Chapter 1170: Conquering Three Cities
"Elemental energy concentrator? Casting energy source? Your Excellency, Road Builder, you mean that Colossus City uses it as a source of energy for steelmaking? This kind of magical creation is universal and can be used on a large scale in various industries that require heat? "Arch Druid Melvin reacted immediately.
"Yes, this is the most basic way to use it." Gavin took back his power and directly pushed the elemental energy concentrator towards Valentino, the wearer of the crown. "Your Excellency, the wearer of the crown, why not feel it for yourself."
Everyone present was obviously taken aback, obviously not expecting Gavin to be so generous.
Valentino did not reach out to take it, but shook his head and refused: "This is not appropriate."
"There is nothing inappropriate about this. As long as this thing is put into large-scale use, it is inevitable that the secrets will be cracked. I just hope that you can keep it secret before then." Gavin insisted, "Our next cooperation It will be carried out around this new magic equipment, and energy supply will be replaced by elements as much as possible. Maybe you will develop application scenarios that I can't imagine."
The crowned man and the archdruid looked at each other involuntarily.
The archdruid smiled boldly and said: "Since we have decided to cooperate with Your Excellency the Road Builder, there are no more taboos. I will go first."
"Please." Gavin naturally would not refuse.
If you want these natural races to work for you, you must come up with something practical.
Merely relying on slogans and concepts can only support a short period of time, but cannot last long.
The archdruid was not polite and walked directly forward, stroking the elemental energy concentrator, closing his eyes and concentrating, injecting his thoughts into it, and coordinating perception with it.
Wisps of green light spread out from his body, like rooted trees, rooted in the elemental energy concentrator.
This behavior of the archdruid undoubtedly stimulated the elemental energy concentrator, and miniature flaming flying dragons emerged inside, dancing and swimming wildly. They had a restraining effect on this green light, and were absorbed before it penetrated deeply. Burn it.
Melvin immediately opened his eyes and took a step back to avoid being burned by the rising flames. He couldn't help but exclaimed: "Those flaming dragons are still alive. This elemental stone... this elemental energy concentrator." It turned out to be the same as the magic lamp, just a container used to imprison them.
They can automatically absorb the surrounding fire elements to achieve the purpose of utilization. Magical ideas and exquisite magic use are indispensable. "
Although he only had time to touch the elemental energy concentrator for a moment, it was enough for the archdruid to peek into some of his mysteries and understand its operating principles.
"Imprisoning the Flame Dragon!" Valentino, the crowned one, finally failed to resist the attraction of this new magical instrument. He stepped forward, ignoring the rising flames on the elemental energy concentrator, and directly pressed his big golden hand on it.
The golden light wrapped around his arm like a substance, and it seemed that the golden dragon scales could be vaguely seen in it, protecting him from the flames.
The wearer, like Gavin, also has the ability to be immune to fire.
roar!
The flame dragons in the elemental energy concentrators seemed to feel the threat, roaring and rolling wildly, trying to gather the power of fire to fight against them.
roar!
An even more terrifying dragon roar came faintly from Valentino. The golden light all over his body rose, and the threads crocheted to form the outline of a giant dragon, crouching behind him.
Although it has only a simple outline, it is highly distinguishable.
He has a face like a saint, exuding an aura of wisdom, with soft beard-like thorns hanging on both sides of the corners of his mouth. The horns extend back along his nose and forehead, complementing the two folds decorating his neck. Huge dragon wings It is shaped like a sail and spreads from the shoulders to the end of the tail, making it look like two rows of golden fish scale spikes.
Golden dragon!
The one who signed the dragon contract with Valentino the Crowned One is a golden dragon, the royal family among metal dragons, the embodiment of justice and nobility.
Gavin had already guessed it, and now it was just a concrete move.
Valentino, the one who wears the crown, has no intention of being secretive. The golden power is directly injected into the elemental energy-gathering stone, like a golden dragon's breath.
