After being forced to step down, the once-annoying nun eloped with me.

Yang Hao swore he had never seen this girl among Arthur's lovers—it couldn't possibly be that Arthur finally had his third leg chopped off by Viya and then was transformed into a young girl using elven magic, could it? But it didn't seem like it either...

Yang Hao and the others sized up the girl in front of them who was focused on directing the on-site staff to conduct weapons testing.

Meanwhile, the staff members in the distance waved to the girl repeatedly after seeing Yang Hao and his group.

The girl realized something, turned around, and discovered that the three supreme leaders of the United Nations and one leader who was theoretically the fourth highest-ranking leader had been silently observing her. Startled, she took several steps back before coughing and stepping forward to say:

"Your Majesty... Um? Are you here to see my teacher?"

A blush rose on the girl's face when she said the word "teacher".

Yang Hao and Theresa exchanged a stiff glance, then a sigh escaped their lips: "As expected of Arthur. Even on his deathbed, he hasn't forgotten to philander..."

Viya must have had mixed feelings, right? But then again, how did this girl even run into Arthur? Arthur might have had the idea of ​​actively seeking out girls, but surely those twenty-odd lovers wouldn't actually give him that opportunity?

Yes. Where is Arthur?

Yang Hao decided to leave his curiosity to Arthur. In response to Yang Hao's question, the girl merely bowed slightly before turning to face Golem, who was firing at a distant target, and shouted:

"Teacher!! Come down quickly! His Majesty wants to see you!"

Looking at Golem, who was gradually ceasing to move and kneeling on the ground in the distance.

He glanced again at the elven girl's face, which showed no sign of joking.

Even Naruja's eyes widened, and she instinctively screamed with a tearful expression:

"Mr. Arthur?! Golems aren't for stuffing people in, are they?!"

"I didn't stuff myself in there!"

Unexpectedly, Arthur's voice came from behind them. Everyone turned around and saw that Arthur had walked out of another room without any problems.

Behind him, the slender man, was the serene Viya. It seemed that to prevent Arthur from having affairs, Viya had even quit her job as a bow maker and chosen to stay by Arthur's side at all times to take care of him.

Since Arthur didn't put himself inside the golem, why did your student call out your name to that golem?

Seeing Yang Hao pointing at Golem in the distance with a strange expression, Arthur just rolled his eyes and said that although his body had not entered Golem's body, his spirit had just merged with Golem's.

“This is something wonderful that Miss Naruja’s children researched—by the way, Miss Naruja, your children should have contacted you to say they want to see you, right? Go see them now. They’re working in that barracks over there.” Arthur pointed to the small cabin in the distance. “They said they have a surprise for you and want you to go alone—and as for His Majesty’s affairs, I’ll explain things properly, okay?”

"..."

Naruja rubbed her eyes, glanced at Yang Hao and, after receiving permission, left with light steps.

Watching Naruja's departing figure, Arthur walked up and gave Yang Hao a warm hug before muttering helplessly:

"To be honest, this is the first time I've seen Miss Naruja with that kind of tearful expression... and I always feel like she's crying for Golem, not for me. Is that just my imagination?"

"Perhaps Arthur, your position in Naruja's heart is not as high as Gorem's—so, what's going on here?"

"It all started with Hydra... Oh, right, Hydra is my student, this girl—and she is also—"

Arthur seemed to be trying to explain the elf girl's identity to everyone, but before he could say anything, the elf girl rolled her eyes, stepped forward, and smacked the teacher's chin hard.

Viya didn't react at all, she just nodded slightly: It's okay to be even harsher.

"Ah... Your Majesties, my name is Hydra... cough cough, well, I'm this guy's sister-in-law, in other words, he's my brother-in-law." The elven girl Hydra bowed again to Yang Hao and the others, who had strange expressions on their faces. "I became his student partly because my sister asked me to keep my brother-in-law from philandering, and partly because I'm very interested in firearms. So last week, after completing all my studies at the university, which was part of the pre-set curriculum, I graduated and became my brother-in-law's student."

"I remember our university hasn't even started its trial run yet, right? And those academic goals are just a long-term objective...?" Yang Hao was stunned. It was as if he were watching an eight-year-old child get into Tsinghua or Peking University based on their own merit, and these universities weren't even fully built yet. "So, which of our pre-set academic goals did you achieve?"

"The lightweight modification of the machine gun. Hmm... After all, my sister and I are both elves from a family of bow makers~ So after changing professions, we became quite adept at researching [firearms]. But this wouldn't have been possible without my brother-in-law's help—and that Dr. Joseph hanging from the wooden tower."

"May I ask what Dr. Joseph has come up with this time that has angered the logistics elves so much?"

"I'm not entirely sure either, since I don't really know what the logistics elves responsible for golems are supposed to do—but I've heard that Dr. Joseph seems to have developed a variant of golem limb joints that makes elves dizzy just looking at the blueprints. While it does allow the heavy golems to climb 60° walls using their lower limbs and maintain high-speed movement in extremely complex terrain..."

