The bright moon hung high in the night sky.
West of Georgia, Cumberland Defense Line. Outside a standard sentry tower with a hundred people stationed there.
"Roar!"
A deep roar came from its throat. A bright silver figure suddenly appeared in the primitive forest, but it was immediately discovered by the soldiers on duty who had already changed their routine.
As the searchlight locked onto it, the Crowmen commander waved his hand.
"Fire!"
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
A soldier wearing a leather windbreaker and a pair of enchanted goggles raised his gun, which was already in an activated state. The orange flames of the gun shone, and the lead bullets carrying a faint white light sealed off the space that the figure could dodge in like a storm.
One of the pellets grazed the figure's hind leg, while the other hit the figure's back.
The enemy that was so fast that it was only a blur finally appeared in the eyes of the normal soldiers. It was a panther-type Nature Spirit that was silver in color and had long, slender limbs covered in feathers.
Its front body was plump and graceful, and there was even a pair of small wings on its shoulder blades, but its back body was as thin as a stick, as if it was a defective product that was not fully developed. In the eyes of the soldiers, it looked even more ferocious.
Currently.
Under the nourishment of the spiritual origin of the New World, even a spirit that was as thin as paper could not be underestimated. Just like the former "Headless Spirit" Aida, they also had the ability to directly kill.
As for this silver panther, it already had the supernatural nature of a wraith, if it was lucky enough to receive the worship of the Atreans, it was very likely that it would gradually transform into a new Totem God.
"Transcendents, engage the enemy. Grenadiers, get ready. Musketeers, reload."
Following the Crowmen commander's order, two werewolves jumped out from the formation, waving their scimitars covered in a layer of golden sword oil, and pounced on the silver panther that had its speed drastically reduced.
At the same time, a group of grenadiers behind had already ignited the fused balls in their hands.
According to the Crowmen's habits, the best choice at this time was to use the most effective Atomized Holy Water against "ghosts".
But the number of believers in the New World was relatively small, and the amount of Holy Water that the Black Iron Cross Church could produce was not abundant. In this war, the precious holy water was used more as a medicine to treat the evil spirits than as a weapon.
Fortunately, they still had a substitute that was just as effective — the [Holy Salt Bomb]. The raw material was not the salt used in many church rituals, but a red sulfate crystal prepared by witchcraft.
"Drop the bombs!"
Bang bang bang …
The [Holy Salt Bomb] exploded in the air, and tiny red crystals rained down, filling the entire space. The two werewolves were completely normal, but the silver cheetah seemed to have been bathed in acid rain. Green smoke rose from its body as it let out a miserable howl.
"Roar —!"
However, this spiritual monster that only had a bloodthirsty instinct didn't retreat. Instead, it launched a desperate counterattack at the werewolf closest to it. Its spiritual body glowed brighter than ever before.
His head looked as if it had been soaked in sulfuric acid. He was as ugly as an evil spirit, and his mouth was filled with sharp beast fangs that glinted with a cold light, piercing the werewolf's eyes.
Instead of dodging, the werewolf took a step forward. The "wild aura" in his body suddenly exploded. He pulled out the dagger with a light red blade from his waist and stabbed it into the core of the silver leopard's natural spirit.
Bang —
Like the last straw that broke the camel's back, the silver cheetah exploded into light particles and slowly disappeared.
The [Gladiator's Talisman] on the werewolf's body suddenly lit up. The spiritual feedback made him feel as if he had drunk a bowl of cold water in June. He felt refreshed from the bottom of his heart to the tip of his hair.
"Ha!"
"It's just a small character without any special abilities. Don't let your guard down. Stay alert!"
Through experiments, the maximum effective distance between the sentry towers was about ten kilometers.
Now, on the 350 kilometers long Cumberland Defense Line, there were a total of 36 sentry towers, and the total number of soldiers stationed there had reached 3,600. Because of the powerful reinforcements from the Far Sail Territory, the soldiers could be rotated once a month.
