Sword of Dawn

"The problem now is that this thing needs to be used within the range of the magic net," Rebecca puffed her cheeks, "because this board itself cannot generate magic power, and if it is used in a place without the magic net, it must be used to store it. Powered by magic crystals, or used by mages. But it would be superfluous for mages to use it."

The implication is that not every mage knows how to use a big fireball just like her, and rubbing the scorching ray by herself is like water, and there is no need for this at all...

Gawain smiled, and took out the "Magic Capacitor" that he had been working on before and was just short of the final assembly from under the desk.

"I have thought about this problem for a long time and have found a solution."

"What is this?" Rebecca looked curiously at the new universal substrate that Gawain took out, and recognized the rune group on the substrate at a glance, "This is... the basic unit of the magic net ? You mean to let this kind of basic unit supply energy to the scorching ray circle? No, I tried it. The energy generated by the basic unit of the magic net is not enough at all. Four basic units are not enough to stack one. A large magic net is necessary ..."

"But with these magic storage crystals, it won't be necessary," Gao Wen pointed to the cheap magic storage crystals on the table, and then put everything into a bag, "It's not too late, let's go to the machinery manufacturing plant , let that Nicholas egg help put these things together!"

"Okay, okay!" Rebecca jumped up happily, and then dragged Jenny, who was still a little dazed, to go out, "Let's go! Let Eggy help the fastest!"

Before Gao Wen got up, the nearby air suddenly twisted, and Amber, who had been pretending not to be there before but actually observed the whole process quietly, finally couldn't hold back and jumped out: "I'll go, too!"

Rebecca was taken aback by this guy who popped out suddenly, and a big fireball hit him right away: "Wow!"

If it wasn't for Gao Wen's quick reaction to slap the fire ball away, he probably wouldn't have to live in a tent that night...

The lights in the machinery factory were brightly lit, and the sound of the machinery running was non-stop.

The originally empty shed has now become the territory of steel and machines. The metal ingots from the steel factory are transported here in batches, and then processed into various parts or components by Mr. Nicholas Egg according to the drawings. Carry out further strengthening and recasting, while human craftsmen act as assistants, while learning the mechanical principles in the drawings, they combine the parts made by Nicholas eggs into various machines—most of them are basic machine tools, and the other part It is a "special order" issued directly from the lord and others for urgent needs.

In Gao Wen's impression, the large-scale industrial assembly line is still far away, but today's machinery manufacturing plant already has some machines roaring and running endlessly. Some of the most basic parts no longer need to be cast by Nicholas Egg himself. The machine tool on the side of the shed can complete the manufacturing work of those basic parts, and the machine tools are driven by two optimized first-generation magic engines-in order to ensure that these two engines have sufficient power, Rebecca buried them in the machinery manufacturing plant. After getting off the first batch of nodes of the honeycomb magic net, it seems that everything is running very smoothly.

After Gao Wen and the others entered the work shed, what they saw was a lively scene: the processing machinery driven by the magic energy engine was running on the west side of the work shed, continuously producing all kinds of mechanical parts (and all kinds of metal tools urgently needed by the territory) accessories); human craftsmen are busy among the machines, and they have slightly adapted to this new production work; in the middle of the workshop is the territory of the iron ball star - he is floating there, surrounded by several meters. In no man's land, a large number of metal ingots are pulled into the air by an unknown force, and are quickly shaped into various solid parts that are currently difficult to be machined or manually made, and then the shaped parts will automatically fall to several nearby A storage area for human craftsmen to access.

Gawain watched from afar the iron ball star man with a pile of parts floating in all directions, thinking that this really looked like Wan Jian returning to his clan...

Then he stepped forward, and Rebecca greeted from a distance: "Eggy! We're here to ask you for help!"

Hearing the greeting, Nicholas immediately cleaned up the floating parts and turned to Gawain's direction: "Ah, there's something else—the lord is here too?"

Under normal circumstances, Gao Wen would not be able to tell whether Nicholas turned around at all, because the iron ball star was completely naked, and he couldn't tell the difference between front, back, left, and right, but this time he could see at a glance that the other side was turning around. Come over - because he suddenly found a face drawn on the opponent's body!

The moment he saw that face, Gawain stopped immediately, and almost fell to the ground—this can't be his fault, anyone who saw a "funny" with a diameter of 1.3 meters floating in front of him greeted him. Can't calm down!

Gawain stared dumbfounded at the "face" of Nicholas, the crooked eyes, the slanted eyes, and the shape of the mouth, he was dumbfounded for five seconds without speaking, and then he The first thought that popped up was: is this a fellow traveler who sneaked into his land secretly? !

