Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 45—Disappointment and Gifts

Claude was a bit frustrated. He spent a week translating the magic note and found that there was nothing he wanted in this magic note. For example, how to become a magician, how to improve the level of magic, what is magic, and so on.

Seriously speaking, this magic note is more of a magic design album. From the design point of view, it is probably intended to save magic and consume less magic material resources to achieve the original magic effect. Or it is fundamentally not to use magic to complete, and to let ordinary people achieve the magic effect through various technical means, just like the drawings on the improved design of the musket.

Just for the magic is what Claude is also a half-baked, more is speculation. Like the drawings on this magic note, Claude can translate the above text description and understand what is designed on this drawing, but I don't understand what effect it can achieve. Because there are a lot of strange graphical symbols on it, Claude doesn't know it. He can only guess that these graphic symbols are the runes in magic.

Another is that the most common noun on magic notes is alchemy, which is an important reason that Claude can't understand. If it weren't for the musket-improved drawings, Claude really didn't understand what alchemy was. In the end, I can only rely on the text on the musket drawing. I guess half of the speculation.

Past travelers have seen the video of hand-made flintlocks on the computer. This is actually the same as the arquebus. They are the earliest muskets, but the way they fire and fire is different. One is on the fire rope and the other is on the meteorite.

But what's important is that the same between the two is the manufacture of the barrel, there is no good barrel, and no matter how good the launch is. The manufacture of the barrel is the most important part of a musket. For example, the reel type is to squash an iron rod on an iron rod and then torrefaction. Finally, the iron rod is withdrawn, leaving a rough iron tube. It is processed into a barrel. There is also a connection type, which is to connect three short iron pipes into a relatively long barrel. There are also extremes, which are directly drilled into the barrel on the iron rod. Of course, this takes a long time...

In fact, when the musket first appeared, the processing of the barrel was the biggest problem. The way of hand-made barrels in computer video can be described as the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each with magical powers. The most common is to imitate the ancient craft to make the barrel, in the hope of achieving the best shooting results. There are also some netizens who are unique in their minds and can explore whether it is more convenient and quicker to make a good gun with modern ideas in the case of ancient craftsmanship...

But the gun production in this world is not so much trouble at all. It seems that the magician used alchemy, arranged a magical array with runes, put various materials into the array, used the magic fire to burn, and then used the magic to precisely control. To fuse the metal materials in the Rune Magic Array to form a long barrel...

If it weren't for the improved map of the musket, Claude couldn't think of metal exercise so easily. Because the large paragraphs on this drawing are all reversed, how to make the small blacksmith shop in the village forge a suitable long barrel without using alchemy and magic, and expand the production scale for mass production. . It is these instructions that made Claude understand that the technology of this Farsland magic world is alchemy.

It's easy to make a barrel with alchemy. Ten hundred barrels may be done by a magician using alchemy at the cost of money and money. But it’s impossible to make tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of barrels. No magician will pick up such a job. Besides, it’s just a variety of magic materials spent on the Rune Magic. It is an astronomical number, and it also requires the magician of the alchemy to accurately control each barrel.

You can use a magician to make a barrel without alchemy, which is equivalent to a huge system engineering. Behind the improved map of the musket, the metal ratio of the magician using the alchemy to make the barrel is listed. Obviously, the metal formula calcined with the magic fire in the Rune Magical Array is not suitable for the small blacksmith shop in the village. It is used in the sub-, so Master Landers has listed seven metal formulas, and specifically indicates that the test needs to be carried out in order to select the best barrel metal manufacturing ratio material.

The next page is an ironmaking blast furnace drawing specially designed by Master Landers to exercise these metal formulas. It is also a high chimney and a big belly. The next note is that this ironmaking blast furnace needs to be able to withstand extremely high temperatures. The magic material is made of gray fire rock, and this gray fire rock needs to be mined from a lava volcano...

It is only the first step to have an ironmaking blast furnace. Next, it is necessary to pour the melted barrel metal material into the shape of the mold casting strip and then forge. What the magician can easily do with the alchemy matrix is ​​broken down into complex projects here. On the back pages of the ironmaking blast furnace drawings, Master Landers also designed five processing machines to replace the magician's precise control in the alchemy.

A hammer machine, a cutting machine, a drilling machine and a barrel internal polishing machine that repeatedly forge metal materials by using water and wind, and a barrel machine controlled by a human foot pedal. In order to standardize the manufactured barrel, Master Rands designed the cutting head, the drill bit for drilling, and five special measuring tools. This is indeed a complicated system engineering, and the investment is extremely huge.

In terms of quantity, the small size is indeed the alchemy dominant, but the number reaches one thousand or more than 10,000. This large-scale production reveals its power, does not require a magician, does not require alchemy. There is no need to spend magic material resources, even ordinary people can produce countless standard qualified barrels through technical training.

