my armed maid

Chapter 131 128: Tank finalized

The next morning, Nolen took a carriage to visit the Alchemical Society.

Perhaps it was because Richard reminded the Society last night that as soon as he got off the carriage, President Fast came out from the gate of the Society to greet him.

Behind him were Wilson and other directors of the society.

"Oh, are you all here?" Nolen glanced at them, "Go up and have a chat?"

"of course."

Fast's attitude was extremely friendly, he bowed and raised his hand and said, "Please, we have prepared hot tea for you."

The so-called reaching out and not hitting the smiling man, seeing how cooperative he was, Nolen raised his eyebrows and followed Fast inside without saying anything.

Several people came to the conference room and took their seats. The attendants brought tea and snacks. Nolen got straight to the point:

"To make a long story short, now is a special period. I hope that the Alchemy Society can summon the alchemists in the city and do their best to create alchemical weapons for Linfeng City."

It’s perfect to entrust this task to them.

He originally planned to use reason and emotion to explain to everyone the current civil strife in the empire and the upcoming crisis that Linfeng City would face.

"We are really flattered that we are willing to entrust such important alchemical results to the society."

But now, Nolen is asking the Alchemy Society to allocate half of its free alchemists to the alchemy factory. This is tantamount to shaking the foundation of the society.

To this end, he was also willing to share his alchemical results with the society and gave the society a new function: preaching and teaching.

These people are also the most valuable human resources of the Alchemy Society. The Society sends various commissions to them and draws commissions from them. Even the City Lord's Palace cannot contact them directly without skipping the Society.

Obviously, Nolen's request was a bit excessive.

Norenti's request is equivalent to pocketing one-third of the alchemist power in Linfeng City in one breath. What is the concept of this ratio?

Many alchemists in the city have their own affiliations. For example, subordinates of forces such as Harrison maintain their own alchemy teams.

It seems that the title of "Legendary Alchemist" he brought back from Flamel is still of some use. The last time he asked the Society to cooperate, it was not as smooth as it is now.

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became tense.

Fast is willing to dedicate all the manpower and material resources of the Linfeng City branch of the Alchemy Society and completely surrender to him.

"Okay, it's really helpful that you all have such high awareness." Nolen nodded, feeling relieved in his heart.

If the city lord's palace can directly command the alchemists, then what is the use of the Alchemy Society?

Aren't you trying to steal people from me? Half of the people will be robbed in the first month. How many more people the City Lord’s Mansion plans to rob in the future is unthinkable!

"Not only that, I am also preparing to recruit more people for the alchemy factory——

Taking advantage of this harmonious atmosphere, he struck while the iron was hot and made further demands:

"Of course, I won't treat them badly." Nolen raised the corner of his mouth. He understood what Fast meant.

Fast got the reward he wanted, and his old face smiled as brightly as a chrysanthemum, "The Institute will faithfully follow the footsteps of adults and do its best to perform its duties!"

At this time, Linfeng City had just recovered from the trauma of the last war and was in a peaceful recuperation stage. On the surface, it was not considered a special period.

Excluding the already owned alchemists, the remaining ones are free self-employed alchemists.

"Since the president is so cooperative with the work of the City Lord's Mansion, I think our cooperation can be more intimate.

But I didn’t expect Fast to be extremely wise and immediately nodded and said:

"Since your Lordship has spoken, we will naturally obey your instructions and learn to fully cooperate with the instructions of the City Lord's Mansion to do our best for Linfeng City."

"Within a month, I want to see that the number of alchemists joining the alchemy factory must exceed one-third of the total number of registered alchemists in Linfeng City."

As soon as this statement came out, the other directors of the society also nodded and voted unanimously in favor.

The directors and staff of the society are all senior academics who study their own results and teach them to other alchemists——

They accounted for approximately two-thirds of the total number of alchemists in the city. During the war, when new magic cannons were mass-produced, it was this group of free alchemists who contributed the most.

