After successfully restraining the attack of the Dark Tide, Ellington quickly resumed production and construction in the next few days. Thanks to the large number of elemental creatures hired, the snow and frozen soil could not stop the construction work here at all. On the contrary, because they survived the threat of the Dark Tide together, the residents of Ellington became more harmonious with each other and worked harder.
The dwarven craftsmen and gnome technicians worked together to build greenhouses quickly. In just a few days, they successfully built greenhouses that covered an area of nearly a thousand acres. The vegetables in the first greenhouses built by Tang En were now growing healthily, so no one doubted the effectiveness of the greenhouses anymore.
Now, Grandia was shouldering the heavy responsibility of growing seedlings. After using her druid power to cultivate the seedlings of vegetables and fruits, she would transplant them into the greenhouses. According to the growth rate after her simple catalysis, the first batch of vegetables could be harvested in just over half a month. The residents of Ellington would then be able to eat fresh vegetables and fruits in this cold winter.
However, Tang En did not show up these days. He did not even show up when Elijah came to find him, which surprised Fiona and the others. Tang En was famous for doting on Elijah.
Of course, Tang En himself did not feel anything. He was just busy designing a new weapon, or rather, a magic pistol.
The dwarven flintlock could be further strengthened after the improvement. After seeing so many fantasy works on Earth, he had seen a lot of magic bullets and whatnot. If he could figure out the miniature magic circles, he could make all kinds of enchanted bullets with special effects. However, that was the next step.
What Tang En wanted to design now was a pure magic weapon.
The design of this weapon wasn't as simple as it seemed, because the magic regulator that acted as a magazine was actually a miniature aggregator of various magic arrays. These magic arrays weren't ordinary magic arrays, but magic arrays that were modified from the release process of spells.
After all, as a spell-releasing weapon, he could not directly cast a constant fireball spell. Only a fireball would be cast, not "release a fireball".
Therefore, he needed to achieve the casting process of "release a fireball" through a magic circle. This was not simple and involved complicated casting principles. The runes carved on the magic circle had to correspond to the corresponding spell incantation. At the same time, it had to complete the gathering of elements, the absorption of mana, the construction of spell models, and the casting of spells. These complicated steps had to be carried out inside a miniature magic circle.
This was a great test of Tang En's magic strength and miniature sculpting skills.
Fortunately, his secondary profession was alchemy, so his knowledge of magic circles was very abundant. This was a gift from the Goddess.
In the bedroom, Tang En muttered to himself as he stared at the semi-finished magic pistol in his hand, "Not only to cast offensive spells, but also some auxiliary spells … Haste? Magic Armor? "
When using weapons in battle, it was obviously very good to be able to use some auxiliary spells at the same time to increase one's fighting ability. Especially Haste, the sudden increase in movement speed and attack speed would definitely surprise the enemy, and armor type spells could greatly increase the defense ability of the fighters, increasing their chances of survival.
"Since I want to increase the auxiliary spells … I'll reduce the offensive spells accordingly. In order to avoid the situation of elemental immunity, I'll prepare two single-target offensive spells, ice arcane or fire arcane, and an area-of-effect spell. Three offensive spells are enough …"
Tang En checked the magic regulator. The magic regulator he finally designed was a wheel. Different magic circles were made into a card and inserted into it to ensure expansion. The position was finally fixed in the center of the pistol. The overall structure was similar to the revolver's wheel. The current spell to be released was determined by the energy guide pointer at the firing pin.
"Three offensive spells, one auxiliary spell, and one defensive spell. That's enough."
Tang En stroked his chin. This magic pistol had to be prepared with a means of verification, so the gun itself needed to be prepared with a resonance magic circle similar to the magic circle on the magic circle to verify the identity. In addition, a separate trigger was also needed. It was not a safety measure (verification magic had already served as a safety measure), but a life-saving function.
In that separate trigger, he could prepare a Tier 5 teleportation spell or a Tier 4 invisibility spell, which had good life-saving effects. However, the cost of improving these two spells was too high. Tang En now had trouble using magic circles to reconstruct Tier 3 spells, not to mention Tier 4 spells.
He was afraid that he could only continue to improve the strength of the spells after he continued to improve his proficiency in reconstructing magic circles.
Tang En raised his eyebrows. "If it's a Tier 3 spell … Blink is a good choice."
Blink was equivalent to a short-range teleportation spell. If he encountered danger, he could instantly escape from the danger zone. It was definitely an extremely cost-effective spell for life-saving purposes.
Nola, who was lying next to him, looked at Tang En in boredom and kept muttering about her candy house (more like reminding Tang En). She found it inconceivable that Tang En could focus on such a boring thing for so long.
