Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 536 - 503: Alchemy Recurrence

In Perfikot’s view, the mages’ resistance is nothing more than a temporary stress reaction, much like how it takes scholars three years to start a revolt, their rebellion is merely an immediate response.

Whether through exchanging benefits, exerting authority, or other methods, as long as Perfikot is willing to put in the effort, she can handle it.

If nothing else works, she can just place them on a cold shelf and wait for these mages to quiet down themselves.

However, for Perfikot, these aren’t the fastest solutions to the problem.

What she wants is to solve the production issues of heat dissipation panels with drawn temperature control barriers in the shortest possible time, and ensure their output meets the demand to cover the entire Northern Territory in the coming months.

This clearly can’t be achieved through political maneuvers and dragging things out with these mages.

Of course, this level of problem is evidently not difficult for Perfikot.

On one hand, she has the bureaucrats who have now relocated to the Northern Territory from the Imperial Center deal with the mages, while on the other hand, she addresses the problem using the methods of an alchemist.

To solve this issue, Perfikot employed various capabilities of her Eye of Omniscience.

Identification, analysis, optimization, and deduction; these four abilities are enough for Perfikot to replicate anything in this world using alchemy methods, unless the object was completely beyond the capabilities or comprehension of the Eye of Omniscience.

However, such things, at least until now, Perfikot hadn’t encountered.

Even the so-called Divine Artifact, the pointer of Hermodis, was analyzed by Perfikot using the Eye of Omniscience, gaining the related manufacturing technology.

Of course, whether this manufacturing technology was beyond Perfikot’s capabilities is not the subject of discussion.

After all, she is still human, not divine, and some things that only the divine can do are somewhat beyond Perfikot’s limits.

But this doesn’t mean she lacks the skill; it’s just currently unachievable.

It’s like how she can now deduce and analyze the technology to build a rocket capable of reaching the moon, but creating it is another matter entirely.

However, clearly, the technology for manufacturing enchanted temperature control panels is not beyond Perfikot’s ability to analyze or reproduce.

By analyzing the mage’s already completed heat dissipation panels, acquiring the corresponding technology and then optimizing and deducing it, a completely new design emerged before her, entirely removed from the original technical system of the mages.

In this new design, there is no need to rely any longer on the magic arrays of the mages, as the alchemic constructions replaced the function of the magic arrays.

Although these are two completely different technical systems, alchemy indeed can achieve the same effect as magic arrays, constructing a region that maintains a stable temperature even under harsh conditions.

Moreover, compared to the costly magic arrays of the mages, and the unclear effective range of the temperature control barriers, the information provided by the alchemy technical route is much clearer.

"Environmental Temperature Control Device"

"Manufacturing Technique: Excellent"

"Materials Used: Common"

"Effect: Establishes a spherical area with a radius of 500 meters centered on the device, maintaining the temperature consistently at 10°C, with an effective operating temperature range between -40°C and 40°C. The effective area can be expanded by paralleling multiple devices."

"Assessment: Extremely practical environmental temperature control device for extreme environments, yet the limited effective range and operating temperature make it difficult to cope with overly extreme conditions. Nonetheless, it can create a relatively comfortable environment in polar snow or scorching deserts."

Perfikot directly reproduced her deduced technology using Imaginary Alchemy, and then employed the identification capabilities of the Eye of Omniscience to appraise it.

The result was undoubtedly satisfactory, at least it received a relatively decent score in the assessment of the Jade Record.

Clearly, even Perfikot herself found the effective operating temperature range somewhat out of the desired parameters, but according to the technical drawings, even if temperatures exceeded the effective range, it only result in cooling and heating adjustments, rather than outright failure.

Simply put, if the environment temperature hits -50°C within the effective area of the control device, the internal temperature will drop to 0°C, instead of plummeting directly to -50°C.

For Perfikot, this is actually acceptable.

She hadn’t abandoned the construction of underground shelters; in other words, with the ground areas where temperature-control devices establish temperature-controlled zones, the underground environment would be even more pleasant and comfortable, allowing production activities and even habitation on the surface in relatively suitable temperature conditions. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

After all, for humans, 0°C is not an unacceptable environmental temperature, and even slightly lower would not pose significant issues.

Moreover, even if it were the apocalyptic winter, there are still seasonal temperature changes. During the relatively warmer seasons, the internal temperature of the constant-temperature zone could be above 0°C, making it possible to cultivate crops within the area.

This undoubtedly holds great significance for maintaining human survival during the apocalyptic winter.

Perfikot had particularly favored the mage’s technology for the temperature control barrier as it could achieve this.

Unfortunately, these mages are too stuck in their old ways. Although their technology is useful, the cost and efficiency are intolerable.

Not to mention, this group of mages is inherently a bunch of diehards, with outdated and stale views as if they still lived in the Middle Ages, considering ordinary people as serfs and livestock, and seeing even nobles and empire-administering officials as merely lower-class people in their eyes.

Such an elitist attitude is truly unacceptable, especially when they do not have the standing to be so elitist.

In the medieval era of cold weapons, mages may indeed have been a cut above, but now, in this age of industrial capitalism, clinging to old ways can only lead to being ruthlessly eliminated by the times.

Perhaps the only pity is the technology they hold.

If all this technology could be extracted, then reproduced using alchemy or by considering how to achieve it more simply, it would likely be the final contribution these mages could make to humanity now.

With this thought, Perfikot also developed the idea of dealing decisively with this troublesome group of mages.

After all, these mages, unwilling to cooperate yet wanting to enjoy superior treatment, is something Perfikot finds unacceptable.

If they cannot change, then Perfikot would have no choice but to resolve the people causing the problems.