Chapter 527: Achievement
Weaponry?
Hearing Gawain's words, Victoria couldn't help but move.
The situation did not exceed expectations, and everything was as she had guessed these days - Cecil was short of money.
In the past three days, Victoria has used various methods to investigate the situation in the southern border. Although she has no way to directly contact the personnel of the government affairs office, nor can she leave the city, she can contact the market of the Cecil people, With access to their newspapers, hearing voices from the streets, and even seeing twice the magic of projection—the Cecil called it "the show"—from the information that could be spread publicly, she could Infer a lot of useful stuff.
Cecil's development is very rapid. Gawain Cecil, the founding hero who experienced the Gondor period, seems to be using his knowledge from 700 years ago to build this land. He has started several projects of amazing scale. , including the redistribution of the population of the entire southern border and the simultaneous construction of several new cities, and such a large-scale project will undoubtedly require amazing wealth to support.
The nascent Principality of Cecil should already be quite strained financially - that's what Victoria has reasoned over the past few days.
Before arriving at the southern border, she had been thinking about what to use to appease and win over the founding grand duke-the "recognition" from the royal family, or all the "legality certification" from the contemporary aristocracy. It is meaningless to the Duke who is the source of orthodoxy, but after knowing that Cecil's finances may be tight, she thinks that she has found the best "gift".
And after seeing Cecil's extraordinary equipment, she did have a huge interest in those things, she just didn't know how to take the initiative to speak in this regard, but now it seems... both sides need each other, this is the best situation.
"You should have seen my army and the rearmament rock fortress," Gawain looked at the little change in Victoria's eyes that ordinary people couldn't detect, knowing that the other party was already thinking in his own direction, he restrained With an unbearable smile in his heart, he continued to say flatly, "The principality was initially decided, my army is only enough to protect this land, but the weapons we have prepared to deal with the war have a lot of surplus, and those are all high-quality extraordinary weapons. , it must be very helpful to the Royal Army."
"There is no doubt about that," Victoria said immediately. "Eastlanders can fight well, and our soldiers will have difficulty fighting against them, but if there is a group of powerful weapons, the situation will definitely be different from what it is now..."
"That would be great," Gawain nodded, but then the conversation changed, "But extraordinary weapons are different from ordinary swords after all, and the Cecil family spends a lot of money to build them, so I can't give them away for free. To the Royal Army."
Victoria was not surprised by this: "Of course - extraordinary armaments have always been rare,
If you can buy it with money, that's a great thing. But I would like to know, what weapons do you have that you can sell to the Royal Army, and how many? "
Gawain smiled slightly and stood up: "Come with me, I think the actual display will impress you more."
Victoria followed in Gawain's footsteps, they left the lord's mansion, and took the magic car to leave the administrative area directly. After a period of driving, the surrounding buildings gradually became sparse, and several sentry towers appeared in the field of vision.
They came to the weapons testing ground located northeast of the city.
After getting out of the car, Victoria couldn't help but look back at the vehicle she just took - this is really a very convenient and fast good thing, especially on the battlefield, it will not be frightened like a war horse, and it has a solid shell and Huge strength, if you put ballistas on the car, arrange the archers and javelinmen, or use them to transport food and grass... how good it would be?
While thinking about it, a young knight has come to Gawain and Victoria. This is Philip who has been informed in advance and is ready on the testing ground: "Two adults, everything is ready."
Gawain motioned for Philip to lead the way, while Victoria temporarily restrained her thoughts. Accompanied by some of the entourage, she followed Gawain and the young knight to an open space that had been emptied in advance and guarded by soldiers.
She saw a soldier walking in front of Gawain, who was holding a long wooden box in his hand. After the wooden box was opened, there was a one-handed with a dark blue blade, beautiful in shape and yet imposing. long sword.
She had seen this sword - in the hands of the female knight named Margarita, she was impressed by it.
