Chapter 230: Kobold Smelting Pnt
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Bay Territory.
30 meters underground in the Kobold mining district.
The blue light slowly dissipated.
A rge, funnel-shaped metal tainer appeared before Matthew.
Elemental Furnace.
Extraordinary magic device, excellent quality.
Five meters tall, weighing 25 tons.
Purpose: Metal smelting.
Smelting efficy: 80%.
Output: Normal operation, 10 tons per day; full load, 20 tons per day.
ption: 1 kg of elemental fuel per day (1,000 gold s).
"The Elemental Furnace is finally here."
Just as Matthew was about to start the furnace, he noticed that a figure had arrived with the furnace.
Floating in the air, 343 curiously examihe vast underground cavern.
She gracefully walked up to the calm-faced Matthew, handing over the elemental fuel she had prepared:
"Elemental fuel costs 1,000 gold s per kilogram. For you, a friendship price of 900 gold."
Mattheted the dist without hesitation aured to Gold-Fang to begin.
With a howl, Gold-Fang's deep voice echoed through the mine, and tless kobolds began bustling around.
343’s gaze fell o pile of iron ore, and her delicate face showed a hint of curiosity:
"Lord Matthew, your steel factory is underground? How iing."
Matthew took the elemental fuel, disregarding the furnace's bed exterior, opehe fuel chamber, and pced 1 kg of fuel inside.
Then, he skillfully slid the chamber shut and quickly stepped back.
Whoosh!
e fmes burst forth from the Elemental Furnace.
Sparks flickered and gradually faded away.
The trated fmes looked like a molten river of va.
Seeing the furnace ignite under Matthew’s trol, 343 curiously asked again:
"Lord Matthew, this isn't your first time using aal Furnace, is it? You’re more skilled than the Lord of the City."
Suspended above, the miracks moved carts filled with ore to the top of the furnace.
The carts tilted, dumping their load of iroo the furnace.
The kobolds diligently followed the process.
The sounds of mining tools striking rock echoed throughout the cavern.
Soon, molten iron began to flow from the furnace's output chute.
Hired at a high price, Copperbeard blew on his whiskers with excitement, shouting:
"Opees, pour the molds!"
The molten iron flowed into the prepared molds, and before it could coer kobolds pushed the molds along tracks deeper into the mine.
Only then did Matthew turn to face the lifelike 343, smiling as he replied:
"I've worked with Elemental Furnaces before. They’re not hard to operate; just takes a few tries."
"Does the Lord of the City have on sales els? We only need 70% of the market price."
Eyeing Matthew suspiciously, 343 felt something was off, but couldn’t put her finger on it.
But her eagerness for profit made her nod:
"We’ll talk when the first batch is ready."
Matthew gave her a gnd, without further discussion, casually remarked:
"Previously, all our ons and gear were produced locally, though we had to import steel."
"We store 50%, and the rest be sold."
"At this rate, we sell 3,000 ons a day, with an average price of 2 gold s each, leaving 1 gold in profit per on for the Lord of the City."
Upon hearing the numbers, 343 quickly did the math and immediately agreed:
"Oh, alright."
Still somewhat muddled, 343 followed Matthew on a tour of the mine.
She saw thousands of kobolds w diligently, her mind filled with even more questions.
Then, her visio bck, and when it returned, she found herself ba the Mage Tower.
Looking at the eager Lord of the City, 343 suddenly realized:
"Matthew was stalling the whole time, a the Lord’s ot perfectly."
"Even if she did discover something, she wouldn’t care, as long as gold was involved..."
Sure enough, upon hearing Matthew’s terms, the Lord of the City burst into ughter, shoutiedly:
"We’re rich, we’re rich!"
She rewarded 343 generously, rest her energy supply to its highest level.
Then...
She dove headfirst into her b, resuming her work.
Left feeling helpless, 343 could only keep her doubts to herself.
Yet Matthew’s calm, smiling face lingered in her mind, refusing to fade.
Ba the mine, Matthew rubbed his stiff faotig his Deception and Performance skills had increased by 1 point, and gave an expet look to Gold-Fang.
Excited, Gold-Fang shouted:
"Everyone, prepare! We’ll work in shifts, two teams alternati and bor!"
"The team that works the hardest will have 100 members chose month to receive the Great Master's blessing."
Most kobolds weren’t very smart, but they had ao the lure on blood transformation, even at the cost of their lives.
If all it took was hard work to earn such a ce?
Then they would work like crazy!
Feeling their blood boiling, the kobolds threw themselves into their tasks with even more fervor.
It was clear that the Elemental Furnace would soon be running at full capacity.
Molten iron flowed into the steel ingot molds, and the kobolds quickly pushed the molds out of the mine along tracks.
Yaya picked up one of the glowing ingots, took a bite, and quickly spat it out as the heat stuongue:
"Yuck, iron ingots don’t taste good! Will I get fat from eating this?"
Gold-Fang remained silent, sav the aura of the Great Master’s dragon might.
Together with Yaya, he led the voy of mine carts through kilometers of tunnels, gradually hearing the sound of rushing water from afar.
The mine’s exit ected to the uer flow of Silvermoon River.
Still warm, the steel ingots were loaded onto small boats.
"Great Master, I’ve been waiting for you," a dragon-blooded murloc excitedly shouted, as nearby murlocs surfaced from the water, chattering.
Yaya elegantly extended her cw, pointing at the steel ingots:
"Take them outside!"
The cheerful murlocs quickly got to work, pushing the small boats den with ingots out of the cave and down the river, heading towards the docks downstream.
There, workers were already prepared to transport the steel ingots to the factories as quickly as possible.
FAL
