usatvline Chapter 435 Weaponry Issues
Chapter 435 Weaponry Issues
Besides the incomplete experimental data on spiritual energy technology, there is another technology that Cangnian is particularly concerned about.
That is the technology of alloy melting and refining to evolve biological skeletons.
The alloy materials used on those mechanical dragons are far stronger than ordinary alloys and the bones of fourth-order evolved creatures themselves.
This technology makes it a good material for making weapons.
Although Cangnian himself doesn't need any extra weapons.
His sharp teeth and claws are his most powerful and suitable weapons.
However, the evolved beings in the Northeast Allied Army of the Dragon Kingdom desperately need weapons.
As the level of evolution increases, firearms gradually lose their absolute dominance.
For evolved individuals with superpowers, their main fighting strength relies on their own superpowers.
However, ordinary people become stronger as they consume more and more evolved meat.
The ordinary people in the Northeast Allied Army of the Dragon Kingdom are now like ordinary creatures in the wild. Although they do not have superpowers, their physical fitness is already at the level of the second tier on average.
Ordinary people today are no longer like those who needed protection at all times during the early stages of the spiritual energy revival; instead, after being tempered, they have already established a foundation of considerable combat power.
In addition, a large portion of the evolved beings have undergone physical enhancements.
Take Cangnian himself, for example. The [Numerical Master] is essentially a type of physical enhancement.
Evolved creatures have sharp teeth and claws, so they don't need additional weapons.
However, those evolved through physical enhancement are still at a disadvantage compared to evolved creatures whose physical bodies are already formidable.
Therefore, cold weapons are a necessity.
Fortunately, the three northeastern prefectures were originally industrial areas.
Although it has declined in recent years, its original foundation remains.
Therefore, whether in Kangcheng, Mucheng, or among the survivors who later joined Xuanlong Prefecture, there were many talents in metal smelting.
Even though everything was kept simple and conditions were relatively rudimentary during the southward migration, these metal smelting experts still managed to build a small production line together.
In addition, South Korea also has a number of surviving industrial facilities.
Therefore, with the concerted efforts of a group of brilliant minds, they were able to officially put into production the cold weapons using ancient methods and industrial equipment.
The styles of the cold weapons they created were mostly classic designs from the Great Patriotic War of the last century—Demon Slayer!
That is, a large cleaver.
This weapon is easy to use, requires little skill, is quite powerful, and is not easy to injure oneself with.
This is also because some overconfident individuals think that using a sword is cool.
As a result, none of the longswords that were forged could be used effectively; their power was less than half that of a large cleaver, and one person even almost had his ear chopped off.
However, although those metallurgical technicians spared no expense and used all their skills to create these cold weapons, all in order to maximize their strength and practicality.
However, the result was somewhat disappointing.
These cold weapons were ultimately made of conventional materials and had limited strength.
A third-tier evolver is barely enough.
However, it wasn't enough for fourth-tier evolvers.
For someone like Cang Nian, breaking through the sound barrier with his physical body would have been a piece of cake for him long ago.
And attack speed is much faster than running speed.
Therefore, any casual claw strike from Cang Nian can travel at several times the speed of sound.
However, this is also because Cangnian himself is too powerful.
Although the other fourth-tier evolved beings are weaker than Cangnian, when they swing their weapons with all their might, the speed of the blade tip is several times the speed of sound!
At such speeds, even meticulously crafted cold weapons would struggle to withstand the force.
Before the revival of spiritual energy, the concept of several times the speed of sound was only applicable to the most advanced weapons such as missiles and fifth-generation fighter jets.
But in reality, it takes quite a while for these supersonic weapons, such as missiles and fighter jets, to reach their maximum speed.
Instantaneous acceleration is nothing compared to the astonishing speed of a fourth-tier evolved being's blade tip.
Therefore, one can imagine the terrifying force these cold weapons had to withstand the moment they were swung.
That's why, during the operation to suppress the sea monster horde a few days ago, there were many instances of weapons breaking apart.
Although human evolvers do not experience a significant increase in size when they evolve to the fourth tier, unlike other evolved creatures.
But in terms of physical health, it has also seen an unprecedented improvement.
If we say that a third-tier evolved being is merely a super soldier like Captain America, who is much stronger than an ordinary person.
Those fourth-tier evolvers are truly superhuman in terms of their physical bodies.
The fact that weaponry can no longer keep up with the advancement of the evolutionary level is a significant problem for the Northeast Allied Army of the Dragon Kingdom.
In other words, Qin Changyi's metal-type superpower allows him to repeatedly reshape weapons when they are damaged, thus ignoring this problem.
However, the possibility of weapons breaking during combat cannot be ignored.
The most interesting part about the weapon breaking apart is actually Kato Kengo, a Japanese man.
Because his time-stretching skill extends one second to sixteen seconds, when he swings his sword during this process, his katana will not be subjected to the terrifying tension of more than sixteen times the speed of sound.
However, when he evolved to the fourth tier, he not only increased the power of his supernatural abilities.
His physical strength has also increased significantly.
Therefore, the basic sword-swing speed, which could originally only reach near the speed of sound, has now become even faster.
This resulted in his katana breaking during the battle against the sea monster tide.
This caused him to break down on the spot, because it was something that had been passed down from their Kongjianliu school for hundreds of years.
Kato Kengo saw this as a desecration of his ancestors, so he knelt on the ground, intending to commit seppuku.
Fortunately, Qin Changyi used his metal-based abilities to reshape the shattered katana, thus preventing this rare time-based evolved being from dying suddenly.
This time, dealing with the sea monster tide was just a piece of cake. If our weapons broke, so be it. We had plenty of comrades to come to our rescue, so there was no life-or-death situation.
However, in a battle between equals, this could very well be a matter of life and death.
The technology in Yuichi Toyota's memory fragments, which uses alloys and the skeletons of evolved organisms to forge stronger alloy materials, perfectly solves this problem!
Moreover, based on Yuichi Toyoda's experience, this technology is iterated layer by layer.
In other words, by smelting the bones of a third-order evolved creature with an alloy, one can obtain an alloy that is stronger than ordinary alloys and the bones of the third-order evolved creature itself.
This is universally applicable to the skeletons of fourth-order evolved creatures.
Similarly, as the evolutionary level continues to improve, if one has the skeleton of a fifth-order evolved creature, as long as it can be fused into an alloy, it can achieve a strength exceeding that of the skeleton of a fifth-order evolved creature itself.
In other words, the existence of this technology means that the problem of cold weapons for the Northeast Allied Army of the Dragon Kingdom has been basically solved!