In front of him, the flaming flying dragons were in disarray. They didn't even survive a round before they all turned against them and cheered around the golden dragon's breath injected into them.
It is difficult for these sub-dragons to form effective resistance in front of the real giant dragon, and becoming vassals is their best fate.
With the help of these flaming dragons, Valentino the Crowned One easily gained a deeper understanding of the elemental energy concentrator.
After taking back his own energy, Valentino let out a long breath and said: "This innovative invention by Mr. Road Builder is really great, and it will change the way magic is used in the entire world.
Once used on a large scale, forests will be significantly freed from their original fate.
I decided to formally conclude an alliance with the Lord of Zalanda at the Winter Feast. I will send my son to join her private council on my behalf to promote the friendly development of the two races. "
At this moment, the person wearing the crown showed his secular side.
If the annual steel output of Colossus City is 100,000 tons, he saw the possibility of Zalanda unifying the Tethyr Kingdom.
Then the elemental energy concentrator makes this matter a necessity.
To stand by her side was to be on the side of the winner.
Ideals cannot be eaten as food. He is the crowned bearer of Vidals Forest and must consider the countless forest residents here.
"Okay." Gavin said with a sincere smile, "I will bring this good news to the Lord of Zalanda. We will discuss the specific content of the covenant at the Winter Feast."
Zalanda taught Gavin a lesson in the past few days, there are some things that cannot be rushed, and both parties need to be given enough time.
"Okay." The person wearing the crown was also not in a hurry.
"Your Excellency, Road Builder, please allow our Mossy City to continue to remain neutral." Arch Druid Melvin stated his concerns truthfully, "We are now deeply bound to other Tethyr nobles. Once we deviate, Without a neutral stance, it is easy to cause unnecessary situations, and the Lord of Zalanda is beyond his reach.
However, please rest assured, Mr. Road Builder, when one day the Lord of Zalanda decides to launch a war of unification, our Mosish City will definitely be the first to respond. "
"It's understandable." Gavin said very tolerantly, "We can continue to cooperate in the previously agreed upon manner, which is the best support for the Lord of Zalanda."
"Thank you for your understanding, Your Excellency Road Builder." The Archdruid obviously felt a huge stone fall in his heart.
Valentino, the one wearing the crown, couldn't help but ask: "This elemental energy concentrator is just the core device for energy supply. If you want to use it, you will need special supporting equipment, right?"
"Yes." Gavin revealed a little about his grand idea. "If this device is installed on a carriage, it can replace the horse. If it is installed on the forging furnace, it can replace the flame supply. How to use it is not a matter of how to use it. No, it’s a matter of whether it can be thought of.
I plan to open a tunnel between Colossus City and Darauma, directly use this elemental energy concentrator as an energy source, build a guide rail traction train, and pull hundreds of carriages at one time, thereby achieving the goal of large-scale transportation of goods. Purpose.
If you who wear the crown are interested, I can include your Wildas Forest as a part of it. "
This plan was not a spur-of-the-moment idea, but something that had already been put on the agenda.
No matter how high the steel production in Colossus City is, it will be meaningless if it is not fully utilized.
Among them, road infrastructure bears the brunt. Only by connecting one's own territory can greater energy be unleashed.
"Towing hundreds of carriages at a time, how much cargo must be pulled? Hundreds of tons?" Archdruid Melvin asked in shock.
That kind of caravan with hundreds of carriages is definitely a very large caravan. Every time it passes by Mosishi City, it is so vast that it can't be seen to the end.
To pull these carriages completely together is something completely beyond imagination.
"Hundreds of tons?" Gavin couldn't help but smile. "If the carrying capacity is only a few hundred tons, is it worth such a big trouble and massive investment? The single carrying capacity must at least exceed thousands of tons, reaching tens of thousands of tons. It’s not impossible.”
"A single carrying capacity of tens of thousands of tons? It's unimaginable, it's completely unimaginable." The Archdruid did not feel ridiculed, and only lamented his ignorance, "If this sentence comes from other people's mouth, I will definitely not I would believe it, but if a god who is the god of the road says it, I can’t help but not believe it.”
