CHAPTER 43: CHAPTER 43: PURPLE WATER SAND

Grandpa Qian of Bone-Touching nodded immediately upon hearing this: "Alright, you guys go ahead first, I will notify the other players now, and then lead them to find you."

Mr. Zhou and his group, upon hearing this, didn’t say much more, and quickly moved towards the volcano area.

After they left, Fang Ka returned to the ancient castle to continue processing magic potions and brewing alchemy potions.

Fang Ka had already guessed the true intentions of these players coming together, clearly thinking that players with high favorability have privileges.

Otherwise, it makes no sense that all the players coming to him are those whose favorability he increased, and not a single player with normal favorability.

He could guess the internal assumptions of these players, but he was also happy to let it happen.

Making these players value favorability more heavily is only beneficial to him, not harmful.

At this moment, Mr. Zhou and his group had already entered the volcano area that Fang Ka had opened to them.

Looking at the fire-red crystals everywhere, Mr. Zhou picked up a piece and began to examine it carefully.

Seeing Mr. Zhou’s expression, Hand Rubbing Diamonds spoke from beside him: "Without saying anything else, the high-temperature resistance of this thing is extraordinary; after all, it’s a product of this game’s volcano."

Mr. Zhou knocked two fire crystals against each other and then nodded lightly: "You’re right, let’s test it slowly later, for now let’s transport them."

The players piled the fire crystals together and then carried them towards their destination.

Soon, Grandpa Qian of Bone-Touching also arrived with the main force of players.

Many of these players were holding wooden buckets, obviously intended for containing these fire-red crystals.

The players were continuously transporting these fire-red crystals, and later some players even leveled up to 2 and joined in this transportation effort.

Until the time Fang Ka stopped allowing them access was reached.

By then, the fire crystals they transported had already formed two small mountains.

Mr. Zhou squatted beneath one pile of fire crystals and used these fire crystals to constantly smash against various stones at his feet.

These players had previously had a lot of contact with various stones on this island.

The stones Mr. Zhou found had varying hardness.

Indeed, he was conducting a hardness test on these fire crystals.

After a long time, he stood up and gazed at the fire crystal in his hand in amazement: "The hardness of this thing is so strong, I feel it can not only withstand the high temperatures inside the furnace but also resist the high internal pressure."

"But there’s a problem, it’s too hard; we can’t process it."

Hand Rubbing Diamonds walked over to Mr. Zhou’s side, hesitated for a moment, then slowly said: "Why don’t we ask Mage Fang Ka again?"

Mr. Zhou was taken aback by this suggestion and looked a bit hesitant: "Isn’t that a bit inappropriate?"

Hand Rubbing Diamonds sighed slightly: "Otherwise, what other good methods do you have? We don’t fully understand all the materials in reality, but for materials we don’t know, we can still check references."

"For the magical materials in this game, if you don’t understand them, what are you supposed to do if you don’t ask Mage Fang Ka?"

"We can only understand their basic properties in a short time, but to fully understand all their facets, it would take an unknown amount of time to experiment."

Mr. Zhou shrugged helplessly: "Well, alright, let’s go again, and hopefully Mage Fang Ka won’t feel annoyed."

Grandpa Qian of Bone-Touching, who was walking by, smiled upon hearing this: "It’s just a couple of times asking for advice; as long as you maintain respect, it shouldn’t be a problem."

Mr. Zhou nodded gently: "No matter what, we have to try, let’s set off."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mr. Zhou and Hand Rubbing Diamonds gathered the players with high favorability with Mage Fang Ka once again.

Thus, a group of ’face-valued’ players found themselves once again in front of the ancient castle.

Seeing these players, Fang Ka had no choice but to once again put down his work and head towards the bottom of the castle.

Soon, he was in front of the players: "My loyal subjects, what do you need?"

Hand Rubbing Diamonds came forward to Fang Ka, then respectfully said: "Mage Fang Ka, we have collected many fire crystals."

"But when we want to use them, we found they are too hard and extremely heat-resistant, and now we can’t process them at all."

"Therefore, we came to consult Mage Fang Ka, do you have a method to handle them?"

Fang Ka glanced over these players.

In fact, there are two methods for handling fire crystals.

One is to use the alchemy platform, which is the more common method.

Because when doing weapon enchantments, all the magic materials needed are processed in this way.

Aside from this, there is also a more special method, which is to use purple water sand.

Purple water sand is a very common water magic material.

It will react violently with fire crystals.

The places where they make contact will dissolve and vaporize each other.

In this way, the fire crystals can easily be shaped into the desired form.

This special method utilizes the intrinsic properties of magic materials, but it definitely cannot compare to alchemy.

Fire crystals processed on the alchemy platform can change into various forms, perfectly preserving all the properties of fire crystals, meeting all the requirements of weapon enchantment.

Fire crystals processed with purple water sand will lose all their fire crystal properties at the points of contact, only becoming a mass of warm vapor.

This method can only shape fire crystals, not meeting the needs of weapon enchantment or other requirements.

But for these players, it is obviously enough.

And at this time, a thought suddenly emerged in Fang Ka’s mind.

That is, outside the island, are those blacksmiths in the world also using this method to build furnaces with fire crystals?

There was no record of this in the books left by Kain, and he hadn’t left the island, so he wasn’t really sure.

His thoughts turned slightly, then Fang Ka looked at the players and slowly said, "Of course, there’s a way to handle it. You can now go to the seaside to find some purple sand grains."

"They can be used to handle fire crystals. When they come into contact with the fire crystals, they will directly dissolve and vaporize, helping you easily shape the fire crystals."

Hearing Fang Ka’s words, the players looked at each other and saw the joy in each other’s eyes.

They quickly bid farewell to Fang Ka and hurried toward the beach.

The ancient castle wasn’t far from the beach, so these players reached the seashore without much effort.

Then, they joined the search for purple water sand.