Sword of Daybreaker

Solderlin is not an expert in magical technology. He does not understand how the machines and mass production systems that Gao Wen came up with, but he is at least an experienced warrior and well-informed. The adventurer - he can see their great strengths and broad prospects from the armed forces of unprecedented and incredible magic, and can imagine the environment in which these weapons can be used, which is enough.

Of course, Soldering himself knows that his judgments based on past experience are still not enough. The new weapons are too big and the concept is too advanced. "Let every ordinary person release the magic of destroying the earth." The idea of ​​"power" is a crazy but real tendency in Cecil, so the high-ranking Ranger himself is not sure how much the armed forces will eventually develop, but one thing he can be sure of - he knows he wants What do you want?

"The steel ranger that the lord ordered me to train was a brand new unit, and he gave me the task of designing new weapons to verify the new tactics. You know, this is a very challenging task," said Solderin. I smiled and said - because Mr. Nicholas Egg in front of him always has a smile (funny), which makes everyone who talks with him can't help but laugh. "So I have some comparisons... ahead thinking. We You can find a quiet place to talk about those design options in detail."

"Of course, we can go to the machinery factory," Nicholas said, rising and floating up. "Well... there are too many people in the craftsman's hall. Let's go to my office."

The office of Nicholas Egg is located next to the craftsman's hall, which is both his office and the place where he usually lives. This is a room that few people come in to visit except Rebecca and Gao Wen. It is hard for outsiders to imagine how a ball of 1.3 meters in diameter can live and rest. Soldering is equally curious about this. After entering this cylindrical room, he saw a lot of things that looked rather weird.

He saw a lot of high and low metal cylinders arranged in the room, and some shiny metal mirrors were set on the walls. There were no beds, tables and chairs for humans in the room, but there was a nice place for Nicholas. The circular platform for the egg to rest and rest is in the middle of the room. Next to the circular platform, Solderlin also saw a three-tiered shelf filled with various metal crafts, but the appearance of those crafts. It looks real... strange, they are like structurally complex sails, some like nested rings, and some simply twisted and tangled metal clumps, Solderin believes, even if it is Even the best art connoisseurs can't see the meaning of these things here.

“Is this all you do?” He looked curiously at the big metal ball floating in the front. “These...ornaments?”

“It’s done with scraps in your spare time,” said Nicholas’s egg tart. “My memory is incomplete, but occasionally there are some embarrassing impressions. Gao Wen suggested that I save the impressions that emerged. It may help me think of something. Of course, this method hasn't played any role yet, but it's still very interesting to make these gadgets. I guess these things must be things that I touched frequently in the past, so I was in the ring. The polarizer has left such a deep impression - oh, the circular polarizer is my memory organ. Let's not say this, talk about your thoughts."

Solderlin’s attention was suddenly diverted from the “crafts” of the house. He coughed twice: “The first thing is about the protective gear used by the Cecil soldiers. As far as I know, Their magical armor has a layer of 'lined' that draws various runes, right?"

"Yes. The original version of the magic armor directly engraved the rune on the metal armor, but this is easy to cause the rune to fail when the armor is shocked, and it is not conducive to upgrade replacement, so we added it to the armor. Tactical lining, made of tough leather," Nicholas said as he arbitrarily removed an iron ingot from the nearby metal ingot pile, which floated between him and Solderin, as if The shape of the liquid changes rapidly in the air, and within a few breaths it becomes the appearance of the current style of the Cecil Warrior, and the various parts of the armor are scattered to show up in front of Solderin. Part - this is the position of the tactical lining."

“The tactical lining is very similar to the cotton armor or leather armor worn in the steel armor, but its main function is to carry the runes, so the coverage and protection are lower than the leather armor – this is also to reduce costs,” said Nicholas. The egg continues, "At present, the runes integrated on the tactical lining are mainly weight loss, which is used to reduce the burden of the armor on the soldiers; the weak element protection is used to enhance the soldiers' resistance to low-level magic; the breeze The shield can resist a certain degree of external attack and can be used to resist toxic environments. In addition, we have set up protective runes against high and low temperatures, although they are all weak, but enough to make soldiers at many limits. It has been alive in the environment for a long time."

Solderin looked at this set of armor that could almost make ordinary people into low-level extraordinary people. He couldn’t help but curiously ask: "Do these things rely on combat backpacks to provide energy?"

"Yes, there is a powerful power capacitor in the combat backpack. In addition to charging the weapon crystal, the surplus energy is supplied to the armor," Nicholas egg floated up and down. "The biggest armor." The energy-consuming unit is weight loss, but that's the most important part - without it, the soldier's physical exertion will multiply."

