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Chapter 367: 366. You’ve got yourselves a “key monitoring” spot at such a young age, you really don’t have a bright future ahead of you!
Older people always have an unrealistic desire to protect their offspring.
It’s an instinct that comes from reproduction, and even a tough vampire like Kudel is not immune to it.
He claimed that he had lost most of his human emotions after becoming a vampire, but in reality, this emotion had not disappeared out of thin air.
It was simply hidden very carefully by Kudel under the vampire’s shell.
Murphy had thought that he was an anomaly among vampires, but compared to the twisted to the core Kudel, he was actually considered a relatively normal vampire.
Can you imagine, in the 100 years Kudel has been a vampire, the number of times he has used the power of “Blood Thirst”, which is regarded as the core skill of other vampires, to fight is not even more than five times?
The vampire’s thirst for blood was suppressed by Kudel’s iron will, which is a miracle in itself.
“I could explain my intentions of ‘abducting’ your granddaughter with many lines of reasoning, but I know those would only increase your anger.
So I’ll be blunt.”
Murphy waved his hand in explanation:
“You are also aware of the previous deal between the Gray Claw faction and the Jackal Warlord Kenport, whether or not the layout map of the entire Cato region is known to the Jackals is now an unknown.
And the Anjou region is directly north of the Cato region, and the two are only separated by a Dilana Mountain.
That mountain range is indeed dangerous, and the Kingdom of the Golden Flower has set up a fortress in it, as well as a few Silver Dwarf strongholds, but do you think the Anjou region will be able to rest easy once the Black Plague chooses this route to break through?
I admit, I’m playing up a fear that shouldn’t be there, but the fact remains that the risk of sending your granddaughter back to her homeland is no less than if she were to stay in Transylvania, by your side.
Here, at least, you can still protect her and teach her.
Bikki is truly gifted!
She might become a rare golden female knight among humans.
What’s even more rare is that her quest for power isn’t motivated by fame or anything else, she aspires to become a Legendary Knight like you.
That would have been a miracle, and fate sent her to you.”
“To have my granddaughter stay with a bunch of vampires? I simply cannot imagine it.”
Kudel whispered:
“I trust you, but only a few of you, and my granddaughter would be an irresistible ‘meal’ for any vampire.”
“All the more reason for you to teach her what to do against vampires like us, and even train her to be a brilliant and deadly ‘vampire slayer’.
She has every talent for it!”
Murphy said warmly:
“It’s better to teach her how she should hold her sword properly than to let her live ignorantly ignoring such risks, right? Not to mention, we already have a chalice in our hands.
If necessary, just guide Becky to change her beliefs, and in just a little bit of time, she can become a Grail Knight just like you.
Just tell me, where else on the continent would be a more suitable stage for Becky to step into the legend than here with us?”
“I can’t refute that.”
Kudel sighed, and after a few seconds, he said:
“But I always felt that you didn’t value my granddaughter’s talent and future by having to keep her in Transylvania; you had other plans for her.
It makes me feel uneasy, Murphy.”
“A powerful blonde female knight can be so hard to find.”
Murphy didn’t hide some kind of ‘attempt’ on his part as he said:
“We already have a Riptide Knights, their numbers will grow later, and they need a Grand Master or Grand Inquisitor or Grand Lord who can convince everyone.
I can even push Bikki into the position of ‘Crusader General’ in the future, if she wants to, if she wants to, and there are countless possibilities for her life, at least in Transylvania .
Of course, it’s not just because of Miss Becky that I came running to you.
About that thing we’ve been planning before. Regarding the military defense line between the Dark Barony and the Filthy Swamp, I’ve decided to start construction from next week!
We still have more than four months to go, and with the help of the rapid construction techniques my warriors are currently using, we can barely finish building a defense line before the crisis surfaces.
There are tens of thousands of Dogheads gathered over there right now.
There is no shortage of labor, but they will need some overseers to direct them, and I want to put you in charge there, and I will assign you excellent lieutenants.
