Weaponry
Hearing Gao Wen's words, Victoria couldn't help but move.
The situation did not exceed expectations, and everything was as she had speculated these days that Cecil was short of money.
In the past three days, Victoria has used various methods to investigate the situation in the southern border. Although she has no way to directly contact the personnel of the government affairs hall, nor can she leave the city, she can get into the market of the Cecilians, Can access their newspapers, hear the voices of the streets and alleys, and even see the magic projection twice. The Cecils call this magic "the program." s things.
Cecil's development is very rapid. Gawain Cecil, the founding hero who experienced the Gondor period, seems to be using his knowledge from 700 years ago to build this land. He started several amazing projects, Including the redistribution of the population of the entire southern border and the construction of several new cities at the same time, and such a large-scale project undoubtedly requires amazing wealth to support it.
The newly-born Principality of Cecil should already be very tight financially. This is the conclusion drawn by Victoria during the investigations of the past few days.
And long before she arrived in the southern border, she had been thinking about what to use to appease and win over the founding prince's "acknowledgment" from the royal family, or in other words, all the "authentication of legitimacy" from the contemporary aristocrats. The Duke, the source of legitimacy, is pointless, but knowing that Cecil's finances may be tight, she thinks she has found the best "gift".
And after seeing Cecil's extraordinary equipment, she did have a great interest in those things. She just didn't know how to take the initiative to talk about it, but now it seems... Both sides need each other, this is Best situation.
"You should have seen my army and the re-armed Rock Fortress." Gawain looked at the little change in Victoria's eyes that ordinary people could not detect, knowing that the other party was already thinking in his own direction, he restrained himself With an unbearable smile in his heart, he continued to say sternly, "The principality is initially set, my army is only enough to protect this land, but we have a lot of weapons prepared to deal with the war, and those are high-quality extraordinary weapons , it must be very helpful to the Royal Army."
"There is no doubt about it," Victoria said immediately. "The people of the eastern border are good at fighting, and our soldiers are difficult to fight against them. But if there is a group of powerful weapons, the situation will definitely be different from what it is now..."
"That would be great," Gawain nodded, but then changed the topic, "But after all, supernatural weapons are different from ordinary swords. The Cecil family spent a lot of money to build them, so I can't give them away for free. To the Royal Army."
Victoria was not surprised by this: "Of course, extraordinary weapons have always been rare. If you can buy them with money, that would be a great thing. But I want to know, what weapons do you have that you can sell to the Royal Army, and how many are there?"
Gao Wen smiled slightly and stood up: "Come with me, I think the actual display will impress you even more."
Victoria followed Gao Wen's footsteps. They left the Lord's Mansion and took the magic vehicle to leave the administrative area. After a while, the surrounding buildings gradually became sparse, and several sentry towers appeared in sight.
They came to the weapons testing ground in the northeast of the city.
After getting out of the car, Victoria couldn't help but look back at the vehicle she just took. This is really a convenient and fast thing, especially on the battlefield. It won't be easily frightened like a war horse, and it has a solid shell and a huge body. Strength, if you install ballista on the cart, deploy archers and javeliners, or use them to transport food and grass... How good would it be
While thinking about it, a young knight had already arrived in front of Gawain and Victoria. This was Philip who had been notified in advance and was getting ready on the proving ground: "My lords, everything is ready."
Gawain signaled Philip to lead the way, and Victoria temporarily restrained her thoughts. Accompanied by some entourage, she followed Gawain and the young knight, and soon came to an open space that had been emptied in advance and guarded by soldiers.
She saw a soldier walking in front of Gao Wen, holding a long wooden box in his hand. When the wooden box was opened, there was a beautiful but imposing one-handed sword with a dark blue blade inside. long sword.
She had seen this kind of sword in the hand of the female knight named Margarita, and she was very impressed with it.
