Path of Light.

Chapter 779 780. Conversation
Eight thousand sets of ring-shaped siren armor are enough to load two magic airships. The armor tailor-made for sirens is a bit large, and they are neatly placed in wooden boxes. The size of the wooden boxes is larger than that of ordinary wooden boxes. The two layers of space under the deck of the magic airship can store items.

Some wooden boxes could also be placed on the deck. The half-elf guards filled all available space, and a ship could only carry more than 3,700 boxes.

In order not to affect the transportation of the gray dwarf prisoners, Roy took two magic airships to the Sun Island Bay.

Following Roy was the great magician Grames.

I didn't think much of it when I was at the airport dock, but when the magic airship took off again and Great Magician Graham stood on the bow and looked down at the Plateau City again, I realized that this city was designed and built with great care.

The great wizard Grams didn't see a drainage ditch on the street, so he asked Roy:
"Roy, are all the drainage ditches in your city designed to be underground?"

Roy leaned on one elbow against the side of the boat and said to the great magician Grahams:
"Well, only the section near the Tolai River is an open channel, look!"

He pointed to the area of ​​the plateau city near the lower reaches of the Tolai River and said:
"The only open channel is over there. The drainage channel here collects sewage from half of the city, so the drainage channel has been widened and deepened continuously. Finally, because it was too wide, it was changed to an open channel. It is also difficult to desilt the underground channel."

Great Magician Grams looked along the line of defense that Roy pointed at. That was not a drainage ditch at all. It looked more like a branch of the Tolai River that went deep into the plateau city...

Roy continued to introduce the Plateau City to the Great Magician Grems:
"The rainfall in the plateau city is not very heavy, but there is a rainy season of nearly a month, from late September to the end of October. Before the rainy season begins, the drainage canal needs to be desilted."

Great Magician Grams looked at a water supply pipeline erected high in the air and asked Roy:

"I heard that the Plateau City has a very complete water supply pipeline. Why not use magic rune plates to store water at fixed locations in the city?"

"Also, I found that fountains were built at the street corners of Plateau City. Many fountain statues at the street corners of Silver Moon Elf Cities have water-gathering magic rune plates installed inside. Isn't this more convenient?"

In Grahams's opinion, the magic fountain should be a standard feature of a city.

Moreover, magical facilities symbolize the level of civilization of a city.

The water pipeline in the Plateau City made the great magician Grams feel that this city did not value the convenience that magic brought to the elves.

Roy leaned his upper body out and looked down at the entire plateau city.

The water supply pipeline extends from the upper reaches of the Tolai River to the city hall of the plateau city. It is Mulin's proudest work.

Roy said:

“It is definitely more convenient to use the magic rune board, but the cost is a bit high for me.

When the Plateau City was first built, there were only more than 10,000 elves in this city, and the Plateau City had no output.

If magic rune plates were installed at the fountains at every street corner, the daily consumption of magic crystal fragments by the entire city would become a considerable expense. The half-elves living here simply cannot afford it, and it is impossible for me to pay money to the Plateau City endlessly.

But it is cheaper to lay water supply pipelines in the city.

The main reason is that we have a natural geographical advantage. The Tolai River meanders into the wilderness from the northwest.

Before it enters the wilderness, especially in the Jiaxi Mountains, the water level difference in the river is relatively large, so it is very convenient to find a water point upstream. "

At this time, the magic airship had risen nearly one thousand meters. Not only was the plateau city in full view, but even a long section of the Tolai River was within everyone's sight.

The Tolai River gradually becomes calmer after entering the wilderness. In this section of the Jiaxi Mountains, the Tolai River has a very large drop in its course.

Most of the water in the Tolai River comes from melted snow from the Kasir Mountains, and a small part comes from the confluence of some small tributaries in the western Nicobar Mountains.

Roy said to Grems:
"Another point is that I have a forging workshop that can produce water pipes."

This may be the most important factor, Great Magician Grams thought to himself.

At this time, Roy pointed to the Kasik Mountains in the distance and said:

"There are three black iron mines in the Jiaxi Mountains. About 70 to 80 truckloads of black iron ore are produced every day. After smelting, these black iron ores will produce nearly 30 tons of ordinary black iron. Note what I said, nearly 20 tons of ordinary black iron are smelted and produced every day.

