The magic steam train was speeding on the tracks, and the picturesque scenery on both sides regressed, making the elf girl Nord Daniel, who was riding this vehicle for the first time, dizzy.

The whistle sounded suddenly, and the magic steam train slowly stopped.

"What's going on?" Although the elf girl Nordaniel is boarding the magic steam train for the first time, she is a girl who likes to listen to the "voice of mysteries", and has a general understanding of the operation of the magic steam train.

Having been to the Council of Magic several times, Ellerstin immediately noticed the anomaly, so she cast a natural magic spell "Eagle Eye" on herself, looking at the edge of the forest in the distance.

In the narrow strip between the forest and the railroad tracks, groups of wild animals are desperately attacking the humans on the other side.

There were hundreds of these humans, dressed in standard silver-gray chain mail and sturdy helmets, standing in three rows, holding black "metal sticks" in their hands.

The animals that attacked were originally very ordinary creatures, such as tigers, jackals, rabbits, and goats, but now, they were covered with blood-red scales, and the gaps between the scales were dripping with bloody pus, and their eyes were red, full of murderous and bloodthirsty desires.

"Demonization?, a high-level demon has sneaked out of the Stroop Forest?" Alestine said with a slight startle, such a scene was all too familiar to her, because not long ago, when the Abyss Rift changed, the animals in the Stroop Forest had undergone a similar change!

Nordaniel also blessed himself with the "Eagle Eye Technique", and said thoughtfully: "When the gap in the abyss suddenly expands. The Great Elder was busy dealing with the Blood King and the Demon Duke, and the other demons were all resisted by the clansmen and adventurers in the Nameless Town, so it was normal for something to be missed......"

"These demonized animals are very dangerous, how can the Kingdom of Holm only send soldiers at the level of knights and squires to deal with them?" Alestine regarded guarding and sealing the Stroop Forest as the responsibility of the elves, so after seeing this situation, he felt a little remorseful in his heart, there would have been no similar thing at all, who knew that Lord Ranhill was blinded by greed.

She stood up and was about to push open the window of the VIP compartment and fly over to assist the human soldiers in dealing with demonic animals with natural magic.

Bang bang bang! The mighty bloodthirsty animals seemed to have been struck by an invisible sledgehammer. They fell to the ground, blood spilling everywhere.

"What's that?" said Ellerstine, who really noticed that the human soldiers were holding almost identical-looking "black metal sticks" in their hands.

Nordiel took a closer look and suddenly remembered something: "This is very similar to the high-pressure steam rifle of the dwarven steam civilization!"

Although the dwarven steam civilization is a lost civilization, the elves have a long life. From the age of mythology to the present. The collection of various literature and classics is very rich. There is also a deep understanding of it.

"There is no high-pressure steam backpack...... No smoke...... It also relies on firing high-velocity projectiles to damage enemies, which can be comparable to the attack ...... of a regular knight" Ellerstin blessed herself with other "telepathic" nature magic, carefully distinguishing the difference between this weapon and the high-pressure steam rifle.

The human soldiers were divided into three rows. Two rows crouched, one upright, took turns shooting, and from time to time took brass-colored projectiles from their pockets and loaded them into their own "rifles".

According to the feedback of the natural gods, Ellerstin found that these projectiles were engraved with simple magic patterns, and there was a faint smell of alchemical substance inside.

Bang bang bang!

Although the demonized animals are fast and close to the official knights, they only have the enemy on the opposite side in their red eyes, and they just want to tear the other party to pieces and eat them alive, and the direction of action is easy to lock, plus the platoon guns have a wide firing surface, and they can dodge one shot, but they can't dodge a row, so it didn't take long for their number to decrease sharply, and the ground was full of corpses.

"With this kind of weapon, the bottom strength of the Holm Kingdom has risen significantly. Ellerstine's voice was a little deep, "They can organize more legions, and they can hurt the legions of official knights." ”

The elven girl Nordaniel shook her head: "But what's the use? When encountering high-level professionals, they are the objects of slaughter and have no ability to resist, just like the original steam civilization, and they will also suffer heavy losses when encountering mid- and low-level magicians and knights with long-range offensive methods." ”

"The high ranks are also promoted from the middle and low ranks. Alestine looked at the battle in the distance and said, "If weapons and armor can be produced in large quantities, just like those alchemy items that are popularized, at least in battles below the high level, the Kingdom of Holm and the Magic Council will have a great advantage." ”

In the past, there were at most 500 knights in a knight order, and at most three or four such knights in a kingdom, and the squires were basically ineffective, but now, if weapons and armor can be popularized, it means that more knights have been added to the kingdom - the number of knights is scarce, but there are many knight squires, and there are more ordinary people who can become squires!

Ellerstin continued, "And who knows if the Magic Council has developed a more powerful and accurate weapon, a similar weapon for mid- and low-level knights. ”

"If there is a similar weapon with a longer range and faster speed, like our excellent magic longbow, and combined with the arrangement of anti-prophecy, wouldn't it be possible to hide in the distance and blow off the head of a magician who has no trigger class or passive type spell with a bang?"

At this moment, the conductor in charge of receiving them, a mid-level magician, walked in, intending to explain to them the reason why the train had suddenly stopped.

After hearing their conversation, he smiled and said, "By the time that weapon is developed, the defensive magic against it will definitely have already been created, and by that time, maybe the magic such as spell triggering will have become a mid-level spell." ”

His tone was full of confidence that has characterized the mages of the Council in recent decades, to the Grand Arcanists, to the Supreme Council, to the High Arcanists. Confidence in the overall atmosphere of the Magic Council and the prospects for the development of the arcane!

