Transcendent Noble

The Randal Family kept transporting high-quality wood, cowhide, horns, animal tendons, isinglass, and iron to the hill camp, and the finished armaments continuously flowed out from the hill camp, and Distributed into the hands of soldiers. Everyone thought that the hill camp was an armament workshop for the lord. In fact, the mountain fortress is Victor's largest military production base.

In the dead of night, the villagers hid one after another into safe villages and towns. Under the cover of the night, the alchemy militia quietly transported supplies to the mountains, and then pulled the prepared armaments into the hill camps. After all, the number of guards led by Randal is limited, even if all the homunculus types are added, there is still a lot of surplus in the weapons and equipment produced by the fortress.

In the past three years, the mountain fortress has stocked a large amount of armaments. The four cellars store hundreds of barrels of purple cane wine, and the 12 rooms on the first floor are weapons storage rooms. All kinds of weapon armors.

"My lord, we made 240 Thorium heavy crossbows with the tendons of the Ant-Man leader, equipped with 6000 steel essence crossbow bolts, 7000 iron essence crossbow bolts, 200 fine gold crossbow bolts, 150 Thorium crossbows with fine gold, as well as 3 double silver heavy crossbows and 50 fine gold double silver crossbows for your exclusive use."

"90 Thorium crossbows, 300 ordinary crossbows, Equipped with 40,000 iron essence crossbows. 20 Thorium longbows, 80 yew longbows, 10,000 iron essence long arrows. 500 composite hard bows and 60,000 iron essence arrows. In addition, there are 2 double silver composite bows. , 100 fine gold double silver arrows for your exclusive use."

"80 Thorium Ant-Man armor. According to your request, we will save the remaining Ant-Man carapace, enough to build 16 pairs of double silver body Armor."

"Iron essence has 2100 full-body chain armor, steel essence half-length chain armor 105 pairs, each pair of chain armor is equipped with a set of rattan leather hard armor, iron essence helmet, steel essence hand armor and Hard leather boots, and an iron oak buckler, an iron essence long sword, and an iron essence one-handed spear."

Hundreds of green shah candles were brightly lit in the storage room, blue and white. Thorium, the faint blue iron essence, and the silver white steel essence, are shining brightly under the shining of candlelight.

Victor ignored the precious fine gold and double silver equipment, he picked up a steel essence half-length mail and looked at it carefully.

The so-called steel essence is actually an alloy forged with iron and a little iron essence. Steel essence is much stronger than pure iron, and its performance is proportional to the content of iron essence. However, steel essence at any level is not as strong and corrosion-resistant as pure iron essence, but its weight is much lighter than iron essence.

This steel ring bust armor, with blue light in the silvery white color, weighs 12kg, is made of steel essence, double-layered riveting process, the ring eyes are dense and compact, and the workmanship is horrible.

"Beautiful! At least worth 30 goldsore." Victor nodded, shook his head and sighed: "It's still too heavy, how much iron essence did you add?"

"iron essence The ratio to iron is 1:1.5." Buso replied: "My lord, we need more iron to complete the production of 500 sets of steel ring armor."

Steel ring armor with hard leather The inner armor can effectively resist various types of physical damage, including piercing, chopping, and bludgeoning. This is the standard configuration for elite soldiers. The iron essence defensive can be more superior than the steel ring, but its heavy weight is a great burden for the elite soldiers, not to mention the ordinary soldiers of the Randal Family. Therefore, few people use iron essence lock armor.

Victor has thousands of iron essence locks and one set of alchemy militia manpower, and there are more than 2,000 sets left. Knight didn't like these expensive locks, and the elite soldiers couldn't use them. They were almost a waste. In order to meet the needs of ordinary soldiers, Victor purchased many old mail armors from the York family. However, procurement of armaments is not a long-term solution after all. As Randal is leading the expansion of the army, Victor mobilizes iron materials and orders Buso to build 500 sets of steel-ring half-body armor, each weighing no more than 15kg.