"It's not a matter of who said these words." Valentino, the crowned one, said solemnly, "It's a matter of whether the corresponding conditions can be met.
The energy source is available, the steel production is available, and the problem of casting is not difficult to overcome if there are enough dwarf craftsmen. Even the underground tunnels are ready..."
"The underground tunnel is ready-made. What do you mean by this?" Gavin interrupted the wearer in surprise.
Valentino, the one wearing the crown, was equally surprised and said: "Your Excellency, the Road Builder, wants to build the road underground, isn't it because he discovered the Underdark Passage during the Shanatar Empire?"
"The Underdark passages from the Shanatar Empire?" Gavin's eyes suddenly lit up, "How could I have forgotten this matter? So, there are still many Underdark passages from the Dwarf Empire that have been preserved. ?”
At the end, he added, "The reason why I want to build the tractor underground is because there are too many unsafe factors in the wild and it is easy to be damaged. I originally planned to use purple insects or giant insect night shadows to drive it by myself. Dig a tunnel.”
"So that's it. Your Excellency the Road Builder's handiwork is greater than I expected." Valentino exclaimed in admiration, "As far as I know, not only did the Underdark Passage exist during the Shanatar Empire, but there were also a lot of it. , but I don’t know much about the specific situation.
The dwarves of the Star Swirl Mountains have first-hand information about these passages, and many of them are still in use. They trade with us through these passages. "
"Thank you for the information, Your Majesty the Crowned One." Gavin couldn't help laughing, "I happen to be visiting the leader of the dwarves in the Star Swirl Mountains at the next stop. This way, we have another point where we can discuss and cooperate."
"Why wait until then?" The crowned person suggested, "I have a private contact information with Patriarch Surila. Wouldn't it be more appropriate for me to directly ask her to send it over and discuss it together?"
"Theoretically, this is indeed more appropriate, but it would be too rude. I have already made an appointment with him." Gavin said with difficulty.
He could see through the other person's mind at a glance.
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It's not that the Crowned One has suddenly become impatient, but that the interests involved are too great and he wants to be a direct participant rather than being excluded.
"Chief Surila is not someone who pays attention to these secular etiquette, especially when the future of her people is at stake." Valentino explained.
Gavin followed suit and said, "Then I'll trouble you, Your Majesty the Crowned One."
He was happy to see the situation in front of him, and it was not just a matter of saving time.
In the process of negotiating with the dwarf leader of the Star Swirl Mountains, the crowned man and the archdruid who have been convinced by him will stand on his side, perhaps without even noticing.
Although in his eyes it is the least difficult to convince the dwarves of the Star Swirl Mountains, he has several king bombs in his hands to deal with them.
The City of the Colossus is just one of them, the other is the Stone of the Earth. It is estimated that no dwarf can refuse the temptation of building an alchemy production line of his own.
Valentino fell into a brief silence, apparently communicating spiritually.
A few minutes later, the magical aura of teleportation bloomed outside the door again, and a female dwarf wearing iron leather clothes walked out of it.
This female dwarf does not have a beard as in the legend. This is a stereotype of other races against dwarves.
However, it is true that her body is unusually stocky, and her hands and feet are unusually thick, a bit like a short and thick bucket, which is very inconsistent with the aesthetic views of other humanoid races.
The female dwarf fell on Gavin at the first sight. She walked inside with her short legs and wiped her hands on her leather jacket. She laughed boldly and said, "Sorry, I was in a hurry and didn't have time to change clothes. Surila has met the Lord of the Heart of the Mountains, the Great Restarter."
She seemed to want to give Gavin a dwarf hug directly.
Gavin, who knew the nature of these dwarves very well, immediately extended his right hand and said with a smile: "We were too abrupt and advanced the originally agreed time. It's just that some of the issues we are talking about now, it is best to It is more appropriate for multiple parties to sit down and talk together.”