I remember that Master Randos, who was hidden in the magic recipe, mentioned that Baron Regus O. Hill asked him to improve the manufacturing process of the musket five years ago. The requirement is that ordinary blacksmiths can also create one. A qualified musket does not require the magician's alchemy project. Obviously, the ten pages of this magic note on the improvement of the musket are actually designed for the Baron Regus O. Hill.

It was also with this musket-improved manufacturing process designed by Master Rands that Baron Regus O. Hill could organize a wave of fraternity against the magician in the Faurea continent. Because they have weapons that can pose a deadly threat to the magician - the arquebus, and, even better, the manufacture of such weapons does not require the magician's alchemy, so the magicians can't control the weapon in Farre. The flood on the Asian continent, so the baron can build a 8,000 gunfire.

Although the investment is huge, this kind of investment is worth the money for Baron Regus O. Hill, the largest magic stone merchant in the Faurea continent, and he can organize personnel training on the grounds of mining the quarry. , set up a gun-making workshop, and don't worry about causing the attention and vigilance of the magicians. In this respect, his later success is not fortunate, but inevitable.

Crowder put down this magic note in his hand and sighed long.

If he is a magician who knows some alchemy knowledge, then this magic note may be invaluable in his eyes. Because many of the magic designs can reduce the magic output and the consumption of magic materials, but can achieve the original magic effect. It is a pity that Claude is not a magician. He can only count as an ordinary middle school student with magical talent.

A magic note 38 pages of rune paper, in addition to the dozens of design drawings on the musket improvement Claude can understand, after all, the purpose of this musket is to enable ordinary blacksmiths to produce qualified finished products. Other drawings are hard to understand for Claude. For example, the input of magic, the setting of the rune alchemy array, the use of magic crystal and other magic materials, etc., is a book for Claude.

Just like a junior high school student holding a high-level geometric book from a university, the words are all known, but they don’t understand what it means. In particular, the conversion formula and the standard setting graph of the rune alchemy array, as well as the rune measurement units, can't be understood without the systematic magic knowledge training. What does this mean?

If you can have a magic book that teaches the knowledge of elementary magic, you may become a low-level magician by self-study. Claude thought so, but he also knew that the idea was ridiculous. The countries of the Faurea continent regard the magician as an evil person, prohibiting everything related to the magician. Even the word magic is a taboo, how can there be a magic knowledge book...

The only good news is that this week of burying the translation of this magic note, let Claude take the grasp and understanding of the ancient Hertz language, after all, the current Hebrew language is also derived from the ancient Hertz language, both Close relatives. If there is now a book written in the ancient Hertz language, then even if you don't look at the dictionary, Claude can basically understand it and understand what it means.

"Second brother, it is time to go downstairs to eat." The door of the door came the voice of sister Angelina.

Claude woke up from his meditation, thought too much and forgot the time, and even the footsteps of his sister went upstairs.

"I know, I will go downstairs immediately." Claude stood up from the chair, stretched his body and made two swinging arms to expand the chest, and the stairs uploaded the sound of his sister's bounce.

Just picking up the table, Crowder went downstairs.

Mr. Morssan sat at the table and saw Claude downstairs and said: "Claude, you go inside the carriage and take the wooden box behind the car."

There are no horses at home and no carriages. It’s not that there is no place, but Mr. Morsan is reluctant to spend money to build the stables and hire the groom. Mr. Morsan has calculated it carefully. He thinks that the cost of raising two horses is actually more expensive than buying a horse. It is also necessary to hire a groom who can take care of the two horses. Cost effective.

Mr. Morsan believes that he basically stays in Bailu Town all the 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, and the depreciation is very fast every day. I often have to paint and clean and maintain. I need to spend money to hire someone. If I don’t hire someone to do it myself, I am asking for trouble.

What's more, the town's owner is a carriage. As the executive director of Bailu Town, Mr. Morsan can be used privately by bus. As for the horse-drawn carriage of the town office, it is completely disregarded, and Mr. Morssan prefers to drive the carriage home. He thinks that this is a very close-knit behavior and can say hello to the townspeople on the road. Claude thinks he is stingy, because the coachman sent him home, he had to give the coachman a tip...

The carriage parked outside is the town hall. Later in the evening, the coachman of the town hall will come over and drive the carriage. It will be accustomed to come over to Mr. Morsang tomorrow morning to go to the town office. Claude opened the door of the carriage and saw the long wooden box. The wooden box is very long and stands taller than Claude's, but it's just a flat wooden box. It's not too heavy to pick up.

Holding the long wooden box to the restaurant, Claude asked: "What is inside?"

Mr. Morsan said: "Let's take a look and see, there is a gift for you."

Give me a gift? Claude immediately opened the long wooden box. Inside the box is a straw, and above the straw is a long black arque.