Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 392: Revolver Trial Success

In Claude's memory, revolvers are the easiest and easiest to make. Forgive his military blindness, but the reason he thought that was mostly because in his previous life, when he watched Western America, he saw an old western cowboy make a revenge revolver for the film's protagonist with a very simple furnace, iron tool, hand grinding wheel, and a file knife, so much so that in Claude's mind, a revolver made the impression that it could be made by hand.

Moreover, Claude's requirements for revolvers are not high, as long as the range reaches 100 meters and the effective kill distance is around 50 meters. Anyway, based on the impression of those western films, two cowboys duel at a distance of between 10 and 20 meters. As for the chaos in the town, the main characters in the film were dozens of enemies, and the exchange of fire was within 50 or 60 metres.

In this era of flaming rope guns, Claude believed that a five- or six-continuous revolver was the real protective weapon, at least much shorter than those 60-70 centimetres long. As an officer, Claude would rather be on the battlefield with an Obash 3-type fireline gun in his hand than waving a beautifully decorated short to move the soldiers forward. That's too much of a rush.

Claude preferred riding on the battlefield to riding on horses, putting on a stand with his white gloves on, or pulling out his sword and directing his soldiers to launch a general offense, thus leaving his men with a heroic and overwhelming impression that they would follow and win.

So Claude, who didn't like the short ones, didn't carry any weapons in the army except a sword, which always made him feel like he was missing something. Upon promotion to the rank of school officer, Claude could not have tied a short leg to the side of his thigh as a protective weapon on the battlefield as those lieutenant officers did. That's why he had his sister Anna try out a grenade while trying out a revolver.

Another reason is that Claude has the clearest memory of the structure of a revolver, thanks also to his former boss, who collects a model revolver that looks exactly like a real gun, except that the barrel is solid. Claude used to tear it up and play with it when the office was okay, and he took it apart so much that he naturally knew the model of the revolver, so the picture he painted for his sister Anna was this revolver, the only difference was to replace the solid barrel with a hollow one, even the model bullets were drawn.

As Claude anticipated, in the Alchemy Charm Array, sister Anna easily refined the entire structure and accessories of the revolver and, after several modifications, fitted it into a revolver that was no less than Claude's memory. Only the final problem is the bullet, Claude doesn't know how to make thunder mercury, so much so that the bullet's fire hat can't be made, the rate of lighting the dust with stone is too high, and the hammer device needs to be changed, and after completing the round of six bullets, it's possible that none of them can fire and fire...

A lot of things are as simple as watching people make handicrafts from origami. The eyes were clear, and the steps were remembered in the mind, but when I did it, I realized that everything was so difficult, and the final thing was nothing like that.

Claude had his sister Anna try out a grenade and a revolver, which eventually became a projectile, and the revolver failed because of the mercury lightning cap. Considerable progress has been made in the production of nitroglycerin synthesis security explosives, but the result is that nitroglycerin cannot be produced in mass, so that security explosives can only be synthesized on a small scale in the alchemy spell array.

Now that Mrs Sonia invented the dynamite, it is a perfect alternative to thunder mercury. Sister Anna suddenly thought of several revolvers that had been made before, so she took out the boxes where the accessories were placed, mounted the revolvers, started assembling bullets in the alchemy spell array, and used gunpowder instead of thunder mercury to make a fire cap.

“Huh...” Lady Sonia suddenly covered her mouth and didn't dare shout to influence her sister Anna's movements.

“What's the matter?” Claude didn't understand why she was so surprised, and Master Byrd was so shocked and eager to stand by and watch her sister Anna move.

“So, is that precise control, the legendary prohibition?” Lady Sonia asked softly.

Sister Anna is transforming the Master's hand into a variety of tools in the Alchemy Magic Array to mount the powder on the cap and the cap on the bottom of the cartridge case. It's just that Claude stopped it when he was preparing to load the security explosive inside the bullet, which is too powerful. Maybe a pull of the trigger bullet will explode in the revolver, or just fill it with particulate black powder. Claude remembers whether cowboy homemade bullets in that western film were hand-pressed pointed conical lead warheads, loaded with black powder as well.

