Sword of Dawn

Therefore, Gao Wen had to admire the ball's adaptability and mental toughness: in such a desperate situation, he was able to live so calmly, and became an excellent tease... Could it be because of the metal creature's nerves? Harder?

"Hey, why are you silent all of a sudden?" Nicholas's voice woke Gawain from his thoughts, and the big metal ball floated around the latter, "I still want to hear your suggestion , What do you think I can do? To be honest, I really want to find something to do now..."

Gawain immediately began to think seriously. In fact, he had been thinking about it before today: this metal ball from another world with magical abilities was probably just an experimental material in the eyes of those Gondor magisters, but in Gawain's eyes, it was an experiment. Potential high-tech talents... Qiu Cai, but he knows that this ball has just woken up from a deep sleep, and I am afraid it will take some time to adapt and adjust his mentality, so he is not in a hurry to force him to work, but now Mr. Dan took the initiative to speak, He straightened his thoughts and said, "You have the ability to control the flow of magic power and metal, both of which can be of great use to me, but I don't know the specific parameters of your control of magic power and metal. So it’s not easy to arrange for you.”

"In fact, I don't really understand the control of magic power," the metal ball replied. "You call that energy magic power, but there is no such thing in our world. When I affect the flow of magic power, I am actually shaking my own magnetocytes." ——This is an organ in my body that can generate a high-frequency magnetic field. In our world, when the magnetocyte body vibrates, it can form a protective barrier on the body surface, but here I find that the barrier disappears, but it can affect you The kind of energy called 'magic power' in the mouth makes it temporarily invalid..."

Gao Wen immediately interrupted the other party: "You mean magnetic field? You actually use magnetic field to affect the flow of magic power?"

"That's right—including when you used 'magic power' to talk to me, I actually felt its fluctuations through the magnetocyte body... But it's a pity to say that although I can feel magic power, I can also use magnetic fields to affect it. But there is no way to use magic like your 'mages', that female... the magician named Hetty explained to me what spiritual power and spell models are, but I couldn't understand a single word."

Gao Wen didn't pay attention to the second half of the other party's sentence, he was completely attracted by the fact that "magnetic field affects magic power", and fell into great confusion: "Are you sure that the 'magnetic field' you generated is really the power of everyone in this world?" The kind of 'magnetic field' you know? You know, the same term may refer to completely opposite phenomena in the two worlds!"

"This can really be confirmed." Nicholas' egg floated up and down vigorously, as if imitating human nodding, "A magnetic field is a magnetic field. Of course, people in this world don't seem to have the concept of a magnetic field. They only know magnetic force. Natural magnets can attract people. The magnetic force of iron, but I have confirmed that the magnetic field I generated with the magnetocyte is the same as the natural magnet of this world... What's wrong?"

"I don't know what's wrong," Gawain spread his hands with a wry smile, "I've done a lot of experiments with magnetic fields, but I didn't find that it could affect the flow of magic power. Could it be that the magnetic field I used wasn't strong enough?"

He still didn't finish half a sentence: In addition to using a magnetic field to affect magic power, his experiment with magnetism to generate electricity was also unsuccessful...

"Strength? I don't think it matters much. The magnetic field generated by the magnetocyte body is not strong," said the metal ball dangling. "Maybe it's because of the frequency. You didn't use a high-frequency magnetic field, did you? The 'magister' used a vibrating magnetic field to scan me. How high is the frequency... how many million vibrations per second? That seems to be the highest frequency they can produce, but it hasn't reached the magnetocyte One-tenth of the frequency—how about you try harder and turn the frequency of the magnetic field up a bit?"

Gao Wen had a blue vein in his forehead: How could he get a high-frequency magnetic field of tens of millions of hertz in such a broken place in the middle ages where technology was still broken!

The Nicholas egg is probably the only high-frequency source in the world that can generate such a frequency magnetic field!

Knowing that there was no way to find a suitable experimental environment at this moment, Gao Wen silently recorded this matter in his heart, and then he was about to ask the other party about his ability to manipulate metal, but when he was about to speak, he suddenly saw The door to the brick kiln was pushed open, and a silly roe deer... a fireball launcher... an iron head... Rebecca ran over here in a hurry.

