The main vegetation here is thorn trees, mixed with a wide variety of wild trees, flowers and plants. The ratio of thorn trees to other trees, flowers and plants is about 50-50.

The three of them wandered in the thorn forest for an hour.

Flanor reached out and touched the hard tree trunk, with a hint of joy on his face, and said, "My Lord, this forest is spacious, with a variety of plants and many thorn trees. It is suitable as a place for rangers to practice combat!"

Lauren turned her head to look at a wall of hideous and twisted spikes and nodded in agreement, "This thorn forest is much more complicated than most of the woodlands we have encountered in the past."

She touched a thorn, feeling its rough and hard texture, her eyes solemn: “Just these thorns make it much more difficult for the ranger to move nimbly through them.

This is definitely a test for the novice trainees in the training ground!

However... the ranger who emerges from the thorns will experience more difficult tests and become stronger. "

"That makes sense!" Lei Te nodded, looking around at the dark forest, he became more determined to use this place as a ranger training ground.

"What a pity... we have too few knight trainees and cannot select a few rangers. It seems a bit of a waste to use such a large forest." Frano shook his head regretfully.

Leiter glanced at Flano inexplicably, with a faint smile on his face. He patted his shoulder and said, "The population of our territory will definitely increase!"

"Hmm... That's true. The Lord's promotion to Viscount will probably attract more people to join." Flanor nodded and said thoughtfully, "With the increase in population base, there will no longer be a shortage of talented knights."

Rhett smiled but said nothing.

I think it's not just the attraction of the Viscount Lord, the influence of the elimination of the evil alchemy organization has also prompted more grateful refugees to join...

Before going back, Frano and Laureen helped Rhett pick many colorful mushrooms, saying that these mushrooms were absolutely non-toxic and tasted delicious.

The types of mushrooms in the thorn forest are different from those on the blue planet, but their shapes are similar and can be easily identified.

Back at the castle, Rhett went to the kitchen.

"Maru, I brought something."

Malu, the cook who was chopping vegetables, turned her head and saw the net bag in Leiter's hand. She smiled and said, "What fresh mushrooms! Does the lord want to drink mushroom soup for lunch?"

"That's right. But I have a suggestion. You can try adding some chicken to the mushroom soup and simmering it over low heat..." Rhett thought for a moment and gave the order.

"Add some chicken? What a novel idea." Malu's cook looked surprised and thoughtful, as if she was trying to imagine what kind of flavor mushrooms and chicken would taste like together. After a moment, she responded, "This looks great, lord. I will try it seriously!"

"Thanks for your hard work!"

Coming to the fourth floor of the castle, between Riley's room and Nina's ice house deep in the passage, this used to be an idle house, but now it has been set up as an alchemy laboratory.

Ruilai was wearing a blue shirt and his hair was curled up in front of his forehead. He held a pair of tweezers in one hand and picked up a leaf from the green liquid in the beaker.

On his left hand side was a small golden stove, with a fire magic crystal embedded in a groove at the bottom.

As Ruilai mobilized his mental power and activated the alchemy formation, a ball of flame emerged from the furnace and burned fiercely.

On the stove, a brown metal pot with a wide belly and a narrow mouth was bubbling with white liquid similar to milk boiling inside.

Lei Te, who was standing at the door, smelled a faint fragrance. He took a sniff and whispered, "Rui Lai, what are you refining? It smells like milk..."

"Well, father, you are here, please sit down!" Ruilai came back to his senses, pulled a chair from the back of the room, and said as he walked, "These are just some small things. Since this is my first time practicing, I only squeezed the juice from the leaves of the wind-type low-grade magic plant - bellflower, and mixed it with milk."

After saying this, Ruilai walked to the experimental table and poured the turbid green juice in the beaker into the alchemy jar. The milk in the alchemy jar immediately turned a layer of green.

Reilly then condensed the water stream to clean the beaker.

