Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 45 Disappointment and Gifts

Claude was a little upset, and he spent a week translating the magic note and found that there was nothing in it that he wanted. For example, how to become a magician, how to upgrade the magic level, what magic is, and so on, none of this.

Seriously, this magic note is more of a magic design album, and from the design perspective, it probably wants to save magic and consume less magic material resources to achieve the original magic effects. Or it's essentially done with no magic, and the purpose of allowing ordinary people to achieve magical effects by all kinds of technical means, just like the drawing on that page about the improved design of a firearm.

It's just that Claude knows what magic is, and more is speculation. Like the drawings on this magic note, Claude can translate the text instructions and understand what the drawings are designed to do, but he doesn't really understand what they can do. Because there are so many strange graphic symbols on it, Claude doesn't know them, he can only assume that these are magical symbols.

Another is that the most commonly used term in magic notes is alchemy, which is an important reason Claude doesn't understand. Claude really didn't know what alchemy was if it wasn't for that improved drawing of the gun. At the end of the day, you can only rely on the text on the gun drawings, and the half guesses and half speculations make sense.

Past life passers-by have seen videos of handmade firearms on computers, which are actually similar to firerope guns, which are the earliest firearms, except that they are fired differently, one by firerope and one by stone.

But the important thing is that the same thing between the two is the manufacture of barrels, without a good barrel, no better way to fire. And the production of barrels is the top priority of a firearm, such as a drum, which wraps an iron bar around an iron rod and calcines it, then exits the iron rod and leaves a rough iron tube for processing into a barrel. There is also a connecting type, which is to connect three short tubes to a longer barrel. There are also extreme ones, drilling directly on the iron rod into a barrel, of course this takes a long time...

In fact, when the gun first appeared, the processing of the barrel was the biggest problem. The handmade barrels in computer videos are called the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, and they're all magical. The most common is to imitate ancient processes to make barrels with a view to achieving the best possible shooting results. There are also some internet friends who are uniquely tailored to explore the possibility of making a good barrel in a more convenient and fast way with modern thinking in the context of ancient craftsmanship...

But gun control in this world is not that troublesome at all. It seems that the magician used alchemy, arranged it in a magic array with a spell, put all kinds of materials in the array, calcined it with a magic fire, and then used magic for precise control to fuse the metallic materials in the spell array into a long barrel...

If it hadn't been for that firearm improvement drawing, Claude wouldn't have guessed how simple metal exercise would have been. Because the large sections on this drawing are all about backsliding, studying how small blacksmiths in villages can forge a suitable long barrel without using alchemy and magic, and can scale up production for mass production. And it was these instructions that made Claude understand that the technology of this faslan magic world is alchemy.

It's easy to make a barrel out of alchemy, and maybe 10 hundred barrels can get a magician to do it with alchemy through love and spending money. But making thousands or even hundreds of thousands of barrels is simply impossible. No magician would take such a job. Needless to say, all sorts of magic material spent on the Ruwen Magic Array is an astronomical number, and a magician who knows alchemy is required to accurately control and synthesize each barrel...

But without alchemy, without a magician to build a barrel, that would be a costly system project. Behind the firearm improvement drawings, the metallic ratio of the barrel made by the magician using alchemy is listed. Obviously, the metallic formula calcined with magic fire in the Ruwen magic array is not suitable for use in the fireplace of the small blacksmith shop in the village. Therefore, the Landers magician lists seven more metallic formulas and specifies that tests are required to select the best barrel metallic ratio material.

The next page is a drawing of a wrought iron blast furnace specially designed by Master Landers to exercise these metal formulas, also a high chimney, a large stomach furnace, next to which is a description that this wrought iron blast furnace needs to be made of a magical material that can withstand extremely high temperatures, limestone, which needs to be mined from lava volcano...

Having an iron blast furnace is just the first step, then you need to pour the molten barrel metal material into the mold casting strip shape before forging. What magicians can easily do with alchemy arrays is broken down here into very complex projects. On the next few pages of the iron blast furnace drawings, the Landers magician designed five more machining machines to replace the magician's precise control in the alchemy charm array.

Hammers, cutting machines, drilling machines and barrel inner polishers that use hydraulic and wind power to repeatedly forge metallic materials, as well as barrel machines that are controlled by hand pedals. In order to standardize the barrels manufactured, Master Landers designed cutting knives, drill bits for drilling, and five specialized metering tools, which are indeed a complex system project with a huge investment.

Manufacturing barrels is a small scale that does dominate alchemy in quantity, but when the quantity reaches 10 or more thousand, this scale of production reveals its power, does not require a magician, does not require an alchemist array, does not require spending magical material resources, even if ordinary people can produce countless standard barrels with technical training and cooperation.

