Extraordinary Sailing

In the next few days, Ivan spent most of his free time on this battleship in addition to advancing various research projects that had almost filled the timetable.

With Aiwen, Walkley and the best craftsmen on the original "Storm Horn", a team was formed.

After Aiwen presided over the first meeting and explained his vision, all members of the fortification team were full of interest in this new type of warship, which was temporarily still on paper, and couldn't wait to turn it into reality.

So the design of the plan was reformed.

During this period, several versions of the design plan were not necessarily killed.

Either it doesn't match Aiwen's vision, it fails to meet the predetermined performance, or it is too far-fetched, and the current structural strength of the material simply fails to meet his requirements.

Later, Walkley Jefferies simply used public equipment for private use and shared a large amount of battleship data in the current kingdom with Aiwen. It allows him to conduct data statistics and analysis through the "data-based vision", and then feedback to the tough team for follow-up continuous correction.

Because oak, the main material of battleships, is naturally grown, it is not standardized and highly homogenized steel, so even if it is a battleship of uniform specifications, each ship will be significantly different.

Even the cast iron guns on warships or the guns in the hands of soldiers are the same. Because of the limitations of the casting process, craftsmen are required to perform refined secondary processing in the later stage, which also creates a gap in weapon performance.

Therefore, they are not nitpicking.

Rather, I hope that the first new type of warship born in my own hands can achieve the best performance, and may even become a model for the entire kingdom.

Another whole week passed.

Even when Ivan's own most important research project, the "Adventurer's Blood" suppression plan, had been successfully completed, they finally proposed the best plan based on current conditions, and it was unanimously approved by everyone.

In Walkley's words:

"The transformation on the existing basis is ten times more difficult than redesigning a battleship!"

Of course, the more difficult is yet to come.

A large number of sailors were summoned to unload the open-air shipborne artillery, and began to dismantle the upper bow and tail tower and the open deck.

However, they always felt that the warship was not strong enough in the battle, but this time they suffered because of the solid hull.

Take the open deck as an example:

After the original laying was completed, tar soaked linen cloth should be used to plug the gaps, and then hot tar should be poured in to completely seal the seams of the planks. While effectively waterproofing, it also makes the overall deck more stable.

Therefore, the general navy will not take time and effort to dismantle and recover warships that need to be scrapped. Instead, they will be sunk directly on the sea as a gun target.

But the "Stellenbosch" is different, because these ship materials have other uses after being dismantled, and it is bound to be impossible for them to violently dismantle them.

Therefore, even if Ivan summoned all the surplus manpower on the island and worked overtime for 24 hours of uninterrupted rotation, the progress of the project would not be satisfactory.

And although it doesn’t take three to five years to rebuild a sailboat, it is a time-consuming and laborious task.

If only these sailors can complete the preliminary work before the deadline for their garrison in the New World, it is already extremely efficient.

Therefore, to avoid changing the night and dream, Aiwen finally decided to postpone his other research projects, and do his own hands, let these useless guys see what is the productivity of wizards!

It was another night all night long.

However, this time is different from the previous few days. Most of the soldiers have left the dock, except for the ship engineer Walkley Jeffrey, the core craftsmen and a small number of sailors who do auxiliary work.

Of course, after hearing what Ivan was going to do, the officers of the "Cape Storm" and the captain of the "Endeavor" Robbins also stayed here to join in the fun.

"Your Captain! I don't intend to offend you, but can you really use witchcraft to build ships?"

From hearing Irwin's proposal until the end of the matter tonight, Walkley, the senior engineer, was still a little unbelievable.

There are countless weird things in places like the New World, and the extraordinary isolation is far less tight than the Old World. As a senior engineer with no low status, he has certainly heard of wizards.

But his impression is still only on the weird things like poisonous spiders, lizard tails, weird soups, curses, totems, and never thought that witchcraft could be connected with the greatest weapon of mankind.

"Of course! How do you think the domestic machinery industrialization is now in full swing?"

Aiwen, who was performing surgical drawing on the dry dock floor with Milan, answered him without looking back.

If it is not good for the world of ordinary humans, how did the "alchemy light" that spread across many countries surface upright? And the means I want to use is more intuitive than that!

"Huh, done!"

At this time, the complicated technique has been completely formed in the hands of the two.

A perfect circle with a diameter of eight meters passes through five small circles painted with spiritual texts. The circles are connected to each other, and together with the densely distributed spiritual texts, they form a complicated rune array.

They respectively represent the four basic elements in the foundation of alchemy: earth, wind, water, fire, and the fifth element "soul".

Then Aiwen began to place various "spiritual" objects corresponding to the elements in each small circle.

The fire element represents vitality, enthusiasm, flame, destruction, life, and the sun, so Ivan placed a 6-pound cannon in this circle.

The water element represents purification, love, witchcraft, intuition, the ups and downs of fate, and travel, so what he placed here is a gold cup that has been underwater for three hundred years with a shipwreck that has traveled across the ocean.

The earth element represents prosperity, wealth, money, success, employment, and fertility. Therefore, placed in this circle is a golden lion that has been polished and has experienced countless transactions.

The element of wind represents knowledge, freedom, breathing, plant growth, and revelation. Therefore, Aiwen placed here is the extraordinary weapon and staff that accompanied him through many battles.

