Chapter 1069 Bell Tower
The main construction materials of most lost lands are wood, bamboo, mud, ash, etc. As long as it doesn't look like a purely wooden house, it is made of bamboo slices as bones and mud is applied to fill the gaps. The better ones are covered with a layer of dust to eliminate insects and look beautiful. Those who can use bricks are already considered wealthy businessmen and the like. Of course, a house built in this way cannot be very high.
The only buildings that could be so bold as to be made entirely of stone, apart from the magic tower made entirely of magic materials, were military fortresses at strategic points. The latter usually also functions as a noble castle.
The reason why all-stone buildings cannot become conventional buildings is that the construction period is long and the construction cost is high.
It is not an easy task to polish a whole piece of stone into stone bricks for construction. Then transporting and placing the stone bricks into the correct building location is another big issue. To complete these two tasks, in addition to funds, manpower is needed. If we don’t have enough manpower, we have to make do with time. This is why most castles or stone military fortresses are the result of generations of work.
Perhaps when these castles were first built and opened, they were simply dwellings that could not be more simple. After that, it was slowly expanded, and it took on the appearance seen by future generations. And to build the kind of castle with towers that someone saw in the pictures of various fairy tales before traveling through time, it would take the entire country to make the scene appear.
If you want to shorten the construction time and get stronger defense capabilities, there is nothing else but a magic tower.
The Master uses magic materials to create stone bricks. It is not like a professional stonemason who needs to spend time and time cutting with axes, chisels and knives. A magic shaping technique can be done in a few breaths. Magic apprentices can do it quickly and well without even having to use a formal magician. The difference between the two is just a matter of how many pieces can be made in a day. After all, the magic power reserves of the two are not at the same level.
However, the bell tower of the Technology Guild is the first high-rise reinforced concrete building in Midland. The materials used were researched by members of the technical guild under the prompts of a certain traveler, including cement formulas, methods of drawing steel bars, etc.
Compared with the lost earth method, it can build taller and sturdier buildings, it is more time-consuming than building them of stone, and it is cheaper than building a magic tower. These advantages have made reinforced concrete buildings less popular.
Because it is cheaper and easier to build, it is not as good as the traditional bamboo-woven mud wall. It is stronger and less reliable than a stone castle that has been tested for a long time. Compared with the magic tower, at least buildings made of magic materials can carry power through, create semi-permanent magic circles, and use strategic magic to cast the tower. However, reinforced concrete cannot.
In any case, although the clock tower of the Technical Guild will not become a dead ringer, it can be regarded as a unique building in the holy city of Estali. It is the only building that can be built taller than a three-story magic tower without using any magic materials. The cost is of course much cheaper. But apart from telling the time, it cannot perform any magical functions...
Masters are still very concerned about the last point. As long as the building cannot cast magic or set up magic traps, it will be given a poor rating. If you look at a time traveler who changed his home to be more brutal than many people's magic towers, you can know what kind of brain circuit is the structure of a person in the profession of magician.
But no matter what, in the area near the Technology Guild, the clock tower is a unique building. In particular, the hourly bell has become an indispensable part of the lives of nearby residents.
This is also because the nearby residential buildings are almost all surrounded by members of the Technology Guild. To improve work efficiency, mastering time is also a very important key. Of course, the pocket watch was taken out by someone at the first opportunity, and a suitable craftsman was found to cooperate with it, and it became another medium-sized tool for making money.
Unfortunately, not everyone can afford a pocket watch, but the clock tower bells are free. So you can imagine how much people living around here rely on the clock tower's time-telling function.
The bell has just struck seven in the morning. Lin squatted on the lightning rod on the roof, his eardrums buzzing. Because the Assassin's Creed game once fascinated a certain time traveler. Given such an opportunity, he actually ran to the commanding heights, intending to have a bird's-eye view. But the timing of the selection was not very good...
But this little trouble would not cause him to lose control of his body or lose coordination. At least from a high position, he could clearly see the children racing with him, gathering from all directions.
Although most of these children are street children, they belong to different groups and are familiar with different environments. The choice of 'shortcut' is of course very different.
But no matter how you choose, you will eventually focus on the avenue. Because the Technical Guild and the Bell Tower have widened the adjacent roads again and again to facilitate vehicle traffic.
Perhaps because a certain magician cannot be seen, the competition between the children is highlighted. Children from different small groups stared at each other and even shouted at each other while running. It's just that we are limited by the rules we agreed on before, so we don't dare to push each other while running. For fear of knocking others down, they will be eliminated even if they win.
Juan and Shi Dong were among this group of children. Their height as two adults made them stand out from the crowd.
Stone is just responsible for leading this group of children to run. Although this time was a competition, there was no need and no way to take care of all the children, but someone would have to take them back later, so the strict and strict former captain of the Guards of the Dark Legion still followed.
Juan Javier's attitude is quite intriguing. He just ran easily, with no intention of winning at all. Instead, he watched the performance of these children with great interest.
Before he became the captain of an airship and drifted around, he first founded the Kingdom's Royal Magic Academy. Whether it is the training of formal magicians, the education of magic apprentices, or the magic enlightenment of ordinary people, he has invested a lot of effort.
When it comes to educating people, the most important thing in his eyes is how the people being taught behave. Whether he learns much or not, or whether he learns well or not, is not what he cares about.
This kind of thinking is purely because no matter how much or how well you learn magic, if your mental quality is not up to par, you will never be able to avoid death if you go to the battlefield, or face monsters or natural dangers.
The more people are taught, the more they will naturally develop their own vision. So Juan was looking at this group of children, trying to figure out which of them were the good ones worth focusing on cultivating.
According to his understanding of the magician, that one definitely wouldn't mind poaching him. Just like the sisters who were taken away from Chengguo Eton College, the younger sister has a high talent for magic. Now the two sisters are the intermediate commanders of the Kingdom's Magic Legion, talents that the Kingdom focuses on cultivating.
Just as he was thinking in his mind and following the children as they approached the bell tower, something suddenly fell from a high altitude and fell into the straw stack on an ox cart in front of the bell tower.