When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 713 Kelben Mithril Refining Method
Horn got off the low-key black oak carriage of the Papal Palace, followed by Kelben and Senius.

Under the iron plaque of [Dragon Language Alchemy University Research Institute], you can see more than a dozen neatly arranged alchemical reactors.

Compared to the alchemical reactors used to refine mountain copper and peat, which are more than one person tall and as thick as an embrace, these experimental reactors are relatively short.

They are sandwiched between wooden or iron supports, less than one meter high, and placed on the table. The lid on the top is the feed inlet, and there are various discharge ports at the bottom.

These long terracotta jars have a dark red metallic glaze, and the crystal-like electric gold inlaid on the alchemical dishes actually has a faint water-ripple sheen.

Horn and his team arrived just in time, and the fourth replication experiment was just coming to an end.

In front of a peat furnace, several alchemy students were deflating an alchemy dish to cool it down.

It was a dirty alchemical dish, the outer layer seemed to be covered with a layer of refractory material made of mortar and quartz sand, and the black substance in the cracks seemed to be hardened slime gel.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Horn turned to look at Kelben and asked: "How did you discover the secret of the hollow soil?"

"In fact, this is related to the recent research of our Dragon Alchemy University. According to Her Highness Shiloh's law theory, we have collected a large number of alchemy books and formulas and summarized the three laws of alchemy."

Kerben held up three fingers: “First, spirit determines the characteristics of change, and matter determines the characteristics of the entity.

Second, spiritual attributes will only be transferred during alchemical reactions, they will neither increase nor decrease, and will remain conserved.

Third, the formula can only be successful if the spiritual and natural properties of the elements match each other.”

After Kerben said this, Horn immediately remembered.

Kerben's latest research direction is to find a law that can explain the law of how all elements fit together.

Horn had even instructed him to try to use "pure substances" that could no longer be decomposed by alchemy to arrange and summarize.

It seems that after the establishment of the Black Snake Bay Federation some time ago, the shared alchemy information has brought a lot of help to these alchemy students.

"According to the first law, if you look at the material properties alone, that is, mass density and so on, these soils are definitely not that light.

So, I suspect that it is the spiritual attributes that are causing the problem.

According to the second law, spiritual properties can only be transferred and cannot disappear or be created out of thin air. I reasonably suspect that the matter in the hollow soil has spiritual properties that make things lighter.

If there's anything that can make something lighter, it's mithril, so I assume the stuff in the hollow soil is mithril.

So, I began to try to restore the spiritual attribute of "becoming lighter" from the hollow soil, so that the original substance could be decomposed.

From April to October last year, I conducted nearly a thousand experiments in six months and tried countless alchemical formulas, but none of them succeeded.

But in November, I remembered that naturally occurring mithril is found near volcanic areas, such as the Crucible Plateau.

I wonder if the volcano is a large reactor that enriches and replaces the mithril in the soil?
To verify my assumptions and conjectures, I added peat and a blower to the reaction vessel.

The slime glue was wrapped and sealed with refractory materials, the heat was increased, and fire flowers, volcanic ash and lava were added.

During the fifty-fifth experiment with the new formula last night, a miracle occurred. Metal began to grow little by little on the rock blocks covered with hollow soil, just like crystals!"

As Maester Kelben continued his narration, the temperature of the alchemical dish gradually dropped.

The unknown black sand and gravel inside were dumped out and entered into a hand-cranked drum. Dust spread, and gravel and metal particles fell from the funnel.

Horn walked forward and picked up a fingernail-sized mithril alloy. He felt a slight warmth in his palm.

Grabbing a handful of mithril particles mixed with other metals, Kelben shook his head and deliberately stood in front of Senius and said loudly: "This is my Kelben mithril refining method. Ah, Senius, do you have such a refining method?" Without looking at Senius who was about to suffocate, Horn kept rubbing the metal particles in his hands: "What is the approximate yield ratio?"

You know, one of the major limitations on the power of clockwork guns and clockwork cannons is weight.

If mithril alloy could be used to solve the weight problem of the gun cannon, the mana consumed in firing could be further reduced, which meant that the amount of ammunition that the monks could carry could be increased.

Not to mention that after mastering the production of mithril, there are things like the mithril alloy locking device of the clockwork engine, the spiral mithril firing rod of the spiral gun, and so on.

Mithril is too important for the Clockwork Industry, where everything is stupid, big, and black.

"About 100 kilograms of hollow soil can be refined into about 10 kilograms of mithril mixed metal and less than 1 kilogram of other metals..."

Due to the strict experimental rules set by Shilov, which required that the data of every experiment be recorded and completely preserved, Kelben knew the result immediately after checking.

"Oh, damn it," Senius couldn't help but scream.

Does this mean that ten tons of hollow soil can produce one ton of mithril?

During the most difficult times, the dwarves of the Furnace Plateau did not sell more than ten tons of mithril in a year!
According to this output ratio, Horn can dig 100 tons of hollow soil to match the mithril output of the plateau dwarves in one year.

It is conceivable what a big plunge the price of mithril will experience in the future.

Why is it that no matter what it is, its value drops once it reaches the hands of Saint Sun?

Kelben ignored Senius's scream and continued to narrate: "...but all this mithril is mixed with other metals. If you want to purify it into pure mithril, I'm afraid it needs to be refined.

We have weighed the mithril alloy and the corresponding pure metal, and the mithril accounts for about 50% to 60%, which is about five or six kilograms.

But according to my analysis, these hollow soils have not yet fully reacted, and there should still be mithril inside, but our current technology is unable to further refine it. "

"Okay, okay." Horn nodded repeatedly, unable to suppress the satisfaction on his face. "I'll write you a budget approval report for Dragon Alchemy University right away."

Senius' body trembled in the cold wind: "Your Majesty, I am not feeling well. Can I go back first?"

"Of course, you have to take care of yourself. We are counting on experts like you."

After sending Senius away, Horn quickly gave instructions to Rafael, Robert and others who had come over: "I have something to tell you, remember this."

The people around them quickly took out the small notebooks and charcoal pencils they carried with them.

“Immediately ask the Industry Department to evaluate and collect information to see if it is suitable for large-scale production and submit a report as soon as possible.

Remember to block the news and don't make it public before it reaches scale.

Rafael, send a message to the Black Snake Bay Gendarmerie and ask them to send people to check those hollow native lands and occupy or buy them if possible.

The Papal Palace paid for the construction of a hollow earth mine in a location close to a river, and then built an extraction plant and a refinery by the river.

It would be best if the mine and refinery were connected by water, or simply by a horse-drawn train or even a clockwork train.

The supporting houses and infrastructure must be repaired. You should collect information first. Once the assessment report is out, you can write the project report and start the project as soon as possible. Do you understand?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

(End of this chapter)