Polu, who was full of expectations, took a step forward. In order to avoid subconsciously flipping through the notes, he put his hands behind his back and walked closer. The upper part of the notebook was written in beautiful cursive characters, and after a paragraph of text, there were some very scrawled graphics.
“It’s so convenient, it actually has pictures! This is a good reference!”
Polu, who was secretly delighted, went straight to the topic. He took a look at the sketch first, but he almost doubted his own level of education on the spot!
"What is this!"
The way he wrote it even reminded him of a prescription in a hospital!
"It's completely impossible to read! There's only a slightly complicated thread at the beginning, followed by a string of wavy lines. What on earth is written on it!"
It was different from the books he had seen for the purpose of passing on knowledge. Although the standard decorative fonts on the books were a bit cumbersome, each letter was well written. With a little attention, there was no problem in identifying them.
However, the notebook in front of him is a personal note! Even if it is written in cursive script that is so smooth that it is almost scrawled, Polu, who has been baptized for a period of time, can at least guess from the context what it is.
which word.
Forget it, in some key places, such as the annotations of the sketch, there are even some abbreviations that look like threads!
"This can't be his personal abbreviation...what should I do?"
Because I can't understand the label, I can only roughly tell that it is a curved thing. There is no way to obtain accurate knowledge like this! If you use it wrongly, forget it if it doesn't work. What if it explodes?
He had no choice but to look back awkwardly and said, "Teacher, I can't see..."
But he saw Landau holding a booklet, smiling half-heartedly, as if he was waiting for this moment.
Polu was stunned, this booklet had been handed in front of him:
"Here, "Alchemy Abbreviation Dictionary". When comparing, first recognize the initial letters, and then go in and read it in alphabetical order."
Bolu took the dictionary, opened the pages and looked at it. The book was not thick, but how could I check this ghostly talisman?
"Teacher, if you write the abbreviation like this, you don't even think about whether others will admit it wrong, and you won't be able to remember it, right? Isn't this too simple? Just one character plus a wavy line?"
"It's impossible to admit the mistake. This issue has been discussed a long time ago. Once you master the writing method of combining the initials and middle keywords, you can read it smoothly. Since there are abbreviation dictionaries, they are all written in a unified way.
"
"Many nouns are very long. It is easy to miss the inspiration if you spell out the whole word every time you need to record it quickly, so abbreviations are essential. However, abbreviations can only be used in private and cannot appear in formal occasions. Remember it."
"Next, look at the dictionary first and ask me if you are unsure."
This thing looks like a heavenly book if no one brings it in, and it is impossible to read. But once someone gives guidance, it is not that difficult to learn. With the bonus of memory enhancement, and Landau giving guidance by his side, Polu quickly learns it.
I successfully learned to use a dictionary and was able to compare pictures and texts with difficulty and start reading.
The curly script throughout the narrative didn't cause much trouble.
"The materials have been used up again, and I didn't receive them. Annoying! In addition to crystals, the materials are becoming more and more scarce now. No one has discovered naturally formed large pieces of magic materials for a long time. This has brought difficulties to the production of golems.
Huge difficulties forced us to lower the quality of the golem."
"In the past, several areas where it was easy to find magic materials were all around volcanoes. Even today, when magic materials are almost exhausted, rare materials can still be found around erupted volcanoes. I suspect that these materials were extracted from the ground when the volcano erupted.
Brought out. There are traces of solidification on the surface of these materials. Perhaps they were mixed with magma and erupted together? If I can find the technology to extract rare materials from magma, my golem production will no longer be affected by materials.
Constraint!”
What follows is a very sloppy sketch marked with pointing arrows and notes, and there's even a sloppy cross-section sketch next to it.
Referring to the dictionary in his hand, Polu roughly understood the working principle of this equipment from the fragmented step instructions. He touched his head and thought to himself: "Isn't this just half a centrifuge?"
But using a stone trough to separate magma? Isn’t it too violent?
"Well, if the stone is so dry, will it crack? It's better to just use the whole stone. But if the whole stone is not cooled, it seems that it will not be very good in the end. I don't know much about stones, so I don't know if it will work."
Polu looked at the sketch with the center hollowed out and looked like a hollow brick, touched his chin, and said to Landau uncertainly.
"Well, it will indeed crack without enchantment, go on."
Landau looked at Polu with an encouraging smile. Polu ran through the principles on this sketch in his mind and stated:
"If I read it correctly, the principle of this picture is centrifugal separation. This is an arc-shaped trench, and the annotation states that it is made of granite. The granite is hollowed out and installed with circulating cooling water pipes. By the way,
The surface also needs to be enchanted.”
"There is a small half-height channel mouth on one side of the ditch. The magma first flows in from the entrance of the ditch. Speaking of how he plans to drive the magma? This thing cannot be immersed in magma, right? Control the object? Okay..."
"The magma is used by the classification array installed on one side of the ditch. The materials that need to be screened out, that is, the rare materials he wants are gathered together. First they float on the surface, and then under the influence of magic
It is pushed to the wall against the outside of the arc, and then flows along the ditch wall. When the screened metal encounters the opening of the ditch wall, it will naturally be pushed into this half-height fork by centrifugal force and enter a purification process.
parts. The remaining magma is discharged into the volcano again.”
"That's right."
"Then did he succeed later?"
"If he had succeeded, would the materials still be so rare now?"
Landau moved his fingers to turn over the next page of the note. Poru, who wanted to know the answer, quickly turned his head to read the content of the next page.
"It's not that the equipment isn't easy to use, but the process of extracting materials from magma is very unstable. Sometimes you can get materials for several days, but more often you get nothing."
"It's very strange. Are these materials not evenly distributed in the magma? When the boiling is violent, some can be successfully extracted, but when it is calmer, no matter how filtered, almost no valuable materials can be collected."
"The constant consumption of crystals and my own mental power makes me a little unsustainable. The temperature in the crater is too high. The cooling protection for myself and the equipment, including the magic power to drive the magma into the channel... It seems that from now on
The idea of extracting materials from magma is not feasible at this stage."
"Is it possible that this big brother did the experiment directly in the crater?"
Polu was once again stunned by the audacity of the alchemists.