CHAPTER XIV
"Urgent gathering!"
Gerald, who had turned into an ordinary bald man again, did not wear armor today, and did not even bring a weapon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info, but he naturally exudes the awe-inspiring aura of a strong man, which makes people dare not underestimate him.
At his level, armor and weapons are already just incidental, and the power of the strong man himself is the best proof of his identity, and it is enough to maintain his majesty.
At this moment, for example, with his shouting, the barracks in the night suddenly became noisy, and the soldiers of the Order hurried to get up, put on their armor, take their weapons, and hurried to the large square in the center of the camp.
And at Gerald's feet, a special incense stick was burning rapidly, it burned quickly and steadily, and looking at the scale marks on it, it was obvious that it was a tool used to keep time.
Although there are clocks and watches in this world, Captain Gerald of the Void Kamen Riders likes to use this old-fashioned incense stick to calculate time - during an emergency assembly.
His criteria are very simple, those who put on armor and come to the square with weapons before the incense is halfway burned are considered good, those who arrive before three-quarters of the burn are considered good, and those who come before the burn is finished are considered passable.
As for the incense sticks that came after they were burned...... Hehe, hehehehe......
After years of training, the warriors of the Order have become quite elite. Even though it took some time to put on the armor, most of them still arrived in the square before the incense was burned three-quarters of the way, and only two failed to pass in the end.
Looking at the two late-faced guys, Gerald had a somewhat hideous smile on his face, and asked lightly, "Cleaning the toilet and confinement." Take your pick. ”
The two are just a little bit off failing to pass the unlucky bastard, you look at me, I'll look at you. Alas sighed and chose the former.
Cleaning the toilet is indeed dirty, smelly and humiliating, but it is better than confinement!
Traditional barracks. are keen to use corporal punishment as a means. But this is not the case with the Void Kamen Riders, and although there are many ways to punish them, there is nothing that will break people's muscles - except for being escorted to court for crimes. The usual punishment methods are two, cleaning the toilet or confinement.
Needless to say, although the camp of the Knights is well built, even if the toilets are not particularly dirty and messy, how can there be toilets in the world that are not dirty and smelly? Not to mention how humiliating this job is, if you are punished once, you will be teased by your colleagues for a long time.
But the latter is even more terrifying, the confinement chamber is specially made. There was no sound inside, and only a small lamp on the roof gave light. And because of the effect of the magic array, no matter how hard you try, you can't touch the walls and roof, just like an ant standing in the vast world, standing alone and helpless, even if you are a bold person, you will be terrified after closing it for a few days, and you don't want to go in for a second time in this life.
The members of the Order come from a variety of backgrounds, and some of them are veteran adventurers. These heroes who lick the blood with their knives can not take the fight and the wounded seriously. I don't care about being beaten or starved, but even the most rebellious people are intimidated after being locked up once, and would rather clean the toilet than be locked in.
The punishment of backward elements has been announced. Gerald's gaze swept over the soldiers who were neatly arranged in fourteen rows.
Standing in front of the eight rows are heavily armored soldiers, wearing special "Void Full Body Armor", which is armor made in whole using special means. The means of manufacture are secret. Its main body is made of large blocks of steel, which are very different from ordinary armor.
This world's traditional armor is divided into three categories: leather armor, inlay armor, and chain mail.
Leather armor is armor made of thick leather treated with fireproof potion. It is light and durable, and also has some defense. The point is that it is relatively cheap, so it is a favorite of beginner adventurers, and it is often used by soldiers of ordinary armies.
Of course, there are also high-end goods in leather armor, such as leather armor made of some special monster leather, which is rare and superb, not only lightweight, but also extremely strong, and has strong magical defense. However, the price is just as amazing, and even high-level adventurers may not be able to have it.
Inlaid armor is a commonly used armor used by veteran adventurers and elite armies, and its main body is still leather armor, but there are many metal pieces inlaid on the leather armor, which greatly improves the protection power.
This armor is rich in content, with a kaleidoscope of styles and types, as well as varying prices and defensive power. The best of them are inlaid with a complete layer of metal on the leather armor, one by one. Of course, this greatly increases the defense, but the weight will also increase a lot, except for the particularly strong heroes, few people can wear that kind of "heavy inlaid armor" to fight.
Chain mail is the rarest type of armor, based on a piece of soft armor woven with countless small iron rings, some of which are used directly, some of which are covered with hard leather to avoid notice, and some of which are layered on top of the soft armor to form a thick double layer of armor.
