Warhammer: Return of the Dragon

The Cult of Sotek...

Torek silently memorized the name. Along the way, Ashborn kept talking about the Sotek Cult. It seemed that to Caledor, this religious group dominated by skinks was more of a history of powerful spellcasters. The Lan Parliament is even more important.

After understanding the situation of the Sky City, he then, under the guidance of the second generation Slan, figured out a very strange rune magic for dwarves - anti-gravity levitation.

As the god of magic and the sky, Tybok is far more profound than the dwarves imagined, and space and time seem meaningless in front of him.

However, when seeing the Seal of Taebok, the viewer should feel the flow of magical wind, but it becomes ineffective due to the dwarves' demon-hating physique.

On the one hand, this protects the fragile cerebellum, but on the other hand, it loses an important source of knowledge.

Rune magic, in the final analysis, is composed of the wind of magic, but it is carved on the surface of objects in the form of words to form a controllable system.

If we get the guidance of Taibok, rune magic may be as powerful as the advanced spells, but if not, we can only explore Taibok's other divinity-the sky.

Bloxson, who still knew what Torek had learned, saw a strange double-winged rune carved on a piece of stone with his own eyes, floating more than ten meters in the sky, and an astonishing thought suddenly came to his mind.

This inexplicable inspiration made him immediately work on it in his residence for several days, just to draw the concept drawings as quickly as possible.

The engineer staring at the dark circles in his eyes pushed open the door of the rune master's room without any respect, ignoring the blacksmith who was polishing the stone bit by bit with a chisel, and shouted,

"Master Torek, Master Torek, I have an idea, a shocking work that combines engineering and ancient holy runes!"

Torek, who was being disturbed from the seal carving, shouted because of this, and accidentally used the chisel in his hand too hard, causing an ugly scratch on the two-wing rune.

The blacksmith, dissatisfied with the young man's actions, threw the chisel directly on Bloxen's helmet. His eyebrows and beard were trembling at the same time because he was too angry.

"Damn it, you mustache, can you be more steady!"

Regardless of whether his precious engineering helmet was damaged, Bloxson hurriedly came to Torek and spread out the drawings.

"This, this is it. If this thing can be built, Riptide Pass, no... the Mountain Kingdom has surpassed the golden age in engineering!"

As soon as these words came out, Torek could bear his anger and look at the drawing. Two ellipsoid-shaped objects dragged a ship-like object, and a large number of artillery were arranged on both sides of the cabin.

Engineers pursuing rigor also marked the proportions in the upper right corner. This strange-shaped ship has an ellipsoidal length of 250 meters, a hull of 170 meters, and a width of 45 meters.

"What is this?!" Torek was so angry that his beard twitched. Just because a strange engineering ship disturbed his study of runes?This mustache deserves death.

Engineering should continue the technology of the golden age. Ancient methods are the best. Rune blacksmiths will make them into powerful weapons that can kill dragons in one blow. The accuracy and lethality cannot be compared with unreliable gunpowder.

"The airship is a device that has a prototype concept in Riptide Pass for a long time. However, due to technical limitations, it is difficult for the Engineers Guild to create the powerful weapon it imagined. The helicopter you saw at Eternal Peak is just its crudest substitute. Tools." The impatient blacksmith planned to blast it out directly. He could tolerate this troublesome mustache entirely for the sake of the Supreme King and the head of the Engineers Guild.

And the dignity of these two people would never allow Bloxson to do such a blasphemous thing in front of them.

"Let him finish, Torek, you have also noticed along the way, His Majesty the Supreme King's intentions regarding this trip." As the Supreme King's special envoy, the Eternal Guard raised his hand to stop Torek from preparing to fight.

Then he patted Bloxson on the shoulder, signaling him to calm down, and elaborated on the airship.

Bloxson, who knew he had offended the Rune Master, apologized. This was too tempting. If the Rune Master of Iron Peak Castle was willing to share the knowledge learned in Lustria, it would make up for the impersonal nature of Riptide. If conditions are insufficient for castration technology, the era of dwarves will come.

"In the year 200, there was a project in Riptide Pass to build an aerial platform. Its functions included reconnaissance, frontline bombing, command, and real-time sharing of battlefield information. The Engineers Guild put a lot of effort into this, starting with the most basic hot air balloon. Testing, climbing height, flight speed, controllability..."

"Tell me the important point." Torek was very impatient. He didn't like Torrent Pass and always thought it was unreliable. This whimsical aerial platform sounded like a fantasy.

He didn't care about the Rune Master's attitude. Even with the support of the High King's special envoy, Bloxon knew that Torek would not be able to listen carefully.

The young engineer explained some key points directly,
“The final product was dismantled because it was too small and its speed and load capacity did not meet expectations.

This led the Engineers Guild to generally believe that the plan for an integrated air platform was impossible to implement and divided the various functional areas.The role of helicopters is reconnaissance and small bombing, but their bombing capabilities are almost nonexistent, and because pilots are difficult to train, they only have reconnaissance functions. "

When Torek wanted to continue interrupting, Bloxson's tone became a little pleading,
"Please listen patiently to the end. I am just saying these things to make you understand how important a tool is to make up for the shortcomings of the Mountain Kingdom."

The special envoy patted Bloxson on the shoulder and encouraged him to continue. If the meaning of Torek's trip was just to obtain the knowledge of the lizard people, he would find a workshop to study it secretly for a hundred years without converting any useful technology.

That is meaningless to the current mountain kingdom.

“Due to the size of the helicopter, it is difficult to provide pilots with accurate reconnaissance equipment in order to maintain high speed and install weapons.

But airships don't have this problem. We have enough space to install high-precision reconnaissance equipment on the deck, place explosives in the cabin, and aim the artillery on both sides at the flying behemoth.If you purchase magic communication equipment from Pointy Ear, it can be used as a central platform to quickly analyze the battle situation and deliver useful information to the commander. The ranger no longer needs to send delayed information to the commander who needs current information. "

When talking about the role of the airship, Bloxon's eyes gleamed. The weight reduction effect of the levitation spell perfectly made up for the extremely cumbersome feature of replenishing fuel for the steam engine.

A large amount of space must be reserved for coal. If the fuel storage room takes up half of the space of the airship, the project has lost its meaning.

The smaller the weight, the less power the steam engine needs to provide, the smaller the fuel chamber, and the more space available.

If we can get two extremely accurate solar engines from the lizardmen, combined with the dazzling sun runes and the protection of the mist magic, we don't have to worry about not being able to gain air supremacy.

The high-altitude flying war machine has an absolute impact on the ground. It is impossible for the mechanical creations of green skins and rat men to shoot at objects hundreds of meters high. (End of chapter)