"Master Ancestor! Lord Ancestor!" Miss Viscount shouted excitedly while running, "Come quickly! Come with me!!"

Seeing the excited look of this girl, Gao Wen's first reaction was to hide to the side: he was afraid that this silly roe deer would have a twitch and throw seventy or eighty big fireballs on his face...

And after Rebecca ran in front of him and managed to catch his breath, Gawain asked her unhurriedly, "Did you finally blow up Hetty's laboratory with a fireball?"

"Ah...ah?!" Rebecca was taken aback by Gawain's words as soon as she recovered her breath, and then waved her hands vigorously, "No! I'm very careful——let me tell you, the magic you proposed The engine can be assembled over there!"

Gao Wen's originally calm expression was instantly replaced by shock and surprise.

"It's finished?! Have you tested the machine yet?"

"Not yet," Rebecca waved her hands, "I'm waiting for you to test the machine! But Aunt Hetty has already tested all the parts of it, and they all come according to the design drawings, and they can all achieve the corresponding effect. It should be no problem. ..."

"Don't talk about it, go now," Gao Wen couldn't restrain his excitement, he pulled Rebecca and walked out of the brick kiln factory, halfway there he remembered that there was a ball, so he turned his head and waved, "You Come and you too - check out the cool stuff we've designed!"

I'm afraid no one would have imagined that the "assembly workshop" of the first generation of magic engines would be so simple.

It is a wooden shed next to the Cecil Steel Plant. Except for some soldiers guarding it, there is no difference between it and other sheds, and there is nothing in it that reminds people of high technology or cutting-edge Magical things: Except for the most precise runes, which are completed in Hetty's laboratory, all the parts of the magic engine are shaped by the hands of blacksmiths and rune craftsmen, so there are neither machine tools nor For the precision mold, Rebecca and Hetty led the craftsmen to complete every processing process of the prototype in the most primitive and laborious way.

If it wasn't for the magical assistance in this world, and Hetty's flame and evocation spells could provide a lot of help, the final assembly and welding of the prototype would probably be a problem.

No matter which world you are in, the birth of any thing is not easy.

In the central open space of the "assembly workshop", a large piece of burlap covered something less than two meters high. Its outline was a little weird, and Gawain could only vaguely recognize that one of the larger protrusions should be a flywheel. structure, while its true face is still obscured.

The old blacksmiths Hammer and Hetty were standing next to the prototype machine, and there were some people standing beside them, some of them were Hammer's apprentices, and the other two were talismans from the royal capital who had just joined the territory. Artisans.

"Rebecca insisted on running to find you by herself," Hetty nodded apologetically to Gawain, "this kid is a little reckless."

"It's understandable that she wants to tell me the good news in person." Gawain took a breath and looked at the machine, "Open it, let me see."

Hetty waved his hand, and a translucent evocation hand appeared in the air, and lifted the drape away.

Below that is a strange-looking machine.

It vaguely has the shadow of a "distant relative" on the earth, with a huge flywheel, as well as the connecting rod connected to the flywheel, the crank, and the crankshaft structure, but it is completely different from any power machine on earth in Gawain's memory. : It does not have a cylinder. Instead, it is a "repulsion mechanism" consisting of slide rails, pistons, and bases located in the middle of the machine. The piston is a square piece of iron, with four slide rails passing through its four corners. Both ends are fixed on a base, and on the side of the base facing the piston, you can see a slightly flickering magic circle, and on the outer edge of the two repulsion circles, there are extended runes, a long The strip-shaped metal plate is connected between the two repulsion circles, and the rune trigger structure on it is connected to one of the repulsion circles, and this metal plate is connected to the crankshaft of the flywheel through a connecting rod and a toggle device.

Whenever the crankshaft rotates half a turn, the rune trigger will be toggled, and the corresponding rune will establish a connection with one of the repulsive circles, until the crankshaft rotates another half turn, the rune trigger will leave this circle and enter another circle connection range, activate the repulsion mechanism on the opposite side...