"See you sooner or later. That's why you humans are so cumbersome. I have long wanted to visit the great restarter, but I have never had the chance."
Surila wiped her right hand carefully again, and then shook hands with Gavin, "Is there anything I can do to help Mr. Restarter?"
It is not difficult to see from her title that Gavin's status as the restarter of Colossus City is far more noble than the road demigod.
"I'll let you, Your Excellency the Road Builder, add some more." The one with the crown took the initiative to say.
"Okay." Gavin naturally would not refuse. This kind of thing would be more credible if a third party said it.
The person wearing the crown briefly summarized the topics they had talked about before with the dwarf patriarch. All the topics about nature were skipped, and the focus was on multi-party trade and the construction of underground rail trains.
He has extensive experience in dealing with the other party and knows what she is interested in and what she is not interested in.
"Elemental energy concentrator? Underground rail train?" Surila, the dwarf patriarch, was not surprised by the restart of Colossus City and the astonishing steel production, and seemed to have already known about it.
Jiharin, the wandering dwarf king of the Kingdom of Tesyama, invites dwarves from all over the world to the City of the Colossus. He is well known among the dwarves. After restarting the ancient dwarf automatic production line, it is normal to have this annual output, but it is abnormal if it does not exist.
She was more interested in the elemental energy concentrator and the underground rail train. She kept circling the elemental energy concentrator in the field and kept admiring, "I once saw something like this on an ancient dwarf rune mural. The great idea was only limited by the problem of traction force, and this plan could not be put into practice.
Unexpectedly, the restarters not only proposed this great idea again, but also solved the last problem.
If it were thousands of years later, the Shanata Kingdom would probably not fall apart, but could continue to this day. "
At the end of the sentence, the dwarf leader obviously lamented and lamented.
The biggest problem why the dwarves were unable to build a powerful empire was transportation.
Although most of the dwarves are of the same ancestry, once they split, they will become isolated island communities or kingdoms, with very few interactions with each other, making it difficult to help each other.
By the time other dwarf communities or kingdoms got the message and traveled across mountains and rivers to arrive, most of those dwarf communities or kingdoms asking for help were already a thing of the past.
"Different paths lead to the same goal. This is the inevitable path for development to a certain extent." Gavin was not surprised that Shanata Kingdom had similar ideas.
After all, the other party's steel production is there, and Colossus City even has its own steam railcar, but it is limited by energy supply and can only be used within the mining area for limited purposes.
"Sorry, I'm obsessed with the glory of my ancestors again." Surila calmed down her emotions and said, "There are indeed still a large number of Underdark passages during the Shanatar Kingdom.
As far as I know, the northernmost end can reach the Dragon Coast, and the eastern end can reach the Rift Valley Lake in the Char Plains.
The entire Kingdom of Amn, Tethyr and Calimshan is filled with Underdark passages, which is the fundamental reason for the rise of the Kingdom of Shanatar.
These parts of the Underdark have always been natural and existed forever. Our dwarf ancestors just connected them and used them for our own use.
It's just that the dark area we set foot in is only a small part around the Xingxuan Mountains, and most of the area has been lost.
I heard that the Underdark area on the Calimshan side has been occupied by drow elves, and there have always been legends about the underground Shatana Kingdom under the Kingdom of Tethyr, but we have not been able to get in touch with it. "
The dwarf leader of the Xingxuan Mountains was not stingy with the information he had, and told the truth.
"Good, good, good." Gavin applauded repeatedly, with an unconcealable joy in his eyes.
Excavating completely by oneself and repairing and expanding with existing ones are two completely different concepts.
Especially when it comes to the three kingdoms.
Once he lays the underground rail car under their kingdom, can they still escape?
He can transport the army to their hinterland in a few minutes and make an internal explosion.
At that time, it is not impossible to restore the territory of the Shanatar Kingdom, but it will not be in the hands of the dwarves, but humans.
As for recovering the lost Underdark, it is another problem. (End of this chapter)
