Hey, King!

2021-09-07

Chapter 241 Chapter 241 Guns Not Guns

The beginning of everything is difficult. Even harder than starting with one is starting on multiple projects at the same time, so Dagon's busy day-to-day status is completely self-inflicted. Fortunately, he has completely inherited the character of Jiangu clansman tenacious, and insisted on gritting his teeth, so the situation is getting better and better.

About half a year later, everything was on the right track, and Dagon finally successfully crossed the initial difficult threshold in the research in all directions that he started, and began to gain some benefits. Of those projects, the hardest was the new mana cycle model, which was largely held back by Dagon's slow progress on the "Solid Figure Math Class." It's not that he doesn't work hard, but that there is just too much "tutorial", and too much practice is needed, and it is useless to rush.

And the simplest is the formula in "Sanchuan Road". After all, it is a ready-made thing. You don't need to study and make mistakes yourself. You just need to memorize, master and disassemble it into parts that won't leak. , and then implement. Dagon made a lot of preparations for this. It took three months to buy or customize some accessories and raw materials from different channels, and then tried to assemble and deploy in the basement of the dormitory.

The formula of "Three Rivers" is not complicated - otherwise, the novice Dagon would not be able to achieve it - its ingeniousness lies in the use of alchemy spells to achieve the effect of array spell. Arranging the concentrated specific alchemical products (semifinished products) according to the characteristics of the array, allowing them to react in a pre-designed order, and then combining with the user's mana to control, can create a short-term strengthening of various spell reactions An array of effects or alchemical effects.

At Reid's insistence, this array now needs to strengthen the alchemy effect, and there is only one choice for alchemy, and that is gunpowder.

A pinch of gunpowder the size of a fingernail was placed in the center of the array, and two large eyes watched it the entire time. Dagon checked the recipe and the array one last time, then said, "Reid, are you nervous?"

"I'm so nervous..." Reid snorted, saying, "Even if it blows up the house, I It won't hurt, I'm so nervous! It's you, go and put on the armor and shield now!"

"As for it? It just burned up last time, and if you strengthen it... ..."

Dagon had to argue, but seeing Rhett's raised eyebrows and increasingly stern look, he decided to shut up. In the past six months, Reid's temper has risen. A small part of the reason is related to the failure of gunpowder, and most of the reasons are related to Dagon's mathematics learning speed. He complained more than once about the Jiangu's slow brain response and poor imagination. After each complaint, he would assign a lot of homework to Dagon. Seeing him angry now, Dagon has learned to keep his mouth shut so as not to cause further reactions.

Put on inner armor, put on armor, put on five-headed dragon cloak, put on a mask, put on a shield, Dagon is preparing for the spell test, it is obviously going to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Now his opponent was a fingernail-sized pinch of gunpowder, and an inexplicable alchemical array surrounding it. With trembling hands - no way, the armor gets in the way of spellcasting - he feeds the array with mana and activates.

With a burst of crackling small fire stars, the array started up, and the surroundings suddenly became much darker. The alchemical array seems to be absorbing the surrounding light, with a little incantation effect. This state quickly stabilized, and the surrounding of the array seemed to be shrouded in a layer of black gauze, which blurred vision and even affected the Jiangu's dark vision. Dagon uses dragon sense to observe - well, that's fine.

The array stabilizes, then it's time to see how it works. Dagon snapped his fingers and ignited the gunpowder with the only formal dive technique he was most proficient at, sparks. call! The burning of gunpowder was obviously much more intense than before, and a large group of flames shot up into the sky and quickly turned into a billowing cloud of black smoke. After that... it's gone after that.

Dagon lowered his shield and tentatively approached, Rhett rolling the eyes beside him. "Stop acting, you know the gunpowder is out. No, it's still not up to the standard, and it's still a little bit worse than what I want."

"A little bit worse?" Dagon took off his helmet and mask, and took off his shield. Come down and lean against the wall. He came to the iron table, holding his chin and pulling his beard, staring at the burning residue of gunpowder. Seeing this, Reid looked at the head and said, "What do you think? It's not easy for the recipe of "Three Rivers" to do this step. This is the most important recipe found by the Jiangu people, and it's hard to go further."

"Maybe it's not that difficult." Dagon twitched his lips and said, "This alchemy array is very interesting, but it's not perfect either. I've been pondering the cause of it, and already have some experience."

Dagon said: "In my opinion, the basic principle of this array is still the cyclic reinforcement of the five basic elements of nature, but the rune is used as a container, and a special alchemy medicine is used to simulate the five basic elements. Then mana pushes the loop to create a spell-enhancing environment."

Reid has also been working with Dagon on this array, and it's easy to see what's on the surface.

