I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

But Medea's situation is a little different.

She not only killed a dragon, but not just one or two. Instead, most of the high-end combat power of the dragon clan was killed by her self-destruction. Even the Dragon God fell into a deep sleep after she strangled his throat with fate.

There were too many powerful dragon warriors who died at her hands and their quality was too high. The number of dragon beacons and the intensity of the signals had completely changed the function of this mark. If her spirit body had color, it would be red to black, and black to colorful for the dragon clan.

That's why the two dragonborns fell down the moment they sensed the breath. In their perception, it was like a black sun that was constantly in their spiritual realm.

If they looked at the spirit body for one more second, their souls would explode due to the strong evil thoughts contained in it by the powerful dragon. They even felt that the tip of their noses was still filled with the corrupt smell of a large number of dead fellows.

The Dragon Beacon is the dragon slayer's death talisman, which can clearly trace the death scene of the same kind, but it is also an alternative record list.

Chapter 350 Crash

She could naturally sense when Medea's power was activated, and thought Lillian was in some danger, but it turned out that her tail hair was burned.

Emmm, actually this is not a trivial matter for Lillian. The roe deer's tail is very short, which is a relatively private part. As a result, it was not only exposed but also burned. It is normal to get angry when the butt is really on fire.

However, when her spiritual sea saw that two of the people lying on the ground without even the courage to look at each other were Dragonborn, she lost interest in continuing to pay attention.

Just some miscellaneous fish~

The combat power of that amulet is only about the Saint level, but because it has a certain small bonus in the Alliance, it is roughly at the peak of the Saint level. Even if the guardian cannot defeat it, it can run away.

And to be frank, she is now the number one on the list of enemies of the dragon genus. Her hatred value is absolutely maximum. After all, the Dragon God was killed by her. How could she not fight back against such a big enemy?

But these two small fish didn't even have the courage to raise their heads, let alone seek revenge. You still dare to call them dragons? Are they still dragons? They'd better be called cowardly lizards.

Inside the large composite wind tunnel of the Alliance National Laboratory, a fighter jet whose appearance seems a bit sci-fi to this world is undergoing static wind tunnel testing.

Following the different instructions issued by the experts, the fighter jets made various actions synchronously. The sweep angle of the wings kept changing back and forth between 20 degrees and 68 degrees, and the angles of the leading edge slats and trailing edge flaps also changed from time to time.

Unlike the single-engine light fighter on the show, this is a twin-engine heavy multi-purpose fighter with a variable swept-wing design.

After completing the mission design indicators, it will be improved for service in the subsequent military replacement, and its service life is expected to be the main fighter of the entire army for the next 50 to 70 years.

Elsa stood at the observation port of the wind tunnel and watched the test of the fighter plane, with a few stars flashing in her eyes from time to time.

Honestly, this fighter jet with constantly changing wing angles really fits her XB perfectly, and its streamlined fuselage is unreasonably handsome.

"Don't look at it anymore. The other side needs you to test the latest function."

'Oh, good!'

Elsa came back to her senses and remembered today's mission, and hurriedly followed the staff to the open-air test airport, where a prototype was also parked in the central field.

The alliance has confirmed its intention to purchase this new aircraft, so after receiving the indicators, the aircraft design bureau adopted a very aggressive multi-line parallel testing mode.

After the expert briefly explained and reviewed the key operating points that she had learned before, Elsa put on an insulated explosion-proof and fire-proof suit and climbed into the cockpit along the ladder on the front wheel of the fighter.

There were many buttons on the control panel, but Elsa had already done static operation training in advance, so she was not flustered.

Moreover, this is actually a set of backup equipment, and the main functions are integrated into the main and sub-displays in the center, allowing for one-stop intelligent startup.

One of the things she needs to check is a hard look at the new integrated display features for major vulnerabilities.

But the most important thing is...

【Test starts! 】

After putting on the flight helmet, Aisha turned on the power button and pressed the left side of the display screen: "Power on, engine cold start, check the automatic warm-up function."

"...The automatic warm-up function is normal. The intelligent wing adjustment program is started..."

With Elsa's methodical operation, the engine of the stationary prototype began to run, automatically and slowly increasing the speed to warm up the car. At the same time, the main and secondary tail wings continued to tilt at an angle to check whether the self-check function was operating normally.

Green signal lights were lit one by one, and Elsa said slowly: "The auxiliary crystal engine is started, anti-gravity is being generated, and the bottom thrust system is activated..."