In addition to the rune trigger used to "switch the direction of repulsion", there is another rune trigger that controls the "total energy" of the two repulsion circles, which is also controlled by a connecting rod, and the control rod is located in this machine side.

The special repulsion mechanism makes this machine not need a cylinder structure, and thus circumvents the maximum precision threshold: mechanical precision, replaced by its precision requirements for magic runes—and this happens to be "this world" features.

Hetty looked at the magic engine in front of her with some ecstasy. It had a completely different appearance and inner mechanism from any magical creation in this world. Even though she herself participated in the manufacture of the engine, she was still a little lost at this moment. , but soon she came back to her senses and looked at Gao Wen: "My lord ancestor, please turn off the mechanism."

It is located on the edge of the Cecil Iron and Steel Plant. The engine can receive the energy from the magic net in this place. Although there is no "amplifier" like the "amplifier" in the steel plant compound to enhance the energy transmission efficiency, as a low-power The verification machine, these energies are enough.

Gao Wen shook his head: "We designed this together, you two come with me."

Hetty seemed a little hesitant, but Rebecca didn't think about it that much at all. She couldn't control her curiosity anymore, and with Gawain's permission, she ran to the machine in two steps and waved vigorously: "Aunt Hetty! You Come on!"

Hetty smiled, let go of all hesitation, and came to Gawain's side.

The three hands were put together on the handle that controlled the connection of the total energy, and then Gawain counted down to three, and the three of them pressed the handle down forcefully together.

The magic power circuit was instantly connected, and the repulsion mechanism at the core of the engine was then lit up. With the lighting of one of the magic circles, the rough and simple "iron piston" slowly moved in front of everyone's eyes.

It seems to be to drive the heavy flywheel. It moves very slowly at first, but when the flywheel is activated, the piston quickly moves to the end of the entire repulsion mechanism——the rune trigger for switching also takes effect and lights up first. The magic circle went out, and the other repulsive magic circle lit up almost at the same time.

The flywheel made a full turn, and then turned faster and faster, faster and faster-the whole machine was accompanied by loud noise and shaking, but it was really running!

Chapter 0116 Metal Master

The old blacksmith Hammer stared wide-eyed, staring at the strange machine that was running at high speed with astonishment and bewilderment.

Its core is filled with the brilliance of magic power. The repulsive mechanism that can be described in a simple way is reciprocating under the action of a simple magic circle and a series of mechanical structures. The heavy flywheel is rotating rapidly under the drive of the connecting rod and the crankshaft. The speed is faster than any windmill, waterwheel and human-operated crank. He deeply knows how heavy the big iron wheel is. It is something that can easily break a person's bones when it turns, but it is driven like this, And it's easy to drive.

The two rune craftsmen standing next to him saw more and thought more.

They are servants trained by magicians. If rune masters are "circuit engineers" who design the blueprints of magic circles, then rune craftsmen are "mechanical engineers" who are responsible for manufacturing the mechanical parts of magic organs. What they understand in this regard is naturally Much more than ordinary blacksmiths.

Rune craftsmen manufacture all kinds of mechanisms and magic props on weekdays. They are naturally no strangers to the most basic gadgets like the repulsive magic circle, but they never thought that this simple, magic-level thing could be It can produce such a miraculous effect - only a set of effective mechanical structure is needed to automatically switch the repulsive magic circle that can only be used to push trap doors or rockfall traps, even though the entire magic energy engine is based on magic power Propelled, but its inner principle is completely different from any previous magic props!

In the magic energy engine, magic power is no longer the only and all power, it is no longer used roughly, but is transformed, amplified, and turned into a more...practical thing.

At the beginning, they were required to work with a group of blacksmiths and blacksmith apprentices. The rune craftsmen still had a bit of resentment in their hearts, but after seeing the finished product's magic engine, their resentment was involuntarily replaced by some kind of enlightenment. Now: they finally realized what the matron named Hetty told them when they first arrived in this territory, what it meant to "abandon all old ideas and constraints, and submit to the new order of this land"— —Compared with the new things seen in this land, those rules and constraints are really nothing to mention.

