Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 128 Magnetic Infantry Plan
"Magnetic Infantry Plan?"

All of a sudden everyone became interested; the name sounded amazing.

Ethan nodded. "Although the magic scrolls of Frost Arrow sell well, the disadvantage is also obvious. They are consumables that can only be used once. Customers need to buy magic scrolls continuously. As the number of customers increases, the production capacity of Lao Sen Mage Shop can no longer keep up. It is difficult to maintain the same quality of production for a long time."

More importantly, his proficiency in Frost Arrow has reached maximum, and next up is the Dynasty of Electric Element.

Ethan not only takes into account the needs of customers, but also combines the needs of their own skill proficiency. For a long time to come, unless there are special needs from customers, their main output direction will be electrical elements.

"I got inspiration from the 'Red Rose' forged by Sister Higan. Why don't we make some weapons that can be used by customers for a long time?"

"It's a good idea, but not everyone can use the Red Rose."

Bi'an said, "I explained that it is essentially an energy launcher. The stronger the user's magic power, the more powerful the projectile. From what I understand, most of the buyers in the store are first- to second-level extraordinary people. Their weak magic power cannot be used to drive magical weapons at all."

"The key lies in the charging problem."

As the chief researcher of Laosen Magic Technology, he has been studying this kind of problem recently. "According to my observation, there are usually two modes of using magic as a weapon. The first is what you said, using oneself as a launcher. This design concept places extremely high demands on the weapon user himself."

In fact, the design concept of "Red Rose" is not advanced. As early as several eras ago, the concept of "holy weapon" was born in human civilization. The holy sword that people talked about in history was a magic transmitter in Ethan's view. It looked like a sword, but it could release the magic power used efficiently.

Under this design concept, the real power lies in the user, not the weapon itself.

"I saw the 'Miracle Creation' in Gear City. Although the principle looks similar, it is a completely different design concept. The Miracle Creation itself is a magic power storage device rather than a transmitter. The high-ranking clergy of the church store their magic power in it and release it when necessary."

Although Mr. Asoke, the owner of the miracle creation, unfortunately contracted the Red Death and left us forever, he used his life to make outstanding contributions to the development history of modern magic technology.

"Miracle creations are mostly used as defensive accessories, using the priest's 'protection spell'. The principle is very simple. When the attack is not enough to exceed the magic power stored in the accessory, the attack will be invalidated by the protection spell. This is a simple numerical calculation."

Everyone in the apartment fell silent, even Teacher Mao Mao tilted his head and fell into deep thought.

Energy transmitter?
Reserver?
Numerical calculation?
Where do these concepts come from?
They had never been exposed to these theories, but when they thought about Ethan's words carefully, they found that they made sense. It seemed that not many people would pay attention to these subtle differences. Most people's understanding of magical weapons remained at "I don't care about your this or that, as long as it can be used."

Ivy remembered that some similar concepts were mentioned in the craftsman's manual, which were related to the technology of the Golden Age, but they were later abandoned.

Ethan was also confused by everyone's reaction and asked, "Is my theory wrong?"

"No."

Cats became the representative to speak, "It's very novel, and makes people want to open your head to see what's inside."

After spending more time with Ethan, she increasingly felt that Ethan's way of thinking was very peculiar. He was not like a normal person at all. Instead, he was somewhat similar to those crazy researchers in history. But most of the time, Ethan was very normal. He would not bring his crazy research thinking into his daily life, and he would not treat humans as experimental subjects.

It was as if she had two brains, and the other brain would only start when necessary. She raised her paw, put her soft pads close to Ethan's head and tapped it, then jumped onto Ivy's shoulder and tapped her head and hair.

Well, the sound is similar, I don't feel there is any difference in structure.

"Then I will continue. The next thing to solve is the problem of energy consumption. Based on this principle, how to maximize the conservation of magic power and maintain its power while reducing consumption is the key."

Ethan once again gathered a ball of electricity in his palm, and at the same time attached an electric current to the empty plate on the table. "These are two completely different ways of using magic. One is to create it out of thin air, and the other is to let the magic attach to an existing object."

This was the most difficult step for him.

His goal was to explore the effects of the two modes on mana consumption, but...

He had too much magic power, just like taking a scoop of water from the ocean. One had to observe it under a microscope to tell the difference between the two. "You can imagine this plate as a crossbow. According to my research, it takes much more energy to generate an elemental arrow out of thin air than to attach an element to a normal arrow, but the destructive power of the two is almost the same."

Thus, a concept was born in Ethan's mind. "We can make a crossbow with energy storage crystal as the core and electric elements as the driving force. The ammunition used is arrows that can be bought everywhere."

The concept of electromagnetic crossbow has appeared in many science fiction shooting games that Ethan has played.

He originally thought that in this era, it would be difficult for arrows to withstand the power exerted by electromagnetic shooting, but elemental enchantment helped him overcome this problem - electric elemental enchantment would not destroy the arrows, because theoretically, what ultimately caused damage to the target were the elemental spirits attached to the outside of the arrow.

“The final question is cost.”

Ethan said, "Each electromagnetic crossbow requires an energy storage crystal. According to the market price in Hearth Bay, the price of an energy storage crystal fluctuates between 50 and 60 gold lions. Including the labor cost, the recommended selling price is around 80 gold lions. After the magic power of the energy storage crystal is exhausted, it can be recharged in the Astrology Guild in each major city."

This is a luxury for the customers of Lao Sen Magic Technology Store, but it is something they can still afford if they grit their teeth.

For them, the Type I Collector in the Heywood Mine will provide them with a steady supply of energy storage crystals, enough to arm an entire city's troops.

In addition to being sold, the first batch of electromagnetic crossbows can also bring about a qualitative leap in the defense capabilities of Ximu Town.

After all, the purpose of Lao Sen's magic technology is not to add icing on the cake for high-level extraordinary people, but to provide means for ordinary people, who make up the majority, to fight against them.

"That sounds interesting. Let me draw the blueprint for the crossbow."

The other side rolled up his sleeves and prepared to work hard.

She understood the significance of this theory better than anyone else present. Although on the surface it seemed that people had regressed from the musket to the crossbow era, if Ethan's theory was correct, this would become a more powerful weapon than the musket!

(End of this chapter)