If it were iron, subsequent forging would be necessary to form various weapons and tools, whereas copper is cast with molten copper.
However, casting itself is a hassle. Not to ntion how to extract the molten copper from the high-temperature earthen furnace and pour it into molds promptly. In the current cold winter, the frigid air would imdiately cool the molten copper upon contact, making casting even more challenging.
"Alas, what a pain!"
It was only now that Austin recalled the video he watched in his previous life. In it, the man who refined iron with bare hands in the wild just ended up with a chunk of iron without any thod of forging it into weapons and tools afterward.
And now, although copper has been refined, everything that follows can only be designed by himself. Unfortunately, Austin isn’t very skilled in these engineering designs.
After pondering for an entire hour, Austin ca up with various improvent thods in his mind. Although these thods appeared rather crude, they all had so potential for realization.
However, these thods all require the creation of new ceramic modules.
Under normal circumstances, he could have simply instructed the goblins to create the envisioned modules according to his ideas. But now it’s cold winter, outside it’s so cold the water freezes instantly, and even the first step of pottery-making—mixing clay—is impossible. Water added to the soil quickly crystallizes and precipitates from the mud, depriving it of any adhesive properties, and the entire mass freezes into a block of ice. In this situation, the first step of creating ceramic modules fails, making it impossible to produce them.
Besides the module issue, there are many improvents to be made to the earthen furnace, causing Austin to furrow his brows deeply.
Thus, Austin briefly explained various rough principles and then left the follow-up tasks to the goblins in the manufacturing workshop.
After all, the copper has been refined; how to make weapons and tools from copper blocks is rely a matter of ti. Once the goblins have tried several tis, they are bound to produce these copper-made weapons and tools.
After explaining all the upcoming directions in detail, Austin led the two hundred Dragon Nest Beastn back to the Dragon Nest Base.
This was also Austin’s mistake. Without personal experience, he thought refining copper would be easy, believing that one or two successful furnaces could lead to large-scale copper industry, equipping the entire Dragon Nest Tribe with newly-made weapons and tools in a short ti. But he didn’t expect it to be fraught with difficulties, and the initial goal was only half completed.
What follows is continuous experintation to find a thod to manufacture suitable weapons and tools during the cold winter. Completing such trials is impossible within one or two months.
Since it’s an experint, there’s no need to station too many Beastn here, wasting manpower.
Thus, there wasn’t much point in leaving too many Dragon Nest Beastn, so Austin took two hundred Beastn back, leaving about a hundred to be stationed there long-term.
This failure served as a reminder to Austin that one shouldn’t act too rashly. This ti bringing so many Beastn only proved to be a minor inconvenience. If it were an issue of life and death, the consequences would have been much more severe.
Of course, upon leaving, Austin also took the rcenary captives away from the Copper Ore Base, otherwise, controlling these individuals with only a hundred Dragon Nest Beastn would be sowhat challenging.
Several days later, after organizing everything, Austin led the large group away from the Copper Ore Base, embarking on the journey back to the Dragon Nest Tribe Base.
This copper refining wasn’t a complete failure, at least copper has been separated from the copper ore. It’s just that due to the cold weather, progressing to the next step of forging is difficult.
Actually, if it weren’t for the cold winter, Austin believes staying there for one or two more days would naturally yield a forging thod. But now, he could only leave it to the goblins to manage themselves.
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The Copper Ore Base isn’t far from the Dragon Nest Tribe, about twenty miles. The Dragon Nest Beastn can cover that distance in about an hour if they hurry. Although the heavy snowfall slowed them down, half a day’s journey sufficed to return the main group to the Dragon Nest Tribe.
Nothing major happened within the tribe. As the cold winter began, nearly ten days had passed. The thousands of ters-high cold winds in the sky have been exhausted, and the snowfall has significantly reduced. Though still cold, it’s not as freezing as the first couple of days.
The dangerous phase has passed, so during this slower period of cold winter, groups of Beastn were brought out for large-scale drills. Moreover, the daily military training increased, ensuring the breathing technique training wasn’t overlooked.
Overlooking the vast open ground, Austin found his mind relaxing as he saw disciplined and uniformly moving elite Beastn units.
From above, previously forested wasteland stretches outward with rows of houses, forming a small city within the Kawa Great Forest.
On the vast snowy ground, the well-trained Beastn ford a dense black sea, creating a thunderous roar.
Further away, fields under cultivation stretched outward.
Two years ago, this was a rippling unbroken green baren forest, and now, it had been transford by Austin’s hands, creating a tribe, a city on this wilderness land.
Although in the entire process of establishing the tribe and later military training, Austin rarely participated, the origins of all this—from military reform, system determination, land cultivation—everything began with Austin. He brought the seeds of his past civilization here, nurtured them, enabling them to flourish and eventually grow to the current state, possibly even into mighty trees in the future.
Since copper refining can’t be achieved in one go, and the developnt of the Dragon Nest Tribe has entered the right track, Austin started considering ways to enhance his strength.
Although there won’t be many dangers for the Dragon Nest Tribe in the short term, there is a great secret hidden in the lake near the tribe, which during his last underwater venture, his sixth sense told him that breaking through the peculiar plants known as ghost grasses and seeing the deepest secret inside required reaching gold level life and the natural aptitude of a giant dragon.
Austin is very intrigued by what might be hidden in there.
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