A strange world

Chapter 1218 Section 140. New means of transportation

In the next three days, Annan was not only unable to sleep or eat, but also extremely anxious.

This made Olmedo very confused.

She rarely saw Annan so passionate about something.

"For that steam engine? What's its use?"

"It can increase our transportation speed."

"Didn't we build a road? In addition, there is a port and a tunnel under construction."

"It's different." Annan shook his head. "If there is such a ship, its speed is 100 to 200 miles per hour, and it can transport 1,000 tons, that is, 2 million pounds of cargo, or transport thousands of people, what would your reaction be?"

"Can the steam engine you mentioned do it?"

"That's right!"

Annan tore a piece of white paper with great interest and drew a pattern.

"Is this... a snake?"

"This is a railroad track, used to carry the 'train', just like the sea water." Annan continued to draw the front of the train and the carriage on the railroad track: "This is the 'train', which is what I call a ship. The front of the train pulls the body behind it and travels on the railroad track."

"How big does the steam engine have to be to pull so much cargo?"

"Not very big."

Olmedo believed Annan, but she couldn't believe that a non-magical machine could pull such a huge body.

Annan didn't blame her, humans couldn't imagine things they hadn't seen.

"You'll know after it's made."

Annan imagined the future Free City: with a variety of transportation, people can take ships, trains, airships, and portals to Free City at any time.

The influence of Free City is already very large, at least many places in Middle-earth that are not remote have heard of it. But knowing is not enough, they have to see it. This is what the commercial street is doing, and the best way is to let them set foot on the land of Free City.

But the world of Allen is too big, so big that Wilhelm, the birthplace of the main race, is just a "world island", and so big that the Allen continent is just a major part of the world.

Annan would need months to trade with his distant friends.

To realize the vision in his mind, he could either teleport or shorten the distance between them.

The former was that the wizard tower in Liberty City was not high enough, and Annan was doing the latter.

Finally, on the third day, Annan went to the mushroom house to find Michael. He did not escape this time and made a real "steam engine", or a magic machine?

Abandoning the steam part, the appearance of the magic machine was much simpler, like a metal box: there were several magic runes in the box, the runes were against the lever, and the lever was connected to the gear.

When it came to actual use, the gears drove the wheels.

In front of Annan, Michael activated the magic rune: the complicated and mysterious rune lit up, and then released power to push the lever, and the lever turned the gear and idled at a constant speed.

Annan waved his fist excitedly.

Michael didn't understand why Annan was so excited, nor did he understand what this was for, but at least it was easier to make than the steam engine that had confused him before...

"What kind of magic rune is this?"

"Thrust rune."

"There is such a rune?"

"Do you know many runes?" Michael asked back.

Annan was speechless and paid attention to the thrust rune.

The prototype of the magic machine has been released, and the next step is to make it meet Annan's needs through continuous improvement. For example, bigger, stronger, and more thrust runes, this is easy to achieve. The thrust rune is not a complicated magic rune, and it is not even as difficult to cast as the "magic machine" that Annan required.

Annan spent a whole day in the blacksmith shop, and at the cost of two barrels of distilled liquor, he asked Bronzebeard to lead several dwarf craftsmen to make magic machines, locomotives, and rails according to his requirements.

Annan placed the test site at the construction site of the new school, so that it would be convenient to dismantle it at that time.

A few days later, Michael told Annan that the trial magic machine he had been thinking about was ready.

It is nominally a trial model, but its size is exactly the size of the official model. It is a big black box in the alchemy room... just like Michael's goblin machine.

As Michael activated the thrust rune, the lever drove the gears to rotate in a beautiful and almost regular way, but beauty is always short-lived. Annan, who was obsessed with the rotation of the gears, found that they were getting slower and slower until they completely stopped.

"How long has it been?"

"Three minutes."

"Why is it only so short?"

"How much magic power can you expect the magic rune to store?"

That's right. If the magic rune never stops, there is no reason for me to invent these.

So additional energy is still needed to power the magic rune.

"We can install the crystal that can store magic power to power the rune."

"Magic crystal? It's not stable."

So the magic crystals produced in Free City are used as bombs or to increase the power of mountain copper artillery.

"There is always a way to make it stable."

Annan did not intend to climb the technology, or the magic tree, from scratch... He did not believe that Wilhelm, who could even make the top creation of the Arcane Energy Core, could not make a stable magic crystal.

If it really doesn't work, the magic stone will do, whichever one has the best cost performance.

Annan went to Wilhelm to purchase, and the merchant did have more stable crystals for sale, but they were not as good as the magic stone.

The advantage of magic crystal is that it can store a large amount of magic elements and choose to release them in small amounts or all at once. In times of crisis, it can also be thrown out as a spell. The disadvantage is that after being released, it either turns into an ordinary crystal or requires complex alchemy to infuse magic power.

The advantage of the magic stone is that it can be used repeatedly, and it can even burn runes to restore magic power on its own. The disadvantage is that it has a limited storage capacity and will only fill the surrounding magic elements for a period of time after being smashed.

Obviously, the Philosopher's Stone is more in line with Annan's expectations. It doesn't matter if the storage capacity is limited, the quality is not enough to make up for the quantity.

Moreover, the Magic Stone Mage Tower can be made, which saves a lot of money.

With a wave of his hand, Annan told Michael that he had enough magic stone tubes and asked him to spend as much as he could to conduct a second experiment in a short time.

In the next few days, the locomotive and rails were gradually produced, and a piece of land on the construction site was borrowed for Michael to test.

In mid-June, Michael sent someone to tell Annan that everything was ready.

The excited Annan called his eldest sister and Olmedo to the construction site to review the birth of the first train in Liberty City.

In a corner of the construction site, there was a strange-looking... vehicle that made Annan miss him and Olmedo and others puzzled.

Because its wheels are too small, and they are still placed on two rails that extend dozens of meters away. And what kind of car is made of all metal, like a metal behemoth?

"Is it safe?" Annan asked Michael.

"Who could hurt you in Liberty City?"

"That's right." Annan asked him how to control it, and then boarded the train to the surprise of the eldest sister and Olmedo.

Annan wanted to personally control the steel beast's first voyage.