Chapter 30: The Red Sun Guards (Part II)
'I want to recruit mages' Shane revealed a little bit of thought, and was taunted by Sylvanas, "In a small country like the Red Sun and White Tower, only strange guys will come. ’
"Hawkins-Firehawk loves pleasure, but there is a bottom line, Solan Liane only knows how to keep his head down and study, Haduron Brightwing seems to be an opportunist, but you can be trusted in terms of action and ethics, and you are not compatible with most elves."
The personality of the team members was not long found out by Sylvanas. "Should I praise me for a job well done," Shaun scolded, not knowing where she could tell that the smuggler was in good shape, but he agreed.
It's impossible to attract the pleasure-hungry guys in Silvermoon City, and there is still a chance to attract talents from other rural places. Sylvanas gave him the idea to increase his prestige.
"Making magic trinkets is also a way to increase your reputation, have you thought of it for a long time?" Shane said to the elf, looking closely at her expression.
Sylvanas sat in a chair, her thighs raised high, smiling and not answering.
The second phase of magic items has been well received by customers, the design of the magic combination is more intimate, the difficulty of use is not high, and the third phase is already looking forward to it. But because of the task of the council, he had to stop, and once again felt that he was weak.
"It can be announced that the works of the Red Sun and White Pagoda are sold every three months." Sylvanas gave Shane his attention. "It's just that if you want to increase your reputation among the elves, there's nothing better than dealing with trolls."
In other words, this mission is the best opportunity.
"But I guess you don't have a chance, you'd better go and see your rangers" The female elf smiled narrowly, an expression that only someone would have if they were unlucky.
The sixty rangers under Hadurun Mingyi do not have patrol missions, they train in the open space outside the sentry post every day, and everyone is looking forward to this mission. The Ranger was placed under the command of Shane by the Council, with Haduron Bright Wing as the commander. He saw Shane appear outside the training ground and walked over to greet him.
"All cheer up, Lord Shane is here." Hadurun Mingyi yelled into the training ground. The mages who own the mage towers belong to the upper ruling class, and Shane appears to suppress many people and train harder.
They are indistinguishable from ordinary rangers, and the basic training is horsemanship, bow and arrow. The tactic is to ride a chocobo to raid quickly, form a team to scrape back and forth from the enemy's outside, consume the enemy, and then find an opportunity to charge.
"How does it compare to Sylvanas's men?"
"Lord Shane, I must make it clear that this is a sad question." Hadurun-Mingyi made a helpless expression, and knew the answer without explanation.
Obviously, in terms of ranger skills, they can't catch up with the elite of the Windrangers, and they have to find another way to increase their combat effectiveness. The quickest way to do this is to change the way you fight.
Shane's method is to cooperate with the golems.
Back at the Mage Tower, he draws a modification on the blueprints, adding a manned device to each guard golem. Able to stand three rangers and carry ten men of war materiel.
"Eye of Truth, does the change have any effect on the balance of the center of gravity?" Shane asked.
"There was no impact on the balance, but the transmission damping needed to be changed."
Shane also designed a shock absorber on the transmission. The changes are relatively simple, modifying ten golems is not much work, and with the Golem Tiger enhancement modification, it takes much less time than making a golem.
In the last battle, Tiger broke a little, revealing that in the fierce spell battle, the performance was far from enough, and the change plan had been brewing in his heart, and the council mission just took the opportunity to make a request.
When the High Golem Core removed it from the Seal Box, it appeared extraordinary. Shaped like a crystal ball, the air around it is hot and distorted, making it look like a mirage, but it's real.
"The Eye of Truth probes it," Shane ordered
"Understood, the probe begins, the target surface temperature is 170 degrees, and the reason: energy is escaping outward in the form of heat. Investigate the internal structure, multi-crystal structure, unnatural substances. Judged to be generated under high-energy radiation from the sunwell. It is estimated that the output is four times that of the puppet Tiger Quad core. ”
It was the necessary part for the Puppet Tiger to carry out the modification.
During the construction of the Mage Tower, Shane installed an armor forging device in the puppet workshop, and ordered Tego to teleport from the teleportation array to the second basement level, disarming the armor plate on its chest, revealing the five cores inside, including the Intelligence Core.
"Stop completely, go to sleep"
The puppet Tiger Tiger's single eye flickered three times, and the buzzing sound of the core disappeared immediately, and the arcane energy circuit on the bones gradually returned to a silvery white color due to the lack of energy supply. The joints of the whole body relax and kneel and fall into a state of shutdown.
It was not very troublesome to replace the four power cores, and the original base was slightly changed, and the high-energy cores were installed in.
"The temperature of the core surface decreases, the escape phenomenon is weakened, and the energy is transferred to the Aoneng circuit. Core temperature is estimated to drop to 30 degrees after twenty minutes. "Eyes of Truth monitoring report.
The power has been upgraded, and the original weapon system is no longer applicable. Shane has an energy storage crystal on hand, obtained from the last time he swept the trolls of the valley. Taken out of the magic pocket, the hex inside has mostly disappeared due to lack of maintenance. Shane held it in his hand and was about to carve a three-ring spell inside: the Scorching Ray.
O'Neng erupted in his hand, pouring crystals into it to sweep away the remnants of the hexery, and Sean concentrated on carving spells. I have the experience of carving the five solid crystals of the Mage Tower, and I can't spend much energy to complete the carving. Then, the storage crystal was used to replace the original device that could only emit light in the one-eyed area.
The final step is to add a new behavior pattern to the energy core, which is coated with anti-magic plating.
All was done, and Shane slammed the arcane ball into the concentrating circle, and the golem activated again. The arcane circuit instantly turned white, and the puppet Tiger stood with a metal crash sound between his armor, and his one-eyed eye flashed at Shane.
"Tygo, use the ray attack." Sean pointed to the floor.
The one-eyed flickered, the rays shot out silently, and the burning made a sizzling sound on the floor, and the head turned slightly, pulling a scorch mark on the ground. The probing depth is 20 mm, and the width is 10 mm. Except for the 'sound effect' and the 'bui~~bui~~' sound of laser shooting, the rest is very good. However, there are many more tests that need to be done outdoors, whether they are good or not, and then we can draw conclusions.
"Tiger will train with you first, and ten puppets will join you later." Shane handed the puppet Tiger to Haduron Mingyi along with the training syllabus. "Secondary permissions have been added to the smart behavior, so you can use it with confidence."
The rangers were taken aback by the big Tygo, but they were quickly attracted by the training syllabus, and the bold changes did not know how effective they were, but they would certainly not be bad.
Ten puppets were handed over to the rangers one by one, and they also had some kind of training. Relying on the direct impact of the puppet armor, the rear road and the side rely on the rangers riding on the chocobo to cover, the main means of attack is still bows and arrows, but it feels different in another way, and the rangers are like 'pure masters'.
Shane walked to the training ground and saw Tygo ray several wooden rakes, cutting them all off in the heat.
"One more time, big man, shoot that shield."
The rangers were resting, and they looked like they were a lot darker. Hadurun Ming Wing handed over data to Shane, the maximum ray armor piercing was 50mm/round, and the wood was ignited at about 110m, and the hit was high.
Not bad at this stage, Shane put away the data.
"What do you feel are lacking in actual training?"
"Your Excellency, I think the golem Ranger needs to replace the heavy scale armor and the stride bow. The golems also have battering rams to be used to attack the troll camps, just like Tygo. ”
Sean used the funds to meet their needs. The troops are taking shape in the direction he wants, the Ranger is agile and changeable, and his troops are the vanguard of heavy armor.