An apprentice blacksmith stared at the magic engine that was constantly running, and couldn't help muttering to himself: "This is what we built..."

Hammer hurriedly interrupted his apprentice: "No, this is the Duke and the Viscount, as well as the wisdom of Mrs. Hetty."

"No," Gawain interrupted Hammer's words, "This is what you made, there is no doubt, the honor belongs to everyone who worked hard, so those who contributed to the manufacture of the magic engine can not only get You will be rewarded and honored—the name of each of you will be recorded, made into a nameplate and inlaid on the first-generation magic engine, and recorded in Cecil's history book."

The craftsmen and apprentices looked at each other, and Hammer twirled his beard vigorously, even accidentally pulling off a few of them without noticing, until the two experienced rune craftsmen from the royal capital saluted and thanked, the old blacksmith Only then did he finally react, and hurriedly followed up to thank him.

Meanwhile, Gao Wen withdrew his gaze, looking at the prototype of the magic engine that was still functioning normally with uncontrollable joy and excitement.

It makes a lot of noise, and the flywheel drives the whole machine to vibrate violently. Due to the error in the accuracy of the parts, these are unavoidable problems. Gao Wen can be sure that a considerable part of the power of this machine will be in those Non-compliant parts are lost in friction, and its output power and overall lifespan will also be compromised, but these are minor details-the most important thing is that this machine works as expected.

Solve whether it is necessary first, and then consider whether it is good or bad.

Gao Wen looked at the primitive machine almost fascinated, but suddenly, doubts and worries surfaced in his eyes.

It's just that this subtle emotional change quickly disappeared.

On the other side, Hetty has already started to test the machine's strength: she directly used her Evocation Hand or Gravity Technique to slowly put pressure on the output shaft of the machine, and after trying several times in a row, she couldn't help but speak with admiration: " This machine is very powerful. I probably tried it. When it rotates at full speed, it can even pull up a half-ton iron block directly vertically. If you use the pulley block or reduction gear you mentioned earlier, its It is not known how much the power can be amplified. In addition, this is because we use relatively cheap rune materials, and the connecting rod is also made of ordinary steel instead of stronger purple steel, so its room for improvement is quite huge.”

Rebecca doesn't know all kinds of useful auxiliary magic, and she can't throw a big fireball on it to test the blood bar of the machine at this time, so she scratched her chin and thought about more practical things: "Master Zu, what do you think of this machine? What can you do?"

Gao Wen gave the girl a funny look: "Tell me your opinion."

"Many monotonous and repetitive tasks that require a lot of strength seem to be entrusted to it. For example, let it drive the mill? Drive the big saw in the sawmill? Its strength is definitely strong enough, and it does not need to consider the influence of wind direction and river water at all! "

"There are many uses. It can drive waterwheels, tow mine carts on the other side of the mine, can be used to pump water from mines, can drive a sledgehammer to forge steel, and with a suitable mold, it can also be used to press biscuits. In that way, a whole piece of steel plate can be directly pressed into parts of armor or other things-it can also be placed in a brick kiln factory to drive other machines to press bricks, instead of requiring a dozen serfs to use wooden frame molds one by one as it is now. Ground billets..."

Gao Wen casually talked about what he thinks is the most important application direction at present, while the people around him are lost one by one. They have never had the concept of replacing labor with machines, even if there are windmills, mills, and water mills in this world. Things like this are quite crude and crude things. How could they think of all kinds of machines that can be connected to the magic engine?

Hammer, on the other hand, couldn't help his eyes light up when he heard that a machine drives a sledgehammer to forge steel and directly forge steel plates into armor parts. His professional intuition made him instantly realize that this is a bright road.

But Rebecca's eyes were shining all the time—basically, as long as Gawain popped out a usage, a lot of lever bearings and gears would pop up in her mind, although those things were still It's impossible to assemble a usable machine, but she feels that as long as she gives herself a little time, she can toss out the things that her ancestors conceived one by one!

But at this moment, Hetty frowned and said worriedly: "The key is that we only have one machine... It takes time and effort to manufacture a new magic energy engine, and it must be within the coverage of the magic net to operate. , which is very problematic.”

