In the southeast of Beta City, in the studio of the individual weapon research institute, director Mikhail was fiddling with something out of thin air. His fingers and wrists were nimble, as if he was playing an instrument, which was not at all commensurate with his solid figure.

There was a weird magic machine beside him, with transparent crystals on the outside, and a layer of space lattice frame with light purple light inside. In the frame, the two robots were fiddling with metal devices, and their movements were completely synchronized with Mikhail.

A researcher entered the studio and was scolded by Mikhail before he even opened his mouth: "I said don't urge me to eat and rest! What does the legendary craftsman do not eat or drink or close his eyes for a few days? It's nothing if his head explodes! I'll lie to the hospital for two days and then jump around!"

"The battle is about to start, and the selection test of weapon genre has not been completed yet. Those guys who shouted that even the Yanfen didn't care about it and let everyone make their own weapons from beginning to end are going to gain the upper hand!"

"It's almost done! I'm checking the mechanical parts design of the last batch of plans, and I can submit it to the Science and Technology Commission for finalization at most tomorrow."

The researcher responded repeatedly, and after Mikhail finished spraying, he timidly mentioned something: "Director, I'm giving you this... the smuggled goods I just got from Prerell City, you said you would see the real thing."

Seeing that the magic gun was obviously improved on the Fini style, Mikhailha screamed.

Moving the robot from synchronous mode to self-discipline mode, Mikhail took the thing, ignored the researcher, and started to whisper on his own, muttering constantly.

"Fortunately it's modular, otherwise I'd be uninterested in watching it."

"The magic weapon is actually in a fixed gate format? That is to say, there are only two modes: single-shot and pulse. Can't the pulse mode adjust the speed?"

"Following the design of the magic weapon, you can only use basic spell modules such as Feng Arrow, Fire Arrow, and Ice Arrow. You can't even wear the fine gold armor pieces of old magic weapons."

"This is to produce one million imperial magic guns? It's far worse than Ranger Blade of the Santalin Society and Magician Scepter of the Ted Academy!"

"It's a complete regression. Is Stoner's brain flooded?"

"No wonder the black market price is only twenty Jinpu ears with cheap designs and cheap parts."

The researcher laughed and said, "The director is chosen because of the cheapness. The magicians of the Empire nicknamed this thing as the 'ignition stick'. The cost of Ranger's Blade and the Magician's Scepter is several times higher than this. Only those legions and troops with independent procurement rights will choose."

"I never thought of winning a war with soldiers equipped with this kind of weapon on the battlefield," Mikhail shook his head with a disbelief and said with a sigh: "That guy Stoner is no longer worthy of being a craftsman. Even if you have to pay the cost, you should use your brain more in the design. It must be someone's thigh that I can get to choose his plan."

The researcher nodded: "Yes, there are news circulating in the tavern in Prelle City that Stoner defected to Zolder, the president of the Santalin Society."

Mikhail was completely indifferent and handed the magic gun to the researcher: "Don't ask this person in front of me anymore, he is no longer worthy of being my opponent."

Zolder Magic Industry Group is the magic gun giant of the Dawn Empire. This plan is not so much a design by Stoner as Zolder's request.

As Mikhail, the only recognized competitor in the Dawn Empire, Stoner succumbed to Zolder and Gimpole, which also means that he gave up the purity of craftsmen.

The pressure of competing with each other for several years, the frustration when falling behind, the joy when transcending, and all kinds of moods disappeared at this moment.

While relaxed, Mikhail also developed a strong emptiness.

Three or four years ago, in the war known as the First Order Holy War, the magic gun of the Dawn Empire followed the Red League. After Hathaway announced the magic particle technology, it was Stoner who promoted a magic gun revolution, which allowed the magic gun development of the Dawn Empire to break away from the influence of the Red League and embark on his own path.

Give up the live ammunition route that complicates the formation of magic circles, logistics support and combat styles, and focuses on reconstructing spells with magic particles, additional power amplification and magic diversion, making the magic gun of the Dawn Empire seem to have returned to the traditional era and become like a magician's wand.

This change is just right with the magician school that blooms everywhere in the Dawn Empire. The Storm Islands cultivated the knowledge and experience of combat magicians and was revived. As long as civilians learn a broken combat spell, they can use this weapon to cast new magic transformed by magic particle technology.

Such weapons can not only pose a serious threat to extraordinary people above the hero level (provided that there is no external protection), but also use magic drainage techniques to use external magic power such as magic crystals. However, the user still has to withstand the impact of magic power by himself. The combat continuity is not as good as that of Chilian's Void Spirit Magic Gun, and his soul will be damaged that is difficult to repair for a long time.

Now, in the Dawn Empire, in addition to the Hand of Order and other high-level armed forces of the Holy See, general soldiers' standard weapons have been replaced with this kind of magic gun. In order to match the previous automatic magic gun in terms of fire density, continuous shooting adopts pulse activation methods, and therefore the titles of "pulse gun" and "pulse wand".