All you need to do is sit there, and specific matters will be arranged.”
“Uh-huh.”
Kudel didn’t refuse, but then he inquired:
“I read the information that Adele forwarded to me, about those Jackal Warlocks in the Filthy Swamp, what are you going to do about it? Or are you going to let them loose there to search for the treasure of the King of Biting Bones?”
“That is something that must be addressed! That’s a terrible hidden danger.”
Murphy whispered:
“After the Championship, I’ll mobilize the entire force available in Transylvania into the swamp, and Hogg has already found us a path to travel without incident
Don’t get that surprised look on your face, Kudel, I only said we’d build a defense, I never said we’d have to fight the Jackals on their own great land.
The defense line is only for precautionary purposes, and I have long since chosen the real battlefield.”
His Excellency the Governor moved his fingers as he said:
“I am certain that after the end of the Hundred Days of Construction, the Filthy Swamp will no longer be the border of Transylvania, and we will be fighting alongside the Blood League Knights in the Dark Mountains.
YES!
This will be the first active pioneering in Transylvania’s history!
We’re going to take the battle to the land of the Jackals, and you, Kudel!
You will form our vanguard along with Maxim, like two ferocious fists wielded by Transylvania, and we will no longer be passive and defensive.”
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“Brother Loyalty, check out the barrel of my newest creation! Hey, I’ll give you that, absolutely first class.”
In the temporary office of the “Otherworldly Weapons Design Area” of the “Transylvania National No. 1 Arsenal”, which was under construction at the location of the former Great Beast’s Den in the Andromeda Hills, Brother Loyalty, who was holding a pipe and frowning at a pile of weapon drawings, heard a cheerful call from outside the door. The voice of a happy and excited man outside the door was heard.
He sighed, touched his Mediterranean hairstyle, and first put all the drawings he had “reproduced” from the other side of the world into the safe behind him, before he slowly walked out with a pipe in his hand.
Don’t look at Brother Loyalty’s level is still only poor level 9, but he is now wearing a “suit” in the whole group of players are unique.
Upper body shirt small vest with a tawdry black tuxedo, lower body straight pants with boots, the most interesting thing is that there is a monocle on the eyes as a decorative accessory, head on top of a black high hat.
There was actually supposed to be a cane.
But Loyalist was too much of a pain in the ass to always carry it, and in its place was a pipe he got from a vendor at the Batasin Chamber of Commerce.
Such a unique outfit could not have been dropped by fighting monsters, in fact, this set of fashion named “capitalist” suit was the achievement reward after Brother Loyalty was appointed as the factory manager.
Probably out of some kind of bad taste of the development team, the parts of this set are also very interesting, monocle is called “surplus value”, high hat is called “old money”, tuxedo is called “exploiter’s skin”, customized cane is called “capitalist’s skin”. The monocle is called “Residual Value”, the tall hat is called “Old Money”, the tuxedo is called “Exploiter’s Skin”, and the customized cane is called “Conscience.
In addition to these kits, an oddly shaped custom street lamp stands outside the gates of the Transylvania Engineer Factory, which is also part of the “Capitalist” kit.
It’s called “The Noose”.
Loyal had made a big splash when he wore this over-the-top fashion.
Now the entire forum, regardless of whether they enter the game or not, have nicknamed him “Capital Brother”, which Brother Loyalty does not have any opinion, he just think the development team is very good at playing.
And players want this sense of uniqueness!
Therefore, at the beginning of wearing the capitalist suit is still a bit awkward now has also been accepted by the loyal brother, as long as the non-combat state, then every day to wear on the body will not take off, and then with two leather gloves can also be better to disguise the loyal brother’s “secret weapon”.
That is, his mechanical left arm and mechanical right fist, which is also the only one in the game!
Hey, who says the fun of playing games is only in fighting monsters and doing quests?
He’s already the first factory owner in the game without even having to do anything.
He slipped out of his office with a pipe in his mouth, and saw a group of “weapons engineers” under his command discussing something in an empty factory.