While talking, she pulled the lever to cut off the energy of the magic engine, and it gradually calmed down: the noise of this thing is not ordinary, it is spinning here, and people around have to shout when they talk.

"It doesn't cost much to lay the magic net. After all, they are all basic runes, and the blueprints are ready-made. It's a problem that machine manufacturing is not easy... The main reason is that it takes too much time to build these parts by hand," Gao Wen rubbed his chin, "but There is no other way, we still have to build it artificially..."

At this moment, a voice with a metallic tremolo suddenly broke in: "Ahem, I have something to say."

The Nicholas egg covered in silver slowly floated over.

Rebecca cheered up when she saw the shiny metal ball: "Eggy, do you have an idea?!"

"I'm not called Eggy!" Nicholas Eggy immediately rose two or three meters into the air (if it weren't for the roof blocking it, I'm afraid he would have planned to fly higher), the voice from inside the sphere was furious, "You at least call me Eggy Boss Egg!"

Rebecca was not intimidated by the ball at all: "Ah good Eggy, do you have a solution?"

Nicholas Egg: "..."

"Don't compete with her, just tell me your way," Gawain interrupted the upcoming verbal battle, and looked seriously at the metal ball that was slowly returning to its normal height, "I know you are good at controlling metal balls. ,Could it be that……"

"Yeah, I finally know what I can do here!" Nicholas's voice sounded very pleasant. The metal leftovers that were ready to be returned to the furnace floated one by one and were pulled around the silver-white metal ball, "I can help you forge iron!"

As his words fell, the metal scraps floating in the air made creaking sounds one after another, as if there was a huge pressure on their surface, they began to deform slowly, and Gawain soon It was found that this deformation is not just the effect of external force - some metals have obvious signs of melting, they are not only being squeezed, but also being forged!

In just a few minutes, these metals turned into large and small, intricately structured parts and all kinds of grotesque gadgets, and even lifelike metal sculptures of everyone present.

There was complete silence in the shed.

Nicholas Egg seemed to be very satisfied with his performance. He triumphantly placed those parts on the ground, and then sent the metal sculptures to everyone's hands: "How is it? This is much more efficient than yours, right?"

Hammer took over the metal sculpture that belonged to him, but his hands couldn't help trembling slightly - such a powerful ability... Will there be a need for blacksmiths in the territory in the future? !

Is it really the same as what the lord said last time, the blacksmith who beats things with a hammer is going to be useless?Will it be useless so soon?

The rune craftsmen at the scene felt the same fear. Even Hetty and Rebecca were shocked and felt that with this ball, all the craftsmen who deal with metal in the territory might lose their jobs...

Only Gao Wen, although he was also shocked by the speed at which the Nicholas egg quickly formed a metal form, but immediately after that, his attention was completely on the other side——

He looked at the lifelike metal sculpture in his hand, looked at its eyebrows and hair that had been accurately reduced according to strict proportions, and suddenly raised his head to stare at Nicholas Egg: "How accurate can you be?!"

Chapter 0117 Cecil Machine Works

Indeed, Gao Wen was deeply impressed by the ability of this iron ball star to transform the metal form at an extremely fast speed, and at first he was indeed amazed at this guy's high efficiency in processing metal parts, but soon he realized that, Compared with this processing speed, his precision is probably the greater wealth.

Speed ​​is nothing - Gawain knows this very well. Although the processing speed of Nicholas eggs can scare everyone on the scene, Gawain is very clear that in the real industrial production mode, no matter how amazing the speed of an individual is, it is meaningless. Is it fast to process one hundred parts in one minute?It is indeed faster than a blacksmith's hammer, but in the industrial age, if you shoot a few production lines casually, this processing speed will immediately be blown up by those machines.

Although Gao Wen has no way to shoot a production line casually now, but the prototype of the magic engine is already available. He believes that one day he will shoot a production line with a wave of his hand. Sooner or later, the efficiency advantage of Nicholas Egg will be in After more and more machines are put into production, they become obsolete. However, his other advantage is not so easy to be replaced by machines. At least compared with his efficiency, this advantage will be replaced slowly——

his precision.