Lei Te said with interest: "It smells quite good. Is it prepared for Bai Ge?"

"That's right, father!"

Lei Te nodded and encouraged: "I hope to see you become an apprentice alchemist soon!"

"Well, that might take quite some time." Riley curled his lips helplessly.

Facing his father's surprised look, he explained, "I thought it was easy to become an apprentice alchemist, but later I found out that I was wrong. Although memorizing rote knowledge is not difficult, in actual operation, it not only requires a lot of mental micro-manipulation, but also requires rich experience. To refine a potion, whether it is controlling the fire, extracting the condensate, the timing of adding the condensate, or the clever blending, there are many details, and any omission will lead to failure."

"Oh? Is it possible that the alchemy books I brought back don't contain the experiences of other alchemists?" Rhett asked.

"Yes, there are some, but if you only look at the text description, the effect is limited." Ruilai frowned slightly.

"For example, when I extracted the magic liquid from the bellflower just now, according to the book, the temperature should change from low fire to high fire, and then to low fire. But the specific time nodes, when to use low fire, high fire, and low fire, were not mentioned.

And how should the heating speed change? Should it be heated slowly first, or quickly first? Or heated at a constant speed? These influencing factors were not mentioned. "Rui Lai pointed to the boiling alchemy pot, "Just now I extracted the condensate according to the method described in the book, but it was less than one-third of the standard. There are many details missing in the process in the certificate, which led to the deviation of the final result."

A hint of thought flashed in Rhett's eyes. It sounded like alchemy and the alchemy on Blue Star had some similarities. However, the two had some connections in history, so it was normal for them to have similarities.

He could only console himself by saying, "Since there are many details that are not mentioned in the book, we can only keep trying and erroring to find more economical methods again and again."

"It seems that this is the only way for now..." Ruilai sighed.

At this time, Lei Te thought to himself: "I guess the situation will be much better after the second-level alchemist joins and teaches him personally."

For the next two days, Rhett continued to patrol the territory.

On July 13, Lei Te came to the Central Square.

I took a quick look at the square and found some new changes compared to half a month ago.

The Nightingale Tavern was already open at this time, but the residents of the town were still busy with farming during the day. Although there was a welcome sign in front of the Nightingale Tavern, there were few customers.

Rhett rushed to his best friend's blacksmith shop.

As soon as he arrived at the door, a wave of heat hit him in the face. Rhett held his breath and saw Tru holding a small hammer and gently tapping the edge of the blade on the chopping board.

Willow and Brisso had no basic skills and had to learn everything from scratch. Willow was pulling the bellows, while Brisso stood next to Andre, watching him holding a sledgehammer and using rhythmic strikes to shape the red-hot iron block.

Since Andrei and Leonid were both hammering with sledgehammers, they looked extremely focused and could not interrupt.

Otherwise, the wrought iron, which has just been heated but has not yet been shaped, will cool down, and if you want to make any changes, you will need to return it to the furnace and reheat it.

Rhett didn't want to cause any trouble, so he just watched quietly.

Until Andre put a kitchen knife into the water, and a sizzling sound came out.

Taking a towel from Brissot, Andre wiped the sweat from his forehead, walked forward hurriedly, and said, "My Lord, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

"No problem." Lei Te said thoughtfully, "I came to see you today because I found a mineral vein in the territory. I need you two to go with me to explore the situation."

"Sir, have you discovered a mineral vein?" Andre exclaimed. His excited voice spread into the house and instantly attracted the attention of several people.

Leonid, in particular, paused in his pounding of the iron block. Before the shaping was completed, he put it back into the water. He came to Andrei in a sweat and said expectantly, "Sir, is what you just said true? We have discovered a mineral vein.

For a blacksmith, the most gratifying thing, besides forging fine tools, is encountering good ore and not having to worry about the shortage of ore.

"May I ask what type it is?"

"Fire Mine."

