Despite the temptation of Lin En's nearly perfect conditions, the beast shadow remained indifferent, growling uneasily in the circle of fire, his eyes full of distrust.
"Or else just kill him!" Sanchez, who had to forcibly withstand the energy wave and had one arm broken, said angrily.
In his opinion, although this strange monster is somewhat useful, it is too threatening. If it weren't for Lin En's Eternal Flame which has a certain effect of restraining the opponent, they would not even be able to escape today.
If such a powerful monster is kept in captivity, it may cause great casualties if it is not properly controlled.
Lin En was also puzzled for a moment. After thinking for a moment, he quickly realized that this guy was very interested in some new high-energy aggregates that he had never eaten before. So he decided to give it another try. He opened his hand, and a ball wrapped in a lead layer appeared in his palm.
As the lead layer was peeled off, a beautiful 'ice crystal' was revealed.
This is the tritium element extracted from water, cooled and preserved, to be used as nuclear fusion fuel! Like uranium, this thing is also a radioactive element, and its half-life is only 12.43 years! If he guessed correctly, the beast in front of him should rely on absorbing the emitted alpha, beta or gamma rays to replenish energy or grow in size.
The tritium element is undoubtedly much easier to chew than the "hard" uranium! As expected, after seeing the ice crystals appearing in Lin En's palm, the beast shadow immediately became anxious and showed an extremely strong desire.
Lin En laughed, it seemed there was still hope, so he turned to look at Arad and gave instructions.
"Go get someone to bring some uranium ore over here!"
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For the next week, Lin En implemented his animal training plan in the uranium mine cave.
Although Beast Shadow's ability to purify ore is very important to them, Lin En will not obey him completely. The only way to tame an animal is to give it a good reward after a good beating.
At least let the other party know who is the master.
In addition, the opponent's combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. His energy-based body possesses extremely strong destructive power and extraordinary speed. Without relying on the terrifying properties of chlorine trifluoride, he really has no way to deal with this thing. If it can be completely tamed, it will definitely be a good help in dealing with the church.
Last time, I relied on the sudden use of nuclear explosion magic to kill the incarnation of the false god. Next time, if the opponent is prepared, it will be difficult to succeed again.
After a week of "friendly exchanges", the two sides finally established the initial trust.
For the sake of convenience, Lin En also gave the other party a nice name.
Since it can swallow nuclear fuel and release powerful energy waves from its mouth, it is somewhat similar to the characteristics of Godzilla in an ancient film and television work in the previous life.
It might as well be called...
MUTO! Godzilla's mortal enemy!
Of course, during the seven days, Lin En did not spend all his time on training animals. He also went deep into the uranium mine cave to explore with Raphael and others.
The scene inside shocked Lin En. The closer he got to the depths, the stronger the radiation became, the richer the magic power became, and the more magic crystals were embedded in the surrounding rock walls.
Even some protruding rocks appeared to be half-assed by magic.
He soon found the source of the radiation, which was the large number of demon stones scattered inside the mine.
Lin En put them away one by one, and finally weighed them. According to the last decomposition, this should be enough for the critical points of five nuclear explosions.
This means that the parliament has finally escaped the dilemma of nuclear shortage and can now stand up straight and behave itself!
The MUTOs, which had been released from the fire circle, successfully recovered three-quarters of their previous size with the help of a large amount of uranium ore within seven days. However, its "brain" still could not understand why these two-legged creatures in front of it were so keen on picking up its excrement... and looked so happy.
Under the leadership of Muto, Lin En and his team took about an hour to reach the deepest part of the mine.
In front of him was a huge cave with a diameter of more than 700 meters. The walls and ground inside were all covered with crystalline magic stones, which flickered with faint blue light in the dark night.
"Tsk tsk tsk, we are going to get rich!" Raphael couldn't help but smack his lips.
The value of a magic ore is self-evident. The reason why the parliament chose to build a new home in the land of wizards was because they found huge reserves of magic crystal mines there.
However, after hundreds of years of mining, the internal magic ore reserves have been almost exhausted. If it were not for this war, the parliament would not be willing to use the already limited magic stone reserves.
Now a new magic crystal mine has been discovered, which is undoubtedly great news!
Lin En's gaze was focused on the deeper part of the cave. A huge amount of magic power was gathering there, forming a strange magic node in the center. A blue light enveloped about three meters outside the node, and it kept flowing like a vortex...
Lin En understood that it was a visual phenomenon caused by the distortion of time and space! "Is this... a space-time gate?!" Lin En's expression was extremely solemn.
Arad and others also noticed this magic node, but they were not as surprised as Lin En. After all, there was a time and space gate inside the magic stone mine in the wizard's land, and most of these great wizards had been there.
It’s just that the space-time gate in front of him is slightly different from the one in the wizard’s land.
After pondering for a moment, Raphael couldn't help but guess that this space-time might be in a closed state.
There are two arguments.
First, there were not a large number of magical beasts in the mine (it is also possible that they were killed by the MUTOs after invading the territory). Second, the magic fluctuations generated were far less than that, and the impact caused was also very limited.
You should know that when the door in the magic stone mine was not restricted, abnormal space-time distortion occurred within a radius of one kilometer.
Because there were so few samples, Raphael couldn't be 100% sure.
While several great wizards were discussing whether the space-time node in front of them was activated, Lin En was thinking about another thing, that is, how this node was generated...
According to the parliament's conjecture, it is possible that the excessive concentration of magic power has affected the time and space of this area. Even Lin En thought so before.
After all, he hasn't fully understood the characteristics of magic.