The parts he "kneaded" out of leftover materials were not made at random. Gawain could tell at a glance that they were actually miniature versions of some exposed parts on the magic engine prototype, and each part was far more delicate than those handmade by blacksmiths. In comparison, those metal sculptures are even made out of hair... Isn't it a monster!

"Accuracy?" Nicholas Dan seemed to have realized something, he thought about it carefully, and replied confidently, "It depends on how many things are processed at the same time, if you do one hundred at a time, there will definitely be a lot of errors, but each time only Processing single-digit parts, and if I process them slowly... the error is probably dozens of times thinner than your hair. Of course, the specific speed depends on the complexity and volume of the parts, but in my opinion, you make The most complex part of this machine is also very simple."

Gao Wen: "?!"

The metal ball didn't hear Gao Wen's movement for a long time, and couldn't help but floated over to touch the latter's arm: "Hey, why don't you talk?"

"The first generation of industrial machine tools will be handed over to you!"

"what?"

Gao Wen didn't explain too much to the other party, because his heart was completely filled with joy, and he could barely spare the energy to talk about other things.

Yes, the first generation of industrial machine tools, or the so-called "working machine", is the foundation of everything, and the most important link that allows the entire industrialization chain to be established. , should allow him to take advantage of precision and efficiency, and manufacture machine tools that can be used to produce other machine components in the shortest possible time—whether it is a machine tool for processing various parts, or a simple batch engraving The rune "rune drawing machine", only by building these things, can he tie his foundation to the surging power provided by the magic engine, and save it before the not so strong wall on the other side of the mountain is finished. Fight hard!

At this time, he was even a little regretful, why he didn't realize the talent of this metal ball earlier, if he was allowed to directly participate in the research and development of the magic engine prototype, this day might come earlier.

But he didn't let this feeling of regret last for too long, because before seeing it with his own eyes today, who would have thought that this metal ball's ability to control metal would be so powerful?To be honest, Gawain even doubted that Nicholas himself hadn't even thought of it...

And there is another point, he was not dazzled by the ability of Nicholas egg: this iron ball star is a special individual, a non-reproducible and non-reproducible individual, and under any circumstances, it is impossible to put the entire system on one individual. It is extremely irrational.It is great that Nicholas Egg can process the first generation of industrial machine tools, but what if something unexpected happens?What if he can't control a certain key metal material?What if he had an accident?What if a certain out-of-this-world device couldn't be made of metal?

So Gao Wen quickly calmed down and realized that Mr. Nicholas Dan (or Miss? Is this a men's ball or a women's ball?) might be the biggest help he has encountered so far, but he cannot completely rely on the other party.

He still has to ensure that ordinary people participate in the whole process of establishing an industrial foundation.

So he looked at the anxious old blacksmiths and rune craftsmen, and nodded slightly: "Don't worry about your skills being useless in the future-the territory will always be short of people, at most the way you work in the future will happen. A little change."

Then he looked at Nicholas again: "Would you like to be my mechanical manufacturing supervisor?"

Nicholas Dan replied crisply: "Yes, why not - it's rare to find something to do."

"Well, you are responsible for helping me manufacture the machine, and I will give you some drawings and processing tasks soon, and you try to get those things out in the fastest time—considering the convenience of materials, this machine next to I will use the shed of the steel factory for you. In addition, your first task is to manufacture three more magic energy engines, which I will use in key places such as mines and steel factories."

Although Gawain positioned Nicholas Egg as a "work machine maker", at this stage, the latter still has the capacity to help expand the scale of those mass-produced machines, based on the principle that the ball must be used as much as possible. , Gao Wen arranged a lot of production tasks for this ball without hesitation.

The other party looks quite happy...

Looking at the energetic Nicholas Dan, Gao Wen gradually settled down.

With the help of such an obsessive-level time-traveling egg, if he doesn't consider the social form but only considers the technology tree, he feels that he can develop by leaps and bounds, let alone leaps and bounds...

But in such a happy mood, he keenly noticed that the face of the old blacksmith Hammer standing in the corner was still slightly gray.

But in the end, Gao Wen still didn't speak out to persuade him.