But he looked at Fast with piercing eyes, wondering how far the old president could give in.

Yes, this was an unspoken deal between Fast and him.

In fact, when the news that Nolen had become a legendary alchemist came back to Linfeng City, he realized that he had to make a choice.

"As a gift of thanks, I am happy to teach this technology to the Alchemy Society. At the same time, it will also become a public benefit——

If someone is unwilling to do anything, he will not rule out using both kindness and force to force him to learn to do things for himself.

Many staff members of the Alchemy Society are also alchemists. Due to the restrictions of previously signed contracts, they cannot immediately resign from their old employers and join the Alchemy Factory.

It's a win-win.

"I believe that this is a temptation that all alchemists cannot refuse."

"You should know that the reason why I became a legendary alchemist is because I invented the new rune system, which is a special research result.

The implication is that he basically complied with Nolen's request.

"Now I have initially shared this result with Flamel, but due to personal energy limitations, this result has not been promoted in Linfeng City...

For Fast and others, they can easily obtain the alchemical results of the legendary alchemist;

For him, learning can help him spread the technology for free and quickly, and improve the overall alchemy level of Linfeng City.

“All alchemists who are willing to join us can learn the new rune system for free!

"I also hope that adults can provide adequate treatment in the factory, so that it will be more convenient for us to promote it."

Fast pondered for a moment and quickly made a decision, "The Society will fully cooperate with the Alchemy Factory's recruitment plan and strive to complete the target you have set within one month.

"……I see."

If Nolen wanted to take over the power of the Alchemy Society in Linfeng City in the future, would he plan to cooperate obediently, or would he argue with reason?

Without even thinking about it, I must choose the former.

The headquarters of the Alchemy Society is in Flamel, and even Flamel itself has reached cooperation with Nolen. What position does it have to resist if it is just a branch?

Even more, if Nolen was more thoughtful, he could have asked Bach to directly appoint him as the branch president of the Linfeng City branch of the Alchemy Society.

This request is not absurd. What if he is now a legendary alchemist and the branch president of the local society? Very reasonable!

If he really gets to that point, he won't even be able to keep his position, let alone gain much benefit.

Therefore, he had already made a decision, no matter how excessive Nolen's demands were on him later...

Even if you lick his shoes, as long as you give him enough, that's not impossible!

But now it seems that Nolen still has a strong sense of martial ethics.

Although the power of the society was used, it was not taken away from his position as branch president.

Not only that, he is also willing to generously share his technology with the society. This is the special alchemical result of the legendary alchemist! For an alchemist, knowledge is power, even if it is not given for free...

But compared with the new rune system, these costs seem unimportant.

As long as I can learn even a little bit about this alchemical achievement, even if I am no longer the branch president in the future, won't I still have a foothold wherever I go?

Open your horizons!

Once you understand this, it is not difficult to understand his obedient attitude today.

Thus, the second negotiation with the Alchemy Society ended in an extremely harmonious atmosphere.

Nolen left the guild surrounded by Fast and other directors. At the end, he specifically said to Wilson:

"I will sort out the learning materials for the new rune system and send them to you later. If you don't understand anything in the materials, just come to me at any time."

At the beginning, he actually wanted Luo Zhen to be the first to learn the new rune system and be responsible for teaching it to more alchemists.

But then I thought about how Luo Zhen was the royal alchemist who specially customized weapons for himself. He was usually very busy, and his weird temper made him unfit to be a teacher.

So I gave up.

On the other hand, Wilson was not only the noble person he met when he first became successful, but also the best senior alchemist in magic formation in Linfeng City. He also had a professional background, so he should be a good preacher.

So in the end he made the decision to leave the new rune system to Wilson to carry forward in Linfeng City.

"Leave it to me." Wilson said solemnly.

"I will organize a trustworthy alchemy team to study this alchemy result overnight."

Originally such a powerful alchemical achievement, the inventor would often only teach it to his close disciples or those closest to him.

But he and Nolen were not in a master-disciple relationship, and the alchemists in the factory were not his real disciples.

