"You don't say."
Hephaestus shrugged.
She squeezed Hestia's dull little face playfully.
"Next time you go there, bring more gifts and thank them properly."
"Yeah, you're right." Hestia nodded her head in a benevolent manner.
No need to thank her. If there are no surprises after this, Hestia will not be too short of money in the next few years, and she will not have to work as hard as in the original story.
"In this way, it wouldn't be good if these things leaked out."
"It might be noticed, and then the source can be traced, so I will collect it all for you. That's 900,000 Valis for you. You can come with me to get it later."
"Thank you so much! You're so kind, Hephaestus."
When Hestia heard this, she hugged Hephaestus happily.
Sure enough, it was right to tell the other party the truth.
"Haha, I just happen to be interested in these materials."
Hephaestus was also very happy to get a batch of materials from another world.
"By the way, now that you have money, it's time to change your living environment. Let's go check out a house later and see what gifts we want to buy along the way."
Now that she has money, Hestia no longer has to settle in this shabby church; otherwise, it would be too disrespectful and affect the recruitment of Familia members in the future.
When Hestia heard this, her eyes lit up: "Okay. Okay, let's go shopping together!"
So, the two of them went out together.
Little did they know that their fate was quietly changing.
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Let's talk about Takumi.
After spending two hours, he finally finished watering the ground. He stood up and wiped his sweat.
"There is too much land here, and it seems that development is moving a bit too fast."
Twenty hectares of land must be watered once.
If it weren't for the upgraded Universal Tool—the capacity of the watering can has also been increased, possessing its own space inside and capable of holding fifty tons of water at a time—I don't know how long it would take to do it.
Even after watering, the water supply was an issue.
The water in the well was fine for his daily use, but it was not sufficient for irrigating so much land.
In the end, he ran to a small river five kilometers away. This problem was solved by collecting water.
The main reason why such a problem occurred is that the fields were dug too much at one time, and the facilities and manpower have not kept up.
"It seems that starting from tomorrow, all spare time will be used to open water channels."
Because of the demand, waterway construction must be put on the agenda.
As for why not do it today?
The main reason is that the rabbit meat has not been processed yet.
I don't know what season it is now, but the climate is quite hot anyway.
If the meat is not processed as soon as possible, I guess it will be spoiled by tomorrow.
Takumi took out the remaining forty kilograms of rabbit meat: fifteen kilograms for smoked meat and twenty-five kilograms for bacon.
He sighed again; salt is so good!
The bacon was marinated and hung to cool. The smoked meat was put on the rack and started to be smoked. Takumi was waiting for the meat to smoke while studying the Universal Tool.
The first priority is the most urgent resource acquisition.
In the Death Forest, there are very few underground minerals, and even stones are rare to find.
Takumi now wants iron and metal.
There is also sand, which can be used as a filter to facilitate the extraction of large amounts of salt.
The quartz sand contained in it can also be used to create glass.
Stones can be used as grinding tools, and there is also a 'salt pan' for drying salt, which is also useful in construction.
And some clay is used to burn porcelain.
I also want some lime, which can be used to dust the interior of the house and then decorate it.
The first thing to test was the shovel, trying to see if it could transform the shoveled things like a plow and a hoe.
Unexpectedly, it succeeded!
Sand and clay were transformed!
Takumi was pleasantly surprised and continued the test, and found that the shovel only implies it can transform soil quality and things related to soil.
Loess, red soil, sand, and even swamp floating mud will work, but other things will not work.
But it was enough to surprise Takumi; at least the sand and clay were settled.
Then it was the pickaxe that once again surprised Takumi by transforming primary minerals!
The sources of metals, coal, stone, lime, and other things were also found!
Takumi quickly built a blast furnace using clay and a hammering method, and then used the transformed coal as fuel to start making iron.
Normally, if you want to make iron, this is not enough.
Because the temperature is not enough, the melting point of iron cannot be reached.
Takumi also understands this, so this time it is just an experiment.
He used the Universal Tool to conjure up a manual air blower and aimed it at the blowing hole reserved for the blast furnace.
A strong gust of wind suddenly poured into the blast furnace, which frightened Takumi into stopping the blowing.
Because, normally, such a strong wind has exceeded the limit of fueling the fire. It would not be surprising even if it blew out the fire.
But a magical scene happened that Takumi didn't expect.
Instead of being blown out, the fire in the furnace exploded with an extraordinary amount of energy, far beyond what Takumi imagined the intensity of the fire would be.
The smoke outlet at the top of the blast furnace spurted out a stream of light blue flames several meters high. The terrifying high temperature brought Takumi back to his senses and made him retreat.
He retreated to a safe area. After about ten minutes, the fire in the blast furnace gradually dropped to a safe level.
Takumi then cautiously approached again and used long tongs turned from the Universal Tool to open the furnace mouth.
He was pleasantly surprised to find that the iron ore had actually been melted into molten iron! The iron making was successful!
This made Takumi very happy, and then he quickly started making iron products. He used the casting method to make a wooden pot model, put it in the middle of the clay and compacted it to make a mold, then took out the wooden model and drilled several holes to pour molten liquid metal and exhaust air, re-fixed the mold, and poured the molten iron in.
After waiting for cooling, he opened the mold, took out the rough semi-finished pot, and then polished and repaired it carefully. It was ready. With just one iron wok, the stone pot that had only been used once could be retired at the speed of light.
The level of civilization is up again!
At night, Takumi ate the dishes fried in the iron pot with a satisfied look on his face, and couldn't help but sigh: "These days are getting more and more promising."
After dinner, Takumi started making handicrafts.
Because we finally had metal, we also got a coil of iron wire in the evening.
Takumi made various large wooden barrels for storage, including Chinese-style barrels, European wine barrels, etc., as well as some small metal items.
For example, copper and tin mirrors, knives, nails, bolts for locking doors, etc.
There are also some construction tools used in building waterways.
After finishing, I went to bed, ending this wonderful day.
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The third day of construction of the dimensional city.
The recovery of his perfect body was very impressive, and Takumi got up early in the morning full of energy.
But problems also arise.
Humans have urgent needs!
Think about it; after all, if you eat something, it needs to be excreted, and he is not a god.
But Takumi wasn't that particular, so he just dug a small hole outside for the time being.
Then use a hoe to dig it a few times without touching it, and it will become soil.
Perfect!
The only problem is that the leaves are a little hard to use, so it seems that we need to get toilet paper as soon as possible.
After washing up, I fried bacon and bean sprouts for breakfast, and then started to open up the road to the river five kilometers away.
After cutting down the trees along the way and moving them to the roadside for the time being, it took an hour and a half to reach the river.
Takumi filled the watering can with water and hurried back to water the fields.
After daily watering, I looked at the various crops that had grown seedlings with satisfaction for a while, and then started to dig a water reservoir.