Chapter 309 Orbital Accelerator Cannon

Gawain always pops up some inexplicable sentences and words. Sometimes even phrases that others can understand will be combined into an incomprehensible state in his mouth. Amber has long been used to this situation, but Her way of coping with these obscure sentences is also simple—to give up thinking.

"Just say what this is," Amber rolled his eyelids. "A new magic machine? Alchemy device? Or the weapon you mentioned last time?"

"The report of the magic machinery and alchemy device will not have the logo of the Military Machinery Institute," Gawain pointed to the top of the report with a smile, and then stood up, "Come on, let's take a look at this brand-new weapon ."

On the weapons test site on the south bank of the Baishui River, relevant preparations have already been made.

What was sent to Gawain was a report indicating that the finished product had been assembled and was awaiting acceptance by the lord. At the same time as the report was delivered, Hetty had already ordered the personnel from the Mechanical Research Institute and the weapons testing ground to conduct the first test. Ready for the test. When Gawain and Amber arrived at the test site, the area had been blocked by the soldiers of the Cecil Combat Corps, and the residents of the northeast district of the city were informed about the weapon test in advance. It is accompanied by a loud explosion, so under normal circumstances, it is necessary to issue a notice in advance.

This is a weapon that Gawain has high hopes for, and it is an "expedited and aggravated project" that was put on the agenda after the second Cecil defense. The onlookers all rushed to the scene, including Byron and Philip the two... Knights, as well as technical leaders such as Jenny, Carmel, Nicholas Egg, Hetty and Rebecca were of course also present.

The initial stage of entrepreneurship is like this. There are only a few people in the top team, and because there are not enough people, they often need to help each other, so that whenever there is a big result, everyone will be there to watch.

As soon as Gawain appeared, Rebecca happily trotted to meet him: "Master Ancestor! Master Ancestor! The 'art launcher' you want is ready!"

When Gawain was chatting with the silly roe deer last time, he couldn't help but mention "an explosion is art", but the girl just got crooked...

Gawain pressed Rebecca's head, and his eyes fell on the war machine that had just stepped off the mechanical assembly table.

It is very large, with an acceleration orbit as long as three meters and a total height of nearly two meters. Its shape is very close to the theoretical model constructed by Gao Wen in the "simulated experimental field" before, but the details are very different.

It has four metal rails arranged in parallel, which are still fixed on the base according to the cross structure, two acceleration rails, and two directional rails for fixing the trajectory of the projectile, stabilizing the ballistic trajectory and reducing friction. The tracks simulated in the environment are different, and the entire acceleration-orientation structure in front of you has additional reinforcement. There are three "fixed rings" made of solid steel plates that hold the four rails firmly together, and from those fixed rings. Judging from the shining magic runes, they probably also have the function of auxiliary rails to release waste energy and reduce magic interference.

The entire acceleration structure is mounted on a roughly triangular base, which is covered with steel plates. Although it is only a prototype, the powerful metal control ability of Nicholas Egg makes this base look very standard and precise. On the side, you can see the lines formed by the slightly luminous magic material, and on the back, you can see the joystick for control and the handle that can be shaken. At the part where the triangular base and the acceleration structure are connected, Gawain noticed the huge size. gears and shafts,

That is obviously used to adjust the orbital elevation angle.

"According to your drawings and improvement suggestions, I redesigned its adjustment mechanism so that it can adjust the pitch angle in a wider range, and the base also reserves a rotating disk connected to the gun position, which can eventually allow the entire The gun can rotate freely," Nicholas Funny Egg floated over, a sound with a metallic vibrato came from the sphere, "The upper positioning rail has added the kind of 'artillery sight' you mentioned. In addition, Kamel has also redesigned the rune arrangement of the acceleration track to be more conducive to the release of waste energy, which can improve the overall life of the track."

Gawain turned his head and glanced at Carmel, thinking that the ancient magus was still a little obsessed with "service life"...

"This is the 'cannonball' it uses," Kamel seemed to have guessed what Gawain was thinking, and broke the silence a little embarrassedly. A metal magic device was sent to Gawain, "I have prepared test rounds without explosives and full live rounds - except for replacing the explosives with gravel of the same weight, the test rounds and live rounds are completely complete in all aspects. Agreed. It's a test round."

Gawain glanced down - this cannonball based on magic technology has a completely different shape from the earth cannonball in his memory.

Instead of the cylindrical body and conical warhead, it was more of a small, weird obelisk.

Its projectile is in the shape of a cuboid, with a depression on the upper and lower sides to match the directional guide rails in the acceleration track. The surface of the projectile's tail and front end, which is like a small gold tower, is inscribed with the rune of "Blessing of the Wind". Those runes It's all dim now - apparently, it's not charging.

Also, the magic-guiding structure attached to the shell can't be seen.

"Where does the energy of the wind rune group come from?" Gawain asked curiously.

