"So, that flintlock bullet of yours... was made by Diana?" Erica slowly opened a path ahead and asked Chris through the communication headset behind her.

"I didn't do it." Diana was the first to respond.

"Strictly speaking, it is an extension of the alchemy bomb technology provided by the academy based on the technology you provided." Chris subconsciously scratched the throat microphone around his neck and then adjusted the helmet and night vision on his head.

The angle of the mirror added: "That gun was made by the academy workshop under my commission. It was my first time to use it. I didn't expect this weapon to be so powerful."

"Indeed, the power is hard to say. But... you also saw that I tried the accuracy of that gun later..." Erica turned back and glanced at Chris who was following Aurora and complained.

Said: "I'm really lucky that you didn't blow my head off."

"Oh, this is really embarrassing." Chris smiled awkwardly and said, "Can I give you some more money as compensation later?"

Erica responded briefly, then took out a luminous pen and drew a mark on the nearby dry wall.

Chris's response just now sounded a bit perfunctory, but everyone knew that she didn't actually mean it. It was just the aftermath of shooting and killing a monster for the first time. The one who shot and killed the monster.

She was over-excited for a moment, and the stimulating effect of adrenaline has not completely subsided, so her tone of voice seemed a bit strange when she was stimulated by the excitement. In fact, the corners of Chris's mouth still remain upturned until now.

She herself also tried stimulating herself with cold water to forcefully cool down her hot mood, but it had no effect.

Putting aside Chris's problem, the gun she used really surprised Erica at the time. This was not about how well the gun was made, but the so-called alchemist academy worker.

The craftsmanship of the workshop in making firearms is a bit exaggerated. This is an evaluation made by Aurora herself. Even after she learned about this incident, she has been sulking, and she still looks unhappy until now. Of course, because it is dark here.

There was a dirty sewer, so everyone was wearing gas masks, so it was impossible to see everyone’s complete expressions, but Erica quietly looked back at Aurora who was walking next to Chris and confirmed from her eyes.

at this point.

The technology in the academy's workshop is not very advanced in Avrola's opinion. After all, she made a gun herself not long ago, and it was infinitely better than that flintlock gun. But although the two sides have technical differences,

There is a big difference, but the methods are almost the same. Even the expensive Barato alloy is used in terms of materials. However, the workshop does not engrave magic spells on the barrel or barrel of the gun, but inlays it with gold.

The silver one was engraved with a bunch of useless patterns, and the butt was also inlaid with a row of gems the size of dove eggs.

Apart from the inexplicably gorgeous decoration, what Avora criticized most was their design concept for this gun. Due to the lack of technical talents, Aledo could only manufacture flintlock guns step by step as a large-scale armament.

But it would be a joke if this kind of technology was still the same here in the Principality of Michael.

Although the alchemists on the Principality side began to try to imitate the musketeers to study its principles as early as the early days of the war, the concept of "flint firing" is really not a new thing here on the Principality side. For this reason, the alchemists on the Mariaburg side

The magicians copied the finished product that night after getting the seized items, and also came up with a more advanced firing structure in just one meal. They even figured out a more advanced firing structure after fully understanding the distance of the musket.

Strict air-tight barrels and attempts to create rifling to increase range and accuracy.

The Alchemist Workshop on the academy side is also a subsidiary of the association, and its core members are also technical experts from the association. However, compared with the association, the people on the academy workshop side have completely lost their ethics of striving for excellence.

He has completely reduced himself to being a jester to please the powerful.

The Principality of Michael has already fully understood the weapons of the musket level. It is indeed an excellent weapon, but this weapon is not in line with the national conditions of the Principality. The military strength of the Principality of Michael is still dominated by elite combat groups, although Alai

The muskets on the other side can indeed cause some trouble to the warriors of the chapter, but in terms of performance, the chapter is still at an advantage. The only thing that can pose a serious threat to them is the artillery, and the imitation work of this weapon is

The alchemists at the association are most concerned about this. After all, they do not plan to create some pure black powder artillery, but plan to add the duchy's unique alchemy to improve it and create heavy weapons suitable for the duchy's army.

Although the principality looks down on such things as muskets, it does not mean that they cannot be manufactured at will. After all, the elite battle groups of the Principality of Michael do not need this thing, but as a second-class combat force, the garrison may not need it. They are just researching and manufacturing new ones.

The work on the muskets will not be carried out at the Alchemist Association in Mariaburg, but will be transferred to the association branch in Trikla City, in short, in this so-called Alchemist Academy workshop.

The reason why Chris went to the workshop to customize weapons was because she learned about Aledo's musketry record in the previous war, so she also planned to build a private army using muskets. The gorgeous musket before was actually

Custom-made sample gun by Chris.

