Chapter 855 Anti-Magic Technology
Bloxson, who received a lot of material and technical support from the Snake God Prophet, was naturally overjoyed.
He has long been fascinated by the lizard people's strange technology, but the only dwarf rune master who has access to it has kept the matter highly confidential and only provided limited technical support.
As for Caledon, there is no need to mention that for an engineering consultant to mix magic, it is inevitable that people will doubt whether he has bad motives.
Bloxon could only use the airship project as an excuse to have sporadic access to some lizard technology.
The engineering consultant called his top subordinate, Izworth, and quickly contacted the technical officer of the Giant Horned Viper. He could not understand the lizard language and had to find a translator to understand the relevant technology.
Reluctantly, Idsworth came to the technical department of the Giant Horned Viper with the puzzled looks of his compatriots, and used many words to explain clearly why he was working under a dwarf.
All of this is an arrangement of the palace. You people who live in the old world don’t know that Bloxon is an engineering consultant in Caledor, and his identity badge is stamped with the seal of the fire dragon.
The result of self-destruction made Bloxon very satisfied. He looked at the two pointed ears in front of him who were carrying toolboxes, and first tried to say in dwarf language,
"Can you understand what I'm saying?"
The technician showed contempt, and without the need for Idsworth to translate, he had already guessed Bloxson's thoughts and said in elf,
"Communicate in Imperial Tongue."
Neither party wants to use the other party's language as the standard in the field of expertise. In this case, choose an intermediary channel.
The grievances over the years cannot be resolved by short-term goals, and language habits are only the most insignificant microcosm.
After getting the answer he wanted, Bloxson nodded in agreement. It was still feasible to use Imperial Language. The most fearful thing about technical communication is that the concepts are vague. It is easy for you to say yours and I say mine.
Errors occur at the level of expression, how can we talk about turning into true knowledge at the level of understanding.
People from both sides came to the armory of the Giant Horned Viper. As for why it wasn't from the Sotek sect?
Bloxen knew that dwarves could still understand the gadgets made by elves, but it would take a lot of time to get started with unfamiliar lizard equipment.
Not everyone is like Master Torek, who has been enlightened by the knowledge and teachings of many Slann lords.
The temporary armory had no production facilities, and a variety of instruments were neatly arranged on wooden shelves. Most of them were commonly used long swords, shields, chainmail, firearms, projectiles, etc.
Bloxon didn't take a second look at these. He knew that the armors worn by the lizardman warriors were all produced by Vaal Anvil, and their superiors all used elven gadgets. The giant horned viper must be similar.
But there are always some things that arouse curiosity, such as a shield carved from huge obsidian, with the appearance of a Slann lord carved on it in an extremely delicate way.
The dwarf walked up to the shield hanging on the wall and tried to hold it up with both hands. He originally thought that the shield, which was as tall as someone else, would be extremely heavy. Only when he finally got his hands on it did he realize that it was at least half as heavy as expected.
Putting down the shield with unusually smooth corners, he wanted to reach out and touch Slan's face in the center to carefully observe the carving techniques used, but was severely reprimanded by the Giant Horned Viper technician.
The elf was very serious. Before the dwarf committed a heinous crime, he grabbed the dirty big hand full of engine oil.
"Don't use your dwarf thinking to treat things you don't know. Slan on the shield is the most sacred lord of the lizard people. Trying to touch him is already a crime of disrespect!"
Such serious words made Bloxen shrug his shoulders and signal the elf to release his hand.
Although he always boasted to his compatriots that he had chatted and laughed with the mysterious Slann lord when he traveled with Master Torek in Lustria, the reality was that he had never seen even a Slann lord.
The highest level person I have ever come into contact with is Tehenhoin.
The dwarf put the hand he was about to touch the shield on his beard and looked at Lord Slann's unusually solemn sculpture.
"If I ask who this great lord is, you won't tell me. Then let's get things back on track. The role of this obsidian shield."
Before the elf explained, the engineer emphasized, "I want the specific ins and outs, not a simple sentence of actual results."
The elf, who originally thought of doing things perfunctorily, saw that the dwarf seemed to be very knowledgeable about some unspoken rules, so he could only explain the origin of the obsidian shield in Isworth's helpless eyes.
"When fighting against the Skaven, we found that the Gray Seer's warpstone magic threatened too much. After leaving the shelter of the Blood Sacrifice Pyramid of the Serpent's Nest and fighting deep into the land, it was easy to fall into a disadvantage.
The number of mages in the Horned Viper is scarce, and it is difficult to compete with the Rats for control of the wind of magic. The Lizardmen's obsidian processing technology is very unique. We use it as a source of inspiration to create related equipment to combat the Magic of the Rats.
The obsidian shield in front of you is for use by the Anti-Magic Commando of the Horned Viper. It is specially used to snipe rat mage units such as Gray Prophets in narrow tunnels. "
Bloxon was very interested in this. The dwarves naturally had anti-magic professional rune blacksmiths, but the number of rune blacksmiths was very impressive, and many of them were long-bearded men who specialized in technology in the workshops and did not want to follow the army.
For many years, the dwarves have relied on their demon-hating stance after gathering their armies to compete with the other party's mage units.
If there are not enough people, then you can only pray to encounter the mage's compatriots, wearing rune armor.
But Bloxson considered the other side...
"According to what you said, there should be anti-magic devices for large-scale battles."
The technician shrugged. This was not a question he could answer. There were indeed large-scale anti-magic devices, but this was partly under the management of the Inner Ring Knight Commander Althea.
According to rumors, the stone tablets engraved with unknown runes are very similar to those that appeared in the Battle of Fenouir Plains.
Knowing that he could not know the true situation from the technicians, Bloxson stopped entangled. He knew very well how strict this Elf Kingdom was about keeping secrets.
People who say the wrong thing can easily attract some departments that they don't want to deal with in this life.
Asking for the technology related to this obsidian shield, Bloxen thought about installing it on the airship. It weighed two-thirds less than iron, so there was still a lot of space left. He wanted to find out what other treasures the giant horned viper had.
But after rummaging through the armory for a long time, Bloxson discovered to his dismay that most of the items were standard products based on the Caledo professional army, with slightly modified exterior decorations.
There are none of the sun engines, resurrection crystals, thunder devices, etc. that I have been thinking about so much. It is no different from the militia's war preparation camp. (End of chapter)