Unless this kitchen has another secret, unless... something is happening in that kitchen that must not be discovered by the soldiers outside!
The old elf swallowed hard. He moved carefully on top of the tower, carefully adjusting his position by jumping between towers.
He found that the watchtowers around the kitchen were filled with well-trained crusaders, and there was even a priest patrolling between the watchtowers not far away.
What's going on? Not only the Crusaders, but even the priests who are supposed to be deployed when they are most needed...
The old ranger felt that the truth of the matter was approaching the answer that he was most reluctant to think about.
He held his breath and used magic to protect himself layer by layer. Then he carefully wiped out his own breath and approached the steaming kitchen little by little.
The closer he got to the kitchen, the more he could smell the aroma of meat. He saw the familiar traces of a cart shaft at the entrance of the kitchen cart, and besides the aroma of the stewed meat and spices, there was also a slight smell of blood...
The old elf stole into the interior of the kitchen.
After stealthily and patiently passing through four blockades of Crusader Knights in two hours, the old elf saw the thing he least wanted to see in the slaughterhouse inside the kitchen.
(The ancient tree is above...)
Those were the remains of a human corpse hanging in the air on a hook, and a butcher was using a butcher knife to cut into the body parts.
They cleaned the human corpses, processed the limbs until they no longer looked human, then placed the pieces of meat in a pot and stewed them with various spices and addictive herbs from the Monster Forest.
Some cooks took soup spoons and scooped the soft meat soup from one of the big pots into buckets.
They said that thanks to the many people who died today, everyone in the camp can now eat meat.
…
Watching their backs as they left.
The old elf looked pale and wanted to vomit, but he could only force himself to swallow the acid in his mouth.
Even the cruelest demons from another world would not eat the corpses of their own kind.
How dare the diocese do such a thing?!
"This enemy is more terrifying than the devil..."
The old elf left the human camp as quickly as possible.
He had to report this horrible truth to Finn.
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Japariya, Sky Gardens, Fingal suburbs and those areas around them that are easily accessible.
Yang Hao and Fen inspected the establishment of the fourth Oak Factory together.
Normally, if the Elf Forest follows its "self-growth", it would take several months to complete the initial construction of an Oak Factory.
In order to complete the construction of the factory as quickly as possible and to put the production of consumables and firearms on the agenda earlier, Finn ordered the Elf Mage Corps and the ancient trees to work together in his own name and use magic to mature the oak trees that built the factory within ten days.
The results were gratifying. The four Oak Factory buildings were built in less than ten days.
But the price was that the magic power of the Elf Forest became slightly disordered, and the Elf Mage Group responsible for manipulating magic power also entered a state of exhaustion.
They will not be able to play for Caparia for the next one or two months, but they recognize the importance of the Oak Factory and claim that with the factory, they only need to recover and contribute in a few months of decisive battle.
"Then we'll cash out and say goodbye."
The exhausted elven wizards left here with the help of their servants.
Yang Hao and Fen looked at each other, then walked into the Oak Factory in front of them for inspection.
There are four oak factories, two of which are used to produce arrows that are urgently needed on the front line. Ever since Finn accepted the demons and ordered the rangers to pursue humans outside the forest, the consumption rate of arrows has far exceeded the speed of manual production by the arrow makers.
As a last resort, Yang Hao had to set up the first two factories to produce arrow products.
I have to say that this is the right decision. After all, in the Elf Forest, you can even pray to ancient trees to get the most primitive wooden stick versions of arrow shafts and bird feathers from the old oak trees, and then process them yourself in the wild.
But arrowheads... unless you want to use stone or just sharpen a stick, metal arrowheads will have to be made by hand or in a factory.
Moreover, the standardized arrow shafts used throughout the Elf Kingdom are of modular design, and there is no requirement that a certain type of arrowhead must be mounted on a certain type of arrow shaft.
In this case, it would be better for the factory to focus on the production of arrows - after all, everyone can use them.
The arrows produced by the two factories are all armor-piercing and lethal. The current output is large enough to meet the needs of current longbowmen.
The third and fourth Oak factories were built in the same area. They were used to produce the barrel and trigger structure of the Gappa 1404.
"After all, the most critical part of the rifle is the barrel and trigger structure... For the unimproved Gappa 1404, if nothing unexpected happens, we can produce 10 standard barrels per day based on the initial output of the Oak Factory. In two months, this output will increase to 50, and finally to a stable 100 per day."
"Ten?" Finn frowned. "Including the trigger?"
"Yes. The biggest difference between the oak factory and the human factory is that the initial oak trees are "very fragile"."