Although these 30 tons of ordinary black iron are placed here and may only be as big as six boxes, with this amount of output every day, a lot can still be stored over time.

In fact, the mine owner here used to smelt black iron ore just to obtain the rare magical black iron.

Eighty carts of black iron ore can only smelt a fist-sized piece of magic black iron."

As he spoke, Roy gestured with his fist.

Then he said:
“Although magic black iron is very valuable, the magic crystals burned by these three magic furnaces every day are almost equal to the value of the magic black iron produced.

They use elf slaves to mine, so there is not much labor cost, and as long as they dig out something, they make a profit.

The 17th Silver Pegasus Legion entered the Pagisto Plateau, and we rescued the elven slaves from various mines.

Earl Swinburne asked me to manage these mines. Without the elven slaves, I have to maintain the normal operation of the black iron mines.

The labor cost and the cost of maintaining the mines together are not much. But if it is just for the little bit of magic black iron burned out, the three black iron mines will lose money.

If the black iron ore cannot be used to higher value, the black iron mine will be closed soon.

At first, I tried every means to purchase ore refiners and magic furnaces from the Silvermoon Elf Kingdom, and used the most economical diversion method to smelt magic black iron.

In the process of smelting black iron ore in the magic furnace, due to density, the melted ore will be divided into three layers in the furnace, which will automatically separate the magic black iron, ordinary black iron and slag. The molten liquid flows into the molding molds on both sides of the furnace. In addition to the magic black iron, ordinary black iron and slag can also be obtained.

The Silver Moon Elves do not like this pitch-black iron. They think this metal has no aesthetic appeal at all.

They prefer copper and silver products to black iron.

The imperial merchants also did not need this cheap black iron, and their merchant ships could not transport this worthless black iron back to their homeland.

Therefore, most of the black iron ingots produced on the Pagisto Plateau cannot be sold.

It can only be stored in the open-air dump outside the black iron mine, and the slag in the furnace can be directly dumped.

In fact, I also thought of many ways during that period of time, and I really wanted to turn the black iron mine from loss to profit.

Since ordinary black iron could not be sold, I built a forging workshop near the black iron mine. Initially, I wanted to forge some metal parts with ordinary black iron and then sell them to trading companies in the Silvermoon Elf Kingdom. I forged whatever was easy to sell. At that time, I was trying to make water pipes, but I never succeeded.

When the magic furnace smelts black iron, it also discharges a lot of waste slag. At that time, a dwarf craftsman suggested to me that we use the stones solidified from the slag to build a house.

I found this suggestion very good and adopted it.

The dwarf craftsmen built some sheds and warehouses near the dark iron mine using hollow bricks made from slag, and I found the effect was quite good.

Later, we won the war against the plateau headhunters, and how to deal with the plateau headhunters prisoners of war became a new problem.

At that time, they just wanted to build a prisoner-of-war concentration camp to centrally manage the old, young, sick and disabled among the plateau headhunters.

As for so many healthy plateau headhunters, if they were not given something to do to consume their excess energy, they would only cause trouble in the camp. Therefore, the idea of ​​building a prisoner-of-war concentration camp was changed to building a small town on the banks of the Tolai River.

The black iron in the forging workshop is used to make steel bars, and the slag is used to make hollow bricks. These materials are all ready-made.

The manual labor refers to those plateau headhunters, who are also free labor.

The construction of the small town went smoothly afterwards.

By the time the city's infrastructure began to be improved, the forging technology in the forge workshop was already capable of creating closed square water pipes.

Therefore, after a field investigation, the current governor of the Plateau City decided to lay a pipeline from the upstream to divert the water of the Tolai River directly to the highest point of the Plateau City, and built a reservoir here.

The city’s water supply pipelines were also installed little by little later, mainly because the water pipes were produced by the forging workshop, so no extra money was spent.”

Roy said so much in one breath, and he also wanted to explain that the small town did not use magic fountains because it wanted to save the magic crystals consumed in daily life.

As Grahams listened to Roy's story about the origin of the Plateau City, he realized that it was only six years since the construction of this Plateau City.