Normal whole body steel ring armor, 1:3 iron essence ratio is excellent, and the total weight is 15kg. The half-length steel ring armor made by the alchemy assistant has a ratio of iron essence to iron material of 1:1.5 and weighs 12kg. Although Buso tried its best to increase the proportion of iron essence, the iron material is still not enough.

Centaur Hills is rich in iron essence and lacks iron ore resources. Although iron materials are not a scarce resource, the lord of Gambis is very dissatisfied with the dominance of iron essence by the York family. Without the Royal Family's lead, the lords spontaneously restricted the flow of iron materials into Centaur Hills, only to force the York family to open up the iron essence trade for iron materials, and the exchange ratio was 1:1.

How can the York family agree to such outrageous conditions? At present, the Naville people control the iron essence and iron material market. According to their pricing, the price of iron essence in Gambis is 6 times that of iron material. Duke York seeks a price ratio of 1:5, and will not sell iron essence unless it achieves its goal. Duke York's reason is also very good: once the price of iron essence is released, it will be difficult to increase the price, unless the iron essence is sold to Sasanian. However, Gambis' own iron essence needs have not yet been met, and the act of selling iron essence to Sasanian is no less than betraying the entire Baita camp.

The York family has a deep heritage, it has iron reserves, and there is no shortage of ready-made weapons and armors, and Sophia’s Chamber of Commerce helps them to transfer iron materials. Although the trade volume is not large, it can still maintain Small-scale military renewal.

The two sides are still gambling around the price of iron essence. This puts Victor in a miserable situation.

According to the agreement notarized by God, the York family is supplying Randal with metal ingots. The price is also cheap, but the iron essence material accounts for a large proportion, and the iron material is pitiful. In order to save iron, Randal's farm tools are all made of copper.

If Sylvia hadn't increased the supply of iron materials, Victor would not be able to produce military equipment for ordinary soldiers.

"Forget it, suspend the production of steel ring mail. Iron essence is very valuable. I will lose money to make 1:1.5 steel ring mail. I still forge steel according to the ratio of 1:3. Essence, you can make as many lock armors as you have."

"These iron essence equipment is not available for the ordinary person, so only keep 500 spare sets, and all the rest are smelted back to the furnace." Victor helplessly said: "With I’ll go to the secret library to see."

"Yes. My lord."

The secret library is on the second floor of the castle. It is dedicated to storing precious materials, mainly Ant-Man carapace and rare materials. . Pushing the door open, Victor saw a pile of silver light shimmering metal ingots, which were silver.

Silver ore, as the associated mineral of mithril ore, has been refined as much as 1,100 pounds. This small pyramid made of silver ingots dazzled Victor.

Four years ago, Victor had so much silver that he could wake up in his dreams. Now, this silver is just a hot potato.

Gold, silver and copper, as the carriers of currency, are subject to strict control. The circulation of these precious metals has not only attracted the attention of the Royal Family, but also the local lords and Chamber of Commerce are also very vigilant about precious metal transactions, even if it is only an artifact transaction.

The proliferation of currency will lead to inflation, and the value of Jinsor accumulated by lords everywhere will also depreciate. For the nobles, this is tantamount to someone stealing their wealth.

The private coin is everyone’s public enemy. If Victor learns that someone is using private money to squeeze his own resources, must get his brain out.

In fact, currency issuance is under the supervision of the church, to be precise, in the hands of the church.

Every 36 years is a cycle. Representatives of the various kingdoms bring gold ingots to El Kingdom. Under the organization of the church and the silver tower, they conduct fierce consultations and decide how much gold to issue. As for the distribution of Jinsor, there is another set of methods, which is not directly related to the number of gold ingots carried by each kingdom.

Each kingdom can issue silver sols independently, and the number of issues is determined by the Elder's Council, but it is also subject to the supervision of the church. The right to issue purple gold coin is the autonomous behavior of Royal Family. However, the purple gold coin is actually a bond issued by the Royal Family, which is guaranteed by the reputation of the major Royal Family, and is mixed with precious fine gold, which is of great value in itself.

