41. Arcane and muskets

Although the power of mages is recognized as powerful, leaving aside those foot men whose talents cannot be reasoned, the money and time required to train a mage with a formal process is a hundred or even a thousand times that of a qualified warrior. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The golden period of a warrior is probably the period from his prime of life to middle age, as long as he is told the basic rules and application skills when fighting, and then he is given a weapon and a minimum of armor, after which, as long as he survives on the battlefield, time and the enemy will teach him everything.

But mages are different, mages have a significantly lower life curve than warriors, and their strength is gained by reading and studying a lot. They pay attention to talent and mentorship, without these two things, you can't even touch the threshold, but even with these, most mages will need at least 10 years before they become usable combat power.

Yes, even the algorithm apprentice can make a complete fireball, but sending such fledgling fledglings to the battlefield is purely looking for death, and those warriors will use their skills and numbers to teach them the cruelty of war, not to mention, the existence of the mage's natural enemy, the assassin!

Cultivating mages is extremely expensive, think about the strange magic props they use, the gems and utensils there are genuine, and the mage tower that was built with a lot of money is likely to be destroyed in an experiment in the next second.

Generally speaking, a powerful mage is definitely in the middle age and twilight of his life, of course, there will be super geniuses like Gianna, Khadgar and Ronin occasionally, but the talent is there, don't forget who their mentors are, the archmage Antonidas, the strongest mage Medivan, and the last one is simply a dragon Clay Ostraz.

It seems that it will be a long cycle for Azhara to teach her people arcane magic.

In fact, even Azhara herself, the way she uses arcane arts is very rough, probably using the most basic plastic energy to release the arcane energy she gathers, which is far less elaborate than what Eren did.

So Azhara felt the need to find a teacher for the magically gifted Night Elves, as well as for herself.

"What, let me teach magic?"

Alan is taking Raven Keith and Mirune to his humble laboratory, he has no interest in the powerful army and politics, he might as well hide here and do some research or something, after the last mind control helmet, he has discovered an interesting new gadget - the musket!

He found it in engineering drawings, which were rudimentary for the materials available, but that didn't stop Allen's enthusiasm. In addition to developing the musket, he's been spending his days lately domesticating the two Chimeras they've captured, and teasing, uh, no, torturing Lunara, as one of the two energies of the Well of Eternity, life, the magic of nature, he's also interested.

Anyway, Eren has been busy lately, and Aishshara is still asking him to spend time teaching those imps, so he is a little unhappy.

Luckily, Azhara knew exactly how to ask for help.

"Brother Darth Rema," I don't know if it should be classified as temperament, or if it is by nature, talking to Azhara has a feeling of spring breeze, not only because the other party is a beauty, but because I can clearly feel the graceful and confident personality charm that blooms on the other party, I just heard her say gently: "The power of the arcane is a powerful weapon given to us by the gods, but unfortunately the people who know how to use this power are very rare among the night elves, So I want you to teach you how to use the arcane arts, which is also the will of the true God. ”

Alan was stunned.

You said that the first half was pretty good, but what the hell did the last sentence involve his own divine consciousness, and when did he say this to Azhara?

However, he couldn't completely deny the other party's words, because he did say to Eshara that the matter would be handled by her, and the feelings turned out to be chicken feathers as arrows.

Looking at this shrewd but partial face of the sincere and innocent Night Elf, Alan sighed, he couldn't take the lead in standing up against himself, so he could only reluctantly agree: "Understood, I'll take the time to come out, but let's talk about it first, the master leads the door, and the cultivation depends on the individual, I don't have to pack a ticket to train them all to become talents." ”

"Of course." Aishara said with a smile.

She lifted her golden eyes, which always made people feel extraordinary, glanced at what Eren was working on, became a little interested, and asked, "Can you take the liberty of asking, what are you doing now?" ”

"A new type of weapon." Alan replied.

"Oh?"

There was a gleam in Azara's eyes, and she was more interested than she had been before.

"What kind of weapon is this?" She asked.

Because the musket was still only in the barrel-making stage, it was hard for her to understand what kind of weapon the metal pipes were put together, even if she was extremely clever.

But this was also a technical challenge for Allen, even if they had engineering drawings. Because it taught them how to do it, but they couldn't make it in one step like rubbing a spell bar. The tube used to make the barrel should be round enough, polished inside and out, otherwise there is a danger of exploding, and then the rifling should be pulled out by etching, which is the most difficult part to solve in terms of their current forging process.

Now that Azhara asked, Eren explained to her that it was a flying prop that could damage enemies from a considerable distance.

"Does it have the power of the Arcane?"

Can this be the same?

Alan shook his head.

"And how about it compare to a bow and arrow?"

This question is really difficult for Allen to answer, if it is a rifle in modern society, it must be more powerful than a bow and arrow, there is no doubt about it, but the fact is that for a long time in history, muskets are not much more powerful than bows and arrows, and there are even frequent accidents due to weather. Shooting, no bow and arrow shoot far, convenient, not as convenient as bow and arrow directly on the bow and arrow, the only advantage is that it can not go through special training, so that the old and young women and children also have the ability to kill strong enemies, and the skill of archery is not so easy to learn, let alone proficient.

But the problem is that the night elves' archery skills are almost natural talents, not to mention Fitz and Connie, Alan even saw with his own eyes that Raven Keith and Jare, with bows and arrows, can easily hit the target more than ten meters away, they smiled innocently, saying that archery is too troublesome, and there is no power and advantage of throwing a stone spear at this distance.

And now the musket built with these scum techniques is certainly not much better.

After Alan told the truth, Aishara lost interest in this cross-era weapon, and she couldn't be blamed for being short-sighted, she just didn't understand the gap between cold and hot weapons.

But even if Azhara felt uninterested, she still didn't show her feelings on her face, and after reminding Alan once again not to forget the agreement with her, she politely got up and took her leave. In fact, she's busier than Allen, and there's more than one place for her to do as a leader.

Looking at the shadow of her leaving accompanied by the maid, Alan said to Ravenkey, who was forging on the side, "She's not interested in what I'm going to do. ”

The latter smiled loyally: "This can't be forced, to be honest Darth Rema, I don't understand the use of this thing you made at all." ”

"Then you're pretty diligent." Alan was a little surprised.

"Of course, because that's what you asked me to do, I just trust you." So said the loyal warrior.