Chapter 429 Cecil's "Battleship"

There are not many people that Lady Ropeney Glen can trust, and the butler in front of her seems to be one.

"I am honored to serve my mistress."

The butler of Grant Castle bowed his head deeply in front of Gawain, with complete etiquette, respect and grace.

"Then serve your mistress again," Gawain nodded slightly to the butler, "You are going to the Rock Fortress..."

The housekeeper kept his head down: "What do you want me to do?"

"Go and send a letter, saying that Cecil's army has occupied Glenland..." Gawain said, halfway through his words, "By the way, how is your acting?"

The butler raised his head and said calmly: "Eleven years ago, I was there when the robbers rushed into the castle. I hid the burnt little master in the pyre, and then leaned on the pyre to put the corpse in the eyelids of the robbers. Underneath the corpse is the body of a day and a night."

The housekeeper paused when he said this, with a confident smile on his face: "My acting skills are very good."

...

Cecil's collar, the north bank of the Whitewater River.

Two large river boats are moored in a newly built dock. Scaffolding can be seen everywhere on the ship and craftsmen are busy around the dock showing that the two ships are undergoing intensive renovation. On the platform, Tyr in the form of a sea serpent was propping himself into the air with his long tail, watching the details of the two ships curiously.

She saw that these two ships were not newly built, but were rebuilt on a certain basis. Their prototypes were not much different from the large cargo ships she usually saw in the White Water River. The Kraken's eyes really don't seem to be anything that can be put on the table. What she is interested in at the moment is only the modified and newly added structures on the ship.

She saw craftsmen strengthening key structures throughout the ship with metal skins and alloy skeletons. She also saw large holes in the ship's deck for various metal supports and piping systems of unknown purpose. She also saw the ship's Most of the sails have been dismantled, and many open metal frames like wings are installed in the free space, and the frames are covered with human magic runes.

It was a strange transformation, and Tyre was curious about it.

The Knight Byron was also inspecting the remodeling of the ships in the dock. The knight's face was full of pride. He pointed to one of the ships and showed off to Tyre: "These two ships were bombarded by us on the Whitewater River. Almost all the ships that were captured at that time were wounded, and only these two remained intact."

Tyre saw the flamboyant look on Knight Byron's face, and looked curious: "Is this very powerful?"

"This is a ship built in the Peibo area. The southern part of the country knows how to build a ship!" Knight Byron waved his arm, "they built the largest ship in the southern part! Don't you think these two ships look great? ?"

"Ha...probably," Tyr waved the tip of his tail perfunctorily, and continued to look curiously at the structures on the ship that spread out like wings. "I'm more curious about how Gawain is going to transform them..."

"I'll take you up there to see," Byron remembered what the lord told him. He knew that the siren in front of him would be the "power source" responsible for sending the two "weird ships" to the north, so he behaved quite at the moment. Enthusiastic, "I will explain to you while watching me."

It was not until she boarded the ship that Till realized that Gawain had transformed the two ships more than she had imagined: she saw that the deck of the ship had been covered with thin metal plates,

There are magic patterns all over the metal plate, and it is connected with the open wing structures. Many pipes, alloy skeletons and magic mechanisms can also be seen under the deck. Although the whole ship looks like a traditional inland cargo ship, in fact His bones have long since become some kind of magical creation. This level of transformation was obviously not completed within a day or two, and she couldn't help but wonder: "Did you start the transformation since the ship was towed back?"

"To be honest... it's true," Byron did not hide, "After the artillery bombardment of the White Water River, the lord ordered the two best-preserved ships to be converted into magic, but at the beginning he planned to convert the magic crystal orbit. The guns are mounted on the ship. We have strengthened the deck for this purpose, and added a lot of extra frames inside the ship. You can see that some small secondary guns have already been installed. But now we have to replace the original main gun with the rainbow light. The device, the Hongguang device is larger than the largest magic crystal rail gun, and the weight is also very scary. The two main guns had to be reduced to one, and half of the already installed secondary guns had to be removed to prevent the ship from sinking... …”

As Byron spoke, he walked with Tyre to the lower deck, pointing at the modified parts around him as he walked: "Fortunately, the magic net interface is universal, and the energy of the magic crystal railgun can also be used in the rainbow light. On the installation. Have you seen these magic net units? Not only on the deck and in this cabin, but even the bilge is covered with a layer, the whole ship is equivalent to laying the magic net of a small factory in the stomach, so It can supply itself with energy..."

Tyr followed behind Byron, wide-eyed curiously at the advanced magic guide structures stuffed into the stomach of this "backward wooden ship", and finally couldn't bear it any longer: "What are you doing? Why don't you just build a new ship? How awkward is it to pack such an advanced thing in such a backward ship."

