In Claude's memory, the revolver is the simplest and easiest to make. Please forgive his military ignorance. The main reason why he thinks so is that when he watched an American western movie in his previous life, he saw an old western cowboy using an extremely simple furnace, blacksmithing tools, hand-turned grinding wheels and files to make a revenge weapon for the protagonist of the movie. A revolver left an impression in Claude's mind that a revolver could be made by hand.
What's more, Claude's requirements for the revolver are not high. They just need a range of 100 meters and an effective killing distance of about 50 meters. Anyway, based on the impression I got from those western movies, the distance between two cowboys during a duel was only ten to twenty meters. As for the chaotic fighting in the town, the protagonist in the movie is fighting against dozens of people, and the distance between them is only fifty or sixty meters.
In this era where matchlock guns are rampant, Claude believes that a five- or six-shot revolver is the real protective weapon. At least it is much more reliable than those 60-70 cm long matchlock blunderbuss. As an officer, Claude would rather charge into battle with an Obash III standard matchlock gun like the soldiers on the battlefield, rather than wave a beautifully decorated blunderbuss to let the soldiers move forward. It's really too unqualified.
Compared to using short muskets, Claude prefers to ride on a horse on the battlefield, using his white-gloved hands to pose, or directly pulling out his sword and directing the soldiers to launch a general attack. This can leave his subordinates with a The deep impression of being brave and invincible makes them convinced that by following them, they can always win.
So Claude, who didn't like short muskets, didn't carry any weapons in the army except a portable sword, which always made him feel like something was missing. After being promoted to a school-level officer, Claude would not be able to tie a short blunderbuss to the side of his thigh like those lieutenant-level officers as a protective weapon on the battlefield. This is also the reason why when he asked his sister Anna to trial production of grenades, he also trial-produced a revolver.
Another reason is that Claude has the clearest memory of the structure of the revolver. This is due to his boss in his previous life, who collected a model revolver that was exactly the same as the real gun except that the barrel was solid. pistol. Claude often took it apart and played with it when he had nothing to do in the office. After dismantling it a lot, he naturally knew the model of this revolver very well, so the drawing he drew for his sister Anna was of this revolver. The only difference was that it was a solid gun. The tube was replaced with a hollow one, and even the model bullets were drawn.
Just as Claude expected, in the alchemy magic talisman, sister Anna easily refined the structure, frame and accessories of the entire revolver. After several modifications, it can be assembled into a pistol with Claude. It's a revolver that's pretty much the same as De's memory. But the final problem was with the bullet. Claude didn't know how to make mercury fulminate, so the flash cap of the bullet couldn't be made. The misfire rate with flint was too high, and the hammer device had to be changed. After completing the six-round It is possible that none of the bullets will catch fire and be fired
Many things are just like watching other people making origami and making handicrafts. They feel very simple. 35xs could see clearly and remembered the steps in his mind, but when he started doing it, he realized that everything was so difficult, and the final product was just different.
The same was true when Claude asked his sister Anna to trial-produce grenades and revolvers. In the end, the grenades became grenades and the revolvers failed because of the mercury flash cap. On the contrary, great progress has been made in making safe explosives synthesized from nitroglycerin, but as a result, because nitroglycerin cannot be mass-produced, safe explosives can only be synthesized on a small scale in alchemical magic talisman arrays.
Now there is the explosive powder invented by Mrs. Sonia, which can perfectly replace mercury fulminate. My sister Anna suddenly thought of the several revolvers she had made before, so she took out the box containing these accessories, assembled the revolver, and began to assemble the bullets in the alchemy magic talisman array, using gunpowder to Used to make flash caps instead of mercury fulminate.
"Ha" Mrs. Sonia immediately covered her mouth, not daring to scream out in order to avoid affecting her sister Anna's movements.
"What's wrong?" Claude didn't understand why she was so surprised, and Master Bird was also very shocked and eager to stand aside and stare at his sister Anna's every move.
"Then, is that precision control, the legendary forbidden technique?" Mrs. Sonia asked in a low voice.
My sister Anna is transforming the mage's hands into various tools in the alchemy magic talisman, loading the explosive powder on the flash cap, and then placing the flash cap on the bottom of the bullet shell. Just when he was about to load the safety explosive into the bullet, he was stopped by Claude. It was too powerful. The bullet might explode in the revolver when the trigger was pulled, so he could just load it with granular black powder. Claude remembered that the cowboys' homemade bullets in the Western movies still used their own hand-pressed tapered lead bullets and were filled with black powder.