"This is an extraordinary weapon with the power of the fire element. We call it the Melting Sword," Gawain picked up the long sword, swung it randomly twice, and then pressed a mechanism on the hilt in front of Victoria, and the long sword immediately There was a very slight buzzing sound, and its blade quickly turned red, and the air near the blade instantly showed a distortion visible to the naked eye, which made Victoria realize the amazing heat on the blade, "As you know See, its high-heat blade is the source of its power. In the normal slashing situation, it can easily cut off any ordinary sword, and it can also cut light and medium metal armor in two. When dealing with heavy armor units, the effect may be Not as good but its heat can keep warming a heavily armored fighter's armor and the damage is still deadly."
Victoria moved closer, and took the long sword that Gawain handed over. She felt the astonishing heat emanating from the latter, but she also felt the automatic magic power inside the sword: "It doesn't require magic power for the user?"
"Yes, this is a self-sustaining extraordinary weapon, as long as it is trained, ordinary people can use it."
Self-sustaining super armor This is the most expensive of the super weapons!
"It's no wonder that the coalition of nobles in the southern region will not be your opponent." Victoria looked at the deadly and beautiful weapon in her hand with admiration, "If ordinary soldiers can also be equipped with magic weapons, any army will become extremely terrifying...a pair of such weapons How much is the sword worth?"
Gawain looked at Victoria's reaction with satisfaction, and said a price that made the other party dumbfounded: "Just twenty ansu yuan gold coins or seventeen gold shield coins."
Victoria's surprise is not too expensive, but too cheap! !
Twenty gold coins to buy a sword, if it is an ordinary sword, of course it is very expensive, because a stainless steel long sword without magic power is only worth two or three gold coins at most, even if it is made by a famous craftsman, the price cannot exceed four gold coins, But if it's an extraordinary weapon... sometimes twenty gold coins are not even enough for materials!
A long sword with the simplest sharpness enchantment can be sold for hundreds of gold coins, and the price of a sword with elemental power can even be doubled, and in many cases, even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it. Buy extraordinary weapons that meet the requirements, because those who can make magical weapons are all supernatural beings with aloof status, and supernatural beings themselves are not short of money. If you want to invite them to build weapons, you must have sufficient identity and status in addition to money.
But in Cecil, a long sword with elemental power only costs 20 gold coins... and this kind of sword is still mass-produced.
"Is this price inappropriate?"
Gawain's voice woke Victoria up, she shook her head: "No, it's actually much cheaper than I imagined..."
"It's cheap because it has certain flaws," Gawain laughed. "You should already know that many of Cecil's extraordinary weapons are mass-produced, but to mass-produce things with magic power, we must Make some compromises in quality. The sword in your hand is as powerful as a real extraordinary weapon when you use it normally, but the magic power capacitor embedded in its hilt will be damaged after a period of time, and then it will become a sword. Ordinary weapons."
"No wonder it's so cheap..." Victoria showed a surprised look, and then couldn't help asking, "What happens after the magic mechanism in the hilt is damaged?"
"It can be replaced. In order to make up for the quality defects, many of its parts can be disassembled and replaced," Gao Wen smiled. "Don't worry, the magic mechanism is cheaper. The new magic capacitor only costs one gold coin, and if you are worried Ordinary soldiers can’t replace them properly and cause damage to other key structures of the sword, you can send them back, and we will replace them for you for free.”
"Only one gold coin?" Victoria confirmed, and after getting an affirmative answer, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
It seems... quite a deal? Although the long-term accumulation of constantly changing magic power mechanisms may require a lot of money, compared to buying a real extraordinary weapon, this "melting sword" is still too cheap.
After that, more samples of weapons that could be sold were sent to Gao Wen and Victoria.
Gao Wen ordered the soldiers to demonstrate those weapons on the spot, and he introduced them one by one beside him:
"This is a thermal energy ray gun. It can emit scorching rays. Although the range is much shorter than ordinary scorching rays, only less than 100 meters, it has surpassed many bows and arrows, and its power is not comparable to that of bows and arrows. Of course, it is also a cheap weapon. Its mass-produced extraordinary armament, its focusing array is easily damaged. You are a mage, so you should know that this is an unavoidable situation. But you don’t have to worry about it, the focusing array is also very cheap... "
"Crystal grenade, powerful and reliable, you don't have to worry about its service life. It is a consumable item, but it is definitely cheaper and easier to carry than the burst scroll."