The church is responsible for casting copper Sol. However, the purchasing power of copper sol is basically the same as the value of copper materials. Sasan Empire once smelted copper sol into copper ingots, which were used to build farm tools and arrow clusters to make up for the gap in iron materials.

The casting of copper Sol is thankless, so let's give it to the church.

Victor has cast a little silver Thor to test the creation rules of Alchemy Tower. Regrettably, the king did not buy into the privately-forged Silver Coin and only concluded that 4 privately-forged Silver Coins are worth 1 copper sol.

No way, Victor can only cast these silver ingots into silverware and crafts, and then slowly release. Of course, he didn't come to see Silver today either.

"Buso, where's my mithril, fine gold, and thorium?"

"My lord, here."

Buso dragged out from the corner After opening the three iron essence boxes, Victor saw three rare metals.

In the leftmost box are four purple-golden metal ingots, which are fine gold.

Associated with copper ore, fine gold is the strongest and most corrosion-resistant metal known. The craftsman uses iron essence to mix a little fine gold to create the fine gold weapon, which is unmatched sharp yet heavy and durable, and will not be broken by other alloy weapons. Adamantite armor is cast by mixing steel essence with adamantine. It is invulnerable, indestructible and impregnable. Non-adamantine weapons cannot be cut. The result of collision depends on each other’s adamantine content. This is why Victor wants to create the Adamantite Crossbow.

The sturdiness of adamantine is incomparable, but its weight is lighter than the same volume of iron. The four small pieces of fine gold in the box weighed only 3.7 pounds, and their market price was 37,000 jinshor, while the king's price was 35,913 jinshor.

Adamantly gold equipment is outrageously expensive, and their importance to Knight is beyond doubt. Many small families are unable to provide adamantine equipment to the family Knight, which leads to a loss of talent.

In the middle box is a small piece of silver white metal ingot, which is only the size of a thumb and weighs only 75 grams. However, such a small ingot metal can be exchanged for 7.5 pounds of Adamantite ingots. Because it is the king of precious metals, the real transcendent metal-Mithril.

Because of the elemental affinity, Mithril allows high-level Knights to exert their full battle strength. In the later years of Silver Knight, the overwhelming majority will conduct Life and Death Trial, hoping to resonate 36 element positions between life and death, communicate with the element sea, and obtain the hope of being promoted to Peak. Although Mithril equipment may not allow Great Knight to survive in the Life and Death Trial, Great Knight without Mithril equipment is 100% immune.

The silver Knight, which is related to Mithril equipment, has the hope of upgrading, so Mithril is a strategic material and has no market. Moreover, the output of Mithril is extremely scarce. Victor has digged the Mithril mine for three years and smelted half a ton of silver, but only 135 grams of Mithril was extracted. Among them, 50 grams of Mithril was exchanged for 5 pounds of fine gold, leaving only 75 grams of Mithril.

No one sells Mithril. The value of 75 grams of Mithril is difficult to measure with gold coin, but Alchemy Tower has set a price for Mithril. The 75 grams of Mithril is worth 210,000 gold coins. you!

Mithril is of little use to the Randal Family. Victor also has double-silver equipment, but he did not sacrifice these Mithril to Alchemy Tower.

Not everyone of the high-ranking Knights of the York family has mythril equipment, and the mythril mine of Randal will be exposed sooner or later. Leaving these mithril, Victor can use them to appease the high-ranking Knights of the York family in the future. Victor did this not to please the York family, but purely for Sylvia.

No matter how powerful Sylvia is, Victor treats her as his own woman. He doesn't want Sylvia to be complained by his subordinates because of the Mithril problem. It is Victor's style to leave room for his own woman, and it has nothing to do with personal strength.

Victor can use Adamantite and Mithril to buy people's hearts and exchange benefits, but he will never take out Thorium!

In Alchemy Empire's material system, both Adamantite and Mithril belong to the second category of materials, and Thorium is the third category of materials. But in Victor's eyes, the value of Thorium is immeasurable, far more than fine gold and mithril.

