The Defeated Dragon - Chapter 497

[Chapter 446: The Dawn of Making Glass]

At the Earl’s birthday party, what surprised Liszt most was the restoration of a calm relationship between him and Rhonatha Golden Wheat Ears.

Perhaps this is the instinct of the nobles. After the passion, they return to their respective life trajectories.

Do not interfere with each other.

Apart from some emotions, he didn’t have many other thoughts, so he returned to Flower Town after a short rest in the afternoon.

The affairs of the territory are full of twists and turns, and without him as the backbone, it always makes people feel uneasy.

However, after returning to the territory, he found that there was nothing urgent to deal with.

So he went straight to the burial place of Heima Island to extract the magic power of the fire dragon.

Infuse magic power into the fire dragon bones, you can also ask the knights to help, extract the magic power of the fire dragon and pour it into the fire dragon pot, you can only do it by yourself, after all, only he has the secret skills of fighting qi.

Once the craftsmanship is proficient, the speed of canned dragon magic will increase.

About four tons of volcanic glass can be extracted in one day, filling nearly eight jars of pitaya.

After extracting the magic power of the fire dragon, the volcanic glass was immediately sent to the newly built crystal workshop in the port town, and handed over to the crystal craftsman Brad to carve the utensils.

Volcanic glass is not as hard as crystal, but much harder than glass, and has good permeability, making it suitable for making glassware.

Water glasses, wine glasses, tea cups, tea pots, wine bottles, glasses, test tubes, and vials for potions—all of these utensils are not for sale.

The reason is very simple. Volcanic glass has a blocking effect on the magic power of fire dragons, which makes him guess that this material can also block the magic power of other dragons.

Then its value is incalculable.

In his spare time, Liszt also went to the blacksmith shop to find a blacksmith’s furnace, a blasting skin and charcoal to conduct high-temperature experiments. In his memory, glass could be melted and blown repeatedly.

Therefore, I want to melt the residue produced when Brad carves the volcanic glass, and then use it to shape it into other shapes.

The charcoal burned in the blacksmith’s furnace, and the servants kept stepping on the blast skin, blowing the charcoal in the furnace into a raging fire.

The volcanic glass was placed in the furnace and burned in a tin can – he was not sure what the melting point or softening point of the glass was. If it was higher than the melting point of iron, the experiment would definitely fail.

Fortunately, the volcanic glass began to melt when the tin was just red.

It quickly melted into a bright, soft mass.

Liszt ordered the operating servant to pour out the volcanic glass and place it on another piece of red-hot iron.

Then let a squire knight insert an iron pipe into the soft glass and blow it hard.

The knight’s lung capacity is very large, and the soft glass begins to expand with a gentle blow.

When it swelled into a spherical shape, Liszt stopped him and pulled out the iron pipe.

After a little treatment on the bottle mouth, an ugly glass bottle is freshly baked.

Afterwards, a master from the Fire Dragon Brick Factory came to help complete the annealing process. Annealing was discovered by the workers of the Fire Dragon Brick Factory. After the bricks were burned, in order to cool them faster, the water splash method was used.

However, the bricks splashed with water are easy to break.

So the workers, stimulated by the lord’s reward, after a long period of exploration, found a reasonable annealing process, which greatly reduced the crushing strength of the fired products.

There were ten workers, so they were rewarded with ten silver coins each and became the first master masters of the Fire Dragon Brick Factory.

From a simple worker, he was upgraded to a qualified craftsman.

Because volcanic glass is a new product, the master does not know what temperature is suitable for annealing, so he can only explore slowly.

However, after the volcanic glass cooled, he took the initiative to report to Liszthui: “Lord Lord, there is one thing I don’t know if you want to know.”

“You said.” Liszt always encouraged the people to discover new things.

The master is not very old, about 20 years old, his name is Artest, a serf from the Eagle Kingdom: “You know that the Fire Dragon Brick Factory is often looking for new materials for calcination. It is a yellowish-white rock that can feel a little transparent in the face of the light.”

See Liszt listening carefully.

Artest said nervously and expectantly: “I will throw this rock into the kiln to burn it,

But they were weird and melted into a puddle very quickly and when I took it out it quickly changed again…like, like this volcanic glass that you had me annealing, it’s just cloudy .

”

“Ok?”

Liszt raised his brows: “Like volcanic glass?”

“Yes, it is also a soft mass, it solidifies quickly, and is somewhat transparent. I handed it to the masters of the brick factory to watch it together, and everyone can’t figure out what it is used for, and it quickly shattered. We identified it. It was not suitable for calcination, so the rock was abandoned,” Artest said.

His words touched Liszt a lot.

If I guessed correctly, the substance that Artest calcined is the glass he has been waiting for for a long time – the original glass made of quartz.

The stone brought by the serfs of the thorn caravan must be the raw material of glass – quartz.

Liszt once looked for quartz, and he tried to put all the stones and soil in the territory into the kiln of the Fire Dragon Brick Factory for calcination, but no glass was calcined.

There is a hazy impression, it seems that seaside sand can make glass, but the result is disappointing, seaside sand can’t calcine glass.

The sand on the beach here seems to be the remains of sand grains formed after the weathering of ancient coral reefs.

Unexpectedly, the rocks brought from other places might be quartz ore, Liszt immediately ordered Galtay to take charge of the matter: “Consultant Galtay, all you need to do is to buy a batch of Artest’s products. Say this type of rock, and then cooperate with the forged glass experiment, remember to keep it secret.”

“My lord, can this stone really be calcined into glass, like those cups you made of volcanic glass?” Galtai was very puzzled.

“Yes or no, we have to wait for the test to make a decision.”

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The possible discovery of quartz made Liszt overjoyed. He could already imagine how glass, as a specialty of Heima Island, would accumulate wealth in the future.

In the era of expensive crystals, the little aristocrats cannot resist the temptation of glass products.

certainly.

Before determining that the rock was quartz mine, Liszt did not get carried away. He continued his own volcanic glass experiment-to confirm that the re-calcined volcanic glass still has the effect of blocking the magic power of fire dragons.

The dragon needle absorbs a little dragon magic.

After injecting it into the new “fire dragon bottle”, he soon discovered that the magic power of the fire dragon was still in the form of magic power, flowing quietly in the fire dragon bottle without leaking out at all.

This proves that the effect of volcanic glass blocking the magic of dragons does not change with melting and deformation.

“So, the volcanic glass of Heima Island does have high strategic value, and it is likely to help me subdue the dragon, so as to complete the great cause of riding the dragon.”

He thought happily.