Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 45—Disappointment and Gifts

Claude was a little frustrated. He spent a week translating the magic note and found that there was nothing he wanted in this magic note. For example, how to become a magician, how to improve the magic level, what is magic, etc. None of them.

Seriously speaking, this magic note is more of a magic design album. From the design point of view, it is probably intended to save magic and consume less magic material resources to achieve the original magic effect. Or it is fundamentally not to use magic to complete, and to let ordinary people achieve the magic effect through various technical means, just like the drawings on the improved design of the musket.

Just for what Magic is Claude is also a half-baked, more is speculation. Just like the drawings on this magic note, Claude can translate the above description and understand what is designed on this drawing, but I don't understand what effect it can achieve. Because there are a lot of strange graphical symbols on it, Claude doesn't know it. I can only guess that these graphic symbols are runes in magic.

Another is that the most common noun on the magic note is alchemy, which is an important reason Claude can't understand. If it weren't for the musket-improved drawings, Claude really didn't understand what alchemy was. In the end, I can only rely on the text on the musket drawing. I guess half of the speculation.

The past transmigrator saw the video of the hand-made flintlock on the computer. This is actually the same as the arquebus. It is the earliest musket, but the way of ignition is different, one by the fire rope and one by the meteorite.

But what's important is that the same between the two is the manufacture of the barrel, there is no good barrel, and no matter how good the launch is. The manufacture of the barrel is the most important part of a musket. For example, the reel type is to squash an iron rod on an iron rod and then torrefaction. Finally, the iron rod is withdrawn, leaving a rough iron tube. It is processed into a barrel. There is also a connection type, which is to connect three short iron pipes into a relatively long barrel. There are also extreme, directly drilled into the barrel on the iron rod, of course, this takes a long time…

In fact, when the musket first appeared, the processing of the barrel was the biggest problem. The way of hand-made barrels in computer video can be described as the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each with magical powers. The most is to imitate the ancient craft to make the barrel, in the hope of achieving the best shooting results. There are also some netizens who are unique in their minds and can explore whether they can make a good gun with a modern idea and more convenient and quicker in the case of ancient craftsmanship…

But the gun production in this world is not so troublesome at all. It seems that the magician used alchemy, arranged a magic array with runes, put various materials into the array, used the magic fire to burn, and then used the magic to precisely control. To fuse the metal material in the rune magic array to form a long barrel…

If it weren't for the improved map of the musket, Claude couldn't have imagined that metal exercise would be so simple. Because the large paragraphs on this drawing are all reversed, how to make the small blacksmith shop in the village forge a suitable long barrel without using alchemy and magic, and expand the production scale for mass production. . It is these instructions that make Claude understand that the technology of this Faslan magic world is alchemy.

It is easy to make a barrel with alchemy. Ten barrels of guns may be able to be completed by a magician using alchemy at a cost and cost. But it's impossible to make tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of barrels. No magician will pick up such a job. Besides, it's just a variety of magic materials spent on the rune magic array. It is an astronomical number, and it also requires the magician who will make alchemy to precisely control each barrel.

You don't need alchemy to make a barrel without a magician, which is equivalent to a huge system engineering. At the back of the musket improvement drawings, the metal ratio of the Magic division using Alchemy to make the barrel was listed, and it was clear that the metal formula calcined with magic Fire in the Rune Magic array was not well suited for use in the stove of the village's small blacksmith shop, so the Landers Mage listed seven more metal formulations, And specifically noted the need for testing in order to select the best barrel metal manufacturing ratio materials.

The next page is an ironmaking blast furnace drawing specially designed by Master Landers to exercise these metal formulas. It is also a high chimney and a big belly. The next note is that this ironmaking blast furnace needs to be able to withstand extremely high temperatures. The magic material is made of gray fire rock, and this gray fire rock needs to be mined from a lava volcano…

It is only the first step to have an iron-making blast furnace. Next, it is necessary to pour the melted barrel metal material into the shape of the mold casting strip and then forge it. The things that the magician can easily do with the alchemy matrix are broken down into complex projects here. On the back pages of the ironmaking blast furnace drawings, Master Landers also designed five processing machines to replace the precision control of the magician in the alchemy matrix.

A hammer machine, a cutting machine, a drilling machine and a barrel internal polishing machine that repeatedly forge metal materials using hydraulic and wind power, and a barrel machine controlled by a human foot pedal. In order to standardize the manufactured barrel, Master Rands designed the cutting head, the drill bit for drilling, and five special measuring tools. This is indeed a complicated system engineering, and the investment is extremely huge.

In terms of quantity, the small size is indeed the alchemy dominant, but the number reaches one thousand or more than 10,000. This large-scale production shows its power, does not require a magician, does not require alchemy. There is no need to spend magic material resources, even ordinary people can produce countless standard qualified barrels through technical training.

