Chapter 332: Novgorod
Rome wasn't built in one day. Similarly, floating cities are not built in a day. Although it is impossible to build a floating city the size of a city with Kennan's ideas and conditions, in terms of building materials and construction difficulty, this project is really not much smaller than building a city.
Of course, Kennan couldn't really stop everything and concentrate on getting the Floating City. Because, now the whole world of Feron is shrouded in an atmosphere of war. Rose in the north is eyeing the spider queen, Erathia in the middle of the continent is fierce, Bracada in the south of the continent is sharpening her knives, and the dwarves in the southeast are also beginning to fight all the people. Not to mention the part of the undead in the desert, if it weren't for the fact that most of the countries on the continent had signed an offensive and defensive alliance when facing the undead, they would have rushed out of the desert long ago.
Of course, Negan is still that Negan, which is not to say that this riot will not affect Negan's overseas island, but that Negan has been so chaotic from beginning to end, even if the war cloud is thick, it may not be worse than now.
In this dangerous situation, if Kennan still blindly buried himself in farming, it would be an act of seeking death.
It's like when you're playing Savage 6, you've been farming since the beginning, and you've been trying to wait until you grow mushrooms to make peace with the world. But. If you don't produce enough defenses along the way, and instead keep developing technology to create wonders, then you are likely to be wiped out by the barbarians in ancient times.
Therefore, Kennan needs a weapon that can quickly build up combat power to make the transition before the construction of the Floating City can complete the killing.
At this time, Kenan is no longer the liberal arts novice who didn't know anything when he just crossed over. Although, at this time, his science level is still very average. But the attainments on the magic side are still not low, mature weapons and equipment, and complete design drawings he still has a lot in his hands. These things were either obtained from a few wizarding academies where he had stayed, or in exchange for the Ancient Tree of Life, and some in exchange for the Knowledge Crystal. The bits and pieces add up to arm his wizarding legion with no problem. It's just that Kennan is still considering what method to choose.
Kenan sipped mint tea as he flipped through his knowledge base in the sea of spirits, intending to choose a few suitable weapons from them.
Suddenly, something fell into Kenan's eyes.
It was a drawing of a floating battleship.
The blueprint of this floating battleship was copied from the body of the rescued dark elf girl when Kenan secretly infiltrated Bracada, and Kenan had seen this drawing after getting it, but because of its average performance and unreasonable structure, it was shelved by Kenan in the corner of his memory. Now, when Kennan saw the design drawings of the floating battleship, an idea suddenly popped up.
Although the design of this floating battleship is outdated, the structure is unreasonable, and the attack power is not satisfactory, but there is also a huge advantage that the construction time period and materials are simple. Only a large amount of ordinary materials are needed to build. The precious magical materials required in it are very few compared to the Floating City. As long as Kenan is given a period of time to design a rune array to build a floating battleship, then as long as there are enough materials, Kenan will dare to give you dumplings.
As for the said defects of outdated design, unreasonable structure, and poor attack power, they are all floating clouds in front of numbers. How to choose between a caliber 800 mm Gustav cannon and a hundred 150 mm heavy guns, I believe that everyone has an account in their hearts.
Moreover, Kennan will not just build according to the original design drawings - this is easy to target. Because, the advantages and disadvantages of this floating battleship no one knows better than the designers. Kenan has a lot of technology here to improve and upgrade the floating battleship, and I believe that the new floating battleship will be a big surprise when it appears in front of the designer of the prototype ship.
After making the decision, Kennan threw himself into the transformation of the floating battleship.
Since Kennan had participated in the construction of the Floating City of the Twin Towers Academy, he had the most contact with the spherical floating city, had a complete record of its parameters and data, and was most familiar with its performance, so Kenan designed the shape of the floating battleship as a slightly flattened sphere. This made it possible to effectively protect against targets of warships attacking from all directions.
After all, flying creatures in the world of Faeron are still a headache. As for the weapons and equipment, they naturally don't need to be too good, simple, practical, and easy to mass-produce are Kennan's most basic goals. The energy cannon from the Twin Towers Academy's floating city became Kennan's first choice, and of course, this energy cannon was also magically modified by Kenan. It is divided into two broad categories. One is the rapid-fire cannon with a fast rate of fire, which is mainly used to deal with the kind of targets that move quickly.
The other is an energy cannon with a mediocre rate of fire and a large caliber, which is mainly used against ground troops and heavy targets that move a little slower.
As for the strength of the energy cannon, it can be designed to be able to kill silver-level targets. Although the gold-level target can't be solved with one shot, it can be covered by firepower, and Kenan also has a wizard legion that can be used, and an elite squad can be sent to decapitate the operation. There is no need to make the caliber of the energy cannon too large. Doing so would cause a lethal overflow, a huge waste of energy, and a huge burden on the energy pool of the floating battleship. Kennan, who used to be the head of the Floating City's Energy Maintenance Office, knows this well.
The Floating Battleship is powered by an alienated version of the Power Furnace, the Elemental Pool, from the Arcane Empire's Tower of Knowledge, an energy device that can be built with ordinary materials forever. Its biggest flaw is that it cannot be used to produce Arcane minions. However, its cheap construction needs and mature mass production performance are still enough to power this kind of mass-produced floating battleship.
And the power furnace also has a huge benefit, that is, its fuel demand is relatively low, whether it is ordinary fuel or arcane materials, elemental stones, and even free energy, it is simply a blessing for the poor. Of course, the result of this is to reduce the service life of the power furnace and reduce its working efficiency.
However, these are not problems, Kennan has already planned to equip each floating battleship with three power furnaces, one for navigation, one for firepower, and one for peacetime supply.
As for the building materials that the floating battleship ultimately needed, Kennan chose the most ordinary steel.
The reason is also simple, because this kind of floating battleship is an overused expendable for Kennan, focusing on construction speed and firepower intensity. As for whether it is strong and durable, that is a secondary issue.
Of course, the main reason is because of poverty.
It's a sad story.
After half a year of modification and experimentation, the first experimental model of floating battleship was successfully built. In honor of this significant floating battleship, Kennan decided to name it the Novgorod, in memory of his tragic cousin.