There are many rumors about the reason for abandoning the live-fire route. One of the rumors is believed to be quite reliable, that is, the Dawn Empire listed magic metals above magic steel as strictly controlled materials, and these magic metals were used by the Goddess of Order to repair Paradise Mountain. Although the fine gold and mitral are cheap, their effectiveness is far less than that of magic steel, whether it is magic attachment, armor-piercing and damage, so the Empire simply gave up the live-fire route and embarrassing route.

"Actually, since the concepts of foundation and destruction, that guy is not worthy of being my opponent."

Mikhail thought this way that Chilian's Void Spirit Magic Gun has long been no longer an independent category, but is designed as a weapon module of magic weapons. The core of magic weapons is the foundation frame, which extends to the magic gun module, giving the magic gun a concept of a foundation frame. As the foundation frame of the functional module under the foundation, in order to distinguish it, it is called "incarnation frame".

Mikhail is not only not in charge of the specific magic gun design, but also the magic gun spear is not directly designed. Instead, he reviews and evaluates the spears and modules proposed by various guilds, selects corresponding plans, and together with the engineering bureau above the institute, he presides over the overall development of Chilian in the field of magic guns.

"But the more terrifying opponent is eyeing him."

Mikhail shuddered, and the feeling of emptiness disappeared instantly. He waved his hand to drive away the researcher and continued to work hard.

From Feigong to Chilian, we all came from war. In Chilian, people who focus on fighting, whether they are legion officers, adventurers, or hunters, are all weapon experts.

They not only know magic weapons and various weapons well, but also deeply customize the distributed weapons according to their own preferences, understandings and expertise, and even customize various weapons independently. In their opinion, this is the basic quality of a warrior.

For these war experts, this view is correct, but the sense of superiority formed by this also causes some trouble. Under the influence of this view, many people believe that there is no need for the state to distribute its power to preside over the research on individual weapons. It only needs to provide the necessary conditions so that the soldiers can solve this needs themselves.

Fortunately, the top leaders are sober, and Mikhail also has a deep understanding of this. In small-scale wars where professional and elite troops only need to use professional and elite troops, it is okay for soldiers to customize weapons as needed. But in a comprehensive and overall war, a large number of people who are not weapons experts will inevitably go to the battlefield, and the country still needs to provide them with standard weapons to meet basic needs. In addition, in order to correspond to the overall development situation and set goals, the country also needs to always play a guiding role, and it is necessary to directly conduct individual weapons research.

But if the new Yanjia cannot be produced, the "DIY superior parties" will be clamoring again, and the pressure is far beyond the pressure that competitors can create.

"Damn... It's just that at this time the Thunder Hammer was successful. Aka San Er fell behind before he was settled..."

Mikhail was helpless. The institute originally completed the "single-soldier magic weapon system" called Aka San Er, and conducted a practical test in the Battle of Hell. It was originally hoped to become a standard equipment, but unexpectedly, the success of Thor's Hammer made the central government decide to introduce corresponding technology into individual weapons and replace the firing system in the virtual spirit gun with "electric rail".

"In the future, the Void Spirit Gun can be called a rail gun..."

Mikhail thought this way, although he was not adapted to such drastic changes, but after testing the rail launch system, as a craftsman, he agreed to replace spells with rails.

The launch system uses electric rails, which are more adaptable, have stronger kinetic energy, and can save a considerable amount of magic power. Although logistics is a bit troublesome, a gun has to take into account the consumption of electricity, magic power and bullets. However, the magic gun is just a module of magic weapons, and magic weapons provide electricity magic power, and there is no big problem.

"The components of the rail are still too complex, far less concise than the magic array, and reliability is a problem."

Mikhail continued to operate the component images in his field of vision, synchronized with the robotic arm in the space lattice, and disassembled the rail modules of each plan. This is a rail module designed by each guild based on the technical principles of Thor's Hammer. Mikhail had to review the reliability of each plan.

"Before the basic principle is further broken, you can only bring more spare parts and replace them if they are broken."

Each solution is not very satisfactory, and in order to hurry up, Mikhail can only make a compromise. Anyway, with Chilian's manufacturing ability, such components that have nothing to do with extraordinary power can be made millions of dollars at one time, and the cost is insignificant.

"Simple, general use, reliable, just like a gear..."

Mikhail's heart was filled with the perception of being transcendent above the power, which made a slight dark golden light flash in his eyes: "No matter what kind of extraordinary power it is, whether it is extraordinary power or basic power, the mission of the craftsman is to enable mortals to manipulate their power more conveniently, broader, more agile and more stable, and do things beyond their own limits."

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In another conference room, several images hanging on the walls were also holding meetings.

This is a meeting in the military industry, including Yuzan, Artur, Herizal, Help, Allen, Stark, Katamon and others, all present with images. The four terminals of Ruthya, Jade, Chenguang and Selda were also here, and several processes were divided to participate in the meeting, and there was even an image of whom's QB clone.

