Saldrin is not an expert in magic technology, nor does he understand how the machines and mass-produced magic circles produced by Gao Wen operate, but he is at least an experienced warrior and knowledgeable adventurer - he can see their huge advantages and broad prospects from unprecedented and incredible magic weapons, and can roughly imagine what environment these weapons can be used in, which is enough.

Of course, Saldrin himself knew that the judgment he made based on his past experience was definitely not enough. Those new weapons were too powerful and the concept was too advanced. The idea of ​​"let every ordinary person release the magical power that ruined the world" was a crazy but indeed inclined in Cecil's leadership, so the high-level Ranger himself was not sure how far those armed forces would develop in the end, but one thing he was sure of - he knew what he wanted.

"The Steel Ranger I ordered was a brand new type of troops, and he also gave me the task of designing new weapons and verifying new tactics. You know, it was a very challenging task," Saldrin said with a smile - because Mr. Nicholas Egg in front of him always smiles (hilariously), which made everyone who talked to him laugh, "So I have some more... advanced ideas. We can find a quiet place to talk about the designs in detail."

"Of course, we can go to the machinery manufacturing facility," Nicholas Egg buzzed, getting up and floating, "Well... there are too many people in the Craftsman Hall, let's go to my office."

Nicholas Egg's office is located next to the Craftsman Hall, which is both his office and his usual place to live. This is a room where few people come in except Rebecca and Gowen - it is difficult for outsiders to imagine how a ball with a diameter of 1.3 meters can live and rest. Saldrin is also curious about this. After entering this cylindrical room, he saw many strange things... things.

He saw many high and low metal cylinders arranged in the room, and some mirror-like metal plates were embedded on the walls. There were no beds, tables and chairs needed by humans in the room, but there was a circular platform that happened to allow Nicholas eggs to stay and rested was located in the middle of the room. Next to the circular platform, Saldrin also saw a three-layer shelf filled with various metal crafts, but the appearance of those crafts looked really... Strange, some of them looked like sails with complex structures, some like rings nested with each other, and some were simply twisted and tangled metal clumps. Saldrin believed that even the best art connoisseur could not see the meaning of these things here.

"You did this?" He looked at the big metal ball floating in front of him with curiosity. "These... decorations?"

"Made from scraps in my spare time," Nicholas Egg said buzzingly, "My memory is incomplete, but occasionally some hazy impressions appear. Gao Wen suggested that I model the hazy impressions that emerge, which may help me remember something. Of course, this method has not yet worked, but it is still very interesting to make these gadgets. I guess these things must be things I had frequently come into contact with back then, so I left such a deep impression in the ring-shaped polaroids - oh, the ring-shaped polaroids are my memory organ. Let's not talk about this for now, let's talk about your thoughts."

Saldrin's attention suddenly shifted from the "crafts" all over the room, and he coughed lightly and said, "First of all, it's about the protective gear used by the Cecil combat soldiers - as far as I know, their magic armor has a layer of 'lining' with various runes painted, right?"

"That's right. The original version of the magic armor directly carved the runes on the metal armor, but this could easily cause the runes to fail when the armor was impacted and vibrated, and it was not conducive to upgrade and replacement. So later we added a tactical lining to the armor and made of tough leather," Nicholas Egg said, while taking out an iron ingot from the nearby pile of metal ingots. The metal floated between him and Saldrin, and quickly changed its shape in the air like liquid. Within a few breaths, it became the current standard armor of the Cecil combat soldiers, and the parts of the armor were scattered and displayed in front of Saldrin. "This part - this is the position of the tactical lining."

"The tactical lining is very similar to cotton armor or leather armor worn in steel armor, but its main function is to carry runes, so the coverage and protection are lower than leather armor - this is also to reduce costs," Nicholas Egg continued. "The runes we integrate on the tactical lining are mainly weight reduction techniques to reduce the burden on soldiers as a whole; weak element protection is used to enhance soldiers' resistance to low-level magic; breeze shield can resist a certain degree of external attacks and can be used to resist toxic environments. In addition, we have also set up protective runes that resist high and low temperatures. Although they are weak, they are enough to allow soldiers to survive in many extreme environments for a longer time."

Seeing this set of armor that almost made ordinary people transform into low-level extraordinary people, Saldrin couldn't help but ask curiously: "Are these things used to provide energy by fighting backpacks?"

"Yes, there is a high-power magic capacitor in the combat backpack. In addition to charging the weapon crystal, it supplies all the remaining energy to this set of armor," Nicholas Egg floated up and down. "The biggest energy consumption unit in this set of armor is weight loss, but that is also the most important part - without it, the soldiers' physical energy consumption would have increased exponentially."

