"Emergency assembly!"
Gerrard, who had become an ordinary bald strong man again, did not wear armor today, nor did he bring any weapons. But he naturally exuded the awe-inspiring aura of a strong man, which made people not dare to underestimate him.
At his level, armor and weapons were just accessories. The power of a strong man was the best proof of his identity, and it was enough to maintain his dignity.
For example, at this moment, with his shout, the barracks in the night suddenly became noisy. The soldiers of the Knights Regiment hurriedly got up, put on their armor, took their weapons, and hurried to the big square in the center of the camp.
And at Gerrard's feet, a special incense stick was burning quickly. It burned fast and steadily. Looking at the scale marks on it, it was obviously a tool used to measure time.
Although there were clocks and watches in this world, Captain Gerrard of the Void Masked Knights Regiment liked to use this old-fashioned incense stick to measure time — during an emergency assembly.
His standard was very simple. Those who put on their armor and came to the square with weapons before half of the incense stick burned were considered excellent; those who arrived before three-quarters of the incense stick burned were considered good; and those who arrived before the incense stick burned out were considered to pass.
As for those who arrived after the incense stick burned out … hehe, hehehehe …
After years of training, the soldiers of the Knights Regiment were quite elite. Although it took some time to put on their armor, most of them still arrived at the square before three-quarters of the incense stick burned out, and in the end, only two failed to pass.
Looking at the two guys who came late with sad faces, Gerrard showed a somewhat ferocious smile on his face, and said lightly, "Cleaning the toilet or confinement, choose."
The two unlucky fellows who were just a little bit away from passing looked at each other and sighed as they chose the former.
Cleaning the toilet was indeed dirty, smelly, and shameful, but it was better than confinement!
Traditional military camps were keen on using corporal punishment. But the Void Masked Knights Regiment was not like this. Although there were many ways of punishment, there was never a serious one — except for being escorted to court for committing a crime. They usually used two methods of punishment, cleaning the toilet or confinement.
The former was needless to say. Although the Knights Regiment's camp was well built, and even the toilet was not particularly dirty and messy, where in the world could there be a toilet that was not dirty and smelly? Not to mention how shameful this job was. Every time he was punished, he would be laughed at by his colleagues for a long time.
However, the latter was even more terrifying. The confinement room was specially made to isolate sound, and only a small lamp on the ceiling gave off light. Due to the effects of the magic array, no matter how hard you tried, you would not be able to touch the walls or the ceiling. You would be like an ant standing alone in the vast world, with no one to rely on. Even the most daring of people would be scared out of their wits after being trapped in there for a few days, and they would never want to go back in there again.
The origin of the knights was very complicated, and some of them were experienced adventurers. These brave men who lived on the edge of a knife could disregard battles and injuries, and they did not care about being beaten or starved. However, even the most stubborn of them would be frightened after being locked up once. They would rather clean the toilet than be locked up.
After announcing the punishment for those who lagged behind, Gerrard's eyes swept over the neatly arranged soldiers.
The eight rows standing in front were heavily armored soldiers, wearing a special "Void Body Armor", which was made by a special method, and the method of making it was a secret. Its main body was made of large pieces of fine steel, which was completely different from ordinary armor.
The traditional armor in this world was divided into three categories: leather armor, inlaid armor, and chain armor.
Leather armor was sewn with thick leather treated with fire-retardant. It was light and durable, and had a certain degree of defense. The key was that it was relatively cheap, so it was the favorite of junior adventurers, and the soldiers of ordinary armies often used this kind of armor.
Of course, there were also high-end goods in leather armor. For example, leather armor made of the leather of some special magical beast was rare and of the best quality. It was not only light, but also extremely strong, and had a strong magic defense. However, the price was equally amazing, and even senior adventurers might not have it.
Inlaid armor was commonly used by senior adventurers and elite armies. Its main body was still leather armor, but the leather armor was inlaid with many metal pieces, which greatly improved the defense.
This kind of armor was rich in content, varied in style and type, and varied in price and defense. The best of them would be inlaid with a complete layer of metal pieces on the leather armor. This greatly improved the defense, but it would also increase the weight a lot. Except for particularly strong men, few people could wear that kind of "heavy inlaid armor" to fight.
Chain armor was one of the rarest types of armor. It was based on a soft armor that was woven with countless small iron rings. Some were used directly, some were covered with hard leather to avoid attracting attention, and some were layered on top of the soft armor to form a thick double layer of armor.
