Prologue III-26 Stems from the horror of unknown weapons

The soldiers' observation attempt was a complete failure - however, due to the technology of messaging, the news had not yet reached the various centurions.

Inside Fortress No. 2, Centurion Atrus, the commander, is discussing the next operation with several other Centurions.

Some of the scholars sent by the Senate have settled in the No. 2 fortress, which is currently safe.

According to the next plan of action, the centurions will have the soldiers who observed the previous operation describe the previous weapons to the scholars orally, or in sketches.

Next, scholars will deduce the strengths and weaknesses of those weapons based on the descriptions.

Next, scholars will try to make powerful weapons such as enemies based on these depictions.

"With the enemy's powerful weapons, we can take on them!" said Commander Centurion Okotaswi, who seemed to see a lot of hope in the plan.

However, these hopes are naturally based on the success of the operation.

The door to the conference room, knocking on the wall.

The knock on the door quickly shattered the hope that had been built on assumptions......

"No ......," said the herald to several commanding centurions in disappointment as soon as he entered the door, "although he was not attacked by the enemy, he ...... Their observations, nothing to gain......"

Okotasway frowned, looking displeased.

He stood up, and then, with some reproach, asked the herald, "What the hell is going on?!...... So many people went to see it, and none of them saw anything?!......"

He ...... They're here now......" said the herald.

"Alright, let them come in and tell me what's going on!" said Okotasway.

"Understood. ”

Outside the door, several soldiers who were in charge of observation walked in.

Before Okotaswi could ask, the soldiers who had previously conducted the observation operation began to speak.

"Sir, there's no way to observe!"

"Indeed, to be exact, I can't even know what is going on after observing it!"

"Sir, let me add again, I can't understand it!"

"Yes, we can see every movement of them clearly, but ...... But...... We can't understand what the hell is going on with them!"

"Yes, we don't know what they put in that weapon, they were able to pull a crossbow-like structure as if by magic, or by magic, and then the weapon spewed fire and smoke all at once!"

......

"Okay, okay, everyone, just be quiet. Centurion Atrus, the commander on one side, asked, "Since it's spewing smoke, there must be some airbags or something like that on their weapon?......"

"No!" said one of the soldiers in charge of observation, with great certainty, "Sir, I have observed very clearly, it is a weapon of wood and iron! There is nothing on it except for a structure that looks like a crossbow machine! You know, such a small crossbow machine can't puff out so much air!"

"That's right!" the soldier next to him continued, "Moreover, the opponent's weapons seem to be able to produce flames on their own! Those weapons can make the flames erupt with that breath without anyone lighting the fire at all!"

The knowledge of long-range weapons in this native civilization is still at the stage of using mechanical energy storage to fire solid projectiles - such as crossbows, bows and arrows, or large machinery such as trebuchets.

Without using an airbag, the gas can be "spewed out on its own", and the flames that can be spewed out "out of thin air" without the flame to ignite - these are really incomprehensible to the humans of the native civilization - for the humans of the native civilization, this is simply like pointing at the burning rocket with a finger, you can ignite it, and then with a light finger of your hand, you can make the burning rocket directly take off into the air and fly towards the enemy.

Commanding Centurion Atrus shook his head, he didn't know what was going onβ€”or rather, he was more confused and scared than before.

"Our enemy, perhaps, is even more terrible than we imagined......," Atreus said here, looking at the draft of the plan written on the table, and shook his head helplessly, "We are not fighting the enemy, we are fighting the unknown outside of our knowledge......"