This means that confidentiality measures during the preaching process will not be perfect.

Nolen should also know this. If knowledge is taught on a large scale in Linfeng City, sooner or later this technology will be leaked out.

But he still decided to disclose his alchemical results.

This shows that he understands the righteousness well and puts improving the overall alchemy level of Linfeng City and even all mankind above his personal interests;

It also shows that he indeed has the magnanimity of a legendary alchemist, and his name should be praised by all alchemists who are learning the new rune system.

This is what he, as a preacher, vowed to do.

The world should remember this legend’s name!

……

In fact, Nolen didn't think much about it. After returning to the carriage, he crossed a line on his schedule to show that he had completed another task.

Then, he checked that it was still early and rushed towards the alchemy factory.

Flamel's alchemy team was in contact with relevant staff at the alchemy factory during this period. Seeing Nolen's arrival, the team leader immediately rushed over with relevant information.

"Master Nolen, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

The person in charge handed a stack of drawings to Nolen, "We have preliminary drawn up the design drawing of the 'tank', please take a look."

Nolen remembered that the person in charge was called Ivan, a senior applied senior alchemist at the headquarters of the Flamel Alchemy Society.

"Let me see."

Nolen took the drawing and glanced at it quickly.

Similar to the initially set tone, the new tank code-named 'Tank', completed in cooperation between Linfeng City and Flamel, will take the best of both companies.

Flamel will provide the empire's currently best alchemical metal with the best defensive properties as the tank's armor, and use Flamel motors to power the tank.

Linfeng City will use new magic circles and new alchemical weapons to arm the 'tanks'.

After comprehensively considering factors such as space and carrying capacity, the team finally decided to carry two "acceleration" arrays and a sixth-level defensive array "Round and Soft Shield" on the tank, as well as a smoothbore tank gun capable of firing live ammunition. .

Due to the rushed development time, the data of the first-generation smoothbore tank gun basically copied the Gungnir.

Its caliber is the same as that of Gungnir, and the array structure chamber is also connected in series by six accelerating arrays. In theory, it can shoot tail-stabilized discarding sabots with the same power.

And after being installed on a tank, its loading method has also been changed. Combatants can rely on reliable armor to safely manually load ammunition inside the tank after shelling.

However, because an automatic loader has not yet been developed, the firing rate of the first-generation smoothbore tank gun is not very fast. The specific data needs to be tested after it is manufactured.

At the same time, the aiming methods of tanks and individual weapons are also very different.

To this end, Flamel's alchemy team also redesigned a set of sights for the tank during this period, but the specific accuracy still needs to be verified.

Of course, these are small things, and we can wait until we make experimental models and slowly improve them.

What he needs to do now is to check whether there are any problems with the overall design language of the tank.

"Huh?" After looking at it for a while, Nolen suddenly stopped flipping through a certain page of drawings.

"What's wrong?" Ivan asked quickly, "Is there any problem?"

What was given to Nolen at this time was the final draft that his team finally adopted after overturning many versions of the design. He was still very confident in his work.

"Is it actually a wheel?" Nolen touched his chin.

"I remember I mentioned before that in order to ensure the tank's ability to pass through various complex terrains, it should be made into a track type rather than a wheel type."

In the blueprints Ivan gave him, the tank would travel on six wheels.

Although the wheel type has advantages, it can travel faster than the crawler type, but the crawler type also has unique advantages.

It can carry a heavier body, preventing the heavy tank from getting stuck in some soft areas and being unable to extricate itself, and can better adapt to various complex terrains.

In his eyes, tanks do not rely on mobility as an advantage. It is a better choice to give up a certain degree of mobility to ensure its versatility.

"Ah, about this..."

Ivan shook his head, "Headquarters gave us a fatal order to come up with the final draft within this week and build an experimental model as soon as possible to enter the testing phase.

"At this pace, it may be too late to develop a track structure suitable for tanks..."

(End of this chapter)