But after actually seeing this so-called time and space node, another doubt inevitably arose in Lin En's mind.
Lin En vaguely thought of another possibility, but he didn't intend to tell Raphael and others...
"Are you coming from that side? Muto?" Lin En suddenly looked at the blue beast shadow beside him and asked.
The azure animal shadow did not reply, still maintaining an extremely aloof attitude.
Lin En shook his head helplessly. The initial trust established in a week was very limited. It only made the other party no longer show strong aggressiveness.
In fact, this guy was dormant most of the time except for "eating", and he ignored him. The reason why he was willing to bring them to his nest this time was because he gave him half a kilogram of tritium.
After chewing too many "hard bones", Mutos was very interested in this "soft" snack. For the time being, Lin En could only "control" him through this method.
"Let's go back as soon as possible and report our findings here to the parliament." Lin En said in a deep voice.
Raphael and others nodded in unison. Whether or not the space-time gate was opened, it was a considerable threat. It would be best to let those alchemists who were proficient in force field magic come and deal with it. The protection of the uranium mine cave must also be strengthened again.
After cutting several pieces of magic crystals in the mine as samples, Lin En did not stay any longer. He left the uranium mine with several great wizards and immediately took the airship back to the Kerosene City.
As for his new 'pet' Mutos, he naturally had to bring it along, because apart from himself, no one in the entire mine could suppress it.
If anything happens, like someone suddenly goes crazy, everyone will be dead.
However, this means that the uranium ore needs to be transported to the Petroleum City for processing, which is time-consuming and laborious, but there is no better way.
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After several hours of flying, the kerosene city was already in sight.
Along the way, Lin En was paying attention to the condition of the MUTO, fearing that it would have a stress reaction due to its first time riding on an airship.
Fortunately, the blue beast shadow was calmer than he had imagined. It just lay there digesting the tritium it had just eaten, without any fear or terror.
The temperature of the body surface was too high, and it almost burned through the deck...
But think about it, this is normal. Since it is an energy body, it is likely to be able to fly without wings, and there is no possibility of being killed by falling.
The airship slowly landed in the Kerosene City. Only a week later, Raphael almost thought he had arrived in another city after getting off the airship.
With the combined effects of magic and technology, the entire Kerosene City changes every day.
The main internal streets had been widened by nearly half, and the previously dilapidated and smelly slums had been transformed into exquisite mansions. A quarter of the renovation work had been completed, and the framework of the train station had also been roughly built, unlike when they left, when there were only a few empty walls.
It is expected that the station will be completed perfectly once the railway is completed.
Not only that, in the month they occupied the Kerosene City, a total of more than one hundred workshops were established, employing tens of thousands of workers. After all, this was the front line of the war, and it would undoubtedly be most convenient if all materials could be produced locally.
A steady stream of mist gushed out from the huge chimney of the workshop, but Lin En was wondering whether the exhaust gas could be reused through magic.
For example, the main emission, carbon dioxide, can be used to synthesize starch, solving part of the food production problem.
Lin En is preparing to build this kerosene city located within the empire into a model city, and to spread propaganda through the caravans passing by, so as to undermine the faith of the people of the empire!
At first, Raphael and others were a little confused. Which imperial merchant who was not afraid of death would dare to trade with wizards like them in violation of the most stringent ban in the history of the empire?
However, he was soon slapped in the face, as there were more caravans coming and going than he had imagined.
The fact is just as Lin En said, businessmen are not afraid of the law, nor do they care whether they will be arrested and hanged. The only thing they fear is that there is not enough profit! This is obviously true!
The glass, cloth, pottery, refined salt and various novel and interesting alchemical creations produced in the City of Kerosene are the most sought-after commodities in the empire. As long as they can be smuggled back, they can be easily sold at double or even dozens of times the price!
Under such a crazy trend of interests, the so-called ban of the church is an absolute joke!
"Please notify the speakers for me. I need to hold an internal meeting!"
Lin En had just got off the airship and had no intention of resting at all. He immediately asked Alok and others who came to welcome them to notify the several speakers, while he returned to the manor to take the previous research materials with him.
Now that the problem of nuclear shortage has been solved, the production of nuclear fusion reactors should be put on the agenda!
The sooner they are promoted to legends, the sooner they will be qualified to compete head-on with that false god.
In the evening, an impromptu meeting of the speakers was quickly held in the Duke's manor.
Aurora noticed the blue beast in the conference room, which was more than two meters tall. She said curiously, "Is this the beast that can devour uranium? It's really strange!"
Harov and Vittorio were also amazed. Perhaps only such creatures could feed on dangerous radioactive elements.
Under the inquiring gazes of several speakers, the MUTOs, who were in the digestion stage, "opened" their eyes, but when they saw that they were just a few more bipeds and posed no threat, they closed their eyes again.
"It's called MUTO, and it's one of the gains from this trip to the uranium mine. With it, the refining of radioactive minerals will become much easier. In addition, I also found more demon stones, enough for five large nuclear explosions." Lin En explained.
"Very good, this way, we don't have to bluff like before." Hearing this, Harov couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and said in a relaxed tone.
Although they are winning one after another on the surface and have beaten the Holy See and the Empire to a pulp, there is still a very obvious gap in high-end strength. They are relying entirely on the deterrence established by nuclear explosions to maintain their superficial strength.
The speakers all knew that Lin En had only one chance to use this magic, and once used it he would lose his last bargaining chip, so Harof was always worried that the Holy See would attack again.
Now that we have a lot of nuclear fuel reserves, we can at least implement equal retaliation, such as sending a fighter jet to bomb the holy city when necessary...
(End of this chapter)