When Claude asked her sister Anna to fill the shell case with particulate black powder, she replied to Lady Sonia: "Yes, it is precise control. Haven't you learned? Didn't you say that the magician's hand and precise control were the most basic spells of the scribe? ”

“We know the hand of magic, oh, the hand of your magician, but we haven't learned precise control and can't transform the hand of magic into shapes and tools.” Lady Sonia watched her sister Anna quickly assemble a bullet in the alchemy charm array with envy: "When we experiment in the alchemy charm array or make various accessories, we fix the object with one magic hand, then use the other magic hand to hold the tool and fix it slowly. Tools are often replaced and slow, not as convenient and flexible as Anna's...”

Claude soon learned from Lady Sonia's mouth what basic spells she and Master Byrd had learned. Compared to the basic spells of an orthodox scribe left behind by Master Landers, Lady Sonia's grandfather, the spells that the old magician would have learned were more like magic apprentices for experimentation by an auxiliary scribe. The seven basic spells in one loop are probing, magic hands, decomposition, septum, cleaning, and plastic fixation and temperature control.

These seven basic spells are all ancillary spells for the Alchemy Character Array experiment. No wonder the old magician fell poor before he died. Master Byrd said that at that time his teacher had been doing some magical objects and had sold them for money to go home for days, such as an automatic tank of water every day, and accessories that could be cleaned once a day. At the time, he just thought it was incredible, determined to learn magic from old magicians, but didn't know that all the magical objects that were made were time-bound, basically losing their magical effects within three months.

This is also why the old magician Higashi refuses to reveal his trail and sells his own magical objects cheaply. With these basic symbolic grammars he can learn, literature is not enough, even thieves are not qualified. It was not until Master Byrd later went to the gun factory to work as a small worker and became interested in the manufacture of firearms that he gained the use of the seven basic spells of symbolism he had learned, helping him to stabilize his heels in the firearms private customization industry.

Claude was curious, but he asked Master Byrd and Sonia, who were now several rings of scribes, to get an unexpected response, Master Byrd being three rings and Sonia being two rings. The reason is simple, the old magician left such seven basic spells, so that the father and daughter were stuck at the point where there was no subsequent basic spells when they were promoted to two-ring grammar, unable to continue meditation to promote three-ring grammar.

By then, Master Byrd had become famous and had known several magicians of the Duchy of Eskirin, the Duchy of Rimodra and the Duchy of Siddins, who had been sacrificed by nobility. But because he was a master gunmaker, he was ostracized by these magicians, unable to integrate into the magic circle, and unable to obtain new spells, which led to their fathers and daughters wandering for decades in the second-round grammar stage.

Then, after five years of Eastern Regional War, the two fathers and daughters arrived in the kingdom of Auvellas and were declared honorary nobles and became registered magicians respectively. This led to the purchase of a large number of so-called harmless spells from that special department of the kingdom, and the opportunity to continue promotion after engraving them as basic spells. Now eight years later, Master Byrd has been promoted to a three-ring grammar, while Sonia is busy experimenting with her rear loading pattern and is just a two-ring grammar.

This is also how the father and daughter feel when they see their sister Anna using precise control spells to transform the magician's hand into a tool of all shapes. How convenient and quick would it be for them to experiment with the alchemy spells if they would also be the basic spells necessary for this legendary magician...

“It's okay, if you're promoted to a three-ring scribe, I can get my sister Anna to teach you those scripture basics. As for Uncle, it doesn't matter, as long as he gets promoted to a four-ring grammar master, I have a spell here that can wash away the basic spells that have been engraved and reprint them. Let Anna sort it out, give you the basic spells that we have, and I'm sure we can help you get this done more smoothly and successfully when you run the Alchemy Character Array.” Claude said in a big package.

“Really?” Mrs. Sonia surprised Claude with a very, very tight hug on her shoulder and was eager to give her a kiss on the spot.

