Chapter 78: Arthur, You've Changed
After another two months of floating on the calm sea, Ethan used the time to reorganize his gear.
The condition of the Death Magic Stone is stable, although the box made by himself is not good-looking, but the safety is very guaranteed, and the quality is very good, Ethan only needs to improve his forging level next.
After a period of trial, the spatial belt is also stable, and nothing has changed, and the energy injected into it seems to really merge with this belt, and now even Ethan can't extract the energy that has been fused into it.
The rest of the space energy is stored by Ethan in a specially made container, he is not ready to continue to make space equipment for the time being, because he does not have too many good materials in his hands, in the case of a little less space energy, he tends to use a small amount of energy for research, if he can use this to spy on the secrets of space energy, the benefits to himself are far greater than making a few pieces of equipment at hand.
In addition, the pair of bracers that Issandra gave her were refilled with magic and restored to full combat power, except for the reserve of short arrows.
"It's hard to add. ”
Because of the use of custom-made short arrows, Ethan would either build them himself or have to entrust the guild to help forge them, but he felt that after he ran out of stock, the pair of bracers could also be reduced to collectibles, and he gradually felt that the bracers were a little too much for his needs.
With the possession of a thermal weapon, there is a better option for mid- and long-range attack firepower, which is more valuable to the bracers because of the secondary magic attached to them, and even the fireballs are of limited use, and Ethan can use the belt to carry more incendiary grenades and grenades instead.
Even the Ice Shield on the left wrist guard has been replaced by a more powerful magic shield, and now the most valuable thing is the Ice Arrow used to assist.
"Now you're going to have to deal with the primary weapon, right?"
"yes. ”
The sword and the iron rod were all destroyed in the first battle, Ethan never expected this to happen, and he thought that bringing two weapons was a bit too much, and now he didn't have one left, which really made him depressed.
"I should have considered a better weapon, and until then I could only practice swordsmanship with a wooden stick. ”
Since he began to learn swordsmanship, he practiced with a real long sword, and his foundation was poor, so it took longer to adapt to the weight and feel of the real long sword, and now he just had a little feeling that he could only use a wooden stick instead, and he didn't know if it would affect the progress of his swordsmanship.
"Don't worry, you've used a real long sword, even if you practice with a wooden stick, it won't affect your strength in the future. At most, it will take a little longer to get used to the new weapon. ”
"That's good. ”
Ethan still felt unstable without his primary weapon, and with the fact that he was idle in the calm sea, he began to tinker with the magic firearm that he had been thinking about for a long time.
It's a pity that the craftsmanship is too poor, tossing for more than half a month, and finally only barely making a front-loading musket-like thing, the appearance is very ugly, and the only benefit is that it is easy to use.
It is no different from a real musket, except that it does not require responsible reloading. He just needs to aim at the target and pull the trigger. The magic circle inscribed inside will then release the mana stored in the musket from the muzzle and attack the target with the magic that has already been set.
Originally, according to Ethan's concept, this firearm should be able to freely choose its magical attributes, casting a variety of magical attacks, including fireballs and ice are one of the optional attributes. However, this one in his hand can only be regarded as an experimental product, and Ethan only inscribed a magic array in it.
He didn't choose the flame magic array he was most familiar with, but chose the magic of the frost type, and it was based on the idea of freezing the enemy to create cryogenic damage and interference.
Aside from being positioned as a secondary weapon from the beginning, he can't make too powerful attack items now. If the magic output is too strong, the materials in his hands will not be up to standard.
For many reasons, this magic musket is only a purely secondary weapon, and killing and injuring enemies is not its main task - of course, even if it hits an ordinary person, it can still kill them.
As before, as the only crew member on the ship other than Ethan, Arthur was once again the target of Ethan's new work.
The evaluation is also the same as always, first comment on the appearance: "Compared with your previous works, this musket is at least decent in terms of shape......"
Yes, at least Arthur could tell at a glance that it was a musket.
During his boring sailing career, Arthur began to read books to pass the time, originally he did not like to read endlessly, but only consulted and studied when needed.
The impact of the environment on people is really huge, and King Arthur, who gradually experienced the pleasure of reading, seems to be less jumpy and more calm, and has become mature in advance.
