Magic Industrial Age

With Loya's safe return, there was no longer any need to hide many things from the Sea Serpent King.

With Loya's permission, Walter revealed everything to the Sea Serpent King, including his identity, status, and sphere of influence.

The logic was simple: a capable partner is always more reassuring than someone with nothing.

Moreover, after Loya's prompting, Walter adopted a very humble attitude, giving the Sea Serpent King a clear sense that they were engaging in an equal transaction.

Everyone deserves respect and seeks to be respected.

Therefore, in their most recent meeting, Walter was able to sit down and talk with the Sea Serpent King, chatting about the differences between the underwater world and the land.

The atmosphere was no longer tense!

It was under these circumstances that Walter explained the value of the silver amber stone and agreed on a distribution method.

The Sea Serpent King, without hesitation, mobilized everyone in his tribe to begin a carpet search.

Then, they discovered the silver amber stone mine!

Limited by their almost non-existent prospecting technology, it was obviously impossible for the Sea Serpent tribe to determine the size and reserves of the mine.

But fortunately, it was an open-pit mine, requiring no mining technology at all; all they needed to do was swing a chisel and knock.

With this foundation, the exchange of other resources was no longer a problem.

After several communications and exchanges, the two sides agreed on the first batch of supplies and determined the handover time.

On the Fresh Flower Territory side, Butler Hoover personally selected the supplies, which were then transported by Walter's magic warship to a specific sea area and dropped directly.

Then, they sailed to that unnamed island, loaded the supplies prepared by the Sea Serpent King onto the ship, and transported them away!

In this way, the two sides had almost no communication during the transaction, leaving no room for loopholes.

Of course, this was based on a certain degree of trust and required sufficient communication in the early stages.

It is worth mentioning that Loya was still uncertain about this first transaction and invited Lady Palacios to oversee it.

Until November 1, 313 of the New God Era, this first underwater trade was successfully completed. The Sea Serpent tribe obtained what they wanted, especially various weapons and magic potions.

On Loya's side, the goods were transported to Sea Serpent Port, and the rest were distributed directly to different sea merchants, making it impossible to trace.

Only the silver amber stone was sent to the Lionheart Manor, where Lilia personally refined it.

An entire box of silver amber stone was completely purified, ground into qualified silver amber stone powder.

Loya then distributed it into the Empire's magic circle through Douglas Hill's channels.

If not foolproof, it was still handled through several hands, making it impossible to trace back to him.

And this deal alone, just this one deal, after deducting costs, labor, losses, etc., had a net profit of up to twelve thousand gold Thalers.

Even Loya was astonished by this profit!

After all, this was only the first transaction, and both sides had tentative intentions. Yet, it still generated such profits, truly illustrating the immense profits of underwater trade.

Having opened up another source of wealth and market, Loya was naturally very happy.

What made him even happier was that the training rounds he had asked Christina to research were also completed.

This world doesn't have rubber, but there are quite a few natural substances similar to rubber.

However, bullets generate high temperatures and expansion when fired, so corresponding high-temperature-resistant materials must be selected to ensure that the bullet heads do not melt.

Christina experimented with more than thirty materials, selected five of them, and repeatedly compared and adjusted them, finally meeting all of Loya's requirements.

The bullet heads had moderate hardness, were heat-resistant, and elastic, causing considerable pain when hit, but were not fatal.

Ordinary people probably couldn't bear it. Although not life-threatening, it would definitely result in bruises all over the body, requiring a long time to recover.

However, knights are different, especially those who have mastered battle aura, whose recovery ability is unmatched by ordinary people.

If red and blue pigments were injected into the bullet heads, red and blue marks could be directly imprinted on the body, making it easier to assess the damage.

The only drawback was that they were relatively troublesome to manufacture, requiring manual polishing, injection, installation, inspection, and packaging one by one...

However, this problem was solved after Maruna recruited more than a hundred female workers!

After testing the training rounds, Grand Knight Alfonso Zech immediately submitted a plan.

After all, some knights still had resistance. Even if the heavy machine gun looked powerful, they still harbored illusions until the bullets hit their bodies!

Alfonso understood them too well. Therefore, this battle was a simulation of the strongest form of the Knights and the war with this new magic energy weapon.

Magic energy cannons were indeed powerful, but moving, calibrating, and firing them were quite troublesome.

The time consumed was there, and it couldn't be sped up at all.

And the knights' charge, with their horse speed increased, was quite swift. The two sides could hardly form a head-on confrontation.

Either the artillerymen waited at their leisure and blew up the Knights, or before the artillerymen could establish a position, they would be taken away by the Knights in one wave.