Those with only the inner layer of soft armor are called "chain mail", and those with metal armor on the outside are called "chain mail". In the past, chain mail was the strongest of ordinary armor. Especially those with heavy and large armor plates, which are strong enough to withstand the attacks of multiple weapons, have no drawbacks other than being bulky and expensive.
But the Void Full Body Armor is completely different from them, it also has an inner layer of chain mail, but the inner and outer layers of armor do not interfere with each other, and there is a special soft leather coat in the middle, forming a triple protection inside and outside, greatly improving the defense. The outer armor is not only sturdy because of the monolithic molding technology, but it is also surprisingly flexible when worn on the body, and does not hinder movement at all.
Someone once tried, wearing a full set of Void full body armor, you can run, you can jump, you can dance, and you can even do somersaults - of course, somersaults and side flips, but group flips are definitely not good.
The soft leather jacket inside this armor also has another mechanism, it has a number of hooks, as long as the hook is hooked with the outer armor when worn, the weight of the armor will be evenly distributed to several parts of the body after wearing, which greatly reduces the burden on the body.
The heavily armed warriors of the Void Kamen Riders are even able to run long distances in such armor!
If you don't consider enchantment, this armor is undoubtedly the pinnacle of ordinary so-called "refined armor", and there is no armor that can compare to it.
And the inventor of this new type of armor is none other than Sui Xiong.
Before the first time travel, when Sui Xiong was doing game design, he had studied and copied a lot of European armor. As a painter from a serious class, he would not learn from some inferior crash course gunners, and he would just smudge and smear even if he tossed out an armor. Every character he painted wearing armor has a historical prototype on the armor. It was also thanks to that job that he knew a lot about the famous knights' full-body armor in history, and was even able to draw a relatively brief structural drawing.
After the Void Mask Playground stabilized, he saw that the soldiers wearing heavy chain mail were slow when the Knights were training, so he started to draw the patterns of the knights' full body armor in his memory one by one, and directly shaped them with magic according to the patterns.
However, the armor was not as useful as he had imagined, and it was as cumbersome to wear. He studied it for a long time, but he still didn't know why, and finally had to ask Morani for help.
As the so-called art industry has a specialty, Morani is worthy of being the god of forging of half-orcs, and it only took him a few days to study what was wrong with the knight's full body armor made by Sui Xiong, and then improved it to become the current Void full body armor.
In fact, Sui Xiong is also to blame for his lack of skill, his understanding of the knight's full body armor is nothing more than the shape of the armor and the approximate decomposition structure, etc., of course, these materials are correct, even if Morani's improved armor is based on this, but he doesn't really understand the internal structure of the knight's full body armor, and he doesn't know what kind of lining this armor is under the bright appearance.
This is a matter of course, as a painter, he doesn't need to know about that, and he doesn't collect that information at all, he just needs to know the external structure of the armor.
In the end, the design of the completed Void full-body armor was highly praised by Morani, and the forging expert said that the appearance of this armor can be said to be a strong stroke in the history of world armor, and it will definitely go down in history.
"From now on, high-grade refined armor will enter the era of full-body armor!" he finally asserted.
Sui Xiong is not very interested in going down in history or anything, as an immortal super jellyfish, he himself is history. But he was glad that the armor he had designed was a success, and he wanted to promote it.
But at this time, he had a big problem.
The armor pieces of the whole body armor were extremely difficult to forge, and it took a veteran blacksmith a month to make only a few pieces of inferior goods that did not meet the requirements. The only feasible way to create this armor is for an intermediate or even higher level mage to use the power of magic to shape the steel directly.
In this case, productivity is very problematic.
Sui Xiong struggled to recall, remembering that he seemed to have seen a statement on the Internet that such armor was made by using a stamping machine to form steel plates at one time. So he wanted to try his hand at making a stamping machine and a steel plate, the latter was not cumbersome to do and was completed quickly, but the former was ...... Even if he had a lot of patience, he finally gave up after failing dozens of times without a clue.
Legend has it that when Edison improved the electric light, he failed more than a thousand times in one go in order to choose the right filament. At that time, someone comforted him, but he said, "I did not fail more than a thousand times, but succeeded in proving that there are more than a thousand materials that are not suitable." The truth of this story is another matter, but there is no doubt that Brother Xiong does not have such a thick heart.
In the end, this kind of Void Body Armor could only be made by a mage after all, and it became an undoubted high-grade product. (To be continued.) )