There are not many people that the Countess Ropeini Gulen can trust, and the housekeeper in front of her seems to be one of them.
"I am honored to serve my mistress."
The butler of Glenn Castle bowed his head deeply in front of Gao Wen, with all manners, respect and demeanor.
"Then serve your mistress again," Gawain nodded slightly to the housekeeper, "You are going to the Rock Fortress..."
The butler kept his head down: "What do you want me to do?"
"Go and deliver a message, saying that Cecil's army has occupied Glenland..." Gawain said, and changed his tone in the middle of speaking, "By the way, how is your acting skills?"
The butler raised his head and said calmly: "Eleven years ago, I was there when the bandits stormed into the castle. I hid the burned little master in the pyre, and then leaned on the pyre to put the body in front of the robbers' eyes." Underneath the box was a dead body that lasted a day and a night."
The housekeeper paused when he said this, with a confident smile on his face: "My acting skills are very good."
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Cecilland, north bank of the Whitewater.
Two large inland river vessels are mooring in a newly built dock. The scaffolding that can be seen everywhere on the ship and the busy craftsmen in various places in the dock show that the two ships are undergoing intensive transformation. On the platform, Tyre in the form of a sea snake was propping himself up into the air with his long tail, watching the details of the two ships curiously.
She saw that these two ships were not newly built, but remodeled on some basis. Their prototypes were not much different from the large cargo ships she usually saw in the Baishui River, and those so-called "cargo ships" came from The siren's vision doesn't seem to be something that can be put on the table, and what she is interested in at the moment is only the remodeled and newly added structures on the ship.
She saw that the craftsmen were using metal skin and alloy skeleton to strengthen the key structures of the ship, and also made large holes on the deck of the ship to install various metal brackets and piping systems with unknown uses. She also saw the ship's Most of the sails have been dismantled, and many open metal frames that look like wings have been installed in the free space. The frames are covered with human magic runes.
It was a strange transformation, and Tyre was very curious about it.
Knight Byron was also inspecting the transformation of the ships in the dock. This knight was full of pride. He pointed to one of the ships and showed off to Tyre: "These two ships were bombarded by us in the Whitewater River. Almost all the ships seized at that time were wounded, only these two survived intact."
Tyre saw the ostentatious expression on Knight Byron's face, and looked curious: "Is this very powerful?"
"This is a ship built in the Pepo region, the place that knows how to build ships in the southern region!" Knight Byron waved his arm, "They built the largest ship in the southern region! Don't you think these two ships look great? ?”
"Ha...probably," Tire waved the tip of his tail perfunctorily, and continued to look curiously at the structures on the ship that spread out like wings, "I'm more curious about how Gawain is going to modify them..."
"I'll take you up there to have a look," Byron remembered what the lord told him. He knew that the Kraken in front of him would be the "power source" responsible for sending these two "monster ships" to the north, so he behaved rather awkwardly at the moment. Enthusiastically, "Look at me while explaining to you."
After boarding the ship, Tire realized that Gawain's modifications to the two ships were more severe than she had imagined: she saw that the decks of the ships had been covered with thin metal plates, and the metal plates There are magic lines all over, and they are connected with those spread wings. You can also see many pipes, alloy skeletons and magic organs under the deck. Although the whole ship looks like a traditional inland cargo ship, in fact, it has long been Turned into some kind of magical creation. Obviously, this level of modification was not completed within a day or two, and she couldn't help but wonder: "Did you start modifying this ship after it was towed back?"
"To be honest...it really is," Byron did not hide anything, "After the bombardment of the White Water River, the lord ordered the two most well-preserved ships to be magically modified, but at the beginning he planned to use the magic crystal rail gun For this reason, we specially reinforced the deck and added a lot of extra skeletons inside the ship. You can see that some small secondary guns have been installed there. But now we have to replace the original main gun with the 'Hongguang' Device', the rainbow device is larger than the largest magic crystal rail gun, and the weight is also very scary. The two main guns had to be reduced to one, and half of the installed secondary guns had to be removed to prevent the ship from sinking. …”
As Byron was talking, he took Tire to the lower deck, pointing to the modified parts around him: "Fortunately, the magic net interface is universal, and the energy of the magic crystal rail gun can also be used in the rainbow light. On the device. Have you seen these magic net units? Not only the deck and this cabin, but even the bottom of the cabin is covered with a layer. The whole ship is equivalent to laying the magic net of a small factory in the belly, so that It can provide energy for itself... "
Till followed Byron one after another, staring curiously at the advanced magical structures stuffed into the belly of this "backward wooden boat", and finally couldn't help it: "How do you Why don’t we just build a new ship? It’s so awkward to put such an advanced thing in such a backward ship.”
