Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 391: Father and Woman Magician

General Skerry left the firearms repair workshop with his guards soon after on other business.

Claude stayed with the Baroness of Sonia.

Master Byrd looked at Claude very openly, not because of his daughter and grandson. After all, it was a time of war, when it was normal for something unspeakable to happen between two young men and women, and he just sighed that his daughter did not have a good place to go. But he also knew that Sonia and Claude were unlikely to turn out to be widows, and that Sonia was eight years older than Claude.

Perhaps everything stays the way it is, and it is only if it is indescribable that it is the best result. The only thing that gave the old man a headache was that he didn't know what to call little Mark Claude. Though Mark Jr. is Claude's child, if Mark Jr. were to call Claude his father, he would know that Mark Jr. was a bastard, and even if Mark Jr. were to inherit Miloski's family name, his identity would remain with him for the rest of his life.

As a civilian, it doesn't matter if he's illegitimate, but if he's mixed up in the aristocratic circle, the illegitimate son's name should be avoided so as not to leave a handle on him. At the end of the day, Sonia took the idea to have little Mark call Claude the godfather, so that they wouldn't be suspicious...

Early the next morning, Claude felt very tired, but the poured Baroness of Sonia dragged her out of bed because Lady Sonia couldn't wait to show Claude her latest experiments.

Claude now finally understands why Sonia has destroyed more than 800 barrels in just six months, for the simple reason that Sonia has been doing barrel tests. The rear chamber loading model she had designed, because it was not long enough, decided to increase the loading of gunpowder from bullets in order to increase the range. However, excessive ammunition fired powder exploded in the barrel, causing considerable damage to the barrel.

Sonia tried a variety of powder formulations, but unfortunately, the most successful powder formulation could only reach a range of about 300 meters, and the barrel of a standard Obash Type 3 fireline gun could withstand 3,000 shots without significant damage, according to the normal loading pattern of the forearm. But in order to increase range, Sonia increased the amount of powder fired, so that a good barrel can only fire up to 400 times, and the barrel is damaged...

In the lab, Claude saw a familiar array of alchemy magic spells, and Sonia was chatting about how little Mark had not played with him, focused on the experiment, and started making a mess in anger, soaking all kinds of drugs and powder together, which had led her to misplay and discover the most sensitive pyrotechnic experience.

With this powder, the success rate of a needle impact bullet could be around 97 to 100 per cent, making it possible to fire a rear loaded bullet without worrying about the rate of dullness and avoiding the regret that ten shots fired from a rock would succeed in firing up to half. She also found a way to passivate the powder, simply by applying a layer of wax to the powder, so that the powder was not too sensitive to ignite by touching the friction.

Just as Sonia complained that she didn't have a better barrel and couldn't afford more ammunition to fire, Claude looked at her and laughed, asking only one question: "Are you a magician? ”

Sonia's face suddenly grew white, but she answered honestly, as did her father. But they're not evil magicians as documented in the book, they're experiments, and they're registered in the kingdom of Orvillas. Neither of their fathers nor their daughters will...

Perhaps this is Sonia's fear that Claude will alienate them when he finds out they are magicians, after all, whose reputation is not very good in the Farea continent. Claude just nodded, in his mind, and Master Byrd was a famous firearm master in the eastern part of the continent, and if he didn't know magic wouldn't use the Alchemy Character Array, it would be difficult to make all kinds of qualified firearm accessories in his own firearm laboratory at the current level of mechanical craftsmanship, and not to customize firearms.

So seeing the array of alchemy magic arrays in this lab, Claude knew that one of Master Byrd and Sonia must be a magician, but Sonia gave him a surprise. Both father and daughter were magicians.

“So you're all magicians?” Claude asked again.

Sonia stunned: “How do you know the magician? ”

Claude pointed to the array of alchemy spells: “My sister also had this alchemy spells array, she was a drug experimenter, and she said she was a magician. ”

“So...” Sonia relieved: “I'm also worried that you know that our fathers and daughters are magicians who will fear us and alienate us, and now I'm relieved. In fact, we didn't know if we were magicians. When my father was a child, he was valued as a disciple by an old magician because of his magical gift. In less than two years, the old magician died, and my father married his granddaughter, my mother, and they lived together.

