Heroes of Silver Moon

On the naval battle sand table, the model of Simon's Dreadnought was running forward with a muffled sound, while Clifford's Valiant Singer was chasing behind.

Just running and chasing like this, the two warship models ran around the sea battle sand table for more than half an hour.

"Fuck, what's going on with this kid, I haven't seen him activate the blast array and the water flow array, how can he run so fast?"

Looking at the Intrepid, which was still out of reach, Clifford put down the binoculars in his hand, and said with a twitching corner of his mouth.

"Fuck, what the **** is this old guy? That kind of garbage warship can actually chase after my Intrepid, and it hasn't been thrown off after running for more than half an hour?"

On the Intrepid, Simon also put down the binoculars in his hand, and murmured in pain.

Ma De, this kind of magic warship is really unreasonable!

He equipped the front end of the Dreadnought with a nose bow, and the stern with a steam propeller. This sail-steam mixing system is almost the peak power of the sail warship.

But even so, it is still only barely equal to the speed of others, it is really maddening.

Looking at the endless sea, and the Heroic Singer chasing after him, Simon wailed with some headaches: "I'm going, when will I have to run?"

At this moment, the magic circle on the sail of the Heroic Singer suddenly flickered brightly for a few times, and then quickly dimmed. The bulging sail gradually subsided, and the speed of the ship dropped suddenly.

"Huh?" Clifford was taken aback for a moment, and then he immediately realized that he checked the sea battle sand table for the default distribution of strategic materials. Sure enough, the magic crystals had been consumed.

The attacking array and protective array activated during the battle, as well as the blast array and water flow array that have been activated for most of the day after the chase, all consume a lot of mana.

"Tsk, this is troublesome!" Clifford smiled helplessly, and looked forward to the Intrepid, which was still fleeing quickly.

Losing the blessing of the magic circle, next, it is time to switch the roles of hunter and prey.

 …

On the rear deck of the Intrepid, Simon was a little suspicious as he watched the Valiant Singer suddenly slow down, not sure if it was a trap set by the teacher.

But after thinking for a while, he immediately rejected this idea.

This is just a simulated naval battle, not a real battlefield. There is no need for Clifford to use tactical traps in order to win.

After all, the purpose of this simulated naval battle is to test the performance and shortcomings of the warship.

If victory is achieved with tactics, how can the performance and shortcomings of the warship be tested?

Therefore, this should be Clifford's side, there is some kind of unexpected situation.

Although he has no experience in naval warfare, Simon, who has a keen sense of logic, quickly made a judgment and ordered the Intrepid to stop escaping, relying on the advantage of speed, and launched a surround attack around the Heroic Singer.

From God's point of view, on the endless sea, the Brave Singer is trying to sail forward, but the Intrepid is like a shark smelling blood, and begins to test around the Brave Singer.

"The distance is two thousand and two hundred meters!" The watchman kept reporting the distance between the two warships.

Simon narrowed his eyes slightly, and said in a deep voice, "Fire!"

Boom boom boom!

The Intrepid adjusted its position, and the artillery on the side of the enemy ship let out a roar, and the shells roared through the sky, and splashed water on the sea around the Brave Singer.

The range of the smoothbore gun is about 2,500 meters, and the theoretical range of the Intrepid is indeed that far.

But the accuracy of the smoothbore gun is really impressive. If it exceeds two kilometers, the hit rate can only depend on God.

Therefore, it is necessary to rely on line tactics in order to exert the full strength of the sailing battleship.

But it's a pity that under Simon's hands now, there is only one warship, the Intrepid.

If he wants to hit the enemy ship, he must either kneel down and start praying to God, or...

"Keep getting closer and keep a distance of 1,500 meters!" Simon ordered in a deep voice.

During the pursuit and distance, relying on the advantage of speed, the Intrepid stuck to the Brave Singer like a candy bar, and the distance between the two warships kept getting closer.

More and more shells hit the hull of the Valiant Singer with precision.

The boards on the side of the ship were shattered one by one, and on the open deck, sailors were constantly being smashed into parts by shells. Clifford frowned, but he was powerless about the situation at the moment.

Speed ​​and distance are the core elements of naval warfare, but they are now firmly controlled by the Intrepid.

The magic crystal of the Heroic Singer has also been completely consumed, and now he has no room to fight back.

The hull was riddled with shells, and nearly half of the crew were killed or injured. Just as Clifford was about to face failure, the Intrepid stopped attacking suddenly.

"Huh?" Chris was taken aback for a moment, and then his consciousness began to rise rapidly.

This is the case for exiting simulated naval combat.

After recovering from the trance, the two returned to reality. In the large pool under their feet, two scarred and unmanned warship models drifted with the waves.

Looking at the high platform opposite, Clifford frowned and asked, "Why did it stop suddenly?"

On the high platform on the other side, Simon spread his hands helplessly, and said with a wry smile: "I don't have any shells here!"

It was just a hasty, hand-wrought pocket shell, and the artillery fired so frequently just now that the shells were simply not enough.

