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"For now, the best thing that comes to mind is to build a flame blast furnace.

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"I think it will be no problem. If we can refine iron using a flame furnace and make Barca steel, the alchemy will be more efficient."

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　Galius' use of [Lassen's Hellfire Cauldron].

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　Although it is not yet known how this is done, there is no sign of the fire being extinguished, perhaps in response to the magical power flowing out of the ground.

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　When I thought about what I should build here in order to make effective use of the flames that never go out, what immediately came to my mind was a flaming blast furnace.

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　A special furnace made of flame ore.

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　The furnace, which could react to magic power and produce a higher temperature than any existing furnace up to that time, would simply help in blacksmithing.

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　Even ores containing the same metal can be smelted differently in different furnaces.

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　In fact, the flaming blast furnace in the Sky Kingdom can produce not only iron ore but also an unusual type of steel called Barca steel.

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　Weapons made of Barca steel have a special pattern on their surface and can cut down an ordinary iron sword.

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　There is no doubt that the unification of the Orient army's weapons with Barca steel would be a considerable improvement in their strength.

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　However, Ai also evaluated the flaming blast furnace from another point of view.

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　It is about alchemy.

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　The alchemy that Elle and her team can use can turn the iron in their hands into silver.

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　However, since each Elle has an upper limit of magical power, the amount of iron that can be converted into silver in a day is limited.

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　In order to solve this problem, I was thinking of using breeding and cloning techniques to somehow increase the number of Elle-chan.

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　However, there was another way to obtain more silver.

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　That is, to increase the purity of iron.

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　In alchemy, iron is converted into silver, but if the iron has impurities, the amount of silver that can be obtained will naturally decrease even if the magic power is consumed.

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　Then, what if the steel has less impurities like Barca steel?

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　Then, what about steel with less impurities, such as Barca steel?

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　In other words, it is more efficient to use alchemy on iron ore than on iron, and to use it on steel than on iron.

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　If we have a flaming blast furnace made of flammable ore, we will be able to make a lot of bulka steel.

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　Then we will be able to have more silver at hand in a more efficient way.

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　In the current situation, I think the flame furnace is the best choice.

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　The flame of this [Russen's cauldron] should be used to make steel.

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　It might be a good idea to buy iron in a big scale and try to do it on a large scale.

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Then let's adjust the flow of the river accordingly.

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"The river?　Aren't you going to replace the river with a new one far away from here, aye?"

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"If we are going to set up a large-scale iron smelting facility using a flame blast furnace, it would be better to improve the transportation efficiency as well. If heavy materials such as iron are to be transported, it would be less burdensome to use water transportation. It may be better to consider a new river replacement plan, assuming the transportation of iron ore using the river.

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"I see. I see. That's one way to do it. So far, the construction was simply to prevent flooding, and then the recession added the meaning of job creation, but now we are adding a new meaning to that. A river for a transportation network? Wouldn't it be nice if it were practically possible?"

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"I think there are a lot of issues to be addressed in order to make this happen. In that case, it is not convenient to purchase iron unless it is in a place where it is easy to use water transportation. However, the improvement of the river will be effective in other ways as well. I think that water will be necessary for the construction of ironworks.

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"I see. Well, you'll have to discuss this with Galius and others. You know what a steel mill is, don't you?　It means that not only iron refining but also making something out of iron will be done here until the end. Then it would be better to plan all the necessary facilities from the beginning. Right now it's just a big empty plot of land.

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"Yes, sir. Now we will discuss a plan for the construction of a steel mill here.

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　A flame blast furnace is built using an unquenchable flame.

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　It produces ever-better steel in greater quantities.

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　For this purpose, we have decided to do it on a large scale rather than a small one.

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　First of all, there is the river.

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　A new waterway will be built so that ships carrying raw iron can carry it to the flaming blast furnace in Lassen's cauldron.

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　Then, the iron ore brought in will be converted into Barca steel, which will then be used to make various products.

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　This would be better than just turning iron into steel.

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　For now, I would like them to make swords and arrows out of Barca steel.

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　And those finished products will be sent out to other places again by water transportation.

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　We will create facilities to do all this efficiently in this empty space.

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　It might be like building a new town.

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　Maybe some people will settle down if we make it that big.

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　Though it might be a bit difficult to live there, since we have to use [Poison Disable] regularly.

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　Thus, it was decided to build a new city-sized ironworks based on Lassen's Hellfire Cauldron.

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　With Garius taking the lead, the movement to build an unprecedented iron city began at this time.

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