In the end, Tang En decided on the spells for the first-generation magic pistol: the Tier 1 single-target spell Fireball, Frost Arrow, and Arcane Missile, the Tier 2 group spell Pyroblast, Frost Nova, and Arcane Impact, the Tier 2 defensive spell Arcane Shield, Lava Armor, and Frost Armor, the Tier 3 group spell. In addition to the verification magic circle on the gun itself, as well as the fixed life-saving spell Blink, there were a total of six spells on the small magic pistol.
And this was not fixed. Because Tang En used an expandable design, the magic circle was carried by a separate card. It was inserted into the wheel of the magic regulator to adjust the spells of the magic pistol, so it was completely possible to change the spells according to the needs of the battle.
In the future, when Tang En was proficient in reconstructing magic circles, the magic pistol could even be loaded with expensive high-level magic crystals to replace the high-level spells, achieving greater lethality!
Just this small magic pistol alone, as long as it could be mass-produced, would allow Tang En to have a team of magic gun warriors who were not magicians but were comparable to beginner magicians.
After all, it was very difficult for beginner magicians to skillfully release spells, but with the magic pistol, the moment the enemy appeared, they could pull the trigger without hesitation, achieving instant casting. Tang En even felt that the appearance of the magic pistol would deprive the magic apprentices and beginner magicians of their noble status.
When magic was no longer mysterious and could be used by ordinary people, would there still be people willing to respect and worship the mysterious magicians?
This was a big problem.
Perhaps, it would be better for this kind of thing to be firmly in his hands for a short period of time.
Tang En was even more certain of the need to increase the identity verification. After all, this was a weapon of mass destruction that even children could use. If it were to be spread, the whole world would change greatly because of it.
"Assemble!"
A thought flashed through his mind, and the various parts floating around him began to rapidly assemble. They were assembled together in an orderly manner, and finally became a pistol full of the aura of the future. As the body of the gun was made of a mithril universal alloy, the whole body was bright silver. The rigid lines of the gun body and the round grip formed a sharp contrast. The perfect arc was very suitable for the palm of the hand, and it was very comfortable to hold in the hand.
Because it was not a physical bullet, the barrel did not need to be as round as a revolver, and still maintained the rigid lines of the whole body. This could also reduce the deformation, making it easier to conduct magic.
And the mithril alloy with an increased proportion of silver threads was light and had a high affinity with magic, which was very suitable for conducting magic and releasing spells.
As the main carrier of the magic array, the magic chip that was similar to the size of a memory card but thicker was the core of the whole magic pistol. It was also Tang En's painstaking effort. The chip was made of pure mithril, and it was engraved with fine and complicated magic arrays. At a rough glance, it was just like an electronic chip on Earth, full of complicated circuits.
The side of the chip was engraved with a very obvious image according to the magic pattern that the chip carried, so that it was convenient to quickly select through the scroll wheel.
Although magic iron and adamantine were magical metals, after Tang En's tests, they were unable to carry such a fine magic structure. Mithril was barely qualified, and it was because of this that the manufacturing cost of the magic pistol increased.
The current first-generation magic pistol was the plan that Tang En finally decided on after repeated tests and thinking without sleep for the past few days. He had tried his best to consider various aspects such as the convenience of casting spells, the comfort of the grip, the speed of loading magic crystals, and so on.
The most important aspect was the auxiliary aiming. Because the user did not necessarily have the ability to lock onto the target with mental power, the spell released with the magic pistol could not lock onto the target after it was released. It would only fly in a straight line, so there was an extremely high requirement for the user's reaction speed and vision.
It was like training pistol shooting on Earth, but the physical bullets had become energy bullets, and they were more powerful.
Therefore, in order to reduce the shooting error, Tang En added an auxiliary spell on the barrel … No, it was no longer called a barrel, it should be called a magic release device. It was the level-0 spell, Detect.
He did not think of using Detect at first. The first thing he tried was the level-2 spell, Weakness Perception, but in the end, he chose Detect.
After constant use of Detect, the user holding the gun would be able to perceive the opponent's movement trajectory as long as he focused his mind. He could make a certain degree of prediction and analyze the target's current information. The cost-performance ratio was very high.
The level-0 spell was used here, and it had an effect that surprised Tang En. With the help of Detect, the shooting accuracy was increased by at least 50%!
This confirmed the saying that there were no useless spells, only useless magicians.
After tidying up the room a little, Tang En took out the best product of his hard work since he came to Prandal.
He was now very excited and urgently needed to test the power of his new weapon.
Once this plan was confirmed, Tang En intended to build an elite force with magic pistols as weapons!
Then he could give the design to the magic engineering researchers and let them study how to mass produce it.
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