As the magic-powered crystal engine began to work, the anti-gravity inscription array built into the fighter's central wing box began to take effect, and the weight of the fighter began to drop rapidly as its power continued to increase.

Until the force displayed on the fighter's bottom wheels dropped to the set value, five small nozzles scattered across the bottom of the fighter simultaneously sprayed out a stream of magical air to lift the fighter off the ground.

Under the precise control of the computer, each nozzle exerts a different force, causing the fighter to hover in the air about 10 meters above the ground at a certain elevation angle.

As the preparations were completed, Elsa pushed the accelerator, and the tail nozzle of the fighter plane, which had been warmed up, suddenly burst out with tremendous power, pushing the fighter plane off the ground and flying high into the sky.

“Wuhu!!!”

The single-engine and twin-engine give Elsa completely different driving experiences. The single-engine fighter in the previous exhibition match performed really well and had very good maneuverability.

But she was more fascinated by the huge size of the twin-engine heavy fighter and the sense of power transmitted to her by its strong kinetic energy, especially the vertical take-off technique, which was even more exciting than the short-distance, high-angle vertical climb in her exhibition match.

After simply flying two circles in the air, Elsa controlled the fighter plane to return to the designated location, slowed down and began to descend vertically. This was her primary goal today.

However, compared with the smooth landing during takeoff, the difficulty of landing is much greater. Any strong airflow in the air will disturb the stability of the fuselage. This is on land. If it is on the sea, vertical landing would be impossible.

However, the central computer was still powerful and could complete the adjustments in time every time. As the altitude slowly decreased, Elsa's heart gradually settled down.

Just when the wheels were about to touch the ground one meter away, a low-altitude side wind suddenly hit the fuselage of the fighter. A stream of data flashed across the main display screen at a rapid speed, and the jet from the bottom wing returned to normal.

But the force of the correction exceeded the demand and tilted again. The display suddenly turned into garbled characters. Elsa was startled and suddenly remembered a sentence that Medea had said:

"What are computers useful for? They are very useful! In the future, many things can be done by them. However, the next step for computers to advance is artificial intelligence, and then artificial intelligence."

I saw the fighter plane with low ground clearance erupting from various nozzles one after another, and then it flipped over and fell heavily to the ground.

The Kingdom of the Goblins of Zygormuil

On the other side of the continent blocked by glaciers, there were still howling winds and snow, with no sign of spring. The mountains formed by glaciers were constantly filled with violent cold currents and storms raging everywhere.

The magical power of the chaotic elements is difficult to utilize, and even high-level magicians cannot use magic to cross this towering snow-capped mountain, so this place has become an ideal place for goblins to live in seclusion.

The view suddenly becomes clear as you look through a narrow valley. The space inside the gourd-shaped valley is very spacious, and you can vaguely see a large group of buildings through the snow.

This is a secret weapon research and development experimental base of the goblins.

In an open-air test field where a large magic circle shielded the influence of external weather, an imitation Alliance fighter with a propeller at the front of the nose was flying low towards the artificial wind vent under the protection of magic.

Not far away from it, a large magic sensing device continuously released detection magic, mapping the elemental flow around the air fighter's body in real time. Several goblins kept checking and marking abnormal points in the elemental flow of the fuselage for subsequent improvements.

In a laboratory with a simple and capable design, a group of old green-skinned men were holding Alliance-made diaries and recording something in front of the glass window. Outside the glass window, a red light was coming out of the dark closed room, and an engine with flames spewing from the tail was working.

The leading short goblin said, "Increase power output to 40%."

[Power increasing...30%, 31%, 35%, 40%. ]

A dull female voice echoed in the laboratory. As the words fell, the tail flame of the engine nozzle gradually became brighter, and an even more powerful power burst out, causing the reaction vehicle that was bound to the spot to tremble slightly.

As the temperature rose sharply, the entire engine slowly turned red. A strange sound was heard amid the roar. The old man's face changed and he hurriedly said, "Stop! Turn off the engine!"

【Close...】

After waiting for a while for the engine to cool down, everyone wore heat-resistant clothing and walked into the closed room. The engine on the stage was still emitting high temperatures, and some blades were bent and twisted.

"It still doesn't work... the material isn't strong enough."

'What's not enough?'

"None of them are good enough... none of them are qualified."

'It's so strange how the Alliance did it? We haven't had so many problems with propeller engines.'

In the magical continent, if the goblins say that their alchemy, inscription, and mechanical technology are second to none in the world, no other race would dare to claim to be first, and this is still the case today.

