Chapter 519 - 446: God is Transcendent (Added two in one)
Dwarf Kingdom Kaelonde.
This nation is one of the leading powers among the dwarven race, its lands sprawling with mountain ranges, and its mineral reserves rich to an extreme. It boasts the largest community of craftsmen in the entire dwarven race.
Yet it was this kingdom that was undergoing some unprecedented changes.
These changes were generally limited to the minutest of details.
In the past year, within some of the more remote mines of Kaelonde, a new kind of machinery began to appear—an apparatus that burned coal to boil water and move stones—gradually replacing the laborers who had specialized in transporting minerals.
These mining sites, often avoided by dwarves or giants due to their geographic location or the difficulty in extraction, used to be quite costly to operate. However, with the invention of this previously unknown machinery, the cost of mining operations plummeted drastically, and suddenly the production of cheap minerals disrupted the markets of the surrounding cities and the craftsmen within them.
As the volume of minerals increased, the cities on the fringes of the kingdom began to attract more craftsmen. The abundance of minerals in the market offered them opportunities to showcase their talents, spawning a surge of novel gadgets throughout the kingdom at a rate far surpassing that of the past.
And as word of mouth spread among the people, the dwarves discovered that this machinery, which boiled water by burning coal, was called a steam engine, originating from the recently renowned Wood Stone Clan.
Even now, the various machines produced by the Wood Stone Clan had not brought about earth-shattering changes to the entire kingdom. Yet as the saying goes, "Many a little make a mickle"; a few of the kingdom’s sages had sniffed the scent of revolution in these small accumulations.
Not to mention Veldor, who once possessed the Mechanical Book.
He was far clearer about the significance of that book than any of the sages.