In the eyes of many people, the development of Cecil Territory is already a miracle, even the managers of Cecil Territory will inevitably have such thoughts. It is true that, compared with most nobles in this era, the Cecil Land has gone beyond common sense in every aspect, whether it is the improvement of the people's livelihood in the territory or the change of military strength, but Gawain has never been like this. think.
The imaginary enemies in Gao Wen's mind were never those mediocre border nobles, nor even those long-established forces in the capital. From the day he inherited Gawain Cecil's memory, from the day he learned about the existence of the Demon Tide Since then, his imaginary enemies have already been things beyond the current human power, and facing these enemies, the current strength in his hands is far from enough.
"Those monsters have intelligence," Hetty said after Gawain's voice fell, "Although the thinking ability does not seem to be very strong, they obviously have a certain thinking ability. They can judge the form on the battlefield, and they can judge the trebuchet. Attacking range and poised to attack in safe areas, they can even command 'armies' If their command capabilities were a little stronger, we would not have won so easily."
Amber, who was sitting on the other side of Gao Wen, couldn't help but said, "I didn't find that they were intelligent during my investigation."
"This shows that their intelligence is not perfect, or their behavior pattern is different from that of humans," Gao Wen was not surprised by this. "Aberrants are creatures with clear goals, and this will not change. Before attacking the target, even the mutants with intelligence will not do extra things, which makes them look no different from other monsters before launching an attack. However, after this incident, we have gained a point of experience .”
"In addition, we have also exposed a problem in this battle," Gao Wen continued, "When dealing with those big guys, ordinary soldiers are obviously not capable of attacking enough, and trebuchets... the hit rate is too low."
In the second half of the battle, the three giant monsters crossed the middle of the battlefield, which was already within the range of the heat ray gun, but the scorching ray, which was effective against ordinary aberrations, showed its firepower in the face of those huge monsters. Short board, it is difficult for them to penetrate the enemy's body. Even if they penetrate, the small killing area will hardly cause any damage to those monsters that look like small houses. The few mutated monsters seem to have quickly figured this out. That's why they dared to stop swaggeringly in front of the city gate, and gathered their strength to prepare to attack. To be honest, if it weren't for Rebecca's last super big fireball, those three large "distortion bodies" would really let the black lightning go It might be dangerous if you come out.
As for the crystallized grenade used as a secondary weapon for individual soldiers... Their power can pose a certain threat to giant monsters, but one aspect is that the attack distance is not enough, and the physical consumption of soldiers is another disadvantage. Slow, for giant monsters that already have a certain intelligence, the effect is really not optimistic.
Facts have proved that only the crystal bomb thrown by the trebuchet can easily destroy those monsters, but the shortcomings of the trebuchet are too obvious: poor hit rate, narrow range, slow reloading, and consumes soldiers' stamina. Before using crystal bombs as ammunition , it is not even powerful enough. It can be said that it is a helpless move due to insufficient technical conditions to let something with such a serious style of painting appear on the south wall of Cecil.
The above shortcomings are only the part that Byron and others can understand. In fact, Gao Wen knows that the shortcomings of the trebuchet are far more than these trebuchets that can only throw ammunition. Stones or bombs, as long as they don't have the ability to shoot directly, it will be difficult to play a role in the face of solid walls. Throwing bombs over the walls into the enemy's city sounds like a very good thing, but as long as the walls of traditional aristocratic castles are still intact If it can stand for a day, the form of war will not change.
Although Gao Wen's ultimate imaginary enemy is the devil tide and the disasters associated with it, he is very clear that before facing the power of nature, he must first face the secular power of this world, and it is definitely not stable at present. Given the current situation on the mainland, he had to first create weapons that could fight against traditional city walls.
Otherwise, his Cecil Territory may not survive to the day of fighting against the demon tide.
"The trebuchet that can throw crystal bombs is already the most powerful weapon I have ever seen," Knight Philip couldn't help but said when he heard Gawain's words, "Unless...we can make it as easy to operate as a heat ray gun, But a new weapon on a much larger scale."
In a world where gunpowder-propelled weapons have never appeared, it is difficult for Gao Wen to explain the concept of "cannon" to others, but he can describe the characteristics of artillery. After hearing his description, everyone fell into a Thinking about it.
Hetty was the first to break the silence: "The key to the problem is to launch the 'cannonball' in a straight line at an extremely fast speed. We have created very powerful cannonballs, but we can't 'fire', what do you mean? Is it?"
