The king who doesn’t approve of the reverberatory furnace

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 Jay didn’t approve of my reverberatory furnace.
Apparently, just being able to draw out high heat isn’t enough to convince this king.
 
 ”I see.
You guys knew about things like reverberatory furnaces, so I guess that’s not enough for you to admit defeat, is it?” (Wirk)
 ”Exactly.
If you get it, then get out and don’t come near my daughter again.” (Jay)
 ”Wait, what are you deciding on your own!” (Eph)
 ”Mogu~!”
 ”Mogu-!”
 ”Mo~gu~!”
 ”Moguu!”
 ”Mogu mo~gu!”
 
 Eph said so, frowning, and the moles said boo, boo-, no, they said mogu mogu as though they were saying “Yeah, yeah”.
 However, as expected of her father, it seems he truly is worried about his daughter.
 

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 ”It seems you’ve misunderstood, but my reverberatory furnace isn’t some ordinary reverberatory furnace.
It’s a magic reverberatory furnace.” (Wirk)
 ”… what?” (Jay)
 
 Jay’s eyebrows twitched in response.
If you thought it was an ordinary reverberatory furnace based on its appearance, you must be crazy.
And because it’s a magic reverberatory furnace, it was of a size that could be transported all the way here with the crane.
 Well, to me, this is still too big.
If we had a bit more materials, dimensional expansion on the internal space would’ve been possible, so it’d look even smaller.
 
 ”… Magic reverberatory furnace, what the h**l makes it any different from an ordinary reverberatory furnace.” (Jay)
 ”Naturally, the amount of heat is on another level.
In the first place, this one is specialised for Mancrete, so it’s something simple, but even then, it can reach temperatures three times higher than an ordinary reverberatory furnace.”
 
 Of course, there’s not really a reason to raise the temperature, but there are metals other than iron.
Adamantite, for example, has a melting point of 5500 degrees.
 If it’s at this level, then it’s out of reach of an ordinary reverberatory furnace.
Besides, some metals deteriorate if they’re simply heated.
 
 ”…However, it’s not good enough to just raise the temperature…” (Jay)
 ”In addition to what I’ve said, this magic reverberatory furnace is able to turn its flame into a magic flame.” (Wirk)
 ”… magic flame?” (Jay)

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 As I continued my explanation, Jay asked so with a questioning tone and groaned slightly.
Huh? You don’t know about it?
 
 ”A magic flame is a flame with mana infused.
Due to mana’s influence, it has a bluer light, don’t you know?” (Wirk)
 ”… is it bad to not know?” (Jay)
 
 He glared at me.
No, it’s not bad, but you’ll have trouble processing mythril, which dwarves are said to love more than iron.
 Mythril is a sensitive metal.
Even elves, which hate iron, are accepting of mythril, which has a high mana percentage concentration.
As its appearance is that of a bluish-white silver, it’s a product that’s called magic silver.
 The purity of mythril gets greatly spoilt if it is simply heated.
However, in the past, processing via magic flame wasn’t common, so mythril was heated like normal.
 But still, it was useful because it was easy to manufacture magic weapons, but in that case, it became a fragile weapon.
That’s why I say it’d be useful for the dwarves.
 At the time, it was said that dwarves were the best at processing mythril, because they were able to infuse their hammers with magic power unconsciously.
In addition, I also heard from my master that they could do quite delicate magic power control unconsciously while blacksmithing.
 That’s why, even if the quality deteriorated at the melting stage, it was possible to bring it up to a certain quality with the dwarves’ skill.
 But even so, as expected, it’s still undesirable to have the quality fall at the processing stage.
That’s why, if you’re processing mythril, you’d need a magic reverberatory furnace at the very least.
 
 ”Idiot, such a thing…” (Jay)

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 ”How about it? Did I change the way you see things a bit? Besides, I think I can help you reach your goal with this.” (Wirk)
 ”—!?” (Jay)
 
 Jay looked at me with one eye wide open.
Seems shaken.
 
 ”… why do you know about that?” (Jay)
 ”From what Eph said, and from your speech and conduct up till now.” (Wirk)
 ”Koo~?”
 ”Kyupi?”
 ”Hey, what’s that mean?” (Eph)
 
 On my shoulder, Kani tilted her head, at my feet, Keon snuggled up close asking “what, what~?”, and Eph asked so while raising her eyebrows.
 
 ”Eph said you’ve been hammering iron all the time.
Plus, despite knowing about reverberatory furnaces, Jay and the other dwarves deliberately used a magma-based furnace.
Aside from the other dwarves, Jay knew that the heat from magma is inherently not powerful enough to process iron.
Yet they still deliberately used magma.
The only reason I could think of was that there was something that could only be made by using magma.
Furthermore, their atmosphere feels quite desperate.
Am I wrong?” (Wirk)
 

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 Up till when I asked as much, Jay remained silent.
Then he turned his eyes towards the magic reverberatory furnace.
 
 ”… you don’t even know what I’m trying to make, do you? So how can you claim you can help me?” (Jay)
 ”That’s, well, because I’m a magic architect.
That’s why, as a technician, I’ve never forgotten to challenge myself in any way I can.
That’s why I think I can help you with this new challenge quite a bit, since from the beginning, I don’t think it’s impossible.” (Wirk)
 ”… isn’t that just showing off your own techniques in the end?” (Jay)
 ”Hey Papa, don’t be rude!” (Eph)
 
 Eph yelled angrily.
However, it seems I still can’t get rid of your distrust of magic architects.
 
 ”King Jay.
What on earth happened between magic architects and your predecessors?” (Wirk)
 ”Didn’t I tell you before that I don’t have a reason to tell you?” (Jay)
 ”Excuse me.
If you won’t say anything then I won’t understand anything here.
Besides, I haven’t heard your evaluation of the magic reverberatory furnace after all.” (Wirk)
 ”… right.
Certainly, it is as you say.
Then fine.
Let’s try a test with your furnace.
However, my condition is that you get your iron ore on your own.
You fine with that?” (Jay)
 
 Jay glared while thrusting such words at me.
Yare yare, they’re in no way straightforward opponents…