Back in the castle, Owen sent a few guards to the blacksmith shop to transport the steam engine back, and then came to the study.

As soon as he sat down on the chair, Owen immediately started a mental conversation with Winston.

[Now, you can talk about your research results on magic stones.]

[No problem, but before talking about magic stones, let’s talk about the research on magic. Everything transferred before contains more or less magic. We can already observe the existence of magic from the side through some means, but there are also

Limited to this, we cannot yet determine what magic is. After a lot of observations, we have made an unexpected discovery.】

The research on magic power is a huge project. Winster's ability is always limited and requires a whole scientific research team to work together.

[What discovery?] Owen asked.

[Magic power seems to be above the laws of nature. It can ignore the laws of physics and obtain different or even opposite results. For example, as long as there is a temperature difference, heat will spontaneously transfer from high temperature to low temperature. Magic power

It can break this rule and allow heat to transfer in the reverse direction.】

When answering, Winster's tone was quite cautious, and he seemed to still be skeptical of the discovery.

At first, a young researcher in the scientific research team discovered this phenomenon and told Winster. He did not believe it at first, believing that everything in the world should operate in accordance with the laws of nature, and that nothing can override the laws.

However, the facts slapped him hard.

[For you, it may be unbelievable. But for us, magic is everywhere, and we have long been accustomed to it. 】

Now, Owen has learned a lot from Winster and has new thoughts about magic.

For example, fire magic can produce flames out of thin air, so where does this energy come from? Is the magic itself powerful, or is it due to some other reason?

However, since the most important thing right now is to let Border Guard Town survive this winter safely, Owen has no time to study magic and can only leave it to Winster.

【Do you know what this means?】

Unexpectedly, Winston would ask himself this question. Owen thought about it again and again, but could not come to any good conclusion.

In the end, he gave up thinking and asked the other party for the answer directly.

【What does it mean?】

[It means that as long as you can master the power of magic, you can override the laws of nature and become a god-like existence. 】

[You mean, all the people here who can use magic are gods?]

This is wrong. Although Owen can use fire magic, he is not omnipotent. There is still a big gap between him and the so-called gods.

[No, you are the beneficiaries of an environment with sufficient magic power. You should also know that you can only control the magic power within your body, but the magic power outside your body is not under your control.] Winster explained.

[I see. If you can control the magic power in the world, you are undoubtedly a god. By the way, do you think the god here is Michael, the only deity the church believes in? 】

Speaking of gods, Owen immediately thought of the church. Belief in magic also seemed to prove the existence of gods.

[I don’t know about this. Maybe Lumigareism is just an ordinary religion, or maybe they really know something. After all, belief in magic is really questionable.]

All in all, to find out what magic is, Winster still needs a long period of research. That’s it for the topic of magic. Next, Owen and the others talked about the research on magic stones.

[About magic stones, you must have done a lot of research there. You might as well talk about how you use magic stones, and then I will add some new discoveries. 】

This can also save a lot of time, as both parties will definitely have duplicate content on the use of magic stones.

[No problem.] Owen responded.

The first is the scorching magic stone. This thing is quite common, but the price is still high. Only rich people can afford it.

Generally speaking, high-quality hot magic stones are used to make equipment such as staffs, which are used by fire magicians to enhance the power of magic. People who want to become powerful magicians will spend a lot of money to buy such staffs.

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Of course, there are also a very small number of cash-strapped magicians who use staffs made of low-quality magic stones, such as Fanny.

Inferior scorching magic stones will be used as firewood to ward off the cold. People in the past have long discovered that in addition to activating scorching magic stones with magic power, open flames can also be used.

The activated hot magic stones will cool down after a period of time. However, as long as a certain number of hot magic stones are piled together and one of the magic stones is activated, the heat emitted will activate nearby magic stones and affect each other. Finally,

The entire pile of magic stones will emit a large amount of heat, which will last for a long time.

Compared with firewood, the advantage of scorching magic stone is that it glows and generates heat for a longer time, does not produce smoke and strange smells, and does not burn the fireplace.

It is because of these advantages that wealthy nobles and wealthy businessmen purchase large quantities of low-quality scorching magic stones for heating every winter.

[It’s almost the same as what we found in our research. By the way, after the magic power of the scorching magic stone is consumed, it will turn into gray powder. How do you deal with the gray powder?] Winster asked.

【Are those remnants? Just dump them anywhere.】

[What! That is a very useful thing, you are really wasting it.] Winster said regretfully.

【Huh? What's the use?】

People have always dealt with the remnants of magic stones in this way, and Owen also treated them as garbage. Now Winster said that the dust was very useful, which made him both surprised and curious.

[Those ash powder is a great fertilizer, which can increase the yield of grain per acre, and also has the effect of conditioning the soil. Isn’t there a large area of ​​saline-alkali land in Bianzhu Town? Using it can greatly improve the situation of the saline-alkali land. 】

[Do you mean to say that by applying the ash powder to the plowed land before farming, the cursed land in Bianzhu Town can grow things? 】

[That’s pretty much what it means. I originally wanted to transfer some soil conditioners to you to improve the saline-alkali land, but now it seems that it’s not necessary.]

Owen was shocked when he received an affirmative answer. The town of Border Guard was deeply affected by the Kazitu's curse. It turned out that the key to solving the curse's influence was the magic stone abundant in the town, which was really unexpected.

No wonder the Transverse Mountains and the Sky Mountains are not affected by the curse. Maybe it has something to do with the rich magic stone veins there.

"Oops!" Suddenly remembering something, Owen slammed the desk.

Hearing the sound, the guard at the door thought something had happened to the lord and hurriedly broke into the study.

Seeing that Owen was fine, he realized that he might have overreacted, and immediately touched his chest, saluted, and asked, "Your Majesty, Marquis, what's the matter?"

【What's going on?】Winster was also shocked.

[We will continue talking about magic stones later. I have to deal with the cargo ship that will leave tomorrow. That ship is full of magic stones for sale. 】

After quickly speaking to Winston, Owen raised his head and looked at the guard.
Chapter completed!