Yang Hao shrugged. After entering the factory, he pointed to the place deep inside where metal ingots were extracted:
"Just like a newborn human baby cannot enjoy spicy food made from Sichuan peppercorns, the "newly born" oak factory also needs some time to adapt, and the elven wizards need to enchant and strengthen some of the vulnerable parts inside them... And the oak trees have self-awareness, which means that their work efficiency also has different "proficiency". "
Oak trees are living things, which means that the oak factories built by oak trees will have different working efficiency according to their life age.
They slowly accumulate proficiency based on the number of products they produce. Just like the difference between a human screwing a screw on his first day in a factory and screwing it on his tenth year, the older the oak tree, the more efficient it is at work, and the more money it needs.
However, considering that the greatest wish of the oak trees is to continuously expand the boundaries of the Elf Forest and continuously expand the oak tree group—
These rewards are actually not rewards at all, so the elves will give them extra fertilizers and clear spring water from afar as additional supplies.
And these are only the two most critical parts of the gun. As other parts still need to be rubbed by hand by bow makers who have changed their careers, the Gappa 1404 bullets naturally also need to be rubbed by hand for the time being.
The caliber of the Gappa 1404 is adjusted to 12.7 x 108 mm according to the physical fitness of the elves. In comparison, the caliber of the famous M2 heavy machine gun on Earth is 12.7 x 99 mm.
The bullets fired by large-caliber weapons on Earth that must be set up on the ground to be used normally are, according to the elves' physical fitness, just ordinary weapons that need to be used with both hands.
Not only that, in order to further adapt to the physical fitness of the elves, the primer made of "explosive ore" produced in the Oak Mine in the Elf Forest makes the power of the Gappa 1404 rifle even more powerful.
"Explosive Ore" is an extremely special mineral that was once regarded as garbage by the elves.
It has an explosive temperament and if not handled properly, it can easily cause a violent explosion in the Oak Mine or somewhere else.
After being processed into orange-red "explosive gunpowder", under the same standard unit, its burning speed and explosion power are 2-3 times stronger than the gunpowder produced in Isgard.
This means that the barrel and bolt of the Capa 1404 require stronger airtightness and toughness, and also causes bullets containing explosive gunpowder to produce great recoil when fired.
Only elves can withstand the recoil of the Gappa 1404, and considering the technological technology on the continent of Elucia, currently only the Elf Kingdom has the ability to produce this kind of bullet.
This is a weapon completely tailor-made for the elves, so there is no way that the Japa 1404 could be captured and used by the humans of the Roman Empire.
But considering the current production volume... Yang Hao and Fen unanimously decided that when the shooters using rifles have to evacuate, they should take their guns with them instead of leaving their longbows behind as they did before.
"That's how those elven longbows came to be..."
"After all, when it comes to saving their lives, the rangers will abandon the weapons that hinder their actions... Who made our population so sparse?"
"I see… "
"So do you have any way to increase the total population of our elves? Your Majesty, Regent?"
Fen's suggestion made Yang Hao feel a little uneasy.
He shook his head to indicate that he had no idea for now, and then changed the subject: I don't know what's going on with the golems.
Naruga and Arthur have been studying the improvement of golems recently. Theresa was worried about the situation of the Ling people, so she went to check with them today.
To which Fen simply said, if you are worried, why not go there now
Before Yang Hao could widen his eyes and say, "It's half a day's journey from here to there," Fen snapped her fingers. After leaving Qinna to explain the situation to the elves outside, she used the elves' special magic.
Elves possess "teleportation" magic similar to that of human wizards.
But the difference is that this is a special magic that can only be used by "Fin" and the archmage, which allows Finn to appear anywhere in the Elf Forest at will while carrying someone with him.
Just like now - with Fen holding his wrist tightly, Yang Hao was still in the Oak Factory in the last second, and in the next second he appeared in Golem's testing site with leaves falling in front of him.
There would be no side effects that humans would experience when teleporting. He stared blankly at everything that was changing before his eyes. It was not until the petite Elf Queen poked his cheek in front of the nun who had a dark look on her face not far away that His Majesty the Regent suddenly realized:
This is damn convenient! This is a teleportation technique that is unique to elves and can only be used in the Elf Forest...
"I say! Finn! Don't put your hands on my man!"
The nun came over with bared fangs and claws, then pulled the dazed-looking Yang Hao aside, like a cat with its fur standing on end.
In response, Finn just smiled and tilted his head: "After all, although our teleportation technique is convenient, it cannot teleport over a large area like humans. So, I had no choice but to hold his hand and come over like this?"
"Uh..." The nun was speechless for a moment. Considering that they were here only for official business, she had no choice but to shut up.
