Chapter 157: Gun Enhancement
After coming out of the blacksmith shop, Gervis divided the guards into two groups. One group returned to the castle with their own weapons and equipment, while the other group followed him to Brian's stone house with two sets of full body armor and Gervis's spears and swords.
"My Lord, you are here!"
When Gervis walked into Brian's room, he saw Brian sitting at a square table eating lunch.
When Brian saw Gervis, he immediately stood up from his chair, walked quickly to Gervis and saluted to greet him. His expression reminded Gervis of the attentiveness of some people in the fireworks venue.
"Brian, good afternoon, the food is pretty good! Mushrooms stewed in broth, and white bread!"
Gervis nodded to Brian, looked at the lunch on the table, and joked to Brian with a smile.
"Thanks to the Lord for his care!"
Brian was not embarrassed today. After all, this was the fact. Moreover, when he saw the long musket in Gervis's hand and the short musket hanging on his waist, he understood that his God of Wealth was going to make him rich again today.
"My Lord, please sit down and talk!"
After knowing that Gervis was going to strengthen his weapons again, Brian became more attentive. He hurried to the square table, moved the chair away, and invited Gervis to sit down.
Gervis was not polite and went straight to the chair and sat down, then handed his long musket to Brian, and took out the short musket from the holster at his waist and placed it on Brian's dining table.
"Beautiful, perfect! Lord, I envy you!"
Brian took the long musket handed to him by Gervis and immediately began to look at it carefully. After looking for a while, he turned his attention to the short musket.
When Brian's eyes fell on the musket, his eyes lit up and he could no longer take his eyes off the musket.
"Sir, did you also design this short musket? The graceful curves and the white and red interlaced handle are simply intoxicating!"
Brian carefully placed the long musket on the dining table, held the short musket in front of his eyes with both hands and looked at it carefully, one hand constantly stroking the handle of the short musket. When he saw the storm wolf bone on the handle, which was as white as white marble inlaid on the brown-red solid wood handle, Brian sighed sincerely.
"Yes, Brian, I designed it!"
Gervis saw Brian's expression, and his words of praise also made Gervis very happy.
"Sir, I think the handle of this short musket can be carved. After carving exquisite patterns on it, it can highlight your temperament even more!"
"Oh? This is possible!"
The combination of the storm wolf's bones and the brown-red wood made the musket look like a work of art, but Gervis always felt that something was missing. He didn't expect Brian to point it out in one sentence. But it was not surprising when he thought about it. Brian was an alchemist, and carving inscriptions was his specialty. He was most sensitive to things in this area.
"But there's no rush for carving, Brian. Let's talk about strengthening first!"
"As you wish, Lord, I wonder which function you would like to strengthen?"
After getting to the point, Brian finally shifted his gaze from the musket to Gervis. After all, no matter how beautiful the art is, it can only be appreciated after having enough food to eat. Gervis's weapon strengthening is related to whether he can have enough food and clothing in the second half of his life, so Brian cannot help but pay attention to it.
"Is there an inscription that can make the bullets in the musket spin when they fly out?"
Sitting face to face with Brian, Gervis tapped the table lightly with his fingers, and thoughtfully asked about the direction he wanted to strengthen.
"Make the projectiles spin? Lord, there are inscriptions like this, but they are usually used on catapults. In order to make the projectiles fly farther, what's the point of just making the projectiles spin? At such a long distance, you may not even be able to see the opponent's appearance. You might as well strengthen the barrel to load more gunpowder!"
Brian was a little confused. With the attitude of being responsible for the musket, Brian spoke cautiously. In his opinion, the power of the musket was related to the force of the explosion. The more of that substance was loaded, the greater the power.
"Brian, didn't you say that in addition to the inscription for activation, the musket can also be engraved with two more strengthening runes? An inscription to strengthen the barrel plus an inscription to make the projectile rotate, isn't that exactly two?"
"In that case, then as you wish, Lord!"
The inscriptions that strengthen weapons can actually be overlapped for strengthening, but Gervis did not accept his suggestion. Brian had no objection either. After all, the musket belonged to Gervis, and he had already pointed out the most fatal flaw, so he had fulfilled his responsibility.
"Then how many strengthening inscriptions can be engraved on this short musket?"
Now that the matter of the musket had been decided, Gervis turned his attention to the short musket in Brian's hand.
"Sir, the barrel of this short musket is relatively small, so in addition to the activating inscription, only one rune can be engraved!"
"Well, then, let's strengthen the barrel of this short musket!"
Just as Gervis had originally expected, the musket was only 35cm long, and being able to engrave one strengthening rune was already the limit. However, the musket was used at close range, so Gervis only needed to strengthen the inscriptions related to power.
"Bring the stuff in!"
The matter of strengthening the long and short muskets was agreed upon. Gervis shouted to the outside of the door, and five or six guards immediately came in carrying two sets of full body armor as well as long spears, long swords and other weapons.
"This...this...Gods above, Baron Gervis actually purchased so much mithril to forge mithril weapons!"
When all the mithril weapons were carried in, Brian immediately jumped up from his chair, unable to sit still any longer. He quickly came to the full body armor held by the guards and stroked the surface of the armor with his hands.
"What a perfect work of art, with such precious materials and exquisite forging skills. Baron Gervis, are all these full body armors forged in Winterfell?"
The equipment that Gervis brought out today opened Brian's eyes again and again. Before he escaped, although he was also a noble and an alchemist, he had never even seen a full body armor forged with mithril and with such exquisite craftsmanship. After all, except for those great nobles, ordinary small nobles could not possibly own it!
Brian stepped forward to touch and observe Gandalf's full body armor. Because Gandalf's full body armor had not been specially treated, the armor surface was shining silver, and a lot of brass was used to outline the lines. It was simply the full body armor that all knights in the world dreamed of.
(End of this chapter)
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