My father was only a first-degree magician, and my mother had no magical talent. Life was hard. Father had to go out and work for people, and he didn't dare let anyone know he was a magician. After two years, his father went to the gun factory in the Principality of Eskirin to work as a petty worker, earned a fixed income, settled his life and his mother became pregnant. A year later, she gave birth to me, but soon after giving birth, she was severely ill because of excessive labor, and four years later she left our father and daughter behind.

Father was going to work, couldn't take care of me, had to lock me up at home alone, went out in the morning and came back at night. It wasn't until I was six that my father saved up a fortune and sent me to the Moon Temple to let the nuns take care of me. I lived in the Moon Temple for 10 years and didn't come home until I was 16.

By then, his father had become a well-known specialist in the design and manufacture of firearms, setting up his own firearms laboratory to customize private firearms. Then my father found out that I also had a magical gift, so he taught me everything he would do. We all used this alchemy magic charm array left by my grandfather to make matching parts for guns, and had very little communication with other magicians... "

This is true, in general, that magicians are taboo about firearms, and that magicians on Higros Island are weapons that call firearms demons. Even more like Master Byrd, who is clearly a magician, biased in the design and production of firearms, is a different kind of magician.

Claude shrugged, "I have to think about it. I have to take you to see my sister. In fact, the way you're loading the rear chamber, I think, is taking a bend. The length of the gun range is not due to the amount of powder loaded, nor is it good or bad in the barrel. I had commissioned my sister to try out a new type of gun, but because of the gunpowder, the research could not go on. In addition, my sister has also developed a new type of gunpowder, which is more than ten times more powerful than granular black gunpowder, unfortunately it cannot be mass-produced..."

“What did you say? Your sister has a new type of gunpowder, a dozen times more powerful than this black powder particle? I don't believe it. You have to show me. We're leaving right now!” Sonia jumped right over and screamed as she grabbed Claude's collar.

“You, let go first...” Claude couldn't help but cry. I didn't think that the lover I hadn't seen in 10 years was still an experimental maniac. When I heard of new types of gunpowder, I ignored anything.

But Claude also had difficulty getting rid of Sonia's entanglement, and in order to get a break in his waist, he had to promise to take Sonia to her sister Anna's lab after lunch to avoid having her lunch break squeezed again.

At lunch, Master Byrd heard about Claude's sister Anna's lab and expressed interest in visiting. So after lunch, Claude ordered the carriage to be prepared, and he took all three of Master Byrd's family to her sister Anna's lab.

From the gun repair workshop to my sister Anna's lab, it only takes about two hours. Unlike the firearms repair workshop in the deep mountains, sister Anna's lab was set up next to a remote hill an hour from Lan Lake Town, mainly deserted and deserted, and it didn't matter if there was any further movement. And Claude has paid to buy a lot of the surrounding land in the name of building a ranch, making it her sister Anna's private estate.

Unlike her sister Anna, who only wanted to do experiments, Mike really wanted to turn the land into a ranch. Even in the name of pulling, he came here with his officers and soldiers from the 131th and 1st battalions, spending a week surrounding the pasture border, erecting rows of one-and-a-half meters high wooden fences, surrounded by barbed wire, and also building pasture gates and rows of logs to be a nest for himself and Anna to love.

The ranch's name was Anna Ranch, and Claude's carriage and guard arrived at the log house on the ranch and saw Mike riding a horse with three or four men rushing over. As soon as Claude got out of the wagon, he stretched his face, watched Mike take his men with him to his restless horseback salute him, and Claude scolded angrily: "What are you doing here? ”

Yeah, that's when McJackie was supposed to be overseeing those prisoners working so hard at Wickham Castle, how did he get back to the ranch?

