In the eyes of many, the development of Cecil's Territory is already a miracle - even the managers of Cecil Territory themselves will inevitably have such thoughts. It is true that, compared to most of the aristocratic lords of the current era, the Cecil Lords have gone beyond common sense in every aspect, whether it is the construction of the people's livelihood in the territory or the changes in military power, but Gawain never thought so.

The imaginary enemy in Gawain's heart has never been those mediocre border nobles, or even the long-established forces in the royal capital, since the day he inherited the memory of Gawain Cecil, from the day he learned about the existence of the demon tide, his imaginary enemy has been beyond the current human power, and in the face of these enemies, the current power in his hands is far from enough.

"Those monsters have intelligence," Hetty said after Gawain's voice fell, "and although they don't seem to have very strong thinking skills, they do clearly have a certain ability to think - they can judge form on the battlefield, they can judge the range of trebuchets and attack in safe areas, they can even command 'armies' - if their command skills were a little stronger, we wouldn't have won so easily." ”

Amber, who was sitting on the other side of Gawain, couldn't help but say, "I didn't find that they have intelligence when I scouted." ”

"This means that they are not mentally sound, or that they behave differently from humans," Gawain was not surprised, "The aberrant is a creature with a clear purpose, and this will not change, so even the sapient aberrations will not do anything superfluous until they encounter the target, which causes them to appear to be no different from other monsters until they attack." However, after this incident, we have gained a bit of experience. ”

"In addition, we have exposed a problem in this battle," Gawain continued, "when dealing with those big guys, the attack ability of ordinary soldiers is obviously not enough, and trebuchets ...... The hit rate is too low. ”

In the second half of the battle, the three trolls crossed the middle of the battlefield, where the range of the thermal ray guns was already there, but the scorching rays, which were effective against ordinary deformations, showed a shortcoming in firepower when facing those huge monsters - it was difficult for them to penetrate the enemy's body, and even if they did, it was difficult to cause any damage to those monsters that looked like small houses, and those few mutated monsters seemed to quickly judge this, so they dared to swagger to stop in front of the city gate, And gather their strength to prepare for the attack - to be honest, if it weren't for Rebecca's last super big fireball, it might have been dangerous to let those three large "distortions" release the black lightning.

As for the crystalline grenade as a secondary weapon for individual soldiers...... Their power can pose a certain threat to the trolls, but the lack of attack distance is one thing, and the physical exertion of the soldiers is another disadvantage, and the crystalline grenade delays the explosion and the flight speed is slow, for the trolls who already have a certain amount of intelligence, the effect is really not optimistic.

It turns out that only the crystallized bombs thrown by the trebuchet can easily destroy those trolls, but the shortcomings of the trebuchet are too obvious - poor hitability, narrow range, slow reloading and a lot of physical consumption (although this can be solved with mechanical power), and before using the crystallized bomb as ammunition, it is even very powerful, so to speak, to let this kind of painting style seriously mismatch appear on the south wall of Cecil, it is completely a helpless move with insufficient technical conditions.

In fact, Gawain knew that the disadvantages of trebuchets were far more than these - trebuchets that could only throw ammunition did not have the property of "armor piercing" at all, and whether it was stones or bombs thrown out, as long as there was no direct shooting ability, it would be difficult to exert an effect in the face of a strong city wall, and it would sound like a beautiful thing to throw bombs over the city walls into the enemy's city, but as long as the walls of traditional noble castles themselves could stand for a day, the form of war would not change.

Although Gawain's ultimate imaginary enemy is the Demon Tide and its associated disasters, he knows very well that he must first face the worldly forces in this world before facing the forces of nature, and with the current situation on the continent, which is definitely not stable, he must first create weapons that can fight against the traditional walled cities.

Otherwise, his Cecil Collar might not survive to fight the tide of demons.

"The trebuchet capable of projecting crystallized bombs is already the most powerful weapon I've ever seen," said Knight Philip when he heard Gawain's words, "unless...... We can create new weapons that are as easy to use as the Thermal Ray Gun, but on a much larger scale. ”

In a world where gunpowder propelled weapons had never existed, it was difficult for Gawain to explain the concept of "artillery" to others, but he could describe the characteristics of artillery, and after hearing his description, everyone fell into thought.

