Volume 2 Chapter 149 - Xu Yi’s decision (1/2)

The ones that wanted to work during winter were not just the Stantine Duchy, it also included Count Sean.

The flow of the river was weaker during winter, so they seized this chance to improve the Sandy River at Banta City and began cleaning up the silt.

During this cleanup, the large Magic Excavator developed by the Frestech Chamber of Commerce appeared for the first time.

Compared to the small Magic Excavators used to transform farm land, although the newly developed large Magic Excavators couldn’t compare to the ones on earth, being pulled by horse carriages, it still mimicked a foundational excavator arm. As long as it was in place, it could dig up dirt like the small excavators from earth,

With the help of magic machines, the river silt cleanup job went very smoothly. It only took two months and the silt that had built up near Banta City over the years had been completely removed. The entire river had dropped by close to five meters.

At the same time, downriver of Banta City, the canal connecting the Sandy River to the Rum River was already being dug.

According to Porter who was in charge of this project, it would take around a year to a year and a half before this canal was dug.

Considering the future of the Sandy River renovations and the canal being dug, Count Sean followed Xu Yi’s decision to build a dam upstream of the river.

Other than preventing floods, this dam had another function that Xu Yi hadn’t told Count Sean about yet, which was to be used as an hydroelectric power station.

If they followed Xu Yi’s plan, even if the flow of the river wasn’t that strong, this hydro power station would be enough to provide energy for Banta City.

But Xu Yi was only a mechanical engineer and wasn’t that familiar with generating electricity. So even if he had developed the magic powered Wind Generator, he couldn’t develop a Hydro Generator to create a corresponding hydro power station.

So when constructing the dam, Xu Yi just told chairman Cruise about his ideas for the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to leave enough space at the dam to build a hydro power station in the future.

When researching the Hydro Generator, Xu Yi found an important problem.

Perhaps he could combine magic with his mechanical engineering theoretical knowledge, making all kinds of new magic machines in this world, but his abilities were limited in the end.

For something like a Hydro Generator that was completely out of his expertise, he didn’t have much knowledge on this topic.

To create an imitation, it wasn’t impossible with his current abilities, but it would be very hard.

Right now his time could be considered very precious, so he didn’t have that much time to waste on this kind of research.

So this was a very contradictory problem.

He really wanted to copy the important parts of the industrial system from earth and create a similarly complete industrial system on the Sines Continent, but he was not god, so it was impossible for him to do everything.

“Don’t do the things you can’t do, just give it to others.” Hearing Xu Yi talk about his worries, Still said with a relaxed smile, “Xu Yi, you are a person, not a god. There are definitely things that you can’t do. If you’re worrying about this, you’re just causing trouble for yourself. Then again, why are you so impatient about finishing all these things?”

Xu Yi could only shake his head and let out a sigh.

Of course it was impossible for him to tell Still that he transmigrated from earth, so although he told her his worries, he could only vaguely say a few things. It was impossible for Still to understand why he was so troubled.

“Alright, stop wasting time thinking about this, you should use your time to do other things.” Seeing that Xu Yi’s expression didn’t get better, Still changed the topic, “You said that other than magic machines, there are many things you can’t do, so it’s very simple. You just need to do your best when it comes to magic machines. For example, it doesn’t matter if you can’t create that whatever Hydro Generator, didn’t you already develop the Wind Magic Generator? You just need to finish that thing and I feel you can still accomplish your goal.”

“Don’t do the things I can’t do?” Xu Yi looked at Still with a surprised expression as his eyes revealed an unwilling look.

Still held his face and gave him an honest nod.

“Yes, each person has their limits, so even if you work very hard and surpass everyone I know, you will still have your limit. This is something that grandfather warned me about before, having me not waste time on magic that I wasn’t good at when I was studying magic.”

“The magic world is limitless, a magician definitely can’t explore everything. For a magician, the most important thing is studying the magic they excel in to the peak. If they can do this, they can become a powerful and outstanding magician, even changing the entire magic world. I think that this is something that is appropriate for describing you.”

Hearing Still’s gentle encouragement, Xu Yi fell into thought.

After a while, his gaze gradually returned to normal.

Still was right, a person’s power was limited and it was impossible for them to achieve everything they wanted.

Although he wanted to copy the industrial system from earth to the continent, the truth was that other than him, there was no one that had any knowledge on what the industrial system was.

The industrial system was a large and complicated system, even if he was talented in mechanical engineering, having deep knowledge and understanding, it didn’t mean that he had the same ability in other aspects.

As a mechanical engineer, he should understand the meaning of the word “efficiency” better than anyone.

Since his efficiency in studying a domain he wasn’t good at was low, that meant that he shouldn’t waste his precious time studying this.

Compared to this, it was better to focus on his strong points and further explore the domain he excelled in.

Since magic machines were where his power was at, even being able to surpass the machines on earth, why wouldn’t he just continue studying this and why would he waste time on other things?

He didn’t have knowledge on Hydro Generators, so the research speed was slow?

Then he wouldn’t study it for now.

As long as the Wind Magic Generator and the Fire Magic Generator that Evita proposed last time worked, he could achieve his desired effects with them or even surpass them.

Even with the Hydro Generator, Akali had proposed to directly use Water Magic Arrays to solve this problem, which could replace the use of a water current.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi suddenly found that it wasn’t just him who had unique ideas in this world, other people weren’t lacking compared to him.

After thinking of this, it was like a light bulb lit up in Xu Yi’s mind and he couldn’t help breaking out in laughter.

“Ha, ha…..Ha…..St…..Still, you’re right, you’re absolutely right!” Xu Yi couldn’t breathe from his laughing, which Still couldn’t help being stunned by, “Not doing the things I can’t do. Un, how could I finish this all by myself? The things that I can’t do, I’ll just leave it for the people of the continent to do in the future. As for me, I’ll just do the things that I can do and should do.”

Although Still didn’t know what Xu Yi meant by this, seeing how happy he was, she knew that he had thought it through, so she was also happy.

“That’s right, you just need to focus on what you excel in.” Still said.