Half an hour later, Lu Cheng finally shared a small part of the 'Medieval Cheat Code' with Elena and Nancy.
Because of work reasons, Lu Cheng took Nuoyi and left the tent first.
Nancy stayed alone and looked at the contents of her notebook.
What she wrote down in her notebook was the design of a gun called a matchlock gun, and the internal mechanical structure of the gun was written very clearly on the blackboard.
This is a long-range weapon. Nancy can basically think of it as a crossbow with its power amplified ten times.
Lu Cheng clearly mentioned in his description of the power of this weapon that "a lead bullet fired within a range of 200 meters can definitely penetrate a knight's armor. Of course, you may be able to make some magical modifications to make it more powerful."
This weapon is very cumbersome to load, but it is very 'cheap' compared to magic.
Cheap means that even an ordinary farmer, after learning how to use this weapon, can be comparable to a spellcaster who has been making fireballs for ten years!
Lu Cheng was right, this was definitely a cheat code... If this weapon could be mass-produced, Nancy could definitely change the current situation of the war.
"Perhaps the fire rope can be replaced with an inscribed block that grants spark properties."
Nancy was drawing a new design for the matchlock gun in her notebook. She followed Lu Cheng's advice and was thinking about how to make magic work on this weapon.
But at the same time, Nancy's thoughts were gradually diverging. If the barrel of the gun was enlarged, could it hold larger ammunition and produce greater power
When she was in the stage of inspiration, the gaze of someone next to her made Nancy look up suddenly.
"You are looking at... Her Majesty Elena?"
Nancy immediately closed the notebook in her hand, as annoyed as a top student who was taking a test and found that the poor student next to her was copying her answers.
But since the other party was the queen of the Kingdom of Scarre, Nancy couldn't get angry in person.
"Those charcoal drawings you have in your notebooks are real."
Elena knew that she had been caught peeking and seemed to want to find a random excuse to change the subject.
"Your Majesty Elena, don't you want to write it down? These things will be of great use to your country."
Nancy glanced at Elena's desk. There was no notebook or anything like that on the table. Even if there was, Nancy didn't think she would draw it as detailed as she did.
She had the habit of drawing sketches since she started learning. She would draw the magical things she saw before her eyes, or when learning alchemical formulas, she would draw the appearance of alchemical materials and add notes next to them.
Over time, Nancy's ability in drawing is also something she can be proud of.
"Well, I can't draw as much as you do," said Elena.
Elena's answer made Nancy inexplicably relieved and very happy.
Because the fewer people who know the cheat codes for gunpowder and matchlock, the better! As the queen of Skarre, Elena has a very close relationship with Lucheng.
In Nancy's eyes, Scarlett and Elena can be said to be the most powerful competitors!
“So I just took a picture of what was on the blackboard.”
Before Nancy could breathe a sigh of relief for long, Elena took out the mobile phone that Lu Cheng had given her and showed Nancy the photos she had just taken.
Less than a day after getting the phone, Elena had already mastered the photo-taking function.
"Photograph?"
Nancy looked at the glowing slate in Elena's hand. The slate showed Lu Cheng who had just finished drawing the structural diagram of the matchlock gun and put down the chalk and stood next to the blackboard.
"You...what did you do? Did you seal his soul into this stone tablet? Isn't it that even space..."
Nancy was frightened when she saw the picture on Elena's phone and stood up.
In Nancy's eyes, the image displayed on the glowing stone slab was so real, as if a real person was imprisoned inside the stone slab.
"Soul? This is just a photo. It freezes the scene in front of you, like a very real painting."
This was the only explanation Elena could think of for the moment. She was also shocked when she figured out the photo-taking function this morning, but it was only after Professor Lin explained something to her that she realized that there was only a very real painting inside the stone slab.
"Paintings?"
Nancy reached out her hand in disbelief and touched the surface of the stone slab in Elena's hand. It was very smooth... much smoother than any other object she had ever touched.
"Is this the small golem they gave you as a gift?" Nancy could tell from the workmanship alone that this could not have been produced by the Kingdom of Skare.
"Um."
After Elena finished showing it, she took her phone back without waiting for Nancy to ask, "Can you show it to me?"
It's a bit bad that Nancy realized that she had underestimated the relationship between Scarlett and the others.
"Your Majesty Elena, I would like to ask, have you handed over your earth vein core to them?" Nancy thought for a while and finally asked this question.
Nancy really found it hard to believe that after the cooperation, they would not put forward the condition of "handing over the earth vein crystal core".
This condition was basically met when the Far South Empire conquered countries along the way, so that it could incorporate the other country into its own territory and stop the expansion of the other country's borders.
“No.”
As Elena spoke, she summoned her country's crystal spirit, Skarre, and the bird slowly appeared on Elena's arm.
"We took the initiative to share the energy of the earth crystals with them. In return, they helped us repel the threat of the blood crystal beasts and saved my people," said Elena.
"That's all?" Nancy asked Elena immediately after thinking about it. "Your Majesty, aren't you under house arrest?"
"No, I came here on my own." Elena shook her head and said.
"They have a principle of not interfering in our country's internal affairs." This time it was the bird on Elena's arm that answered.
"That's too... kind."
Nancy couldn't help but mutter to herself. Not only did she help them repel the horrible disaster of the Blood Crystal Beast, but she also rescued the people of Scarre. After doing so much, she did not take this country as her own. Instead, she found another piece of unowned land and reclaimed it.
Nancy could no longer describe her kindness as kind, but she knew there was another possibility that the other party simply looked down upon Scarre, or in other words... occupying Scarre was meaningless to them.
But life in the camp for these two days was enough for Nancy to understand what kind of country this was.
Opportunity! Nancy's conclusion was clear when she thought about this. Cooperating with them was definitely a great opportunity for the Xiuenzhe Kingdom to prosper. More importantly, if she didn't cooperate with them, the Xiuenzhe Kingdom might decline in the near future. This also applied to other countries on this continent.
The stronger one country is, the weaker the other is, so Nancy must seize this opportunity.