He joked to Roy, "It's hard to believe that this small town was built in just a few years. This doesn't conform to the 'elf speed' at all."

Roy chuckled:
"In fact, I thought that for a long time, I would have to carefully manage these mines on the Pagisto Plateau, and also manage the plateau headhunters prisoners of war.

That's why we built a livable small town.

I just didn’t expect that after building this city, I would accept the invitation of Captain Tiprado and lead the mine guards to the Sun Island Bay to drive away the fishmen and monsters there. I didn’t expect that a group of sea monsters would occupy the Sun Island..."

The two of them were able to get along very well. Back in the Dark Land, it was because their personalities were very compatible that the great magician Grams took Roy hunting everywhere.

"Haha, I'd really like to hear how you defeated those sirens?" Grimes said.

Roy thought for a moment and responded:
"In fact, the process was quite dangerous. I even wanted to give up the Sun Island at one point..."

Roy was on the magic airship, constantly telling the great magician Graham about his experiences on the Partington plane.

……

Two ships full of Ring-type Siren Armor were finally safely transported to Sun Island Bay.

The two magic airships slowly descended from the wind layer. When the magic airships broke through the clouds, the Sun Island Bay beneath their feet became exceptionally clear.

At the North Coast Pier, eleven magic airships were anchored on the shore.

This meant that the Siren Assault Group was not currently engaged in a war, which made Roy feel a little relieved. What he feared most was that during the time when he and Jie Zena were not at Sun Island, the Dark Faceless Army would besiege the Sun Island Bay, and the Siren Warriors would be forced to fight...

Without the leadership of Jie Zena, the morale of these Siren warriors would surely plummet once they suffered a defeat.

There were some griffin cavalry patrolling in the sky. When the great magician Grams saw these griffin cavalry, he also felt very curious.

"An elf riding a griffin... To be honest, I haven't seen one in years!"

Grams held the railing with both hands, looking at the griffin cavalry flying towards the magic airship, and said with full of admiration.

"They are the natives of the Partington plane and have lived in the Sun Island Bay for a long time. These griffins were summoned back from the Eagle's Nest at the top of the Griffin Barrier." Roy introduced.

When the griffin cavalry saw the magic airship, they flew over to check it out immediately.

A griffin landed on the deck.

When its wings are spread, they can almost reach the sides of the ship on both sides. They are much larger than the Silver Pegasus.

A half-elf cavalryman jumped off the griffin's back and saluted Roy immediately when he saw him standing on the top of the ship.

"Boss, you are finally back. The mermaid messenger from the sea has been waiting for you at the dock for almost a week."

The griffin rider had an exaggerated expression on his face, and when he saw Roy, he shouted at the top of his voice.

"Got it. Is Captain Tiprado in the camp?"

"The captain has gone to patrol the outer islands and will probably be back in the evening!"

After the griffin cavalry reported the basic situation of Sun Island Bay to Roy, they flew away on the griffin.

Looking at the entire Sun Island Bay from the magic airship, the beautiful Sun Island Bay is like an exquisite blue pearl dotted on a green ribbon.

The magic airship soon landed in the sea around the North Coast Pier. The moment the bottom of the ship touched the sea surface, waves splashed to both sides more than ten meters high, and the hull shook violently from side to side under the huge shock.

The crew standing on the deck were instantly soaked by the splashing seawater...

There was no way. Although there were still four floating devices operating at the moment of falling into the water, the two magic airships were almost fully loaded with cargo.

It was so heavy that the hull shook violently the moment it hit the water. If the sails had not been lowered in advance and a gust of sea breeze had not followed, the magic airship would most likely have capsized in the sea.

Then the well-trained crew members immediately raised the sails and adjusted the sail angles according to the captain's instructions. The magic airship drew a graceful arc in the sea and soon docked at the pier.

After the magic airship slowly approached the shore, Roy saw a female siren warrior curled up at the end of the dock corridor, looking over here from afar.

She crawled out of the sea, and her lower body turned into two long legs. After the green scales on her body disappeared, the long skirt made of shells and seaweed had a retro beauty.

(End of this chapter)