The Spirit World

Chapter 389 Powerful Firearms
at the same time
[Capital of the Principality - Flandre Royal Academy]

"Tang Zilong! You bastard! You come to take my gold again! Do you believe that I will turn you into a pig?" A brown-haired woman pushed open the door and shouted loudly at the person inside.

She threw her brown wizard robes in anger, angrily slammed the portkey on the table, and pulled out her staff.

"Hey... Malena, I don't agree with you just saying 'take'..." A black-haired man in a white coat pushed his gold-rimmed glasses. He sat next to a blond man, who seemed to be reading a book. "Let's not talk about whether I need it this time or I need to borrow it from you. Saying 'take' is too overbearing. I don't like it."

"Come on! Are you an alchemist? Do you know how I got all this Togjin? Do you know how hard it was?" Malena's pointed nose was so angry that she seemed to be fuming. Her mouth was relatively big, and when she was angry, her mouth looked strangely sexy.

Tang Zilong adjusted his glasses and gently turned a page of the book in his hand: "I will pay it back eventually... When I make the first spiritual firearm, I won't need to do experiments with Tuojin. At that time, I will concentrate on helping you with alchemy and make Tuojin specifically for you."

"Come on, even if you can really make a musket with that pile of scrap metal of yours, it's definitely useless and can only be used to hit ordinary people. It's absolutely impossible to use it in actual combat..." Malena continued to belittle Tang Zilong as usual, as if she had sworn a poisonous oath. This was not only because Tang Zilong's technology and alchemy had been incompatible since ancient times, but also because Tang Zilong was too abominable. He had taken the gold from her laboratory several times, and acted as if nothing had happened.

"You are wrong again... I don't think you will be able to make any progress with your alchemy in your lifetime. You might as well let me increase the value of such precious material. Bang! One shot! I can knock those magicians down, and ordinary people can also beat them to a pulp and terrify them!" Tang Zilong imitated the example and used the pen as a gun, pulling his arm back due to the recoil.

The more this happened, the angrier Malena became, and she didn't know how to vent. She clutched her wand tightly, her teeth itching with hatred.

"Pyros! Look at him!" Marlena pointed at Tang Zilong and lost her temper, but she was really looking at Pyros. Pyros stopped what he was doing, put a few small parts on the ground, and sighed: "Hey, Marlena, don't bother with Tang Zilong, he can't persuade you... It's over, my idea of ​​reloading is all messed up now."

Marlena looked at the medium-sized object in Pylos's hand. It was the metal limbs of an animal, more like a puppy.

"Is it Pylos who wants Tokin?"

"Hmm..." Tang Zilong pointed at the words in the book with his index finger, freed his hand, and wrote something in the notebook.

“What do you want Tokin for?” Malena came over, got close to the two of them, and stared at the tiny pieces.

Look closely at these tiny objects, and you’ll see tiny blue lines flickering on them.

"you made it yourself?"

Before answering the first question, Malena asked again with some anticipation, and very seriously put down her staff on the table. The long table was covered with a white cloth, and there were all kinds of strange "things" on it.

"Of course not." Tang Zilong answered impolitely, even though he was not required to answer.

"I didn't ask you." Malena reached out and punched Tang Zilong lightly through Pylos.

"Tsk..." Tang Zilong turned away tactfully.

"Well...how should I put it...Tang Zilong helped me make it. He did it and I filled it." Pylos supported himself with his arms and patted his head, as if he felt stupid. He looked at the tiny parts with some pain, comparing the shapes on his tiny limbs, trying to put the parts together.

"Why do you want Tang Zilong to do it for you? Why do you have to worry about it yourself?" Marlena also took a part and looked at the node pattern on it carefully: "Isn't he the best at these small parts?"

"I've already done it! That idiot took it down, didn't you see it?" Tang Zilong seemed to be holding his breath because of what Malena had just said, and now he spoke in a high-pitched voice.

"Don't talk, I'm still annoyed..." Malena said unhappily.

Tang Zilong continued to read the book in silence.

"I feel that my intention is not good enough... If Tang Zilong had made it for me, I would definitely not have taken it apart. The problem is, I want to give it away as a gift..." Pylos scratched his head, then bit his tongue and began to try seriously to stuff the parts into the little thing's belly.