Of course, his knowledge has become more and more abundant, and now he knows everything about muskets and the like, and maybe when he returns to his own world, he will try to make these things - if he does succeed, it will be a lot of fun, and Ethan is very happy about it, and even adds to it.
"I guess this isn't an ordinary musket?"
It certainly wouldn't be an ordinary musket, and they didn't have no guns in their hands, so why did they go to the trouble of making such an obsolete weapon? The two of them were ten meters apart from each other, and they didn't have to shoot at the crowd and then watch the crowd not necessarily kill anyone, and they were not uncommon for them to be given away for nothing.
"Of course it's not ordinary. ”
Ethan explained the function of this weapon, and even Arthur considered whether to ask Ethan to build one for himself.
"If you want, I'll help you customize it, and you can even decide the look and style. Ethan paused, and then added deliberately: "It's not limited to the shape of the musket, but it needs to wait for my craft to go further." ”
The musket, including the appearance, is the simplest in production, if the more complex revolver requires more detailed craftsmanship, Ethan is not unable to build now, but it takes a lot of time to craft, before he was still experimenting with the combination of magic array and firearms, of course, he will not waste time on this kind of thing.
Now there is both theory and practice, and there is a finished product. As long as he continues to improve and refine his ideas, he can combine modern firearms with his own magical knowledge to create truly powerful weapons.
"In addition to these, we also need to find more suitable metal materials. ”
If you want stronger firepower, in addition to being durable, you also need excellent magic conductivity, generally speaking, the conductivity of magic on metal is very poor, only a few metals have excellent conductivity, but these metals and durability are not compatible.
The most popular way is to mix these metal particles into ordinary metals to make magic alloys, which is barely the best choice, although it also has this disadvantage.
It's a pity that for Ethan now, this thing only exists in legends, and he doesn't have such a scarce metal at hand, not even a little bit of metal with magical conductivity.
"Understood, when you find the right material, I'll discuss the choice of style with you. ”
Ethan nodded, and put away the magic musket, which was now the only weapon in his hand, and could not be given to Arthur for the time being.
In addition, there are only some ordinary guns and tactical daggers on the ship, because Ethan and Arthur's longswords are not ordinary weapons, so there are no spare longswords prepared, and now it looks more embarrassing.
"It's okay, I have a lot of means anyway, and it's nothing without a long sword. ”
In the calm sea, he has enough means to deal with the enemy even if he doesn't use a long sword, and the only thing he needs to worry about is entering other worlds, and maybe he will need a long sword, a main weapon that he has already used.
"And we've been drifting for a few months, who knows if we'll run into space-time energy, maybe we need to go back to Stated Island to replenish supplies, and then just buy some weapons. ”
Ethan forgot that flags can't be planted indiscriminately, and it's easy to get into trouble.
Habitually using the space-time pointer, Ethan was embarrassed to find that the arrow he was looking forward to appeared in the light cluster, and only one arrow meant that it was not far away from him.
"I've used pointers before, right? Didn't it show up searching at that time?"
Arthur nodded affirmatively, Ethan often summoned the pointer to take a look, he had been used to summoning before, and the arrow did not appear at that time.
As a result, before his words landed, he saw an arrow appear when he summoned it again, which still meant that an arrow was very close, so it couldn't be that he had just entered the search range, which made Arthur involuntarily look at Ethan.
"Could it be that this is the most powerful and mysterious prophecy of magicians?"
Ethan looked at Arthur speechlessly: "Arthur, you have changed. Arthur would never make such jokes before, and now he really feels that Arthur has changed a lot.
"No kidding, what are you going to do next?
"Of course, no matter what, the space-time energy can't be missed, even if it is not used to travel to the plane, it also needs more space-time energy to practice and improve this magic, and only by mastering this magic thoroughly earlier can I be completely at ease. ”
Arthur didn't understand Ethan's mentality very well, he always felt that Ethan was extremely lucky to have such a talent, why did he have to study it thoroughly?
But even if he doesn't understand, Arthur still admires Ethan's spirit, maybe it's this way that he can get to where he is today with his not very talent, right?
"Towards the next world, onward!"
Adjusting its course, the Dawning Goddess moved at full speed in the direction of space-time energy.