What happened here was only a small part of the entire "Abayache Defense Line."
It had already been two months since the first Spirit Tide outbreak.
A large-scale attack like the first one didn't happen again. There were only sporadic small groups of spiritual monsters that attacked the defense line of the kingdom's colony. Although there were occasional failures, it was much better than before.
In this kind of low-intensity battle, the trained soldiers were more than enough to deal with the normal natural spirits without any special abilities.
During this period, the tactics were gradually adjusted. Different types of enemies used different tactics, countermeasures, and weapons. After every typical battle ended, there would be professionals who would complete the battle summary and send it to the entire defense line.
Therefore, other than the increase in personal combat ability due to the [Sacrifice of Eve Litt], the accumulation of knowledge, combat skills, and morale were also constantly improving.
War Hero, Model Soldier, Advanced Group, all kinds of titles were also selected before the defense change every month. Along with the honor came rich material rewards and the right to customize weapons.
Under the combined effect of all kinds of policies, there weren't any serious cases of fear, and the overall battle situation was good.
Of course, the premise was that there were no accidents.
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In Steel City, also located in the Cumberland Mountains.
"Clang! Clang! Clang! "
In the huge workshop that was mixed with steel and wood, white steam curled up. The steam forging hammer kept roaring, and various weapons in the hands of the craftsmen were quickly formed.
The application of a variety of steam machines here greatly improved the efficiency of sword forging and weapon manufacturing.
With sufficient orders, Elvin's expectation of the munitions factory, which was the last to have the strength to develop, caught up and became the most profitable industry in Georgia together with Steel City.
Standing in the wind that could blow pigs up, he made a lot of money from the war.
Even relying on the workers trained by this batch of orders, as well as a series of supporting facilities built by the alchemy apprentices, Elvin had begun to use the steam drill to secretly test the ship-borne artillery!
Although things like cannons were not very useful in this war against the "spirit wave", they were still very useful. But the heavy artillery of more than 24 pounds that could be equipped on the battleship would determine the status of Georgia in the future.
Of course, it was only the beginning for the time being. The main products in the munitions factory were to deal with the "spirit wave."
In two months, the change of equipment was almost completed.
Considering the cost and manufacturing difficulty, lead bullets soaked in positive energy, low-level sword oil, and holy salt bombs were the three main products. They were also consumable materials that consumed at an alarming rate.
In addition.
The "Bright Starry Night" had the clergy of mystery, stars, the gate of the spiritual world, prophecy, and so on. It was one of the most mysterious true gods and mastered all kinds of mysterious and unpredictable knowledge and power.
It could be said that the "Starry Night Order" was one of the forces in the material world that was best at dealing with spiritual monsters.
Elvin once got a "Rune Silver Dagger – Demon Breaker" from the "Starry Night Order", which was claimed to be able to repel evil spirits and even hurt some kind of "concept" that constituted their core.
He had personally experienced their power.
So he directly picked out the practical part from the mysterious knowledge that Ali had given him. After targeted modification, he applied it to this large-scale munitions production, which also replaced Elvin's original design plan.
The light red dagger used by the werewolves was one of the most typical ones.
This was not some kind of enchantment effect, but originated from a special kind of steel – coral steel.
The main difference between steel and iron was the difference in carbon content. Steelmaking was the process of constantly reducing the carbon content in pig iron.
Wrought iron (wrought iron): C% 0.0218%; steel: C% 0.0218% – 2.06%; pig iron: C% 2.06-4.3%.
In this era, there were two main methods: "Hundred Tempered Steel" and "Steel Frying".
The "Hundred Tempered Steel", to put it bluntly, was to repeatedly temper it after heating, remove the impurities, and refine it into steel a hundred times. It was also the main method used by most of the country's munitions factories.
The craftsmen of the Kingdom of Faletis were ahead of the other countries and were the first to invent the "Steel Frying" method that could be used to produce steel on a large scale.
