For now, I think it would be good to build a flame furnace with something that comes to mind, right, Ai?
"Isn't there a problem?" If you can use a blast furnace to refine iron and make Vulcan steel, you will be more efficient in silver smelting. ”
How to use [Lassen's Prison Flame Cauldron] as Galius called it.
I still don't know what the rationale is, but there is no indication that the fire will go out in response to the magical power flowing out of the ground.
When I thought about what to make of this place in order to make effective use of the super-high temperature flame that never vanished, the flame furnace immediately came to my mind.
A special furnace made using flame ore.
The flame blast furnace, which is capable of reacting to magic and producing temperatures higher than any existing furnace before, should be able to help you simply by blacksmithing.
Even if the ore contains the same metal, the refining results will differ depending on the furnace.
In the flame blast furnace of the sky kingdom, you can make an unusual steel called Barca steel from iron ore instead of just iron.
A weapon made of Vulcan steel has a special pattern on its surface, which can be cut off by an ordinary iron sword.
Unifying the Orient forces' weapons with Vulcan steel will definitely improve their capabilities considerably.
However, Ai also evaluated the flame blast furnace from another perspective.
It's about silver alchemy.
The silver smelting technique that Elle and the others can use can turn their iron into silver.
However, because Elle's magic power is capped by each of them, there is only a limited amount of iron that can be turned into silver in one day.
I was wondering if I could use breeding and cloning techniques to get rid of it and increase the number somehow.
But there was another way to get more silver.
It increases the purity of the iron.
In silver smelting, iron is turned into silver, but if there is any impurity in that iron, the amount of silver that can be obtained by consuming magic power will be reduced.
Then what if it was a steel with less impurities, like Vulcan steel?
You can get more silver with the same magic power.
In other words, it is more efficient to use iron than to use silver smelting on iron ore, and it is more efficient to use steel than to use iron.
If you have a blast furnace made from flame ore, you will be able to make a lot of Vulcan steel.
That way, you can keep the silver in hand more efficiently.
Under the circumstances, I'd say a blaze furnace.
Use this [Rassen's Prison Flame Cauldron] flame to make steel.
It might be a good idea to buy a lot of iron and try it on a large scale.
"Then let's adjust the flow of the river accordingly."
A river? Isn't there a new river at a distance from here, Ai?
“If you're going to use a blast furnace to refine iron on a large scale, you might want to improve transportation efficiency. If you are carrying heavy items like iron, I think it would be easier to use water transport. It may be better to think of a new river replacement plan, assuming that the iron ore will be transported by river.”
"I see. Is that the case?" Previously, it was simply a construction to prevent flooding, and the meaning of creating jobs in the subsequent recession was added, but will it add more new meaning to it? The river for the transport network, or. Wouldn't it be nice if it was realistically possible? "
"I think there are many challenges to realize. In that case, it is not convenient if the place where the iron is purchased is not a place where water transportation is easy to use. However, river maintenance may be effective on other fronts. I think you'll also need water when you build a steel mill."
"That's right." Well, let's discuss that with Galius. That's the mill, isn't it? It's not just about iron refining, it's also about making something out of iron. In that case, it would be better to plan all the necessary equipment from the beginning. There's nothing left right now, it's just a lot of land. "
“Very well, now we will consider a plan that envisages the construction of a steel mill here.”
Build a Blaze Furnace using an unextinguished flame.
It produces a larger quantity of steel than before.
For that reason, I decided to make it a bigger deal than a small one.
First of all, there must be a river.
It was newly constructed as a waterway so that a ship loaded with iron as a raw material could be transported near the blazing furnace in the [Rassen's Prison Flame Cauldron].
Then we turn the iron ore into Vulcan steel and create a variety of objects.
It's better that way than just turning iron into steel.
For now, I want you to make swords and arrows from Vulcan steel.
Then, the finished products are sent to another place using water transportation.
Create facilities to do all of them efficiently in this empty space.
Maybe it's like building a new city.
Maybe some people will settle down if they do something bigger than that.
I had to use Venom Disable regularly, so it might be a little difficult to live in.
In this way, it was decided to build a new steel mill of the scale of the city based on [Rassen's Prison Flame Cauldron].
It was at this time that Galius took the lead and began his unprecedented campaign to build the Iron City.