Who drew this "funny" expression!

He was about to ask someone to ask, but he didn't expect Rebecca to smile after seeing his ancestor's astonished expression: "Master Ancestor? You were shocked! Did I draw well?"

Gawain turned around with a creaking neck, and stared at Rebecca: "You drew this for him?"

"Yeah!" Rebeccater nodded logically, "Every time I talk to Eggy, I can't figure out which side of him is positive, and he also complains to people that when he is working, someone always speaks behind his back to scare him After a jump, I thought of a trick and drew a face for him..."

"You... just drew it casually?" Gao Wen looked up and down this girl who was always doing amazing things, trying hard to find the shadow of a time traveler from her, "Don't you think this expression looks weird? ?”

"I just wanted to draw a smiling face," Rebecca scratched her hair, "but my hands did shake a little while I was drawing... Of course, it may have been shaking several times, so the eyes are a bit weird."

The corners of Gao Wen's mouth trembled: "How do others react when they see him holding this face?"

Rebecca thought about it carefully, then nodded: "It's still quite festive."

Jenny next to her also nodded: "Well, it's quite festive."

Gao Wen: "..."

At this time, the Nicholas egg had already floated in front of Gawain, and the gigantic and funny man shook his body up and down twice: "What do you think of my new image? I feel that it will be much easier to deal with you humans after I have a face."

"You...you're happy," Gawain tried his best to keep his expression from collapsing, and took out the materials he brought, "Let's get down to business first. I want you to help me assemble a new...weapon .”

"Oh? This time it's a weapon and not a machine?" Nicholas's voice sounded interested, "What is it?"

"I'm temporarily calling it the heat energy ray gun."

Chapter 0151 The First Shot

Gao Wen said the name of the weapon that he had been brewing in his heart for a long time. Nicholas obviously didn't have much reaction to the word, but Rebecca next to him was already happy: "This name sounds very powerful!"

"It's really good if you understand it?" Amber squinted at Rebecca, "How did these words come together so abruptly..."

"My ancestor is like this. I can always think of some names that sound powerful even though I don't understand what they mean." Rebecca looked smug, as if saying that she was very powerful. "If you have an opinion, it's purely Envy - who made you not have such a powerful ancestor."

Amber immediately raised her eyebrows: "No matter how powerful your ancestor is, I dug it out!"

Gao Wen saw that these two people were about to turn the topic off again, so he immediately stood in the middle: "You two be quiet, you two are quiet! We are here to do business!"

The huge silver-white monster has been floating by the side from the beginning to the end, watching silently. At this time, seeing the two "female humans" finally quiet down, he said calmly: "Then talk about the 'thermal energy'." Ray gun... I can process the parts, but I have to prepare the drawings first, or if the structure is simple, I can explain it directly to me on the spot, but it is better to compare it with some real objects."

"In fact, we have already built the main parts by hand. Now we mainly study together how to combine them firmly and create a 'casing' suitable for human use," Gao Wen said, taking out the The substrate of the magic power capacitor, the magic storage crystal, the scorching ray substrate, and several blueprints with schematic diagrams of the principle, "Eggy, look at these, I will tell you the principle of the thermal energy ray gun..."

The huge silver-white antic suddenly made a buzzing voice: "You still call me Eggy!"

"Don't worry, don't worry, you can just make up your own brain - first let's talk about the position of the rune trigger..."

Gawain's conception of the heat ray gun has not been a day or two. In fact, after the crystal grenade appeared, he was thinking about what the second weapon that could be equipped with soldiers in large quantities should be.

The crystal grenade, a throwing explosive weapon, is powerful and has an extremely simple structure. After the basic machine tool was built, it has achieved small-scale mass production. Byron is training soldiers to become familiar with this new "magic tool."However, the limitations of the crystallized grenade are also obvious: the throwing distance is limited by the strength of the human arm, and it is basically impossible to achieve precise strikes. When throwing, it requires a large range of motion and a long preparation time. After throwing out, there is an explosion delay...

Apparently, soldiers need another kind of supernatural weaponry to make up for the lack of crystal grenades, and it should preferably be a long-range weapon-this world has gone far enough in the art of swords.

Guns are the easiest thing for Gao Wen to think of, but they are extremely difficult to achieve in this world.

Without gunpowder or even steam, it becomes extremely difficult to launch solid projectiles at high speed. Gawain has tried many methods of producing instantaneous high-temperature and high-pressure gas, but all of them have had little effect; he also put his thinking on "magic "For example, using the repulsion circle to push the projectile, but soon he found that with the current technology, it is difficult to shrink the repulsion circle to the extent that it can be engraved on the bottom of the barrel, and even if it is really reduced to this level, The instantaneous thrust of a single repulsive circle is not enough to give the warhead enough lethality.