Only the inner layer of soft armor was called "chain armor," and the outer layer of metal armor was called "chain armor." In the past, chainmail was the toughest armor among the ordinary ones. Especially those with heavy armor pieces, the defense was strong enough to withstand the attack of a variety of weapons. Except for being heavy and expensive, there were no shortcomings.
But the void armor was completely different. It also had an inner layer of chain armor, but the two layers of armor did not interfere with each other. There was also a special soft leather garment in the middle, forming a triple protection inside and outside, greatly improving the defense. The outer layer of armor was not only strong, but it was also surprisingly flexible, and did not hinder the movement at all.
Someone had tried wearing a full set of void armor. They could run, jump, dance, and even do somersaults — of course, they could do somersaults and side flips. They definitely couldn't do a group flip.
The soft leather garment inside the armor also had another mechanism. It had several hooks. When wearing it, as long as the hooks were hooked to the outer armor, the weight of the armor would be evenly distributed to several parts of the body, greatly reducing the burden on the body.
The heavily armored warriors of the Void Masked Knights could even wear such armor for long-distance running!
If enchantment was not taken into account, this armor was undoubtedly the peak of the ordinary so-called "refined armor." No other armor could be compared to it.
And the inventor of this new armor was Sui Xiong.
Before his time travel, when Sui Xiong was doing game design, he learned and copied a lot of European armor. As a serious painter, he would not learn from some inferior gunner who came out of a crash course and just casually paint and make an armor. Every character in armor that he drew had a historical prototype of their armor. It was also because of that job that he had a deep understanding of the famous knight armor in history, and he could even draw a relatively simple structural diagram.
After the Void Mask amusement park was stabilized, he saw that the soldiers wearing heavy chain armor moved slowly during the training of the knights, so he started to draw out the patterns of the knights' full body armor in his memory one by one. Then, according to the pattern, he used magic to shape them directly.
However, these armors were not as easy to use as he had imagined. They were as heavy to wear on the body. He studied for a long time, but still did not understand. Finally, he had to ask Morani for help.
As the saying goes, every profession has its own specialization. Morani was worthy of being the God of Forging of the Half-Orcs. It only took him a few days to study the problem of the knight armor made by Sui Xiong, and then he improved it to become the current void armor.
In fact, it was also Sui Xiong's own fault for not being good at learning. His understanding of the knight armor was nothing more than the shape of the armor pieces and the general structure of the decomposition. This information was certainly correct. Even if Morani's improved armor was based on this, he did not really understand the internal structure of the knight armor. He did not know what kind of lining was under the bright appearance of this armor.
This was a matter of course. As a painter, he did not need to understand that, and he would not collect that information at all. It was enough for him to know the external structure of the armor.
In the end, the completed void armor was highly praised by Morani. This forging expert said that the appearance of this armor could be said to be a rich and colorful stroke in the history of the world of armor, and it would definitely be recorded in the history books.
"From now on, advanced refined armor will enter the era of full armor!" In the end, he asserted so.
Sui Xiong was not very interested in being recorded in the history books. As a super jellyfish that did not age or die, he himself was history. But he was very happy that the armor that he presided over the design of had been successful, and then he wanted to promote it.
But at this time, he encountered a big problem.
It was extremely difficult to forge the armor pieces of the full armor. An experienced old blacksmith spent a month, and in the end, he could only make a few pieces of inferior goods that did not meet the requirements. To make this kind of armor, the only feasible way was for a middle-level or even higher level mage to use the power of magic to directly shape the steel.
In this case, the production efficiency was very problematic.
Sui Xiong tried hard to recall, and remembered that he seemed to have seen a saying on the Internet that this kind of armor was made by using a stamping machine to shape the steel plate in one go. So he wanted to try to make the stamping machine and the steel plate. The latter was not troublesome to make, and it was completed very quickly. But the former … even if he was very patient, he finally gave up after failing dozens of times without a clue.
It was said that when Edison was improving the electric lamp, in order to choose a suitable filament, he had failed more than a thousand times in one go. At that time, someone comforted him, but he said, "I did not fail more than a thousand times, but successfully proved that more than a thousand materials were not suitable." The truth of this story was another matter, but there was no doubt that Brother Xiong did not have such a big heart.
In the end, this void armor could only be presided over by a mage, and it became undoubtedly a high-grade product.
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