Thorium can be fused with overwhelming majority materials and give them the characteristics of memory metal. Thorium equipment deforms due to external forces and can also be restored to its original state. For industrial civilization, Thorium is already against the sky.

In fact, Thorium's application prospects in the foreign world are also quite extensive, enough to change an era.

Take the yew longbow as an example. The craftsman first chooses yew wood material with excellent elasticity, supplemented by horns, beef tendon and isinglass, to make the bow body, and then a whole beef back tendon is dried and placed in a special solution to remove the fat, which is called tanning. . The tanned beef tendon bow string is enough to make a long bow.

How about the production cost and performance of the yew longbow?

Yew grows slowly and has poor regeneration ability. It is a precious wood. However, the beef tendon bowstring requires a whole head of cattle. If the beef tendon bowstring encounters water, it will basically be useless. There are also nobles who use spider silk bowstrings, and the cost is too high. Let's not talk about the range and formidable power of the yew longbow. The most terrible thing is that even if the yew longbow is well maintained, it will not last for 10 years. In fact, ordinary armaments use lifespan, even if it is iron essence long sword, it will rust, become brittle, and become unusable over time.

The Thorium Longbow is different.

Thorium can be incorporated into most solid materials, replacing the perishable parts, giving it the characteristics of memory metal. This means that there is no need to choose yew wood for the Thorium longbow. Any kind of hardwood can be turned into a material with excellent elasticity, such as the common hemlock. There is no need to pay attention to bowstrings, beef tendons are also good, and hemp rope woven with sisal fiber can also be used. As long as thorium is incorporated, they will immediately become metal bowstrings with excellent performance.

The formidable power and range of the Thorium Longbow far exceeds that of the Yew Longbow, and it will not break when pulled, and it can adapt to any environment. Most importantly, the Thorium Longbow will not corrode, rust or deform! According to the alchemy assistant, ordinary Thorium equipment can be used for 30 years without maintenance!

As far as Victor knows, Alchemy Empire uses Thorium for infrastructure, such as vehicles.

Is there any bearing in Alchemy Empire? Victor doesn't know, but he knows very well that the Thorium carriage will not easily break its axles and wheels.

In addition to Thorium carriage, there is also Thorium battleship. Just think of the Thorium ship rampaging on the Golden Water River, Victor is extremely excited.

The third iron essence box contains two lumps of semi-liquid spherical metal, about the same size. One is blue and white, and the other is standard silver white. Although they are close together, they are entirely different. Never blend in.

Victor pointed to the silver white muddy metal ball and asked: "Buso, what is this?"

Buso replied: "My lord, silver is a kind of thorium The blue and white one is Type 2 Thorium. Type 1 Thorium is 54 pounds, Type 2 Thorium is 51 pounds."

"You can already refine Type 1 Thorium?" Victor said in surprise: " It seems that the Fire Element crystal is really a red crystal!"

"Yes." Buso said, "My lord, the Fire Element crystal you asked Jack to bring is indeed a red crystal. After we get the red crystal. , Immediately transformed the furnace. After having a large furnace, we extracted 54 pounds of thorium from the previous thorium slag. From now on, your thorium will be a thorium."

The capacity and quality of Thorium are not only limited by Thorium ore, but also the key factor of the furnace. In the beginning, Buso used charcoal as fuel, and only three types of thorium could be extracted. Later, oil wood fuel was used to extract the second type of thorium. However, Fire Element crystals must be used to refine a type of Thorium, otherwise the temperature of the furnace will not be enough.

It takes 30 days to refine the third type of thorium, and only 8 days for the second type of thorium. Because the purity of the second type of Thorium is much higher than that of the third type of Thorium, the consumption of thorium for making equipment is also reduced by 40% compared with the third type of Thorium. It only takes 3 days to refine the first type of Thorium, and the consumption of Thorium is 60% less than that of the third type of Thorium!

With the flame crystal, the production efficiency, quality and quantity of Thorium have been greatly improved. But Victor's focus is not on Thorium.

"You just said, do you use slag to extract a kind of thorium?"