"Anyway, we have to stop the pace of moving forward and not looking back for the past three years and constantly breaking through the limits."

Artur presided over the meeting and summarized the preliminary discussion just now.

Hrizal nodded and said, "The motorized fortress project has been confirmed to trace back to two plans No. 613 and No. 759, and is preparing to start the construction of the Tigerjell floating fortress and Montech void fortress at the same time. There is no technical bottleneck in the Tigerjell, and Montech still needs to look at the research progress of the lattice engine."

"The data analysis of the blasting operation is almost completed," qb said: "Our Void Commune Institute can guarantee that the preliminary model and performance data of the engine can be submitted within half a month and improve the Montech design plan."

Just as Xia An integrated his Wan Menghui with other literary and artistic propaganda groups and created the Literary and artistic commune, who also integrated his endless mage group into the Red League and won the organization of the Void Commune. He gathered a large number of people committed to the development of the Void and dealing with the enemies of the Void, including some blue dragons and silver dragons.

Help talked about the floating ship: "I originally wanted to complete the research on the ancient Kun-class plan. Since I want to look back, let's start with the nest Kun. The young Kun is too small and the efficiency is not high, so it is not worth building in large quantities."

"If the guard power is only based on narwhals, there will be no limit. The Dawn Empire will definitely expand the floating fleet for narwhals. I suggest starting the orca plan, which is very mature."

Katamon quickly followed: "It's better for the shark to use the fifth generation solution directly. The biggest problem now is that weapons cannot keep up. Our virtual torpedoes and missiles do not have absolute advantages in range and power. When will the torpedoes that rely on teleportation to attack targets from subspace be handled?"

Zhiling Ruthya replied that this is also a branch project of the Mobile Fortress: "This also requires basic support from the lattice engine technology, and how to ensure that the virtual spirit is not disturbed by subspace, this difficulty has not been overcome."

Katamon spread his hands: "Well, that is to say, the next war, at least the war in the sky, is essentially a queue to be shot."

Stark, the authoritative of the magic armed forces, was dissatisfied: "Even if you are queuing up and shooting, don't ignore the differences in protection, maneuvering and information. As long as we accumulate little by little, we can still form a significant advantage to the empire."

Red Doraemon agrees with this view: "Yes, the Blue Army Brigade with the old sleeves still has a huge advantage against Uncle Black who is Aka."

Alan, an expert in the virtual spirit technology and also the guardian of Ruthya, scratched his head: "The technology of functional virtual spirit has enough reserves, and you only need to adjust the interface. There are too many solutions to realize the main control virtual spirit."

Youzan said confidently: "This is fine, you are responsible for summarizing the needs of each project. Your Majesty is already planning to build the third coder group... Cough, the third development department. In addition to the Sisi Witch and the Heroic Witch, many crazy angels with the talent of coder will also join the programming team."

Artur sighed: "Time is still very tight, it depends on how much time the power we can mobilize now can buy us."

"The Dawn Empire is not the empire at the last time of Order Holy War. The sky mercenaries controlled by Santalin alone can dispatch thousands of combat flight boats."

"They have elemental furnaces, elemental bombs and shells. The performance of floating ships and magic cannons is no worse than ours, and some indicators are even better than ours."

Hrizal's tone was also very solemn: "The population and material resources of the Dawn Empire are much stronger than ours, and the neutral gods are now basically turning to the goddess of order."

"The Chief Cardinal himself said that the detonator and blasting operation can succeed, but it only caught the other party off guard. When the empire is fully mobilized, we must be mentally prepared to suffer a little, or even live a hard life."

Katamon said uncertainly: "By the power mobilized now, support... one year, it's enough for us to fully update our technical equipment, right?"

After a long silence, everyone gave ten months, half a year or three months.

Katamont said that the situation is really serious.

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"Call to Valentine and liberate Dongfein!"

"Blast the God Emperor Castle, red flag roll Fein!"

"The red flag flutters on Paradise Mountain, and the red children are so charming!"

In the underground hangar of the cactus base, pilots from the Pilots Commune were clamoring happily. They all changed into the gray flight suits of the Chilian Air Force. On the stopper next to them, several mechanical octopuses were spraying their strange and colorful planes into dark gray paint, and painted with the Chilian Air Force number.

"I'm wearing this skin back again, I miss it."

"I feel like I can no longer accept the life of being scolded by my boss."

"We are all squadron leaders, and we have hundreds of people under our command. We scold them."

"If I stayed in the air force... Oh, I changed to the Air Force, we should at least be the captain of the brigade."

Chilian Flying Ace Jennier and Hassan muttered that they had just recovered from the Battle of the God Emperor Castle a few days ago, and now they are being called back to the army, and their hearts are surging again.

At this time, a man in a dark blue uniform came over and recognized him just by looking at his steps.

"Dyke! Are you okay?"

"Don't you have a good rest?"

The person who came was Dyke, but he was no longer a slut. He was several years younger, full of energy to do something big.
To be continued...