Volume 2 Chapter 35 - The gift Agnes brought (1/2)

With the familiar spatial distortion, Agnes appeared with a doubtful look on her face.

“Sir chairman, how did you know I was here? I clearly didn’t release my Shadow Stealth Spell.”

“It’s very simple, this is because that familiar feeling from when you stayed by my side was back, so I know you were back.” Xu Yi said with a smile.

“Familiar feeling?” Agnes looked confused, “What feeling is that?”

“I can’t describe it. In short, when you are by my side, even if I can’t see you, there is a strange feeling that lets me know that someone is near.” Xu Yi explained.

“Then if some other elf used the Shadow Stealth Spell to stay by your side, can’t you also sense them?” Agnes asked.

“It’s not the same.” Xu Yi shook his head, “Perhaps it is because you’ve been by my side for a long time, so even if you are by my side with the Shadow Stealth Spell, I can also sense you. But if it was another elf, then I would never sense them. To put it simply, it would be the scent that your body has that betrays you?”

“Scent?” Agnes slightly knit her brows and lowered her head to take a sniff, “There isn’t any special scent.”

Xu Yi had an urge to take a sniff, but doing this would be too offensive. He suppressed that urge and changed the topic with a smile, “Alright, let’s not waste words. What are the results of your business trip alone?”

“Oh, I saw chief Siluka, chief Monto, and the elder and I told them what you wanted me to say. Then they had me bring back some things for you.”

Agnes took the large bag off her back and when she opened it, there were many iron things of different colours inside.

Xu Yi was surprised, “You wouldn’t have carried all these things back from the Falling Rain Forest, right?”

“That’s right, what about it?” Agnes asked back in a surprised voice.

Xu Yi was speechless.

Such a large bag with many different iron things, it should be over a hundred pounds.

Agnes had carried this bag to run over a two hundred miles from the Falling Rain Forest. Should it be said that the elves had good natural talent or was she just a fool?

“You don’t need to trouble yourself next time. I just wanted you to bring back one or two of the samples chief Siluka had, you didn’t have to bring back this many of them. You don’t think it’s too heavy?” Xu Yi said while shaking his head.

“These are all samples.” Agnes took out a sheet of paper from the bag for Xu Yi, “This is the list chief Siluka gave me, it has the formula for each sample and their initial test results. He wanted me to bring them over for you to take a look.”

“They’re all samples?” Xu Yi looked over the bag and saw that there were over twenty kinds. Could it be that in just a few months, the Norma Tribe had invented all these different alloys?

If it was like this, the dwarves talent in forging was just too terrifying.

But after seeing the list, Xu Yi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

The so called samples were just things that chief Siluka had drawn inspiration from the Silver Leaf Alloy from. During this time, they added all kinds of strange materials into molten iron, even adding in powdered feces.

The so called alloy made from this scenario, it would be strange if it had any special effects.

But after checking the tests, Xu Yi found that in the twenty three kinds of alloys that chief Siluka had Agnes bring back, there really were some that were useful.

Putting aside some that “broke with a single tap” that almost made Xu Yi puke out blood, the one listed as “number seventeen” by chief Siluka had really good characteristics. It had a strong resistance against corrosion and high temperatures.

To have one useful alloy out of all these useless alloys, Xu Yi was very satisfied.

The characteristic of having powerful corrosion and heat resistance was very useful in materials. If it could also have the characteristic of being stainless steel, he could use this material to make countless new magic machines.

“Very good. Let me see, the one that is number seventeen…..” Xu Yi went through the bag and dug up the iron lump that had the number seventeen.

This dark red lump of iron sunk in his hand, so it was a bit heavier than normal iron. It seemed like after the dwarves added the special material, this material’s internal structure had been changed.

Xu Yi couldn’t help feeling a bit of doubt in his heart.

Although the Sines Continent couldn’t compare to earth in terms of technology, there were some advantages that earth couldn’t compare to.

Just like the Silver Leaf Alloy. There were many alloys that had the same characteristics as the Silver Leaf Alloy on earth, but on the Sines Continent, you just needed to mix the molten iron with some Silver Leaf Powder that could be found everywhere.

As for the number seventeen alloy that had strong corrosion and heat resistance, based on the description of the list from chief Siluka, they had just added some common plant’s stem powder into molten iron to make it. They didn’t use any special forging techniques at all.

“What kind of damn principle is this?” As someone who was thoroughly filled with engineering principles, Xu Yi was really puzzled by this strange phenomenon.

[TL Note: The protagonist aura principle.]

But these were the facts, so Xu Yi had to explain it as there being some difference between the Sines Continent and earth.

Seeing Xu Yi look over all the samples, Agnes reached into her chest and took out a small box which she handed over.

“This is a gift that the elder had me bring to you.” Agnes said.

“Gift? What is this?” Xu Yi curiously opened the box and found that there was a little human model inside the box.