Feeling the feeling of a big hand rubbing on the top of her head, Rebecca suddenly felt a little dazed.
Her first reaction was that she heard it wrong, her second reaction was that her ancestors had said it wrong, and her third reaction... she regarded it as a kind of comfort.
It can’t be satire, right?
Miss Viscount, who had never accomplished anything since she was a child, never expected that she would be truly praised for once.
Seeing Rebecca's reaction, Gawain repeated what he had just said, and then laughed: "Don't be stunned, I am seriously complimenting you, I'm afraid you are aware of it. I can't believe how incredible your talent is."
"Really?" Rebecca said blankly, then blinked a little embarrassedly, "But these are just my cleverness... It's usually useless."
Such an outstanding talent is actually classified as a little cleverness... This makes Gawain a little speechless.
Rebecca was born too early, but fortunately, Gawain didn't come too late, and there was still a chance for these talents to be used.
Gawain took a closer look at Rebecca's adjusted magic circle structure - although he was a knight, Gawain Cecil was half a polymath in magic theory. There is also a lot of research in other aspects. In addition, the Gondor Empire is a country with extremely developed magic technology, and the basic knowledge about magic is widely popularized. Therefore, this kind of magic circle that is only made up of basic runes is very effective for high-level players. It is not difficult to understand the text. After taking a closer look, he determined that Rebecca's adjustments to these runes were quite reasonable. This magic circle had changed from a superficial conceptual product to one that fully met his expectations and could lay the foundation for subsequent applications. If you want to continue to improve the "prototype machine", you can only wait for practical testing.
Gawain only asked one question: "Have you ever considered expanding it further?"
"Expand it further?" Rebecca was stunned, "How? Expand? Make it bigger?”
“No, it means to connect it with other self-charging arrays with the same frame but different sizes, or even use some array unit as the basic structure. , connect and expand infinitely, and eventually form a large network that can cover a wider area." Gawain looked at the neatly arranged runes and vaguely saw shadows that seemed to be able to be combined and repeated, so he couldn't help but propose A rather bold idea, "Each magic unit is no longer an independent individual, but is connected together - can you understand it?"
Although he has outstanding mathematical talent and creativity, This level of concept was still too difficult for Rebecca. She thought hard, but in the end she could only frown in distress: "Ancestor, is the thing you are talking about... really possible?"
"Just think of it as my whim." Seeing Rebecca's embarrassed look, Gawain knew that he couldn't rush for quick success, so he decisively stopped extending this aspect, "You nowFirst build the Magic Network No. 1 and get the blacksmith shop up and running, and leave the rest to later. "
"Okay! "Rebecca nodded happily, "I was discussing the blacksmith shop with Hammer just now..."
"Oh? "Gawain raised his eyebrows. He did see Rebecca discussing something with Hammer just now, but the surprise brought by Magic Network No. 1 made him almost forget about it, "What are you talking about? ? "
"About the new furnace," Rebecca said, raising her head, "I'm thinking that if Magic Network No. 1 is operational, then a formal magic circle can be drawn on the blacksmith furnace without the need for Get those unusable runes again - then the furnace can be modified, right? But I don’t know how to make iron, so I had to come to Hanmel to discuss and see what ideas he had on improving the furnace and work process..."
The old blacksmith Hanmel stood with some fear. Next to him, he lowered his head and listened to the viscount and the duke discussing issues. He was both honored and nervous that a commoner like himself could stand here and participate in the discussions of the nobles. But when he saw Gawain turn his attention to When he was on his own, the old blacksmith really broke out in a cold sweat: he couldn't imagine what it would be like for a noble man who had never even pulled a bellows to guide him in building a blacksmith shop. But he had to cooperate, so he was already prepared for Gawain to make a lot of unbelievable requests, and he had to lead the apprentices to work hard to complete the tasks...
This is not unusual. , because it is said that a viscountess in the north had a whim to instruct gardeners to prune the nursery, and stipulated that each goldenrod should be divided into two buds instead of three when they bloom - more than a dozen gardeners He was whipped for this until the viscountess lost interest in the matter.
“Don’t be nervous,” Gawain said calmly, seeing Hammer’s nervousness, “Tell me about you. idea. "
"I...I don't have any ideas," Hammel lowered his head and said humbly, "Miss Viscount is really knowledgeable and intelligent. The ones she designed are all like ours. It would be very difficult for me to learn to use something that poor people cannot understand in their lifetime. How can I give my opinion? "
Gawain looked at him and shook his head: "Of course you don't understand magic, but you know the furnace and the anvil best. You are an expert in this area, and we will respect your opinion. "
Respect... the opinion of a commoner?