Saldrin thought carefully and said, "If we give up this layer of steel armor, or only keep lightweight armor pieces, while reducing the carrying capacity of combat crystals, can we also reduce the combat backpack?"

"…It's true in theory," Nicholas Egg thought for a while, "but this will greatly reduce the protection..."

"It can be replaced by adding stone-skin runes to the lining - although its effect is weaker than the steel armor forged by Cecil's current leader, it can also provide soldiers with protection from ordinary light swords. Moreover, as a basic rune group, the stone-skin runes consume much less energy than the formal spells such as weight loss," said Solderin, who said, "According to my idea, the Iron Ranger is not a type of army to confront the enemy head-on. Even if we have to attack, we will leave immediately after a blow - so it is better to save the weight of the armor and combat backpack and use it elsewhere."

"I understand, I'll think about the plan," Nicholas Egg said as she started to "pinch" the model of the item that Saldrin needed with another metal ingot. "What else?"

"There is also the weapons. In addition to the magic terminal equipped with a thermal ray gun and a force field shield, I hope the Iron Rangers can have some more powerful offensive weapons..." Saldrin said, and the dangerous encounter on the Tifung border last winter came to mind, thinking of the mysterious cult who died in the end of everything and his own battle with the other party.

"In actual combat, I found one thing, that is, traditional spell skills have limits. Personal talent, battlefield environment, and physical state of the caster, there are too many factors that can affect the effect of a spell, but the magic weapon is different... As long as you still have the strength to pull the trigger, it will definitely exert a trustworthy power... and it is hard to defend against," Saldrin showed a serious look on his face, "This is what the crystal grenade told me..."

Nicholas Egg was stunned for a moment and couldn't help asking, "So what the hell do you want to say?"

"What I want to say is...those things that will explode with just a ring and press a button are great!" A bright smile appeared on Saldrin's face. "They will loyally achieve your goals under any circumstances. I hope every soldier of the Iron Ranger can use these loyal weapons... I'll just say it clearly, how small can the magic crystal rail cannon be? "

Nicholas Egg was stunned for a few seconds before she realized: "What?!"

"I have seen the original version of the 'Justice-i' magic crystal rail gun, and also the lightweight 'Persister-i' accelerator gun," said Solderin. "The 'Persister' is almost one-fifth of the size of 'Justice' and can be pulled by a carriage, but it is said that it can still collapse the city walls - according to Miss Rebecca, the acceleration track can actually be further reduced. If energy storage crystals are used to supply energy, the heavy overload device and energy-concentrating base can also be omitted. She once told me a plan to extremely reduce the acceleration rail gun, and I think this plan is feasible..."

Nicholas Egg listened to Saldrin's speech in a daze, and after a long time he spoke: "...You said you wanted to reduce the weight of the armor. I thought you were going to let the steel rangers take a lightweight route... As a result, you said you wanted them to carry small magic crystal rail cannons?! Do you know that even if that thing loses weight, it is a big guy?"

"I have to emphasize two points. First of all, the Iron Rangers do not have to carry all weapons on every mission. I hope to design a 'arsanctuary' with multiple weapons. This arsenal is used by the entire Ranger team. According to the mission requirements, each soldier will carry different equipment. The miniaturized magic crystal rail gun is only one of their spare weapons. Secondly, light armor and heavy weapons are not contradictory. In the Silver Empire, there is a heavy spear thrower in the Elf Ranger Guard. The weapon used is a heavy spear thrower. They are light armored soldiers. In order to carry spears and throw them, they even have leather chest protection on their upper body - but they are the most dangerous hunters in the forest. I hope the Iron Rangers can achieve this effect."

"...Okay, okay, you know anything about this anyway. I'll go back to find someone from the Institute of Magic Technology to study it together," Nicholas Egg was convinced, and said while recording Saldrin's request, "Then what else do you need besides the light single-soldier rail gun?"

"Tactical eyepieces with detecting distortion effects - I know this has been made, but it has not been installed yet. I hope I can try it first."

"OK."

"A small blade that is easy to carry and wields flexible. I have a design drawing, which is from a elven short knife - but I hope you can transform it into a melt-cut sword like a melt-cut sword. The melt-cut sword should be miniaturized, right?"

"It's a bit difficult, but you can challenge it. Maybe it will be at the cost of reducing the continuous use time."

"It's acceptable. Also, I want to increase the amount of grenade carrying for soldiers, preferably an additional grenade slot on their protective gear - but it won't affect mobility."

"...I just knew... by the way, do you elves have the same fighting style?"

"Not this," Saldrin curled his lips disdainfully, "How could they have the knowledge of me?"
Chapter completed!