Feeling the feeling of a big hand rubbing the top of his head, Rebecca suddenly felt a little confused.

Her first reaction was that she heard it wrong, her second reaction was that her ancestors said it wrong, and her third reaction... she treated it as a kind of comfort.

It can't be ironic, right?

Miss Viscount, who has never done anything since she was a child, never thought that she would be truly praised once.

Seeing Rebecca's reaction, Gao Wen repeated what he had just said again, and then laughed: "Don't stand there, I'm praising you seriously. You probably don't realize how incredible your talent is."

"Really?" Rebecca said blankly, then blinked a little embarrassedly, "But I am just clever... I don't usually come in handy."

Such an extraordinary talent was actually classified as a clever... This made Gao Wen a little speechless.

Rebecca was born too early, but fortunately, Gao Wen came not too late, and these talents still have opportunities to display.

Gao Wen looked carefully at the structure of the magic circle after Rebecca's adjustment - although he was a knight, Gao Wen Cecil was half a erudition at that time and had a lot of research on magic theory and other aspects. In addition, the Gondor Empire is a country with extremely developed magic technology, and the basic knowledge about magic is very popular, so this magic circle that is just made with basic runes is not difficult for Gao Wen to understand. After careful look, he determined that Rebecca's adjustments to these runes were quite reasonable. This magic circle has changed from a superficial concept product to a "prototype" that can lay the foundation for subsequent applications. If you want to continue to improve it, you can only wait for the test of practice.

Gao Wen only asked one question: "Have you ever considered expanding it further?"

"Extend further?" Rebecca was stunned, "How to expand? Do you draw a little bigger?"

"No, it means that it can connect it to other self-charged magic arrays that are consistent with other frameworks but different in scales, and even use some magic array units as the infrastructure, infinitely connected and expanded, and eventually form a large network that can cover a wider area," Gao Wen looked at the neatly arranged runes, and vaguely saw the shadows that seemed to be able to be combined and repeated, so he couldn't help but put forward a pretty bold idea, "Every magic unit is no longer an independent individual, but is connected together - can you understand?"

Although she has outstanding mathematical talent and creativity, this level of concept is still a bit difficult for Rebecca. She thought hard and finally could only frown in distress: "Sir, is the kind of thing you said... really possible?"

"Just treat it as my fantasy," Seeing Rebecca's embarrassment, Gao Wen knew that he could not be eager for quick success and instant benefits, so he decisively stopped this aspect. "You can build Magic Net No. 1 first and let the blacksmith shop start to operate, and then let the others be discussed later."

"Okay!" Rebecca nodded happily, "I was discussing the blacksmith shop with Hammer just now..."

"Oh?" Gao Wen raised his eyebrows. He did see Rebecca discussing something with Hammer just now, but the surprise brought by Magic Net One made him almost forget about it. "What are you talking about?"

"About the new stove," Rebecca said with his head raised, "I was thinking that if Magic Net One was running, the blacksmith's stove could draw a formal magic circle without having to make those bad runes - so the stove could be transformed, right? But I don't know how to make irons myself, so I had to come to Hammer to discuss with you to see what he thought about improving the stove and workflow..."

The old blacksmith Hanmer stood beside him with some fear and fear, lowering his head and listening to the Viscount and Duke discussing issues there. He was both honored and nervous about a civilian like him who could stand here and participate in the aristocratic topics. When he saw Gao Wen shifting his attention to him, the old blacksmith really broke out in a cold sweat: he could not imagine what would happen if a noble master who had never even pulled a bellows to guide him in building a blacksmith shop, but he had to cooperate, so he had already made a lot of incredible requests from Gao Wen, and he had to lead the apprentices to complete the task...

This is not uncommon, because it is said that a viscountess in the north had a whim to guide the gardener to trim the nursery, and stipulated that each golden chrysanthemum should be divided into two buds instead of three when it blooms - more than a dozen gardeners were whipped for this until the viscountess lost interest in the matter.

"Don't be nervous," Gao Wen saw Hammer's nervousness and said calmly, "Tell me what you think."

"I...I have no idea," Hammer said in a humble tone, "Miss Viscount is really knowledgeable and wise. The things she designed are things that we poor people like us cannot understand in their lifetime. It will be very laborious to learn to use them. How can I make suggestions?"

