God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 371: We Can Try a Different Approach

"It’s just a small accident."

Seeing how shocked the wild mage was, the projector inventor said somewhat helplessly, "We wanted to integrate high-level magic into battle armor, and things got a little out of hand. But it’s not like we got nothing out of it—at least our battle vehicles can now fire high-level magic."

"What’s the lifespan?"

Before the wild mage could say anything, the apprentice on the side found the key point and immediately asked, "Also, how big is the battle vehicle? How fast does it go?"

The projector inventor’s expression was slightly awkward, but he quickly recovered. "If you’re firing continuously, it can shoot 10 rounds. If you give the barrel enough cooling time, it can fire at least 50 times."

"Also, even if you use it too much, only the barrel gets damaged. You can just replace the barrel later. The cost is relatively lower than you’d think."

"The whole battle vehicle is indeed pretty huge, but it can still reach speeds of twenty kilometers per hour. It just consumes a lot of magic power."

The wild mage and apprentice’s expressions kept changing as they looked at him.

How should they put it? Being able to fire 10 rounds continuously, and 50 rounds with enough cooling time—that was definitely progress. Compared to the previous cannons, it was much more powerful.

Plus, even when its lifespan ran out, you only needed to replace the barrel, not start over. You could say this had become a siege weapon.

Because ordinary people could operate it.

High-level magic was also super powerful.

Add in its not-too-slow speed, and it was actually a pretty decent result.

But the problem was, when you really considered actual combat situations, it wasn’t much stronger than the previous magic-tech super cannon.

After all, they were both strategic-level weapons.

They’d only be used in special situations.

Of course, that wasn’t the key issue.

Any progress was good, even if that progress wouldn’t bring any practical benefits in the short term. As long as it would be useful in the future, that was great.

But the problem was, this had nothing to do with battle armor! You wanted to research mounting this thing on battle armor, you turned the lab into this mess, and then you tell us you only succeeded in integrating it onto a battle vehicle?

And the battle vehicle still needed to be a super-sized version?

Wasn’t that gap a bit too big?

Were they trying to sell them a pipe dream?

Everyone here was an expert in this field. Did selling pipe dreams even work?

The wild mage let out a long breath. "Is this your excuse for blowing up the lab?"

"It was an accident, wasn’t it?"

The projector inventor sighed helplessly. "Actually, we didn’t want to rush either, but the Technology Combat Clerics sent word that this year during the Frigid Moon, they’re going to launch an attack on the region north of the watch wall."

"Against those ice spirits, obviously the more powerful our combat ability, the better. That’s why we wanted to quickly boost the capabilities of the magic-tech battle armor."

The wild mage knew about the Technology Combat Clerics planning to attack the ice spirits north of the watch wall for training purposes, and if possible, completely wipe out those ice spirits that had been living on this continent for tens of thousands of years.

He even knew the reason they were doing this was because they needed to train a group of combat clerics with actual battle experience, to make sure the world behind the light portal in the Tulip Kingdom wouldn’t affect them—and if necessary, to counterattack.

He was the person in the lab who knew the most information.

But because he’d been busy with stuff at Foster Iron Mine, he hadn’t been paying attention to the situation here. Now that he thought about it, this was actually pretty urgent.

There were less than a hundred days left until the Frigid Moon. After successful experiments, they still needed to produce everything and let the Technology Combat Clerics get used to it—only then could they actually deploy to the battlefield.

That did explain why they were so pressed for time.

But no matter how urgent, you couldn’t just mess around like this! 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

The wild mage sighed helplessly. "No matter the reason, when we’re doing experiments, we have to be careful above all else. Have you guys thought about what happens to the people in the lab if there’s an explosion? What about all the other projects in the lab?"

"A single explosion could cause incalculable losses."

"How about next time you test dangerous stuff like this, just do the experiments in the mountains? Or just transport it to the mines. Whether it succeeds or not, even if it explodes, there’d be benefits and no downsides." The apprentice also figured out the situation and was pretty helpless.

Actually, explosions were inevitable when testing weapons—they understood that. But looking at the lab that had been fine not long ago, it hurt!

After a brief silence, the apprentice and wild mage went to check on the battle vehicle. Suddenly, the apprentice seemed to think of something. "Wait, I think your whole approach might be wrong!"

As soon as he said that, everyone’s attention focused on the apprentice.

"Why are you guys so focused on shrinking this thing?" the apprentice said bluntly. "Your thinking has been wrong from the start!"

"But battle armor is the most convenient option. Every cleric can carry it anywhere, and everyone can use it. As long as they become a cleric, they don’t even need a foundation in other supernatural powers." The projector inventor was confused, and the others around him were too.

"Yeah, this battle vehicle is just too big. Even with treads, it can’t go everywhere."

"If the enemy realizes this and digs lots of trenches, couldn’t they block our army’s advance?"

"Battle armor has many advantages."

Listening to his colleagues’ words, the apprentice smiled. "I didn’t say to focus on the battle vehicle. What I mean is, if the cannon is hard to shrink, why can’t we make the battle armor bigger?"

Make the battle armor bigger?!

Isn’t battle armor supposed to be worn on people?

People are only so big—how big can battle armor get?

They couldn’t possibly find a bunch of giants to use this armor, could they?

And even if they found some giants, wouldn’t that still not be enough?

This cannon was just too big.

"Don’t any of you have followers from the earliest days of the God?" The apprentice looked at their confused expressions. "When the God first performed a miracle, everyone saw an image. In that image, there was a scene of giant battle armor engaging the enemy."

"People can’t wear it, but they can pilot it! Just understand it as a standing, humanoid battle vehicle, isn’t that fine?"

"I know what you’re going to say—the energy problem."

"You’re thinking that such huge battle armor, if people don’t power it, would need too much energy... Wait, I get it now. You guys were trying to compress magic power so that people wearing regular battle armor could also provide energy for this kind of cannon—that’s what caused the explosion!"

"You guys... your idea is just too ridiculous. How could magic power be so easily compressed? And even if you succeeded in compressing it, could those warriors actually carry it?"