Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 444 Technology is the primary productive force

Elm Castle's temporary "Lord's Tent", which is respected by all people, is actually no different from the tents where ordinary soldiers rest in the castle. They are made of elf iron wood and animal bones strengthened by magic to form a skeleton, and then covered Ridge Arrow hide for wind and warmth—

——Since the Frost Maple Ridge Army Art Troupe settled in Elm Castle, these large tents marked "Made by the Frost Maple Ridge Internal Affairs Department" have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, quickly appearing in this ancient dilapidated stone castle.

Although the quality is actually quite high and the cost is quite high, the Frost Maple Ridge tents in the castle still retain the consistent pragmatism style of Soulbreaker——

— In other words, ugly.

The only feature that can distinguish the lord's single-person tent from the collective tents of other ordinary soldiers is the Shuangfengling staff and high-level art troupe who come and go there from time to time during the day, and at night. It's nothing more than busy maids shuttling around.

Due to the light snow today, even the temperature in the tent was a little low.

Under Xia Houyan's order, several sub-orc maids commanded the recruits in the art troupe, and set up a red copper stove with eagle patterns as tall as a person in the center of the lord's big tent.

The blazing flame magic crystal used to replace coal in the furnace baked the big tent warm, dry and comfortable almost in an instant.

Sitting on the head of the big tent, Xia Houyan watched the members of the "Consolation Group" who came all the way from the Land of Broken Soul, unload the huge black iron boxes one after another from the carriage, and then moved them into the carriage. Large tents are placed neatly in the middle of the tent.

These black iron boxes were developed and manufactured by Xia Houyan at the request of the Manhattan Laboratory when he was in the territory.

Although the material of the casting box seems to be no different from ordinary black iron, it actually follows the secret formula smuggled from the Valley of Molten Fire at a high price. It is made of high carbon steel mixed with "Babylon dense grain steel" A high-strength alloy made of several magic metals is not only invulnerable, but also has anti-magic properties that repel elemental power;

Those who are responsible for sealing these boxes are the large steel lock, the seal of the magic circle, and the seal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This encryption mechanism that combines physics, magic, and politics——

——These large boxes named "Wiener Black Box" were originally designed to store dangerous goods such as the beacon of Purgatory, the report of the Military Statistics Bureau, and the information of people in the "Dark-Souls" project , its security and confidentiality are quite reliable.

This time, the "good things" that Master Nicholson brought to the front line in a serious manner were packed in these huge "Wiener black boxes" that looked like a small ice demon mammoth.

However, Xia Houyan still remained skeptical about the contents of these boxes.

After all, the last time he happily opened the box, what he opened was a fucking elf trash... This rather unpleasant memory fragment made him look at these mysterious big boxes with extra complicated eyes.

Only Master Nicholson was rubbing his hands excitedly while waiting for all the boxes to expire.

Beside the lord, the high-ranking members of the Shuangfengling Labor Army Art Troupe flocked to the lord's tent as soon as they heard that there was something lively to watch, like flies in a garbage truck. Probes and brains formed a large pile behind the lord.

——Actually, there were quite a few other idlers with insufficient job levels who wanted to watch the fun, but the lord ordered the guards to keep them out of the tent and not to approach:
Just kidding, if everyone can see it, what is it called a secret?
Master Nicholson was going to display six "Wiener Black Boxes" in total. After they were all moved into the tent, they actually stuffed this huge tent that would make Genghis Khan blush and feel inferior.

"My lord, before opening the box, please let the people from the Military Statistics Bureau check it first..." A military command section chief under Karim Lodge saw that Master Nicholson was about to open the box, and hurriedly raised his hand. "I'm afraid that there are dangerous items in it that are not safe for you..."

"No need to check!" Xia Houyan waved his hand, "Master Nicholson and the brothers of the Manhattan Laboratory, I can trust it!"

Lord Lord's words almost moved Master Nicholson to tears.

The old craftsman wiped his eyes, then took out a metal key with a complex structure from his waist, and first opened the metal lock on the first "Wiener Black Box";
Then, a magician from the "Northern Blizzard Mage Group" who followed the condolence group to Elm Castle stepped out, waving the mithril magic seal in his hand, and lifted the magic circle seal on the box;
In the end, the clerk of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who accompanied the team took out several confidential documents signed by Mayor Joel, and after showing them to the lord, he carefully stretched out his hand to remove the seal on the box.