Gao Wen looked at him and shook his head: "Of course you don't understand magic, but the stove and anvil are the ones you know best. You are an expert in this regard, and we will respect your opinions."

Respect...a civilian's opinion?

Hammer thought he had hallucinations for a moment, but when he saw that Gao Wen, Hetty and Rebecca looked particularly serious on his face, he finally confirmed that this was true - at least the Duke did say so.

So he could only bite his teeth: "I think...I think since the stove will be heated up with real magic in the future, it is better to completely start from scratch and make a brand new stove..."

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "Brand new?"

Hammer grabbed his arm, trying to clearly and clearly express his thoughts: "Since you use real magic, there will be no restrictions on the original runes - first of all, the furnace can be larger, and there will be a lot more steel smelted at one time. Then, since the magic array will not have a problem of breaking, the furnace does not need to be turned off and cooled, and maybe it can keep burning, which will save the labor and time-consuming process when reheating the chamber. But in this way, you have to use it all the time..."

Gao Wen listened very seriously, only interrupting when he encountered a part that he thought he could make suggestions, while Hammer said all his thoughts in one breath.

At first, he stumbled and missed because of his nervousness, but soon he spoke more and more smoothly. When he was about to finish speaking, he was full of surprise.

He didn't expect that Gao Wen was really listening to his story seriously - a great duke, a real nobleman, a person whom ordinary people dare not imagine, was actually standing in this messy place, listening to the opinions of a civilian like him, and that was not a disguised listening, because Gao Wen not only nodded while listening, but even raised some detailed questions and suggestions from time to time!

Those questions and suggestions made Hammer confused from time to time: Is this really a noble master who has never been exposed to bellows and hammers? Why did he know so many things related to steel smelting?

Although many of these problems sound a bit imaginative to Hammer, there is no doubt that those problems are closely related to the actual situation of steel smelting - it is definitely not the nonsense that "the golden chrysanthemum should be divided into two buds instead of three when it blooms"!

After Hammer finally finished speaking, Gao Wen let out a sigh of relief and stared at the old blacksmith's eyes.

The old blacksmith became nervous: "Old...Master..."

"How many years have you been a blacksmith?" Gao Wen asked suddenly.

"Three... almost thirty years," Hammer replied quickly, "but people like us can't remember the years and months very clearly..."

"A thirty-year-old blacksmith, I didn't expect you to have so many innovative ideas," Gao Wen was a little confused. "Really speaking, these ideas are easily generated by young talents with unrestricted ideas. How could you think of so many things?"

Hanmer opened his mouth and spoke a few seconds later: "...Master, I'm not afraid of you making jokes. I didn't actually have these ideas that just popped up. I've been acquiring these ideas for many years..."

Gao Wen showed an interesting expression: "Tell me and see."

"I have been a blacksmith for decades, and I really can't understand the stove and steel. If you want to talk about habits, I have really used it for a long time," Hammer's face squeezed out a smile. "But I still remember when I was an apprentice - my father was a blacksmith in the village at that time, and I learned craftsmanship with him. One year, the lord asked us to make a batch of fine iron, so I volunteered to master the furnace by myself. My father felt that I had been studying for many years and should be alone, so he asked me to try it, but this test went wrong."

Hamel paused and continued, “I was too impatient to wait enough for the stove to cool down and then the temperature rose again—and the runes broke.

"As soon as the rune is broken, the stove will be completely scrapped. It is the most valuable and important thing in the blacksmith shop. My father was furious and hung me at the door of the shop for a long time, almost knocking me to death. He said that the only reason he didn't beat me to death was that once he was really beaten to death, no one would help the family work, and no one would inherit the blacksmith shop...

"That year, we failed to fulfill the lord's orders, and my father was whipped dozens of times in the castle..."

Obviously, this incident during his apprenticeship left a deep mark in Hammer's heart.

When he was punished by his father and saw his father go to the castle to receive punishment, many ideas about the blacksmith furnace began to sprout.

Fortunately, thirty years have passed, and those buds have not completely died in Hammer's heart - perhaps they have withered, but Rebecca's plan to "draw magic circles on the furnace to replace runes" has brought hope to the old blacksmith's heart again.

It is already a pretty good breakthrough to be able to reappear.
Chapter completed!