"That's right, and I've considered the repulsion circle," Gawain nodded, "It's just that things like the repulsion circle lack explosive power, and it's hard to give the shell a sufficient initial velocity. It is theoretically feasible to set a large number of repulsion points with suitable angles on the acceleration path for continuous acceleration. Only tens of meters long can the shells have sufficient lethality and range, otherwise they are not as good as trebuchets.”
At this time, Kamel, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke up: "Is it necessary to have a physical 'cannonball'?"
Gao Wen raised his eyebrows, and his tone was expectant: "You have other ideas? Of course it's better if you have other ideas. Physical shells are just one of the ideas. As long as it can solve the problem, any idea is fine."
"During the Gondor period, we had a weapon called an arcane pulser, which compressed powerful arcane energy into a constricting device, and then released it in a targeted manner with great power," Kamel said, "Its The essence is actually a bit like a huge arcane missile."
Gao Wen couldn't help frowning: "Arcane pulser... To be honest, I know this, but you should also know that the arcane pulser is powered by the magic power of the dark blue magic well. Its ammunition is pure magic crystal, crystal The pure magic power from the dark blue magic power well is stored in it, and every time it is fired, a crystal will be scrapped, which is simply impossible in this era."
"Yes, the deep blue magic power well, that pure and powerful magic power is our greatest constraint," Kamel admitted Gawain's statement, "but today I saw something that may... partly solve this problem."
Everyone at the scene immediately turned their curious eyes on Kamel, and Amber couldn't help asking, "What is it?"
Kamel raised his arm, and a Evocation Hand took shape, and brought over a bunch of unremarkable metal devices not far away.
Gao Wen poked his head around and saw that it was a series of strange belt-like devices connected by rune baseplates, and there were some unexplained uses on the "belt", which were modified by himself at first glance. rune structure. When he first saw this thing, he was stunned for a moment, but he quickly realized: "Isn't this what Rebecca hung on her body at that time?"
Amber also looked at Kamel in surprise: "Wow, so you also have the habit of following things?"
Kamel let Amber flicker again after saying a word, and after a few flashes, he explained helplessly: "This was what fell on the city wall when you took Rebecca away, did you forget?"
"... It seems that there is such a thing."
Gao Wen interrupted the conversation between Kamel and Amber: "In short, what is this thing?"
Tyre, who had been lying lazily under the table all along, but listening the whole time with his ears pierced, suddenly appeared from under the table at this moment, and she pointed at the pile of metal plates with the tip of her tail: "Rebecca said this is an amplifier , I don’t know anything else.”
After finishing speaking, the sea monster shrank back and coiled itself into a ball again seriously like a hibernating snake.
"According to my judgment, these are actually a bunch of magic field receivers and some modifications to balance the load," Kamel spread out the pile of metal plates, "Miss Rebecca's idea seems to be very simple because personally Her magic power reserves are limited, so she connected herself to the entire magic net through the magic field receiver, intending to use the whole magic net as her own magic power reserve, and use the magic net to cast spells... We have all seen the final result, she succeeded A huge fireball never seen before was created, proving the feasibility of this idea.
"It's just that there is still a limit to her thinking, and that is the 'human' itself. The human body limits her performance, so she fainted after a big fireball, but... machines and steel are not afraid of these, or even machines And steel cannot withstand this pressure, they can also be mass-produced and consumed.
"So just by attaching these amplifiers to a certain weapon, we can recreate the arcane pulser in its glory."
Gawain couldn't help but widen his eyes: "You mean, the magic net... no, the magic field can act as the energy source of the 'Arcane Pulser'?"
"No, I don't intend to copy an 'Arcane Pulser'," Kamel denied, "The Well of Dark Blue cannot be copied, nor can the Arcane Pulser based on the dark blue magic. And today's super fireball was inspired... If we can manipulate enough powerful energies, redistribute these energies in a reasonable way, and throw away the shackles of "personal talent" in the process, then we There is no need to be limited to specific spells or so-called 'skills' at all. Just like today's fireball... is it really a 'fireball'?"
Speaking from the bottom of my heart, that thing has really gone beyond the concept of a fireball, and Gawain thinks that if this trend continues, Rebecca may really plan to rub the sun out...
"Pure magical power gathered together is a very powerful force in itself. The 'Arcane Pulser' was based on this idea, so based on the same idea, it is possible to extract the energy of the magic net and use it for attack after gathering. It is feasible. And compared to the dark blue magic well that can no longer be replicated after it is lost, the magic net is something that is completely in the hands of human beings."