Chapter 375 Treasure hunting
Although the backyard fire was resolved, Morey's enchantment research had to come to an end, as Paul from the depths of the ocean received the exciting news that he had discovered an underwater ruin that might contain a treasure.
But there are a few deep-sea beasts whose strength is at least above the legend as their own home, there is no problem to deal with one Paul, and the two can still be supported, but against a litter of 5 or 6 sea beasts whose strength is almost the same as it, then forget it!
Because of Morey, Mark had already quietly expanded the mission of the Eyes of Knowledge Church to the fishermen of the fishing village and the pearl divers.
As a mythical beast of the church, Paul is naturally also described as a sea beast inspired by God, and wearing the scales that naturally fall off Paul's body can indeed dispel some sharks that have not yet tasted blood.
This made Paul unknowingly admired by the fishermen.
Their fish and lives were guaranteed, and in their eyes, the effect was real, much better than those priests who said that they had to empty their families in the end of their lives when they went to the temple for treatment.
Therefore, the Eye of True Knowledge spread rapidly among the fishing villages, and the nobles did not bother to care about these outsiders who lived outside the city.
There are no officials in the jurisdiction all year round, and at most, when they come to collect pearls, they can see if the fishing village has been destroyed by the typhoon.
Because the pressure of the sharks is so great for their lives, these fishermen are far more religious than the small citizens within the walls of the city.
Even Paul, who was carrying the divine beast, was worshiped by them, and his strength was also improved, and there were faint signs of advancing to the high level of the legend.
However, there are signs of advancement, but it does not mean that you have the strength of the legendary high level.
For the large herd of sea beasts, Paul still said that he had the intention to kill the thief and was unable to return to the sky, so the master came to help me!
That underwater ruins are far away from the east coast of the continent where the Far East is located, about 1,000 nautical miles, if Morey is a large army in the past, he will inevitably work hard, and because it is a sea battle, once there is a mistake, the destruction of Red Leaf City is in sight, so Morey thinks about it and thinks that he can only form an elite army to go to the open sea.
The good news is that the underwater ruins were sunk into the sea by the island, and they didn't sink much, just a hundred feet away. This depth is not enough to affect the performance of the people in Red Leaf City, and after taking the underwater breathing potion, the pressure of diving is almost none, but the speed is slower.
However, the depth of 100 feet is enough for the depth charges on the ironclad ships to work, blasting the deep-sea monsters to the surface of the water like a fish to fight them.
Yes, in less than a month, Goude and the others creatively completed an iron-framed battleship.
This is not to say that their process has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the entire process from design to construction can be completed in less than a month, but because this is a semi-finished ironclad ship.
As a partner, the Emerald City, when he learned that Morey had already found a shipyard location and was building a shipyard, he towed a battleship that was nearly completed.
This is a battleship decorated with intricate patterns, it turned out to be the brainchild of a baron who made his fortune in the sea trade, but unfortunately this battleship was only halfway seen, and an iron-clad shell was built, and this talented baron died young.
His son was too young to resist the deception of his relatives, and in less than a year, the proud fleet was paid a huge amount of compensation due to an "accidental" delay, and then divided up by several creditors.
Among them, this ironclad battleship was also taken back as an additive.
It's just that it didn't take long for the creditor who took the iron ship to cry out, because this ironclad battleship was clearly a magic crystal battleship with a magic crystal drive device. The previous plan he had planned to transform it into a sail warship was because the hull layout was quite difficult to implement, and even if it really cost to renovate it, the time and money spent would not be much different from building a new warship.
As a result, he had to sell the ironclad again.
But others are not stupid, the magic crystal drive device of the magic crystal battleship will cost at least fifty or sixty thousand gold coins, and even if you spend money to buy it, if there is no one, you may wait for ten or eight years before it is your turn, and such a large sum of money will not be acceptable to anyone for ten or eight years.
And those who have a relationship, but think that this ironclad battleship is too heavy, you must know that the defense means of the magic crystal battleship mainly rely on the defensive enchantment that is propped up, and if you really defeat the magic crystal, you can't even hold up the defensive enchantment, then the magic crystal battleship naturally has no power to become a live target, and the iron and wood ones are just a matter of how much time they are beaten, and it can't change their fate of defeat and sinking.
What's more, when traveling, the speed of the magic crystal warship's magic crystal consumption is directly proportional to the weight, and the heavier the battleship, the more it consumes, this ironclad magic crystal battleship is purely a bulky ornament in their opinion, and naturally they will not be interested in buying it.
In this way, the creditor really had no choice but to sell it to the Emerald City, which had a big business.
Emerald City didn't get this ironclad ship to repair it for its own use, but just made it an investment, maybe one day someone will fall in love with it?
So when Morey planned to open the ironclad shipyard, Delia immediately thought of this ironclad ship that had been sealed for a long time.
With such a huge physical object as a reference, Gou De and the others hammered and hammered, and used all the ideas of the ironclad ship, whether right or wrong, on it, as a prototype experimental ship.
Therefore, there is a scene where the ironclad shipyard has not yet been built, but the first prototype experimental ship has been driven on the Black Sea every day.
The ironclad battleship, named "Murray", was 180 feet long and 50 feet wide, with a full load displacement of nearly 5,000 tons and a crew of 905 people.
In this era when most of the wooden warships were about 1,000 tons, they were already called giant ships at sea.
The biggest difference between ironclad ships and ordinary warships is that the sails are canceled and propellers are used to propel forward.
The high-temperature and high-pressure steam power furnace of the Flame Pillar I type can be used as a power source, which can allow the "Murry" to move at a constant speed of 15 knots, and can increase the speed to 20 knots in a short time. Compared to the 10 knots speed of ordinary non-magic warships, it can be called a sea Scud!
On the deck were as many as 32 36-pounder gunpowder breech guns, and thankfully the firing gunpowder had begun to be filled at Morey's suggestion.
In this way, the firing efficiency is much higher than that of ordinary artillery, and at least there will be no sailors who add more gunpowder due to nervousness, resulting in an incident of exploding.
And the depth charges in the stern of the ironclad ship are equipped with an active steam catapult active launcher. It is possible to cover most of the water area behind the battleship. The depth charges of the ironclad ship are time-lapse fuse explosive devices, and the main purpose of the design is naturally not to deal with submarines that do not appear at all, but to deal with sea monsters and other threats below the surface.
Because of the general understanding of the enemy that needed to be faced, the depth charges carried far more than they would normally need for battle, carrying a full hundred, but the breech guns, which were the points of fire attack of the battleship, only kept enough ammunition on the Murry for self-defense.
As a product of brainstorming, this ironclad ship actually has a huge slap lever and sharp metal ramming angles, which makes Morey have nowhere to complain.
Could it be that I have to find a bunch of Viking barbarians?!