Chapter Twenty-Five: War Comes "There is already reliable news that the orcs will invade after this year's autumn harvest festival, so this year's hunting activities of the Hunters' Guild must be brought forward.
Moreover, in order to complete the tasks assigned by the Kingdom Legion, the scale of the hunt must be increased.
Master Mark explained the reason to Zhao Yannian.
"I know, but why do you look worried, two teachers?
Hasn't every orc invasion in history been defeated?
Zhao Yannian asked with some confusion.
"We have indeed been able to drive back to the Beast Plateau every time, but each time countless civilians have been killed in the Outlands, and the Beast Blood Fortress has been destroyed six times and breached thirteen times in the thousand-year history of the Beast Blood Fortress.
After each break, the orc army would go straight down and wash the blood of the nobles in the Northwest Regions.
Larry and I are both from the Northwest, and we experienced an orc invasion firsthand, and it was that time that we were still teenagers and received the inheritance of the Wild Mage. ” "Can't our army and mage legions stop the orcs?"
"The mage legion is indeed very powerful, but without the support of the magic network, even the algorithm legion cannot afford to fight against the elite legions of orcs.
Therefore, most of the time, the Mage Legion will only send a part of its strength to assist the Kingdom Legion and the Noble Legion. ” "I know that the magic network has a limited range, but if the orcs are really so powerful, why would we still be driven to the Beast Plateau?"
"This problem has to start from ancient times, when the world had nine continents, when the gods and demons warped, the demon gods fled to hell, and destroyed the balance of the whole world with forbidden evil methods, so that the gods had to return to the heavenly realm, most of the creatures created by the gods followed to the heavenly realm and transformed into angels, and among the few creatures left, the two most powerful races were goblins and high elves.
All of the goblins remained in this world because none of the people of the clan could meet the standards of transforming angels, and the High Elves were reluctant to go to the Heavenly Realm because a small number of High Elves respected the idea of nature.
It can be said that these two races were the overlords of the world at that time, and after nearly 10,000 years of development, they occupied the vast majority of the entire world.
Master Mark closed his mouth as he spoke, and Master Larry continued in agreement.
"However, the Demon Gods did not give up their ambition to return to the world at that time, and they created a large number of demons as an advance army to try to occupy the world, and the orcs were created as cannon fodder in that situation.
Moreover, because the orc's strength comes entirely from the bloodline, after the appearance of the eternal mist, the strength of all races has been greatly weakened, and only the orcs still maintain their own strength.
After breaking free from the control of the demons and becoming the inhabitants of this world, although the orcs have been suppressed, they still occupy a wild continent and survive tenaciously.
It wasn't until the Eternal Mist gradually swallowed up the other eight continents except for Dragon Sleep.
All races have migrated to the Dragon Sleep Continent.
Because of the shrinking living space and years of grudge entanglement, a fierce war broke out between goblins and high elves, and the final result was the total annihilation of both sides, and the orcs and other weak races who had long been prescient and cowered on the barren plateau of the Longmian Continent then began to devote themselves to the war for the supremacy of the continent.
The end result was that we humans won, and the orcs were forced back to the Beast Plateau step by step.
However, the number of strong men in each generation of orcs is still equal to or even more than that of humans, but their lifespan is too short because of their bloodline, and they will go to see their beast god in 50 years at most. ” In other words, every 20 years, orcs can train a large number of strong warriors to attack humans.
But because of lifespan and resources, they can't accumulate too much strength, and humans can't fight the orcs on the plateau, so the two sides are in a stalemate?
After listening to the situation of humans and orcs, Zhao Yannian tried to summarize it.
"That's it, but there are some deeper reasons, such as the kingdom sometimes deliberately allows orcs to invade in order to strengthen its control over foreign nobles, but we don't need to pay attention to the bullshit between these nobles."
Master Mark was not interested in the battle between the nobles, and when he said this, he stopped talking.
Zhao Yannian lowered his head and thought for a moment, then raised his head and said, "Two teachers, the flashbang can be increased at any time if needed.
There's no need to worry about that, I'll organize production as soon as the Hunters' Guild asks for a number, but I have a small request for two teachers to help. ” "Let's hear it," Master Larry was obviously much more interested after hearing Zhao Yannian's assurance.
"I want to unite the names of the two masters and present one of my alchemical inventions to the kingdom."
"What kind of invention?"
Master Mark was also interested at this time.
"An alchemical cannon, powered by explosives I invented."
Zhao Yannian said, his eyes suddenly lit up here, and he thought of something.
"How's the performance?"
Master Mark has always been very interested in powerful alchemy creations, so he immediately followed suit.