Because the alliance is a collective, it is not included in this evaluation system.

No matter what, it proves that the goblins have a very unique talent for these "external forces" that are different from magic itself, and they have a very strong foundation in technological accumulation.

After the Alliance began to prosper, the goblins had already noticed the Alliance's special technological system.

As a race that once revealed its ambition to rule the world, the goblins had to keep a low profile, otherwise they would immediately arouse the fear and vigilance of all races on the continent, so they only observed and did not participate.

Putting aside things like steam engines and machine tools that can be replicated immediately once the idea is opened up, what the alliance cares most about is the alternative research and development and design of military weapons.

Firearms are okay, although they are powerful and versatile, but they are not suitable for them. They do not have the population base to carry out sea-based military tactics. What they care about most are artillery, tanks, and the air fighters behind them.

Most of the Alliance-like weapons and equipment in the Seven-Nation Alliance were provided by the goblins. They borrowed the Alliance's design route to imitate similar products and secretly sold them to the Allies for use. The excuse they used to the outside world was that the Allies had developed them themselves.

Although it is said to be borrowing, the goblins borrowed more from the design ideas, realizing the same weapons and equipment in another mode through inscription technology, rather than imitating industry.

With the Alliance's samples as a basis for artillery, firearms, and heavy tanks, they can produce imitations of similar quality, and even fighter jets can be replicated.

But as time went on, they found that imitation was becoming more and more difficult. So far, the goblins had not made much progress in the field of bombers. The design and manufacture of light bombers were bumpy, and there was no sign of larger ones.

But this is at least progress, but the jet fighters displayed by the alliance later and the helicopters that are still active everywhere are completely beyond their level.

The core problem is the heart, that is, in the engine field, they encountered an insurmountable bottleneck, which led to the suspension of research work in other related fields.

Even the propeller fighters have basically reached their peak, and subsequent improvement plans are all improvements on the original basis. There is no research plan to absorb ideas to improve the performance of the alliance fighters.

Even every goblin scholar knew what the problem was, and it could be summed up in four words: "strength" and "temperature".

Early imitation and improvement were simple for the goblins, because propeller fighter engines were essentially not that different from traditional engines, and the logical basis for doing work was roughly the same.

Samples can be obtained from cars and trucks, and crashed Alliance fighters can also provide them with existing reference templates.

The principles of early machine tools were also derived from the equipment used by carpenters, but after early industrialization, they were changed to various alloys with higher strength. Composite metal machine tools allow them to process metal components like processing wood.

This is also easy to learn from. As the race that likes to tinker with machines the most, the goblins actually lack inspiration rather than the foundation.

In the early days, the goblins who followed the Alliance had a smooth life, and they could also get a share of the spoils when the two sides fought each other, but now they feel that they have entered a dead end.

After seeing the flight posture and power output method of the Alliance jet fighter, they immediately thought of the steam turbines on giant cruise ships, and based on this idea, they also built an experimental turbofan engine.

If the turbojet engine completes the test, then the next step will be to reach the threshold of the turbofan. After all, the difference between the turbofan and the turbojet is not that big.

Now the turbojet engines are there, but they are useless.

Once the power is increased, it will inevitably be scrapped and there will be no room for rescue. If it is used at low power, either the thrust is insufficient or the tail nozzle cannot withstand the temperature for a long time. Various problems plague them.

After all, although the magical world has its own technological foundation, this foundation will never deviate from the demand.

Previous high-strength alloy bodies can also be used, and there are similar application formulas or research directions for them to choose from.

This is a situation they have never encountered before. They do not have materials that meet the manufacturing requirements, and they don’t even have a clue about researching it.

Even if we jump out of the framework of Alliance technology and adopt the magic power output group they developed later, we will encounter the same situation. After all, whether it is outputting magic elements or any fuel, the high requirements for material structure at high altitude, high speed and high power are unavoidable.

If Medea knew what the goblin was thinking, she would laugh out loud. It’s not that nice to touch me.

Not to mention the turbofan engine used by the Alliance, the turbojet engine developed by the goblins themselves has a total of three core parts: low-pressure and high-pressure compressors, main combustion chambers, and high- and low-pressure turbines. The principles are actually similar to those of ship steam turbines.

Although it is not easy to imitate, it can be done with some effort. The pitfall is that this is just the beginning; the real difficulty lies in material technology.

Every improvement in performance in the future represents a small advancement in your material technology level, which is strongly related to a country's technological level.

There is a very apt saying: one generation of materials, one generation of equipment.