Seeing that all the traps had been lifted, Master Nicholson stepped forward to the box, holding the lid of the "Wiener Black Box" in a serious manner with a majestic expression like a magician in the Spring Festival Gala, and then let out a loud roar , snapped it open.

The onlookers behind Xia Houyan grew fifteen centimeters in height because they were eager to look around on tiptoe.

Only the official Xiahou himself was relatively calm - he stood up from his seat calmly, walked slowly to the side of the box, leaned over and took a look into the box.

To his disappointment, what was contained in the box was a dingy, cold iron lump the size of a wild boar. Except for the logo of "Shuangfengling Second Machinery Industry Group" engraved on it, the whole thing looked very Shoddy, no technical content.

"What is this?" He turned to look at Master Nicholson.

"I'm honored to introduce to you the latest achievement of the Manhattan Laboratory of the Science and Technology Department of Frost Maple Ridge—" Master Nicholson proudly puffed up his chest, "—Frost Maple Ridge'General Type I' magic engine!"

The onlookers were full of question marks, only Xia Houyan, who had traveled from the earth, pricked up his ears because of a certain sensitive word.

"Engine?" He stared at Master Nicholson, "What engine?"

"Do you still remember the 'Faraday cage' created by John Samonen last time, using the little devil imprisoned inside as the energy source?" Master Nicholson said with a smile, "Because the 'Faraday cage' 'It can only be used to power magicians, and you specifically asked us to find a way to find other uses for it..."

"You don't mean..." Xia Houyan's pupils dilated instantly.

During these days on the front line of the Burning Crystal Canyon, he was busy with military affairs every day, and he had almost completely forgotten about John Samonen and his Minke invention "Faraday cage"——

——This kind of device that uses little demons from other worlds to continuously produce magic power received the main evaluation: useful, but not completely useful.

Unlimited supply of magic power sounds like a great function, but as a special form of energy, elemental power is difficult to convert into other common energies such as kinetic energy and potential energy—to let the elemental power in the air Converting into other energy forms and affecting the real world, this kind of delicate work often requires the so-called "elemental power users" such as magicians, shamans, and priests to realize it with the physical body.

Therefore, the "Faraday cage" that can produce pure magic power, except for occasionally charging the extremely expensive magic props that exist in the territory, really has no application prospects, and has long been forgotten by the lord who values ​​work.

But now, Master Nicholson brought up the old story again, but Xia Houyan felt a faint sense of excitement in his heart.

The old weaponsmith's next speech did not disappoint the lord:
"Since you left the territory, Samonen has been constantly summoning little demons to practice summoning skills. We can't deal with the extra little demons in the territory, so we can only store them in 'Faraday cages' one by one... Later, when we were bored one day, we played the kind of 'ping-pong' you taught us in the laboratory..."

Xia Houyan shrugged his shoulders: In the past few years, he has indeed introduced a lot of earth sports to Shuangfengling for the entertainment and exercise of the citizens on weekdays—both culture and style have blossomed!

"When we were playing table tennis, a boy in the artisan group was anxious to lose, thinking that his serving speed was not fast enough, so he picked up a piece of Tarantino soft steel that you got from the elf in the laboratory warehouse. The 'Wind Protection' rune board is used as a racket!" Master Nicholson said bitterly, as if he was still brooding over the day's cheating, "That bastard first killed all directions, and then found that he had already put the ' The magic power stored in the "Protection of the Wind" rune board is exhausted..."

"Damn it!" The lord yelled, "You're a prodigal! Do you know how long it takes a magician to fill a piece of Tarantino mild steel 'Wind Charm Tablet' with magical power? time?!"

"At that time, we guessed that you would react like this..." Master Nicholson said helplessly, "The guy in the artisan team knew that he had caused a catastrophe, and he rushed to the doctor in a desperate situation. Build up a bunch of 'Faraday cages'...and guess what?"

"What's the matter?" Xia Houyan held his breath.

"Successful!" Even after a long time, Master Nicholson couldn't restrain the excitement in his words, "We succeeded in connecting three 'Faraday cages' in a specific structure in one minute for that piece of equipment. The Tarantino Mild Steel Rune Plate is filled with mana again! Your lord! This means that with the only surviving rubbing of the 'Wind Protection' rune, the Tarantino you received from the Elven Queen Tarantino mild steel mine, coupled with the newly developed technology of using the little devil 'Faraday cage' to quickly charge the rune plates... In the future, our territory will have infinite Tarantino mild steel 'Blessing of the Wind' rune tablet available!"

