"Emergency gathering!"
Gerald, who had turned into an ordinary bald and strong man again, was not wearing armor today, and he was not even carrying a weapon. But he naturally exudes the awe-inspiring aura of a strong man, making people dare not underestimate him.
At his level, armor and weapons are just incidental. The power of a strong man is the best proof of his identity, and it is enough to maintain his majesty.
For example, at this moment, with his loud shout, the barracks suddenly became noisy in the night. The soldiers of the Knights got up in a hurry, put on their armor, picked up their weapons, and hurried to the large square in the center of the camp. .
At Gerald's feet, a specially made incense stick was burning rapidly. It burned quickly and steadily. Looking at the scale marks on it, it was obviously a tool used for timing.
Although there are clocks and watches in this world, Captain Gerald of the Kamen Knights of the Void just likes to use this old-fashioned incense to measure time—when gathering in an emergency.
His standards are very simple. Those who come to the square with armor and weapons before the incense burns halfway are considered excellent. Those who arrive before three-quarters of the burning is considered good. Those who arrive before the burning is completed are considered passing. .
As for those who came after the incense was burned... Hehe, hehehehe...
After years of training, the warriors of the Knights have become quite elite. Even though it took some time to put on the armor, most of them arrived at the square before the incense burned three-quarters of the time. In the end, only two failed to pass.
Looking at the two guys who were belatedly arriving with sad faces, Gerald showed a ferocious smile on his face and asked lightly: "Clean the toilet or go into solitary confinement, you choose."
The two unlucky guys who were just a little bit short of passing the exam looked at me and I looked at you, and they sighed and chose the former.
Cleaning the toilet is indeed dirty, smelly and embarrassing, but it is better than confinement!
Traditional military camps are keen on using corporal punishment. But that's not the case with the Void Masked Knights. Although there are many ways to punish, none of them will break your muscles and bones - except for being escorted to court for committing crimes. There are two common punishment methods they usually use, cleaning the toilet or being placed in solitary confinement.
Needless to say, the former goes without saying. Although the Knights’ camp is well built and even the toilets are not particularly dirty, how can there be a toilet in the world that is not dirty or smelly? Not to mention how humiliating this job is. Once you are punished, your colleagues will make fun of you for a long time.
But the latter is even more terrifying. The confinement room is specially built, with no sound inside, and only a small light on the roof emits light. And because of the effect of the magic circle, no matter how hard you try, you can't touch the walls and roofs. You are like an ant standing in the vast world, alone and helpless. Even the bravest people can close a few doors inside. The queen will be heartbroken and will never want to go in again in this life.
The origins of the members of the Knights are complex, and many of them are senior adventurers. These blood-licking heroes don't take battles and injuries seriously, nor do they care about being beaten or starving, but even the most unruly ones were intimidated after being imprisoned once, and would rather clean toilets than Being imprisoned.
After announcing the punishment for the backward elements, Gerald glanced at the soldiers who were neatly lined up in fourteen rows.
The eight lines standing in front are heavily armored soldiers, wearing special "void full body armor". It is an armor made entirely using special means. The manufacturing method is a secret. Each of its main parts is made of large chunks of solid steel, which is completely different from ordinary armor.
Traditional armor in this world is divided into three categories: leather armor, inlaid armor, and chain armor.
Leather armor is armor sewn from thick leather treated with fireproof potion. It is light, durable, and has a certain degree of defense. The key is that it is relatively cheap, so it is a favorite among junior adventurers and is often used by soldiers in ordinary armies. This kind of armor.
Of course, there are also high-end items in leather armor. For example, leather armor made of some special Warcraft leather is a rare and top-quality leather armor. It is not only lightweight, but also extremely strong and has powerful magic defense. However, the price is also astonishing, and even advanced adventurers may not be able to own it.
Inlaid armor is an armor commonly used by experienced adventurers and elite troops. Its main body is still leather armor, but many metal pieces are inlaid on the leather armor, which greatly improves the protection.
This kind of armor is rich in content, with ever-changing styles and types, as well as varying prices and defensive capabilities. The best of them will be inlaid with a complete layer of metal sheets piece by piece on the leather armor. Although this greatly improves the defense, the weight will also increase a lot. Except for particularly strong heroes, few people can wear that kind of "heavy inlaid armor" to fight.
Chain armor is the rarest type of armor. It is based on a piece of soft armor woven with countless small iron rings. Some are used directly, some are covered with hard leather to avoid attracting attention, and some are covered in soft armor. Another armor piece is stacked on the outside of the armor to form a thick double layer of armor.
