While Carl was further modifying the gun structure at home, a riot was going on at the gate of Vinern University far away in Fairhaven.

“We protest against the construction of this device! Art should be presented in front of the audience, not through this machine!”

In the crowd, an actor in a performance costume was leading other drama club members to stop the construction of the phantom device.

They are like the workers who took the lead in smashing automatic textile machines during the Industrial Revolution, and are fighting against the tide of development of the times.

The difference is that one of the people responsible for building the phantom device is the master of the Tower of Wonders. As a level 20 wonder master, he can kill the group of people in front of him with just a thought.

"How did you know the purpose of this device?"

Sitting upright on a mechanical suspended chair, March, the master of the Tower of Wonders, had a sullen face and asked the actor who was shouting at the top of his lungs in a cold voice.

A medium-sized steel guard was protecting him, and two magic turrets were gradually solidifying from the void behind him.

The boundaries between the three sub-professions of an artificer, except for the alchemist, will gradually blur as the artificer's level continues to increase.

Especially the Field Artilleryman and the Artillery Master, their sub-professional characteristics of making magic cannons and iron guards are actually derived from the common characteristic of the Artillery Master - [Handy Tools].

As long as the intelligence attribute is sufficient, and the various characteristics of the artificer are superimposed, a level 20 artificer can easily use the handy tool characteristics to magically create the prototypes of magic turrets and iron guards, and then use the infusion ability to give them magic patterns to turn them into weapons.

"You, what you are doing is a blasphemy against art!"

The actor shouted out these words, summoning up all his courage.

But his courage ended there. Looking at the magic turret that lit up automatically, his legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground.

"Don't make me keep asking the same question over and over again! Tell me! How did you know the function of this device?"

Standing up from the mechanical suspension seat, March looked at the actors below, anger in his eyes.

Just then, a roar sounded from nearby.

Before the people around him could react, a shell hit Marchi. The thick smoke from the explosion enveloped him, and some of the actors who were marching and demonstrating around him were also affected by the explosion, but fortunately they did not die.

"Ah~, is this the way you're going to deal with me?"

A dull voice sounded from the smoke, and suddenly, the smoke was twisted by some force, and it seemed that something flew out of the smoke, leaving a hole in the smoke.

The next second, there was a violent explosion at the location where the shell was fired.

When the smoke and dust cleared, Marchi was floating in the air wearing a suit of metal armor that fit his body perfectly.

Blue magic surrounded him, and the gray robe fluttered in the wind without any damage.

At this moment, he was like Iron Man who became the Sorcerer Supreme in Marvel, with the power of technology and magic manifested in him together.

Leaning forward, Marchi's figure disappeared in an instant, and when he appeared again, he was already 15 feet away.

With this ability, he quickly rushed to the scene of the explosion.

The guy who was suspected to have attacked him was killed in the explosion.

Marchi sensed the power of the kingdom of the dead from the lingering breath.

"Is it the Blood of Vol? Or the Emerald Claw?"

The Blood of Vol is a relatively radical religious sect. Their founder believes that everyone has the potential to become a god, but lifespan limits everyone's divinity.

During the Last War, the Blood of Vol became an important supporter of the Kingdom of Karrnath. Karrnath's Undead Army and the Knights of the Emerald Claw emerged after the Blood of Vol provided technical support.

For ordinary people, it is impossible to prove a criminal without evidence, but for a professional who is trying to become a legend, "suspect" and "it's you" are no different, unless you can't beat your opponent.

As March was investigating, Mooreban caught up.

He was also wearing armor at this time, but the technical content was obviously not as good as March's.

"Tell me about it. By the way, my guess about the criminals is that they are the Blood of Vol and the Emerald Claw. Go find out if these two organizations have any recent activities."

"clear!"

On the other hand, not long after the riots in Fairhaven occurred, the city of Vana received a communication from Andair.

This is also thanks to the fact that Wana City notified the other party as soon as the incident happened.

When Moore's class was ordered to investigate, this information immediately caught his attention.

"Yes, we were attacked by the Emerald Claw's Skeleton Knights, and they were so cruel as to try to break into the city using the Lightning Train. If nothing unexpected happened, the members on the train should have been killed."

After briefing Andel on the current situation of Vana City, the communicator began to check the list of casualties.

After learning what happened in Fairhaven, both sides agreed that this was another terrorist attack by the Emerald Claw.

As for the reason…

Perhaps the emerald claws left too deep an impression on people, and the people in Wana City still thought that this was just a whim of the other party.

But the people from the Tower of Wonders and Queen Aundair don't think so.

Especially now that the effects of the phantom device have been leaked.

They felt that this was an interference by other countries in collusion with the Emerald Claw in order to prevent Queen Aundair from controlling domestic public opinion, and it was even possible that some nobles within the country were interfering.

After all, once the phantom device becomes popular, the nobles who have already lost most of their rights due to the transformation of social forms will be even more precarious.

…

In the evening, Carl's parents returned home one after another.

Ryan finally reached an agreement with the city hall on the supply of raw materials.

However, he was a little disappointed with the amount of raw materials provided by the city hall.

Cotton, one of the raw materials for nitrocellulose, is enough for Ryan's factory to produce forever, but the more common black powder is only enough for hundreds of thousands of bullets.

As for lead, it has no specific use in Eruden, and there is a lot of it piled up in the warehouse.

This made Karl sigh that Eruden was indeed an agricultural country.

However, there is not much raw material for sulfuric acid, nitric acid and other substances needed to make nitrocellulose.

If you want to produce on a large scale, you need to wait for the ranger troops in the Demon Wilderness to occupy several raw material production areas, and then send people to mine them.

There isn't much else in the Demon Wilderness, but sulfur, poisonous smoke, and acid are all oozing out of that land like they're free.

In the past, rangers avoided these things, but now that these things have their uses, they must be treated well.

In addition, as the sheriff, Elliefer brought back news from Fairhaven.

Hearing that the tower owner who was building the phantom device had been attacked, Carl couldn't help but sigh that the attacker was really bold.

(End of this chapter)