"As the demons spread outward like burning parchment, the McCain clan regrouped in the Dwarven Mountains. They may not want to invade Middle-earth, but they certainly don't want to stay at the foot of the snowy mountains. Both Middle-earth and the North need to be vigilant. ”

Today's first page of the Imperial newspaper carried such a bombshell news.

The living room on the second floor of the City Lord's Mansion was filled with low air pressure.

The Empire doesn't go untargeted, they say so, which means something must have happened.

Is war coming again......

Everyone sat around the fireplace, and Editria, who was weak on the outside and strong on the inside, was the first to say: "At least we are several times stronger than before, and we have the power to protect ourselves from harm." ”

Annan's constant expansion of the corps was prepared for this.

But there is still a lack of time......

They have too much to do and too little time they have.

If the nezumi make a big move south next year, the knight golem and mushroom bombs are already installed, and they will have the confidence to fight them.

If the nezumi make a move this winter, he is confident that the Hellfire Legion will have more than 100 professionals, and the three legions will expand to 15,000 soldiers, and theoretically a single salvo can kill 15,000 nezumen.

But for now, it's likely that the nezumi won't wait until this winter.

Under this bad news, even the flowers have come to the news that they have not found the fat boss of Sparrow Gem Shop, and he is missing. Annan was not too touched either.

"Maybe it's not that bad." Annan clapped his hands and focused everyone's attention on himself. "We're just a small city, and it's not our turn to fight the nezumi or demons head-on or sneak attack. You know, next to us is the Empire. ”

Liberty City was just a group of children standing in the middle of a group of adults, and next to that child stood a giant. Trouble comes, they will fix it.

The McCain clan is one of the thirteen clans of the nezumi.

The Tatooun Empire is one of the Thirteen High Kings.

The McCain clan has demonic help.

The Tatooun Empire has the help of half of Middle-earth.

The kingdom of Rikaner swayed, wandering among the rat people and humans.

The Stuen swayed, moving between humans and nezumi.

So the best situation is that the empire rolls up its sleeves and takes a group of younger brothers to fight against the rat people and demons, as for Annan...... He just cheered on the sidelines, and when he was seen by the overseer, he picked up a dying nezumi to solve it.

"In any case, let's get ready first......"

"What preparation?" Francois asked.

"Preparations for the nezumi to hit Liberty City."

Lilith and Brass Beard were silent,

Alice asked, "Are you too pessimistic to do that?" ”

She had not experienced the flight experienced by Annan and others, and could not understand this negative emotion.

Annan sighed: "I would rather be prepared for the worst than to face war unprepared......

Their former home, Xingyue Bay, is a lesson from the past.

What about killing hundreds of thousands of rats? They were just a bunch of stray ratmen who ran out of the death squad of the McKenn Nezumi vanguard.

Let the others leave first, leaving only the two deputy city lords, Michael, Deng Lishao, Copperbeard, Lilith, Michael, and Gravel.

"I'm going to surprise you." The centurion tossed a medal to Annan before going out, "Now you are a scavenger centurion." ”

Annan didn't want it, but when he saw Olmedo's envy, he gladly accepted the medal.

"You are also a centurion, how can you award me a centurion?" Annan asked curiously.

"Because I'm the king of centurions."

"What's that?"

"Still a centurion."

After they left, Annan first said to Tongsu: "I have been practicing one thing: what if the cake is too small to divide, then make the cake bigger." So—"

"We're going to make a bigger cannon than a magic cannon!?" Copperbeard said excitedly.

"That's not what I meant......"

But it doesn't seem impossible?

Steel was not strong enough to support larger artillery, but Orichalcum had no such worries. The caliber of the current magic cannon is 30 centimeters, but with the mountain bronze cannon, even 300 centimeters is easy.

"Did you make it?" Annan asked with anticipation.

"As long as you're willing to spend money." Copperbeard carries anticipation.

"But I mean the Magic Musket......"

"We're going to make a musket bigger than the magic musket!?"

Under the influence of Annan, Tongsu suffered from a superstitious belief in powerful firepower, and the specific symptom was that the larger the caliber, the more powerful it was.

"Not for the time being, the existing strength is more than enough to deal with the rat people."

There is not much difference between killing a rat with a single shot and blowing a rat with a single shot, and the power of the new and improved magic powder of the past few days can penetrate the weak points of plate armor within fifty yards, pierce leather armor within a hundred yards, and cause damage to unarmored enemies for 200 yards.

Annan's suggestion was to refine the single-shot magic musket into a burst-fire magic revolver.

"It's not difficult, but it can only break out in one wave, and then you still have to reload it honestly." Copperbeard analyzed.

So Annan also prepared to change the projectile into a bullet, and the gunpowder was loaded into the bullet. But after drawing the picture to the brass whiskers, it shook its head and said it couldn't do it.

"Now we can easily make thousands of projectiles a day, and this kind of bullet ...... Even if you create a mold, you can make a few thousand pieces at most. ”

"Then continue to expand the blacksmith shop."

Annan thought well, but was still vetoed by Copperbeard.

"You don't understand." Copperbeard said as a master dwarven craftsman, "We're running out of time! ”

The production of new bullets required constant refinement, determining the shape, size and amount of gunpowder to be filled, as well as making new molds. It is also incompatible with the existing magic musket, so a new magic musket needs to be crafted......

It's the equivalent of them having to make new magic muskets and new burst magic muskets, develop bullets for magic muskets, and make sure they are stable enough.

"Then maintain the status quo for the first time, but we need to divide some people to develop it."

"There aren't enough people!"

"That's why I asked you to expand the blacksmith's shop."

"No, no, this kind of delicate work can only be done by dwarves!" Brass shook his head.

Whatever Copperbeard said, Annan looked at Olmedo, "Then I'll leave it to you to recruit dwarven craftsmen from all over the country." ”

"Hmm."

As for the old-fashioned magic muskets that have been eliminated...... With the new magic musket interviewing and showing off on the front lines, those lords will come to grab it.

I really can't shoot a sixth magic video, and I can always sell it.

In addition to this, Annan asked Michael to focus on the mushroom bomb, Deng Weishao to focus on the knight golem, and Lilith's mage tower and the rubble wall to speed up.

At the end of the night meeting, Annan still had a glimmer of hope.

But when the temple of the Divine Temple, which had been silent for a long time, was convened again...... He realized that this time there was real trouble.

(End of chapter)