After Claude asked his sister Anna to fill the bullet shell with black powder particles, he remembered to reply to Mrs. Sonia: "Yes, this is indeed precision control. Have you never learned it? Doesn't it mean that the magician's hand and precision control are both The most basic spell of the Rune Mage?"
"We know magic hands, oh, the mage hands you mentioned, but we haven't learned precise control and can't transform the magic hands into various shapes and tools." Mrs. Sonia looked at her sister with envy. Anna quickly assembled the bullets in the alchemical magic talisman array: "When we do experiments or make various accessories in the alchemical magic talisman array, we always use one magic hand to fix the object, and then use another A magic hand holds the tool and slowly makes corrections. The tool often needs to be changed, and the speed is very slow. It is not as convenient and flexible as Anna."
Claude soon learned from Mrs. Sonia what the basic spells she and Master Bird were learning. Compared with the orthodox rune mage's basic spells left by Master Landers, Mrs. Sonia's Grandpa, the spells that the old magician knows are more like a magic apprentice who assists the rune mage in his experiments. The seven basic spells of the first level are exploration, magic hand, disintegration, isolation, cleansing, plastic fixation and temperature control.
These seven basic spells are all auxiliary spells for the alchemy magic array experiment. No wonder the old magician was in poverty before his death. Master Bird said that at that time, his teacher made a few magic items and secretly sold them to exchange for some money to go home to live, such as a kettle that automatically stored a can of water every day, and accessories that could clean clothes once a day. wait. At that time, he only thought these were very magical and was determined to learn magic from the old magician. However, he did not know that these magic items were time-limited and would lose their magical effect within three months.
This is also the reason why the old magician hides in Tibet and refuses to reveal his traces, and also sells the magic items he made very cheaply. With these basic rune spells he knows, he is not good at writing or martial arts, and he is not even qualified to be a thief. It wasn't until Master Bird later worked as a part-time worker in a gunsmithing workshop and became interested in making firearms that the seven basic rune spells he learned came into use and helped him gain a foothold in the private customization of firearms industry. Heel.
Claude was very curious. He asked Master Bird and Sonia how many levels of rune mages they were now, and received an unexpected answer. Master Bird was at the third level and Sonia was at the second level. The reason is very simple. The old magician only left these seven basic rune spells. When the father and daughter were promoted to the second-level rune mage, they were stuck at the juncture without subsequent basic spells and could not continue to practice meditation. Promoted to a third-level rune mage.
At that time, Master Bird had already become famous, and he also knew several magicians who were worshiped by nobles from the Principality of Eskiline, the Principality of Rimodra and the Principality of Sidings. But because he was a master of making firearms, he was vaguely rejected by these magicians. He was unable to integrate into that magic circle and could not obtain new spells. As a result, their father and daughter lingered in the second-level rune mage stage for decades. .
Then came the five-year war in the eastern region. After the war, the father and daughter arrived in the Kingdom of Overas. They were named honorary nobles and registered magicians respectively. Only then did they purchase a large number of so-called incompetent magic from the special department of the kingdom. After the harmful spells are engraved into basic spells, there is an opportunity to continue to advance. Now eight years later, Master Bird has been promoted to a third-level rune mage, while Sonia is busy experimenting with her breech loading mode and is still only a second-level rune mage.
This is also the envy that the father and daughter felt when they saw their sister Anna using precise control of spells in the alchemical magic spell to transform the mage's hands into tools of various shapes. If they could also be this legendary rune mage If they have necessary basic spells, how much convenience and speed will it bring to their alchemy magic array experiment
"It's okay. If you are promoted to a third-level rune mage, I can ask my sister Anna to teach you those basic rune spells. As for uncle, it doesn't matter. As long as you are promoted to a fourth-level rune mage, I have a spell here. You can wash away the basic spells that have been engraved and re-engrav them. Then let Anna sort it out and sort out the basic rune spells we have and give them to you. I believe it can help you more when you are experimenting with the alchemy magic talisman array. Complete the experiment smoothly and successfully." Claude said generously.
"Really?" Mrs. Sonia was so surprised that she hugged Claude's shoulders tightly and wanted to kiss him right there.