In fact, not only Aurora, but also Erica is also very concerned about this matter. After all, although the two have different concerns, they still hope that the principality can create some impressive new muskets. But

The result was really shocking. In fact, neither Erica nor Aurora found it difficult to regard the "artwork" that Chris used before as the work of the academy workshop for this project. Chris

The customized musket is the first one produced by the workshop. After all, Chris's identity is there, so these idiots in the academy workshop who like to follow others will naturally complete the order of the eldest lady first.

Although the power of that musket is indeed excellent, the Principality of Michael does not have the money to allow hundreds of thousands of garrison soldiers to wear such flashy toys. After all, according to Chris, a gun like that

A gold Solis coin costing nearly a hundred dollars.

To sum up, although Aurora has not been to the workshop to see it with her own eyes, she has made a very bad conclusion about the alchemists. After all, their behavior almost destroyed the alchemists.

My face was completely lost.

In Avrola's words, the group of "jewellers" in this academy's workshop are hopeless. If this kind of technical waste appeared in Algasburg, it is estimated that this group of people would be directly deprived of their technical qualifications or even expelled.

Exiled, and if they appeared in Aurora's personal workshop, then these people would probably be turned into fertilizer and thrown into the ground by the "gentle and elegant" boss Astrad.

Chris didn't care much about the corruption in the Academy Workshop, and her explanation was also very interesting. She said that if this group of people were as dedicated as the workshops in Mariaburg, they wouldn't be thrown here.

Come on. Obviously, the alchemists in the academy workshop are all exiled in a sense. It’s no wonder that the works of these people have such virtues.

"Chris, did your father really ask Trikla's Alchemist Academy workshop to make muskets?" Aurora suddenly asked Chris next to her: "Your father also mentioned it during the last meeting.

When we arrived at Algasburg, could we provide weapons? Although I rejected it, the Duke still wanted to insist on letting us help them make gunpowder weapons. And I think the Duke seemed to attach great importance to such weapons, so we like

He shouldn't have made this mistake."

"Let's not talk about whether it was a mistake or not..." Chris looked up at the helmet with a slightly offset center of gravity and responded: "But right now, there are really no extra manpower in the principality to take charge of this matter.

You know, although the alchemists in the Principality are excellent in ability, it does not mean that the manpower in the workshop is sufficient. The topics and majors that most alchemists tend to focus on are refining, blending and civil engineering, while for metal smelting and casting, etc.

Talents in this field are very scarce. After all, this kind of work is not essentially the specialty of alchemists, and professional craftsmen here in the principality are even rarer."

Chris's answer was very standard, which made Aurora realize something. After all, the Principality of Michael is different from Algasburg. The integration of a large amount of knowledge in Algasburg has created their almost modern style.

Professional accumulation, so Avora, who is accustomed to the "Algasburg way of thinking", inadvertently forgot that the Principality of Michael was still a backward feudal country. Although the administrative system has improved, it does not mean the popularization of knowledge.

reached the same level.

Without the popularization and accumulation of knowledge, it is naturally impossible to produce professional talents in large quantities. For this reason, the technical talents in the Principality of Michael are very biased. Fortunately, they have a traditional alchemist association here to help, and it is not possible to produce professional talents in large quantities.

As for turning them into barbarians who can only slash and burn or nomadic raiders. But in fact, the Alchemist Association itself has become somewhat weak in recent years. In the early years, the association was divided due to some internal academic disputes.

The large loss of members, and the new members who were all still very young, caused an age gap within the association. It also led to the demise of some of the current knowledge inheritance and the loss of enterprising spirit, leading to a complacency with the status quo.

These things are the internal secrets of the association. Aurora only learned about it through an alchemist who attended the meeting a few days ago. Before that, when Aurora was in Mariaburg, she was taught by the now great alchemist Sink.

Le Alberon's disguise was deceived. Today, two of the three great sages within the Alchemist Association have long since died. The remaining one, although still alive, is still unable to take care of himself, and he originally claimed that

In fact, at least half of the seven contemporary great alchemists are in name only. Almost all the old ones are no longer good, and most of the younger ones are not qualified for their duties. For this reason, there are only a few remaining older generations in the association.

The Great Alchemist persisted, and for this reason the Alchemist Association has not had a status upgrade for more than 30 years.

Thinking of this, Aurora couldn't help but feel sorry for the decline of this ancient and distant organization. After all, in terms of origin, the Alchemist Association actually has something to do with Algasburg, or it has something to do with the predecessor of Algasburg.