But I see that there are at least 60 joints that need to be disassembled and reassembled for maintenance, so it's understandable that he's hanging up there, right?

And he seems to have even developed an enchanted cannonball that takes over 100 hours to produce... While it's true that its theoretical power can cover an area with a radius of 100 meters and create an oxygen-free zone within the strike area that is highly effective at killing living beings, the production process just seems absurd to me..."

Hydra recounted Dr. Joseph's crimes at length.

Yang Hao turned around and glanced several times at the doctor who was still stubbornly clinging to his beliefs while hanging in mid-air.

Finally, he decided to do nothing—just let it hang there. Perhaps, after hanging there for a while, Dr. Joseph would change his mind and realize that simplicity and practicality were the best design principles?

In short, after learning the girl's identity and privately reaching a consensus that this was probably not Arthur's half buttocks, they arrived at Arthur's private office at the weapons testing ground.

There, Yang Hao, Finn, and Theresa sat in the most comfortable seats, while Arthur, Via, and Hydra sat in less desirable positions. They sat around a square table, on which lay Arthur's work from the past few days.

"To be honest, I was completely shocked when the floating continent appeared... but I also had a lot of inspiration at that time. The lightweighting of the heavy machine gun was one of the inspirations, but I left it to Hydra to solve at the time."

Arthur handed a set of blueprints to Yang Hao, who then reviewed the design drawings and various parameters with Finn and Theresa.

Theresa seemed a bit confused by the data above, Finn seemed okay but still couldn't understand it, but Yang Hao saw the potential of Hydra in the blueprint.

"With a caliber of 8x60mm, it's a lightweight machine gun that any human could stand up and fire directly..."

The overall length is 120 centimeters, and the theoretical rate of fire is 800 rounds per minute. Considering that the Japa 1405 heavy machine gun apparently experienced barrel overheating and melting during test firing, Miss Hydra, did you perhaps add a "Frozen" enchantment rune to the outside of the barrel through the Oak Factory in your design?

Faced with Yang Hao's statement and questions, Hydra shook his head:

"To be precise, it's [heat transfer]—this way, the heat generated during continuous firing of the gun can be transferred to... well, a [heat storage box] for supporting research. The heat storage box can be activated with magic to export the heat for cooking, brewing tea, or simply for heating. It's as simple to produce as the improved machine gun, and can even be produced by hand."

"...I understand. So, according to the blueprints for this machine gun...you designed a device with an upward-sloping notch at the muzzle?"

"Yes. This is a principle that the elves discovered by chance when they were ordering their own Japa 1404 rifles—as long as a device of the right shape and structure is installed at the muzzle, the recoil will be greatly reduced when firing."

The elves thought it would feel better this way, but considering the physical condition of human soldiers, I decided to use it on a lightweight machine gun so that the Bayer Zans soldiers wouldn't have difficulty operating it due to excessive recoil for humans.

In addition, the vertical handguard below the front half of the barrel allows for better maneuverability when firing while standing, and the bipod, when unfolded from its folded position, provides stability when firing from cover or prone, further reducing recoil and allowing the shooter to better aim at the target...

Besides that, there's the magazine used in the lightweight machine gun—this is the design I'm most proud of. Because it not only uses a belt-fed ammunition system, but more importantly, it also has a magazine box to ensure that a second shooter doesn't need to run around holding the belt...

In short, the Hydra's design is actually the weapon Yang Hao remembers as the "general-purpose machine gun" on Earth. Its seemingly simple and practical structure is heartwarming, and its simple yet extremely effective additional accessories are even more exhilarating.

The only drawback was that this thing ultimately remained only a blueprint—the second unsettling aspect was that Arthur was in charge of the repairs.

Arthur might one day become jealous because his sister-in-law's talent surpasses his own—that was what everyone was thinking at first. But when they saw his sister-in-law sitting on his lap while they were talking, and Arthur looking angry but unable to say anything, they put aside their worries and started to worry about whether Arthur would really be locked in a room and unable to come and go one day after his sister-in-law completely surpassed him.

Overall, Yang Hao was pleasantly surprised by the design of Hydra—but despite his surprise, he was still quite curious about the extent of the elven society's current obsession with firearms.

Faced with everyone's curiosity, Hydra simply shrugged and said that nowadays, there is no decent bow maker or arrow maker in Fingal. Everyone has switched to making guns by hand or researching gun modifications. The Japa 1405 rifle alone has been modified into 40 different versions by the elves, not to mention the endless stream of civilian parts.

The ideas that Yang Hao deliberately revealed before have now become a trend in the Elf society.

The archery master abandoned his love for bows and turned to the study of firearms shooting, even creating a unique melee technique called "Gunfighting".

The arrow maker supported the bullets with countless bizarre structures and devoted himself to studying their different uses.

Bow makers went so far as to alter them to a point that even Arthur wouldn't recognize them. One even combined a Japa 1405 rifle with an elven scimitar; at first glance, it looked like a scimitar, but the back of the blade revealed a dark, gaping muzzle ready to fire six bullets at any moment...

