Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 575 The Purpose of Metalworking Practice

It's the end of February, and there should be signs of spring.

But the cold wind still blew, and while the outcome between the Empire and Valois was not yet clear, the alliance to save the nation was slowly developing.

Since the command center in Bomya was not complete, the new Byrne Legion operated cautiously within the border and resisted several tentative attacks by the Imperial Army.

In other areas, there was chaos among those who supported the empire, those who supported the alliance, those who supported the war and those who opposed the war. In the vast territory of the former empire, there was a confrontation between the East and the West, and the border areas were like ulcers, with unrest occurring from time to time.

From January onwards, there was less and less news from the palace. William II became a recluse and was extremely cautious when summoning his ministers.

At this time, at the Space Center, the manufacturing of the starship has come to an end. This is an extremely fast speed. In a few months, almost all the talents in the world who can help the project have been gathered here, and they have created a miracle together with the most advanced industrial bodies in the continent.

When it was nearing completion, many engineers and workers did not rest as planned, and they received new tasks.

The specific content of the task has been broken down into numerous small projects. Each group is like a blind man touching an elephant, unable to distinguish and imagine the purpose of their current work.

A group of Byrne soldiers who had withdrawn from Bomya also joined in. They marched in and out of the space center in neat rows, intensifying the mysterious atmosphere.

Of course, even the soldiers were unclear about the meaning of their duties.

For example, Tanya, the leader of the Second Regiment of the Sky Knights, was asked to learn a new skill.

The air knights who were replaced from the front line were required to practice riveting, welding and other tasks, and were also taught some knowledge of mechanical mechanics. It was like a metalworking internship.

Today is the third day of training, and it is the welders' turn. The new instructor uses a stopwatch and asks them to use two pieces of iron, with a time limit of thirty seconds.

The welding gun is connected to the magic source. When it is turned on, the tip will emit tiny heat rays, and the high temperature will weld the welding rod and the components on both sides together.

"Nineteen. Eight. Seven."

Don't be impatient, be steady. The welding rod has become shorter, so the speed of lowering the welding rod needs to be increased. Tanya silently repeated the experience taught by her master in her mind.

With five seconds left on the countdown, Tanya finished welding. She did not take off her protective mask immediately, even though it was very hot and blocked the light.

"Stop and take off your masks. I'll check." The welder master who was temporarily on duty as an instructor finished the countdown and passed by the knights one by one to show the training results.

He used a small hammer to knock off the solder on the surface and then knocked off the welding marks.

After checking Tanya, the master nodded slowly, picked up Tanya's work, looked at it, and held it up: "This is a good weld! The little girl is very careful. Some of you eat so much food and grow so tall for nothing, but you can't work well."

"Report, Lady Tanya is our leader!"

After someone couldn't help but speak, cheerful laughter suddenly broke out in the training ground.

"Quiet!" Tanya suppressed her shyness and yelled fiercely, and immediately everyone in the place fell silent.

"Sorry, I didn't understand the situation." The master had been communicating with several captains in the group. He thought the captain would not participate in the training, but he didn't expect it to be the short girl following behind Team Three.

After a group of people were selected for the practical training, they were required to wear mobility equipment and complete what they had learned previously in the air five meters above the ground.

Suddenly, the originally simple task became difficult.

At first, it was an iron sheet suspended in the air by a rope. Later, the welding object gradually changed from iron sheets to curved iron pipes.

Finally, they were taken high into the sky by airships. A wizard cast a spell on the strange structures to reduce their weight. Several other airships pulled up several iron chains to form a polygon that resembled a ring.

According to the instructions, every two sky knights carried a component and mounted it on the iron chain.

The iron cables were stretched straight, more and more components were mounted on them, the wind was whistling in the sky, and all the pilots of airships and mobile devices were struggling to adjust their posture.

In an instant, the wind suddenly stopped, and the airship began to quickly make final adjustments. When the polygon was as close to the correct shape as possible, a call came from the airship flagship:
"Begin assembly. Three minutes."

The ring-shaped structure has two pipes, a metal plate facing the inside of the ring, and a support made of several steel bars.

They first riveted the supports, basically aligned the components, and then welded the pipes and metal surfaces.

The ring was about 20 meters in diameter and was suspended in the air by eight airships. Rays of light extended from the airships to the cables, and from then on they stopped shaking, as if they had temporarily gained structural rigidity.

The wind is back and the job is done.

The master and the welding instructor each made a round of inspection and found several unqualified and defective sections. The first drill ended here.

"Damn, I'm so nervous!" All the team members returned to the airship cabin, sweating profusely. Time, precision, all the requirements made them nervous to the limit.

Even so, three people's assignments still failed.

“正北3/4号段，西北1/2号段，东南4/5号段。负责以上工段衔接的三位出列。”教官面色阴沉地叫走了三人，显然他们在第一次演练中没有达到要求。

Tanya breathed a sigh of relief when she found out that she was not there, but she quickly realized that there was something wrong with one of her team members, so she followed.

The next drill involved a disassembly session, where each of them carried a cutting machine to destroy rivets and cut open steel pipes and metal surfaces.

When the Sky Knights cut into the metal surface, they were surprised to find that the surface facing the inside of the ring was engraved with exquisite magic circuits.

"Tsk. You only have two minutes." As if knowing that the cutter was hesitating, the radio gave another order.

For the next ten days, they had to perform three disassembly and assembly cycles every day, from morning training to evening training.

The appearance of the circular components kept changing until the seventh day when they stabilized and no longer underwent major adjustments.

The training was very intense, but fortunately there was a lot of spare time between assembly and disassembly. The portholes of the airship where they rested were all covered, so the air knights didn't know what to do in the gap between assembly and disassembly.

The more they were not allowed to watch, the more curious they became. Fortunately, the secrecy of the participants did not last too long. After a wizard signed a contract with each person, they were allowed to participate in the whole process and witness what the large iron ring they had put together was actually used for.

"Begin installation." "Installation completed, check for defects, adjust posture." "Check the circuit, start charging." "Charging completed."

The airship in the due east position was the flagship. Its broadcast gave the order: "The first full-process experiment begins."

Energy rushed out from the bellies of the eight airships, filling the entire circular portal along the pipelines on the iron cables. A "membrane" that divided space and connected thousands of miles away gradually closed.

Its energy is extremely high, and the moment it becomes complete, the surrounding space begins to distort.

Through the porthole, the Sky Knights witnessed the entire process.

In the second, a high-speed airborne aircraft appeared out of thin air from the center of the portal and soared into the sky, with the broken portal becoming part of its trail.

(End of this chapter)