Super Righteous Player
Chapter 1047 - 105: The Smell of War

Chapter 1047: Chapter 105: The Smell of War

Annan didn’t even need to think too much.

He only had to hear about this invention to directly determine—this person was definitely problematic, one hundred percent.

Even in an age where the internal combustion engine had not yet become widespread, if someone directly came up with an electrical system, or even went straight to creating high-voltage power transmission, Annan could still consider them exceptionally talented, a genius.

After all, in this world, generating electricity didn’t even require electromagnetic technology. By using the appropriate rituals, one could directly obtain a large amount of electricity through cheap methods—and one of the greatest advantages of electrical energy was that it could be transported over long distances at low cost.

...But to directly transmit thermal energy over an extremely long distance, wasn’t that technology a bit too much?

Even if here, "Dennisiowa" specifically referred to the island itself and didn’t count the entire United Kingdom, its size was roughly only a sixth of Noah’s land area.

That was roughly the size of the entirety of Austria, only slightly smaller than a province in the Heavenly Dynasty.

...And yet the line only lost 12% of its heat energy from west to east?

This was still the level of a freshly-developed technology, without any optimization.

Good grief, this was truly impressive.

—Wasn’t even electrical energy transmission less efficient than this?

Annan himself was a great ritualist. Despite having lost a great deal of mystical knowledge accumulated during the Black Annan period, his instincts also told him this was nearly impossible.

If this could be an invention achieved merely with "rituals," then Black Annan, reincarnated for several years, would probably have already managed it. There was absolutely no need to start from scratch with an internal combustion engine.

And if it was possible to do this, why would there be a need to transmit thermal energy?

What did he want to accomplish?

Isaac, who was standing behind Annan, also realized the issue: "This is impossible—thermal energy is not suitable for low-cost, long-distance transportation. It’s not just impossible, it’s also meaningless."

At least in this era, because of the existence of ’green fire’ and ’black fire,’ thermal energy was not particularly scarce.

Limited by the perspectives of this era... the current Isaac had not realized what this implied.

At first, electric power was only used on a small scale as an industrial energy source. Over one hundred years later, with the advent of a multitude of household electrical appliances, the electrical era truly began.

In this era, the internal combustion engine had not even entered the application stage.

And Isaac was even more of an ’antique’ living more than a hundred years ago.

He couldn’t understand the value of energy transportation technology at first... but Annan was different.

However, Annan did not explain this for the moment.

"There is definitely significance. As long as it involves energy, the technology to safely transport energy at low cost is meaningful, no matter what."

Annan shook his head and steered the topic toward a more critical aspect, "Even if it’s not meaningful now, it will be later... The question now is, how was this developed?"

"We don’t know either..."

Starling spread his hands, equally helpless: "But it exists.

"At first, there were many people on our side who didn’t believe him. So, Earl Flamell conducted numerous experiments in front of everyone, and every single one was very successful.

"So, we had no choice but to believe. With this thing, even the Feld Archipelago won’t have to worry about energy anymore."

Upon hearing this, Isaac’s first reaction was:

—Wasn’t the Feld Archipelago not lacking in energy sources anyway?

It was no longer the past.

In former times, the main energy sources for the common people came from coal mines and whale hunting. The former was primarily for steam engines, while kerosene and whale oil could be used for lighting.

Dennisiowa’s overall coal resources were quite scarce, surely prioritized for supply to Dennisiowa proper. The surrounding Feld Archipelago generally could only use freshly chopped firewood for heating during winter.

Whale hunting was not a trade exclusive to Dennisiowa.

The Feld Archipelago, in the form of scattered islands, floated to the west of Dennisiowa. The direction of the ocean currents there was from west to east, thus the Feld Archipelago’s whale hunting tradition was not inferior to Dennisiowa’s.

Since the initiation of civilian use of ’black fire’ and ’green fire’, the Feld Archipelago no longer had to worry about a shortage of energy resources.

Technologies from Heath Tower of Black could refine substances similar to natural gas and petroleum into ’black fire.’ If diluted and inert, it could even be further processed to create ’green fire.’

The greatest advantage of these two energy sources was that they could store more energy in the same volume.

Black fire could be used to ignite flames that were hotter, burned longer, and were harder to extinguish—in specific furnaces, black fire could even be used for steel refining.

Among these two energy sources, ’black fire’ still had a slightly unpleasant odor, while the lower temperature ’green fire’ was completely smoke-free.

Green fire could largely transform energy into light... just a small piece of ’green fire’ could burn for a long time, and it was also windproof and steady. Hence, it was used as material for city street lamps... Of course, that wasn’t because the local administrators valued municipal engineering, but because ’green fire’ was cheap and durable.

But in the United Kingdom.

Or, to say, in the Feld Archipelago... the situation was somewhat different.

Due to pirates, energy shipping was not always stable.

It was also for this reason, the ’black fire’ and ’green fire’, which were very cheap in other countries—even Dennisiowa proper—could fetch very high prices in the Feld Archipelago.

And the bulk of that money was not earned by Heath Tower of Black as the exporter or Dennisiowa as the importer.

But by those pirate gangs who intercepted the goods to sell themselves.

Because ’black fire’ and ’green fire’ had a long shelf life, hoarding ’black fire’ and selling it was entirely possible.

They would deliberately control the volume of ’black fire’ and ’green fire’ in their domains, slowly release a batch of goods under the premise of "rarity increasing value," and raise the prices three to fourfold.

This was also one of the pirates’ main sources of income.

"Wait a second..." Isaac’s pupils constricted.

He suddenly realized.

He instantly understood why Starling had earlier said it was an "age-defying invention ’for the United Kingdom.’"

Its true significance was not based on the diverse emerging civilian technologies that the invention itself could give birth to.

—But rather to stop ’black fire’ directly at Dennisiowa, no longer flowing to the Feld Archipelago. Using "thermal transmission cables" for limited supply would do.

With such a method, they could directly choke the pirates’ throats!

This meant...

Was the King of Dennisiowa going to suppress the pirates?!

And Earl Flamell, was nothing more than a target put out to attract the pirates’ hatred...

Isaac suddenly realized something and looked up to meet Annan’s gaze.

They realized from each other’s eyes—they had both noticed this point!

—If nothing unexpected happened, Dennisiowa was about to fall into civil unrest.

Perhaps a true civil war was about to arrive!