Chapter 270: Chapter 257: The Frightened Earl Joyce Who Fled Overnight


    After the meeting, the council members left the Sky Realm with heavy hearts.


    Having be familiar with several great wizards, Lynn also took the opportunity to inquire about the war preparations of Greenrill City.


    Over the past few months, the council had already assembled and trained an army of twenty thousand troops.


    Compared to the empire and the church, this was obviously insufficient, but the poption of Wizard Land was limited, with a total of only six to seven hundred thousand subjects. They couldn’t employ the human wave tactics like their enemies and had to rely on quality over quantity.


    Although the so-called quality was nothing more than wishful thinking, after all, these troops hardly had anybat experience.


    Besides, the magic beasts tamed by the wizards specializing in Magic Potion studies might also prove useful.


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    Then there were the wizards’ trump cards, the Magic Crystal Cannons and war golems!


    Firstly, the Magic Crystal Cannon’s principle was topress the magic power stored within demon crystals andunch it in the most basic manner.


    Simple but effective!


    The power of a standard Magic Crystal Cannon was roughly equivalent to a third-circle magic, while a high-grade Magic Crystal Cannon could bepared to a fourth-circle spell.


    Though it was only a single circle’s difference in magic, the power increased by more than tenfold!


    Correspondingly, the cost of producing a high-grade Magic Crystal Cannon was extremely high, with each shot requiring a demon crystal the size of a fist, meaning hundreds of Gold Coins were only enough for a single shot.


    Previously, Lynn had the fortune to experience and control this unique alchemical weapon and had a rough estimate of its power within his heart.


    By means of destructive power, it was much stronger than the cannons produced in the workshops. Its downsides were the high cost and a limited range of attack, the closer the target, the stronger the power, but beyond five hundred meters it wasn’t very effective.


    Since there had been no need for war in Wizard Land before, and because the manufacturing process itself was soplex, even if both types of Magic Crystal Cannons were added together, there were only one hundred in total, most of which were deployed around Greenrill City and the vicinity of the demon stone mines.


    However, that was all an illusion; when the council began preparing for war, it was discovered that due tock of maintenance, and even theft, only a pitiful fifty cannons were operational.


    As the president of the Alchemy Association, the “Magic Creator” Vittorio was furious, and the Alchemy Association underwent a thorough internal reorganization.


    The next were the golems, which were even more expensive than the Magic Crystal Cannons. They were made from sturdy mithril and featured unique magical inscription circuits inside, controlled by spiritual energy wizards projecting a portion of their consciousness into the golems.


    After pooling resources from various schools, they barely managed to assemble seventy golems, which the Spiritual Ability Academy would support duringbat.


    Hearing these ounts, Lynn could not help but smile wryly. It seemed that the wizards had never truly considered going to war, given the long period of peace, and if the church suddenly attacked, Wizard Land would probably be unable to exert even half of its potential.


    “Lord Lynn,” asked Sanchez curiously, “I’ve heard from Master Rafael that the Iyeta school has developed a new type of weapon called a firearm, which is much more powerful than crossbow arrows, easily piercing armor and even ‘Mage Shields.’ Is that true?”


    Rafael had submitted the report which they had all already read, iming it was a weapon that could threaten Wizards when wielded by trainedmoners.


    “Correct,” Lynn nodded.


    “So, what’s the selling price of this thing?” Sanchez continued, having been in charge of the training of the newly recruited twenty thousand troops, he was naturally most concerned about such new weapons.


    “Two Gold Coins for one firegun,” Lynn pondered for a long time before speaking, setting a price that was neither high nor low.


    The mere production cost of a single firegun was about 15 Silver Coins, and consideringbor and transportation, this cost needed to be doubled. However, Lynn did not intend to be unreasonably high with his price, as everyone needed to join forces to face the unforeseen church…


    Moreover,pared to the fireguns themselves, the steadily consumed ammunition was where the real profity…


    Considering Lynn’s fire-sale price, Sanchez did not hesitate to purchase ten thousand fireguns.


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    Now it was Lynn’s turn to face a predicament. “The production capacity of the firegun workshop is still very limited. How about this? I can first give you two thousand flintlock guns, which should suffice for routine training when used in rotation. They don’t need to shoot very urately, just knowing how to use them is enough. We can gradually supply the rest!”


    The firegun manufacturing workshops in Ayeta had been expanding continuously over the recent period, now able to produce about three thousand fireguns a month. Once the workers’ skills became proficient, the output could potentially increase even more. However, it would not be easy to assemble ten thousand fireguns in a short period.


    As for the leak of technology, that was inevitable. Lynn didn’t care much about it, as Darren and others were already researching the production of firing guns.


    By the time someone manages to replicate flintlock guns, those gadgets are likely to have been surpassed.


    After negotiating the sale of fireguns, Lynn and Sanchez turned to discuss training issues of the army.


    Born in Wizard Land, Sanchez waspletely blind to the training of a legion. Fortunately, collective wisdom helped scrape together some methods, such as how to incorporate their actions with a Wizard’s magic or staging mock battles between armies.


    Lynn’s approach was far more direct. For the firegun squads, discipline was paramount, followed by adaptability on the battlefield, like how to face the enemy’s mass charge or even a barrage of arrows and still remain calm, performing the actions of clearing the barrel, loading the ammunition, and aiming to fire.


    Thus, he had the Wizards idling in Ayeta capture some magical beasts and let the firegun squads confront them in small team formations.


    The threat posed by these beasts was no less than that of the battlefield. Those who could reload, fire, and shoot in the presence of a zing maned fire lion charging at them were qualified firegunners!


    “This method is quite good!” Sanchez said with approval. With Wizards there to oversee, there was little risk of significant issues, and he immediately decided to roll it out widely.


    The new recruits training far from Greenrill City had no idea that their nightmare was about to begin!


    While Wizard Land was urgently preparing for war affairs, the miner liberation movement within the Kingdom of Hadta grew more intense.


    Starting from the small domain of Baron York, Ryder had swept through almost one-seventh of the Kingdom of Hadta’s territory in less than a month, rallying a force of over ten thousand!


    Earl Joyce was so frightened that he fled overnight, and the shock of this news quickly reached the capital of the Kingdom of Hadta…