goddess of revolution

Chapter 199 War, the Big Killer of War

"There are a lot of preparations to be made, and this is the most important thing at this stage."

In the depths of Rose's Great Temple, in Youzan's laboratory, Li Qi stood in front of a pile of things and said to Artur, Sardar, Wilson and Youzan.

The first half of this pile of things looks like a mortar that only existed in the middle ages of the earth world. It is more than half a meter long and has a diameter of nearly one meter. With the thick tube wall, the diameter of the tube is one and a half meters!

The tube has three layers in total, the outer layer is black iron, the middle layer is copper, and the innermost layer is a thin layer of fine gold.This layer of fine gold "cannon chamber" should be inlaid with a complex magic circle composed of various gemstones, but now only some traces can be seen.

The bottom of the tube is hollow, leading to the pile of junk behind.

According to the drawings, the pile of junk is something like a turret, but apart from the device that can turn the barrel, there are no more mechanical structures, but various complex magic devices.

Magic cannon, the high-end combat power of Finn World, the power of the most basic magic cannon is comparable to at least 155mm caliber artillery, and it also comes with various elemental damage.

In Aida's documentary, the power of this thing is fully demonstrated. If there is no protective barrier, the battlefield will definitely become a hell on earth.

This discarded magic cannon is a research sample given by Zold to Li Qi. As the core project of the two people's "in-depth cooperation", Zold provides the magic cannon and spell model information, and Li Qi is responsible for improving the performance of the magic cannon. and cost.The two jointly own the "intellectual property rights" and produce them separately.On Teresia's side, no matter who gets the order, the order must be shared equally.

Zold was not in charge of the magic cannon project in the family, and a basic magic cannon was worth hundreds of thousands of gold bushels, so he couldn't make decisions privately, so he could only secretly get scraps from the warehouse and hand them over to Li Qi.

"The core principle of the magic cannon is to amplify the advanced evocation spells. The power depends on the amplification factor. The amplification factor of this magic cannon should be two levels. It is a very elementary thing."

After studying the manual, You Zan came to a rough conclusion: "These two levels can be used to increase the power, and can also be used to superimpose skills such as fast casting, silent casting, or spell penetration."

"For example, if a level [-] magician, his Pyroblast will be boosted to level [-] by the Magic Cannon. If he chooses to only increase the power to level [-], he can also superimpose the skill of fast casting. If it is a level [-] magician, Just increasing the power doesn't make Pyroblast a legendary spell, but it can still pose a threat to legend.

The fireball technique is Faye's housekeeping skill. As an enhanced version of the fireball technique, the power of the Pyroblast technique, commonly known as the "big fireball", can be imagined.A six-level Pyroblast, with a double increase, even a legend would not rashly carry it.

"The core component of this magic cannon is the fire element augmentation array. It uses a sixth-level flame nucleus crystal, and sends instructions to the fire spirit inside the nucleus crystal through the composite array wrapped in the nucleus crystal. It is really backward. It hasn't changed a bit for thousands of years..."

You Zan despises the lack of progress in the technology of the magic cannon. He did not encode the bottom layer of the extraordinary power and created the extraordinary assembly language. Naturally, it is impossible to directly program the magic circle inside the Void Spirit. It is not only expensive, but also not smart at all to carry out analog control of the array.

You Zan continued to explain: "This gun barrel is used to position the fireball. The adamantine magic circle inside the tube is used to absorb the impact of magic power and fire damage. Mithril can't withstand such high temperature."

"The device behind the tube is the flame nuclei and the additional magic circle. In fact, the structure and principle are very simple. These extra things have a device to alleviate the impact of magic power. After the increase, the magic power of Pyroblast is too disturbed, which will cause damage to the magician. Damage and spellcasting obstacles. There is also a device to calm the magic field. If you don’t try to calm the magic field, it will curb the gathering of the power of the fire element and reduce the power of the magic cannon.”

So, most of the structure of the magic cannon is actually to eliminate the impact of increasing the spell level?
"That's right, if you don't need these things, the cost of the magic cannon will drop to less than one-third of what it is now." You Zan's explanation implied irony: "But in this way, there will be no Mages willing to be gunners." No, it's tantamount to suicide."

This is the trouble in Finn's world. The magical equipment must be operated by a transcendent, and the magic cannon must be operated by a magician, and it must be at least level [-].Behind every magic cannon, there is a noble mage standing. Together with the protective barrier, they determine the current style of warfare of Finn.

You Zan further suggested: "Our own magic cannon can be programmed in Ethereal language, but the cost savings in this part is not much, and it takes a long time to figure out the characteristics of Fire Spirit and connect with You language. I don’t think it’s necessary to think about it for now.”

Li Qi agrees, now Youzan has to continue to engage in the spiritual network, which is the big killer to increase productivity.

The improvement of the magic cannon, a major weapon of war, can only be found in another way.

Sardar said: "I think the same principle can be used to create a small magic cannon that can be used by the strong."

He and Wilson are among the few people in Upsilon who have military experience. Although those experiences are limited to security levels such as catching thieves, they finally have a bit of military thinking. Li Qi also pulled them into this Project as a staff member.

"My opinion is……"

Li Qi was a little hesitant. From the documentary, it can be seen that Teresia's side is quite lacking in heavy firepower.Luckily for field battles, when attacking a strong fortress like Valentine Cathedral, the situation will be very disadvantageous if there are not enough magic cannons to bombard the enchantment.