Solderlin thought carefully and said: "If we give up this layer of steel armor, or just keep the lightweight armor, and reduce the carrying capacity of combat crystals, can we reduce the combat backpack?"

"...in theory, it’s right," Nicholas thought, "but this protection will be greatly reduced..."

“It can be replaced by adding a stone-like rune on the lining—although its effect is weaker than the steel armor forged by Cecil's collar, it also provides protection for the soldiers against ordinary light swords, and stone skin. Rune as a basic rune group, its energy consumption is much less than the formal spells of weight loss," Soldering said his own thoughts. "In my opinion, the steel rangers are not a must. If the troops are confronted with the enemy, even if they have to attack, we will leave immediately after the strike - so it is better to save the weight of the armor and the combat backpack and use it elsewhere."

"I understand, I will consider the plan," Nikolas said as he began to "pinch" the model of the items needed by Solderin with another metal ingot. "What else?"

"There is also weapons. In addition to the magic guides with thermal ray guns and force field shields, I hope that the steel rangers can have some more powerful offensive weapons..." Solderlin said, his mind The middle side could not help but emerge the sinister encounter on the Tifeng border last winter, thinking of the mysterious mortal cult and the battle between himself and the other.

"In actual combat, I found one thing, that is, traditional spell skills are limited, personal talent, battlefield environment, the physical state of the operator, there are too many factors that can affect the effect of a spell, but The magical arm is different... As long as you have the strength to pull the trigger, it will definitely play a trusted force... and it’s hard to prevent,” Solderlin’s face showed a serious look. “This is a crystal grenade. Tell me..."

Nicholas egg licked and couldn't help but ask: "So what do you want to say?"

"What I want to say is... those things that would be fried as long as they pull a ring and press the button, they are all great!" Solderlin showed a bright smile on his face. "They will be loyal in any situation." To achieve your goal, I hope that every soldier of the Steel Ranger can use these loyal weapons... I will make it clear, Magic Crystal Railgun, how small can you do?"

The Nicholas egg licked for a few seconds before it reacted: "Hey?!"

"I have seen the original version of the 'Justice-i' magic crystal orbital gun, and I have seen the lightweight 'persuader-i' type of acceleration gun," Solderlin said. "The size of the 'convinces' is almost One-fifth of 'justice' is so big that it can be pulled in a carriage, but it is said that it can still collapse the wall. According to Miss Rebecca, the acceleration orbit can be further reduced if it is powered by energy storage crystal. The heavy overloading device and the energy-saving base can also be omitted. She once told me about a solution that will speed up the railgun's extreme relief. I think this solution is feasible..."

Nicholas’s egg was listening to Solderin’s egg, and he only made a statement for a long time: “...you just said that you want to reduce the weight of the armor. I thought you would let the steel cavalry take a light route... Now you said that you want them to carry a small magic crystal railgun?! Do you know that even if it loses weight, it is also a big guy?"

"I have to emphasize two points. First of all, the steel rangers do not bring all the weapons on their own every mission. I want to design them a 'arsenal' containing a variety of weapons. This arsenal is shared by the entire range of cavalry. Use, according to the mission requirements, each soldier will carry different equipment, miniaturized magic crystal railguns are only one of their spare weapons; secondly, light armor and heavy weapons are not contradictory, in the Silver Empire, Elf Forest Guard There is a heavy throwing spearman, the weapon used is a heavy one-time spear, they are light armored soldiers, in order to carry the spear and throwing movements, their upper body even only leather chest - but they are in the forest The most dangerous hunters. I hope that the steel rangers can achieve this effect."

"... well, anyway, you know how to do this. I look back at the people at the Magic Technology Institute and study it together," Nicholas Egg was convinced, while recording the requirements of Solderin. "So in addition to the light individual soldier." Railgun, what else do you need?"

"Tactical eyepieces with detective distortion effects - I know I have already made this, but I haven't installed it yet. I hope I can try it first."

"Row."

“A small cutting tool that is easy to carry and wield flexible. I have a design, it’s a short knife. But I hope that you can transform it into a melted sword. Should the melted sword be miniaturized?”

“It’s a bit difficult, but it can be challenged. It may be at the expense of reducing continuous use time.”

“It’s acceptable. I also want to increase the amount of grenade carried by the soldiers, preferably by adding additional grenade slots to their gears – but it does not affect mobility.”

"...I know...do you say that your elves have this fighting style?"

"This is not the case," Solderlin grinned disdainfully. "Where do they have this insight?"

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