Chapter 333: Power of Three Phases

The fire dragon magic was allocated overnight to the kilns at the brick factory.

The brick factory has six kilns, and all of them were lit, using only the fire dragon magic from two Fire Dragon canisters. They had basically stopped firing traditional bricks because there were many basalt rock columns on the island. Just a meter or two underground, they could find solid stone.

There is no shortage of stone materials.

Moreover, wood is still the top choice for building houses, as wooden houses save a lot of time.

The six working kilns are currently mainly used for experimenting with new clay building materials—smart brick-making workers have been selected, and they are researching materials such as stone slabs, culverts, and tiles, trying to find the most suitable clay to fire qualified materials.

Stone slabs can be used for paving roads, and Liszt has long been dissatisfied with the gravel roads of Flower Town.

Smooth stone roads are a must for any noble residence.

Culverts can be used for drainage systems, bridge construction, and water supply infrastructure. Though they are not needed for now, when he builds the new castle, a proper sewage system will definitely be required.

Tiles are used for roofing.

Traditional wooden house roofs are made of thatch, straw, and brushwood. During heavy rain, the roof would leak. By laying tiles, the chance of leaks is greatly reduced, and during windy days, the thatch won’t be blown around.

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The kilns also serve to produce charcoal.

Charcoal is a fuel extensively used by nobles. With these fire dragon kilns, the wood is neatly stacked, and it only takes a moment to burn off the impurities in the wood. Then, water is quickly poured to cool it down, leaving behind charcoal.

Every time the Flowers returns to Flower Town, it brings back a shipload of charcoal.

The charcoal, refined using fire dragon magic, is uniform, eco-friendly, smokeless, and burns efficiently—it is top-quality charcoal. The Flower and Thorn merchant teams have started selling this charcoal in small batches. In the near future, as the workers become proficient in charcoal-making techniques, this will become another local specialty.

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Finally.

Liszt is also preparing to establish a "Calcination Research and Development Team," planning to use the fire dragon kilns to thoroughly explore calcination technology.

Bricks, pottery, porcelain, glass, cement, and lime are all calcined.

While Liszt currently only knows how to calcine bricks, he plans to research pottery, porcelain, glass, cement, and lime in the future.

In short.

The brick factory is just a name; its true essence is a calcination research center.

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The next morning.

Liszt picked up the small horn, rode Hiddleston, and headed straight to the rocky beach below the lighthouse, where he blew the small horn. Before long, a large white shell emerged from the sea, and the sound of the horn came through.

After exchanging pleasantries.

Liszt began his new day's work. He took the rubber bug triplets to the rubber forest.

He intended to study the triplets' unique abilities to restore the vitality of the damaged rubber trees. The insect grass was intact, and the previous cuts had healed. He placed the triplets on a rubber tree that had been cut open in several places, through their mind-link, letting the triplets repair the rubber tree.

"Come on, three little ones, try to restore the rubber tree and bring it back to life."

The Magic Eye was cast to closely observe their actions.

The three rubber bugs lined up and began to move along the trunk of the rubber tree, while the other two crawled to the opposite sides of the trunk.

"Hmm, these three little guys actually separated without any external force?" Liszt said in surprise.

Unless someone picked them up and separated them, if left on the ground, they would always crawl together and act in unison.

They had never actively separated before.

Before Liszt could fully process his surprise, the magic power on the rubber bugs, which had formed a triangular formation on three sides of the trunk, trembled violently.

A pulse of energy radiated out in all directions from them.

Through the vision of the Magic Eye, the pulse spread in concentric magic waves. When it hit a rubber tree, it ignited the magic within the tree, outlining its shape. From this tree, new magic waves spread out.

The waves traveled further and further, and soon the entire rubber forest was filled with concentric magic waves.

The intense visual impact left Liszt wide-eyed.

He had never seen magic used like this before. As his gaze shifted away from the gradually dissipating magic waves, the damaged parts of the rubber tree in front of him had quickly healed under the stimulation of the magic power. Within minutes, the magic waves faded away, and all the damaged rubber trees returned to normal.

There was no sign of any damage.

"Incredible!" Liszt checked each rubber tree one by one, finding them all intact, "This is like cheating!"

Suddenly.

Through their mental connection, the three rubber bugs conveyed their exhaustion. After releasing such a miraculous effect, they were extremely tired.

Liszt quickly had his footmen bring a jade box, placed the triplets inside, and sprinkled ample jade powder to help them recover.

Now.

These three rubber bugs had become Liszt's most prized possession.

At first, he thought having only one spirit bug for three rubber bugs was a waste. But now he realized that these magical creatures could not be judged by common sense. They always amazed people.

Putting away the spirit bug, Liszt suddenly thought, "I wonder if the rubber trees outside the rubber grove have been healed too?"

So he rode Hiddleston to the grassland, then switched to the king of black blood horses, Lightning, and began to inspect the areas on the island where rubber trees were distributed—young rubber trees had been transplanted to the rubber grove, but the too-large rubber trees had to be left to grow in the wild.

However, there was some disappointment.

The first wild rubber tree still showed clear signs of damage, untouched by the triplets' healing.

This indicated that the unique "magic" released by the rubber bug triplets only had an effect within their range of influence, or rather, within the range where the magic waves could overlap. Rubber trees beyond this range could not benefit from the triplets' enhancement.

Left to fend for themselves.

"Does that mean I'd have to use the Three-Phase Power on every single wild rubber tree?" he wondered.

If that was necessary, it would exhaust the triplets.

However, the smoke mission seemed to only require finding out the special ability of the triplets and did not ask for the rubber trees to be healed, so Liszt directly summoned the smoke mission.

The swirling smoke formed a line of serpent script.

"Mission completed, reward: an apple tree spirit bug."

Indeed, discovering the Three-Phase Power of the rubber bug triplets had completed the mission, and the reward was an apple tree spirit bug.

Liszt immediately thought of the apple tree near the castle's entrance.

The apple table under the tree was a place where he often exchanged ideas with his knight followers. "It's fascinating to think that this apple tree must have nurtured the spirit bug. Now, the apple tree has taken on a new, symbolic significance... It’s sure to become another story of honor, blessed by the glory of knighthood!"