Hammer thought he was hallucinating for a moment, but when he saw the faces of Gawain, Hetty, and Rebecca Everyone looked extremely serious, and he finally confirmed that this was true - at least the Duke did say so.
So he could only bite the bullet: "I think... I think since the stove will be used in the future. We have to use real magic to increase the temperature. Instead of modifying the old stove, it is better to start from scratch and make a brand new stove..."
Gao Wen raised his eyebrows. :"Brand new?"
Hammer grabbed his arm and tried to express his thoughts clearly and clearly: "Since real magic is used, the original talismans are gone. Wen's limitations - first of all, the furnace can be larger, and a lot more steel can be smelted at one time. Then, since the magic circle will not break, the furnace does not need to be turned off and cooled down all the time. Maybe it can be kept burning. It saves the labor and time of reheating the chamber, but it means you have to use it all the time..."
Gawain listened carefully, only when he encountered something. He only interrupted when he thought he could make suggestions, while Hammer said all his thoughts in one breath.
At the beginning, he stumbled and made mistakes due to nervousness, but soon his speech became smoother and smoother, and when he was about to finish speaking, he was completely surprised.
He did not expect that Gawain was really listening to his story attentively - a great duke, a truly great nobleman, a figure that ordinary people could not even imagine, actually stood in this mess. place, listening to the opinions of a commoner like himself, and it was not a disguised listening, because Gawain not only nodded while listening, but even asked some detailed questions and suggestions from time to time!
Those questions and suggestions made Hammer feel confused from time to time: Is this really an aristocratic gentleman in front of him who has never touched a bellows or a hammer? Why does he know so much about steel smelting?
Although many of these questions sounded a bit fanciful to Hamel, there is no doubt that those questions are closely centered around the actual situation of steel smelting - by no means "the goldenrod is blooming" It should be divided into two buds instead of three." Such nonsense!
After Hammer finally finished speaking, Gawain breathed a sigh of relief and stared into the old blacksmith's eyes.
The old blacksmith became nervous: "Old... Master..."
"How many years have you been a blacksmith?" Gawain suddenly asked.
"Three...almost thirty years," Hammer replied quickly, "but people like us can't remember the years clearly..."
"A A thirty-year old blacksmith, I didn't expect you to have so many innovative ideas." Gawain was a little confused. "It stands to reason that these ideas are easily generated by young talents with unrestricted ideas. How could you think of such an idea? "More?"
Hammer opened his mouth and spoke after a few seconds: "...Master, I'm not afraid of your ridicule. In fact, these thoughts didn't come to me just now. I have been saving for many years..."
Gao Wen showed an interested expression: "Tell me about it."
"I have been a blacksmith for decades and am very familiar with stoves and steel. I really can’t understand this thing anymore, and if I say I’m used to it, I’ve indeed been used to it for a long time.” The wrinkles on Hammer’s face were criss-crossed, and he forced a smile, “But I still remember when I was still an apprentice— —My father was a blacksmith in the village at that time, and I followed himLearn a craft. One year, the lord asked us to smelt a batch of fine iron, so I volunteered to run the furnace myself. My father felt that I should be on my own after studying for many years, so he asked me to try it, but something went wrong in this attempt. . ”
Hammer paused, and then said: “I was too impatient and didn’t wait enough time for the stove to cool down before heating it up again - as a result, the rune broke.
"Once the rune was broken, the furnace was completely scrapped. It was the most valuable and important thing in the blacksmith shop. My father was furious and hung me at the door of the shop and whipped me for a long time. He almost beat me to death. , he said that the only reason he didn’t beat me to death directly was that once I was beaten to death, there would be no one to help the family work, and no one would inherit the blacksmith shop...
“That year, we didn’t For being able to fulfill the lord's orders, my father received dozens of whips in the castle..."
Obviously, this incident during his apprenticeship left a deep mark on Hamel's heart.
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When he was punished by his father and saw his father going to the castle to receive punishment, many thoughts about the blacksmith's furnace began to sprout in his mind.
Fortunately, thirty years have passed. , those sprouts have not completely withered in Hamel's heart - maybe they have withered, but Rebecca's plan to "draw a magic circle on the furnace to replace the runes" gave hope to the old blacksmith's heart again. .
It is a good breakthrough to have hope again.
Since the old blacksmith is not as inflexible and difficult to accept new things as he feared. People, it seems that some things can be prepared in advance.