The Defeated Dragon

Inuit's words reminded Liszt that horizontal sails and vertical sails are both types of sails. A large ship can have two or three masts. Why can't horizontal sails and vertical sails be hung at the same time?

When the wind is down, the horizontal sail is raised, roaring and galloping; when the wind is against the wind, the vertical sail is raised, and the snake is maneuvered.

In this way, it can basically be said that the sailboat can move freely on the sea at any time, and the sailing time will be greatly shortened. Moreover, Liszt seems to have some impressions. In the era of great navigation on the earth, there were many sailing ships, that is, triangular vertical sails hung on the bow and stern, and horizontal sails hung in the middle.

It was after listening to Inuit's suggestion that Liszt immediately ordered the shipyard's shipbuilders to work hard on hybrid sailboats.

However, Liszt didn't pay much attention to Inuit's proposal to fix the sails with wood, because it was rejected by several old boatmen and considered unrealistic.

Now it seems that I have to have a good chat with this creative magician. He should be a talented person who can get the affirmation of the smoke mission and involve the power of fate.

The power of destiny represented by the smoke mission is very mysterious and mysterious, and so far Liszt has not figured out the source.

But it is undeniable that the characters who can be selected by the smoke mission will always have some unusual and special features. In simple terms, these people are roughly equivalent to Children of Destiny, surrounded by a protagonist aura...Of course, no matter how strong their aura is, it cannot be stronger than Liszt's cheat.

Emily is endowed with fighting spirit, Lucy and Ruth are talented in magic, and Paris pulls out the light demon swordsman... Ake is a rare siren in the world, and he becomes a mage as a siren.

Inuit's talent is unclear.

Lister needs serious attention.

Soon, Inuit Truth was brought over by the retinue knight. He was not a well-behaved magician. The magic cloak seemed to have been improved by himself and changed into a tights: Your Highness, are you looking for me?

Inuit, do you like sailing? Liszt motioned for the other party to sit down, and then asked casually.

Yes, Your Highness, I grew up by the sea, and I have yearned for the blue sea since I was a child.

The information about Inuit has been presented at Liszt’s hand. It is directly transferred from the Magic Guild. When every magician joins the guild, he will provide detailed identity information, and finally issue an identity card similar to an ID card. The leader has one in his hand.

Inuit are sapphire people,

It's just a magician from the outer island. He came to Heima Island with his teacher.

His teacher is just an ordinary magician, and he is currently following the great magician Lars Truth to study natural magic, that is, druid farming and transformation. He himself does not like to study magic content that is too theoretical, but is passionate about sailing.

Liszt knocked on the table and asked, Do you have any other inspirations for the improvement of sailboats?

Inuit replied with a little excitement: Your Highness, I have been studying sailboats for a long time, and I have a lot of designs that I want to develop. I have communicated with the shipyard's shipbuilders before, but they are too rigid and stick to rigid shipbuilding techniques. Don't let go, don't understand my design at all!

Then you tell me now.

Yes, Your Highness!

As soon as he started talking, Inuit couldn't stop and revealed his design of the sailboat. These designs involve everything from sails, masts, rigging to hull structures. Many of the contents are indeed whimsical, and even Liszt found it a bit difficult to understand.

There are also some designs, in Liszt's view, pure nonsense.

For example, Inuit felt that the work of furling the sails was very busy and heavy, so they simply designed the mast to be foldable, so that when a storm came, the mast could be lowered directly to both sides, and it could also be used as a support pole for the hull to keep the boat Steady on the sea, never sinking.

Strictly speaking, this idea is very interesting. However, the mast itself is the most important part of the sailboat. It is necessary to choose high-quality iron wood as the mast as the keel, so that the mast is not easy to break.

Once the collapsible mast encounters a storm, the mast itself may be the first to break. Moreover, the sail is very heavy. Once the mast is folded, it is definitely more tiring to erect it than to raise the sail. What's more, how to ensure the stability of the hull when the mast is raised and folded is also a huge trouble.

In short, not reliable.

Most of the Inuit designs are similarly unreliable.

However, Liszt found an interesting content from his creative design. Inuit even proposed the idea of ​​using huge rotating wheels to drive the ship forward.

This is simply the design of the ship!

On the earth, the great sailing age of sailboats was replaced by steamships, and gradually became a kind of sailing competition.

Have you ever thought about how much force is needed to turn a huge wheel to move a ship forward, and such a wheel cannot be turned by manpower alone? Lisztzo asked with great interest.

Inuit seems to have had a draft for a long time: Your Highness, although manpower cannot push such a big wheel to turn, but the power of magic can, and a magic circle can be used to turn the wheel.

Using a magic circle to drive? This is a good solution, but Liszt is not satisfied, The magic circle is indeed versatile, and it is not impossible to drive the wheels. But the manufacture and consumption of the magic circle are all Huge expense, not suitable for ships.

He had thought about this idea of ​​combining magic and technology a long time ago. However, now that the magic net is shrinking, it is difficult for the magic circle to absorb magic power with the help of the magic net, and all of them need to consume the magic power of the magic circle material itself. Maintaining the operation of such a magic circle consumes a lot.

In this world, there are no magic storage items such as spirit stones.

Even a small magic table needs to be replaced frequently with the magic rune running materials, and the cost of one communication is expensive, not to mention driving the huge wheels to run.

This... Inuit suddenly became embarrassed. As a magician, he knew the value of magic materials very well. His ideas were indeed very creative, which made him very proud of it. But according to his design, just one magic circle may be able to buy several three-masted sailing ships.

Coupled with the materials for maintaining the magic circle, I am afraid that such a ship will lose money if it makes a trip to trade.

Only a fool would design this way.

Looking at the embarrassingly blushing Inuit, Liszt did not show disappointment, on the contrary, he valued Inuit very much. Not only because of the involvement of the smog task, but also because I have ideas about Inuit and want to develop technology. I am not afraid that the idea will be difficult to realize, but I am afraid that there is no idea.

Inuit, the power of magic is difficult to apply to the people, but this does not mean that there is no power that can replace magic. There is a power that I call steam. You can delve into this direction... In addition, your understanding of sailing ships Some ideas, I can't judge its value, but I can let you participate in the design of the new sailboat, would you like to?

Inuit replied immediately: Thank you for your approval, of course I am willing to participate in the design of the new sailboat!

He personally designed a sailboat to sail the sea, which Inuit couldn't wish for, but he still had doubts in his heart: Your Highness, what does the power of steam mean?

You go back and boil a pot of boiling water, and you will understand the power of steam. Liszt pretended to be mysterious.

In fact, he didn't know much about the steam engine, which started the industrial revolution. He only knew that it uses coal, oil and other raw materials to burn, and then pushes the piston to do work and drive the machine to run.

Boil the water? I'll go back and boil the water!

Inuit hastily left.

Looking at his back, Liszt shook his head. The steam engine probably cannot start an industrial revolution in this world. The reason is simple. So far, no fossil fuels such as coal and oil have been heard of. Without these fuels, burning wood alone probably wouldn't provide much power.

The lack of metal will also seriously restrict the manufacture of steam engines.

Of course, the steam engine is not without development potential, the reason is also very simple that Liszt has a fire dragon!

When the little charmander grows up, the super magic of the fire dragon can be released at will, and at that time there will be a steady stream of magic little charmander as fuel.

Then go to the Legendary Continent to grab a few more iron mines.

It is really possible to make a steamship!