Travel through time and become a member of the Warhammer Empire

Windlow is an imperial citizen. When he was still in the empire, he had never heard any rumors about ratmen.

We don’t know the characteristics of the rat people, let alone their production and development models.

All I know about the ratmen is the brief encounter at Red Eye Mountain and this trip to the ratmen's nest.

But he knew humans very well and had a clear understanding of the various social relations within the empire.

So a very valuable information can be obtained.

The rat people are actually not much different from the Imperials, and it can even be said that there is not much difference.

Weak physical and morale, complex social classes, broken political structures, and an even more fragile economic system.

If the ratmen's food reserves are regarded as the empire's gold reserves, then everything can be explained easily.

Within the empire, if the amount of gold in the treasury decreases, it will inevitably arouse the vigilance of all nobles and civilians.

A run on the bank is bound to follow.

Fearing that their wealth would disappear, or perhaps fearing that the rich and powerful would not keep their promises, common people would quickly snap up precious metals and simply clear out all the gold on the market and in storage.

As the amount of gold in the market decreases, it will further stimulate others to withdraw gold, causing the economy of the entire empire to collapse rapidly.

The only good news is that the empire is so large that even if there is a large-scale bank run, gold can be transferred from other provinces and cities.

Then you can sell the gold as a commodity and make a lot of money.

But the rat people are different, their main economic source is food.

Compared to gold, grain is difficult to transport and it is difficult to transport large quantities of food over long distances.

Therefore, in the ratmen's nest, when the clan leader ordered the removal of a lot of food to hire lower-level slave rats, it meant that the food that was used would disappear completely.

If we can directly take back the food, then this part of the deficit can be easily made up, and we can also make another profit at the same time.

And in the knowledge of all the ratmen, the food is not stored in the fortress and can definitely be easily snatched.

The morale of the humans is not high, and the dwarves will only defend the fortress and not leave. Everything indicates that this wave of ratmen will have a great harvest.

But they never expected that humans would actually burn their own food.

The problem of food shortage immediately faced the rat people.

What happened next was simple: order was disrupted, a run on the bank occurred, and finally a riot broke out.

Coupled with the nature of the ratmen, the riot first broke out in the guild area of ​​the hive city. At this time, the local storm rats were still able to suppress the situation.

Then the slave rats in the lower nest who had eaten the food but were not full launched a bigger rebellion.

A ratman nest was destroyed in civil strife.

After listening to all the explanations, Mousse did not show an expression of "You are such a smart boy", but fell into deep thought.

Just a small nest with no more than two thousand ratmen, but it actually made the dwarves so embarrassed that they could only defend the fortress?

Although he doesn't like dwarves, Mousse also knows that dwarves are a very powerful race, very powerful (dwarves)

Looking back to the past, the dwarves directly drove the arrogant high elves out of the old world.

But now, it is difficult to contend with such a simple enemy.

Mousse raised his eyes and looked at the rising and falling mountains at the edge of the world ahead.

What kind of horror is here that has besieged the dwarves into this state?

With the complete elimination of the rat-man threat, the closed dwarf fortress was reopened, absorbing the various caravans and groups coming and going.

In exactly seven days, Windlow completed the special task given by Gert.

Now is the time to ask for your reward.

"Yes, yes, yes, your reward, you must not forget this."

Before Windlo could speak, Gert immediately trotted over and put a hand on Windlo's shoulder.

"I just so happen to be going to the dwarven capital to do a research report. Please help me record the paper. I will teach you some more metal magic when the time comes."

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is the tutor exploiting the students’ labor.

However, if he were still at the Aldorf School of Magic, there would definitely be countless wizards willing to come and flatter Gelt.

The only person around me who is useful and can be considered a wizard is Windlow.

Working for free is indeed not good, but by working under the current supreme mentor of the Imperial Magic Academy, one can still learn a lot of knowledge.

With pen and paper ready, all you have to do next is write down your research records.

This time the topic is the strengthening effect of gems on metals and armor.

"'A research paper on the effect of gemstones on the fusion of metals and the three uses of refining ratios'. Write down the title of the paper, and then write my signature on the next line."

Gelt has already entered the state. That's right, since he has come to the dwarf capital, he must know the special products here, which are a large number of gems.

The dwarven capital is rich in all kinds of high-quality gems. Gems, in addition to being beautiful and used as luxury goods, are of course also used in industry.

Gemstones have great durability, which is reflected in their hardness, toughness and chemical stability.

Gems are physically harder than steel and are the hardest things found in nature. Their disadvantage is that they are relatively brittle and lack toughness.

In terms of magical properties, gems of different colors have different effects and affinities with different magical winds.

Even Windlow knew the correspondence between different gems and different winds of magic.

Emerald favors the wind of life.

Sapphire favors the winds of heaven.

Smoky Quartz is good for Shadow Wind.

Amethyst is good for the wind of death.

Ruby favors the wind of fire.

Beast Wind is an exception. Although garnet can also strengthen Beast Wind, amber is obviously the best choice.

Diamonds favor the wind of light.

As for the gem that Gelt values ​​and is about to study in depth, it is naturally the one that is closely related to the metal wind: citrine.

Metals are tough and gems are hard. If we could combine the advantages of both into armor, could we create armor that is both strong and powerful?

This is what metal mages like to do most. They are more like engineers than magicians.

Naturally, Windlo was forcibly invited by Gelt to enter the laboratory. Through continuous experiments, he used the high-quality metals and gems of the dwarves to carry out Gelt's theoretical research.

At the same time, of course, you can also find time to learn a few magic spells.

After several days of sleepless research, Gelt's magic alchemy finally made a breakthrough.

A technique emerged to perfectly blend gems and metals.