Chapter 714 Electro-Light Cannon(1/2)
"Runish cannon!"
Kestagin screamed in surprise, then couldn't confirm, his face full of curiosity.
He is one of the only rune lords among the dwarves. His forging technology and rune knowledge are the best. In terms of knowledge and profoundness, he is no worse than the Holy Soul Wizard, and he is even better than that.
Dwarves developed artillery technology in the Third Age. Over the past few hundred years, many dwarf craftsmen learned soul gun technology from humans, promoting the progress of ancient dwarf muskets. Artillery technology with similar principles has also regained its vitality and matured day by day.
Kestagin was very good at casting rune cannons. At the beginning of the CCB wall, he proposed to Renn to add rune cannons on the wall, but Renn refused.
He thought Rennes thought rune artillery was too expensive, but now he realized that Rennes had a replacement for artillery.
After looking carefully, Buyu found that this thing is a bit similar to the Rune Cannon, but it actually has essential differences.
The most significant difference is the barrel.
The rune cannon's barrel is very thick and can be stuffed into a person. It is less than three meters long and looks extremely bulky.
The weapon that Renn took out was nearly five meters long, only thicker than his arms, dark and straight, smooth on the surface, and not fixed in diameter. The muzzle was the thinnest, and the thicker the further back. The back half was wrapped in a square solid metal shell, which was installed in a rotating spherical shield.
This spherical shield is made of gray metal, with a diameter of about two meters. Kestagin cannot see the structure in the shield, but it can be judged that this pole gun barrel can rotate at all angles on the horizontal plane and can also be raised. The elevation angle is very large and can almost hit the target directly above.
The spherical shield is engraved with dense runes and engravings, flowing with obscure blue energy.
Kestagin was knowledgeable and knew that this was a Titan rune!
The barrel and shield were installed on a huge base, and the base of the quadruple was very high, and the dwarf could not reach the edge above even on tiptoe. Kestagin touched it with his hand and immediately recognized that it was cast of some kind of magical alloy, with no gap in the whole body. Obviously, the most important secret of the weapon was hidden inside it.
"Such a superb forging process..."
Kestagin started to stroke and observed carefully, and suddenly exclaimed: "I have never seen the curious casting style before!"
The first impression this weapon gave him was that it was simple and sharp, without any decoration. It was completely different from a creation born from a forge. There was no trace of hammer knocking, but it revealed its clever design everywhere, containing a profound crystallization of wisdom.
Kestagin felt a cold and icy beauty, and every detail of it was intended to achieve the greatest effect and cause the greatest damage.
The only purpose of this thing is to kill people!
He was almost intoxicated.
Even if you have never seen its power, this unique design, which is very different from the various races of Alan Ershi, can bring him a lot of inspiration, and its power is definitely not bad.
Brestine's forging skills are not as good as Kestagin, but his vision is not bad, and he also feels a powerful and sharp atmosphere.
The two dwarves looked at Renne with a gaze, hoping that he could answer.
Renn smiled proudly.
"This is indeed a kind of artillery, but unlike rune artillery, I named it..." He paused. He originally wanted to say "laser cannon", but there is no word "laser" in both imperial and dwarfs, and this concept is also very troublesome to explain.
"Electric light cannon."
Rennes changed a name that was easier to understand.
This is the result of his joint development with more than 20 Lei Zhutian soldiers for more than half a month. The prototype is the concept of "laser cannon" in his previous life, a directional energy weapon that only exists in science fiction film and television works!
The laser cannon on Earth is just a prototype, with average lethality and many defects.
But in Alan Ershi, a world of extraordinary power and magical materials, Rennes easily overcomes the many difficulties of manufacturing laser cannons.
Many times, what a new invention lacks is not the concept, but the conditions for implementation.
He used magic, runes and alchemy materials, combined with brain-dividing chips, and created this magic version of the laser cannon in just over half a month, and tested it. Its power may not be as powerful as that of the laser cannons on interstellar warships, but in the world of Alan Ershi, it is definitely an unprecedented new weapon.
"Electric light cannon..."
The two dwarves' eyes lit up, thinking about the deep meaning of the name.
"Installing it first." Renn selected a location on the city wall, waved his hand and called a few dwarf craftsmen to quickly build a brand new turret on this city wall.
The turret is about ten meters high above the city wall, the bottom is as wide as the city wall, and a spacious passage is left in the middle, which will not hinder the smooth flow of the city wall. The inside of the turret is solid, and the wall becomes narrower the higher the wall, and it eventually forms a four-sided platform with a side length of five meters, which is sunken in the middle, just in time to put into the base of the electric cannon.
The dwarf craftsmen carved rune arrays on the surface of the turret, blending with the entire city wall, becoming as hard as steel, able to withstand the bombardment of spell energy.
