Recalling what had happened in the morning, Roland felt that it was quite unbelievable.
He's just an ordinary transmigrator. How did he become the Chosen One? At this time, should he recite a poem to express his astonishment?
When he woke up early in the morning, when Agatha reported the results of her observation to him, he thought he had heard it wrong. However, under the witness of so many witches, he had no choice but to accept it. At the same time, Roland knew that the result would definitely be beyond the expectations of the Taquila survivors. In order to strengthen the credibility of the communication, he simply asked them to visit his nap at noon.
Roland did not know whether it was because he had become more mentally strong after becoming the king, or because he was simply lazy. He picked up a book of Advanced Mathematics and read it on the office bench. Not long after, he actually fell asleep. When he was woken up, the first thing he saw was the back of Nightingale, who was on guard with her gun drawn, and Phyllis, who had fainted.
However, Roland did not think that the so-called "Chosen One" was the one chosen by God. It was just that the Taquila survivors had placed too much hope on the thing they had discovered, so they regarded the witch who could activate it as a savior.
There was no doubt that the thing in the ruins must be extraordinary since it could make the Three Chiefs of the Union turn against each other in an extremely dangerous time. However, it was worth considering that it had the power comparable to that of God and could destroy the demons. After all, if it was really a creation of God, how could the person who made it disappear in the underground maze without a sound?
Of course, if he wanted to know more about the inside story, he had to further communicate with the survivors.
In addition, the fact that the Dream World could be observed also proved his conjecture. This Dream World was indeed not completely constructed by his consciousness. The rich details far exceeded the ability of the brain. It was true that he had provided a lot of materials, but it was someone else who had combined them into a complete form.
Before, he had speculated that witches were the terminals of magic power transformation. Now it seemed that there was still a barrier between the terminals and magic power. It was this barrier that gave magic power wonderful changes. It was like a black box with unknown principles. As long as the witches issued an order, the black box would be able to give the result. In other words, the process of realizing a witch's ability was no different from the Dream World. The only difference was that he did not have the magic to materialize the Dream World.
Roland couldn't help but think of the relationship between wizards and the Weave. The former used hand gestures, incantations, and casting materials to connect with the Weave to obtain the power they needed. If the checkpoints were seen as the Weave, there would be some similarities.
After defeating Zero, he unexpectedly obtained the ability to connect to the checkpoint, but that was all. The complexity of the command was most likely related to the difficulty of materialization, not the strength or use of the ability. On the contrary, the closer an ability was to the essence of magic power, the easier the transformation should be. For example, directly transforming magic power into light and heat was certainly much easier than creating matter, but the power would definitely be earth-shattering.
It was also one of the reasons why Roland was so interested in the relic. The pillar of light that the five-colored stone presented seemed to be a special method of "instruction transmission". Replacing witches with artificial objects and trying to forge instructions... The research on magic power to such an extent was obviously beyond the level of the Union. Putting aside the titles of the Chosen One and the Instrument of Divine Retribution, it might mean the germination of a new technology.
For this reason alone, he had to deal with the Taquila witches.
Considering that "the Chosen One turned out to be a common person" might bring a heavy blow to the witches and even frustrate their confidence in fighting against the demons, Roland decided to let Phyllis have a look at the power of the new era before going deeper into the negotiation.
In order to achieve a better effect of "persuasion", he summoned Iron Axe into his office.
"How's the situation of the demonic beasts recently?"
"Your Majesty, it's just scattered attacks. The patrol team on the city wall can solve them," the Sand Nation replied after making a standard military salute.
"Very good. I plan to hold a cannon exercise in the city wall area. It needs to be grand and powerful, but also to reduce waste as much as possible."
The commander-in-chief of the First Army pondered for a while and said, "You mean … fake?"
Roland could not help but laugh. It seemed that Iron Axe's understanding of gunpowder was becoming more and more accurate. "To be precise, it's half true and half false. When demonstrating accurate shooting, load live ammunition; when demonstrating fire coverage, use embedded black powder. Do you understand what I mean? "
"Yes, Your Majesty," Iron Axe immediately nodded.
Blank ammunition was commonly used in maneuvers. Since it was used to bluff people, there was naturally no need to pour the precious howitzers out like water. Embedded explosives that were detonated by wires could also achieve an earth-shattering effect, or even better.
Roland roughly explained the plan in his mind. "I hope the final explosion will be enough to attract attention. For this, you can prepare more black powder."
"Your Majesty, this may affect the operation of the Artillery Battalion..."
He shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter. In fact, I plan to gradually eliminate black powder weapons, such as the 12-pound field artillery, which is no longer suitable for future battles."
Its heavy body, slow firing speed, and low power of solid bullets all restricted its further application. The battle under Coldwind Ridge had fully demonstrated that the lethality of field artillery was very limited, especially in the face of scattered and fast-moving enemies. Most of the God's Punishment Army fell under the machine guns and Longsong Cannons, and only about 100 people were hit by iron balls.
In addition, it was difficult to transport, difficult to cooperate with the infantry in attacking, and difficult to carry out urban operations, so its use became increasingly limited. The revolving rifles could still be used for a while, but the gunpowder consumption of bullets was much smaller, so even if half of the stock was consumed, it would not be affected.
With the help of the Dream World, Roland's new chemical reform plan was already in preparation. The steady increase in the output of double-base gunpowder gave him the capital to eliminate black powder weapons.
"You've designed a new alternative weapon?" Iron Axe's eyes suddenly lit up.
Roland smiled as he took out a piece of paper from the drawer and spread it out on the table. "It's a kind of curved fire that can be carried by several people separately. It's powerful, simple in structure, and effortless in operation. What do you think? "
Iron Axe bent down to look at the drawing for a while and said, "Uh... sorry, Your Majesty, I can only see its appearance... It looks like an iron pipe. With such a thin wall, can it really fire artillery shells?"
"Of course, the key lies in the special shells, but compared with the 152 mm howitzer, it's still much simpler to make."
"Does the new weapon have a name?"
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