In short, Yang Hao has achieved one of his goals: making elven society perpetually changeable. However, he might now have to worry about whether elven society will become like Earth's America, where everyone has five guns...

He said, half-laughing and half-crying, that perhaps he would have to establish a department in the United Nations specifically for testing gun parts, and eventually develop gun modules that could be customized with different components. Arthur and Hydra agreed, and then they added that besides the fact that the Japa 1406 light machine gun was already on the drawing board, the Listeners had also provided a lot of help with Gorem's modifications.

"However, Your Majesty, you should ask Miss Naruja yourself when the time comes," Arthur winked at Yang Hao. "That's absolutely something every man dreams of—to be honest, whenever my consciousness enters Golem's body, the feeling is absolutely amazing..."

"...Was it 'incredibly exhilarating' in that sense?"

"It's definitely not sex—ouch?! Viya?! Hydra?! No, don't pinch me..."

Arthur was being pinched and groaned by Via and Hydra.

Yang Hao and the others looked at each other in bewilderment.

Meanwhile, at the camp where the Ling tribe was located.

After happily hugging each of the children, Naruja blushed and didn't know what to do when the children said, "The chieftain can definitely get on the right track with Brother Yang Hao with this."

Chapter 3: The Great Golem Revolution, and the Unexpected Incident Caused by Elena – 8K

"..."

For the time being, due to the special magical organs of the Ling people, communication among them does not require speaking [statement].

But perhaps the younger generation was already accustomed to conversing with the spirits or humans around them, Naruja didn't even sense any mental communication from them before hearing this sentence...

"With this, the clan leader can definitely get on the right track with Brother Yang Hao!"

"What are you talking about! This, this is not right..."

Narudya offered a frantic explanation, the antlers on her head flashing erratically, sometimes yellow, sometimes green, sometimes becoming chaotic, and finally, just as they were about to settle into a stable green, they became even more disordered because of the children's tilted heads and stares.

“But, doesn’t the chief like him a lot?” A Ling tribe girl who was originally from the Naruja tribe tilted her head. “And it seems she’s been struggling to show herself in front of him. So we helped you with this, chief… It shouldn’t be a problem, right? In human terms, it’s about taking credit.”

"You—you...sigh!"

Originally, Naruja wanted to educate her children properly, to let them know who the chief of the Ling tribe really was, and that the chief's authority was not to be trifled with.

But soon, the shame and indignation he felt towards the Golem chosen by the children—the chieftain of the Listening Clan—vanished without a trace.

This is a strange golem.

Made entirely of metal, the joints appear incredibly flexible. Naruja even noticed the presence of three finger joints on it, not to mention details like the toes.

In the current Golem production line of the United Nations, this Golem, which was deemed "not very practical and troublesome to produce," should have been discarded—but upon closer inspection, one can notice that there seems to be something extra on its head... Just like the Golem that the elf girl called out "Teacher" to, this Golem has runes engraved on its head.

"What...is this?" Naruja muttered unconsciously, circling Golem several times with curiosity. She then noticed similar, unfamiliar elven runes on Golem's back. "Something I've never seen before...children, what are these runes?"

"This was researched for us by the elven mages!" one of the children said.

“A rune used to transfer the life consciousness from a specific container to a golem!” Another child tilted his head.

"It's fine even if a human uses it! And it won't cause any pain to the golem's body..."

"If I had to point out anything bad, it's that after Mr. Arthur used it once, he kept babbling about how amazing it was, and he was having a blast all the time..."

"Furthermore, having someone directly intervene in the Golem's consciousness does seem to allow for the accomplishment of many intricate tasks..."

"At least when Mr. Arthur was controlling the Golem, he made us a dish of scrambled eggs with tomatoes!"

The children chimed in, and somehow Naruja managed to understand the principles behind these things...

In short, this is a new type of golem that combines the runes researched by elven mages with golems—a revolutionary product that can safely transfer the consciousness of a creature into the body of a golem and use it for precise control.

Protected by the elven runes, the life form can close its eyes and sleep in a specially designed device called the "Control Chamber," thus maintaining a connection with the Golem while still awake. It's important to note that this is not true "sleep," but rather an activity that induces fatigue. Therefore, the Listeners do not recommend users operate this device when extremely tired, as this could potentially lead to sudden events such as fainting.

However, the convenience brought about by this energy-consuming operation method allows all operators to have complete control over the golem's body structure. Arthur can even use the golem's hands to make scrambled eggs with tomatoes for the children of the Listening Clan, let alone the elves who have even more advanced body control.

"The only problem is... we still haven't solved the [disconnection] issue." The Listener children shrugged. "Right now, it's limited to a one-kilometer radius... We can't go beyond that range, otherwise the people in the control pod will gradually lose contact with the Golem—then, the people will wake up looking completely bewildered, and the Golem will have to be retrieved by us... In short, this might not be a problem that can be solved simply with [runes]."

"And it also consumes a lot of magic power..."

"However, the person the clan leader likes will definitely see his value..."