When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 1005 The answer is still on the surface of the riddle.

A week later, one morning, Horn was still wearing a Cuban-collar shirt, holding a coconut in his hand, standing on the pier.

Dark clouds rolled overhead, and lightning flashed.

Although it's cloudy now, it'll probably rain again in less than two hours.

This is the rainy season in Black Snake Bay.

Standing on the dock, with Jeanne and a group of people behind him, Horn, with dark circles under his eyes, said goodbye to Ottila and the others on the shore: "No need to see me off any further."

The numerous legislators on the shore waved their hands repeatedly, saying, "This is just to ensure you have departed safely."

"Just to confirm that you've really left," many councilors added to their minds.

During their week-long stay in Black Snake Bay, the sun really put the local Secretarian Party members through the wringer.

What fundraising committee, what beastman attack, what new port...

In the three months that Horn has been here, he has presented the Black Snake Bay councilors with more agendas than in the previous two years.

Fortunately, this gentleman is finally leaving.

After bidding farewell to Ottila, Horn walked back to his cabin from the deck.

Jeanne and the other two saintesses followed closely behind Horn and entered the same room.

With the sails billowing, the ship slowly set sail, breaking through the dark blue river water, heading north against the wind and current.

As Horn sat down in the cabin, he felt a few raindrops drift in through the window.

Outside the window, the banana trees on both sides receded into the distance, and the riverbank was covered with reinforced slaves.

Horn sat by the window, sighed helplessly, and closed the blinds.

"Brother, you've been studying this Starforged Gear for a week now. What have you figured out? How exactly is it made?"

During this week, apart from waiting for the rain to stop, the four of them spent their time studying the "Celestial Maiden's Secret Scroll" and the "Star Forging Method".

Compared to Catherine, who was an expert in Classical Elwynn, and Carrie, who had a rudimentary understanding of Classical Elwynn, Jeanne couldn't understand Starforging at all.

The only thing she could see was the picture on the secret scroll, but the picture was too abstract for her to understand.

Horn unfolded the copied scroll and laid it flat on the table, and the girls all gathered around.

"Who is this elf with the halo? Could this star-forged gear have been forged in the starry sky?"

Horn gave a wry smile. Silly sister, the elves in that painting didn't have halos above their heads.

If the records in "Starforging" are true, then the elves must be wearing glass oxygen masks, if the concept of oxygen even exists in this world.

The method of casting these star-forged gears, as Cynthia said, involves casting them with stars.

Clearly, this world, or rather this universe, is a completely different place from Horn's Earth universe.

According to the "Star Forging Method," the bright stars in the sky are the meeting point of the spirit world and the astral world.

Horn and Catherine, based on classical Elwen, deduced that the term for this intersection might be "etheric vortex".

As for the basic principle of the star-cast gear manufacturing, Horn did not understand it. It was roughly said that the star-cast gear was connected to the etheric vortex through the etheric flow, thus enabling it to have power.

Judging from the "Starforging Method", the Starforged Gear is an alternative perpetual motion machine that can be used without the injection of magic power.

Why is there still a very weak magical drive for my Starforged Gears?
Having explained the principles, the next step is to discuss the manufacturing method.

Horn read the manufacturing method through once, but due to the large number of unfamiliar words, he only got a rough idea of ​​what it was like.

That's already quite sensational enough.

To forge star-shaped gears, there are three steps in total. The first step is to build a furnace.

The specific method for building the furnace is to envelop the entire etheric vortex as the furnace core...

Having seen this, Horn didn't really want to read any further.

He finally understood why Serfaye had stopped building after creating only this small amount.

So it turns out the problem isn't that they're unwilling to build it, but rather that they can't.

Serfaye was still trying to scare Sylph by saying that he invented and made it himself, but what could you possibly make?

Can you, Serfayer, a mere mortal, really fly to the Astral Plane and build a star furnace?

This is clearly advanced technology from the space age.

But this raises another question: how did such technology end up in the hands of the elves?
If the elves all possessed such technology, both the Eastern and Western continents should have already entered modernization and achieved a tremendous leap forward.

Judging from ancient ruins alone, the Elven civilization, or rather the El civilization, simply couldn't match this level of technology.

Considering the mythological content in the Pyramid Stone Rubbings, the sudden rise of elves and gods.

Could it be that the elves are actually aliens?

But records of elves have existed since ancient times. They can be found on both the eastern and western continents, and there are even relics left by the elves, though they are still at the tribal level.

Where did these elves get this terrifying technology from? Did they really get it from a dragon?