, because we are all companions who came out of the temple of knowledge in ancient times, but they took their own paths because of ideological discord.

Although the two organizations basically have no direct connection today, in the past hundreds of years, everyone has secretly helped and supported companions in difficulty. It is said that more than ten years ago, the Alchemist

When the association split, Argasburg and some other companions lurking in the dark also tried to help them, but because the emotions of the people in the association were a little too intense at the time, I didn’t know what happened.

He chose to cut off contact with everyone, and even maintained minimal cooperation with the principality.

That is to say, from then on, Algasburg had no formal contacts with the association, and the contact there was naturally interrupted. It was not until Master Albron, who was in his seventies, took over as the nominal leader a few years ago.

The association reopened to the outside world, and at the same time began to recruit a large number of apprentices and students, as well as accepting capable external alchemists to join the association.

In fact, Abigail's mother, Mrs. Bronx Vermeulen, was a member of the association only a few years ago, but the Vermeulen family itself was a member of the association in the past. When the association split, Vermeulen

Mrs. Lun's father, Abigail's grandfather, withdrew from the association and came to the eastern city of Trikla alone to conduct independent research. However, it was just a very remote small village at that time, and it was not even called Trikla.

.

However, Abigail's grandfather is indeed very powerful. Most of the construction of Trikla City was done by him alone, and the branch of the Alchemist Association here was also located here.

It was transformed from the alchemy workshop of a master. But after the association reopened, the old master Vermeilen also returned to the association at the request of Master Alberon. In fact, almost most things in the association today are

It is these two old gentlemen who are maintaining this reluctant situation, which is really a bit regrettable.

"Shh - be quiet." Just as Aurora was immersed in her emotions about the association, suddenly an instruction from Diana came through the earphones.

Everyone stopped moving immediately, and even Chris, who was not used to it, just took the leg she had just raised and did not dare to fall down. The excitement at this moment even made her a little unbalanced and almost fell, until Aurora supported her.

She kept it balanced and slowly stood firm.

Diana, who was not wearing any night vision equipment, also slowly closed her eyes in the darkness. She was using her "Perception" magic with all her strength to confirm the problem discovered by Erica ahead. And Erica, who had been leading the way before, was now

He also stayed at the corner of a sewer at the front, holding his breath and not daring to move, because just now, Erica used night-vision goggles to see a seemingly rotten tentacle at the top of the dark sewer passage.

It stretched out silently. This tentacle seemed to be a little sensitive to the vibrations in the passage. When Erica came close to it before, it twisted here like a snake, but between Erica and the ones behind

Everyone stayed quiet and then shrank back again.

While Erica was nervously waiting for Diana's support, Diana who was behind suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and then walked behind Erica with Aurora and Chris strutting through the sewage on the ground.

"Don't be nervous." Diana patted Erica, whose muscles were stiff due to nervousness, and said, "It's dying. This thing no longer poses any threat."

After hearing what Diana said, Erica breathed a sigh of relief, and then opened the small oxygen bottle connected to the mask to release some fresh oxygen to relieve the tense nerves. Then Erica still did not dare to relax her vigilance and

Carrying the AK-74M, I slowly walked to the other side of the corner.

Although Erica was not frightened by some horrifying scene this time, she was still so sickened by the indescribable scene in front of her that she almost caused the stomach acid that suddenly churned to enter her esophagus.

Diana walked over and patted Erica on the shoulder to comfort her, but even she frowned after taking a look at the actual scene over there. After seeing the performance of the two of them, Aurora said decisively

Deciding not to retreat, Chris left her side abruptly and planned to go over to see what this scene that shocked the two chosen ones was about. Unfortunately, before she even reached the corner, she was killed by Afu.

Laura pulled her back and gave her a very stern warning with her eyes.

After regaining her composure, Erica opened the oxygen bottle again and took a sip, then helplessly looked into the passage around the corner again.

Inside this narrow passage, there are a lot of pieces of meat and tentacles that I don’t know how to describe. They look like some kind of living creature made up of the waste from the slaughterhouse. But as Erica

After taking a closer look, I discovered that this was not a whole piece of meat, but a large number of small flesh puppets that were twisted and deformed for some unknown reason. Although their shapes were basically indistinguishable, Erica could still see them.

There are many humanoid heads that are barely complete on those pieces of meat, and there is a single deformed flesh puppet lying here at the corner of the sewer, and its body is like a plant with the one beside it.

The walls merged into one, and the tentacles all over the body seemed to have turned into vines, clinging to them everywhere.

"I have seen this scene." Chris suddenly said: "Don't forget that I escaped from there, so arriving here means that I am very close to the lair of the alchemists."
Chapter completed!