Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 251 Magic Spring
Early the next morning, under the escort of the Royal Guard Knight and the White Bear Knight, Purficott walked around the mountains outside Death Valley and set out for the discovered cliff.

There were no disturbances along the way, but when passing by a mountain spring, Purficott unexpectedly stopped and inspected the spring.

"It's really interesting. The energy concentration of the spring water here is so high. If those mages in Langton knew that such a place existed, they would go crazy." Purficott held a test tube filled with spring water, his face showing She showed an interested expression, and her right eye was blooming with green light.

There is magic in this world, which needs no elaboration.

However, the magic power in this world is very scarce, and even the most powerful mage may not be able to defeat a knight of the same level in a one-on-one battle.

And this was a perception established before the industrial revolution.

With the development of the industrial revolution, the knight's equipment has been strengthened by technological development. Although it was almost eliminated before Perficott came up with the steam knight armor, there is no doubt that the combat effectiveness has improved.

If measured purely in terms of combat effectiveness, knights after the industrial revolution can probably beat themselves before and after the semi-industrial revolution.

The mage did not gain much improvement in this process.

The reason is also very simple, because their magic power will not increase qualitatively because they have better equipment.

So more than a hundred years ago, a king used the power of the magic node for other purposes, that is, the barrier that enveloped the palace could make the palace feel like spring all year round.

Better equipment only allows them to better use their magic power, but the total amount of magic power will not be qualitatively improved. Although more powerful spells can be cast with more subtle spells, using less energy. Leverage greater miracles, but compared with the improvement obtained by knights, the improvement of mages is too limited.

There is such a magic node in Langton, the capital of the empire. It is said that the reason why the capital of the empire was built here was that the original builders hoped to use the power of the magic node to use magic to build a city wall that would never fall.

In fact, the same is true for alchemists, except that alchemists have turned more to academic research and embraced industry and science, unlike those mages who are still obsessed with their own towers and always insist on the purity of magic.

The city wall was eventually built, but no one knows whether the city wall will never fall, because in the past hundreds of years, the city wall did not play any role, it has always been just a decoration.

After all, the magic power in the entire world is very thin. After the mages leave their towers, it will be very difficult to replenish the magic power once it is consumed.

Civil strife in the empire does not require breaking down the city walls, just sending troops into the city; while invasion by foreign enemies has never happened in the hundreds of years since Langton was founded.

However, there are also some special places in this world. Those places have a relatively richer magic environment, which allows mages to exert more powerful power, and at the same time, it also allows them to better recover their consumed power. These places are what mages call magic nodes.

The mountain spring in front of her was just an inconspicuous spring that she saw. The energy escaping was already no less than the magic barrier of the palace.

One can imagine how crazy those mages would become if they knew that there was such a spring filled with magic power.

After all, the springs have such abundant magic power, so the underground water veins must contain even more amazing energy. And Purficott also figured out why a "giant dragon?" survived in the oil lake. If there was abundant magic power in the underground here, it would be understandable to nourish such a creature.

Purficott studied the spring carefully and saw that its spring water seeped out from a stone crevice, so he did not continue to explore.

After all, such a natural magic spring is rare, and she doesn't want to ruin it.

So she just took some magic spring water and soil samples around the spring and prepared to go back to study, but she did nothing else.

Although she is an alchemist, with the help of Jade Record, she can do some research and use of magic power.

After collecting the collected samples, Perficott and others continued to move forward. It took some time until they reached the cliff that the exploration team members called in the afternoon.

When he came to the edge of the cliff, Perficott looked down. From here, he could have a good view of the entire valley.

This is a crescent-shaped valley, and the overall terrain is concave, as if it was formed after the ground collapsed. This can be inferred from the surrounding cliffs and the broken terrain in the valley.

But these were not the main points that attracted Purficott's attention. At this time, her eyes were attracted by the huge oil lake at the bottom of the valley.

She was sure that it was an oil lake. The dark lake surface reflected the oily light, and it looked like it had rich reserves.

"If this were in the original world, someone would go crazy." Looking at the oil lake, Purficott couldn't help but sigh. If there was such a place in the original world, countries around the world would really launch a war to grab it.

After all, even if Purficott used his omniscient eye to conduct analysis, he could only come to the outrageous conclusion that the lake in front of him was entirely made of oil.

Although this is only a small lake, if the "water" in the lake is all oil, it will be the easiest oil to mine in the world. After all, just drop a pipe and pump it out. There is no need for a series of troublesome processes such as drilling and exploration.

And it can emerge from the ground to form such an oil lake. One can imagine how rich the oil contained under the ground is.

There are two problems that need to be solved urgently if we want to exploit the oil here. One is naturally the problem of hydrogen sulfide gas in the valley.

This highly toxic gas poses a fatal threat to the human body. If this problem is not solved, it will be extremely difficult to lay oil production pipelines and equipment.

The second problem is the "giant dragon?" that Purficott has seen at this moment. It is resting by the oil lake at the moment, surrounded by piles of rotting corpses and bones. It looks very... evil.

"Samantha, are you sure you can kill that dragon?" Purficott looked at the "dragon?" and asked Samantha.

(End of this chapter)