But Cynthia clearly told him that the Starforging technique was not created by dragons, but by elves.

Or is this a forgery?
Horn is not afraid of this, as the "Great Translation Movement" and the "Great Textual Research Movement" are currently underway simultaneously in the academic circles of the Holy Alliance.

Ancient Alwyn texts have been continuously translated and verified, accumulating a wealth of relevant experience.

Whether it's a fake book or not, we'll know once we go back and examine it.

Seeing Jeanne's curious gaze, Horn shook his head: "We can't build it yet, so we'll just have to leave it for now."

"Huh?" Jeanne was clearly very disappointed.

Horn's industrialization blueprint was missing this last link, which he had originally intended to complete, but unexpectedly, it was all over.

Thinking of the many beautiful visions made before the New Year, and the expectations and preparations within the Holy Alliance, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became heavy.

“Does that mean we have to use the clockwork engine?” Carrie frowned as well. The clockwork engine was good, but its limitations were too great.

“That’s not necessarily true.” After carefully putting away the scroll of “Star Forging Method”, Horn took out a book called “Celestial Maiden Scroll”.

According to Cynthia, the "Celestial Scrolls" is an alchemical work created by the elves in imitation of dragon language magic.

But after a week, Horn's cursory glance revealed that it wasn't just dragon language magic, but also the elves' own methods.

Dragon language magic, as described in the book, is the method by which dragons use dragon language to manipulate ether.

Whenever he thinks about it, Horn feels that this is yet another blunder where "the answer is right there in the riddle."

Dragon language is clearly a method of propagation using some kind of wave.

This shows that Sylph's research direction is correct; alchemy relies on etheric resonance to change the spiritual properties of matter.

Normally, dragons have a special organ that can cause etheric resonance and guide energy.

Therefore, dragons can be considered a kind of Titan race, and one dragon is equivalent to an industrial mother machine.

But this method failed in Horn's world, which explains why Cynthia cowardly hid underground and refused to come out.

It looks fierce, but it's actually just a huge wild beast.

As for the "Celestial Maiden's Secret Scroll," it was created by the elves after studying dragon language magic, who had a sudden inspiration to use branches of the sacred tree to replace the vocal organs for dragon language.

In this way, even without the dragon language generating organ, one can still copy a large amount of dragon language magic.

But this method is now also ineffective. Firstly, we don't know where to get the branches of the sacred tree, and secondly, the magic power is blocking this resonance.

After that, witches appeared, and magic rose to prominence.

The wizards of Celestial Maiden City obtained the "Celestial Maiden Scroll" and were the first to use magic to replace the branches of the sacred tree, thus giving birth to the current alchemy.

If Horn is not mistaken, this should be the complete history of the development of alchemy.

Cynthia also mentioned that there should be an elven "Secret Scroll of the Snail Palace" in the Imperial Snail Palace City (Holy Throne City).

The same book, "The Secret Scroll of the Conch Palace," also records some of the extraordinary methods that elves learned from the "outer giant god."

Horn guessed that this must be the origin of the Knight's Breathing Technique and extraordinary martial arts.

As for the capital of the Flesh and Blood Kingdom, formerly known as Blazing Sun City and now known as Lightless City, there should still be a copy of the "Blood and Sun Secret Scroll".

These three books are said to have been compiled during the height of the El Empire.

But in Horn's view, the El Empire at its peak seemed to have been prepared for its demise, otherwise it would not have compiled such a book specifically for dealing with reconstruction.

Thinking about this, Jeanne, who had been smiling and silent all along, finally couldn't hold back anymore.

She stepped forward and shook Horn's shoulders: "Tell me, is it fun to keep people in suspense?"

"Cough cough cough." Horn quickly cleared his throat and recited all his inferences and guesses.

"However, after obtaining the 'Celestial Maiden's Secret Scroll,' the witch at that time could not use alchemy."

However, the number of alchemists was too small and their magical power too weak to reproduce the complex dragon language magic in the secret scroll.

For example, look at this Dragon Language technology, which uses resonance to directly extract pig iron in large quantities from iron ore.

When Carrie and Jeanne went to see "The Secret Scrolls," Catherine frowned: "Didn't you say that industrialization is about replacing manual labor with machines? Doesn't this just bring us back to manual labor?"

“Actually, that’s not the case.” Horn smiled. “Now that you all know that the essence of alchemy is resonance, what is there that can also cause etheric resonance without being artificially driven?”

Catherine and Carrie were both confused, but Jeanne was reminded of a distant memory.

"Shatter the dragon bones!"

　P.S. This is a chapter from last night; there will be another one tonight.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)