I remember that the Lands Master, who was hidden in the magic recipe, mentioned that Regius Au Syr baron asked him to improve the manufacturing process of the musket five years ago. The requirement was that ordinary blacksmiths could also produce a qualified musket. There is no need for a magician's alchemy project. Obviously, the ten pages of this magic note on the musket improvement are actually designed for the Regius Au Syr baron.

It was also with this musket-improved manufacturing process designed by Master Rands that Regius Au Syr baron could organize the fraternity in Freia Continent against the magician. Because they have weapons that can pose a deadly threat to the magician, the arquebus, and, even better, the manufacture of such weapons does not require the magician's alchemy, so that the magician can't control the weapon at Freia Continent. The flooding, so the baron can build a 8,000-gun firearms.

Although the investment is huge, this investment is worthwhile for Regius Au Syr baron, the largest magic stone merchant of Freia Continent, and he can also train and build a gun workshop by mining the reason of the quarry. At the same time, don't worry about getting the attention and vigilance of the magic teachers. In this respect, his later success is not fortunate, but inevitable.

Claude put down this magic note in his hand and sighed long.

If he is a magician who knows some alchemy knowledge, then this magic note may be invaluable in his eyes. Because many of the magic designs can reduce the magic output and the consumption of magic materials, they can achieve the original magic effect. It is a pity that Claude is not a magician. He can only count as an ordinary national student with magic talent.

A magic note of 38 pages of rune paper, except for the dozens of design drawings about the musket improvement Claude can understand, after all, the purpose of this musket is to enable ordinary blacksmiths to produce qualified finished products. Other drawings are hard to understand for Claude. For example, the input of magic, the setting of the rune alchemy array, the use of magic crystal and other magic materials, etc., is simply a book for Claude.

Just like a junior high school student holding a university's high how much book, the words are all known, but they don't understand what it means. In particular, the conversion formula and the standard setting graph of the rune alchemy array, as well as the rune measurement units, can't be understood without the systematic magic knowledge training. What does this mean?

If you can have a magic book that teaches the basic magic knowledge, you may become a low-level magician by self-study. Claude thinks so, but he also knows that this idea is ridiculous. The Freia Continent countries regard the magician as an evil person, prohibiting everything related to the magician. Even the word magic is a taboo, how can there be a magic knowledge book…

The only good news is that this week's translation of this magic note has made Claude take a deeper grasp of the ancient Hez language text. After all, the Hebrew language now comes from the ancient Hez language, which is a close relative. . If you have a book written in ancient Hez language, then even if you don't look at the dictionary, Claude can basically understand it and understand what it means.

"Second brother, I should go downstairs to eat."The call of sister Angelina came from the door.

Claude woke up from his meditation, thought too much and forgot the time, and even the footsteps of his sister went upstairs.

"I know, I will go downstairs immediately."Claude stood up from the chair, stretched his body and made two swings to expand the chest, and the stairs came up to the sound of the sister's squatting downstairs.

Just tidy down the table and Claude walked downstairs.

Mr. Morssen sat at the table and saw Claude going downstairs and said: "Claude, you go inside the carriage and take the wooden box behind the car."

There are no horses at home, and there are no carriages. It’s not a place, but Mr. Morssen is reluctant to spend money to build a stable and hire a groom. Mr. Morssen has calculated it carefully. He thinks that the cost of raising two horses is actually more expensive than buying a horse, and it is not worthwhile to hire a groom who can take care of the two horses.

Mr. Morssen thinks that he basically stays in Whitestag town all the year round, so he doesn't need to prepare a carriage for himself. In addition, the cost of buying a carriage is not a small amount. The depreciation is very fast every day. Paint cleaning and maintenance, hiring people need to spend money, do not hire people to do it themselves is asking for trouble.

What's more, the town's owner is the carriage, as the executive director of Whitestag, Mr. Morssen can be used privately by bus. As for the horse-drawn carriages of the town hall, it is completely disregarded, and Mr. Morssen prefers to drive the carriage home. He thinks that this is a very close-knit behavior and can say hello to the townspeople on the road. Claude thinks he is stingy, because he has to give the coachman a tip because the coachman sent him home…

The carriage parked outside is the town office. Later in the evening, the coachman of the town office will come over and drive the carriage. It will be accustomed to come to Mr. Morssen tomorrow morning to go to the town office. Claude opened the door of the carriage and saw the long wooden box. The wooden box is very long and stands taller than Claude's, but it's just a flat wooden box. It's not too heavy to pick up.

Holding the long wooden box to the restaurant, Claude asked, “What is it inside?”

Mr. Morssen said: "Let's take a look, there is a gift for you."

Give me a gift? Claude immediately opened the long wooden box. Inside the box is a straw, and above the straw is a long black arque.