"Charging while accelerating in orbit," explained Kamal. "Shells are consumables, so find a way to save costs, because the wind rune on this will at most just let the cannonball fly when activated. Dozens of seconds, so there is no need to consider it to carry independent energy. For the basic spell effect of only one level, just add some crystal dust to the material when drawing the magic circle, so that it has basic energy storage properties , then the energy accumulated in the magic circle is enough to make this magic run for about a minute."

Gawain was a little surprised: "This is a good idea - what do you think?"

"I hope so, but it was Rebecca's idea," Carmel turned into a humble gray-blue, and stepped aside slightly to let Rebecca step forward, "I have to admit, your The descendant's talent for invention is simply enviable."

Rebecca immediately came up with an expression of "I'm super powerful", and raised her face to the sky in front of Gawain: "I got the inspiration from your magic capacitor - as long as you are on the acceleration track Add some additional magic guide structures to the cannon, drain some of the energy in the gun base, and then treat the runes containing crystal dust on the shells as weak magic storage crystals, then the entire acceleration track becomes an open type The magic capacitor. Although the projectile spends a short time in the acceleration orbit, coupled with the contact phase between the projectile and the orbit during reloading, this charging process is completely sufficient!”

Gawain knew it in his heart, and felt that it should be like this - only Rebecca, who came from a poor life, can always put the concept of "compressing costs and achieving mass production" taught by him first. There may be this idea of ​​racking your brains to reduce costs - if it was the Gondor Empire back then, it would be considered difficult for the gods to shoot a cannon without a whole piece of blue crystal carving...

Gawain praised Rebecca a few words, and after the girl began to smirk, he turned to look at the soldiers standing by the rail gun: "The technical details will be discussed later, I can't wait to see its actual performance. , let's start with the test bomb first?"

"This is the most in line with the process." Carmel said, while controlling the evocative hand to send the test projectile to the soldiers.

According to the operating procedures that they had just learned, the soldiers immediately began to load this huge war machine.

They opened the loading port on the side of the gun mount, pushed the shell into it, and then used the push rod to snap the shell into the orbit, then closed the loading port, adjusted the angle of the acceleration track, and activated the charging structure for overloading (scientific name is Rebecca booster). effect module)…

The magic line on the gun mount gradually brightened, followed by the rune group on the entire acceleration rail, and a strange, low humming sound began to sound.

Another soldier who was operating the cannon was already standing behind the gun mount and put his hand on the handle for firing the gun.

Knight Byron gave the order: "Fire!"

The soldier then turned the handle.

The cannonball was pushed into the acceleration section by the base repulsion mechanism, and then rapidly accelerated under the action of a series of repulsion runes. All the sounds converged into a sharp explosion, accompanied by the violent retreat of the entire acceleration track in the base, a shiny metal Wrapped in a pale cyan cyclone, the device burst out of orbit and flew into the clear sky with a shrill whistle.

Compared with the "artillery" that relies on the explosion of gunpowder to propel the projectile, the sound of this accelerated railgun is much quieter, but the sudden explosion still startled Rebecca and Hetty - Jenny even more He exclaimed softly and covered his ears slowly.

And after dozens of seconds, on a distant hillside that was the target, Gawain saw a cloud of smoke that suddenly rose.

He smiled: "If the guns are okay, let's use live ammunition - it's more intuitive."

Several technicians from the Mechanical Research Institute immediately stepped forward to check the rail gun, and soon a report came: "The rail is in good condition! The charging structure and the overload structure are in good condition! All moving parts are firmly connected!"

"Load live ammunition!"

The soldiers repeated the process of the first launch, and this time, what was pushed into the acceleration orbit was a live ammunition loaded with dozens of kilograms of Rebecca crystals.

Rebecca, who knew how much movement the crystal she had tossed out, got behind Hetty immediately, and Hetty hid behind Gawain subconsciously. Amber looked at the reaction of the two, thought carefully, and analyzed calmly. , the whole person becomes illusory - when the situation is not right, just jump directly to the shadow world.

Then, the railgun fired.

There was still a sudden explosion, and a metal device like a small obelisk, wrapped in a light blue airflow, rushed out of the orbit. Even Gawain and Carmel could only barely chase its flight path. ——The cannonball did not burst immediately after exiting the "bore". Its projectile body and fuze safety mechanism withstood the test. The entire projectile flew through a long parabola in the air, and after tens of seconds, it hit heavily on the on the far side of the hill.

There was a loud bang, as if a thunder burst, and countless earth and rocks rose into the air in the explosion, and the impact fire group generated by the explosion of magic power rose into the air.

Amber, who was about to drill into the Shadow Realm, froze in place.

She stared blankly at the hillside that was already shrouded in smoke, dust, and rocks, with a huge fireball vacating the sky, and suddenly understood what Gawain meant by "negotiating means" earlier.

Under any circumstances, if anyone uses this thing to negotiate with her, she will definitely cooperate...

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