Struggle in the Steam Age

"How do you feel, Mr. August?" Just as Lawrence stepped out of the opened transparent crystal egg, a voice that claimed to be the designer came from the gaseous puppet next to it. "How did you feel in this virtual training? Especially compared to those normal regular training."

"It feels great, at least it's hard for me to grasp many things close to actual combat in regular training." Lawrence said while moving his limbs that became a little stiff due to lying there for a long time, "By the way, this How long did the virtual training take me, it couldn't really be three months?"

"Of course not. The principle of this thing is similar to our dreams. Sometimes you spend a long time in the dream and only a moment in the outside world. It seems that you are practicing in that virtual space now. It's been three full months, but in fact, only three days have passed in the outer space."

"That's good, there's not much delay." Lawrence said and began to change his clothes, and walked out of the virtual practice room after checking that there was nothing missing. These three days can be said to have made him a big step forward in mastering the combat skills related to the extraordinary, and it can be regarded as making up for a big deficiency of his own.

When he finished dealing with the follow-up affairs and walked out of the Magic Association, Lawrence found that there were more people on the street, and they were wearing costumes. At the same time, there was a smile on everyone's face. On the park square across the bridge, a small band played some cheerful tunes, and many citizens danced in the open space in front of the band.

"Excuse me, what holiday is it today?" Lawrence first bought a fried fish sandwich and a glass of orange juice with a lot of sugar at a snack stall on the street after walking across the bridge, and then asked the stall owner while eating and drinking asked. As an extraordinary person, it is true that the body can support it without eating or drinking for three days, but it is also true that the hunger is uncomfortable.

The reason why he asked this was because after searching in his mind just now, he couldn't figure out what festival it was today, so he guessed that today might be a special festival unique to the local area. After all, the Federation is so big, and there are customs everywhere. It was perfectly normal that there was something he didn't know.

"No, of course not." Because the set meal that Lawrence bought was the most expensive set offered by the stall, and no one else came over now, the vendor was also willing to have a chat with Lawrence. "I heard that your accent should be an outsider, and it looks like someone from the west side of the big mountain range."

"You guessed right, my hometown is indeed relatively close to there." As a peddler near the famous scenic spots in Huguang City, he will naturally come into contact with all kinds of people, so it is normal to hear Lawrence's hometown from his accent.

"Look, I guessed correctly." The peddler seemed a little excited after verifying his guess from Lawrence, but he also knew that he should answer the question right now. "Today is not a festival here, but it is almost a festival for us. Because the murlocs who attacked today have completely retreated, this year's murloc attack is over."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Lawrence suddenly realized that when he entered the Magicians Association, he judged from the strength of the murloc's attack that the murloc's attack had come to an end, but he didn't expect it to be completely over in just three days.

"To be honest, this kind of large-scale attack is much faster than the small-scale murloc attacks in previous years." As a local resident, the peddler obviously had some experience in murloc attacks. "I heard from the newspaper that during a large-scale attack, the murlocs are more likely to launch a frontal fish sea tactic. Once they are defeated, they will retreat directly. Instead of spending a lot of time fighting with the murloc team like a small-scale attack."

After continuing to chat with the vendor for a few words, new customers also came over. While the vendor was busy receiving the next customer, Lawrence quickly finished eating and drinking the food and drinks in his hands and then returned to Kogg's house. Knocked on the door and it opened. It's just that the one who opened the door was not the servant of Cog's family but Safir.

"You're back, come in quickly!" Lawrence Seifel was very happy to find the door, but at the same time he was a little puzzled. "Is there only so much time for professional training at the peak bronze level? Or is your training divided into stages, and you have just returned from the first stage of training?"

"Neither." Lawrence put his hat and coat on the hanger by the door and said, "I have adopted a special, high-end training method from the Magic Association. I can compress the two-month training into three days .”

"It's incredible to be able to compress two months into three days." After the two returned to the guest room, Lawrence talked about his three-day experience under Safir's curious eyes. After finishing his narration, Safiel was full of curiosity about this special training method, "I've never heard of such a thing before. Spellcasters can always come up with something beyond people's imagination."

"I've never heard of this thing before." Lawrence shrugged, "Because this is a magic instrument unique to the Huguang City Magic Association, and there is no second one. According to the staff of the Magic Association, It has been less than a year since this prop was created, and there are not even more than 50 people who have used it."

"So you think it's heroic for you to use that thing?" Hearing this, Safiel raised his face and looked at Lawrence, "From your description, I can tell that this instrument is like an experiment, a kind of madness It is a test product made by a magician. So I hope that it is better for you to minimize unnecessary adventures like this in the future."

"Okay, I think what you said is right. I will try my best to reduce risks in such unnecessary situations in the future." Looking at the seriousness in the blue eyes of Safir Lake, Lawrence also solemnly nodded nod.

"In the past two days, I have basically sorted out the work at the Bofors factory." After discussing Lawrence's itinerary for the past few days, Safiel talked about his work in the past three days. "With your mortar as the main product, the factory is on the right track at once: the factory has obtained the necessary liquidity by selling the patent of this artillery and has successfully expanded. I believe that if there are no accidents If so, the future development of this factory will be very good.”

"Ou Ren used to be good in terms of the factory machines, the workers in the factory, and his background. The only reason why it got worse and worse was that his factory was not big enough and there were no products that could be sold." Through In the recent investigation, Safiel also figured out why the dwarf failed when he started the factory.

"After all, the profit of making those general-purpose ammunition or mechanical parts is not very high, and the only quality advantage does not make much sense in this kind of mass-produced industrial products. The most important point is that the scale of his factory leads to higher costs. He couldn't compete with those big factories, and the meager profits in turn prevented him from expanding his factories."

"So we have broken this endless loop this time." After hearing what Safir said, Lawrence also figured out the problem at the Bofors factory. "By the way, are the weapons that he was asked to develop and sold to the extraordinary after the war finished?"

"It has been successfully manufactured. By the way, Ou Ren asked me to bring you something. I almost forgot about it just now." Safiel patted his forehead lightly, then stood up and ran back own room. After a while, she came out with a large suitcase in one hand.

"This is simply—" When the box was opened, on one side of the box was a grenade launcher similar to the individual soldier Lawrence had seen in his previous life, and on the other side were more than 20 rounds of palm-sized integrated ammunition. I have to say that magic is indeed very powerful in this world, and it can do many things that science cannot do for the time being.