Rennes put the electric cannon into the nebula ring, flew up, and put it into the pit on the platform, and the two were perfectly embedded together.
Then take out dozens of tons of steel, soften it with activated metal, cover the base of the cannon and the platform beneath the feet, wrap the upper half of the turret in metal, and become more stable.
Kestagin looked up at the high turret with a look of doubt on his face.
"Ren, why don't you dig the steps in the wall to make it easier for the gunner to go up?" He didn't understand clearly and asked, "There is no place to stay around it. Where is the gunner standing?"
"The electric cannon does not require a gunner." Renn shook his head and replied.
Kestagin widened his eyes, "No gunner, how can you fire?"
“It’s fully automatic.”
As soon as Renne finished speaking, the electric cannon was activated.
The wall of the turret vibrated slightly, and a low roar came from it. The dwarves saw hundreds of runes lit up on the shield of the electric cannon, and a layer of shield spread outwards, and invisible in an instant.
At the same time, blue light surged on the dark cannon barrel.
There is a sizzling sound of electric current in the air.
The armor, tools and weapons in the dwarves all heard an electric shock-like paralysis, and their hairs stood up all over their bodies. There was a slight bounce of lightning in their thick beards, and an indescribable feeling enveloped the surroundings.
The hemispherical shield suddenly turned, and the barrel pointed at the same time several times.
The metal cannon tube weighing at least tens of thousands of pounds actually has a sense of lightness and flexibility. It rotates very quickly, sometimes it is raised to reach the maximum elevation angle, sometimes it is lowered, or a slight adjustment of the angle suddenly pauses and aims at a target in the distance.
Kestagin watched the turret adjust, creating an illusion.
It seems that this is not a cannon, but a living creature, and there is a highly intelligent soul hidden inside the heavy metal structure.
The six red crystals embedded in the shield are its eyes.
The energy source installed in the base of the turret is its heart!
"Sir, try it on fire."
Brestine spoke out the thoughts of all the dwarves present, and Renn glanced at them, his lips raised, and decided to satisfy their curiosity.
"good."
Renn nodded slightly.
Then the dwarves heard a sharp roar.
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They had never heard such sounds, so dense that they overlapped together, like thunder, but they could not be described accurately.
The muzzle ejected a series of blue light beams like a storm, faster than lightning, and even the eyes were difficult to chase.
In just a blink of an eye, a few beams of light shot into the distorted dark woods opposite the strait, and then burst into a series of explosions.
With the rumbling sound, large areas of trees fell down, revealing the burnt ground.
"hiss……"
“Moladin is on top!”
"Mother Goddess..."
The dwarves all took a breath, some screamed, some were stunned, and some were shocked to speak.
Kestagin observed the bombed woods and said incredible: "The range is more than four thousand blades!"
"Blade" is the distance unit of a dwarf, and one blade is roughly equal to half a meter.
Renn nodded. Kestagin's visual inspection was very accurate. The effective range of the electric light cannon can reach two thousand meters, but this is just one of the firing modes. The electric light cannon has three firing modes, with different ranges and distances.
He thought, and the electric cannon that had just stopped roared again.
Thunder blew up.
Beams of light were sprayed out from the muzzle and continued to fire at a frequency of ten times per second.
The muzzle slowly turned, and the firepower line formed by the beam moved accordingly. The landing point of each beam was under control. In just over a dozen seconds, the forest on the other side fell down like a wheat harvest, and a charred clearance of hundreds of meters appeared.
Most dwarves cannot see how many beams of light were shot out in these ten seconds, and they cannot count them at all.
But judging from the damage caused, each beam of light is at least equivalent to a three-ring spell!
The dwarves were dumbfounded and couldn't even scream.
A hundred triple-ring spells were released in such a short time, and the range was so long and so accurate... Not to mention an ordinary dwarf warrior, even the legendary steel shield guards would be torn to pieces under the muzzle of the electric cannon.
Renn looked at the dumb dwarfs, laughed secretly, and controlled the electric cannon to switch to the second firing mode.
The hemispherical shield emitted a low energy whistle, and the huge energy flowed, turning the barrel into blue.
Three seconds later, a dark blue ray ejected out.
This time, the fire was no longer as high frequency as a storm, but a continuous ray, like a column of light, with a diameter thicker than the dwarf's thigh, and constantly bursting out winding lightning.
The ray penetrates the air, obliquely facing downwards, hitting the ground a thousand meters away.
A fire soon ignited there, the surrounding trees burned, the soil and rocks on the ground were melted, and in a few seconds it turned into a magma pool.
The muzzle turned, and the rays swept across the sky like a thousand-meter-long sword.
Wherever you pass, the trees are neatly cut off.
To be continued...