McJackie immediately reported: "General, I was ordered by General Albert to take the Thunderbolt 131st Battalion back to theatre headquarters to select new recruits to replenish the unit. I reported to General Scully this morning, and General Scully gave us three days off, so let's get some rest first, so I'll take them back to the ranch. ”

Claude understood that yesterday when General Skerry and himself went to the firearms repair workshop, he sent a letter to Wickham Castle three mornings ago asking the Thunder Division to send someone to accept the new recruits. I was on my way back and I just missed it. I didn't expect General Albert to send Mike's thunderbolt once he got the Eagle message.

Since McJackie didn't come back on his own, Claude didn't mind his own business. Anyway, McJackie came with his men and was torturing them to see what grass he was planting on the ranch next year and how many cattle and sheep he was planting. So they waved their hands and reached out and picked up Lady Sonia and Master Byrd from the carriage, and little Mark.

When Claude turned around again, he saw that Michael was dying, covering his mouth, and he didn't scream, but his eyes swung straight at Lady Sonia and little Mark. Apparently, he recognized Lady Sonia, who was on duty with Claude, and naturally knew the Baroness. As for Mark Jr., he discovered a little resemblance to Claude's face, which should be speculating in his mind...

“Mind your own mouth.” Claude warned her brother-in-law and took the Bird family to her sister Anna's lab.

Sister Anna is currently experimenting with a new topic given by Claude, how to improve the throwing distance of that slinger without increasing the load area and manpower. The maximum throwing distance for that thrower is now just over seventy metres, which is also dangerous for the soldiers used, who are within the range of the enemy's precise target fire.

Claude actually wanted to make projectiles, not to mention, having seen those war theatres in previous life, everyone was extremely impressed with the kid's precision projectiles, not too far away, but two or three hundred meters away, but can make the anti-Japanese team pay a heavy casualty. Now that Claude has a projectile, he wants to build a long-distance projectile so he can hang all the enemies of this era. Even if the enemy is hiding in a strong defensive facility, it will be bombed from the sky.

It's just that Claude wasn't a military fan in his past life, and he didn't know what the projectile structure was. The pattern he painted for his sister, Anna, was actually a mortar. A metal round tube with two front brackets and a square iron plate at the bottom. Nor did Claude see it from there, he remembered that the bottom of the cannon was a big shot needle, and when throwing the grenade, he put a firing cartridge on the grenade and then positioned the firing cartridge downwards and loaded it from the top of the projectile. The grenade, along with the firing cartridge, falls into the barrel, the needle at the bottom pierces the firing cartridge, ignites and throws the grenade above 200 meters away...

Claude thought the projectile was very simple, and now he has a projectile, just make a 70-80cm cannon based on the diameter of the projectile. The cartridge can actually be alternated or directly attached to the projectile. The problem is that the lasso ignition length of the projectile needs to be recalculated to ensure that it is thrown 200 metres away before it explodes, rather than midway through the air. The only difficulty is the ignition device, how to get a needle to ignite and throw the projectile out of the barrel.

It's just that her sister Anna did these weapons tests halfway out of the house, and for her, Claude thinks it's very simple to be there for her. Even McJackie sometimes thinks Claude's ideas are very unreliable, for example, with the current thrower, throwing the ejection problem could at least throw it a little further with his hands to avoid accidental injuries. But if you get a metal cannon, as Claude said, you can't throw it, and the cannon becomes an explosion cannon, which poses a great risk to the lives of the soldiers who operate it.

So so far, my sister Anna's experiments have been very slow, or clueless. This is also why Claude was ready to bring Sonia to her sister Anna's lab after she discovered that her father and daughter were both scribes, and that maybe the two of them together would speed up the experiment.

Whether it was because they were both magicians or because they saw the relationship between Lady Sonia and Claude from the looks of Mark Jr., in short, the two sisters Anna and Sonia were very happy and speculative. Her sister, Anna, took out the safety explosives she had tried, made from nitroglycerine, while Lady Sonia took out the dynamite she had invented.

Sister Anna was very happy to have tested the powder, and she dragged out a big box and pulled all sorts of strange parts and accessories out of it. Sonia asked her strangely what she was doing, and Anna replied that with her powder, Claude's previous test revolver would be complete...