The airborne tactics Tangus used that time probably wouldn't work in Valentine.It is impossible for the magic gun to play a key role in such a tough battle.

The magic gun is just an innovation of magic weapons at the tactical level, and now he needs to make innovations at the strategic level of magic weapons to ensure that Theresia's side has enough advantages.

In other words, like the improvement of the magic gun, the cost can no longer be reduced by reducing the power and range, so as to improve the overall combat effectiveness.The improvement of the magic cannon must not only reduce the cost, but also increase the power and range, so that it can truly become a big killer capable of dominating the battle.

This is a difficult challenge...

Wilson sighed: "Yeah, we don't have a fourth-level magician who can take tests at any time."

Li Qi smiled wryly and forgot about it.

Artur next to him scratched his head in embarrassment. As a third-level magician, he was actually a magician. He only knew some auxiliary spells of the transformation system and the prophecy system, and had no experience with the evocation system.

Although Aida is a fifth-level magician, she only specializes in transformation, Rowena...

Li Qi thought for a while, and rejected the plan to turn to Rowena for help.This is his cooperation with Zold, and she cannot be involved.

As for Zold, he would naturally not accept Zold himself or anyone recommended to join the team.

He suddenly thought of a key question: "If it can only be activated by a magician, no matter how cheap the magic cannon is, each door must be bound to a magician, and the scale still cannot be increased. Can't it be like a magic crossbow or other magic cannons?" Like a tool, through the activation device, use divine power to activate the magic cannon?"

If this path works, although the scale of the magic cannon is still limited by the number of high-level transcendents, the number of gunners can be expanded from magicians to priests, and the number will be greatly expanded.

In the previous battle of 10 people, the total number of magic cannons on both sides was less than thirty, which was really shabby.

You Zan's hemispherical levitating head draws circles on his body, no need to think too much, he must be laughing at Li Qi's idiot.

Artur explained: "The magic cannon is just an amplification circle, and it must be changed into a pyro-explosion circle to fulfill your request, Earl, but the pyro-explosion circle is much more complicated than the amplification circle. How expensive."

"In addition, the Mage Union also has a strict order prohibiting the research of many spells of the fourth level and above that are inspired by divine power, including most spells of the evocation system. So far, no one has come up with a method that can activate flames with divine power. If the triggering device for the explosion circle is really produced, the Mage Union will definitely turn against it."

Li Qi scolded: "Damn technology monopoly!"

The purpose of the Association of Mages to do this is of course to ensure that magicians have sufficient strength to face priests.

Some less powerful evocation spells, as well as auxiliary spells such as teleportation, can be developed by the Mage Federation in order to make money.But for a powerful spell like Pyroblast, the Mage Union naturally didn't want the priests to master it.

The road is broken...

Li Qi thought of another direction: "There is no powerful magic, can it be developed into a magic cannon?"

In fact, there are, among my own witches, Ellie's sword of liberation can be said to be extremely powerful.It's a pity that Ellie has to straighten out the spell model. Now the witches are only starting to think about the first-level magic, and the sword of liberation is a third-level magic, which is still very early.

Besides, even if you get it out, you can only use it yourself, and it can't solve the current problem.

You Zan finally had the opportunity to belittle Li Qi: "The magician invented a conversion device that uses divine power to stimulate magic, so that all kinds of divine power can activate magic, but how to convert between different types of divine power? Divine power is the power of faith. , This involves the compatibility and conversion of beliefs, and it is no longer a problem that can be solved by magic technology. Of course, there is also general magic, but you don’t really want magic cannons for healing, do you?”

"As for powerful divine spells, divine spells focus on the soul, and their power is inherently weaker than magic that focuses on matter. Think about it carefully, you priests, in addition to adding BUFF, as human shields and nurses, have special effects on undead and demons. Besides attack bonuses and creating optical pollution, what else can you do?"

Li Qi shot back: "That's right, if the priest can also be used as a fortress, the Magistrate can only do some chores like pulling the table and opening the door."

There is no hope for this road for the time being...

Sardar said persistently: "Master, let's get a small magic cannon first, it's always a cannon."

Wilson agrees: "Squads should be useful."

After much deliberation, I can only do this first, at least I can get something out quickly.

Li Qi said again: "Our manpower is still too small. Artur, you can also serve as the team leader of the small magic cannon project team, and You Zan will be the guide."

Artur agreed happily, and he was able to receive the teachings of his mentor again.He has already joined You Zan's sect and has become the disciple of this "Legend of the Puppet".Although Youzan's occupation is not a magician but a "spell builder", Youzan's magic knowledge is more profound than Rowenna's, which made him call the right person.

"You also know that there are too few people. Just like the key to the magic cannon is the gunner, you have to find a way to expand our team of magic technology! As for the magic that can be used to make the magic cannon... "

You Zan said in a very unbeatable tone: "Doesn't that new witch have the seed of Vulcan on her body? I heard from the witch Rose that her divine light technique turned into a black fireball. Why don't you find out what's going on with her? Maybe there is a chance to blossom and bear fruit.”

Yo……

Li Qizhen was reminded, yes, Eve, the new witch, is actually related to flames.

Wait, what is blossoming and bearing fruit...

Li Qi condemned: "You Zan, you failed to learn from the goddess!"

(End of this chapter)