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Chapter 38 Mineral Seams Discovered

Barbarian savage?
Ronan was a little surprised when he learned from the old white-haired village chief that there were still a large number of humans living deep in the frozen soil.

In fact, compared to these barbarians, Ronan cared more about the ancient legends of the frozen soil told by the old people.

The belief of the empire is completely controlled by the church. Religious belief has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people under the inertia of 300 years. For ordinary people, the existence of religion is like food and air, which is a part of everyone's life.

And the appearance of the vampire, the moonstone eye in his hand, and the Lord of the Red Moon in his mouth all told Ronan.

The existence of gods is not necessarily an illusory rumor.

The reason why Ronan left Triumph City and came to the remote corner of Cold Wind Territory was mainly to avoid the eyes of the church.

As a result, there are also legends of gods here.

Hearing the news, Ronan's mood was surprisingly good.

There are very few reports of miracle sightings in this world, or none at all.

Judging from his current understanding of the world, even if those so-called gods really existed, even the Lord of the church would have difficulty interfering with reality.

The concentration of magic power in the world is too low. Ronan didn't feel it when he relied on the ability given by the system.

After all, by spending 1 point of magic power, you can do all kinds of incredible things, and there are no side effects.

But when he learned those two magic power trajectories from the vampire, he realized how useless magic power is.

A total of 40 points of magic power are often used up after only one or two experiments, and the effect after spending the magic power is not satisfactory.

The recovery speed of Ronan's magic power depends on his level and the concentration of magic power in the surrounding environment. The mana recovery rate of 2 points per hour is really sighing.

A tower of hundreds of feet is built with a wave of hands, a branch divides the sea, and a hand is raised to cover the day into night.

From the perspective of the myths and stories recorded in the holy scriptures of the church, as long as they are [-]% true, the amount of mana that needs to be consumed is a huge number, and the environment of this world cannot bear it at all.

So it was the battle of the gods a long time ago that exhausted their magic power, so they all hid themselves?
Ronan doesn't think the gods have that ability, he prefers that the previous world had a high concentration of magic environment.

Later, under a certain natural law, the magic power fell into a low ebb, making these gods have to close themselves and disappear in this world.

If it is true, it is undoubtedly good news for him, which will allow him to gain enough room for growth during this window period of the gods.

And to become stronger, besides relying on system upgrades, he now has a new path.

Collect different magic power trajectories, and explore the mystery of the magic power conversion formula from them.

This group of barbarians who believed in the ancient legends of the frozen land might be able to give him a good harvest.

While thinking, Ronan was suddenly taken aback, and then a joyful smile appeared on his face.

One of the prospecting teams he sent out finally dug up what he wanted during the digging process that went back and forth to replenish the magic power many times during this period.

Ronan cast his gaze over.

It was on a hilltop near Licorice Village, and four crows sat on the branches boredly and croaked.

And at their feet, there are already countless densely packed caves inside the mountain, spreading towards the bottom.

A black mole that was dyed all over its body got out of it, holding a piece of dark mineral in its hand.

Coal mine?In the sunlight, Ronan looked at the coal in his hand.

The location of the deposit is not too deep from the ground, but the area of ​​the mountain is too large, and the location has not been dug before.

As far as the current situation is concerned, it is entirely possible to use open-pit mining to remove the topsoil above the coal mine for rapid mining.

There is no need to dig tunnels into the ground for mining.

Ronan found Old Motou and began to discuss with him about mining-related matters.

"My lord, according to your instructions, we have previously recruited relevant mining scholars in Black Rock City. They will use a kind of black powder to blast open the mine pit and help the miners quickly break the surface stones. Iron ore mining is guaranteed."

Ronan nodded. In this era, gunpowder has been used more maturely, not in weapons, but in ore mining technology.

In fact, due to the existence of Bachelor's Castle, a multi-academic organization formed by scholars, coupled with the inflow of technology from overseas trade.

In previous lives, many technologies that surpassed the times have already been developed.

Ronan had heard about gunpowder, paper making, printing, steam power, etc.

However, in the eyes of the feudal aristocrats, these technologies were all regarded as the toys of the inferior people, and they all rejected them.

But the nobles don't use it, which doesn't mean the merchants don't use it.

To give one of the most typical examples, in the aristocratic library, all the records are written on luxuriously decorated parchment, which is expensive and rare.

However, in the chamber of commerce center, in order to facilitate transaction bill records and earn more profits, merchants have long abandoned traditional parchment and used linen paper, which is more convenient for writing and lower in cost.

The same is true of gunpowder, which the nobles regarded as the dung of the devil, for fear of getting their hands dirty.

But the Chamber of Commerce of the Dantuma Alliance has already developed a mature mining technology with it.

A merchant organization with power all over the empire, tsk, the nobles of the empire are really not afraid of death.

Ronan thought, from the current point of view, with the suppression of extraordinary power, merchants are still just tools in the hands of nobles, which can make their lives more comfortable.

But when the technology develops further, it will be hard to say.

But it's not necessarily true, maybe before the technology explodes, the concentration of magic power will increase first, and then a god who can tear battleships by hand may come out from somewhere.

"With coal mines, mining workers need to be recruited, boilers have to be built, and steam pipes have to be laid in the town. I hope my citizens can live a warm winter this year."

At present, the number of laborers in his territory is insufficient, and he needs to continue to absorb people from abroad.

In order to build the castle, iron and steel began to be lacking, and boilers and pipes had to be purchased from the Heyman family in Ironstone.

Ronan calculated the next financial expenditure. All the laborers in his territory also had to pay wages regularly, and it was not an option to continue to sit and eat.

It just so happens that there is a coal mine now. Judging from the reserves detected by Ronan, the thickness of the topmost layer of coal is close to 20 meters. While meeting his own needs, he can sell large orders.

"In order to smelt iron and steel, the iron stone collar just needs a large amount of coal mines, and the commercial rights of Black Rock City that I tried to get before should come in handy at this time."

(End of this chapter)