the stones and soil on the territory into the kiln of Huolong Brick Factory for calcination, but he failed to calcine glass.

In the hazy impression, it seems that the sand on the seaside can make glass, but the result is disappointing, the sand on the seaside cannot be calcined into glass.

The sand on the beach here seems to be the remains of sand grains formed by the weathering of ancient coral reefs.

Unexpectedly, the rocks brought from other places might be quartz ore. Liszt immediately issued an order to let Gao Ertai take charge of the matter: Consultant Gao Ertai, what you need to do is to buy a batch of Artest. Said this type of rock, and then cooperate with the forging glass experiment, remember to keep it secret.”

My lord, can this kind of stone really be calcined into glass, just like those cups you made from volcanic glass? Galtai was very puzzled.

Whether it is true or not, we have to wait until after the experiment to make a decision.

...

The possible discovery of quartz made Liszt overjoyed. He could already imagine how glass, as a specialty of Heima Island, would amass wealth in the future.

In the era of expensive crystals, small nobles certainly could not resist the temptation of glass products.

certainly.

Before confirming that the rock was quartz ore, Liszt did not get carried away. He continued his volcanic glass experiment—to confirm that the recalcined volcanic glass still has the effect of blocking the magic power of the fire dragon.

The dragon needle absorbs a little dragon magic.

After injecting it into the new fire dragon bottle, he soon discovered that the magic power of the fire dragon was still in the form of magic power, flowing quietly in the fire dragon bottle without any leakage. This proves that the effect of volcanic glass blocking the dragon's magic power will not change with melting and deformation.

So, the volcanic glass on Heima Island does have high strategic value, and it is likely to help me subdue the dragon and complete the great cause of riding a dragon.

He thought happily.