The Primordial Wizard

As for the water pipe network specific to residential buildings, Ace has learned the lessons of Rome in his previous life. He does not use lead and other metals as water pipes, but plans to fire ceramic pipes, and then use the mud-to-stone spell for secondary hardening.

The pottery making skills in this world have been handed down for a long time, what is lacking is only the glazing skills. The key to firing ceramics is glazing, and the key to glazing is glaze.

The function of the glaze is to apply it on the ceramic body and melt it at high temperature to form a glassy layer.

This vitreous layer is the key to ceramics. With the vitreous layer, the ceramics will become clean, hygienic, waterproof, beautiful and generous, and the strength will increase, so that the water from the water separation tower can be supplied to every household in a safe and hygienic manner. .

Although Ace has seen quartzite and limestone in this world, no quartz or limestone was found near the valley, so he planned to use an ancient glaze as a substitute.

This kind of glaze is the plant ash that can be seen everywhere, that is, the residue after burning plants. It is light in weight and alkaline. It is often used for composting and can also be used for firing porcelain.

The production method of ceramics is not complicated. It mainly consists of four steps: blank making, drying, glazing and kiln firing. After Ace taught Betty the general method, he deployed hundreds of ordinary residents and more than 30 wizard apprentices Give it to her and stop worrying about it.

Ace returned to his tower and began to study the interesting subject of magic hand rubbing flintlock guns and copper tube cannons. He already had a preliminary idea of ​​how to arm mortals.

In the early stage, mortals are armed with mature gunpowder weapons from the previous life, and then they can use methods similar to virtue runes to enhance the strength of mortals without magical talent.

Let the armed and promoted mortals be responsible for basic defense, offense, and security work, so as to free wizards from these tasks and better study and research.

After Betty received the task, she was very serious. She discussed with Dana many times and decided that the aqueduct project would stop near the west wall of Luminous City. They would build four huge water towers outside the wall, and then surround the water towers with the urn city. stand up.

The project in the city is to use the stone pipeline network to divert the water from the four water towers to the forty water distribution towers in the city, and then transport it to every household through the ceramic pipe water system.

Under Betty's leadership, all the wizard apprentices in the city began to use secondary mud as stone to build stone-made water diversion and drainage channels. As time passed, the water diversion and drainage networks of Luminous City were gradually improved.

In the open space in the northeast of Luminous City, a group of mortals were firing ceramic tubes, while Lou Xilu and several other wizard apprentices were casting spells beside them.

The ceramic tube is subjected to secondary reinforcement and hardening.

After a while, they finished strengthening and hardening the fired ceramic tube, and they chatted together.

"How many social practice points do you have?" A young apprentice asked Lou Xilu.

"About five hundred," Lou Sillo replied.

"I envy you, I only have 300 social practice points, which is just enough to enter a higher education. While there is nothing else, why don't we review the secondary rune literature course together, and ask each other to trace runes!" Another apprentice said.

"Okay, let me ask a question first. There are several types of secondary projectile runes, please write them silently."

Several wizard apprentices traced together in the air. Some drew very quickly, while others scratched their heads. The first-year secondary rune lessons were mainly memorized by rote. Even improve and transform secondary runes.

During the construction and learning process of wizard apprentices, the number of reinforced and hardened ceramic pipes also increased rapidly, and the dense water supply pipe network covering the whole city was about to take shape.

When Betty and Dana led wizard apprentices to build water diversion and drainage systems, Ace's research on magic hand-rubbed flintlock guns was also advancing rapidly.

Ace once made magic glycerin, which is a powerful yellow gunpowder version of an unstable magic material. This magic glycerin is more effective than glycerin made from ordinary materials. Ace speculates that magic power should play a role in it.

For the gunpowder used by mortals, he believes that there must be a certain generation difference in technology, and wizards must master more advanced gunpowder, so he is not going to use yellow gunpowder.

Ace intends to use classic black powder, mixing nitrate, charcoal and sulfur at a ratio of 7:1.5:1, and then soaking, compacting, drying, crushing, and sieving to obtain the best granular black powder.

The power of black powder is enough to fight ordinary low-level monsters, and the effect is just right for mortal soldiers.

In fact, it's more than that. For many wizard apprentices, it is also a good choice to directly use black powder as a casting material to enhance the explosive power of fire elemental spells.

The flintlock uses the impact of the flint on the hammer to generate sparks and ignite the gunpowder. What is needed here is to make springs, which is not difficult for wizards. Making bronze springs is essential for those who are proficient in fire element spells and have past life memories. It's not difficult for Ace.

The spiral-shaped spring piece was quickly produced. The difficulty in making the flintlock gun was the barrel, and the steel barrel with excellent material was quickly produced.

For wizard apprentices who use magic, there is almost no problem. Ace can easily create a flame with a temperature of more than 1500 degrees, and melt the iron into iron juice. At this time, a pig iron block is used to stir the iron juice. The carbon combines with air to make high-quality steel.

Ace made three hundred steel rods with magic, and chanted a spell to make them fixed on the ground.

He used the magic crystal shaping spell to create a large number of magic crystal drills, and incorporated his own inherent magic power, making the drills extremely sharp and strong.

Accompanied by the rhythm of magic power, the magic crystal drill drilled directly through the steel rod and formed the famous spiral rifling line, also called windmill line. Most of the flintlock guns in the previous life were smoothbore guns, that is, there was no rifling line.

The history of rifling appeared very early, but the rifle bullets were difficult to load and the rate of fire was extremely slow, so they were not valued by the army.

However, the effect of rifling is extremely good. Although a smoothbore gun without rifling has a faster rate of fire, it has poor accuracy and a small shooting distance.

The rifling can be said to be the soul of the barrel. The function of the rifling is to give the bullet the ability to rotate, so that the bullet can still maintain the predetermined direction after it comes out of the chamber.

With rifling, the penetration, accuracy and shooting distance of the musket are greatly improved. It can be said that every rifled flintlock has the potential to become a sniper rifle.

In the previous life, it was not until the invention of the Mines bullet that the problem of the practicality of rifled guns was solved. A large number of old-fashioned smoothbore flintlock guns were converted into rifled flintlock guns.

Naturally, Ace would not repeat this process. He directly skipped the stage of the musket gun, using magic to directly form a steel pipe with a spiral windmill line, and overtaking with a magic curve. The material and craftsmanship of the production are far beyond the ordinary. Gunpowder weapons, it's magic and science!

As for the production process of Mines bullets, it is more of an idea. The main problem with rifled guns is that due to the engraved rifling, it is difficult for front-loaded bullets to keep the chamber airtight, which greatly reduces their power.