"The firing range is 2,300 meters, the total weight is 6 tons, the rate of fire is 810 rounds per minute, it can be equipped with a variety of artillery shells, the armor-piercing projectile can penetrate 300 mm of steel armor from a distance of one kilometer, and the killing radius of the blasting grenade is 25 meters, and the creatures within 25 meters are almost certain to die if they do not have magic armor or a high-level flying object defense field."
The two masters gasped, the power of this alchemy cannon was comparable to the combat power of a great mage.
"And what about the cost?!"
Master Mark asked nervously.
"Because the cannon body and cannonball must be made by an alchemist, the cost may be a bit high.
This cannon costs about 1,000 gold coins if you only count the materials, about 20 gold coins per shell, and about 1,500 gold coins if you count the labor.
However, if it is a large-scale production, it should be possible to reduce the cost if the metal purification is done by craftsmen.
Zhao Yannian lowered his head and said with some hesitation after calculating.
"So cheap?!
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The cost of a magic cannon is tens of thousands, and it must be hung on the magic network before it can be used.
Blake, what do you want by offering such a good thing to the king?
” "A knighthood, an opportunity for my inventions to be taken seriously, and some of my inventions require a lot of manpower and material resources to build.
So I needed an opportunity to give my voice to the top. ” "An invention that requires a lot of manpower and material resources?"
Master Larry was a little confused.
After Zhao Yannian saw the puzzled expressions of the two masters, he stood up and walked to the more spacious part of the room.
As soon as he stretched out his hand, a huge sand table two meters square fell to the ground.
At this time, the two masters also came over and bowed their heads to study.
The sand table is a plain terrain with forests, towns, rivers, and above the river there is a huge embankment, yes, it is indeed a levee, but there are many drainage outlets on the embankment, and there are some buildings on the embankment that do not know the purpose.
"A?"
"Look at the scale of the 1,000-meter-long levee?"
The two masters looked at each other in confusion.
"Blake, what are you doing with building a dam?"
Some impatient Master Larry asked first.
"Two teachers, do you remember the principle of the reverse operation of the energy transformation alchemy circuit that I mentioned in class?"
Zhao Yannian suddenly made a mage salute to the teacher, and then raised his head and asked.
"Shhh......hhh ” Zhao Yannian nodded affirmatively.
"A small magic net that can be popularized, no wonder you have to become a nobleman to come up with this invention."
Master Larry also came to his senses at this time.
"Yes, I don't know how the Magic Guild reacted after the appearance of the small magic net, but if I become a nobleman, at least I will be protected by all nobles after this invention is proposed."
In fact, this plan was improvised by Zhao Yannian just now, because the time of the orc invasion was earlier than Zhao Yannian expected, and with Zhao Yannian's current strength, there was only one way to go to the battlefield, so when Zhao Yannian heard the two masters mention the reason for the stalemate between humans and orcs, he suddenly came up with such an idea, through the alchemy cannon to obtain the status of nobility, and then make the technology of the small magic net public, at this time, he will inevitably get the goodwill of all the nobles in the foreign lands.
And this will be of great help to Zhao Yannian to seek a piece of aristocratic territory after this war, after 1,500 years of development, the current power of the outer domain can compete with the kingdom, so His Majesty's decision-making is no longer focused on the inner domain, but began to rely on balance to ensure power.
Due to the limitations of natural conditions and transmission distance, although the small magic net technology will cause a huge sensation, it cannot break the balance between the inner and outer regions, and the contribution of the alchemy cannon is enough to make the forces belonging to His Majesty the King in the inner region maintain a neutral and friendly position towards Zhao Yannian.
After that, Zhao Yannian and the two masters discussed until late at night, the alchemy cannon was no longer important, the important thing was the feasibility of the small magic net, you must know that the magic net has always been in the hands of the mage and the kingdom.
Whether it is an alchemist or a wild mage, they are all greedy, if they have the opportunity to have their own magic net, whether it is used as a power source to study it, it is enough to make the two masters fall into madness, and in the end, Zhao Yannian had to leave the model in the alchemy guild for the two masters to study before he was able to get out.
It was close to midnight when Zhao Yannian left the Alchemy Guild, but fortunately, there were still attendants on night duty in the guild.
After borrowing a carriage and still thinking about the plan he had just proposed in his mind, Zhao Yannian returned home in a trance.
Gently opening the door without turning on the light, he took off his clothes, quietly climbed onto the bed, and hugged Luna from behind.
Zhao Yannian's two thief hands habitually touched Luna's chest.
"Hey, why did Luna's boobs get bigger?"
"Hmmm......"
"Ahh It is certain that Zhao Yannian doesn't want to sleep tonight.