"This is an extraordinary weapon with the power of the fire element, we call it the melting and cutting sword," Gawain picked up the long sword, swung it twice at random, and then pressed a certain mechanism on the hilt in front of Victoria, the long sword immediately There was a very slight humming, and its blade quickly turned red, and the air near the blade instantly showed a visible distortion - which made Victoria aware of the amazing heat on the blade, "such as As you can see, its high-heat blade is the source of its power. Under normal slashing, it can easily cut any ordinary sword, and it can also cut light and medium metal armor with one stroke. When dealing with heavy armored units The effect may not be that great - but its heat can continuously heat the armor of a heavily armored warrior, and the lethality is still lethal."
Victoria moved closer. She took the long sword handed over by Gao Wen, and felt the amazing heat emanating from the latter, but even more felt the magic of the automatic operation inside the sword: "It does not require magic power for the user?"
"Yes, this is a self-contained extraordinary weapon, as long as it is trained, ordinary people can use it."
Self-sustaining Paranormal Armament - the most expensive of the Paranormal Armaments!
"It's no wonder that the Southern Noble Alliance is not your opponent," Victoria looked at this deadly and beautiful weapon in admiration, "If ordinary soldiers can also equip magical weapons, any army will become extremely terrifying... How much is the sword worth?"
Gawain looked at Victoria's reaction with satisfaction, and said a price that stunned the other party: "Only twenty gold coins of Ansu Yuan—or seventeen gold shield coins."
Victoria was taken aback - not too expensive, but too cheap! !
Twenty gold coins buy a sword. If it is an ordinary sword, of course it is very expensive, because a stainless steel long sword without magic power is only worth two or three gold coins at most. Even if it comes from a famous craftsman, the price is no more than four gold coins. But if it is an extraordinary weapon... 20 gold coins are sometimes not enough for materials!
A long sword with the simplest sharpness enchantment can be fired for hundreds of gold coins, and the price of a sword with elemental power will even double, and in many cases, even if you have money, you may not be able to. Buy extraordinary weapons that meet the requirements - because those who can make magic weapons are extraordinary people with detached status, and extraordinary people themselves are not short of money. If you want to ask them to build weapons, in addition to money, you must also have enough identity and status.
But in Cecil, a long sword with elemental power only costs twenty gold coins...and this kind of sword is still mass-produced.
"Is this price inappropriate?"
Gawain's voice woke Victoria up, she shook her head: "No, it's actually a lot cheaper than I thought..."
"It's cheap because it has certain defects," Gawain laughed, "You should already know that many of Cecil's extraordinary weapons are mass-produced, but to mass-produce things with magic power, we must Make some compromises on quality - the sword in your hand is no different from a real supernatural weapon in normal use, but the magic capacitor buried in the hilt will break down after a while, and that's when it becomes An ordinary weapon."
"No wonder it's so cheap..." Victoria looked stunned, and then couldn't help but asked, "What about the damage to the magic mechanism in the hilt?"
"It can be replaced - in order to make up for the defects in quality, many of its parts can be disassembled and replaced," Gawain smiled, "don't worry, that magic power mechanism is cheaper, and the new magic power capacitor only needs a round gold coin, and if You are worried that other key structures of the sword will be damaged due to the poor replacement of ordinary soldiers, you can send them back, and we will replace them for you for free."
"Just one gold coin?" Victoria confirmed, and after she got a positive answer, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Seems like... a good deal? Although the long-term accumulation of constantly changing magic organs may cost a lot of money, this "melting sword" is still too cheap compared to buying a real extraordinary weapon.
After this, more samples of weapons that could be sold were sent to Gawain and Victoria.
Gawain ordered the soldiers to demonstrate those weapons on the spot, and he introduced the same thing next to him:
"This is a heat ray gun. It can shoot scorching rays. Although the range is much shorter than ordinary scorching rays, only less than 100 meters, it has surpassed many bows and arrows, and its power is not comparable to bows and arrows. Of course, it is also a cheap The mass-produced extraordinary weapon, its focusing array is easily damaged - you are a mage, you should know that this is an unavoidable situation. But you also don't worry, the focusing array is also very cheap..."
