Click—click—
As the flints struck together, a burst of flame ignited on the ground in an instant.
"This is underground divine fire." Rot put away the flints and looked at He Ao.
He Ao glanced at the burning flames.
Shallow natural gas deposits.
"Is there much of this combustible gas in the surrounding area?" He looked at Rot and spoke slowly.
Hearing He Ao describe it as "combustible gas," Rot was briefly stunned before quickly reacting.
"There's a lot," he said quickly. "Dig down a little deeper and it comes out. There was some in the original Noble District too, just not as much as here. That's why the great nobles wanted to move the Noble District here."
It seemed the Rock City State already possessed some degree of shallow natural gas extraction technology.
When He Ao had rescued the Little Girl, the pot she had been using to boil meat soup had seemingly been fueled by natural gas.
With this, the crisis of lacking firewood for heating could be somewhat eased.
"You can tell Kaila to leave a pipeline outlet here." He Ao nodded lightly and looked at Rot. "Have you handled the food?"
"The nobles all had cellars outside the city for storing food. I've already sent people to dig them out. Together with what was left before, supporting everyone for a month or two shouldn't be a problem." Rot smiled.
"Mm." He Ao nodded lightly, looking at the people in the distance who were rapidly clearing the land and measuring its dimensions. "By the way, has that Storm Priest's attendant arrived?"
On the way here, Rot had already told He Ao about the Storm Priest.
"He should be here." Rot looked up just in time to see a young man in plain robes looking around in the