"...Shipbuilding skills are not enough," Byron said helplessly, spreading his hands, "shipbuilding is a skillful job, and the craftsmen who know the most about shipbuilding in the entire southern border are those in the Peibo area, and the boats they build are This is what you see in front of you. Higher technology than this... The lord is researching, but he doesn't know when the results will be researched, and even if the results are researched, he has to build a new ship from scratch. How long will it take, the enemies of the Rock Fortress will not wait for us."

"Tsk..." Tyr smacked his lips and seemed to want to say something, but in the end he didn't say a word. He just poked a nearby wooden post with the tip of his tail.

Looking at the reaction of the lady siren, Byron curled his lips secretly, and continued: "I'll show you the unfinished place in the bilge."

The two came to the bottom of the "warship". In the cabin illuminated by the magic spar lamp, Tyre saw a metal bracket that was obviously reserved for some kind of large equipment, and some unconnected In the magic net unit, she couldn't help but be a little curious: "What's this place?"

"Momentum," Byron said, "an unresolved problem."

As soon as Tyre heard the word "power", he remembered that Gawain asked himself, and nodded immediately: "Oh yes, your lord asked me to help solve the power problem. He said that the two ships are now I can't start it by myself, so I need my help..."

"Yeah," Byron took over, "you noticed that we removed the upper deck sails? That's to install extra leech and auxiliary rune arrays, and to install the water pump and the corresponding pipes, The boat's original oars position has also been squeezed out, so using the traditional method, the boat can't be driven at all. As a replacement, the lord designed a oar driven by a magic engine, but you can also see It's not finished at all."

Knight Byron pointed to the empty space at the bilge for installing some kind of large-scale equipment, and said regretfully: "Mr. Egg has been researching for a long time, and the finished product has not been produced yet."

The more he listened, the more he frowned, and finally he couldn't help poking at the nearby wood with the tip of his tail: "What kind of transformation are you doing... The last ship even lost its power..."

Knight Byron waved his hand: "It's there according to the plan, isn't it installed yet!"

"Shouldn't this kind of thing have been designed earlier!" Tyr stuck his waist, "Do you know how to build ships?"

When Byron heard this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Oh, what if we can't keep up with our shipbuilding skills? Traditional river boats can still be built by recruiting craftsmen at high prices, but this new type of magic guide technology is used. Who knows how to build a ship!"

"Tsk..." Tyr smacked his lips again, as if he wanted to say something again, but in the end he held back and remained silent. After poking at the wood with his tail for a while, he waved his hand, "Okay, I'm almost done with it. I don't understand your magic skills either... I'd better go back to sleep, just call me when I set off."

After saying this, Miss Kraken left the cabin one by one.

Byron turned his head and glanced at the empty "engine compartment", and couldn't help muttering: "Why don't you take the next stubble..."

Not long after he finished speaking, he heard footsteps coming from near the stairs, and when he looked up, he saw Knight Philip walking into the cabin.

"Miss Tyre has left?" The young knight asked curiously when he saw Byron standing alone in the cabin, "She visited our warship?"

Byron nodded: "I visited a circle, and I am a little interested in magic technology, but obviously I don't like our ship."

"Oh, then she..."

"Don't mention it, every time she doesn't wait for me to speak, she immediately stops picking up the next one. It's scary to be vigilant," Byron said with a frustrated look, "in this respect, she is really not as good as you and your ability to pick up the next one is worse than her. "

"Can you not turn the topic aside every time," Philip frowned, and then said, "Miss Tyre is a guest of an alien race, and we can't force her to help. Anyway, the lord just told her that she would be interested in magic technology. If you are interested, the lord will naturally arrange otherwise."

Thinking of Gawain's expectations for Tyre and his dedication to "building a new type of ship", Byron couldn't help but sigh: "If you want Miss Tyre, who is lazy like that, to help you for a long time, the lord has really set himself a great deal. The goal... But then again, why is he so obsessed with building a new type of boat... Are the boats built by the craftsmen we recruited from the Peipo area really useless?"

"The lord said that the land is only the cradle of human beings, and human beings always have to get out of the cradle," Knight Philip said with a serious face, "Although I don't know exactly what he means by this sentence, but the fact has always been It all proves that the lord's judgment can hardly be wrong, since he said that the new ships are useful, it must be useful."

"Okay... Anyway, I trust the lord's judgment," Byron said, then raised his head and looked at the hexagonal arrangement of magic on the later added metal beam on the top of the cabin, which was made of light alloy. The runes were gleaming faintly, and this thing called the "kinetic ridge" was the ship's main artery, linking the decks and leech units of the various cabins together to provide the bulk of the iridescent device. Energy, "Whether the new ships are useful or not, I'm looking forward to what these two ships will be used for."