Chapter 151 - First Shot (1/2)

When Gawain spoke of the weapon’s name that he had prepared in his mind for a long time, Nicholas Egg didn’t have a huge reaction to this name, but Rebecca was already ecstatic. “This name sounds incredible!”

“You already think it is incredible just by the name?” Amber looked at Rebecca with slanted eyes and said, “How can so many strange words be forced together like this…”

“Lord Ancestor is always like this. He will always be able to think of some incredible-sounding words even though we don’t understand the meaning of the words.” Rebecca had a pleased expression as though she was praising herself and said, “If you have an opinion, it is purely envy. You will never be as incredible as Lord Ancestor.”

Amber instantly raised her brows and commented, “No matter how incredible your ancestor is, I am the one that dug him out!”

When Gawain saw that the duo were about to deviate from the topic, he immediately stood in between them and said, “Shut your mouths! We are here for proper business!”

That giant silver comedian had been floating without uttering any sound and observing by the side. When the two ‘female humans’ had finally quieted down, he spoke unhurriedly, “Then let’s talk about the ‘heat-ray gun’… It isn’t a problem for me to process the components, but the blueprints have to be prepared first. If the structure is simple, you can just explain it to me here, but it is best to have actual references.”

“We have already handcrafted the main component. Right now, we need to research on how to make a stable assembly and how to mold an ‘outer shell’ that is suitable for humans to use.” As Gawain spoke, he took out the magic capacitor’s base plate, magic storage crystals, Scorching Ray’s base plate, and also a few original schematics. “Egg Egg, take a look at these. Let me tell you the principle of the heat-ray gun…”

The giant silver comedian instantly let out a buzzing voice, “Why are you also calling me Egg Egg?!”

“Don’t mind it, don’t mind it. Just change it to Boss Egg in your mind. Let’s discuss the rune trigger’s position first…”

The concept of the heat-ray gun didn’t just appear in Gawain’s mind one or two days ago. In fact, when the crystal grenades appeared, he had been thinking of a second kind of weapon that the soldiers could all be equipped with.

The crystal grenades were explosives meant for throwing. It had great firepower, and the structure was very simple. After the basic lathe machine was constructed, it had already started as a small-scale mass production. Byron was currently familiarizing the soldiers with this new type of ‘magical tool’. But the restrictions of the crystal grenades were very obvious: the throwing range was limited to a person’s arm strength; it was very difficult to hit the target accurately; a huge motion was required when tossing it; a longer preparation time; and also the delayed explosion after throwing it…

It was evident that the soldiers required another Beyonder weapon to compensate for the flaws of the crystal grenades, and it was best for it to be a long-range weapon. This world’s sword and saber skills were already sufficiently developed.

Firearms were the most suitable things that Gawain could think of, but it was something that was hard to achieve in this world.

Without the use of gunpowder or the use of steam power, it was extremely hard to launch pellets at high speed. Gawain had already attempted different methods to instantly create high temperatures and high pressure but had minimal results. He had also put his thoughts to using ‘magic’ like launching the pellets with the repulsion magic circle, but he quickly realized that with the current craftsmanship, it was hard to compress and carve the repulsion magic circle at the end of the gun barrel. Furthermore, if it was truly compressed to such a small size, the amount of thrust created by the repulsion magic circle wouldn’t be enough to give lethal power to the pellets.

He had also considered using the convenience of magic to create the ‘railgun’ in advance; he could make use of the powerful magnetic field generated by wind-earth fusion runes to create the acceleration rail to launch the pellets, but he quickly realized that he was lacking an ‘electric circuit control’ that could respond fast enough to rapidly switch on and off each of the rune combinations. The traditional rune triggers were operated by mechanisms, and it was extremely hard for large quantities of rune combinations to conduct sequential switching on and off during the acceleration process of the pellet. Furthermore, to make a rune arrangement that was similar to the clock circuit… Regretfully, Gawain still didn’t have any idea.

Due to the differences in the laws of physics, there were many of the Earth’s impossible technologies that could be easily achieved in this world. But at the same time, there were many easily achieved things on Earth that were impossible in this world.

As for this world’s traditional bows and crossbows, Gawain didn’t think to conduct any magical modifications to them. No matter how the bows and crossbows were modified, it was hard to concurrently achieve a huge number of requests, like low prices, mass production, rapid-fire ability, consecutive shots, low training requirements, and great efficiency.

Perhaps when magical industrialization’s technology had reached a certain degree, traditional bows and crossbows would then come into Gawain’s sight again. But for now, it was still not feasible.

After hard work and multiple attempts, while Gawain was touching his hairline, he had a sudden inspiration and realized something.

‘Why must the gun shoot bullets?!’

The moment he realized this was the moment when Rebecca hopped and ran towards him. If he was a little blunter, it was a hopping Fireball launcher…

At that moment, he had a realization and knew what his thoughts were being restricted to. Be it the method to launch the pellets or the use of magic, he was restricting himself with the principles back on Earth. Since this world had all sorts of powerful spells, why couldn’t he just set ‘bullets’ aside and study these spells instead?

After collecting and sorting out various fundamental spells, the one that entered his mind was the Fireball launcher… no, Scorching Ray.

When the base plate of Scorching Ray was constructed, he had to contest with the experiences he already had in his mind again.

What form did the new weapon need?

The group sat around a workstation that was created through machining, while Nicholas Egg floated at the opposite side of the workstation. The base plates, crystals, and blueprints were all placed on the table. When looking at these things, Gawain felt that the ‘classic firearm model’ wouldn’t be feasible here.

These were palm-sized, hexagonal metallic plates. They didn’t have any gun barrel, magazines, or bolts. As compared to classic firearm models, these were more suited to be assembled into a disk-shaped thing.