Chapter 615: Distillation, Dragon-Slaying Weapons

After giving a few instructions to Laidun, Xia Duo returned to the Tower of Time overnight, contacted Saixili to get a pile of glass bottles and jars from the Material Department, and then found a random workshop on the Public Level to start getting busy.

The first thing he made was a distillation apparatus; the Tower of Time did not have such equipment. Although the Tower of Time did produce a small amount of magic potions, magic potions were less like "medicine" and more like a type of liquid Magic Item.

The creator did not need to understand pharmacology at all, nor did they need complex production tools. Xia Duo could only choose to manufacture it himself; fortunately, as long as there was ready-made glass, it was not difficult to make.

Or rather, compared to Mithril Components, which had complex structures and required high precision, this distillation apparatus, which did not require high precision or complex structures, could be described as very simple.

Before long, Xia Duo had produced a large distillation flask and a long condenser tube.

Afterwards, he took a barrel of low-alcohol ale used as a water reserve from his Personal Space, scooped some out with the distillation flask, connected it to the condenser tube, and placed it directly on an Alchemy Array.

Although Xia Duo was not clear about the boiling points of alcohol and water in this world, there would always be a difference; at most, what came out of the condenser tube would just be water.

The temperature in the distillation flask gradually rose, and some mist gradually appeared above the flask. Xia Duo stopped the heating at the right time, and not long after, the first drop of liquid finally flowed out from the other end of the condenser tube.

There was no need to actually taste it; that pungent scent had already said everything.

Having roughly mastered the distillation temperature, Xia Duo set up the receiving container, then came to the other end of the experimental bench, found a chair to sit down, and began to design the dragon-slaying weapons.

The alcohol was, of course, not for himself; Xia Duo did not like the taste of alcohol, and he also hated the feeling of his consciousness no longer being under his control. He did all this just to ask the Dwarf Buloutuo from the Savile Territory to help him forge weapons.

Although the Tower of Time had ready-made Adamantine and could process it into any shape through an Alchemy Array, there were still differences in shape, actual usage, internal stress, toughness, and rigidity.

Having a Master blacksmith help hammer it a few times, if nothing else, would at least feel better psychologically.

Furthermore, directly using pure Adamantine was not necessarily the best choice; there was such a thing as alloys on Earth, and there might well be Adamantine alloys with stronger performance here.

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To slay a dragon, the most ideal weapon was, of course, a bow and arrow, as it could damage the target without needing contact, but in actual practice, it was not that simple.

Xia Duo had seen the green dragon Illusion during the Snow Melting Competition; with such a massive body, and covered in scales, how could it be killed by a mere few arrows?

Unless they were Magic Arrows with special lethality.

To kill a giant dragon with ordinary weapons, not to say it was impossible, but at least one had to have the ability to break through dragon scales. "Sharpness" was the first element; theoretically, as long as it was sharp enough, perhaps a single String would be enough to slay a dragon.

Of course, it was unlikely to make such a weapon in reality, so one also needed to consider "sturdiness." After all, no matter how one broke through the dragon scales, it was essentially the collision of two materials.

If it was not sturdy enough, "sharpness" would have no foundation to exist.

Xia Duo did not expect to kill it in one hit, so the weapon had to be considered for multiple uses. In addition, the size of the weapon was also very important; after all, the imaginary enemy this time was a giant dragon, so one wouldn't go to slay a dragon with a Dagger!

Of course, when designing the weapons, Xia Duo did not need to consider too many factors; even if it was just a fantasy, the difficult part was for the forger, not himself.

Xia Duo designed three types of weapons in total: a javelin, which was actually an enlarged version of an arrow (head), and a machete; if forced into a melee, perhaps he could try using this.

The first two were basically quite conventional; even if the style of the machete was different from the mainstream melee weapons of Netheril, it was still a melee weapon after all.

What he really valued was the last type of weapon—the Flying Shuttle; of course, calling it a "Flying Sword" was also fine.

Xia Duo had once used 【Flight】 to Control the 【Blade of Veto】 to attack in a Projection Plane. Although there were various drawbacks, such as not being fast enough, not being flexible enough, and the Control time being greatly reduced after impact, etc.

But it could not be denied that this could almost be considered the cheapest "Magic Weapon."

In Xia Duo's mind, it could almost be mentioned in the same breath as an electromagnetic cannon, but it was a pity that in this world, "electricity" was not the movement of electrons, but the manifestation of elements, and of course, it could not generate "magnetism."

"Magnetism" was also another manifestation of elements and could be converted with "electricity," but it was by no means something that could be done just by relying on a metal coil. How exactly to convert it, Xia Duo had not yet figured out.

In this magical world, the macroscopic physical manifestations of various substances were very similar to those on Earth, but once it involved the essence of matter, it was completely different.

The most obvious example was 【Flight】, similar to anti-gravity, which was no different from controlling space-time on Earth and required powerful energy, but in this world, it was just a 3rd Circle Spell.

If one only wanted simple levitation, even a 0 Ring 【Mage Hand】 could achieve it.

It was clear that the space-time and matter of these two worlds were fundamentally different, even if some physical phenomena were so similar.

Wanting to make an electromagnetic cannon in the magic world was theoretically possible, but it could only be called a 【"Magnetic" projectile weapon】, having nothing to do with electricity. In terms of implementation difficulty, it was actually far less easy than the 【Sword Control】 pointed to by the series of Transmutation Spells like 【Flight】.

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For the first two weapons, Xia Duo just drew a rough sketch; after all, he was not a professional cold weapon designer, so he would just let Buloutuo perfect them a little when the time came. The strong liquor (alcohol?) he distilled himself, which almost did not exist on the market, was not so easy to drink down.

The Flying Shuttle, however, needed to be carefully designed, mainly to integrate the 【Space-Piercing Array】 into the Flying Shuttle. This magical technology, which originated from Ancient Elven Magic Arrows, could construct a micro-vacuum environment around the arrow body. (Chapter 242)

This was also the main reason why that kind of magic arrow was silent. As for the extreme speed, there was another Magic Array blessing, which Xia Duo had not yet analyzed.

However, he had long since researched a specialized 【Sword Control】, and in terms of extreme speed, he believed this spell would not hold him back.

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Time passed bit by bit, and the workshop was filled with a pungent smell of alcohol. Xia Duo added some raw liquor to the distillation flask from time to time, and after finishing, he returned to the other end of the experimental bench to continue designing the Flying Shuttle weapon.

The design of a Magic Weapon was far more complex than the design of an ordinary Magic Item, and the most troublesome part was that the Mithril Component of a Magic Weapon must be designed on the surface of the weapon.

One had to wait until the weapon was finished before adding it, rather than like ordinary Magic Items, where one could prioritize the Mithril Component, with the shape being merely an accessory.

The shape of a Magic Weapon was the main body.

Fortunately, Xia Duo was not without any preparation before; he had long been designing his own Flying Sword, but he had failed to analyze the 【Extreme Speed】 related spell from the magic arrow, and he had no special need for a Flying Sword before, so the design had long since fallen into a stagnant state.

Now it was just picking up the previous progress, which could be considered familiar territory.