Captain Jack of Azeroth

Chapter 137 Black Pearl
Sailing on the sea gives you plenty of free time.

Jack flipped through the books and tried to make magical engineering items according to the instructions.

Magical engineering is indeed profound and much more complicated than engineering. For example, when making bullets, enchanting them with fire spells can increase the power of the bullets. Enchanting them with frost spells can add freezing effects. Enchanting them with wind spells can increase the speed of the bullets...

The same item, enchanted with different runes, will produce completely different effects.

Different combinations of runes will produce various chemical reactions, which gives Jack a headache.

Although his IQ was enhanced, his knowledge of magic was really lacking. Therefore, he rolled his eyes and realized that this kind of research was not something that could be done by one person.

That's right, he turned his attention to the Nathalas School of Magic, which had hundreds of mages and thousands of magic apprentices. They didn't pursue material things, but they were eager for knowledge, right?
With his mind made up, Jack skipped the parts he couldn't understand and turned the pages backwards.

Suddenly, he saw several familiar runes.

"Is this the rune on the hull of the Black Pearl?"

When Azshara was repairing the Black Pearl, Jack had observed the runes on it. Although he could not recognize all of them, he was very familiar with them. So, when he saw these runes, Jack remembered them.

“Why haven’t you seen it before?”

When he was making the magic cluster bullet, he had flipped through this book. Perhaps he was in a hurry at the time, so after finding the magic cluster bullet and the magic magazine, he did not read it carefully.

Jack felt a little surprised when he looked at the magical engineering products recorded on it.

“Is this a train?”

The train is just Jack's nickname for this item. It is actually just a suspended minecart. However, the suspended part above is a rail, and the minecart is suspended on the rail, which can move very quickly.

Just like the subway between Ironforge and Stormwind, it can allow the two places to reinforce each other very quickly.

So, it’s not wrong to call it a train.

The book records that the magic ceiling transport vehicle is used by mechanical gnomes to transport ore. It seems that the subway in Stormwind must have been designed by gnomes, otherwise it would be difficult to explain why the subway and the ceiling transport vehicle are so similar.

So, what is the function of these runes?

Increase speed, strengthen defense, and stabilize structure...

Jack could understand the importance of increasing speed and strengthening defense. Increasing speed and strengthening defense complement each other and are indispensable.

Take the Flash for example. If he only had speed but no physical enhancement, his body would not be able to withstand the pressure of speed. Not to mention circling the earth several times in one second, even breaking the sound barrier would turn the Flash into a ball of pulp.

Of course, if you are talking about the bug-level setting of Speed ​​Force, then just ignore what I said.

But what does this stable structure mean?
Unlike machines, ships are built as a whole. Their structure is very stable, and with the runes that enhance their defense, unless they are bombarded constantly like in the naval battle with the goblins, the hull will not be damaged at all.

Therefore, the Black Pearl's hull does not need to be stable at all.

The term stable structure is more often used to describe mechanical structures.

This gave Jack a bold idea: Could it be that the Black Pearl was a mechanical structure?

Thinking back to what he had observed while repairing the hull, he did not find any mechanical structure.

Wrong! Ships have mechanical structures. The rudder controls the direction of the ship, which is accomplished by controlling the direction of the rudder blade through the transmission device.

There are many such structures on the ship, such as masts, sail cloths, devices for moving decks, racks for fixing cannons...

Think about it this way, in naval battles with the goblins, except for being destroyed by shells, these mechanical structures never seemed to have any problems.

This would be impossible for any other ship. When the Fortune and Rich Gold were attacked, these structures were the most damaged.

It seems that this is the use of the stabilizing structure rune.

By this calculation, the Black Pearl can be considered a masterpiece of magical engineering.

If that’s the case, it would be much easier!
Jack cleaned up the table and spread the blueprint of the Black Pearl on it. This blueprint was drawn by Jack when the hull was being repaired.

Before, Jack had been afraid to touch the hull for fear of damaging the runes on it.

Now that he knew the meaning of the runes, Jack was much braver.

He had long wanted to transform the Black Pearl. Although it was enchanted with runes that enhanced defense, the Black Pearl had strong defense capabilities. However, the naval battle with the goblins had shown that the Black Pearl's armor could not effectively resist the shells of this era.

Therefore, armor must be installed. Large-scale replacement is impossible. After all, the size of the Black Pearl is limited. If the wood of the hull is replaced with metal, it will greatly increase the weight of the Black Pearl. In this way, the carrying capacity of the Black Pearl will be reduced.

Before you master the space storage technology, you must not modify it like this.

However, it is still possible to wrap a layer of metal armor around the hull. According to Jack's calculations, using cobalt-reinforced copper-lead alloy, only about two inches of armor is needed to withstand the goblin shells.

The armor only needs to protect the first and second cabins. Since the goblins have not created torpedoes, the Black Pearl is not afraid of attacks from the bottom of the ship for the time being.

If they were to fight the Nagas again, they would be in awe of the Black Pearl's hull. The thick wooden planks that enhanced its defenses were simply not something their tridents could penetrate.

Thinking of this, Jack wished that Naga could come and try it. He really wanted to see Naga's surprised expression.

Many of the devices that Jack had previously imagined were too sophisticated to be installed on the Black Pearl. Now, all of them can be installed.

Not only should we release it, but we should also release it in large quantities.

Jack placed a propeller at the stern to replace the oars. However, the power cabin did not disappear, but was moved down to the bottom cabin. After all, without an engine, manpower was still needed to drive the propeller.

The device that drives the propeller is the pedal transmission device. Twenty pedal devices continuously provide power to the thick transmission shaft. However, the pedal device is not completely fixed to the transmission shaft. The pedal device can drive the operation of the transmission shaft, but the transmission shaft cannot affect the operation of the pedal device.

The principle is based on a bicycle. The pedals can drive the wheels forward, but the wheels cannot act on the pedals.

Switching to pedal power will save the crew a lot of effort. Riding a bicycle is definitely lighter than paddling, and paddling is far less efficient than a pedal propeller. What's more convenient is that a pedal propeller can be controlled by one crew member, but the speed is a bit slower. But if you paddle, at least two people are needed to paddle together so that the boat can keep balance.

Before arriving in Azsuna, Jack had already assigned work to Farondis and Frog. No wonder these two were so annoyed every time they saw Jack.

They are afraid of Jack's targeting them. No one wants to take advantage of them every time he comes to Azsuna.

The landlord’s house has no more food!

(End of this chapter)