"Magic armor, excellent defensive methods are equally important for soldiers, and I believe you don't want soldiers who spend a lot of gold coins to arm them to die easily on the battlefield. This armor has a variety of effective enchantments, and the power on the chest The core keeps it running for four hours, which is more than enough for most battles. Its various enchanting effects are generated by the rune substrates in the various slots of the armor. In other words, replacing the rune substrates or Adding or subtracting the rune substrate can change the armor's magic resistance, which can deal with very complex battlefield situations, no matter what the enemy is, soldiers can effectively fight against it."
"How much is this armor worth?" Victoria couldn't help interrupting Gao Wen's words. On this armor, she saw a different design idea. Although she didn't know that this design idea was called "modularization", But this does not prevent her from having a great interest in magic armor.
"Free." Gao Wen said two words with a slight smile.
Victoria thought she had an auditory hallucination: "Free... free?!"
"Yes, the armor is free, because it has different combinations, it is really not easy to price, so we only sell rune substrates, the Kingdom Army can order specific types of rune substrates according to needs, as long as you buy enough three, the armor will be fine. It is given as a gift for free. If you buy a complete set of rune substrates, you can also get three additional crystal grenades."
Victoria felt that she had heard a lot of unheard words from Gao Wen's mouth, but the meaning of these words was not difficult to understand. It just took some thinking to keep up with Gao Wen's rhythm. She tried her best to keep up with the rhythm, and felt... very suitable
Everything is reasonable. The Cecils have indeed achieved the mass production of extraordinary weapons, but their mass production requires a price. The price is that the quality of weapons cannot be compared with the real extraordinary weapons. They always have such a key Components break easily and then have to be replaced, but those aren't very expensive on their own either...
Victoria pondered, and then asked: "How many sets of this equipment can you provide? One set of weapons and armor, not counting those crystal grenades."
Gao Wen estimated the efficiency of the production line and the existing inventory, and said a conservative figure: "Before spring, 10,000 sets will be no problem."
Ten thousand…
This is the first time Victoria has heard of using this unit to describe the number of extraordinary weapons in such a big life.
She felt her heart pounding, and the role of an army built with 10,000 sets of extraordinary weapons was constantly being deduced in her mind, but after the initial excitement calmed down, she immediately realized how huge it would take. a sum of money.
The unit price of Cecil's extraordinary armament is indeed very cheap, it is almost a fraction compared to normal extraordinary armament, but...
Their quantity unit is "ten thousand".
This number is more terrifying.
And this has not included the subsequent replacement of those vulnerable parts and the consumption of maintenance. Although there is no exact data yet, Victoria instinctively feels that it may be a lot of money.
"I'm afraid we don't have so many gold coins," Victoria said with some embarrassment. She was a little embarrassed at first, but considering that she was her elder in front of her, most of the embarrassment of being a junior was eliminated. She bluntly stated the current difficulties of the Royal Army , "The eastern border rebels have occupied one of the most affluent areas on the Holy Spirit Plain, and the war in the past six months has consumed a large amount of the Royal Army's reserves."
"Is that so..." Gawain showed a look of embarrassment, he frowned and thought for a few minutes, and when Victoria was about to speak, he sighed, "But I What I said is already the cost price, you should know that neither the magic material nor the mage fell from the sky... How about this, you can use half of the gold coins and half of the raw materials to pay for it, is that okay?"
Victoria blinked: "Half gold coins and half raw materials?"
"Iron ore, crystal ore, copper, quartz...these common materials are all fine, and they can be converted according to the market price to offset the purchase price," Gao Wen said, "This is already the biggest concession I can make. On the battlefield of the Holy Spirit Plain, they were all built with resources from the southern border."
Victoria thought about it, calculating all the data quickly in her mind. She could only estimate whether the Royal Army could afford such an astonishing expense. After finally filling in part of the taxes and minerals in the northern border, she finally got together enough.
For Ansu.
"make a deal."