But secretly, she gritted her teeth and decided to give Yang Hao a good beating that night.
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After a little excitement, Yang Hao and others came to Arthur and Naruja. Before he could ask, Arthur, whose hair had already fallen out, said:
"Your Majesty, what kind of monster is this Golem?"
"oh?"
"The Ling clan is simply a fucking monster! If we had these things in our palace back then, would that bastard Garsen have dared to get angry?!"
Arthur reached out and slapped the golem, which had changed from stone and soil to a metal structure, and then screamed in pain from the burnt metal.
Nalujia smiled shyly, walked up to Yang Hao and proudly introduced her children's latest achievements.
These metal golems, whose surfaces reflect sunlight, are made from the "slag" left over from smelting ore.
Originally, the Oak Mine's method of dealing with slag was to bury it deep in the ground, but since the addition of the Ling people, these hard slags have found new uses.
Not only that, Arthur also had a sudden idea to install some metal shields with extremely low magic adaptability on the golems.
In this way, the Light Spear of the Church of Light will not be able to pose a threat to the new type of golems at a long distance.
Although the master can still be beaten to death with random punches at close range, the lower the loss of golems before close combat, the greater the impact they will bring after joining the battlefield.
But coming back to the point...
"Why did the limbs of these golems become like this?"
If they had only changed the material and were wearing armor, Yang Hao would still be able to recognize that they were golems.
But when he saw that Golem's hands changed from human shape to strange-shaped "spears" or "hammers" and "awls" or "scissors and clips", his face became strange.
Arthur's explanation for this is very simple: Ever since the Ling people reached a cooperation with the elven wizard and indeed prepared adaptive autonomous operation logic for the golems, he felt that instead of letting the golems still maintain human palm joints, it would be better to improve them into weapons at the current stage.
After changing his palms into the shape of weapons, Golem lived up to everyone's expectations and achieved excellent results in the previous combat tests.
In the words of the elves, if the human army did not have siege equipment or mages who specialized in learning penetrating magic, then a golem would be enough to defeat an entire human army of a hundred men.
But the price of enhanced combat power is that Golem's overall flexibility is once again severely affected.
"Although it may not be visible on the battlefield, we can clearly find out after actual testing that Golem can no longer make dancing movements..."
Naruja murmured in frustration. After all, controlling the golems to dance was her specialty! But now she couldn't use it, which made the simple demon woman very disappointed.
Arthur kept rolling his eyes, and an elf woman who appeared behind him at some point handed him a cup of tea with a smile, and looked at him lovingly as he subconsciously drank it all.
Yang Hao blinked, and Naluga whispered that it was one of Arthur's "girlfriends".
Because of Arthur's heavy workload and the threats facing the Elf Kingdom, Arthur's girlfriends finally got together to discuss a solution.
They finally recognized Ms. Weiya's status as the "legal wife" and vowed never to secretly fight against each other and cause trouble to the men they loved. But the price was that they had to clearly arrange the dates for each of them to possess Arthur in a month.
This was indeed a good thing for Arthur, so Yang Hao didn't care whether there was something strange added to the tea.
He just asked the question that concerned him most: "What about the large artillery design used by Golem?"
"I plan to integrate it directly into the Golem, and then let the Ling people build it according to the standardized design while installing the parts -
The good thing is that it's very easy to fire and load. The bad thing is that one golem can keep twenty Ling people off for a week."
"Naluga, is everything okay?"
"Yes! No problem... If I can help..."
Yang Hao planned to divide the golems into two categories: one is the cheap melee golems, and the other is the expensive artillery golems.
The former is cannon fodder, and can be made of any material. The latter must be made of various tough mineral materials, otherwise they will not be able to withstand the impact of artillery fire on the body.
So after much thought, he decided to let everyone test all the minerals during the design phase... After all, the parish has not yet been fully invaded, and they still have a lot of time to prepare.
After leaving Golem's testing ground, Yang Hao was accompanied by an angry Sister Teresa.
She looked at Fen with hostility, but Fen just gave her a calm and gentle smile in return.
In order to avoid the atmosphere from getting worse, Yang Hao coughed twice and said that according to the arrangement this afternoon, he had to go to the junction of the western forest plain under the protection of the elves. There, the people of Isgard hoped to meet him.
"We must have an ally." He explained his arrangement. "The Isgardians are a powerful ally. They have a navy, maritime trade, and can provide us with all kinds of supplies that we need in an emergency.
More importantly, they will attack the Roman Empire sooner or later. Instead of our Elven Kingdom fighting alone, it is better for us to fight side by side with Ishgard..."