Those with only the inner layer of soft armor are called "chain mail", and those with metal armor on the outside are called "chain mail." In the past years, chainmail was the strongest among ordinary armors. Especially those that use heavy-duty large armor plates. Their defense is strong enough to withstand attacks from a variety of weapons. Apart from being bulky and expensive, they have no shortcomings.
But the Void full-body armor is completely different from them. It also has an inner layer of chain armor, but the inner and outer layers of armor do not interfere with each other. There is also a special soft leather jacket in the middle, forming a triple protection of the inner and outer, which greatly improves the defense. Because the outer armor uses integral molding technology, it is not only strong, but also surprisingly flexible when worn on the body, without hindering movement at all.
Someone once tried wearing a full set of void full-body armor, and they could run, jump, dance, and even do somersaults—somersaults and cartwheels, of course, but not tumbling.
The soft leather coat inside this kind of armor also has a mechanism. It has several hooks. When wearing it, you only need to hook the hooks with the outer armor. After wearing it, the weight of the armor will be evenly distributed to several parts of the body. parts, greatly reducing the burden on the body.
The heavily armored warriors of the Kamen Riders of the Void can even run long distances wearing such armor!
If enchantment is not considered, this kind of armor is undoubtedly the pinnacle of the so-called "refined armor". No other armor can compare with it.
The inventor of this new type of armor is Sui Xiong.
Before traveling back in time, Sui Xiong had studied and copied many European armors when he was doing game design. As a painter with a serious academic background, he would not imitate some inferior gunmen who came out of a crash course, just smearing and smearing is like tossing out an armor. Every armored character he draws has a historical prototype. It was because of that job that he had a deep knowledge of the famous knight's full-body armor in history, and could even draw a relatively simple structural diagram.
After the Mask of the Void amusement park stabilized, he saw that when the knights were training, the soldiers wearing heavy plate armor were slow to move, so he started to draw out the knight's full-body armor patterns in his memory one by one, compared them with the patterns, and used Magic shaped them directly.
However, these armors were not as useful as he imagined, and they were as bulky to wear. He studied for a long time but still couldn't figure out the reason, so he finally had to ask Morani for help.
As the saying goes, one has to specialize in the arts. Morani is indeed the forging god of the orcs. It only took him a few days to figure out what was wrong with the knight's full-body armor made by Sui Xiong, and then improved it to become The current full-body armor of the Void.
In fact, it is also to blame that Sui Xiong himself is not good at studying. His understanding of the knight's full-body armor is nothing more than the shape of the armor pieces and the rough decomposition structure. Of course, these information are correct, even Morani's improved armor is based on this. , but he didn't really understand the internal structure of the knight's full-body armor. He didn't know what kind of lining this kind of armor was underneath the shiny appearance.
This is natural. As a painter, he doesn't need to know those things, and he won't collect those data at all. He only needs to know the external structure of the armor.
In the end, the designed Void full-body armor was highly praised by Morani. The forging expert said that the emergence of this kind of armor can be said to be a highlight in the history of world armor and will definitely be recorded in the annals of history.
"From now on, high-grade refined armor will enter the era of full body armor!" Finally, he asserted.
Sui Xiong is not very interested in being recorded in history. As an immortal super jellyfish, he himself is history. But he was very happy that the armors he designed were successful, and he wanted to promote them.
But at this time, he encountered a big problem.
It was extremely difficult to forge the armor pieces for the full body armor. A senior blacksmith spent a month and in the end could only make a few pieces of inferior quality that did not meet the requirements. The only feasible way to create this kind of armor is for an intermediate or higher level mage to use the power of magic to directly shape the steel.
In this case, production efficiency will be very problematic.
Sui Xiong tried to remember, and remembered that he seemed to have seen a saying on the Internet that such armor was made by using a stamping machine to shape steel plates in one go. So he wanted to try making a stamping machine and a steel plate. The latter was not troublesome to make and was completed quickly, but the former... Even though he was very patient, he finally gave up after failing dozens of times with no clue. .
It is said that when Edison improved the electric light, he failed more than a thousand times in order to choose the right filament. Someone comforted him at the time, but he said, "I did not fail more than a thousand times, but I successfully proved that more than a thousand materials are not suitable." The truth of this story is another matter, but there is no doubt that Brother Xiong does not have such a big heart.
In the end, this kind of void full-body armor could only be made by a mage, and it became an unquestionably high-end product.