Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 224 Ammunition Order
By the time Harvey got the "Oath-Keeping Curse" used to sign a multi-party cooperation alliance from the magic network teleportation array, two weeks had passed.

It seems that the Federation, the dwarves, and the elves must have gone through several intense discussions and considerations internally before finally reaching a consensus on signing this special covenant.

"The Oath-Keeping Curse has existed since ancient times..." Asdalen picked up the ancient sheepskin scroll with great interest and examined it carefully. "But back then, it was used by the dragon clan to enslave other intelligent races. The curse power contained within it was so great that even legendary transcendents could not fully resist it."

Harvey asked curiously, "This contract scroll is probably a replica, right? Can its curse effect be comparable to the original ones from the Dragon Age?"

Asdalen chuckled and shook his head, saying disdainfully, "Unless the person who created this scroll can still obtain real dragon blood, of course... as a second best option, using the blood of a high-level vampire from my clan could be a substitute. But from observing the magical fluctuations and the incantations attached to it, I'm afraid it's at most the blood of some sub-dragon monsters, and it probably won't even achieve half of the original effect..."

Although Asdalen was extremely confident in the effectiveness of this contract, Harvey still felt a little uneasy. This was not comparable to the ordinary magic contract he had signed with Reiner in the past. At most, it could only serve as a simple lie detector and truth check.

The "Oath-Keeping Curse" was a simplified version of the "Slavery Curse" from ancient times. It truly possessed a powerful restraining ability at the soul level. If one was not careful, one would suffer a serious backlash. Harvey was not one of the three legendary chief bosses of the Federation, and he could not afford the risks involved.

He then remembered the two soul puppet eggs that he had left on the Spirit Anchor Beach, which had not yet hatched. They were swallowed and transformed by the horrific flesh and blood cracks that appeared in his body in the Spirit Anchor after the magic pattern mutated. Theoretically, the hatched puppet body has no blood connection with himself at all. It is just an empty shell that can accommodate his mental power and soul.

Thinking of this, Harvey decided to use the two puppet bodies to do a simple experiment to test whether they could be used to replace his original body and complete the so-called "Oath-keeping Curse".

After quickly entering the spiritual anchor through meditation guidance, Harvey unexpectedly discovered that when he helped three members of the forum to dissociate two fused magic patterns in the magic network not long ago, the half that was swallowed by him belonged to the soul projection of a church priest. Now it was also transformed into a transparent follicle by the mysterious beach and washed up on the beach.

Picking it up to observe it out of curiosity, Harvey regretfully discovered that what was soaked and wrapped in this follicle was actually a deformed embryo with incomplete limbs. It seemed that after the incomplete soul projection or magic pattern was swallowed, it could not be transformed into a healthy puppet for his parasitic soul to use. This deformed embryo was completely useless.

With a wry smile, Harvey threw the discarded follicle aside. He then concentrated his mental strength again to quickly catalyze the remaining egg into shape, and then took him back to the real world through the connected magic network teleportation array.

The puppet, which was already in a state of separation of soul and spirit, was very agile in its movements and expressions. As soon as it returned to the laboratory, it took a thin blanket to cover its body to hide itself, and then cooperated with Harvey with nimble hands and feet to complete several simple experimental operations such as experimental preparation, blood drawing, hemolysis, and blood testing.

Harvey picked up the blood reagent that was obviously layered and unable to mix, gently shook the light red liquid in the glass test tube, looked at the soul puppet tacitly, and smiled softly with the corners of his mouth raised.

"It seems that the puppet's flesh and blood shell is indeed not connected to the original body. But if the body carries the original body's soul while the mind and spirit are separated, and signs the ancient contract, will the covenant be effective?"

Puppet Harvey analyzed cautiously, "If what Asdalen said is correct, the contract itself is implemented by restraining the soul but then devouring the flesh... then the bug in it can be completely exploited by us."

Harvey, the original, smiled slightly, took the parchment-wrapped "Oath-Keeping Curse," and gently handed it to the puppet. "Then give it a try. The worst-case scenario is that the contract will be reflected back to the original. The head of the Federation has already signed it, so I don't have to be shy."

Without any hesitation, the puppet immediately used a syringe to draw a small amount of blood and smeared it on the surface covered with spell patterns according to the agreement on the parchment scroll.

The moment those faintly visible spells came into contact with the blood, they immediately began to wriggle rapidly as if given life, and the nematode-shaped patterns quickly formed a line of letters of a person's name - Harvey Freud.

But in a moment, it seemed to correct an error, quickly dissolving and disappearing, twisting again to form the virtual code name of Kel'Thuzad, but it only lasted for less than half a minute, and then began to twist slowly again, as if trying to dig out the deeper essence of the blood provider.

