Chapter 151: Elves and Guns
Chapter 148 – Elves and Guns
“Study hard, the future of the territory depends on you.” Owen smilingly looked at the elves and monsters who were learning Hogwarts magic spells with puppetry.
As magical creatures similar to house elves, although the elves had lost their original goblin magic due to the transformation, they still had some magic power left, after all, as magical creatures, magic power was one of their life’s origins, and it was impossible to completely eliminate it.
The remaining amount of magic power is not much, it is difficult to cast the powerful magic of the heroes invincible system, this is also when the mage transformed them intentionally, but it is enough for them to learn some simple Hogwarts magic spells.
Let’s not think about the killing power of these magic spells, increasing the efficiency of the elves and monsters is not difficult, just a levitation spell can reduce a lot of trouble.
However, in comparison, the golem spells were more useful to the elves.
Puppetry doesn’t need to have much magic power, even the strength of mental power is something that can lower the standard, as long as the manipulation is detailed enough, you are a qualified puppeteer, so Owen barely hesitated to take out a full set of puppetry for the elves to learn.
Under the premise of not needing to consider loyalty, Owen wasn’t afraid of his men being strong, he was only afraid of not being strong enough.
In addition Owen didn’t pay all the time, from where the elf he also gained some common knowledge of alchemy.
This is not strange, the elves and monsters were originally the assistants of mages and alchemists, as well as the maintainers of the Sky City and the magic statues, although they did not have a high level of knowledge of alchemy and magic, they were very solid in terms of fundamentals, which is just right for beginners in alchemy like Owen.
As one of the several camps of Heroes Invincible’s academy faction, even if it’s just the basic learning, it still makes Owen marvel, just from the scales and claws you can see that it’s far better than the Hogwarts system.
Unfortunately, because of the limited energy, Owen did not involve too much, only focus on the elf’s best magic statue and alchemy equipment.
Because he liked to create puppets, Owen first paid attention to the magic statues.
After comparing, Owen realized that compared to the precise structure of the golem, the magic statue was a bit like a flying brick, because a gargoyle was just a piece of stone, and the magic statue was even more of an iron lump.
However, after carefully studying it, Owen realized a hint of mystery.
In fact, if he had not learned the Hogwarts magic spell system, really not necessarily be able to see, because it is too high-end.
Virtual soul, material activation, magic power circulation, this was the real core of the magic statue.
Unfortunately, Owen couldn’t figure it out at all, and the elves and monsters would only cultivate it, and they also had a half-understanding of these high level principles, and venturing out to learn it in this situation wasn’t a matter of inefficiency, in case he got sidetracked, it was something that would kill him.
The good thing is that part of the Hogwarts system is considered to be a low-cost version of this, such as those moving and talking portraits and wizard chess, if he can eat through this part of the knowledge, then in the magical image of even into the door.
For the next period of time, Owen stayed with the elves, and sort of gained a deeper understanding of the elves.
The elves were smart and had a great ability to learn, but lacked creativity, or rather their creativity was limited.
This was not surprising, mages and alchemy needed to be assistants, not hidden dangers that overthrow themselves, it was only normal to have limitations, just like the house elves at Hogwarts, who were not limited to death.
So while it’s fine to let elves and monsters manufacture or optimize according to a chart, it’s hard to let them innovate.
Owen scratched his head, a little helpless, it seems that he can only let the brain is not really smart him to be the scientific guide of the territory.
The first piece of work of the elf workshop is a musket, because the elf’s weapon is the same shape as the hand bell of the cannon, so it only needs to be stretched out, this is not difficult for the elf, and even only need to go through a simple modification, can create a special production of musket machinery out.
But Owen is not very satisfied with the performance of the musket, even if the musket once ended the cold weapon era in the previous life. But after the real hands-on test, he realized that the musket that ended the cold weapon era relied not on the killing power and range, but because it was easier to popularize.
It takes at least half a year to train an elite soldier who is skillful with cold weapons and protective gears, and even longer if they are formed into a regiment.
But a musketeer only needs an hour or two to learn how to load and fire, and can go into battle if he knows how to walk in line.
Of course, the musketeers trained in this way were simply cannon fodder, but the problem was that the bullets fired by both cannon fodder and elite musketeers were equally deadly.
As for the hit rate problem, lining up to shoot was to make up for that.
It is because the musketeers are too easy to train, resulting in later even if the knight’s armor has been able to bulletproof, still can not change the fact that the era of cold weapons was ended, because the cost-effective difference is too large, especially in the musket manufacturing process to enhance the cost of a substantial reduction is more so.
But Owen’s world is not so simple, not only the fighting spirit and magic, there are many foreigners, alone musket and artillery is far from enough.
Knights, for example, in the case of well-equipped armor outbreak of fighting spirit charge, musketeers simply unable to block, because they can not hit the target of every shot, and scattered lead bullets can not stop the charge of the knight, once the knight rushed into the formation, the next is a variety of massacre, after all, you can not expect a group of farmers before the musketeers with a bayonet stuffed in the muzzle of the gun to deal with the knight wearing heavy armor.
The inhumanly strong Teutonic warriors were even able to ignore musket fire and slaughter in a crushing fashion.
Of course, neither the knights nor the Teutonic warriors could resist the killing power of the muskets, but only if they could hit.
The artillery’s hit rate was just whatever happened, unless you were facing an enemy in formation or a building that didn’t move, then it was just so-so.
And even Owen had more than one way to extinguish an artillery position, such as a witch on a flying broom, so let alone an Imperial mage.
Simply put, if Owen formed a purely firearms army, it could only be used to bully the weak, and even against an equal number of Northland barbarian warriors there was no guarantee of victory.
With the physique of the Northland barbarians, even if they don’t wear armor, with their tenacious vitality they can resist several rounds of lead bullets, and in a frenzied state, as long as their heads and hearts aren’t pierced, they can rush into the formation and take away several times the number of enemies before they die.
Not to mention the imperial border army that has accompanying mages and large-scale fighting knights, it is simply too easy to deal with a pure firearms army.
Moreover, whether it’s muskets or cannons, the structure is very simple, with the level of this world’s mages and alchemists, it’s likely that they can make a better imitation after just one look.
Even as long as they were willing, it was no problem to develop the level of guns and cannons to World War I or even World War II in a short period of time.
After all, even puppets and enchanted equipment can be made, you say that they can’t make muskets, this is not a joke.
Even if you don’t count the cost, similar to the Gundam such a giant golem and the sky city, the empire may not be unable to build, just look at the willingness.
After calm reflection, Owen found that the pure firearms army is not as strong as imagined, more suitable for siege and defense, but not as adaptable as the elite cold weapon army in the field.
Of course, all these were just words on paper, no one dared to say that it was better without actually fighting a few battles, so Owen finally decided to stockpile a batch of muskets and cannons, and then let the elves focus on remodeling the engineering golems that he had designed before.
(End of chapter)