126 Vessel modifications
The voyage back to the north was not easy, as Liang needed one person to operate a ship that normally required thirty or forty men to operate, and even with magic, it was a frenzy.
Fortunately, this problem was not a difficult problem for Liang En, who was already a high-level alchemist, and in the process of sailing all the way north, he also began to use alchemy to transform the sailboat.
On the way, he took a part of the 766 kg of gold and 10.63 silver he had obtained from the gold mine in Hokkaido, processed it into gold and silver wires, and then made it into alchemy runes, forming one alchemy array after another, which was inlaid in various parts of the ship.
After completing the fabrication of each part of the alchemy array, Liang En connected these alchemy arrays through two sets of independent magic power circulation lines, and finally concentrated them in a mezzanine in the bow of the ship and in the stern building to form a control station.
The work was not easy overall, but Liang En's cultivation allowed him to complete the overall renovation work after three days, and in a way, this is also a shipbuilding at sea.
When the last alchemy array was installed, Liang En had consumed a total of 300 kg of gold and 2 of silver, in addition to 130 steel, 15 copper, and a large amount of waterproof materials, canvas, ropes, pulleys, and other items on the way back to the modern world.
In addition, he also consumed a lot of gold and gems to make a container for the lamp gods, and summoned more than 30 lamp gods to put in the bottles one by one.
Before he started, Liang En was a little worried that making a lantern god would be more complicated, but after he actually started it, he realized that it was not difficult for him to just make some low-level lantern gods who could only complete simple commands.
After all, the core part of this job is that you need to have enough strength to condense elemental spirits from the surrounding energy, and Liang En's current transcendent level is obviously much higher than the lower limit required by this magic.
For him, this soul-building job is as easy as asking a college student to do math problems in the first grade of elementary school.
If it weren't for the fact that every time he made a low-level lamp god, he would consume materials equivalent to 23,000 euros of wealth, and Liang En couldn't think of any use for these low-level lamp gods other than helping him drive a boat, and he would definitely not have summoned more than 36 lamp gods now.
After completing all the preparations, Liang En docked the ship on a deserted beach near Natuna Island, then took out the prepared things and stood on a large alchemy circle in the stern building to start injecting spiritual power.
As one alchemy array after another was activated by spiritual power, the various materials that Liang En placed on the ship gradually integrated into the ship. The whole ship also began to change:
The shape of the ship has gradually been deformed to become more hydrodynamic, and the structure of the ship's hull, such as planks, masts, sails, rigging, etc., has been optimized and strengthened.
The mast that was not too low was raised again, the sail area continued to expand, and the hull keel and mast were gradually converted to steel, and the same material was added to the ribs of the ship.
As a result, the interior of the ship has been readjusted to add more Chinese style. Other than that, the ships were not much modified.
He also knew that this kind of heavy Arab sailing ship had the advantages of shallow draft and fast speed, because of the high center of gravity and low freeboard, the ability to resist wind and waves was relatively poor, and even the adjustment could only be optimized and could not be completely solved.
However, considering that it is obviously not worth it in terms of cost if it is to be overhauled, coupled with the fact that the water along the northern coast of China, which will be the main activity in the future, is not loud, and there are not many deep-water ports, but the wind and waves are also not particularly large, Liang En feels that those problems are still acceptable.
What's more, the ship will have magical protection, so as long as you don't run into some extreme situations, you won't have too much of a problem with safety.
After a click, a watertight compartment appeared underwater, and the hull that had been lapped was transformed into a seam hull, and a large amount of waterproof material was filled into the gaps.
The size and displacement of the ships began to expand with the replacement of the timber after the wooden structures were replaced, and soon expanded from about 1,300 materials to the original size
To more than 1600 materials, that is, the displacement of about 480, the bottom of the ship is also covered with copper plates.
Even more invisible, such as the rudder, which has changed from a simple rudder rod to a complex drivetrain with screws, gears and levers.
Unlike those old rudder systems, this system is more reliable and requires less effort. It's just that because of the extremely high requirements for machining accuracy and materials, ordinary people in the ancient world couldn't make it at all.
At the same time, the remaining part of the steel was gradually converted into one cannon after another, which appeared in the gun emplacements that had just appeared with the transformation of the ships, and finally 20 guns appeared.
These guns consisted of eight 24-pounder guns, eight 12-pounder guns, and four 36-pounder carons, as well as six 3/4-pounder boomerangs that would normally not be counted as guns.
When all the changes on the ship were over, Liang En took out 30 kg of gold and ten times as much silver, and then began to build the most complex and core elemental furnace in the entire ship's transformation.
After a deep refit, the ship has gone from being an ordinary warship to a medium-class transcendent ship, so it is essential to have a core capable of powering these transcendent facilities.
Through the previous communication with the Mo family, Liang En knew that Huaxia had simply divided the extraordinary means of transportation into three levels: inferior, medium and superior.
Among them, the inferior extraordinary means of transportation are just adding some extraordinary energy to ordinary vehicles, such as those carriages with temperature regulation or defensive runes used by some dignitaries.
Medium transcendental vehicles are superior in their use of supernatural powers, and this type of teleportation can be regarded as a whole supernatural object, and at the same time can do things that ordinary vehicles cannot do, rather than being just an enhancement of ordinary vehicles like inferior supernatural vehicles.
As for the superior transcendent vehicles, they are completely out of the normal category, and the ships, for example, are capable of flying, diving, and even traveling between different worlds.
As the transcendent level of these vehicles rises, the demand for extraordinary energy also rises exponentially, and if the inferior vehicles only need some energy storage devices, the medium vehicles need their own energy core.
In the last exchange, Momen mentioned that they had created a ballista that used an energy core called the Heart of the Mechanism, which could provide a steady stream of energy for this kind of war mechanism.
It's just that Liang En doesn't have a mastery of the Chinese-style energy core such as the Heart of the Mechanism, and his technology comes from the alchemy inheritance of the ancient Egyptian method of making solar boats, and synthesizes some of the knowledge of the spirit magic that he has just learned recently.
Looking at the gold and silver in front of him, Liang En took a deep breath and injected spiritual power into the silver, and as the alchemy was activated, those silver ingots gradually liquefied into three nested rings.
He then melted the gold in the same way and split it into two parts, the large part quickly split into a large number of small particles the size of mung beans, and then turned into countless golden runes and gradually embedded in the silver ring.
The smaller part becomes a three-layered nested filigree ball, on which a large number of ancient runes are made using special jewelry-making techniques.
"Hope everything goes well."
Looking at the two items made of one gold and one silver, Liang En took a deep breath, and then encouraged the spiritual power contaminated with the power of the sun in his body to put the gold ball in the silver ring.
In the next moment, the three-layer golden ball and the three-layer silver ring rotated rapidly at the same time, and the aura above gradually merged into one.
A sun-like power gradually generated from the innermost part of the golden ball, and although it was only a faint light like a candle flame, it gave people a certain awe-inspiring feeling.