Harvey's eyes narrowed, horrified to discover that the twisting and shifting spells on the ancient scroll were slowly and slowly forming familiar glyphs—Chinese characters! They were attempting to trace the true name of the contract's signer!
The real name of Harvey, the time traveler, in his previous life!
But when the name was pieced together halfway, it seemed to be immediately blocked by some unknown existence. It was soon disrupted again and scattered miserably on the parchment scroll, and it took a long time for it to be condensed again.

A full ten minutes passed before the runes seemed to regain a little vitality, feebly gathering together again and crookedly forming Kel'Thuzad, Harvey's anonymous codename. However, the handwriting looked extremely perfunctory, as if an illiterate child had barely copied it.

Harvey wiped the sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed like the unknown peculiarities of his identity as a time traveler had once again allowed him to narrowly escape the danger of being exposed. He wasn't sure if it was the mutated magic pattern that had done the trick, or the blocking effect of the spirit anchor.

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After completing the signing of this ancient contract by fixing the bug, Harvey finally calmed down and began to carefully consider the multi-party cooperation with the Federation, the Cave Dwarves, and the High Elves.

According to the content previously hinted to them in the Spellcaster Forum using the identity of Observer Neumann, the fictional organization headed by Administrator Turing and Observer Neumann in the forum only provides technology and weapon samples for the manufacture of anti-magic weapons.

As the designated real-world agent, Harvey only needs to complete the quantitative production of weapons and ammunition according to the magic materials provided by the forum. After all, he claims that the materials for making magic ammunition can only be obtained in the subspace by the forum organization, and there is no substitute or imitation in the real world.

Harvey was not at all worried about his lies being exposed or directly verified. The magic ammunition needed for anti-magic energy weapons required too many processes and knowledge and technologies in the manufacturing process.

First of all, the energy-absorbing beetles are the most important strategic materials that are completely monopolized by Harvey. After all, this thing has obviously never been found in the southern border, and there is no heavy equipment such as the alchemical shield machine, and no force can dig and drill deep into the underground of the Divine Ridge Mountains to find the location of the beetle nest.

The second is soul transfer technology. Although the Alchemy Exploration Society has been trying to make a breakthrough, it has not been successfully cracked until now, let alone being able to maturely apply it to a cross-era technological product such as the Soul Alchemy Beast in a short period of time.

As long as he has these two material monopolies and technological barriers, and has the ability to ensure that they are not leaked or plundered, Harvey is fully confident that he can sit back and relax as a magic arms dealer in this extraordinary world for a long time to come, and reap huge profits for himself and the development of his territory.

As expected, no matter which world it is, there is no business that can be built faster than making money from war...

But when he saw the weapons order sent by the Federation together with the magic contract, he couldn't help laughing out loud, leaving Reiner and Asdalen, who had just rushed back to report on their work, confused.

"Hahaha! What were they thinking? The first batch of 5,000 magic bullets... that's all. And they need to solemnly sign an ancient contract and even bring the dwarves and elves on board for insurance?"

Harvey felt that the gap between his cognition of the massive arms business and what he had imagined was too huge. What was the difference between this and carrying a bag of gold bars and buying a bunch of green onions at the village market?
Asdalen took the order from Harvey, quickly scanned it, and couldn't help but laugh. "Maybe... maybe it's because their current resource allocation is preventing them from producing large quantities of anti-magic weapons. After all, bullets without guns are useless..."

Reiner scratched his head, puzzled. "Am I just not knowledgeable enough? The Federation... plus the Alchemy Exploration Society, where Mr. Chris used to work, plus the mining dwarves to the south, the green elves to the east... so many companies can't gather the materials and manpower to mass-produce anti-magic guns? Can they? If not, just give the order to me! If the military factory runs three shifts, I can produce a thousand for them in just two weeks, as long as the material supply can keep up."

Harvey smiled helplessly and shook his head. The manufacture of anti-magic weapons itself did not present any technical difficulty. He handed the finished product to the members of the Federation through the forum with the purpose of letting them boldly imitate and reproduce it. After all, without absolute strength, one cannot eat the whole cake by oneself, as this would invisibly create many enemies with conflicting interests.

Therefore, he was completely happy to see the intervention of the Exploration Society and the Dwarves and Elves.

The dwarves are good at mining and casting magical minerals, the elves can provide the production and preparation of the most important magical reagents for drawing weapon inscriptions, and the Exploration Club has the most mature magical weapon manufacturing workshop in the entire continent. This is a very perfect weapon production chain, which is quite similar to the "global manufacturing" that Harvey saw on Earth in the past.

Similarly, giving a few shares of the lucrative profits from weapons sales to the friendly allies who have been exploited will greatly alleviate their dissatisfaction and protests against the human race and the Federation. Both parties are essentially buying a big favor from Harvey, and it is a win-win situation in terms of benefits and reputation.

The Alchemy Exploration Society was temporarily brought in as an independent partner in order to repay the selfless assistance given to him by the two "Mr. Man in the Mirror" before. In this regard, Harvey, as a time traveler with sound values, still needs to maintain some humanity.

(End of this chapter)