08-22 Railgun
The third day of full-scale operations.
Jin personally wanted to quickly start on the power suit. However, Ann said,
She had apparently got the idea of an aircraft carrier from Jin’s knowledge.
“I see what you mean.”
“Alright, shall we build one then?”
It would be a 200 meter-class one. Because it would have a Warp Gate, it wouldn’t need to carry any more planes than necessary.
The deck would have a two-layered structure. The whole lower portion would be for the use of planes that need to make a takeoff run, while the top portion would be for the use of VTOLs.
It would be armed with laser artillery. The main battery would have six cannons, and the secondary battery would have six cannons. There would be a hundred mounted small guns each capable of individually burst firing. All of them would have separate Control Cores. Well, that was just something similar to computer controls.
The crew would be the Navy golems, the Marines. 100 golems seemed to no longer be enough and so the plan was to increase the amount by another 100. The number of Air Force and Army personnel would be similarly increased.
The structure material would be Adamantite on top of which five layers of steel would be affixed, with the surface coated Mithril. The ship’s displacement would be about 20,000 tons.
Improved versions of high-speed boats were also planned to be built and loaded on the ship.
Jin decided to build three ships with the above-mentioned specifications and gave them the names ‘Hotaka’, ‘Myoukou’, and ‘Asama’.
As one would expect, it wasn’t something achievable in one or two days, and so with Laozi taking the lead the manufacturing was done without rushing. Jin checked every important detail and manufactured the new equipment himself.
Now to what Jin would do after that.
Ann said to Jin. She was acting like quite the manager.
By now not even a shred of self-restraint could be found. Now that it had come to this it was almost a refreshing change.
There probably wouldn’t be a problem if it was mounted on an aircraft.
By now it was a variant of the catapult.
Two separate rails above and below would work as the gun barrel, and the Magical Muscles would move the shot between those two rails to launch it.
The prototype model with a length of about a meter was complete just before noon.
“Reiko, please try shooting this as a test.”
“Yes, Father.”
“It’s a test so please use it at its full strength.”
Reiko turned to aim horizontally towards the sea.
She pulled the trigger. The Magical Muscles made out of a Sea Dragon’s leather unleashed their absurd force.
“Ah, right, that sound seems to have come from surpassing the speed of sound. But as I thought it probably wasn’t able to free itself from the gravitational pull. Or so I’d like to think. …It didn’t, right?”
“Reiko, how was it?”
After hearing that, Jin thought that after some small revisions the prototype model could be made to be one of Reiko’s personal weapons.
“Yesterday, I saw a boat that looked like Marcia’s one.”
“There were several catamarans like hers floating in the harbor.”
“Mm. I didn’t see her though.”
“Jin-nii, what are you up to now?”
“Now I’m reinforcing Hourai Island’s military, I guess. I dislike war and such, but it’s necessary for protection, and thinking about what those guys did to you makes my blood boil.”
“Eh, was, something done, to Elsa?”
“No. Nothing like that. But I was threatened a lot.”
“What! How could this be! Jin-sama, for the sake of the world you mustn’t let people like them live!”
“I know. Once I’m adequately prepared I’ll destroy them.”
“Well then, I’ll be going back to Hourai Island to resume working. Thanks for the lunch. Thanks also for the clothes.”
“Mm. Jin-nii, see you, at lunch tomorrow.”
Then Jin returned to Hourai Island.
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“Ah, well. Even steel is no good with rapid fire after all, huh.”
The specific gravity of steel was about 7.9, while Adamantite’s was about 19.3. It was over twice as heavy, but with Reiko it probably wouldn’t be a problem.
The shots were cartridge-style in groups of 10. At a diameter of 3 centimeters they were a little bit larger than the ones used in the prototype.
In the case of lead, as they impacted the target they would deform and stick to it, transmitting nearly 100 percent of the kinetic energy to the target.
At any rate, he decided to add sights as at the highest setting the muzzle speed was around Mach 20, so the gun would fire at straight lines as far as the eye can see.
In the sense that the shots were fired from between rails he wasn’t wrong.
Reiko said, and,
Jin didn’t forget to give her a reminder.
“My Lord, there’s something I would like to report on.”
“Mm, what is it?”
“Mental manipulation? [Hypno]?”
“[Seduce]?”
“Yes. This too is from Ann’s knowledge. It’s a magic that points one’s thoughts towards a specific action. By using it to promote the person’s own desires they mostly don’t notice anything unnatural. The surrounding people don’t, nor does the person being manipulated.”
Mine’s behaviour towards Elsa seemed strange and stubborn. It being because of [Seduce] would be fairly consistent. However, the caster was unknown.
“Yes. I suspect it was due to the shock on the head, or on the body in general.”
“As you wish.”
Jin thought that this probably wasn’t dealt with by ordinary methods, and focused his mind even further.
That night, Reinhardt made contact at the regular time and said that instead of approaching the capital city Esaia, he was preparing to cross the river Azul in a town called Dali.
It seemed like Jin would have to wait three or four more days still.
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