The Defeated Dragon

Inuit's words remind Lester that sails and longitudinals are all types of sails. A big boat can have two or three masts. Why can't you hang both sails and longitudinals?

Raise the horizontal sail in the wind, whistling and running; raise the longitudinal sail in the wind, snake-shaped manoeuvre.

This would basically mean that sailboats can move freely at sea at any time, greatly reducing sailing time. And Lester seemed to have some impression that, in the great age of the Earth's navigation, there were many sailboats, which were triangular longitudinal sails at the stern of the bow and transverse sails in the middle.

It was at Inuit's suggestion that Lester ordered the shipbuilders at the dock to work on the hybrid sailboat.

But Lester didn't care much about Inuit's suggestion to fix the sail with wood, because it was denied and deemed unrealistic by several old sailors at the time.

“Now it looks like I need to talk to this creative magician and get confirmation of the smoke mission and the power of destiny, who should be a talented person. ”

The power of destiny represented by the Smoke Mission is mysterious and so far Lester has not figured out the root cause.

But undeniably, there will always be something unusual about who can be selected for the Smoke Mission. In light white terms, these people are about the equivalent of "Sons of Destiny”, surrounded by “protagonist halo" … Of course, their halo is stronger than Lester's “plug in".

Emily is a gifted fighter, Lucy and Ruth are brilliant magicians, and Parris is involved with the Light Demon Swordsman... Archer is a rare sea demon in the world and became a demon mentor as a sea demon.

Inuit's gift is unclear.

Liszt needs serious attention.

Soon, Inuit Truth was led by a knight who was not a behaved magician, and the magic cloak seemed to have been modified by himself into a tight suit: "Your Highness, did you come to me? ”

“Inuit, you love sailing?” Lister tells the other person to sit down and then asks randomly.

“Yes, Your Highness, I grew up on the beach and have been looking for the azure sea since I was a child. ”

As for Inuit's information, it was presented to Lester and transferred directly from the Magic Guild - every magician joins the club with detailed identification information, culminating in the issuance of an ID card similar to that of the Black Horse Islander.

Inuit is a sapphire, but an outer island magician who comes to Black Horse with his teacher.

His teacher is just an ordinary magician and is currently following Lars Truth, the great magician, in his study of natural magic, namely, Druid fields and deformation. Instead of studying magical content that was too deep in theory, he was passionate about the cause of navigation.

Lister knocked on the table and asked, "What other inspiration do you have for sailing improvements? ”

Inuit answered with excitement: "Your Highness, I've been studying sailing for a long time, and I have a lot of designs to play with. I talked to the shipbuilders at the dock before, but they were too rigid to let go of the rigged shipbuilding technique and didn't understand my design at all! ”

“So you tell me now. ”

“Yes, Your Highness! ”

Once you open the phone box, Inuit can't stop and pull out his entire sailboat design. These designs range from sails, masts, ropes to hull structures. A lot of the content is really unusual and even Lester finds it a little difficult to understand.

And some designs, in Lester's view, are pure bullshit.

For example, Inuit feels that sailing is very busy and heavy, simply designing the mast to be foldable so that when the storm hits, the mast can be dropped directly to both sides and can act as a support rod for the hull, keeping the ship stable at sea and never sinking.

Strictly speaking, this idea is interesting, but the mast itself is the most important part of a sailboat and requires the selection of iron wood of the same high quality as a dragonbone to make the mast less fragile.

If a foldable mast encounters a storm, I'm afraid the first thing to break is the mast itself. Besides, the sail is very windy, and once the mast folds, it's definitely more tiring to put it up than lifting the sail. Not to mention how to keep the hull stable when the mast is raised and folded.

Anyway, unreasonable.

Most of Inuit's designs are similar and unreliable.

But Lester found an interesting element in his creative design - Inuit's idea of using giant spinning wheels to drive the boat forward.

This is the design of the ship!

On Earth, the age of sailing was replaced by steam ships, gradually becoming a sailing race project.

“Have you ever wondered how much force it takes for a giant wheel to drive a boat forward, and a wheel like this cannot be turned by manpower alone?” Listeriot had an interesting inquiry.

Inuit seems to have a long history of abdominal drafts: “Your Highness, although manpower cannot push such a large wheel rotation, magic power can push the wheel rotation with a magic array. ”

“Driven by magic arrays?” This is a good solution, but Lester is not satisfied, "the Magic Array does have a wide range of uses, and it's not impossible to push the wheels around. But the fabrication and consumption of magic arrays are huge costs and are not suitable for use on ships. ”

This idea of magic combined with technology, he thought about it a long time ago. At a time when the mesh is shrinking, however, it is difficult for the magic array to extract magic with the help of the mesh, all of which need to consume the magic of the mesh array material itself. Keeping such a magic array running, the consumption is enormous.

There is no such thing as a spirit stone in the world.

Even smaller stations need to change their magic runner materials frequently. Communication can be costly, not to mention driving huge wheels.

“This…” Inuterton embarrassed himself at times, as a magician he knew the value of magic material, and his ideas were indeed very creative and made him proud of it. But according to his design, maybe just one magic formation could buy several sailboats.

Coupled with materials to preserve the Magic Array, I'm afraid such ships lose one trip to trade.

That's what fools do.

Looking at Inuit, who was embarrassed and blushed, Lester did not show disappointment; instead, he valued Inuit. Not only because of the smoke mission, but also because of Inuit's ideas —— to develop technology, not because ideas are difficult to achieve, not because of ideas.

“Inuit, the power of magic is hard to apply to folk, but that doesn't mean there's no power to replace magic, there's a power that I call steam, and you can drill more in this direction... Besides, I can't judge the value of some of your ideas for sailboats, but I can get you involved in the design of new sailboats, will you? ”

Inuit immediately replied, "Thank you, Your Highness, I am certainly willing to participate in the design of the new sailboat! ”

Designing sailboats to sail the ocean himself, which Inuit could not ask for, but he also wondered: “Your Highness, what does the power of steam mean? ”

“When you go back and boil a pot of water, you'll understand the power of steam.” Lester was a mystery.

In fact, he didn't know much about steam engines, the big killers that started the industrial revolution, except that they burned with coal, oil and other raw materials, and then pushed the pistons to work and drive the machinery.

“Burn the water, I'll go back and burn the water! ”

Inuit hastily retreated.

Looking behind him, Lester shook his head, and the steam engine probably couldn't start an industrial revolution in the world. The reason is simple: no fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, have been heard so far. Without these fuels, burning wood alone would not provide much impetus.

The lack of metal can also severely constrain the manufacture of steam engines.

Of course, steam engines are not without development potential, for the same simple reason - Lester has a fire dragon!

When the Fire Dragon grows, the Fire Dragon Super Demon can be freed at will, and then there will be constant magic dragons as fuel.

Go and rob a few more iron mines on the Legendary Continent.

Steam ship, that's a real possibility!