"Yes, sir." Buso nodded and said: "After the furnace is inlaid with Fire Element crystals , The fuel consumption has been reduced by 20%, and the temperature has increased by 1.5 times. This large furnace is sufficient to extract the thorium from the slag."

"So, can mythril slag be refined?"

"Yes."

After getting the affirmative answer, Victor couldn't help but exclaimed: "My iron ore can be refined too!?"

"Of course Yes."

There is an iron ore vein on the west side of Randal collar, but its quality is poor and its iron content is very low. It has almost no mining value. Otherwise, Sylvia would not give Victor this large territory, because they didn't have the friendship they have now.

Alchemy Empire's smelting technology gave that iron ore mining value, and Victor is no longer plagued by insufficient iron. And this advanced technology will bring more benefits: Victor can make a lot of money as long as he purchases rough ore and refines all kinds of metals.

However, these are not the reasons for Victor's excitement. He has an amazing idea vaguely in his mind, but he hasn't figured it out yet.

"Thorium...Fire Element crystal...large furnace..."

Victor was anxiously going around the room, he stopped, muttered: "No! Silver is material! Material... Energy... Energy?! Material! Energy!"

"I see!" Victor slapped his hands and said, "It's a steam engine!"

Victor Turning his head suddenly, he tremblingly asked Buso, "Buso! Will you make a steam engine?!"

"My lord, I have no information about steam engines here."

" Well! A steam engine is a kind of machine that uses fuel to boil water, make the water boil, use water vapor to push pistons, and then drive the ship. Thorium solves the problem of materials, and flame crystal solves the problem of fuel... No matter what Without explosives, there is steam when the water is boiled anyway... Do you understand? Would you do it?"

Victor described it incoherently for a long time, and then looked at Buso eagerly.

In Victor's expectant eyes, Buso shook his head firmly and slowly, "I don't understand. I won't do it."

"You will make a Thorium battleship! Don't tell I, Alchemy Empire’s battleship is propelled by oars or sails, right?" Victor cried strangely.

"My lord, we are only responsible for making the hull. The power part of the battleship is done by the alchemist. In addition, the battleship does have masts and sails."

"Alchemy technology..."

Victor shook the head dejectedly. He only knows how a steam engine works, but he doesn't know how to make a steam engine.

Interlaced lines are like mountains. If someone can replicate a steam engine with just a little bit of superficial knowledge of physics, Victor must slap him in the flace. Victor is able to make white sugar because he has experience in making sugar with indigenous methods. Nevertheless, the production of sugar has not been smooth sailing.

The development of the science and technology tree must follow the laws of the world, and it must also be accumulated over a long period of time. Alchemists master the technology of alchemy. For them, the steam engine may be just an inefficient machine, or the steam engine simply cannot adapt to the laws of this world.

Victor has no way to restore the alchemy civilization system through the knowledge of scales and claws, and it is even more impossible to move the technology tree on Earth to this world. However, the successful use of Fire Element crystal gave him new ideas.

"Buso, other element crystals... well, let me put it another way! Blue Wind Element crystals, green Water Element crystals, and yellow earth element crystals. What are the uses of these crystals?"

Buso can understand what Victor means. He said: "My lord, the energy crystals of all colors are the second-class collections. Except for the red crystal, I don't know the purpose of other crystals."

"Hey , I guess Water Element crystal and Wind Element crystal are the driving force of Thorium battleship. Direct manipulation of water and air is the alchemist’s means." Victor shook the head, and sighed: "Since this is an energy crystal, then red crystal When your energy is always used up. How long can these flame crystals last?

"My lord, these red crystals are of impure quality and can only be classified as three types of red crystals. A large furnace needs to be inlaid with four such red crystals, which are replaced every 50 days. You sent 17 red crystals, which can only be used for 200 days. "

"I see. "Victor nodded, asked again: "Are there other surprises for me?" "

"My lord, the fast bird population has expanded to 118. Now, you can mobilize 30 adult Swiftbirds to form your Swiftbird Hussars. "

Victor immediately became interested. Regardless of the weather getting late, he took the Buso and went out.

"Take me to see. "