Being a lord in another world begins with farming

Chapter 148 Spirits and Guns
"Study hard, the future of the territory depends on you." Owen smiled and looked at the spirits who were learning Hogwarts curses and puppetry.

As magical creatures similar to house elves, although spirits lost their original goblin magic due to transformation, they still retain some magical power. After all, as magical creatures, magic power is one of their life sources, and it is impossible to completely remove it.

The amount of remaining magic power is not much, and it is difficult to cast the powerful magic of the Heroes and Invincibility System. This is what the wizard always intended when transforming them, but it is enough for them to learn some simple Hogwarts spells.

Don't even think about the lethality of these spells, but it is not difficult to increase the work efficiency of spirit monsters. Just a levitation spell can reduce a lot of trouble.

However, in comparison, puppetry has a greater effect on spirits.

Puppetry does not require strong magic power, and even the strength of mental power can be lowered. As long as the manipulation is detailed enough, you are a qualified puppeteer, so Owen took out a full set of puppetry for the spirits to learn without hesitation.

On the premise that there is no need to consider loyalty, Owen is not afraid that his subordinates are strong, but they are not strong enough.

In addition, Owen didn't pay all the time. He also obtained some common knowledge of alchemy from the spirits.

This is not surprising, the spirit monsters were originally the assistants of mages and alchemists, and also the defenders of the castle in the sky and golems. Although they did not have advanced knowledge of alchemy and magic, they had a solid foundation and were just right for beginners in alchemy like Owen. scholar.

As one of the major camps of Heroes, the academy faction, even if it is just basic knowledge, still amazes Owen, and it can be seen from the scratches that it is far superior to the Hogwarts system.

Unfortunately, due to limited energy, Owen didn't get involved too much, and only focused on golems and alchemy equipment, which spirits are best at.

Because he likes to make puppets, Owen first paid attention to golems.

After comparison, Owen found that compared to puppets with precise structures, the golem was a bit like flying bricks vigorously, because the gargoyle was just a stone, and the golem was even more like a lump of iron.

But after careful study, Owen discovered some of the mysteries.

In fact, if he hadn't learned the Hogwarts spell system, he might not have been able to see it, because it was too high-end.

The virtual soul, the activation of matter, and the circulation of magic power, this is the real core of the golem.

It's a pity that Owen doesn't understand it at all, and spirits can only practice, and they also have a half-knowledge of these profound principles. Under such circumstances, it is not a matter of low efficiency to learn rashly. If you learn wrongly, you will die.

Fortunately, some of Hogwarts' systems are considered low-profile versions in this regard, such as those moving and talking portraits and wizard chess. If he can understand this part of knowledge, then he will be considered a master in golems.

For the next period of time, Owen has been staying with the spirit monsters, and he has a deeper understanding of the spirit monsters.

Spirits are smart and capable of learning, but they lack creativity, or their creativity is limited.

This is not surprising, mages and alchemists need to be assistants, not to overthrow their own hidden dangers, it is normal to have restrictions, just like the house elves in Hogwarts, they are not restricted to death.

Therefore, it is no problem to make ghosts according to the pictures or optimize them, but it is difficult to make them innovate.

Owen scratched his head, a little helpless, it seems that he can only let him be the scientific guide of the territory.

The first work of the Ghost Workshop is a musket, because the weapon of the ghost is a firecracker shaped like a rattle, so it only needs to be stretched, which is not difficult for the ghost, and even requires a simple modification. Machines that specialize in the production of firearms can be manufactured.

But Owen was not very satisfied with the performance of the musket, even though the musket had ended the era of cold weapons in his previous life.

However, after a real hands-on test, it was discovered that the musket that ended the era of cold weapons did not rely on lethality and range, but because it was easier to popularize.

It takes at least half a year to train an elite soldier who is proficient in cold weapons and protective gear, and it will take even longer to form a regiment.

But it only takes one or two hours for a musketeer to learn to load and shoot, and he can go to the battlefield if he knows how to line up.

Of course, the musketeers trained in this way are basically cannon fodder, but the problem is that the bullets fired by both cannon fodder and elite musketeers are equally deadly.

As for the hit rate, queuing up and shooting is to make up for this shortcoming.

It is because the musketeers are too easy to train, so that even if the knight's armor is bulletproof, it still cannot change the fact that the era of cold weapons has ended, because the cost performance is too different, especially after the musket manufacturing process is improved and the cost is greatly reduced.

But the world Owen lives in is not that simple. There are not only grudges and magic, but also many alien races, and muskets and artillery alone are far from enough.

Take knights as an example, when equipped with well-equipped armor, musketeers are powerless to stop the explosive charge, because it is impossible for them to hit the target with every shot, and scattered lead bullets cannot stop the knight's charge at all. After rushing into the formation, all kinds of massacres will follow. After all, you can't expect a group of Musketeers, who were farmers before, to deal with heavily armored knights with bayonets stuffed at the muzzles of their guns.

The inhumanly strong Teutonic warriors can even ignore the shooting of muskets and slaughter in a crushing manner.

Of course, although neither knights nor Teutonic warriors can resist the lethality of artillery, the premise is that they can hit.

The hit rate of the artillery is just random, unless you are facing an array of enemies or a building that does not move, otherwise it will be the same.

And even Owen has more than one way to destroy an artillery position, such as a witch riding a broomstick, so let alone the mage of the empire.

To put it simply, if Owen builds an army of pure firearms, it can only be used to bully the weak, even if he faces the same number of northern barbarian fighters, he will not be able to guarantee victory.

In the physique of the barbarians in the north, even if they don't wear armor, they can resist several lead bullets with their tenacious vitality. Walk enemies several times.

Not to mention the imperial frontier army with army mages and large-scale vindictive knights, it is too easy to deal with a pure firearms army.

Moreover, regardless of the musket or the cannon, the structure is very simple. With the level of mages and alchemists in this world, it is estimated that a better one can be imitated at a glance.

Even as long as they are willing, it is no problem to develop the level of guns to World War I or even World War II in a short period of time.

After all, they can even make puppets and enchanted equipment. Isn't it a joke when you say they can't make muskets?

Even if the cost is not considered, giant puppets like Gundam and the city of the sky may not be impossible for the empire to build, it just depends on whether it is willing or not.

After calm thinking, Owen found that the pure firearms army is not as powerful as imagined, and is more suitable for siege and defense. In field battles, it is not as adaptable as the elite cold weapon army.

Of course, these are all on paper, and no one dares to say that it is better without a few real battles, so Owen finally decided to reserve a batch of muskets and artillery, and then let the spirits focus on transforming the engineering puppets he designed before. superior.

(End of this chapter)