"Crystal grenade, reliable power - this one does not need to worry about the service life, it is a consumable in itself, but it is definitely cheaper and easier to carry than the explosion scroll."
"Magic armor, excellent defense means are equally important to soldiers, and I believe you don't want soldiers armed with a lot of gold coins to die easily on the battlefield. This armor has a variety of effective enchantments, and the power at the chest is The core can keep it running for four hours, which is more than enough for most fights. Its various enchantments are generated by relying on the rune baseplates in the sockets of the armor, in other words, changing the rune baseplate or Adding or subtracting rune substrates can change the armor's magic resistance, which can cope with very complex battlefield situations, and soldiers can effectively fight against it no matter what the enemy is."
"How much is this armor worth?" Victoria couldn't help interrupting Gawain's words. On this armor, she saw a different design idea - although she didn't know that this design idea was called "modularity" ", but this did not prevent her from developing a huge interest in magic armor.
"Free." Gawain said two words with a faint smile.
Victoria thought she had auditory hallucinations: "Free... free?!"
"Yes, the armor is free, because it has different combinations, it is really not easy to price, so we only sell rune substrates, the Royal Army can order specific types of rune substrates according to needs, as long as you buy enough three, the armor can be Free as a gift. If you buy a complete set of rune baseplates, you can also get three additional crystal grenades.”
Victoria felt that she had heard a lot of unheard words from Gawain, but the meaning of these words was not difficult to understand. It just took some thinking to keep up with Gawain's rhythm-she tried to keep up with this rhythm, and then felt... ...seems like a good fit?
Everything makes sense - the Cecils did mass-produce supernatural weapons, but their mass production came at a price, and the price was that the quality of the weapons couldn't compare to the real supernatural weapons, they always had this and that The critical parts of the gadgets will be easily damaged and then have to be replaced, but those parts themselves are not very expensive...
Victoria pondered, then asked: "How many sets of equipment can you provide? A set of weapons and armor, not counting those crystal grenades."
Gao Wen estimated the efficiency of the production line and the existing inventory, and said a conservative figure: "Before the spring, 10,000 sets will be no problem."
Ten thousand……
This is the first time Victoria has lived such a big life and has heard this unit used to describe the number of extraordinary armaments.
She felt her heart pounding as she rehearsed in her mind what an army of 10,000 extraordinary weapons could do, but after the initial excitement subsided, she immediately realized how huge it would take a sum of money.
Cecil's extraordinary armament is indeed very cheap in unit price, and it is almost a fraction of the normal extraordinary armament, but...
Their unit of quantity is "ten thousand".
This number is rather scary.
And this has not yet calculated the subsequent replacement of those vulnerable parts, maintenance consumption, although there is no exact data, but Victoria instinctively feels that it may also be a lot of money.
"I'm afraid... we don't have so many gold coins," Victoria said with some embarrassment. She was a little embarrassed at first, but considering that she was in front of her own elder, most of the embarrassment of being a junior was resolved. She bluntly stated the current situation of the Royal Army. Difficulty, "Eastern Rebels have occupied one of the richest areas on the Holy Spirit Plain, and the war in the past six months has consumed a large amount of the Kingdom's army's reserves."
"Is that so..." Gawain looked embarrassed, he frowned and thought for a few minutes, and when Victoria could not help but sigh, he sighed, "But What I said is already the cost price, you should know that neither the magic materials nor the mage fell from the sky... Well, you can pay for it with half gold coins and half the raw materials, is that okay?"
Victoria blinked: "Half gold coins and half raw materials?"
"Iron ore, crystal ore, red copper, quartz... These common materials can be used to offset the purchase price at the market price," Gawain said, "This is the biggest concession I can make - I want to accumulate a mountain of extraordinary Arms are sent to the battlefield in the Holy Spirit Plain, and they are all built with the resources of the South."
Victoria pondered and quickly calculated all the data in her mind - she could only estimate, whether the Royal Army could afford such a still staggering cost, and finally filled in some of the taxes and minerals in the north, she Finally got enough.
For Ansu.
"make a deal."