"Hmm? Fire Ore!" Andre's eyes lit up and he said happily, "This is an excellent fuel. If we have Fire Ore, we won't have to frequently replace the wood in the furnace, and the stability of the firepower will also be improved!"

"Take us there quickly, Lord!" Leonid couldn't wait any longer. "I'm looking forward to the day when we can use Fire Mine as our fuel."

Rhett smiled.

He took the two of them to a location about twenty kilometers south of Young Eagle Town.

To the south of a gully, the three of them saw a deep pit. The soil piled up around it was exactly what Leiter, an earth magician, had mobilized.

"My Lord, is the Fire Mine right down there? How many meters deep is it?"

"Forty meters!" Rhett said lightly.

"What? Forty meters?" Andrei and Leonid said in unison, expressing their inner shock.

"If it's 40 meters, we need to build a passage down, and we also need to build tracks and mine carts underneath..." Andre frowned and muttered to himself. He still maintained the mindset of an ordinary person or a knight mining, and did not break out of it in time.

"Don't bother!" Rhett shook his head.

Then, under the gaze of Andrei and Leonid, they saw a particularly shocking scene! Lei Te stood on the reddish-brown land with a focused gaze, holding a magic wand, and his mental power twitched, causing the ground to tremble faintly.

Then large pieces of soil began to float upwards and slowly moved to other locations.

The area that Rhett can currently control at the same time is about one hundred square meters, so for Andrei and Leonid, this scene does look quite spectacular.

"As expected of an earth magician, this power is too strong!" Andrei and Leonid looked at each other and exclaimed in unison.

The two retreated fifty meters, fearing that they would affect the adults' spellcasting.

Time passed, and three hours later, a pile of earth covering an area of ​​500 square meters and with the highest peak more than 20 meters high had formed on the ground to Rhett's right.

"Huh." Lei Te let out a long breath and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Although he had become a third-level magician, the workload just now was extremely heavy for him.

Moreover, it was not possible for him to complete such a large amount of land in one go. He had just meditated several times to restore his dried-up mental strength.

Now, he's going to take a break again.

However, before meditating, he waved to the two people who had run a little far away and shouted, "You two can come over now. There is an open-air fire mine below."

Andrei and Leonid had been watching from the side. They were numb as they had seen the lord moving large amounts of soil countless times.

Now that the other party had accomplished this feat himself, it seemed that the two of them were somewhat useless...

Now that he finally heard the lord's orders, he was suddenly filled with energy and ran over.

But when he stood in front of a 40-meter-deep pit, his pupils shrank again.

"A mineral vein so deep underground has been turned into an open-pit mine by the Lord? It's amazing!" Andre admired from the bottom of his heart.

"There is a slope on the east side. You two can go down from there and explore the reserves of the mineral vein first." Rhett closed his eyes and gave the order.

"No problem, Lord!" they said in unison.

Half an hour later, Rhett, who had recovered from meditation, began to adjust the vertical cliffs around the mineral vein.

After all, a forty-meter-deep pit would be too troublesome for future miners to transport the fire ore after mining it.

He needed to adjust the surrounding vertical walls into a gentle slope.

Not long after, Leonid and Andri, two apprentice knights, came up the eastern slope with ease, each holding a piece of irregularly shaped ore about one meter in diameter.

With joy on their faces, the two came to Leiter and reported the situation below: "Lord, we just took a quick look and found that there should be a small mineral vein below, with a reserve of about 20,000 to 50,000 tons. Although it is not very rich, it is more than enough to meet the needs of our town."

Rhett thought to himself that a fist-sized piece of fire ore, if used as fuel, would be enough for the blacksmith's furnace to burn for three days and three nights.

Tens of thousands of tons of ore are simply not enough for them to use up. By the beginning of next year, most of the mined ore can be sold to the front line.

It can not only make a lot of money, but also provide military supplies to the front line, the best of both worlds! He reached out and gently touched the ore that Andre was holding in his hands, and felt a burst of warmth.

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