He also considered the convenience of using magic to realize the "railgun" in advance, using the wind-earth hybrid rune group that can generate a strong magnetic field to create an accelerated orbit and launch projectiles, but he soon discovered that there is currently a lack of a A "control circuit" that responds quickly enough to enable rapid opening and closing of individual rune groups - traditional rune triggers operate mechanically, making it difficult to sequentially switch a large number of rune groups along the entire track as the projectile accelerates , and using rune connections to achieve a function similar to a clock circuit... Unfortunately, there is still no clue in this regard.

The difference in physical laws makes many technological breakthroughs that are difficult to achieve on earth easy in this world, but at the same time, it also makes many things that are easy on earth difficult to do here.

As for the traditional bows and crossbows in this world, it is not that Gao Wen has never thought of making magical improvements, but no matter how much the bows and crossbows are improved, it is still difficult to achieve "cheap, mass-produced, fast firing, continuous firing, low training requirements, High performance potential" and so on a lot of requirements...

Perhaps when the magic industry technology tree reaches a certain level, traditional crossbows will come into Gawain's sight again, but at least not yet.

After a lot of hard work and trials, Gao Wen stroked his hairline one day, and suddenly realized something in his heart:

Why do you have to use biu bullets? !

What made him aware of this was Rebecca who was bouncing past him at the time—or, to put it more directly, a bouncing fireball launcher...

At that time, he suddenly realized that he knew where his thinking was limited: no matter what method he used to push the physical projectile, even if he used magic thinking, he was still limited by the experience of the earth. Such powerful spells, why not just throw the "bullets" aside and study those spells carefully?

After collecting and sorting out the information of various basic spells, what finally came into his sight was the fireball launch... no, it was the scorching ray.

And after the scorching ray's substrate was produced, he needed to fight against the inherent experience in his mind again.

What form does the new weapon need?

Several people sat down next to a workbench in the Machinery Manufacturing Institute. The Nicholas egg was floating on the opposite side of the workbench, and the substrates, crystals, and blueprints were all placed on the table.Looking at these things, Gao Wen felt that the "classic gun shape" in his mind might not work here.

These are palm-sized hexagonal metal plates. They have no barrels, magazines, bolts, and barrel structures. Compared with the long classic gun shape, they are more suitable for being assembled into a disc-like shape. thing.

Of course, Gawain can forcibly make them a weird shell according to the guns on the earth, because he knows that the classic shape is the result of countless years of actual combat verification: the handle is easy to hold, and the long barrel is easy to point. and aiming, but the problem is...

Considering the actual situation of the scorching ray substrate and the efficiency of the magic circle's power supply, the muzzle of the gun will probably be a stack of metal blocks the size of a palm, and the center of gravity of the whole gun will be in the front. Let alone aiming, it can be directly used as a warhammer Estimates are more reliable...

Then consider that the next generation of weapons may even launch frostbolts and ball lightning, and even be used to unleash thunderstorms, summon elementals, and generate shields, so it is even more unnecessary to stereotype this weapon as a classic gun on Earth.

Gawain looked at those metal substrates, tried his best to get rid of all images related to "guns" in his mind, and told himself over and over again: This is a magic item, this is a magic item...

After almost hypnotizing himself, he picked up the substrates one by one, and gestured on his arm: "How about we assemble them into a gauntlet?"

Rebecca tried her best to imagine, and suddenly shook Gawain's arm happily: "Sounds very handsome! I've been thinking about how to make these boards into the shape of a staff, but I didn't think of this at all!"

Amber curled her lips: "Tch, what's the matter, I thought of it too—isn't the stalker's sleeve arrow in this form? I just didn't have time to say..."

It's rare that Rebecca's brain circuit solidified once, and was surpassed by Amber...

And Nicholas Dan was confused when he heard it next to him: "What are the sleeve arrows? How do you assemble them into the gauntlet? By the way, I haven't figured out what the structure and principle of your hands are until now..."

Gawain looked at the iron ball star with weird eyes, and suddenly realized where the biggest shortcoming of this golden thigh was: simply asking him to make parts according to the blueprint was okay, but when it came to ergonomics, this guy was [-]% blind. As a ball, he doesn't know how to use his hands!

