Chapter 98 Sharing Your Worries

Year 648 of the Demon King's Calendar.

May 7, night.

The first waterwheel built by the river 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 Aldai. I don’t know what she was tinkering with inside. Occasionally, people passing by could always hear the sound of clanging sounds coming from inside.

Passers-by thought, don’t worry about the magician. What if someone dislikes you and turns you into a frog?

Leon's territory was only so big in total, and the news spread from one place to another, and everyone took a detour when passing near the water wheel.

"Did you really make compressed biscuits?"

Viola held her chest with her hands, a little unconvinced by Aldai's statement.

"After trying it several times, I finally succeeded."

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

The technical content of compressed biscuits is indeed not high, and the recipe is simple. If you just make it at home, it is almost impossible to succeed without tools.

Grains such as barley, wheat and oats are ground into flour and flour, cut into rectangular pieces, punched with wooden skewers, dried in the shade, and then baked in the oven.

The finished product is a very solid biscuit.

"Shade drying takes a full day, and this is the finished product I've made before. It also lasts a long time in storage."

Viola took a bite and immediately frowned:

"It doesn't taste good. It's too hard. It's different from the compressed biscuits you brought from Junshang."

Zola tried it and said it didn't work.

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

"It's not a compressed biscuit after all."

Aldai snapped her fingers, and immediately a string of blue light flew over from the side, holding up the biscuit plate and flying towards the stone mill on one side.

It was an invisible servant created by magic, able to carry out simple commands.

Pour the biscuits into a stone mill and grind into fine powder particles.

Aldee collected 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, it will be raw, and the grain powder will not be roasted in the subsequent processes."

After Aldai mixed the powder and oil in the large pottery bowl evenly, she pulled out a steel mold.

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

The main job of the blacksmiths in Leon's territory is to make agricultural tools, and they cannot make anything too high-end. This aspect really depends on the dwarves.

Pour the powder into the mold, cover it with a raised lid, and place the mold under the hydraulic punch.

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 the gears, and is equipped with a tenon to prevent it from suddenly falling when it is half-way charged.

When the force is fully charged, the switch is pulled, and the fully charged hammer hits the steel mold with a clang.

After repeating it several times, Aldai opened the lid behind the mold, pushed it with her fingers, and took out the finished product inside.

It was originally a mixture of powder and oil, but now it is solid, and it really looks like a compressed biscuit.

"Although there is a certain gap between it and Junshang's compressed biscuits, the properties are almost the same."

The advantage of compressed biscuits is that they are high in energy and are easy to store and carry. Although they are very hard, they can be soaked in hot water and turned into porridge.

This is much more convenient than making a fire to bake bread and cook.

Everything else is easy to make when making this thing, except that it requires more than six tons of pressure to shape the biscuits. That's why it is said that this thing is difficult to make at home, and you need to buy special hydraulic tools.

Aldai's water-powered punch is barely enough, and the ratio of oil to powder must be constantly adjusted in order to form. It took a lot of effort.

"Next, it needs to be wrapped in oil paper and put into boxes for storage. With the current production capacity of the Leon Territory, it is estimated that large-scale mass production will not be possible for the time being."

One of the big reasons is not enough oil.

The vegetable oil in this world is basically olive oil, and olives are not produced in Leon's territory. If you want oil, you have to wait for merchants to come. But the trade routes on the road have been blocked, and until the sea transportation is unblocked, the oil cannot be transported at all.

"Only when the paper mill is completed and the crops of peanuts and rapeseed given by Your Majesty mature on a large scale, can the compressed biscuits be mass-produced. I doubt if Your Majesty expected this before letting Viola and you build the paper mill and cultivate it. New crops.”

"Of course, the greatness of Your Majesty's thoughts cannot be guessed by ordinary people!"

Viola was as always 'everything your Majesty said is right'.

But Aldai doesn't think so. Even God must have something he hasn't calculated.

As for this unexplored area, Aldai just wanted to give it a try.

So she followed Viola's words and said:

"Since Your Majesty is so great, shouldn't we also share your worries?"

Viola was not stupid. She knew there was something in her words as soon as she heard it, and she immediately became alert:

"What on earth do you want to do?"

"It's nothing. I have to go back to the academic city in two days to prepare a new paper, but before that, I have something very curious..."

"You'd better just say it."

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

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

"No, you and the knights of the guard have overlooked one place."

"What is it?"

"I heard my father mention that the Avarus royal family is said to have a treasure that can connect to the Demon King."

Although Ordai is also a royal family, she is not a direct descendant, so she is not qualified to see it, let alone study it.

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

But now there is no doubt about 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 really didn't think about this question, because that thing didn't look like a ring at all.

In Ordai's expectant eyes, Viola hesitated again and again, 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 much smaller egg.

This thing is not likely to be picked up when it is thrown on the ground, and there is really no element related to the ring.

"Can I study it?"

"Yes, but it can't leave my sight."

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

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

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

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

"Give up, my father has found many powerful magicians to study it, but none of them found any problems."

"Indeed, magic can't detect it at all, it's like an ordinary metal product."

Hearing this tone, Aoerdai seemed to give up, but the next moment, she picked up the awl on the table and pierced her finger.

"It's not that their magic is not proficient enough, but that they lack the most critical royal blood."

Aoerdai squeezed out a drop of blood and dripped it on the pendant. The next moment, the pendant, which was originally a black iron pendant, lit up with a dazzling magic 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...