Hetty was the first to break the silence: "The key is to fire the 'cannonball' in a straight line at a very fast speed, we have made a very powerful cannonball, but we can't 'fire', do you mean that?" ”

"That's right, and I've considered the repulsion array," Gawain nodded, "It's just that the repulsion circle lacks explosive power, and it is difficult to give enough muzzle velocity to the cannonball, and if you use something similar to an acceleration track, set a large number of repulsion points at the right angle on the acceleration path of the cannonball to accelerate continuously, it is theoretically feasible, but I roughly calculated it, even with the most efficient repulsion substrate and the best arrangement spacing, This acceleration track also needs to be tens or even tens of meters long so that the shell has enough lethality and range, otherwise it is not as good as a trebuchet. ”

At this time, Kamal, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke: "Do you need an entity's 'cannonball'?" ”

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows, and his tone was expectant: "Do you have other ideas?" If you have other ideas, of course it's better, physical shells are just one of the ideas, as long as it can solve the problem, any idea is fine. ”

"During Gondor, we had a weapon called the Arcane Pulser, which compressed powerful arcane energy into a restraining device and then released it in a directional direction—very powerful," Carmel said, "and it was a bit like a giant arcane missile in nature. ”

Gawain couldn't help but frown: "Arcane Pulser...... To be honest, I know this, but you should also know that the Arcane Impulse is powered by the magic of the Deep Blue Mana Well - its ammo is pure mana crystals, and the crystal stores pure mana from the Deep Blue Mana Well, and each time it fires, it scraps a crystal, which is simply impossible to achieve in this day and age. ”

"Yes, the Deep Blue Mana Well, that pure and powerful magic is our greatest constraint," Carmel acknowledged Gawain's claim, "but there is something I see today, and maybe it can ...... Partially solve this problem. ”

Everyone at the scene immediately looked at Kamel with curiosity, and Amber couldn't help but ask, "What is it?" ”

Kamel raised his arm, and a plastic hand took shape, and fetched a pile of unsightly metal contraptions that had been placed not far away.

When Gawain looked at it, he saw that it was a series of rune substrates connected to a strange device like a belt, and there were some rune structures on the "belt" that were of unknown purpose and were transformed by himself in private. He was stunned for a moment when he first saw this thing, but quickly reacted: "Isn't this what Rebecca hung on her body at that time?" ”

Amber also looked at Kamal in surprise: "Wow, so you also have a habit of going along with things?" ”

Kamal made Amber choke on a word and flickered again, flashing several times before helplessly explaining: "This is what you landed on the wall when you took Rebecca away, you forgot?" ”

“…… It seems that there is such a thing. ”

Gawain interrupted the conversation between Kamal and Amber, "Anyway, what is this?" ”

Till, who had been lazily coiled under the table, but had been listening with her ears open, suddenly appeared from under the table, and pointed at the pile of metal plates with the tip of her tail: "Rebecca said this is an amplifier, I don't know anything else." ”

With that, the Kraken shrank back - like a hibernating snake, coiling itself up again.

"As far as I can tell, it's actually a bunch of magic field receivers, as well as some modifications to balance the load," Carmel spread out the pile of metal plates, "Miss Rebecca's idea seems to be very simple—because of her limited mana reserves, she connects herself to the entire magic net through the magic field receiver, intending to use the entire magic net as her own magic power reserve, and cast spells with the magic net...... We have all seen the end result, she managed to create a huge fireball that had never been seen before, proving the viability of this idea.

It's just that there is still a limit to her thinking, and that is the 'person' itself. The human body limited her play, so she fainted after a large fireball, however...... Machines and steel are not afraid of this, or even if machines and steel cannot withstand this pressure, they can be mass-produced and consumed.

"So by attaching these amplifiers to a specific weapon, we can recreate the glory of the Arcane Impulsors."

Gawain's eyes couldn't help but widen: "You mean, the magic net...... No, the mana field can act as an energy source for the 'Arcane Pulser'? ”

"No, I'm not going to make a copy of an 'Arcane Pulser,'" Carmel denied, "The Well of Deep Blue can't be copied, and neither can the Arcane Pulser based on Deep Blue Mana, I'm just inspired by this amplifier and that mega fireball today...... If we can manipulate enough energy to redistribute it in a reasonable way, and in the process throw off the shackles of 'personal talent', then we don't need to be limited to specific spells or so-called 'skills' at all. It's like that fireball today...... Is it really still a 'fireball'? ”

From the bottom of my heart, it really went beyond the concept of a fireball, and Gawain felt that if this trend continued, Rebecca might really be planning to rub the sun out......

"The convergence of pure magic power is a very powerful force in itself, and the 'Arcane Impulser' back then was based on this idea, so based on the same idea, it may be feasible to extract the energy of the magic net and use it for attack after gathering. And compared to the deep blue magic well, which can never be replicated after it is lost, the magic net is something that is completely in the hands of humans. ”