But this is not important, Gao Wen quickly sent someone to find a gauntlet and returned, and then explained to Nicholas egg while drawing his idea on the blueprint: "Just like this, put the scorching ray substrate on the front , the magic power capacitor is placed at the rear end, and a red copper substrate is used as the guide connection in the middle. The control of the rune trigger can be extended by a metal wire from the side of the gauntlet, and it can be pulled by the thumb. Of course, in order to prevent false triggering, it also needs to In addition to the kind of safety device on the crystal grenade, we can get one between the magic power capacitor and the scorching ray substrate, which is the safest..."

"Simple, simple," Nicholas bobbed his body up and down while listening, "what else do you want?"

Amber said from the side: "Don't make the arm armor into one piece, the lower part should be adjustable."

Gao Wen glanced at her in surprise, and the latter rolled his eyes: "Don't really think that I'm ignorant - at least I have used the sleeve arrow."

"All right, all right, your suggestion is really useful," Gao Wen said dumbfoundedly, and then nodded to Nicholas, "Let's leave it at that for now, the main thing now is to get a sample out to see if it works, and then we'll know when it's actually tested." Is there any room for improvement."

There was a low humming sound inside the Nicholas egg, and the nearby metal ingots and the two substrates on the table floated up: "Then look at mine! It will be done in a while!"

What the Iron Ball star said was right, he really did it in a short time-in the case of low precision requirements and only a few components need to be processed, those metal ingots and substrates were even processed in less than a minute. Shaped and put together.

It was an unremarkable, even rather "clumsy" gauntlet from the traditional point of view.

In order to stuff the rune substrate into the protective shell and reserve room for the rune trigger to move, the assembled "thermal energy ray gun" made the entire gauntlet more than two circles thicker than the traditional gauntlet, and its upper half Part of it is raised high and in the shape of an ellipsoid, and an opening is reserved at the front end, and there is a short metal guard plate extending below the opening. The metal guard plate is actually a "safety" device - when it is plugged back, the magic power The flow will be cut off, the user's hand can move freely, but the thermal energy ray gun cannot be fired, and when the shield is pulled out, the thermal energy ray gun enters the ready state, and the user's hand is restricted and cannot be lifted upwards, so that Not to be shot through the palm of the hand by a careless beam of heat...

Since it was only a test product assembled for the first time, its image could not be said to be very gorgeous, but Gawain still put the clumsy gauntlet on his arm with a slightly excited mood, and buckled it after adjusting the tightness.

While pulling the safety device on the front of the gauntlet, he put the metal finger cot for firing on his thumb, and then pointed the front of the gauntlet to the ground in front of him.

Nicholas turned around slightly, and an iron-gray metal ingot floated over and landed where Gawain was aiming.

"How many soldiers are there in our territory now?" Gawain casually asked Rebecca while aiming.

Rebecca thought for a while: "The newly trained recruits haven't left the camp yet, so if we don't count the two knights, we only count combat soldiers... [-] people."

Gao Wen pulled the trigger, and with a light "poof", a hot light beam shot out from the gauntlet, and the metal ingot on the ground was hit directly, and it rolled several times on the ground continuously due to the small-scale explosion caused by the magic power , showering a shower of sparks and metal debris along the way.

When the tumbling stopped, its surface was already red, and a deep pit was even melted out.

"Then, we have one hundred and six second-level transcendents who can use scorching rays."

Chapter 0152 Shooting Test

When those things that are enough to pry the cornerstone of the times appear, only a few people can realize its significance at the first time.

So it wasn't until Gao Wen said "one hundred and six second-level transcendents" that Amber, Jenny, and Rebecca suddenly realized what the ugly gauntlets meant.

There are not no props or equipment that can release magic in this world. Those magicians are always used to carrying some life-saving or auxiliary magic props with them, such as various amulets that can release protective spells, or rings that release quick-attack spells and Magic books, but most of these props have two characteristics: first, they can only be used by "transcendents" who have magical powers, and second, they are so expensive that even some small nobles are discouraged.

A magic ring that can release secondary offensive spells is worth half a year's income for a knight in the Holy Spirit Plains, because the ring is made of fine gold and mithril, and requires a noble mage to infuse and quench it himself. It can only be used after refining.

But the thermal energy ray gun—the most expensive part in it is the quartz pillar that serves as the focusing crystal, which is worth less than half a silver coin—now that there are cheap crystal mines in Tanzania Town, the price has to go down.

And what labor is needed to manufacture such a set of thermal energy ray guns?In addition to the participation of mages and rune masters in the initial design of the rune and the manufacture of the prototype substrate, after the finalization of the plan, it only needs a bunch of rumbling machine tools, and a few are responsible for filling the magic circle grooves with magic materials and performing post-processing. It is only assembled by skilled workers. Although its volume is much larger than those exquisite and luxurious magic rings and magic amulets, it will have a crushing quantity.

