The craftsmen who watched the director of the Western Expeditionary Army dancing finally came to their senses. It turns out that not only infantry can enjoy the gift of this technology! Just imagining a steel-armored puppet that will tremble three times on the ground with a step is very spectacular to bring such a weapon.

"We'll try our best!" The lead craftsman rubbed his blackened palms, looking very excited. "However, I still have to allocate more money from Mr. Director for all kinds of iron and magic powder, as well as the necessary funds."

"Good!" Offy Mondridge was still on the rise, and immediately agreed. Although the trade routes were blocked, he had already made a fortune. "Let's talk about how many of these guns you can make every day."

"We need to train competent people from the local artisans in Elta to speed up the process. At present, we expect to be able to secure a week 150 of the one that Mr. Superintendent has just test-fired every day, while maintaining the development of new firearms. ”

Ouffer Mondrich smiled even more when he heard this reply. "That's good! I hope you keep up the good work, you're so much better than the guys in the atelier in the city! ”

Hearing this, the strange expressions on the faces of several craftsmen who had been hiding in the shadows disappeared in an instant, and one of them even said a few words into the ear of the leading mage craftsman.

"Oh......? Well, Mr. Director, our drunkard here says he has some weird little toys, I wonder if you have time to check them out? ”

"Oh? Is it also a 'small toy' used to kill people and set fires? Gladly so. Eufe Mondrich made a little joke and entered the house again surrounded by the crowd.

In the corner cabinet, an arm-thick cylindrical object is carefully placed on the table. It looks like a wooden barrel with iron sheets, and a wooden stick sticks sticking out of the lid on it, which is plain and rustic compared to a rifle with a beautiful pattern, and I really can't see anything special.

"This is something we came up with when we were developing a rifle firing device. Just press down on this stick, and the short wand, which is preset like a hammer, will trigger an explosion of magic powder throughout the barrel. With that, the mage craftsman who had just whispered slowly opened the lid, and a ring of oilcloth was attached to it. It's going to be full of magic powder if it's going to be a real battle, but unfortunately it's not yet.

"Just looking at this capacity, Mr. Director can imagine its power, right? During the test, the whole dirt bag was blown up to the sky. The craftsman said proudly holding the wooden tube in one hand and the lid in the other.

Eufe Mondrich asked with some suspicion: "To detonate it, don't you have to pull it with a wire from a safe distance?" Push with magic? ”

"Not really!" The craftsman replied immediately. "Install pedals on it, cover it up like a trap, and as soon as someone walks by......"

"That's wonderful!" Ouffel Mondridge blurted out at the time. "I should have shown this thing earlier! How difficult is it to manufacture? ”

"It's not difficult, as long as the director agrees, we can make hundreds or thousands of them a week." The craftsman spreads his hands. "The hoop barrel can be made by any cooper in any city, and there is no problem with the mechanism on it other than the cost of magic detonation. By the way, there are also such weapons in the records of the legend of the Red Dragon, but we have never been able to get the explanation of the principle or the actual object, and this time it seems that it should be it. ”

Uffy Mondrich felt more and more that this group of rhapsodics was worth a million times more than the old pedants in the city's alchemy room, and even the woman next to him smiled approvingly, as if to indicate that the young and promising director and his team had not chosen the wrong person.

"What about the little one next to it?" There are two styles of wooden barrels, and one is not much thicker than the barrel.

"I'm sorry Director, but its hammer has to be done in conjunction with the clockmaker's clockwork." The craftsman just spoke of this with some disappointment. "When we came from Lancas, we didn't invite a watchmaker, and neither did Hilzi...... So he's on his way. ”

Offy Mondrich was even more curious. "Clockwork? What can that thing do? "With the clockwork, the soldier can throw the barrel at the enemy line in a safe time after loosening the bar, just like a javelin."

It took a long time for the director of the Western Expeditionary Army to withdraw from the fantasy triggered by this sentence. Such an army rushed to his mind, and the poor soldiers in cotton clothes and cotton pants watched the extremely sour soldiers with spears aimed at the well-armored horse archers in front of them, and the enemy was swept down in rows before they could shoot their bows and arrows, and the infantrymen behind stayed in the air with their swords, and they were blown to pieces by the hordes of flying magic powder cylinders. The gap between the opponent and him will soon be bridged! He is leading the military forces of the Church of the Two Moons to complete a revolution!