"This alchemy array - let's call it the basic enhancement array - is a general-purpose array. If you strengthen it for specific effects, it should be able to further enhance its power."

"Burning faster?" Rhett shook his head and said, "I want explosions, not burns."

"What if I use elemental blasts?"

Elemental Burst is the name given by Shiroai, and Dagon used it directly when he thought it was good. Elemental Burst is a technique that suddenly increases the explosive power of an element in the mana cycle. Shiroai is perfecting it and preparing to use it to publish a research report. Dagon felt that the elemental burst was just a by-product of studying the elemental cycle. It was the result of a misunderstanding when the model was incomplete. Even if it was worth paying attention to, it was not what he wanted the most. But if you pursue an instant burst, the element burst is most likely to help at present.

Rid rolled his eyes and nodded slightly: "Tell me about your thoughts."

Dagon has been learning the basics of alchemy spell while dismantling the basic reinforcement array Knowledge, his approach also starts from the most basic point of view. "I read your gunpowder formula. In alchemy spell, it's a process from wood to fire."

Stimulate wood through Metal Element in minerals, strengthen wood through Water Element, In this way, the wood grows and develops to the flame hair under the push and stimulation, in order to restrain the gold with fire, so that the main wood element can get rid of the predicament of being restrained by the Metal Element. This method of interpretation... Reid completely disagrees, he thinks it's talking nonsense. But this world's alchemy spell explained it like this, and countless alchemists practiced it like this. Reid couldn't think of a reason to overthrow it for the time being, so he had to keep listening with his nose.

The idea of Dagon is to enhance the evolution of wood to fire, that is, to achieve elemental burst at this stage. Generally, elemental blasting should be based on the user's mana level, leaving a minimum control margin, and using the ultimate mana to achieve through spiral collision. There are similar elements in the array, that is, the stability and maximum energy output of an array.

Dagon opens the Primordial Demon and changes the basic reinforcement array, adding the content of the elemental burst. Since both are based on the cycle of natural elements, only minor repairs are required, and no major efforts are required.

Through hands-on practice -- and only through practice -- Dagon has learned what it means to pull one hair and move the whole body. As expected, his modification encountered a malfunction, and the basic reinforcement array was completely inoperable. So he slowly looked for problems, constantly adjusted the design of the array, and on the premise of not changing the alchemy formula, each time the array could produce a little more effect.

Aside from eating and sleeping—even sleeping—Dagon is busy tinkering with the basic booster array. After a week of experimentation, as Dagon's understanding of the array and element bursts deepened, he finally got the array up and running.

The only problem is that the black gauze that enveloped the array turned into darkness, which looked a little out of place.

In any case, the results of the experiment will not be known until the experiment is completed. This time Dagon gets dressed again, puts gunpowder, activates array and sparks. boom! This time it wasn't burning, it was definitely an explosion! In just a blink of an eye, the black powder burned out, creating a clear impact airflow, which must be the effect Reid wanted.

Dagon looked towards Rhett, he first knew what Rhett looked like when he was sluggish.

After a while, Rhett took a deep breath, as if resurrected. As he danced and turned in circles, he repeated the song "Good day, today is a good day", even if it sang out of tune at all, he was just as happy.

When the excited red on his face faded a little, Dagon asked, "Does this work?"

"Yes, that's how it should be, but This is just 1st Step, 1st Step." Reid shook his head, then extended the hand forward, palm up, making a strong grasping action towards the palm. "Dagon, this gunpowder is just a toy-level thing, and the real good stuff is yet to come. The recipe will be more complicated, can you break it down and make it happen?"

"With the foundation of this time, I think it should be You can take less detours. Also, if you have another formula, I have to study what is said in the alchemy spell, at least to figure out its elemental composition. Ah...a lot of work!"

"You are working for the future of the Jiangu clan!" Reid encouraged him: "The 1st Step has usable black powder, you can start the basic manufacturing first, and you can slowly dismantle the higher-level formula. Solution, research, your lifespan is enough."

"I was just about to say that there are still some things that need to be dealt with at the 15th pothole group, and I may not be able to..."

"No, nothing is more important than what I have arranged for you, because I want you to find a way to build a weapon, which is to turn black powder into battle strength. You have to find a way to turn this array..." Rui De pointed to the basic reinforcement array on the iron table with one hand, and made a gesture of number eight with the other hand. "...combine with this thing."

Dagon learned that finger. With three fingers together, straighten your index finger and thumb so that they are perpendicular to each other. "What's this? Slingshot?"

"Gun, musket, weapon that can eliminate Knight, Warrior and Mage." Reid said: "No need to be too advanced, fixed, smoothbore, shotgun, pump It should be enough with an extra magazine."

Dagon was confused, what was this all about?

(end of this chapter)