Before Master Nicholson finished speaking, Xia Houyan already had a feeling of fainting after overbreathing. Thanks to Knight Cousins's quick eyesight and quick hands, he hurriedly supported the lord, so that he didn't let him sit on the ground .

——No way, this "new technology" created by the Manhattan Laboratory by mistake is really awesome!

How to quickly, conveniently, and cheaply convert the elemental power contained in the spirit veins and the air into kinetic energy has always been an eternal problem that has plagued mainland magic researchers.The number of magicians who can sing incantations is too small and it takes a long time to train; the energy supply circle usually used to drive large siege equipment has a complex structure and requires magicians to recharge it regularly; Magic props that convert magic power into other energies are even more expensive and hard to come by.

Because of this, although people in the history of the mainland have repeatedly mentioned magic power as a conventional form of energy, and even want to use it to drive mills, factory machinery and ordinary vehicles, this idea has never been put into practice on a large scale:

Not impossible, but too expensive!

Today, on the mainland, only advanced war machines like the "Roar Seven", which rely on the state's maintenance, have limited use of wind arrays for auxiliary energy, and most of the vehicles are driven by livestock or human power. of--

Even the "Flesh and Blood Disaster" that the Glorious Federation is proud of burns only oriental specialty fuel, and has nothing to do with magic.

But Manhattan Lab's "new technology" is different!

First of all, the purgatory imps summoned by John Summeren can be described as abundant.As a stable and unlimited source of magic power, they are not like those precious magic crystals, which can only be obtained by hunting large monsters with their heads on their belts, and they also have an upper limit of magic storage;

Secondly, the raw materials used to cast the "Faraday cage" are very common. As for the "Tarantino mild steel" used to make the rune plates, although rare, Frost Maple Ridge controls a whole vein of mines!

Finally, the elven rune craftsmanship, which has been almost lost in the mist of history, is precisely the best way to realize the conversion of magic energy: the "Wind Protection" engraved on Tarantino's mild steel, once activated, There will be a strong gust of wind, and everything in front of it will be blown away quickly!
Originally, the only thing that restricted the performance of the "Wind Protection" rune board was the extremely poor magic-absorbing ability of "Tarantino Mild Steel". However, the "Faraday Cage" that can supply pure magic energy, compared with magicians, Its energy supply efficiency has reached another dimension;
What's more, the energy of the "Faraday cage" comes from the world of prostitutes and purgatory, with an unlimited supply!

Seeing that the boss has already grasped the awesomeness of this "new technology", Master Nicholson said triumphantly:

"My lord, after finding the energy supply mechanism of the trinity of the little devil - the Faraday cage - the 'Wind Protection' rune plate, the Manhattan Laboratory quickly started research and development, and finally produced the 'Universal Ⅰ' in front of you Type 'magic engine!"

The people of Shuangfengling in the tent looked at the ugly iron lump on the ground in unison.

Their original eyes were full of contempt, but now there is only a strong urge to call daddy.

"In this 'Universal Type I' magic engine, we placed a full five little devils to continuously transmit the power of purgatory magic from the purgatory world." Master Nicholson laughed, "In order to save space, we The imp's limbs are properly... 'trimmed', leaving only those parts necessary for them to sustain life and channel their fel energy."

Everyone shivered in unison.

"The purgatory magic energy emitted by these little demons will be absorbed by a special 'Faraday cage' and transformed into pure magic power suitable for Tarantino's mild steel absorption." Nicholson tapped the "General" with his fingers Type I "The casing of the magic engine gave off a crisp metal echo." Immediately afterwards, these magic powers were injected into six Tarantino mild steel 'Wind Protection' rune plates. Everyone knows that using this The rune plates made of this kind of elven magic metal have a very short cooling time, so only six rune plates can rotate continuously. Once the engine is turned on, these six rune plates will continue to convert magic power into air kinetic energy, and continue to flow outward output..."

Speaking of this, Master Nicholson stretched out his hand and pulled a mechanism behind the "Universal Type I" magic engine.

In an instant, a huge iron rod popped out from the front of the magic engine.

Then, the iron rod began to make endless reciprocating motions as if tirelessly, accompanied by the noise of tinkling and bang bang.

Huge shock engulfed the crowd of Shuangfengling who were onlookers—of course, judging from the weird eyes they looked at the iron rod, there must be more than one person who thought of some ulterior motives of the "General Type I" magic engine. Wonderful use.

(End of this chapter)