"Is this... a dog?"

"Well... I haven't installed the head yet..."

“Okay…” Malena stood up and picked up a green glass bottle on the table to look at it.

"Who is it for? Flandre?" Malena looked at the bottle, turned it with one hand, and looked at the clean green liquid inside. After confirming that there was no trace of bubbles, she put it down and put it back on the shelf.

"Well... it can't be considered as such. There's no sign of it yet..." Pylos carefully opened one eye and watched the nodes of the parts touch each other, and then the light turned from blue to white, which meant that the two parts were not compatible and there was a blockage.

"That is, you are so sincere that she won't mind being a bad guy to you... as a birthday present?" Malena picked up another blue glass bottle and turned it around to observe it. Her eyes were also brown, and she wore almost all brown accessories, and her skin tone was a little dark.

"No, that won't do... After all, it's a birthday present... Flandre has a birthday every four years, and I don't want to miss it... I have to prepare well." Pylos pursed his lips and licked his lips.

"Brother...there's still a year left!" Tang Zilong interjected, thinking that Pylos's behavior was extremely stupid.

"How many years will you take care of him? Tang Zilong, are you serious about that spiritual gun you talked about?" Malena suddenly frowned, looking at Tang Zilong who was looking at Pylos with some disgust. After hearing this, Tang Zilong also looked at Malena seriously and frowned.

Like he didn't understand what she meant.

"What? Are you interested in my mechanical dynamics? Get rid of it! Alchemists will never learn mechanical dynamics, okay..." Tang Zilong waved his hand, put the book on the table, crossed his arms and said: "You alchemists, you are irrelevant... You are just wasting materials."

"I don't only know alchemy! Really!" Malena glared at Tang Zilong with disdain.

"I'm serious... Did you really use your spiritual power on the musket?" Malena blinked at Tang Zilong seriously and puzzledly.

There was a droopy look in her eyes, as if she had insomnia.

"Of course. However, it's still unstable and the spiritual power transmission bearings inside need to be tested repeatedly." Tang Zilong pushed his glasses.

"Ordinary muskets are already a threat to ordinary people, that is, people like Pylos who don't have spiritual power. However, because the threat is too small, or even just ordinary gunpowder, it has no effect on well-trained practitioners. They can use enough strength and speed to cut people using muskets into pieces. Therefore, the development of muskets has stagnated without any use. It's not that it has stagnated, but it can't be improved. After all, everyone has learned magic and spiritual power. I am now bringing it up again because I want to make a weapon that ordinary people can use to face practitioners head-on. I will definitely do my best."

Tang Zilong shook his head seriously, stopped talking here, and sighed helplessly: "You won't understand even if I tell you, so I won't say it."

It was as if he had foreseen the future, and he could talk about this stuff all day long.

But, he suddenly felt that it was meaningless to talk about this with Marlena who knew magic, so he picked up the book and wrote down a bunch of things. "I don't think Pylos is an ordinary person... Why did he say he was from the Felix clan..." Marlena put down everything and sorted out the things on the table.

"What a waste..." Tang Zilong rubbed his nose softly.

Pylos hesitated for a moment, shook his head, and continued to assemble his things.

"How should I put it... There is a reason why muskets have become weak... Not to mention that magicians disdain to use such low-end things. Besides, who still uses muskets nowadays... Even if you want to use them, you can't find a place that produces muskets..." Malena looked at the reagent in her hand and pushed the wooden cork tighter.

She glanced at the ceiling, where there was a huge magic chandelier, square in shape, illuminating everything in the laboratory.

"Of course, if you succeed, I don't think it's an unimaginable thing. In recent years, the magic world has been in a state of flux, and some people have openly refused to treat ordinary people the same as magicians. If you continue to produce firearms to deal with magic, wouldn't you just run into someone else's trap? You might just play into someone else's hands and make fun of you."

“Would I be afraid of this?”

Tang Zilong understood what Malena meant.

