Chapter 710 Elimination and Innovation
Recalling what happened in the morning, Roland felt a little unbelievable.
How did an ordinary transmigrator like him become the appointed Chosen One? Shouldn't he recite a few lines of poetry to express his surprise at this moment?
When Agatha reported the observation results to him early in the morning, he thought he had misheard. But with the confirmation of many witches, he could only accept it for the time being. At the same time, Roland knew that this result would be unexpected for the survivors of Taquila. In order to strengthen the credibility of the exchange, he simply asked them to visit his nap at noon.
He didn't know if it was because his psychological qualities had improved after becoming a king, or if he was just lazy... He picked up a copy of "Advanced Mathematics" and lay down on the office lounge chair, and actually fell asleep after flipping through it for a while. The first thing he saw when he was woken up was Nightingale's back with a gun ready, and Phyllis fainting.
However, Roland didn't think that the so-called "Chosen One" was chosen by heaven. It was just that the survivors of Taquila had placed too much hope on what they had discovered, to the point that they regarded the witch who could activate it as a savior.
There is no doubt that what is in the ruins, which can cause the three seats of the Association to turn against each other in extremely difficult times, must be extraordinary. But it is worth considering whether it has the power comparable to that of a god and can eliminate devils in one fell swoop. After all, if it were really a creation of a god, how could the person who created it disappear silently in the underground maze?.
Of course, if you want to understand the specific inside story, you have to communicate further with the survivors.
In addition, the result that dreams can be observed also proves his guess from another aspect—this dream world is indeed not completely constructed by his consciousness. The details are too rich and far exceed the brain's ability. He provided a lot of material, but someone else put them together.
He had previously speculated that witches are the terminals for magic transformation. Now it seems that there is still a barrier between the terminal and magic. It is this barrier that gives magic wonderful changes. It is like a black box with unknown principles. Witches only need to issue instructions, and the black box can return results. In other words, the realization process of witches' abilities is no different from the dream world. The only difference is that he does not have the magic to materialize the dream.
This made Roland think of the relationship between mages and the magic net. The former connects to the magic net through gestures, spells, and casting materials, and extracts the power they need from it. If the barrier is regarded as the magic net, it is quite similar.
After he defeated Jie Luo, he accidentally obtained the ability to connect to the barrier, but that was all. The complexity of the instructions is most likely only related to the difficulty of materialization, and is not equivalent to the strength and purpose of the ability. On the contrary, the closer the ability is to the essence of magic, the easier it should be to transform it—for example, directly converting magic into light and heat is definitely easier than creating matter, but the power is definitely earth-shattering.
This is also a major reason why Roland is full of interest in the ruins. The light pillars presented by the five-colored magic stone look like a special "instruction sending" method. Using artificial objects to replace witches and trying to fake instructions... The research on magic can go so deep, which has obviously exceeded the level of the Association. Putting aside the titles full of appointment meaning such as the Chosen One and the Instrument of Divine Punishment, it may mean the budding of new technologies.
For this reason alone, he must deal with the witches of Taquila.
Considering that "the Chosen One is actually a mortal" may bring a heavy blow to the other party, and may even frustrate their confidence in fighting devils, Roland decided to let Phyllis visit the power of the new era before in-depth negotiations.
In order to achieve a better "persuasion" effect, he summoned Iron Axe into the office.
"How is the appearance of the Evil Beasts recently?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, they are all sporadic harassments, which can be solved by the patrol team on the city wall." The Sand Clan saluted a standard military salute and replied.
"Very good, I plan to hold a cannon exercise in the city wall area in the near future. It needs to have a grand scene and minimize waste as much as possible."
The commander-in-chief of the First Army pondered for a while, "You mean... faking it?"
Roland couldn't help laughing. It seemed that Iron Axe's understanding of gunpowder was becoming more and more real. "To be precise, it's half true and half false. When demonstrating accurate shooting, load live ammunition; when demonstrating firepower coverage, use pre-buried black gunpowder, do you understand what I mean?"
"Yes, Your Majesty," Iron Axe nodded immediately.
Blank ammunition is a common thing in exercises. Since it is used to fool people, there is naturally no need to pour out precious howitzers like water. Pre-buried explosives detonated with electric wires can also have a earth-shattering effect, even better.
Roland roughly described the plan he had in mind, "I hope the final explosion is eye-catching enough. For this reason, you can prepare more black gunpowder."
"Your Majesty, this may affect the combat of the artillery battalion..."
He shook his head, "It doesn't matter. In fact, I plan to gradually eliminate black gunpowder weapons. For example, the twelve-pound field gun is no longer suitable for future battles."
The heavy gun body, slow firing speed, and small power of solid bullets all restricted its further use. The battle under the Coldwind Ridge fully showed that the lethality of field guns was very limited, especially when facing dispersed attacks and fast-moving enemies. Most of the Divine Punishment Army fell under the machine guns and fortress guns, and the unlucky ones who were hit by iron balls were only about a hundred people.
In addition, it is difficult to transport, difficult to coordinate with infantry attacks, and difficult to deploy in urban warfare, its use is becoming narrower and narrower. The revolver rifle can still be used for a while, but the gunpowder consumption of bullets is much smaller, and it will not be affected even if half of the inventory is consumed.
With the help of the Dream World, Roland's new chemical reform plan is already in preparation, and the stable increase in the production of double-base gunpowder has given him the capital to eliminate black gunpowder weapons.
"Have you designed a new alternative weapon?" Iron Axe's eyes lit up immediately.
Roland smiled and took out a drawing from the drawer and spread it out on the table, "A curved fire that can be both long and short range, can be carried separately by several people, is powerful, simple in structure, and easy to operate. What do you think?"
Iron Axe bent down and carefully examined the drawing for a while, "Uh... sorry, Your Majesty, I can only see the appearance... It looks like an iron pipe. Can such a thin pipe wall really launch shells?"
"Of course, the key lies in the special shells, but compared to the 152mm howitzer, its manufacturing is still much simpler."
"Does the new weapon have a name yet?"
"You can call it a mortar," Roland replied.