"... The shipbuilding skills are not enough," Byron said with a helpless expression, "shipbuilding is a technical job, and the craftsmen who know how to build ships best in the entire southern region are those in the Peibo area. The boat they built is you. This is the one in front of me. Higher technology than this... The lord is doing research, but he doesn't know when the research will yield results, and even if the research results are achieved, he doesn't know how long it will take to build a new ship from scratch , the enemies of Rock Fortress will not wait for us."
"Tsk..." Till smacked his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, just poked a nearby wooden pillar with the tip of his tail.
Seeing the reaction of the siren lady, Byron pouted secretly, and continued, "I'll show you the bottom of the cabin, which is an unfinished place."
The two came to the bottom of the "warship". In the cabin illuminated by the magic spar lamp, Till saw a metal bracket that was obviously reserved for some kind of large-scale equipment, as well as some unconnected metal brackets. In the magic net unit, she couldn't help being a little curious: "What is installed here?"
"Momentum," Byron said, "is an unresolved problem."
As soon as Tyre heard the word "power", he remembered what Gawain asked him to do, and nodded immediately: "Oh yes, your lord asked me to help solve the power problem. He said that the two ships are now Can't start it myself, so I need my help..."
"Yeah," Byron took the words, "Did you notice that we removed the sails on the upper deck? That's to install additional magic nets and auxiliary rune arrays, and to install water pumps and corresponding pipes, The originally reserved oarsman position of this ship has also been squeezed out, so the ship cannot be driven at all with the traditional method. As a replacement, the lord designed a kind of 'paddle' driven by a magic engine, but you also I saw it wasn't finished yet."
Knight Byron pointed to the vacancy in the bilge where some kind of large-scale equipment was installed, and said regretfully: "Mr. Egg has been researching for a long time, and there is no finished product yet."
Till frowned more and more as he listened, and finally couldn't help poking the nearby wood with the tip of his tail: "What kind of transformation are you doing... until the last ship didn't even have power..."
Knight Byron waved his hand: "According to the plan, there is, but it hasn't been installed yet!"
"Shouldn't this kind of thing have been designed earlier!" Tire poked his waist, "Do you know how to build a ship?"
When Byron heard this, he couldn't help sighing: "Oh, why don't we say that our shipbuilding technology can't keep up? Traditional inland riverboats can still be built by recruiting craftsmen at high prices, but this new type of ship that uses magic technology Who knows how to build a boat!"
"Tsk..." Till smacked his lips again, as if he wanted to say something again, but in the end he held back and poked the wood with his tail for a while, then waved his hand, "Okay, I've seen it almost, you guys I can't understand the magic technique... I'd better go back to sleep, just call me when I leave."
After saying these words, Miss Kraken left the cabin with a bang.
Byron turned his head and glanced at the empty "engine compartment", and couldn't help muttering, "Why don't you just pick up the slack..."
Not long after he finished speaking, he heard footsteps coming from near the stairs, and when he looked up, he saw Knight Philip walking into the cabin.
"Miss Till has left?" The young knight saw Byron standing alone in the cabin, and asked curiously, "She visited our warship?"
Byron nodded: "After a tour, I'm a bit interested in magic technology, but obviously I don't like our ship."
"Oh, then she..."
"Don't mention it, every time she doesn't wait for me to open my mouth, she immediately stops taking the slap, she is so vigilant and scary," Byron said with a frustrated face, "In this respect, she is really not as good as you. Your ability to take the slap is worse than her. "
"Can you stop distracting the topic every time?" Philip frowned, and then said, "Miss Till is a foreign guest, we can't force her to help. Anyway, the lord just confessed that she has some problems with magic technology." As long as you are interested, the lord will naturally make other arrangements for the follow-up matters."
Thinking of Gawain's expectations for Tire and his dedication to "building a new type of ship", Byron couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "The lord really made an incredible plan for himself if he wanted Miss Tire, who is so lazy, to help her for a long time. The goal... But then again, why is he so obsessed with building new ships... Are the craftsmen we recruited from the Pepo area really useless?"
"The lord said that land is only the cradle of mankind, and mankind will always walk out of the cradle," Knight Philip said with a serious face, "Although I don't know exactly what he meant by this sentence, the facts have always been It all proves that the lord's judgment is almost infallible, since he said that the new type of ship is useful, it must be useful."
"Okay... Anyway, I trust the lord's judgment," Byron said, then raised his head and looked at the hexagonal array of magic symbols on the metal beam made of light alloy on the roof of the cabin The text is shining with a faint light. This so-called "power ridge" is the main artery of the ship. It connects several decks and the magic net units in each cabin to provide the huge energy required by the rainbow light device. , "Regardless of whether the new ships are useful or not, I am looking forward to the upcoming uses of these two ships."