This factory building was built for them by the Gray Man with his team of engineers and the Blood Vulture Psychic Master some time ago, and it is part of the entire Transylvanian Arsenal complex. There were already some assembled machinery placed in it, but because the large steam engines that accompanied the driving machinery were being transferred from elsewhere by the Carpe family, there was no way to start production for the time being.
In fact, even if the power was in place, Brother Loyal had no intention of going into production right away.
He still had to wait for his mentor, Earl Sherron, to come here with the improved drawings, and transform the production line originally used to produce “steam firearms” into “otherworldly firearms modules” before he could really start work.
Governor Murphy said, although this transformation will take up a lot of manpower and material resources, resulting in the beginning of the output can not be quickly increased, but this matter must be from the beginning of the step by step, absolutely can not be for the sake of production to give up the “independent research and development” program.
The support from the top leaders let Brother Loyalty eat a pill of peace of mind, he is no longer in a hurry to put into production.
In the past few days, when other players were rushing off to fight in the Transylvanian Championship, he and a group of small players beside him were discussing how to better operate the arsenal and trying to select and design their first “fist product” every day.
Just easier said than done, even loyal brother such as the real smell of gunpowder in the first practical operation is inevitably busy, not to mention that for these “enthusiasts”, just a barrel process is enough to dissuade most of the hasty to run to the arsenal to apply for the “engineers! The “engineer” is a layman who comes to the arsenal to apply for a job.
Drawings, who wouldn’t copy them on the Internet?
The question is only whether you can turn those drawings into reality, which is the difference between the idealist and the engineer.
“Look! Brother Loyalty, I made the gun barrel.”
The little player “Nightmare Bat Puppet”, who had been playing well with Brother Loyalty since he was a craving party member in the forums, proudly handed Brother Loyalty a blackened gun barrel with both hands.
The latter took it in his hands with surprise, and after a few moments of fumbling, he asked:
“Thermal processing? Casting?”
“Yes, or you have a good eye, a glance to see the process, this group of teasers thought I was drilled by hand, they do not think about where I came from so hard.”
Nightmare bat puppet grinned and said:
“I looked for the online introduction document to make the mold myself, tried a few times and came up with this, after all, it’s the 15th century craftsmanship is not too complicated.”
“Well, has the strength been tested?”
Brother Loyalty asked, Nightmare Bat Puppet shrugged his shoulders and said:
“Nope, I’m not looking for you to authorize a bit of pointy bullet down before I try it.”
“Hey, there are air bubbles inside the cast barrel, be careful of blowing up the chamber.”
Another tall and thin player, Barrett, warned:
“I think we should go for cold forging if we can, I’ve asked the gunsmiths of the Capet family, and they said that they already have similar tube rolling equipment in the arsenal of the Anjou region, and in the factories of the halflings there are already 19th century level drilling machine tools and reamer equipment.”
“That’s even better for the other Halflings, we don’t have it.”
Nightmare Batpuppet said defiantly:
“It’s not like I don’t know the problems with thermal processing, the precision and durability aren’t very good, but the problem is that right now isn’t there nothing we can do about it?
The up-earth method is also better than importing barrels in bulk from the Carpe family and bringing them back to be assembled, right?
Besides, what we are doing now is a big bolt! It’s not like it’s a semi-auto, the casting process is good enough, and the rifling can be drilled out using the clay method.
It’s just a bit more labor.
We’ll wait for the black plague to pass before we talk about industrial upgrading.
Maxim’s People’s Army gave us an order for 1,500 breechloaders for the first batch alone, you’ll have to make this batch first.”
“I’m just saying, I also know that conditions are difficult right now.”
Barrett rubbed his nose in it:
“The big bolts are leathery and good I admit, but if we want to lay a firepower advantage on the Transylvanian soldiers, semi-automatic has to be on the agenda.
Can’t we at least be a little more ambitious? We came all the way here just to build a few big bolts?
