Pirate Kingship

The golden light slightly gathers, and the array of turrets and shrapnel shells placed in the [Mechanical Fortress] are recombined and optimized, blooming a sharp glow from inside out, enough to sting the eyes.

Two treasures jointly combine into the [First-Level Holy Relic·Mechanical Gun Tower]:

"More is beautiful, big is good, caliber is justice, turret is truth!

The steam-constructed gun tower composed of rear-loading rifled guns and shrapnel shells is destined to usher in the era of giant battleships for the maritime power nations.

This is its Mandate of Heaven.

Just like bolt-action rifles crushing flintlock guns and firing squad tactics, the future pattern of naval warfare will be completely transformed from now on."

Ability: Unity of Contradictions.

One, as a spear in offense, range of 12 nautical miles, error of 388 nautical miles.

The sole purpose of cannons is to measure national territory.

nautical miles, approximately 22 kilometers, is currently the territorial sea range of the North Sea Empire, while other countries only have 3 nautical miles because the largest caliber coastal defense cannons can only fire up to 3 nautical miles.

With the advent of this cannon, the North Sea Empire’s 12-nautical-mile sea border has finally become well-deserved.

When enemies invade, even though our territorial sea is only 12 nautical miles, I happen to have a 400-nautical-mile-long saber for you to appreciate.

As long as it’s within 400 nautical miles, the ’mysticism’ of 388 nautical miles error can be supplemented, achieving automatic calibration.

Even if the hit rate gradually declines with increasing distance, it has achieved a terrifying beyond-visual-range strike; only I hit others, and no one hits me.

Two, as a shield in defense, can precisely guard against opponent’s long-range attacks.

A shell with the fragments has a basic interception rate of 70%, three shells altogether make up a 97.3% combined rate.

With both offense and defense, it compensates for the battleship’s weakness in defense despite strong offense.

Note: It can extract corresponding mechanical programming through card insertion, inject it into the control system of ordinary turrets to gain half of the defensive capability. The more turrets, the stronger the ability augmentation.

[Mandate of Heaven]:

"More is beautiful, big is good, caliber is justice, turret is truth, and normally the turret array in your hand is the manifestation of justice and truth!

Even if the actions taken are not so righteous, nor truthful, one can forcibly make the other party accept them through ’physical persuasion’.

If even this is not accepted, one can use ’physical purification’ to ensure the world only has your justice and truth remaining.

Verifies the truth: The weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of weapons!

When the number of your gun barrels and turrets is less than the opponent’s, and your size and caliber are smaller, you will immediately lose your justice and truth.

The Sacred Relic effect immediately disappears!"

Byron and Violet are very satisfied with the new weapon.

The capabilities of the Sacred Relic [Mechanical Gun Tower] are already strong enough, and the small side effects don’t matter.

The ship-mounted rear-loading rifled guns and accompanying shrapnel shells will soon change the war situation, sweeping all those wooden sail battleships still navigating the seas into the garbage heap.

Unless other countries illuminate ironclad ships.

With the development of artillery technology, ironclad ships will soon be eliminated, and generations of ironclad steam battleships will begin to iterate.

Byron is not afraid of competition; past experiences taught him that military purposes are behind most technological explosions.

Computers, antibiotics, stainless steel, telegraphs, telephones, canned food... countless examples.

Thanks to the existence of the Tower Sequence driving ignorance out with knowledge, abilities like learning capability, creativity, cooperation, and hands-on capability overwhelm the Magicless World’s scientific staff.

Under his guidance, the technology of material world countries will also enter the fast lane, and with each enhancement of human prowess, the possibility of surviving the Great Flood increases.

Among the remaining critical technologies, the top priority is surpassing ordinary bright wheel steamships and inventing large steam turbines to drive propellers.

Alpha and the entire whale oil mechanic team are striving to tackle the challenge.

Only a single bright wheel ship will be constructed at most during the period as a footprint in the development history of steamships, occupying a [Sacred Relic] slot.

A ship model that even fails as a battleship is not worth much effort; evaluated by creativity and practicality, it seems the bright wheeler won’t become a strong Sacred Relic.

Clatter.. Clatter..

Under Alpha’s manipulation, after a round of salvo, the turret array powered by whale oil steam engine completes a second round of loading and enters excitation state again via mechanical transmission.

The unit of "base" varies by weapon, era, and country.

In Byron and Violet’s current artillery manual, a base is one hundred sixty rounds, enough for a turret array formed of forty cannons to burst fire four rounds.

After issuing the command, there is no need to manage; it will automatically fire in the shortest time.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!...

The cannon muzzle spit blaze, the Golden Deer raises a hot whirlwind, and one side of the sea surface is pushed down in concentric semi-circle depressions by shock waves; conical shells carrying crimson fire raced towards the giant iron armor crab.

Despite the distance being too short to display the Sacred Relic’s complete might, the firepower pouring under close-range attack is even more shocking.

The cannon shell’s warhead touches the body of the giant crab, triggering the firing pin, igniting the whale oil base fire, and the high explosives packed inside erupt violently.

In the first round of shelling, the island on the crab’s back has already had its blackened reef-like armor completely shaved off.