Claude was a little frustrated. He spent a week translating the magic notebook, only to find that there was nothing he wanted in the magic notebook. For example, how to become a magician, how to improve the level of magic, what is magic, etc. None of this.
Seriously speaking, this magic notebook is more of a magic design album. From the design point of view, it is probably to save magic power and consume less magic material resources to achieve the original magic effect. Or it can be done without using magic at all, and let ordinary people achieve magical effects through various technical means, just like that page of drawings about the improved design of muskets.
It's just that Claude didn't know much about what magic was, and it was more of a guess. Just like the drawings on this magic notebook, Claude can translate the text description above and understand what is designed on the drawings, but he doesn't quite understand what effect it can achieve. Because there were many strange graphic symbols on it, Claude didn't recognize it, so he could only guess that these graphic symbols were runes in magic.
Another thing is that the most common noun in the magic notes is alchemy, which is also an important reason why Claude cannot understand it. If it weren't for the blueprint for improving the musket, Claude really wouldn't understand what alchemy is. In the end, I could only rely on the text description on the musket drawing and half guessed and half speculated to understand something.
Travelers in previous lives have seen videos of hand-made flintlock guns on the computer. These are actually similar to matchlock guns. They are both the earliest muskets, but the way of ignition and firing is different. One relies on a match rope and the other uses flint.
But the important thing is that the same thing between the two is the manufacturing of the barrel. Without a good barrel, no matter how good the firing method is, it will not work. The production of the barrel is the top priority of a musket. For example, the roll type is to wind an iron bar around an iron bar and then forge it. Finally, the iron bar is withdrawn, leaving a rough iron pipe. It is then processed into a gun barrel. There is also the connected type, which connects three short iron pipes into a longer barrel. There are also extreme ones that directly drill holes into the iron rod to form the barrel. Of course, this is more time-consuming.
In fact, when muskets first appeared, the processing of barrels was the biggest problem. The methods of hand-making gun barrels in the computer videos can be said to be like eight immortals, each with their own magical powers. Most of them imitate ancient craftsmanship to make gun barrels in the hope of achieving the best shooting effect. There are also some friends who are creative and explore whether modern ideas can be used to make a good gun barrel more conveniently and quickly given the level of ancient craftsmanship.
But making gun barrels in this world is not that troublesome at all. It seems that magicians use alchemy, arrange magic arrays with runes, put various materials into the array, use magic fire to calcine, and then use magic power for precise control. , causing the metal materials in the rune magic circle to fuse to form a long barrel
If it weren't for the musket improvement blueprint, Claude would never have imagined that metal tempering would be so simple. Because a large section of the description on this drawing is about reverse reasoning, studying how to have the village's blacksmith shop forge a suitable long barrel without using alchemy and magic, and expand the production scale for mass production. It was these explanations that made Claude understand that the technology of this magical world of Faslan is alchemy.
It is easy to make a gun barrel with alchemy. Ten hundred gun barrels may be made by a magician through favors and money. But it is simply impossible to make thousands or even hundreds of thousands of gun barrels. No magician would take on such a job. Not to mention other things, just the various magic materials spent on the rune magic circle. It's an astronomical figure, and it requires a magician who knows alchemy to precisely control the synthesis of each barrel.
But there is no need for alchemy or magicians to make the barrel, which is tantamount to a hugely expensive system project. Behind the musket improvement drawings, there is a list of metal ratios for magicians to use alchemy to make gun barrels. It is obvious that the metal formula calcined with magic fire in the rune magic circle is not very suitable for the stove in the village blacksmith shop. Therefore, Master Landers listed seven more metal formulas, and specifically noted that experiments were needed to select the best barrel metal manufacturing ratio.
The next page is a drawing of an iron-making blast furnace specially designed by Master Landers in order to exercise these metal formulas. It also has a tall chimney and a big belly.