Chapter 124 Experimental Gun (Part 1)

"You are joking, sir. I have to thank you very much, lord. If it weren't for the gold coins you gave me, I would have difficulty even eating!"

Brian was holding a large piece of meat in his hand at the moment. He looked energetic and was wearing a silk shirt. If he said he was a noble, no one would not believe it.

"Sir, would you like to sit with me for a while? I just bought a piece of meat from a hunter in the countryside. Would you like to try it?"

"Thank you for your kindness, Brian. I don't dare to go to your place. The last time I went there, it cost me 4 gold coins. Haha!"

Seeing Brian's cheerful look, Gervis recalled the scene of Brian eating breakfast when he went to get the sword that morning. Hard black bread was his only food. Because the black bread was too hard to swallow, he needed to add a bowl of boiling water and eat it while soaking it.

"Ahem... Ahem... Lord, the four gold coins I charged you last time were really the cost of the reinforcement materials. I didn't charge you a single copper coin more."

Brian's face flushed instantly, and he was obviously very embarrassed by what Gervais said.

"Just kidding, just kidding! Brian, you don't have to take it seriously."

Seeing Brian's intense reaction, Gervis remembered that this was a different world. Unlike the Earth, everyone was accustomed to casual little jokes between friends since childhood. In this world, no matter whether nobles or commoners, there was no concept of a sense of humor.

As he spoke, Gervis raised the musket in his hand and politely declined Brian's invitation: "I have something important to do now. I will definitely come to your place when I have time in the future."

"Hey! What is that in your hand, Lord?"

After listening to Gervis' explanation, Brian finally got rid of the embarrassment. Suddenly he saw Gervis shaking the musket, and he exclaimed in surprise. He took two steps forward and stared at the musket in Gervis' hand with wide eyes.

"It's a musket, a weapon, but it was just made, and I'm just about to test its power!"

Hearing Brian's surprise, Gervis laughed. Although Brian was unlucky, his alchemy skills were really impeccable. Gervis guessed that he must have seen the materials used to make the musket, which was why he was so surprised.

"My Lord, is this 'weapon' forged from Mithril?"

When Brian heard Gervis say it was a weapon, his eyes lit up even brighter. As an excellent alchemist, he concluded that it must be forged with mithril when he saw the luster emitted by the musket barrel for the first time. However, he could not imagine why such precious mithril was used to forge such a strangely shaped object, which had neither a blade nor spikes. It was just a fire stick.

"Yes, Brian, you read it right, this musket is forged from mithril!"

Gervis smiled and nodded to Brian, giving him a positive answer.

"Then, sir, can I go and watch you experiment with this weapon?"

Brian was really curious about why Gervis was willing to use mithril to forge this fire stick. Judging from the appearance, it would cost 3 gold coins worth of mithril just to forge this fire stick-like weapon, so he wanted to see what kind of power a weapon of such an expensive price could exert.

"Of course Brian, I will go to the open space outside the castle to conduct the experiment now, you can come and watch!"

Brian is also a talented person, and a desperate one at that. Gervis certainly would not object to such a request, so he agreed to Brian's request without hesitation.

"Thank you, Lord. I won't keep you any longer. I'll go back and put the meat away and come over to watch!"

Brian was very excited to get Gervis' permission, so he bowed to Gervis and ran towards his stone house quickly with the piece of meat.

After Brian left, Gervis did not stay and rode directly to the foot of the castle. Because of the meeting and conversation with Brian, he was delayed for a while. The little maid Anna had already taken the things that Gervis had ordered from the castle and was waiting for Gervis' arrival at the foot of the castle's gentle slope.

After reuniting with Anna, Gervis called Ik and asked him to bring ten members of the guards to watch. He believed that after they saw the power of the musket, they would understand the purpose of training the gun-raising action.

As for the other ordinary guards, Laurie's team was responsible for guarding the castle today, while Audrey's team had already put on their equipment and went to the edge of the mountain to practice running under load according to Gervis's requirements.

Led by Gervis, the group came to the open space where they had experimented with grenades last time. The huge explosion crater on the open space had not been filled yet. Because the crater was caused by Gervis, they felt that it represented Gervis' incredible feat, so no one would destroy the appearance of the place before Gervis gave the order.

"Anna, give me the vest (combat vest) and leather armor first!"

When they arrived at the location, Gervis dismounted and came to Anna's side.

"Here you go, my Lord!"

When Anna heard Gervis's order, she quickly took the combat vest and leather armor off the saddle and handed them to Gervis.

"Ike, send two men to erect a wooden stake next to the pit and fix this leather armor on it."

Taking the combat vest and leather armor from Anna, Gervis turned around and began to instruct Ike. The leather armor in his hand was the trophy from the last time he intercepted Lanny's convoy. Because Bernard's schedule was full recently, these worn-out leather armors had not been sent for processing. Gervis happened to use the leather armor to test the power of the musket.

"Yes, sir!"

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Ikecai took the 10-man guards aside and told them to stand at attention. Then he heard Gervis' order. He immediately stepped forward, took the leather armor from Gervis's hand, and pointed to two team members and walked towards the center of the open space.

After Ik took away the leather armor, Gervis took out a small leather bag from a pocket of his combat vest. The bag was crescent-shaped in appearance, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, with an iron round tube at the opening. This was a special leather bag used to hold gunpowder. He unscrewed the seal on the bag and began to load the musket.

When Gervis was loading the musket, Brian, who had just put the meat back home, had also arrived. Seeing Gervis lowering his head and operating the mithril 'weapon', he shamelessly stepped forward and carefully observed Gervis' every move.

This was also the first time for Gervis to load a musket, but in the past few days he had tried his best to recall the descriptions he had seen on the Internet in his previous life.

Gervis first poured gunpowder into the muzzle. Because it was his first test, Gervis did not dare to pour too much. He poured a little and then stopped.

After the gunpowder was loaded, Gervis used the iron rod taken from the musket to poke it hard inside the barrel to compact the gunpowder in the barrel. After making sure it was compacted, he took a small ball of cotton and stuffed it into the barrel, and compacted it again with the iron rod.

Only after the above work is completed can it be the turn to put the lead bullet into the barrel. After the lead bullet is placed in the barrel, in order to prevent the lead bullet from rolling out when the muzzle is pointed downward, a ball of cotton should be stuffed outside the lead bullet and then compacted with an iron rod.

Even though Gervis had thought about it many times in his mind before, it still took him five minutes to load the ammunition. When he finally finished loading the musket and inserted the iron rod back into the musket, Ike had already returned with two team members. A wooden stake had been erected in the distance, with leather armor fixed on the 1.5-meter-high stake.

The ammunition was loaded and the target was erected. Gervis poured a little gunpowder on the trigger at the end of the barrel, then lit the fuse and prepared to start experimenting with the world's first musket.

"Anna, Brian, you two should cover your ears! No one else is allowed to cover their ears."

Before raising his gun, Gervis suddenly looked around and gave orders.

(End of this chapter)