Chapter 5 Gem Veins in the Dukedom of Winter

Annan gave the address of "Salvatore's Secret Store" to the players, largely to take care of this big fool.

Although Senior Sister Valtore is watching, at least he won't be too stupid...

Essentially, their relationship is like that of a college boys' dormitory—father and son, so to speak.

They are all worrying about the big fool (I think) on the opposite side, trying to find a way to feed something, so as not to accidentally feed him to death.

Not long after Annan returned to Cold Winter, when Dmitri's stickiness was over...the elder brother was sent out mercilessly and asked him to use the "Salvatore Pie Gem Detector" to go out to find mines.

If the gemstone vein can be found, the economic situation in the Duchy of Winter can be eased a lot.

Although it is necessary to pay attention to infrastructure.

However, Lindong's side is divided into regions by the small barriers that come with each city. It can be said that it is not easy to repair roads.

If you recruit a group of people to start road construction, then the situation may be as follows:

Ah, ok, we started building the road today.

After repairing for less than half a month, I reached the end of the small enchantment.

What should I do?

Why don't you just stop.

Waiting for more than ten years and decades in the past few years, let my son continue to repair after the winter year...

... Otherwise, what else can I do.

After all, it is impossible for unprotected workers to work in a blizzard whose vision is limited.

That is not a question of whether there are human rights, but a question of whether they can come back alive after leaving the small enchantment...

Only werewolves with rough skin and thick fur with their own warm fur can survive in that environment. With the clothing technology of this era, clothing that allows people to work in a snowstorm without losing their temperature does not exist at all.

Even superhumans might freeze to death in that environment.

In this regard, Annan felt that the players’ comments were very accurate—they called Winter’s Great Barrier “the underlying logic at the level of the immune system.”

What should we do in the face of the cursed fog coming from outside?

——It would be better to roll up an extremely cold, never-ending blizzard, and blow away all the condensation of gray fog. After all, this gray fog is not something illusory and unstoppable, but a materialized curse, roughly equivalent to a special kind of haze that cannot be filtered.

It hangs in the air, can be blown away by the wind, and can also be blocked by walls. It doesn't even go below the surface of the sea.

Under the sweep of the blizzard, the gray fog will be dissolved, frozen, and then thrown away.

The gray mist outside really couldn't get in, but the people inside were almost freezing to death, and even the frozen creatures would turn into frost beasts, wandering like ghosts in the snow field.

It's probably on the level of "Today's broken gray fog and you have to die together".

Because of this, it is basically impossible for the investment from Hui Yao IV to be used for road construction.

But if the gem veins are real, then Maria can completely arrange a small enchantment locally.

The so-called cold winter barrier is essentially a permanent constant temperature barrier.

The constant temperature barrier is not difficult to arrange, and even Salvatore has arranged a constant temperature barrier in the basement of the frozen water port. Even in Noah's royal capital, there is a special agricultural department that uses constant temperature barriers to cultivate greenhouse crops for the royal family.

The constant temperature enchantment with the characteristics of winter only needs to add a shell outside to ensure that the generated temperature does not escape.

In principle it is not difficult. Just arrange the semi-automatic device called "Large Barrier Generator".

But it's just like the constant temperature enchantment that Salvatore arranged in the basement back then.

If you want to flood the entire city with temperature, then it must be very hot around the center of the constant temperature barrier. And it wastes a lot of energy.

To prevent this, the ritual needs to be complicated.

Let the temperature be evenly distributed throughout the city.

The solution on Earth is heating pipes.

And in the cold winter, the Tower of Storms built a complex constant temperature system.

Annan called it a "cloud constant temperature system".

One is because it is really in the clouds - the tower of storms floating in the sky is used to calculate and maintain the constant temperature barrier.

Another reason is because different cities have to "download" the ceremony directly from the cloud.

Just organize a few wizards, insert a hollowed-out metal tower like a radio tower, only fifteen meters high, and arrange a "large barrier generator" inside.

Then using this tower, link its ritual system to the Tower of Storms. Afterwards, the Tower of Storms can be used to provide nearly permanent energy for constant temperature rituals throughout the city.

The Tower of Storms hanging upside down in the center of the Great Barrier will map the constant temperature spell onto the outer shell of the "barrier", and arrange a super-large constant temperature barrier on the shell to ensure that every corner of the city feels comfortable. The temperature is about the same - and the energy is naturally all provided by the "strongest wind generator" in the tower of the storm.

In other words, even if the spies came to steal the teacher, they would not be able to learn this kind of magical, central air-conditioning-level urban heating.

The constant temperature barrier is not inside the city at all, but outside.

That's why in every city, there is no ceremonial tower that can support such a complicated ceremony.

Each city can maintain this "constant temperature barrier", which would otherwise consume a lot of energy, as long as it continues to provide simple magic materials as fuel for the "large barrier generator".

In order to save the energy of the Tower of Storms, it is naturally impossible to spread this enchantment throughout the entire winter. Although the Tower of Storms has a lot of energy, it is not unlimited after all...and it needs to reserve a part to contain various natural disasters.

What can be protected is various residential areas.

But if it is really confirmed that the gemstone vein exists, it is not impossible to directly build a "new city".

Just build it around the veins and insert a new enchantment. Building a city from scratch can consume a lot of labor and create a lot of jobs. After that, the gems that are produced continuously will allow Winter to have new specialties.

In this world, 90% of gems are produced on Diamond Island.

But that's just an island, how many gems can it produce?

It's not worthless because it's too much - it will definitely lose value, but it's useful after all. Because many ceremonies require the use of natural gemstones that have been cultivated in the earth veins for a long time.

Dmitry did not keep Annan waiting long.

Not long after the holy day in May, Annan watched the live broadcast of Kafni's enthronement ceremony remotely with the eyes of players.

Not even a week has passed, Dmitry hurried back with good news.

—The gem veins are real.

And it was a large and rich crystal pegmatite deposit, and the quality was quite good! The currently detected reserves alone are enough to be mined for at least 150 years—the reserves are even larger than the gemstone reserves of Diamond Island!

As a by-product of sandstone, it can also be regarded as a kind of high-quality stone, which has a considerable degree of use. Whether it is exported or used for winter infrastructure, it is completely possible.

It can even be used to build cities in situ.

Annan can even imagine that if the news is announced now, Lin Dong may even usher in a wave of population return.

In the winter year, not only there is no population loss, but a large number of winter people return—this will undoubtedly be a miracle!

Annan didn't intend to let the Lingdong family swallow all the benefits.

That would be greedy, and would likely meet with considerable resistance instead.

——Annan plans to name it "Sar Lode" to commemorate the magical mirror provided by Salvatore.