Finally, he straightened up and looked at Milan, who was facing to one side. The latter understood that he had already consciously stood in the last circle representing "soul".

Aiwen checked one last time and confirmed that there was no problem. I just thought in my heart, how about writing a book by myself, called "A Hundred Uses of Milan"?

Stopping the random thinking in his mind, he took off the extra thing on his body and gave it to Gary, who was guarding aside. He only wore a remade oak fruit around his neck and walked into the center of the circular technique in a linen robe. .

He stretched out his hand for a gesture, and someone naturally went to turn off all the lights in the dock.

At the same time, all onlookers held their breath.

The dock was completely quiet.

Aiwen felt the growing spiritual strength around him, and took a deep breath.

Subconsciously touched an extra lock-shaped mark on the back of his neck, and made sure that the "Adventurer's Blood" would not suddenly run out to cause trouble this time, before raising his palms upwards.

The curse that seemed to contain infinite vitality slowly spit out, reverberating and resonating constantly in the dock.

call--

Then Aiwen's spirit rose instantly, and he was connected with someone who had no self-awareness but possessed majestic power.

boom!

There was a roar in his head.

That is the mysterious source of the "living chemistry school", the "tree of life" that exists among the roots of the world!

"Sta!"

The last curse was spit out, and the magical power and activating aura in Aiwen poured into the rune array under his feet.

Strings of characters are lit up successively.

Wow--

Then came the transparent jade-like emerald green brilliance, which instantly enveloped the smaller half of the battleship.

Without the use of rituals, the original limit of Irvine's "Activating Aura" is only a sphere with a radius of three meters. As long as the volume does not exceed this range, there is no upper limit to what can be activated.

The main effect is to slightly affect non-living bodies or change the form of matter, allowing them to gain short-lived vitality like elemental creatures.

The changes produced during this period will continue to exist even after the spell expires, achieving the effect of changing the form of matter in disguise.

Restriction: The greater the density of the material, the slower the activation speed, which is ineffective for extraordinary items.

The so-called "ritual" is to establish a connection with a certain world rule, spiritual spirit, deity, etc. through a specific ritual. Temporarily make the self-consciousness retreat, the spirit resonates with the super-order, and launches a powerful ability that exceeds its own limitations or even does not possess!

【Exceeding the limit ceremony·Activation of skill! 】

At this time, after starting the ritual, not only the range of influence of the activated aura is greatly increased, but the intensity is also greatly increased. Within a straight-line distance of 30 meters, the "Stellenbosch" seemed to have suffered a dissociation operation.

The wooden planks, tar, linen cloth, iron nails, and wooden wedges shook slowly, and then jumped out of the hull in the unbelievable gaze of the onlookers, and fell to the ground "ding and ding."

While landing at the same time, there is also the chin of the ship engineer Walkley Jeffrey.

"Goddess is on, unbelievable!"

Then, with the help of this pair of "activated hands" from witchcraft.

The speed of the transformation of the battleship seems to have been equipped with rocket thrusters, advancing rapidly every day.

Flatten the weather deck, repair the ribs, ship's side, and thicken the hull

Although in order to maintain sustainability, Aiwen and Milan will only start the ceremony for half an hour every night, but even this half an hour is a half-month less workload for the sailors.

However, after just ten days, even the outfitting of the refitted warship was almost complete.

If it weren't for watching it change little by little, Walkley and the officers couldn't believe their eyes.

"So beautiful!"

At this time, the battleship lying in the dock has undergone earth-shaking changes!

The original "Stellenbosch" was a large three-tier ship with 74 ship-borne artillery.

[Specifications] The displacement is 2950 tons, the length is 5642 meters, the width is 1490 meters, the sail area is 2485 square meters, and the capacity is 680 people.

[Military equipment] There are 28 32-pounder guns, 30 24-pounder guns, and 16 9-pounder guns.

But now its bow and tail towers and the original open deck have completely disappeared, becoming a double-deck cruiser of equal height before and after.

[Specifications] The displacement is 2340 tons, the ship length is 5642 meters, the width is 1490 meters, the sail area is 3213 square meters, and the capacity is 450 people.

[Arms] Double-layer transparent artillery deck: 28 24-pounder guns, 28 32-pounder guns (one sunk into the deep sea, temporarily missing), and 2 24-pounder bow guns.

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Although the overall length and width of this ship is greater than that of Ivan, I did not dare to move, after all, this is not a simple flattening and rounding problem. The structural strength is there. If you accidentally break the keel, you will lose money.

However, the mast passes through several layers of cabins and connects to the keel of the bottom of the ship. When the cabin is lowered, the corresponding mast can be used. The area of ​​the sail is increased by one-third, and the weight is reduced, which is also conducive to speed increase.

Although the overall speed of this cruise ship cannot reach the speed limit of the USS Constitution, it has surpassed all battleships of this era. If you add the assistance of the "Head Statue·Monsoon Goddess", it will never be inferior to the "Constitution".

In addition.

Aiwen also drew a semi-permanent technique on the deck, which can temporarily give the rigging and sail activity, allowing himself to replace most of the sailing crew in an emergency.

It also gave it a little bit of an extraordinary warship flavor.

After convening all the people who have contributed to this ship to brainstorm.

Aiwen finally adopted Walkley's suggestion and named the heavy cruiser "Venus", which represents the brightest morning star that appeared in the sky in the early morning, but it will not be the only one.

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