Chris was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile, and said with emotion: "Well, this simulated naval battle will be like this!"

Looking at Simon with a bit of embarrassment, he continued with a solemn expression: "The warship model you designed is very thoughtful..."

"However, this level is not enough. If you want to win the first place in the bidding, the warship you build must be stronger!"

Simon nodded humbly. This simulated naval battle did expose many shortcomings of the Intrepid, such as not drawing a magic circle.

When we go back, we must put all the things that blow the sails, fireballs, and create defensive masks on the Intrepid.

Technology plus magic is the right way!

After discussing with Clifford for a while, Simon walked out of the sand table room where naval battles can be simulated, and returned to the workshop with Assad who was waiting at the door.

"This battle with the teacher exposed many shortcomings of the Dauntless, the most important thing is that it didn't draw a magic circle." Simon concluded with a serious face.

"Um???"

A lot of question marks appeared on Assad's head, and he said with a puzzled and shocked look: "Master Simon, I drew a magic circle for the model of the Dauntless! Are you useless?"

Puchi! Words turned into sharp knives and pierced Simon's heart.

He also widened his eyes immediately, and asked dumbfounded: "You drew a magic circle for the model, why didn't I know?"

Assad felt a little speechless, and replied: "My lord, alchemy warships must be carried out, alchemy enchanting and drawing magic circles, even for models, don't you know?"

Simon opened his mouth, and wisely, he didn't continue to talk about this topic, and was silent for a while in his heart.

After a long time, he regained his composure and asked, "Then do you estimate the cost of building our Intrepid battleship?"

Assad's face twitched, and he replied without thinking: "At least 800,000 gold coins!"

Simon blinked, but didn't react for a while.

After blinking a few more times, panic gradually appeared on his face. He propped the table with his hands excitedly, stood up, and said in shock, "Why is it so expensive!"

Looking at Simon who obviously didn't understand anything, Assad could only explain patiently: "My lord, the cost of building a warship is mainly in three aspects, one is the hull, the other is the alchemy enchantment, and the third is the magic circle drawing. …”

"The wood used to build the hull must be hemlock wood of different ages. This wood is as hard as iron, and its hardness will gradually increase as the age grows.

But not only do they grow slowly, but they are only found in the winter north, and the price has always been expensive.

A warship of the size of the Intrepid must use at least hundreds of years of hemlock, and the cost of building the hull alone costs at least 150,000 gold coins! "

"Among these three types of costs, the most expensive is alchemy enchantment.

The magic power of wood is very poor. Every wooden plank of the warship must be soaked in magic rendering potion in order to effectively exert the power of alchemy enchantment and magic circle.

This is not over yet, the battleship is made up of tens of thousands of wooden boards, and the magic patterns don't fit at all.

In order to ensure the smooth flow of magic power, a special adhesive must be used to bond the magic power lines of each board.

Magic rendering potions and special adhesives are alchemy potions, which are expensive.

The size of a warship is so big, the amount of potions to be used is completely astronomical, how can it not consume a lot of gold coins? "

"If a warship wants to run across the sea, the magic circle on the hull is of course indispensable.

The blowing array on the sail, the water flow array on the bottom of the ship, the attack array on the mast, and the protective array on the hull.

The cost of drawing these magic circles is slightly lower than the first two items, but not so low.

If these magic circles were drawn according to the highest magic level of the Silver Moon Kingdom, it would cost at least 100,000 gold coins! "

"Master Simon, do you think I'm right?" Looking at the completely petrified Simon, Assad had a wry smile and helplessness on his face.

"Huh...huh..." Simon came back to his senses~www.readwn.com~ and then took a big breath, he couldn't breathe after the calculation.

Staring at the Dreadnought model on the table, he was silent for a moment, and then smashed it into pieces with a punch.

Assad was horrified, and hurriedly rushed to the debris to check, with a look of grief and anger on his face, he stared at Simon: "What are you doing!"

As a shipbuilder, people like Assad can't really build warships, because their spells and alchemy levels are not enough, they can only study the hull structure seriously.

But even so, they can only help these high-ranking alchemists and mages to make these one-to-one precision models.

For these shipbuilders, in the process of building a warship, the precise model of this warship is all their painstaking efforts, and Assad is no exception.

But now, Simon smashed all of Assad's hard work with one punch, how could he not be angry!

"This kind of expensive warship is not what I want!" Simon explained blankly.

Assad threw his fist in anger and replied: "All warships in the world are like this, unless you have a way to solve the problems of hull strength, magic power conductivity, smooth magic lines, drawing magic circles, etc., otherwise you can only spend Big price, step-by-step construction of warships!"

Looking at the angry Assad, Simon didn't care at all, a flash of madness flashed in his eyes, and he sneered, "Hehe, it's really stupid, why do you have to use wood to build ships?"

In this world, there is no money that Simon can't make, and the cost is high?

Hehe, just chop it off with a knife!

Assad: "...?"

Building warships without wood? What is it for? This Master Simon is crazy!