Chapter 42 Arcane Civilization
The floating cities of the Netheril era were indeed glorious, but the cities were generally small in size. Moreover, because the Miser energy core was closely connected to the magic network, if there was a problem with the magic network, the floating city would crash.

In order to prevent repeating the same mistakes, the arcanists who experienced that era did not use elemental furnaces that were connected to the magic network from the beginning. Instead, they laid an artificial magic network around the floating city.

Compared with the Miser Energy Core, the Element Furnace only has a higher output power, but it is not an infinite energy source. Therefore, element fuel needs to be stored in the floating city. A fully filled element furnace can operate stably for hundreds of years. Usually, the energy reserves of a floating city can ensure the normal operation of the floating city for a thousand years.

If it is in the star realm, this time can be increased several times. After all, there is no gravity in the star realm, and the floating ring is only to ensure basic operation.

The technology of miniaturizing the elemental furnace is not too difficult. What troubled the arcanists at the beginning was the problem of engraving the rune array and the material. When micro-carving, photolithography, and etching technologies appeared one after another, this problem was mostly solved.

The material problem was also solved by rune formations. More accurate and precise formations were used in all walks of life in arcane civilization, and various magic equipment were upgraded, so that better magic metal materials came into being.

Dozens of disciplines such as rune engineering, micro-carving, advanced arcane theory, high-energy elemental mechanics, etc. are also confidential disciplines in the Supreme Arcane Council. Every great arcanist who studies this knowledge must sign the Source Sea Contract to guarantee that it will not be leaked to the outside, and must work for the Supreme Arcane Council for a hundred years.

Of course, you can also use your own research results to exchange knowledge with the Supreme Arcane Council, but leakage is also not allowed.

Richard worked for the Arcane Council for a hundred years, and with the knowledge he had researched on his own, he finally exchanged it for money.

Mage tower, laboratory.

Richard was operating a furnace full of magical atmosphere. A large number of metal ingots were thrown into it. In addition to these metals, various element powders were also added in proportion.

Runes on the furnace form a rune array, and elemental energy is continuously injected into it, perfectly integrating the various metals, elemental powders, etc. in the furnace.

Richard is making Kanrel Magic Steel. He is going to make a special steel golem, so he will not use ordinary rune magic steel. Kanrel Magic Steel is light, tough, has good magic conductivity, memory, and self-repair, and is a top-quality material for making golems.

With the help of the Alchemist's Hand, Richard moved quickly. Before the metal cooled down, the Alchemist's Hand changed it into various shapes and then tempered it in the elemental spring water.

The elemental energy changes the nature of the metal, giving it magical properties.

Golems come in all shapes and styles, and their appearances vary according to their uses. The golem he was going to make this time was closer to humans. Pieces of metal parts were forged one by one.

In addition to these parts, Richard needs to make a small element furnace and a soul core. The most important things of the whole golem are the element furnace and the soul core.

The elemental furnace is the heart of the iron golem, providing energy for the iron golem. The soul core is the soul of the entire golem. The soul of the golem is equivalent to a top-level artificial intelligence.

The most advanced artificial intelligence is Taling, whose intelligence is almost as good as that of real humans, and in many areas, humans cannot compare with them.

Richard took some time every day to make the various parts of the Iron Golem, and the rest of the time was used to carve the soul crystal. High-quality soul crystals need to be carefully engraved. Once a mistake is made, it will affect the soul core. In addition to part of the intelligence of the soul core being given by the maker, the other part is the memory fragment of a life left in the soul crystal. After these memory fragments are extracted and a large amount of useless impurities are removed, they are then merged with the intelligence given by the arcanists to finally form a brand new soul intelligence.

Higher-level soul crystals can accept, understand, and execute more complex commands. The soul core of a golem puppet has no thoughts of its own.

The Supreme Arcane Council Alliance once produced a large number of low-level golems, clay golems and stone golems, and then wanted to sell these golems to the lords for use in mining, road construction, transporting large objects and goods, etc.

In order to lower the cost, in addition to constantly reducing the configuration, they also produced enough to reduce the cost by quantity. However, after a large number of golems were produced, they found that this thing was not easy to use.

A clay golem can carry one to three tons of objects at a time and is equivalent to hundreds of people in mining. Although its service life is only a dozen years due to cost compression, it can create profits far exceeding its cost.

But when the arcanists promoted these golems, they found that no one was interested. The feudal lords were not interested in these clay golems at all.

They prefer golems with strong combat capabilities and want to use these golems to protect their own safety.

As for using clay golems to mine? That's overthinking. They didn't consider the lives of the civilians at all. Clay golems are expensive and need maintenance. Although they work hard, they are not cost-effective compared to human labor.

For those feudal lords, the manpower in the territory costs nothing. Just give them some food and they will work hard. Why should they buy golem puppets?

Golem puppets are expensive and require maintenance, while humans do not need wages and do not need maintenance. If this is the case, they would be crazy to use golem puppets.

As a result, the Arcane Parliament Alliance's Mo Xiang promotion plan was aborted, and tens of thousands of clay golems could only be used for mining and transporting goods.

The only thing that was competitive with serfs was skeletons, which did not need food, and the raw materials were cheap and widely available. It was also after this incident that the Supreme Arcane Council did not make clay golems for a long time.

Richard carefully used a thorium chisel to carve on the soul crystal. Runes were carved out one by one on the hard soul crystal under the thorium chisel.

These runes are arranged in a peculiar rhythm, and eventually all the runes will be connected to form a rune array.

Richard needs to weave a virtual personality, which is a treatment only for high-level custom golems. Of course, this spell has more uses than just these. It is said that in another vast plane, there is an ancient silver dragon who likes to steal white dragon eggs and then use this spell to forcibly modify the white dragon's personality.

The original evil dragon's personality was changed to a neutral and good one, similar to the personality of a silver dragon. Over the past hundred years, hundreds of white dragons have been transformed by it.

It is said that the evil dragon lord Tiamat sent her favored one, an ancient red dragon, to trouble him, but was beaten back by the silver dragon. Before this, no one knew that the silver dragon was a spell addict, and his spell level was as high as 27th level.

(End of this chapter)