And the requirements for using this thing are even lower, even ordinary people with a little training can use it without the need for well-trained professional soldiers.

After thinking about this, Jenny looked at the heat ray gun no longer only with pride and joy, but with a little anxiety mixed in it.

This is the first time she has participated in "Cecil's unique inventions and creations". She doesn't know what this weapon will bring to the world, and she dare not think about it.

"Master Zu, are you going to distribute this thing to every soldier?" Rebecca is a girl with a strong ability to accept, she quickly realized, and looked at Gawain with sparkling eyes, "The soldiers With this thing... Do you still need to practice sword kung fu?"

Gao Wenwen wanted to say that after the appearance of long-range hot weapons, the era of swords, guns, swords and halberds has entered the countdown to the end, but he soon realized that this is a world with various extraordinary powers. The so-called boundary between cold weapons and hot weapons is at After the extraordinary power intervened, it became blurred, so the words were changed at the last moment: "Conventional weapons are still to be retained, and the mass production of magic-infused swords and armor is the next step. But in my conception, the thermal energy ray gun It will be the soldiers' main means of attack, and the sword will gradually recede as their secondary weapon."

Rebecca gestured happily: "You can equip the thermal energy ray gun on the left arm, and then use the sword in the right hand as usual. When the enemy is far away, use the scorching ray to hit it, and when the enemy is close, draw the sword and cut... the ray The shell of the gun can be thickened so that it can be used to block in close combat!"

Gao Wen thought about it for a while, and suddenly felt that Rebecca's idea was quite interesting, but there was one thing he didn't understand: as a mage, why did this girl think of this melee theory at the first time?

But in any case, Cecil's combat style seems to be really turned upside down, but I don't know if the two knights, Byron and Philip, can quickly adapt to this change...

However, if a weapon is to be put into practical use, it cannot just rely on prototype verification, especially for something like a heat ray gun, even for Gao Wen, it is a brand new thing. He just successfully fired the first shot, and it must be guaranteed that it can To perform stably on the battlefield, it takes more than one shot.

Gawain put away this set of prototype gauntlets, and looked at the people present: "It needs more tests. We will start tomorrow morning, on the test field in the northeast of the test site."

The test site in the northeast is the large wasteland near the river beach. Since the explosion of the Rebecca crystal was tested there before, that area has been designated as a formal military test area, and the subsequent crystallization grenade is also carried out there. test.In fact, Gao Wen really couldn't hold back the urge to try it now, and really wanted to find a place to mess around right away, but night is really not a good time to conduct this kind of test - the current territory can't build large indoor weapons that can operate at night The test field, so all tests have to wait until the next day.

Early the next morning, Gao Wen got up early.

Compared with the situation where only a few people were present when the first shot was fired last night, today's official test is extraordinarily formal and serious——Rebecca told Hetty about the heat ray gun, and Hetty immediately called for Bye The two chief military officers, Lun and Philip, also selected [-] stable and reliable soldiers from the combat corps to guard nearby to prevent unrelated people from approaching. The target to test the range, accuracy and other parameters of the weapon. Finally, she also called the druid Pittman to deal with the emergency medical treatment in case the weapon accidentally injured someone.

From this arrangement, Gao Wen can clearly confirm one thing:

This eldest granddaughter is gradually learning the "scientific and institutionalized" thinking he taught her...

At the beginning, Gao Wen planned to still manipulate it himself, but after Amber balabaled in his ear for 10 minutes, he decided to give her this chance.

Of course, this decision wasn't all because Amber balabala looked annoying, the more important reason was that this guy had actually used the Hidden Arrow as a stalker, and it wasn't bad at all. With a certain amount of experience, the manipulator must be her.

Seeing Amber put the heat ray gun on her arm, and at the same time seem to be professionally adjusting the strap to ensure stability, Rebecca, who failed to grab the opportunity to control it, couldn't help but muttered sourly: "Take it easy, don't Hit yourself—this thing is calmer than the Hidden Arrow!"

"I won't bother you," Hu Po gritted her teeth at Rebecca, "When I was practicing Hidden Arrow, I had to hang an iron lump on my wrist, and that thing was heavier than this!"

After showing off, the half-elf thief also finished adjusting the equipment. She nodded to Hetty who was in charge of recording, and then raised her hand to aim at the first target in the distance.

The rune trigger was pulled by the metal wire, and the magic power in the magic power capacitor was instantly transformed into the energy of the scorching ray array. With a soft sound, the scorching beam instantly hit the No. [-] target tens of meters away.

The wooden target covered with leather armor was directly pierced.