The normal procedure was to smash pig iron into pieces and put it into the furnace, where wind would blow in from above. Due to the small volume of the U-shaped furnace, the heat was concentrated and not easy to dissipate, which was conducive to increasing the temperature.
When pig iron was heated to a molten or semi-molten state, the contact surface between iron and oxygen was increased by stirring. It could oxidize the carbon in iron, and as the carbon content decreased, the melting point of iron increased and it began to gradually solidify.
If it was stirred in a semi-solid state, the oxygen in the air would oxidize the carbon, and it could become a low-carbon wrought iron; if it was not completely decarburized, the required carbon content could be controlled, and the frying process could be stopped, and it could become a medium-carbon steel or high-carbon steel.
For Elvin, he chose to directly fry it until it was ripe, and then add carburizing agent.
The normal carburizing agent usually used charcoal or coal powder, but Elvin made an improvement on this step, and changed it to a magic potion called [Red Potion], which was made with Marsh Reed, Black Wizard Rose, and Agave Stamen as the main ingredients.
The final product looked no different from ordinary steel, but the forged weapon's edge was crystallized, and it had a very obvious coral red color.
It did not require any additional enchantment to cause great damage to spirits, and it was called Coral Steel.
The most important thing was that the cost was low, and it could be produced on a large scale!
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Wizard Tower.
During this period of time, Elvin didn't slack off at all.
He was rapidly digesting the knowledge of [Flesh Puppet] through continuous practice with Angel.
[Flesh Puppet] was the final result of the second volume, but in the series of witchcraft systems that extended from it, [Flesh Altar] was the true core of the prerequisite.
After mastering [Flesh Altar], one could finally create flesh puppets, flesh bombs, flesh chariots, and a series of other applications.
And one of the core functions of this kind of witchcraft that integrated many abilities into one was "Explosive Soldiers"!
The prerequisite was that there were sufficient raw materials.
Because Elvin had activated the "Plan Scrapped" strategy from the beginning, although the firearms sold to the "Raging Waves Church" were useful, they were consumed very quickly in the war with the sea monsters.
Now, in addition to gold, silver, and precious witchcraft materials, there was also a huge sea monster corpse in the payment provided by the "Raging Waves Church".
Nothing could provide Elvin with sufficient flesh and blood of extraordinary creatures more than sea monsters.
After being digested and absorbed by the Flesh Altar built with the magic book "Flesh Sacrifice" as the core, it became the raw material to reconstruct the [Flesh Puppet].
Therefore, the environment in the Wizard Tower recently was somewhat difficult to describe in words.
If the fanatical radical priests of the "Eternal Fire" were to choose between the "Activation School" and the "Mechanical Immortality School", it would be hard to say which one they would choose.
Of course, to Elvin, the [Flesh Altar] had another key use.
Using the extraordinary flesh and blood of sea monsters to continuously cultivate a trace of the "Night Spirit bloodline" that was stripped off through [Bloodline Transplant].
It was related to his path to rank 3, and this was also one of the projects that he was personally involved in.
Why would a Warlock family's power decrease as they intermarried with mortals? Why could a demonized creature reproduce stably even though it was more difficult for it to reproduce? Why could a demonized creature's bloodline power continue to increase during its growth?
The root of the problem was still in its extraordinary characteristics.
An excellent bodybuilder also needed a reasonable amount of nutrition to maintain a good physical condition. Other than normal food, glutamine, (protein powder), amino acids, creatine, vitamins, minerals … were indispensable.
Transcendents naturally needed the same level of "nutrition" to nourish themselves.
Standing beside the Flesh Altar, Elvin smiled gently as he looked at the small trace of extraordinary bloodline that had grown to the amount of two adult "Night Spirits".
"One of the great powers of science is its replicability!"
Without the help of the [Flesh Altar], even if the number of "Night Spirits" doubled, it might not be enough for his research. However, the dawn of recklessly squandering seemed to be right in front of him.
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