Shame on you!”
“Don’t argue! What’s the point of arguing? We’re a team, understand?”
Brother Loyalty reached out to calm down the most capable and experienced “right-hand man” under his command, and he took off his pipe to reveal the news:
“In a while, Ms. Parian is going to represent Transylvania to go to the halfling territory, so let’s send a report on the equipment we need and see if we can get some ‘advanced stuff’.
If we can’t, we’ll have to get some machine tools, but we’ll have to copy them from scratch, and the semi-automatic ones will be a bit later.
You two go test the barrels, I need a rigorous enough report, you guys get the bullets, and if you can, bring up the production of the castings first.
I’ve commissioned Mr. Portman to find us suitable wood for the gun bodies, and there’ll be a wood shop starting up next door in a few days.”
“All right!”
The two assistants didn’t push back and went outside with the gun barrels that the Nightmare Bat Puppet had messed up, and as Brother Loyalty watched these two guys leave, he couldn’t help but think in his heart:
“You two assholes are actually so criminal, hand rubbing gun barrels this is not good enough, in a moment, I will put your names in the key monitoring list, lest you also have itchy hands in reality to do something you shouldn’t do.
Children ah, do not blame the old uncle.
This is for your two good!”
“Brother Loyalty! You’re here, come and see the goodies I’ve gotten out!”
Brother Loyalty was just thinking about this, when another gleeful call made him turn his head back, and he saw a small player in chainmail returning a piece of cloth to his gauntlets to make a battle robe, dressed exactly like a medieval knight striding towards him with a box full of spring in his step.
The guy’s robe was crudely hand-dyed with a red shield-shaped emblem of a fist clutching a longsword.
This is the symbol of the “Knights of the Riptide”!
This group of RPs had managed to leave a high “perception” with the local residents with this kind of uniform attire.
However, this guy with the ID “Legendary Brave” was an exception.
He acted like a knight, but occasionally he would chat with other players in a normal person’s stance and tone of voice, making him seem very un-RP.
Ever since the Knights of the Riptide began their large-scale search for stragglers in the Xicol Territory and the Andromeda Hills, this “Lord of Valor” has been running to Brother Loyalty’s place every three days.
“Look! The thing I promised is done.”
He rushed in front of Brother Loyalty and placed the box in his hand on the table and opened it, revealing several gray cylindrical things of uniform length inside.
Brother Loyal’s eyes widened and he reached out tremblingly to touch them.
He exclaimed:
“Blanch! A claymore detonator? Crap, you kid turned out to be the most criminal! What do you do in real life, man? How can you hand rub this thing?”
“Aiya, see laugh see laugh, this is not a detonator, I have no mercury fulminate in my hands, not even nitroglycerin, in fact, it is black powder with a little ‘secret formula’, the explosive power did not improve much, but carry and transfer are more convenient and safe, I think we may not be able to use in the future. ”
The legendary Brave One had a posture of deep concealment as he waved his hand and said:
“As for myself, hey, I’m just an ordinary security officer.”
“Who’s a safety officer knows anything about that! You hurry up and be honest!”
“Well, I’m really the kind of safety officer in charge of mining, some people call me a blaster, hey, don’t be afraid, I have a license.
I have a license. And I’m a graduate, so I don’t mess around.
First come to see how well I did with this detonator, alas, this side can’t find a lot of materials, can only do a little bit of sloppy.”
“You stay here, I’ll arrange for someone to test it, and if it’s adopted, I’ll apply for a stipend for you.”
Brother Loyalty spoke to Lord Brave with a “fearful” demeanor. The latter waved his hand and chatted a few more times before turning to leave, mounting his warhorse at the gate and going off in a huff to find his partners to continue searching for stragglers.
In the factory Brother Loyal looked with a cautious gesture at the several detonators in the box before him, and he whispered:
“You kid get on the key attention list for me too! Blanch, what kind of living treasures has this Alpha Company recruited in? This is too criminal.”
(End of chapter)