"My father started out by making arc-shaped light bombs for the principality... Why would I be afraid of those ants hiding in the dark? It's because their magicians are too arrogant and always think they are superior that I'm going to do this! If their Magic Association really messes up and makes things difficult for ordinary people, I will distribute the weapons that failed the test. Who cares? We'll just die together."

"What are you talking about..." Pylos patted his head and looked at the white barrier lines with a headache: "Tang Zilong, don't forget... you are also an ordinary person... commonly known as waste~"

"Hmm~" Tang Zilong shrugged: "You're right, I have something very powerful for you to test. I'll get it now." Tang Zilong stood up and ran outside.

Pylos didn't know what he was up to.

Watching him leave, I could only do my own thing silently.

"To be honest, I don't think highly of his idea. Even if he really succeeds, can ordinary people really control such a powerful weapon? Not to mention the chaos in the world, the contradiction between such a weapon and magic is enough to make the already difficult peace even more tense..."

“War can only solve some problems, but without war, even one problem may not be solved.” Pylos said this without thinking: “Conflicts will not disappear on their own unless the party that raises the conflict becomes weaker or even disappears.”

"Pylos, what you said is not right." Malena touched her hand, preparing to touch an ice-blue reagent, with cold air hovering above the reagent.

"Why is it wrong? I studied history... This is historical experience... Besides, the war has only been over for a short time... Aren't Georgos, Tamokha, and East Star Island almost gone?"

Although Pylos said this, he was still a little hesitant.

"That's not something we can control... So, there's nothing much to say about the whole thing... But war is definitely not a good thing. I still hope that there won't be any more... Whether it's the conflict between ordinary people and magic, or the conflict between the empire and the principality, they still exist and are interdependent. Don't think about destroying each other. This is normal. Otherwise, you will definitely suffer from the loss of your lips and teeth... The consequences are disastrous." Marlena put the ice-blue reagent into a small box and continued: "You know what? Although we only say this, there are many people who don't understand this. They will be instigated by others to help those bastards do stupid and shameful things. Everything is hard to say. I can't just let it go. I can only say that we can take it one step at a time."

"That makes sense... taking one step at a time is in line with historical research... After all, I can't apply certain historical ideas to the present, as that would be out of touch with reality. It's the same now... Let's take one step at a time... Who knows what will happen next..." Pylos said happily, because he had finally installed a piece with great difficulty. The blue nodes were linked together to form an intersection of patterns.

"Here I come!" Tang Zilong pushed the door open and came in, hiding something. In his white coat, he was holding something that was neither big nor small.

"You wouldn't really bring the rifle here, did you?" Malena hurriedly looked over and saw what was in Tang Zilong's arms.

It was a very small gun, so compact that it was only as big as an adult's palm. The precise blue parts had almost invisible joints, as if they were seamlessly connected. In terms of cross-server, it was only as wide as a hand, and there were very tiny bullet holes. The blue lines all over the gun were combined with the barrel. If it weren't for the lines above, the strong impact alone would be enough to shock Malena.

Pylos also sat and slowly turned around, looking at the gun with a frown.

"This...is not a musket..."

"No, this is a musket, but now, it is called a spiritual power gun!" Tang Zilong gently loaded the gun with his hand and pressed down the tail end of the gun.

"This is the one I tested successfully...but the crisis is still too small...I'll show you."

“This is a laboratory!”

"It's okay... I told you, this gun doesn't do much damage, it can just break some bottles." Tang Zilong took out an empty bottle from the drawer with one hand. He held the gun in his right hand, his index finger on the trigger, not looking nervous at all.

"That would be better!" Malena followed Tang Zilong to the other end of the laboratory, and Pylos quickly stood up and followed.

【Snapped】

Cleanly and neatly, Tang Zilong had already smashed the bottle when Pylos was about to walk over.

No, to be precise, it was an extremely fast, almost blink of an eye, blue light that caused the bottle to break into pieces and fly out.

"How powerful is this...?"

"To be precise... it's impossible to break the spiritual power barrier of a cultivator, let alone a special barrier..."

"..."

Marlena was a little surprised.

Because she clearly saw nothing.

That shot was almost invisible to her...

If this is called having no power...

So what is the power that Tang Zilong mentioned?

(End of this chapter)