"Of course it's true." Claude nodded with a smile. He planned to recruit the father and daughter to work for him. It would take a long time to rely only on his sister for weapon testing, and he couldn't get away. Master Bird and his daughter are simply the best candidates sent to him by God. They are originally from the Eskiline Principality, they are not die-hard loyalists of the Ovelas Kingdom, and they will not only think about the interests of the kingdom. . Sonia has a close relationship with her, and her father, Master Bird, will help her for the sake of little Mark, so Claude did not hesitate to take out the basic rune spell as a gift to attract sincerity. .
While they were talking, sister Anna had finished installing the revolver bullets. There were three revolvers and fifty-four bullets, which allowed three rounds of test firing for each revolver. Claude led everyone to the back of the laboratory, which was relatively flat and could be used as a shooting range for shooting tests. The big man Germi and several guards followed Claude's instructions and set up three gun targets at a distance of twenty meters, thirty meters, forty meters and fifty meters to test the shooting of the revolver. power.
Claude failed to seize the opportunity to shoot the first round of test shots. McJack and the big man Germi took away two revolvers on the pretext of ensuring personal safety, and another one was in the hands of his sister Anna, who refused to let go. If you don't say that you are a meritorious official in manufacturing the revolver, you must be the first to conduct the shooting test.
In the first round of shooting tests, leaving aside the issue of accuracy, at a distance of twenty meters, the bullet penetrated the gun target. Its power was comparable to the most well-made matchlock blunderbuss. Master Bird and Sonia were very surprised. Crowe De expressed satisfaction.
At a distance of thirty meters, two shots penetrated the target, but one shot did not. At a distance of forty meters, all three bullets were stuck in the target. At a distance of fifty meters, the bullets left three small craters on the wooden target. This was a wooden gun target. Claude estimated that if it had been a human body, it would have been injured.
Of the last two bullets in the three revolvers, one misfired and failed to fire. The inspection revealed that the sister Anna was careless and did not fasten the priming powder on the flash cap, causing it to fall off and cause the ignition to fail. The remaining five bullets were tested for maximum range, and the result was about 110 meters. Of course, they were far away from the target.
Claude stopped the second round of shooting tests, carefully inspected the revolver for a long time, and then whispered to his sister Anna. Her sister Anna nodded and took three revolvers into the test room. After about ten minutes, he come out. Claude announced that shooting trials would continue.
The results of the second and third rounds of shooting surprised everyone, because the power of the revolver suddenly increased a lot. The target at a distance of forty meters was penetrated by one shot, while the target at a distance of fifty meters was penetrated by a bullet. It was stuck inside and I couldn't pick out the bullet even with all my strength. As for the farthest range, it has increased to about 150 meters.
"Are you sure this is not the effect of some spell?" Sonia was really surprised and asked Claude quietly.
Claude shook his head: "No, I just asked Anna to add three rifling lines to the barrels of the three revolvers."
"Rifling? What's the use of this?" Mrs. Sonia looked confused.
How should I explain this? Claude thought for a long time, and finally organized words to explain to Sonia and Master Bird: "I once read an ancient magician's notebook, which contains many magicians' insights. There is a wind The magician discovered that when flying in the sky, the air will produce a lot of resistance. The faster you fly, the greater the resistance."
Master Bird nodded. This is common sense in life. Let alone flying, people can feel the resistance in the air even when running on flat ground.
"The wind magician conducted research on this. He found that not only people flying in the air, but any object in the air will feel the resistance of the air. The faster the speed, the greater the resistance. He began to experiment with bows and arrows, trying to Find a way to offset air resistance. But in the end he failed, because air resistance is everywhere and cannot be offset by magic effects. However, during the research process, he unexpectedly discovered that spiral rotation can increase The speed and distance of flying objects can more easily break through the resistance of the air."
Claude drew an imaginary picture on the ground of shooting with a rifled barrel and an unrifled barrel. After the bullet is fired from the unrifled barrel, the bullet keeps moving forward in one direction, is affected by air resistance, and finally falls to the ground with all its strength. . The bullet fired from the rifled barrel rotates in the air like a top, breaking the air resistance like a drill and flying farther, which increases the kinetic energy and power of the bullet.
For Master Bird and Sonia, what they saw when they came to Claude's sister Anna's laboratory today was subversive. As a famous firearms maker, Master Bird clearly realized that the revolver made by Claude and his sister Anna was a completely new firearm structure and production concept. It completely abandoned the backward mode of matchlock ignition and firing. , and there is no need for cumbersome gunpowder loading, and it can be fired continuously. This is already a very mature short-armed firearm for body protection
Mrs. Sonia held Claude tightly. She still had many questions to ask Claude about the revolverl0ns3v3