"I believe in the research capacity of the Parliament. Ellerstin expressed kindness.

Nordniel asked curiously, "I heard that after Lord Evans proposed the observer effect, the council's research on the microscopic field was in a rut?"

In order to satisfy the curiosity of ordinary people, "Voices of Mysteries" has also added a program similar to "Arcane and Magic Review".

The conductor said with a little embarrassment: "It's just that there is a dispute over the question of why microscopic particles exhibit such strange properties, and there is no answer that most people are convinced of, but it does not mean that the research in the microscopic field has come to a standstill. ”

"Fission, this pollution seems to be serious......" Ellerstin frowned.

The battle in the distance suddenly changed, and a goat leaped out of the few mutated animals left.

Its shape changes rapidly, and a pair of bat-like wings grow from its back. It's like a high-level demon!

Ellersteen's face turned serious. Sure enough, a powerful demon sneaked out of the Stroop Forest.

Just as she was about to go to the rescue, suddenly a silver-white electric snake-like light lit up, extremely dazzling, like an explosion of lightning.

And when the lightning flashes. The air seems to be expelled. The demon didn't even have a chance to dodge. The upper half of the body leaned back and burst open, and the pieces of flesh and blood fell black.

"It's ......," Ellerstin saw a knight in silver-gray full-body armor appear at the edge of the forest. He has brilliant blond hair, a handsome and resolute appearance, and carries a silver-white "rifle" with complex shapes and smooth lines in his hand.

The conductor looked at this scene and took a light breath: "It is the Gauss rifle developed by His Excellency Evans, which can only be used by strong people who are close to the Heavenly Knight and high-level magicians, because it cannot be mass-produced, there are only three at present, and he seems to be the Great Knight of John of the Knights of the Sword of Truth." ”

Nordaniel breathed a sigh of relief, if this weapon can be mass-produced and the user has no strength restrictions, then the high-level powerhouses will be threatened to some extent!

After the battlefield in front of you was cleaned up, the magic steam train restarted.

............

Alinge, inside the Atomic Research Institute.

Heidi is taking her new friends, Ellestin and Nordaniel, to visit this famous place.

The two elves were full of praise for the fantastical and mysterious appearance of the institute, but they felt that it did not seem to match nature too well, and it had a strong sense of manufacture, as if it was a proof and symbol of the magician's conquest of nature.

"A few days ago, when Mr. Lazar used an electromagnetic cyclotron to conduct an atomic nuclear bombardment experiment, he succeeded in preparing a new element, a new element that exists stably and can be put into the periodic table. Heidi smirked at the electromagnetic cyclotron in front of her.

This is the first step taken by magicians in the field of creation under the guidance of the new alchemy, and no one will ever question the correctness of the new alchemy in this regard, it can really allow magicians to make other elements into gold that will exist steadily and not disappear with the end of the magic effect!

Alestine stared at the electromagnetic cyclotron in front of her in a daze, speechless for a long time, the magicians really began to gain the creation authority of nature in the light of Lord Evans's new alchemy?

Seeing this, Nordaniel diverted the topic: "Heidi, how is your artificial intelligence progressing?"

Heidi said with some indignation: "Our research team is assembling a prototype with an electron tube and a magic array, and the teacher said that no matter how much you think about this, it is better to actually complete one, so as to find the specific problem." Due to the size and weight of the design, and the expected computing speed, many mages say that it is likely to be useless...... Everything needs to be improved slowly!, and the research on crystals is more in-depth, and I believe that artificial intelligence will be a great supplement to computing, golems, and alchemy life!"

That's all she hopes for now.

Listening to Heidi's complaints, Ellerstin and Nodaniel smiled at each other and comforted her.

............

Inside the Alinge Magic Tower, in front of the secret gate that leads to the core of the city in the sky.

"Teacher, have you finished the construction of the fission reactor?" Lucien guessed as soon as he saw the destination.

Although there is a big difference with Lucien in terms of the observer effect, Fernando usually does not be hostile to Lucien because of this, and still maintains a good teacher-student relationship, he nodded and said: "According to your opinion, we have improved part of the model and completed a preliminary reactor as a backup energy source for Alinge." ”

After they reversed the fission reaction, they began to study this area, but because the analysis was not detailed enough, and they did not have the most complete understanding of the role of neutrons, etc., the progress was not fast, and only recently with the assistance of magic, a fission reactor with an output energy greater than the input energy was forcibly completed.

............

Rentat, a workers' ghetto inhabited by dwarves.

The Grand Elder Augustus was worshipping a silver-gray thing of steel when Harold ran in and first covered his eyes and saluted, "Steam is on it." ”

Then, he lowered his right hand and said to Augustus, "Great Elder, there is a kindred outside who claims to be from the Dwarven Kingdom, and he says that he is the messenger of the great god of steam. (To be continued......)

PS:Tablet codewords are so sad,It takes more than an hour longer than normal,Although I use the most suitable tablet surface2 for codewords,There is also a physical keyboard,But there is no good input method...... Wait and go to fix the computer, I hope there is no big problem, and I hope that the repair point is not on holiday - I can actually disassemble it myself, but I don't have tools or a boot disk. If there is no update at seven o'clock, it will be at half past eleven o'clock~