Chapter 147 – 15. The Age of Mooning.
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Mooning’s research results were soon delivered to Aran.
Aran, who had just been receiving political lessons from Hancock, was delighted and accompanied his wife and nobles to the Algrey Magic Tower.
Arriving at the gate, the wizards and researchers of the Algray Mage Tower were all out to meet them, and when they saw Aran, they all bowed and bowed in unison.
“Meet Your Highness.”
Aran nodded his head and stood up all the women.
“I heard that the results of the study have already been released.”
“Yes, Your Highness. Thanks to Your Grace, I can handle the gunpowder explosion.”
Mooning answered politely.
Her eyes inadvertently turned to Moae, but Moae didn’t even look at her.
Just look at your surroundings, etc.
“Let’s see. I’m curious.”
Mooning took the lead and Aran followed.
After that, the nobles of Uijeongjeon followed suit with their own expressions.
When I arrived at the pre-prepared test site, a box full of round iron balls caught my eye.
“It’s a weapon I made for testing to demonstrate the explosion. It’s destructive power is so great that you must watch it from hundreds of paces away.”
“Hundreds of paces?”
Mooning and her researchers her seated Aran, her wives, and nobles, and signaled to those far away.
Then, holding a steel ball in front of Aran, he started explaining.
“In the past month, thousands of experiments have been conducted to find out the conditions for an explosion. First, the gunpowder must not get wet, and second, the gunpowder must be ignited in an enclosed space. This gunpowder is based on that. A shot is coming.”
“I have a question for you.”
Countess Elin raised her hand.
“You said the destructive power was great, but is it stronger than Fireball?”
Fireball is the least destructive magic among magic.
The formula is simple, so even those without talent can use it as long as they have mana.
Its destructive power is enough to explode a wooden box about 1 meter tall.
“Ellyn Countess. It’s a prototype that has just been researched.
Countess Evena intervened as if to check.
Countess Elin turned her head toward her with a smile.
“Isn’t that the case when Baron Algrey didn’t say anything? She said ‘the destructive power is amazing’, so shouldn’t there be a standard to prove it? Also, I wasn’t asking the question specifically to find fault with it. There seems to be a misunderstanding.”
Alan glanced in the direction of the two.
Now that I see it, even the appearance of the nobles sitting is oddly divided.
‘Is the green onion cut?’
Aside from the Terrin faction, which boasts the overwhelming majority of hers, the side that keeps her in check is divided. Not a bad thing for Aran.
“Let’s both stop talking and go see the baron’s research.”
When Aran said that, the two women quietly lowered their heads and backed away.
When he gestured as if to continue, Mooning slightly lowered his head.
“I’ll show you a demonstration of a hundred words and a first sight.”
Turn your back and take a deep breath.
I can’t help but be nervous because I’m announcing the results that I’ve been researching for a long time.
A small hole in a round iron ball. He set fire to the string extending from there and threw it as hard as he could.
The iron ball flew in an elongated parabola, flew about 150 paces, and then landed on the ground dug in advance.
“Shield!”
At the end, when the pre-formed formula was unfolded, the thrown iron ball exploded and created a large amount of dust.
The vibrations made the ground vibrate loudly and reached the place where Aran was, to the extent that the nobles stood up in surprise.
Mooning then picked up a slightly larger iron ball, approximately 200 pounds, and threw it with all his might.
As expected, the gunpowder bullet, which flew about a hundred paces, exploded as soon as it hit the ground, unlike before, creating a grand vibration like a volcanic eruption.
The table on which the iron ball was placed trembled and the chairs Aran were sitting on vibrated.
It was as if an earthquake had occurred.
Mooning turned his body and looked all over the bewildered nobles.
Then he smiled slightly.
“The firepower of gunpowder bullets depends on how much gunpowder is put in. The first two I threw were 150 jin, and the second one was 200 jin, and the amount of gunpowder contained was different.
If a means to send heavier gunpowder bullets farther is developed, its destructive power and use will increase.”
The point was that the destructive power could be increased at any time.
Aran was surprised, but at the same time he was very happy.
If this level of destructive power is enough, it can be applied in practice.
There was only one problem, however, because the technique of handling gunpowder is still poor, so it is not known what kind of mishaps will occur while managing it.
Therefore, in order to manage the gunpowder, the researchers of the Algrey Mage Tower must be present, which naturally increases the cost.
“Good job. Very good job.”
“It’s thanks to Your Highness’s silver.”
Mooning once again bowed to Aran.
As she said, she was able to achieve results because of Aran, who discovered her with an open mind.
“Hancock, what do you think?”
“Hmm…That’s great. Even without a wizard, it can produce as much power as magic, so if it’s improved a little more, I think something great will be born.”
Hancock, who initially called Munning’s work useless, conceded.
“Majesty.”
Count Ellin came forward.
“I admit that the destructive power is great, but there is a fatal flaw.”
“Fatal…? What is it?”
She glanced at Mooning, who was lying on her stomach her.
“As you just saw, if you open the ‘shield’, it becomes useless. No matter how destructive it is, an attack that does not have magical power cannot cause great damage to the enemy camp, so it is difficult to use it in actual combat.”
“Welcome, Your Highness. If a large-scale war breaks out, wizards will be stationed in each camp, and as long as they are present, it will be difficult to damage them with physical objects such as gunpowder.”
Certainly there is truth in what they say.
As Mooning showed just now, if the shield is opened, neither the powerful firepower of the gunpowder nor the flying fragments will be of no use.
“Isn’t that the case when the shield is spread out in the right place?”
As expected, Count Elin stepped forward, and Count Ebena also stepped forward.
“If you’re not an idiot, how can you throw one or two gunpowder bullets and end it? In a melee, the soldiers will take the ammunition and throw at least dozens or hundreds of them. How can you see them one by one and hit the shield?
Even if you spread shields focusing on people, you won’t be able to protect the entire army as long as the number of mages is limited.”
“Then, a strategy to deal with the soldiers who have these gunpowder bullets will come out first. How can they hide when they are so ignorant?
“That…”
Ebena shut his mouth.
Her lips licked, she seemed to have something to say, but she did n’t come out easily.
“Your Highness, it is undeniable that the power is great, but there is no way to question its practicality. The range of an archer is at least several hundred, and the shape of the gunpowder bullet is so large that you will never be able to dodge an arrow. As the shields follow one by one, the formation is disturbed, and when the formation is disturbed, it becomes very weak against the invasion of enemy cavalry.”
Mooning was furious, but he had nothing else to say.
“That’s all. Originally, shields are the class that protects the archers. If they disappear, who will protect the archers? It is a universal fact of the art of war. Your Highness knows this better than anyone else.”
“…”
“No matter how you reach it and throw it, what awaits is the enemy’s shield. Unless revolutionary improvements are made, it will be difficult to use this gunpowder in practice.”
After Elin’s words,
Aran was silent for a while.
As expected, the nobles whom Cornelia selected and sent.
He may be corrupt, but he is competent.
“It will gradually improve in the future. The important thing is that today what was considered unattainable without mana has been achieved. There is certainly room for serious consideration about the practicality you are talking about, but the magic you revere is also useless without long years of research ( Please understand that it is nothing but useless things.”
“Your Highness, magic is…”
“Are you discussing magic in front of me and my wife?”
“…”
Elin became dumb.
Alan stood up from his seat.
“I know that my achievements are stronger than anyone in this room. Those who are considered more enlightened in magic than I am, please come forward.”
“…”
No one came out