“Of course it's true.” Claude nodded with a laugh and his heart intended to recruit the two fathers and daughters to work for him. It would take a long time for the weapons test to rely on his sister alone, and he would not be able to smoke himself. And Master Byrd and his two daughters were the best men God had sent to themselves. They were originally from the Principality of Eskirin, not from the dying loyalty of the kingdom of Auvellas, and would not think solely of the interests of the kingdom. Sonia had an intimate relationship with herself, and her father, Master Byrd, would help herself, for Mark's sake, so Claude did not hesitate to present the basic spell of the script as a gift of good faith.

While they were talking, sister Anna had completed the installation of revolver bullets, three revolvers and fifty-four bullets, allowing each revolver to be tested three times. Claude took everyone to the back of the lab, which was flat enough to run a shooting test as a range. The big Grimm, with several guard soldiers, placed three shooting targets within a distance of twenty, thirty, forty and fifty meters, respectively, as directed by Claude, to test the firing power of the revolver.

Claude didn't get the chance to shoot the first round of tests, Michael and Big Gemmy took two revolvers under the pretext of personal safety, and one in the hands of her sister Anna, who didn't let go, saying that she was a successful revolver and had to be the first to do the shooting.

Claude expressed satisfaction that the first round of the firing test, not to mention the right shot problem, 20 meters away, the bullet penetrated the target of the gun, which was already shorter than the best made fire rope, and that Master Byrd and Sonia were very surprised.

Thirty meters away, two shots through the target, one through. Forty meters away, all three bullets are trapped inside the target. Fifty meters away, the bullet left three small pits on the wooden target. This is a wooden target, Claude. If it's a human body, it's probably a bullet wound.

The last two bullets of the three revolvers, one of which did not fire out, resulted in her sister Anna being careless and not clamping the powder on the cap, causing it to fall off and not ignite. The remaining five bullets were tested for maximum range, and the result was about 110 meters, which of course deviated significantly from the target.

Claude stopped the second round of the shooting test, took a close look at the revolver for half a day, and then whispered to her sister Anna, who nodded and took three revolvers into the lab and came out more than a decade later. Claude announced the continuation of the firing test.

The results of the second and third rounds of shooting surprised everyone, as revolvers suddenly gained a lot of power, and targets 40 metres away were penetrated by a single shot, while targets 50 metres away were trapped deep inside, unable to pull out a warhead by force. As for the furthest range, it has increased to about 150 meters.

“Are you sure this isn't some kind of spell effect?” Sonia was really surprised and asked Claude quietly.

Claude shook his head: "No, I just let Anna add three more ribbons to the barrels of three revolvers. ”

“Ripped wire? What's the use of this...” Lady Sonia's face is mysterious.

How can I explain this… Claude thought for half a day, finally organizing the language to explain to Sonia and Master Byrd: “I once saw an ancient magician's note, which contained many magician's thoughts. A wind magician finds that when flying in the sky, the air creates great resistance, the faster it flies, the greater the resistance..."

Master Byrd nodded, which is the common sense of life, not to mention flying, where people can feel resistance in the air even when they run flat.

“... the wind magician studied it, and he found that not only people fly in the air, but any object in the air feels the resistance of the air, the faster the resistance. He began experimenting with bow and arrow crossbows in an attempt to find a way to counteract air resistance. But in the end, he failed, because air resistance was everywhere, and it was not a magic effect that offset it. In the course of his research, however, he unexpectedly discovered that spiral rotation increases the speed and distance of flying objects, making it easier to break the resistance of the air..."

Claude painted an imaginary picture of the barrel firing on the ground and the barrel firing without the barrel. After the barrel firing the bullet, the bullet kept moving in one direction, affected by air resistance, and eventually landed as hard as possible. Bullets fired by barrels with a bore line, like gyroscopes, fly in the air, breaking air resistance like drill bits, and flying farther, thus increasing the kinetic energy and power of the bullets.

For Master Byrd and Sonia, today they come to Claude's sister Anna's lab and everything they see is subversive. As a famous firearm maker, Master Byrd is well aware that the revolver made by Claude to his sister Anna is an entirely new firearm structure and production concept, completely abandoning that backward pattern of fireline firing, without the need for cumbersome gun gunpowder filling and repeated rounds, which is already a very mature protective short weapon gun...

And Lady Sonia grabbed Claude tightly, and she had a lot of questions to ask Claude about the revolver...