"You guys are really ...... Every single one of you deserves an army in exchange! Eufay Mondrich gave these craftsmen his highest praise, and the group was not in vain for the huge profits he made from the sale of counterfeit copper coins and Chinese goods.

"But, there's something wrong with you." Eufay Mondridge suddenly poured a basin of plausible cold water. "You have to show me anything nonsense first, don't hide it. I encourage you to get more 'little toys' like this that the enemy can fear, and if you fail, you can tell me that I won't be angry. ”

Before the craftsman could be grateful, Offe Mondridge stretched out his arms and began to speak in a heartless manner. "The weapon you have made may seem weak and cumbersome, but it will surely become the master of all future wars. Not only will you conquer this tiny Elta and the visitors from the other world behind it, but you will live with your weapons for centuries! Gentlemen, fight for this! ”

Riding the horse-drawn carriage from the manor where the blood and molten iron boiled together, Offe Mondridge's back and shirt were already wet with sweat. He took the handkerchief handed by the person next to him, and happily wiped the large drops of sweat on his neck that were still falling down.

He looked up and saw that the short-haired beauty next to him was staring at him in fascination. Before he could speak, her lips opened slightly.

"O-film (O-Fay Mondrich's nickname), I find more and more that your wisdom is bottomless, why are your blue eyes so fascinating......"

"Elena, I said it a long time ago. You can only use the stepfather who follows you, and become a puppet who can't think, and by following me, you can change the world with me! "Offe Mondridge, who wiped off the sweat, was very confident. Elena's stepfather, the lord of the Northlands, had been Elena's death knot until she became the emissary of the envoy to Hilzi, and no one could denigrate the oldest surviving royal family in Elta in front of her, who had been raised by her with both her parents dead and raised. However, Offy Mondridge can joke with him at will.

"You are not allowed to say that about my father-in-law!" Elena, the girl who looked cold as ice to outsiders, had now shown her other side to the second man, and not only smiled in front of the Lord of the Northlands. "Now, O-film, but do you know who is the biggest obstacle to you doing this?"

"Dear Elena, it seems that you are looking more and more like me in terms of what I am. Your question is in vain, and the biggest threat is of course my kind. The magicians who will be replaced. Offe Mondridge's face did not change at all, and he calmly said something that would make the magicians who came to Elta pale.

"Does that include your wife?" Alena asked unrelentingly.

"Yes!" The corners of Offey Mondridge's mouth twitched, but he still held his momentum and faced her question head-on. "If they can assist me in completing the great cause of the transformation of the Western Expeditionary Army in the rear, and share the exploits and glory with me, then they are all friends. If they insist on rushing to the front to take the battle for themselves, then even my father and wife, then they are my enemies. ”

"Do you want to do this even if your wife is already pregnant with your child?" Alena asked mischievously as she put her hand on her chin. She had stolen a letter from Ofer Mondridge's wife from the front, and the woman's professionalism in not being able to return to Hilzi in order to lead the Legion surprised Elena.

Eufay Mondrich laughed at last, laughing unbridled and wickedly, and the sound of laughter shook with the wooden wheels of the carriage in the country lanes, mingling with the early summer wind. "If the child is here to hinder my well-thought-out plan, I'd rather he disappear with his mother. The child can have it again, and this opportunity is only once for me. As for you, Elena. I have countless women to choose from, and fate will not give me a choice, know that only God has mercy, I don't! ”

Elena hugged Ouffel Mondridge. "Your ideas are always interesting, and I love them. I just like you to be so direct...... Hopefully, fate will prove that I didn't choose the wrong person......" The docile short white hair was attached to Ouffe Mondridge's leg.

"Actually, Elena, your worries are unnecessary." Ouffel Mondridge said suddenly. "Judging from the reports I've received, it's likely that most of the troops won't survive to return to Hilzi. From this point of view, your stepfather is quite smart to bet on both sides. ”

"I'll just say, my father-in-law is also very smart......" Alena said halfway, her lips covered by a large hand. Whoever wins, the lords of the Northlands will be the constant winners. Anyway, I want him to be my father-in-law. ”

There was an incredible glint in Elena's eyes. "O-film, what do you mean by that?"

"I don't think Naio, who is the strongest melee fighter, and her warband, will be able to return to me." Offey Mondridge finally revealed his worries to his new love. "In every sense of the word."