Handini, who was training new soldiers, heard the call of the lord of the city, and he called out to Aslan, "Lord lord, I saw those dwarves early in the morning, so I borrowed a bunch of tools from the steward of Michelo and ran to the west outside the city. ”

West?

"I see, you can continue training. After Aslan finished speaking, he walked towards the west side of Flying Sky City.

Flying City can be said to be surrounded by mountains on both sides, the north side is occupied by the town center, but there are basically stone mountains there, during this time, Jace arranged a lot of hot digging, but never found any ore exists, the west is also a big mountain, but there is at least a little more life than the backside, not as completely stone mountains as the back.

As soon as he walked out of the city wall, he saw in the distance that at the foot of the mountain to the west, there were figures at work, and the sound of tapping kept coming.

Aslan took a closer look, and sure enough, to his surprise, Simalan was leading a dozen dwarves to beat the stones with hoes, hammers and other tools. In just one morning's work, several deep caves have been dug.

"Simalan!" Aslan shouted to Simalan, who was wielding a hammer.

Hearing the call in his ears, Simalan lowered the hammer in his hand and looked in the direction from which the sound came.

"Brother Aslan, why are you here, it's very loud here, there's too much lime, you go back first. Simalan shouted.

Indeed, the foot of the hill was filled with the sound of hammers striking stones, and lime was stirred up everywhere.

"I'm looking for you something, you come out. Aslan said.

"Okay, you wait for me. Simalan said a few words to the dwarf beside him, put down the sledgehammer in his hand and walked out.

Simalan patted the dust on his body, came to Aslan, and asked, "Why are you here, it's too chaotic here, and sometimes there are a little rockfalls, so it's not very safe." ”

Aslan pulled Simalan to a distant place and said, "Why did you start building so early, do you want me to find you a few people to help?" ”

"No, no, although we dwarves are best at forging, we are also very good at building holes. Cimaran laughed.

Aslan said, "By the way, I have a forging question for you. ”

"You say, whether it's a weapon, or a building, there's nothing we dwarves aren't good at. Simalan said confidently patting his chest.

Aslan took out a drawing from his bosom, handed it to Simalan and said, "This is something I found by chance in our storage room in Flying City, see if you can make it." "This is the blueprint for the flintlock musket he had exchanged last night.

Simalan took the drawings and looked at them carefully, and he suddenly exclaimed, "This is similar to the goblin clan studying the torch hundreds of years ago, but it is different?"

"Torches? You said you'd seen something like this. Aslan asked in surprise, but according to his "memory", there should not be a thermal weapon in this world.

Simalan looked at the drawings and said, "I haven't seen this thing, but I've heard my father say that it's a wooden stick that looks like a stick, and it has a hole in the middle that makes a big noise, and it can shoot something like an arrow feather, and it has a long range. ”

"Then why doesn't anyone use it on the mainland? Aslan asked the question.

Simalan explained, "This thing was originally invented by a goblin, just like we dwarves are good at blacksmithing, and their goblin people are good at inventing strange things, and many of our drawings are bought from goblins. ”

"And this thing similar to a fire barrel was lost hundreds of years ago, because it has too many shortcomings, although the range is long, but the front sight of the fire barrel is extremely poor, it is possible to miss within ten meters, and it may explode when shooting, and each of its shots requires complex operations, and it consumes a lot of iron to manufacture, and its ammunition manufacturing also consumes a lot of flammable and explosive things such as saltpeter, and finally it is considered a waste product, and there is no goblin to study anymore, so it is lost. ”

"That's it!" Aslan understood, it seems that the goblins hundreds of years ago did not overcome the most basic difficulties, and did not see the potential of the musket as a weapon, so it is fine, otherwise this drawing of his own is useless, and he is different from those failed products.

"It's a weapon I've invented in my spare time, and I feel very powerful, but I can't guarantee how powerful it is. ”

Aslan pointed to the picture and said, "Then can you make a musket like this according to this picture?" ”

Simalan couldn't understand why Aslan was so obsessed with this thing, which seemed to him to be far less useful than the iron sword armor he had created.

"You're sure you're going to build this thing, it's a waste to build this. Simalan said.

"You don't care about that, you just say if you can make it. Aslan continued.

"Yes. ”

Simalan pointed to some details on the drawings and said: "These guns are more difficult to build, and the requirements in many aspects are relatively fine, but they can still be done through our dwarven forging technology, but now our tools are not very sufficient, it may take a little time, and the materials on them are ......."

Aslan said without hesitation: "In terms of time, we are not in a hurry, as long as we can build this thing." I'll arrange for someone to get the materials together for you. ”

Simalan nodded and said, "The most important thing to make a musket is iron." Actually, these are not the key, the key is its bullet, really, can this thing really be that powerful?" Simaran frowned, still unable to comprehend this explosive thing in his mind.

Aslan thought for a moment: "If you have iron, although we don't have much iron in Flying City, we can buy it, but this bullet ......." ”

Aslan knew that this bullet needed gunpowder, and the most basic black powder was also composed of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur.

There is no problem with wood charcoal among the three materials, and sulfur can also be found, but this potassium nitrate!

Sima Lan also nodded in agreement and said, "The method of making the 'gunpowder' on this drawing is indeed a bit strange, I know charcoal and sulfur, but I have never seen this white crystal-like thing." ”

Aslan is not worried about the problem of not having saltpeter at all, in the world of magic and martial arts, there must be a more advanced formula than black powder, but he doesn't know, maybe it is not impossible to develop gunpowder that is more powerful than smokeless gunpowder, of course, Aslan's priority is how to find a substitute for saltpeter.