This was a fifty-fifty situation, and it couldn't be said that the cavalry was definitely outdated.

Back then, the Habsburg Empire won that battle by relying on three-stage firing, forming another form of gun rain and metal storm, which annihilated that top-notch knight order.

Loya naturally agreed with this idea, and even his assumptions were more extreme.

One side, the Knight Heavy Machine Gun Squad, belonged to the Red side. Loya only selected thirty people, including one third-order transcendent, the Valkyrie Tanya Anderson.

They would be equipped with heavy machine guns and pistols, with plenty of bullets!

The other side, the Lionheart Knights, belonged to the Blue side, including all knights and knight attendants who had not yet entered meditation.

Leading them were three transcendent knights, Cody Isaac, Jael Turner, and Bill Dean.

This strength was definitely remarkable.

And the chosen terrain was the flat grassland, the battlefield most suitable for knight charges.

Such exercises were naturally not suitable in the barracks. There were too many people, and they couldn't be deployed!

So, they chose a grassland, prepared for half a day, and set up their positions.

Then, the horn sounded, and the charge began!

The knights' charge was still so shocking. The 'rumbling' of the horses' hooves seemed to be able to flatten the earth.

Standing on the grass, one could even feel the body trembling with the earthquake.

The three transcendents were at the front, their battle aura light connected into one, and the knight aura expanded, enveloping all the knights.

The front row was filled with raised dragon lances, like a jungle of thorns.

You have to admit, such a knight charge is terrifying, almost able to crush all enemies.

On the other side, the Valkyrie Tanya chose to dig trenches and advance steadily.

The thirty-man team set up Maxim heavy machine guns in the trenches, and when the knight charge approached four hundred meters, they directly pulled the trigger.

Although the 'da da da' sound of the gunfire was drowned out by the sound of hooves, the flames spewing from the muzzle were not fake.

The bullets were like a storm, presenting a sweeping trend.

And the target they aimed at was not people, but warhorses!

It is worth mentioning that because they were training rounds, without the lethality of real bullets,

So, knights were not allowed to wear armor, and warhorses were not allowed to wear horse armor.

On a real battlefield, unless it was special magic armor, it couldn't stop the shooting of bullets, so this was the fairest.

As for pain, people may be able to suppress it themselves; but warhorses can't!

It could be seen that on the charging warhorses, clusters of red mist suddenly exploded, and the intense pain stimulated their nerves.

Some horses lost their footing and rolled to the ground, while others raised their front hooves high and neighed incessantly...

The original charging formation was immediately disrupted, but the knights behind were still charging.

So, there was a period of time when people and horses were overturned.

The Valkyrie Tanya originally wanted to wait at her leisure and retreat while fighting, using the trenches to reduce the speed of the warhorses to the lowest, and then launch a charge.

But seeing that the situation was favorable to her, she roared and grabbed two Maxims, rushing out directly.

Behind her, the thirty people quickly divided into ten teams, three people per team, and also launched a charge.

It is hard to imagine how great the impact of that bullet-flying charge was. The metal storm almost created by them directly disrupted the entire four-hundred-plus-member team of the Knights.

They didn't charge recklessly, but maintained a distance of about a hundred meters and began to go to both sides, drawing two arcs, flanking from the sides!

The battlefield was chaotic, so they didn't feel anything, but outside, Loya and others saw it clearly.

It felt as if thirty people had surrounded more than four hundred people, not even giving them a chance to engage in close combat.

Of course, the Lionheart Knights were not completely without a chance to resist.

Many knights abandoned their warhorses directly, carrying greatswords, and rushed forward like crazy.

They wanted to close the distance and start melee combat!

It's a pity that they were often the worst. These training rounds don't hurt people, but they really hurt!

In fact, there are materials that don't hurt, but the reason Loya chose it was because pain was also necessary.

There's no need to talk about the knights' endurance, but seventeen or eight red bullets exploding on their bodies, that kind of pain cannot be endured just by wanting to!

What was really somewhat lethal was actually the three third-order transcendents.

After determining that they couldn't win, they also began a desperate charge, closing the distance with amazing jumping ability and then injuring the enemy with battle aura.

The effect was natural, but Tanya was not to be trifled with either.

Instantly, the team gathered, heavy machine guns focused fire. Unless they had transcendent battle skills like Loya carrying the Shield of Saint Mark, they would all be riddled with holes!

A great battle lasted less than an hour before it ended.

The outcome, in fact, need not be said. Many knights looked dazed after the exercise.

But Loya didn't care about them, and didn't need to care!

After they get through the period of confusion, they will definitely work ten times harder than before, just to enter meditation.

And this simulated war fully demonstrated the power of weapon generation difference.