Remember that diary hidden in the magic recipe that Master Landers mentioned, Riggs. Baron O'Hill asked him five years ago to improve the way guns are made, and the requirement was that ordinary blacksmiths could also produce a qualified gun without the help of a magician's alchemy. Apparently, the dozen pages in this magic notebook about firearm improvements are actually for that Riggs. Baron O'Hill designed it.

And that's exactly what Master Landers designed to do with the gun, Riggs. Baron O. Hill was able to organize the Brotherhood to wage a wave of resistance against magicians on the continent of Farea. Because they possess a weapon that poses a deadly threat to the sorcerer - a fireline gun, and even better still, the manufacture of this weapon does not require the sorcerer's alchemy, so that the sorcerers cannot control the spread of this weapon on the Farea continent, the Baron was able to build an 8,000-man firearm unit.

It's a huge investment, but it's for Riggs. Baron O. Hill, the largest magical stone dealer on the Farea continent, is worth the money, and he can organize the training of personnel and the opening of gun workshops on the grounds of mining, without fear of attracting the attention and vigilance of magicians. In that regard, his subsequent success was not fortunate, but inevitable.

Claude let go of this magic note in his hand and sighed a long time.

If he was a magician and had some knowledge of alchemy, the magic note might be priceless in his eyes. Because many of these magic designs are designed to reduce the output of magic and the consumption of magic materials, but to achieve the original magic effects. Unfortunately, Claude is not a magician, he can only count as an ordinary middle school student with a magical gift.

Thirty-eight pages of plaintext paper in a magic notebook, apart from the more than a dozen blueprints Claude can see, after all, the purpose of this gun improvement is to enable ordinary blacksmiths to produce qualified finished products. The other drawings are hard for Claude to understand. For example, the input of magic, the setting of the Ruwen Alchemy, the use of magic crystals and other magical materials, etc., is a book of heaven for Claude.

Just like a junior high school student with a college book on higher geometry, he knows the words, but doesn't understand what it means to be connected. Especially the conversion formula inside and the standard setting graphics of the Symbol Alchemy Array, as well as those Symbol Measurement Units, can't understand what this means without systematic magic training...

It would be nice to have a magic book that teaches elementary magic knowledge, and perhaps even become a low-level magician by self-study. Claude thought so, but he also knew it was ridiculous. The countries of the Farea continent regard magicians as evil people, forbid everything related to magicians, even the word magic has become taboo, how can there be magical knowledge books...

The only good news is that Claude's mastery and understanding of the Gukherz script was further advanced by burying this magic note this week, after all, the current Hebrew script also comes from Gukherz, which is a close relative. If there is now a book in Gukherz, Claude can basically read and understand what it means, even without looking at the dictionary.

“Second Brother, it's time to eat downstairs.” There was a call from sister Angelina at the door.

Claude woke up from the thought, thinking too much, forgetting the time, and not even hearing her sister's footsteps upstairs.

“Got it, I'll be right downstairs.” Claude stood up from the chair, stretched his body and made two breast-lifting moves, and her sister jumped downstairs on the stairs.

Just pack up the table and Claude goes downstairs.

Mr. Morsan sat at the table, and when he saw Claude, he went downstairs and said, "Claude, go outside and get the crate in the carriage behind the car. ”

There are no horses or carriages at home. It is not that there is no place, but that Mr. Morsan cannot afford to build stables and hire horses. Mr. Morsan had carefully calculated that he believed that the one-year cost of having two horses was actually more expensive than buying a pulley and that it would be inexpensive to hire a horse who could take care of both horses.

Mr. Morsan thinks he's basically in Bai Lu Town all year round, so he doesn't need to prepare a carriage for himself. In addition, the cost of buying a carriage is not a small amount. The depreciation of sun and wind is quick every day. He often has to paint cleaning and maintenance. Hiring people costs money and not hiring people to do it themselves is a hassle.

Not to mention, Mr. Morsan, who owns a wagon and is the chief administrative officer of White Deer Town, can use it privately. As to the fact that the carriage at the town hall was somewhat dilapidated, and that Mr. Morsan preferred to drive the carriage home himself, he considered it a very pro-people act to say hello to the townspeople on the way. Claude thinks he's cheap because if the wagon man takes him home, he has to tip the wagon man...

The carriage parked outside is the town hall. Later in the evening, the town hall carriers will come and pick up Mr. Morsan at the town hall tomorrow morning. This kind of thing has become commonplace. Claude opened the cabin door and saw the long wooden box. The crate is long and stands taller than Claude's, but it's just a flat crate, although some of the weight isn't too heavy.

He took the crate to the restaurant, and Claude asked, "What's in it? ”

Mr. Morsan said, "Take a look, it's a gift for you. ”

A present for me? Claude immediately opened the crate. The case is filled with a microphone rod with a long black flame rope gun on top of it.