Chapter 203: Shelling of the Golden Glitter (Part 2)
The Golden Shining is positioned as an artillery ship.
In fact, it is still an experimental magic ship.
It uses a condensing turret and a condensing main turret, which is an assembly that has never been seen in a mana ship before.
The Shengming Empire has only recently developed this kind of beam turret. Their attack method is very unique, which is very different from conventional alchemical artillery.
Compared with physical alchemical cannonballs, beam cannons have very obvious advantages.
It's fast, its power is restrained, and it's very concentrated.
Therefore, the speed of light can pose a huge threat to advanced life forms.
Just like Qiyou.
The speed of the beam was too fast for him to react.
The power of the light cannon converged and concentrated into a beam, leaving Qi You unable to defend himself. You must know that he had already used defensive fighting skills before.
But one beam cannon will severely damage it!
The purpose of testing magic energy ships like the Golden Shining is to verify in practice whether this uniquely designed magic energy ship can effectively restrain higher life forms. Target them to create threats, harm, and even fatal blows.
If the practice is successful, the Shengming Empire will manufacture this type of magic ship on a large scale.
It can be seen from this positioning that the Golden Shining first emphasizes attack performance.
Secondly, in order to detect the enemy and accurately lock the target, the detection performance also needs to be excellent.
After focusing on attack and reconnaissance, the third point is speed.
The Alchemist made a bold design in this regard - the Golden Sparkle was designed as a flying mana ship!
There are very few flying mana ships!
Mana ships are usually equipped with a large number of artillery. After all, shelling and long-distance warfare is a major theme of maritime warfare.
A ship without hundreds of cannons would be too embarrassed to leave the dock.
But these artillery pieces are often very heavy. Some alchemical artillery pieces are very powerful, but they are also very scary in terms of weight.
The artillery is made of poor material and can easily explode, which in turn is a huge threat to your own ships.
Also, the weight of each solid cannonball cannot be underestimated.
The number of solid artillery shells in the ammunition depot is more than a thousand. If it is less than a thousand, the ammunition reserve is insufficient.
The combined weight of artillery and shells is a huge number.
With such a weight, it is difficult to design a flying magic ship.
But the spotlight turret does not have this problem.
It is a beam cannon shell and has no entity. The weight of the turret itself is far lighter than that of the artillery group.
Since it has such a big advantage, wouldn't it be a big loss not to design the Golden Shining as a flying magic ship?
The ability to fly is very excellent.
Most armies do not have the ability to fly.
After the Golden Shining appeared, the fishmen and pirates could only take a beating. It was difficult for the artillery on both sides of the ship to raise their muzzles high enough to aim at the Golden Shining.
Only gold level fighters can fly.
In fact, there are only a few gold-level people who master flying fighting skills.
The caster can fly.
Fighters who have mastered some special props can also fly.
However, during the flight to the Golden Shining, they had to face the bombardment of the beam cannon.
Flying has another advantage.
It will be very helpful in increasing the speed of the ship.
The reason is very simple - the resistance of air is much smaller than the resistance of water waves.
Precisely because it can fly, the Golden Shining's speed is very fast, far exceeding that of magic ships of the same level.
After speed, comes defensive performance.
The defensive performance of the Golden Shining is relatively weak.
Since it focuses on attack, reconnaissance, speed, defense and other aspects, it inevitably becomes a weak link.
On the other hand, the flight design also limits the improvement of defense performance.
Because the physical armor is too heavy, installing it will greatly reduce the speed and flight altitude.
It is not without excellent materials that we can construct a hull that is both lightweight and highly defensive.
But this way, the price/performance ratio is too low.
This brings us to another major advantage of the Golden Shining -
cost!
The Shengming Empire developed this type of mana ship to serve the expedition to the wilderness continent and protect the long sea transportation line.
The Shengming Empire is powerful and does not worry about large-scale battles.
In head-to-head confrontation, they are very confident.
What is worrying is that the enemy has scattered troops and continues to carry out guerrilla attacks and destroy maritime transportation lines.
If the enemy takes such an offensive, it will be difficult for the Shengming Empire to defend itself, and the cost of protection will be extremely high.
A large number of strong men must be dispatched to station at every node to ensure a certain degree of security.
Therefore, if a mana ship like the Golden Shining can be developed and used to protect the fleet, survey the sea, and deal with guerrilla attacks by powerful enemies, it is a very worthwhile solution.
Once the practice is successful, the Empire will mass-produce the Golden Sparkle.
When it comes to mass production, the biggest factor to consider is cost!
The cost of concentrating turrets is very small, and they have been mass-produced.
When the Golden Shining adopted these turrets, it had already set the tone for cost control.
Therefore, there is basically no need to think about those lightweight and tough defense materials. They are almost always expensive.
It is worth mentioning that the design of the Golden Shining is very excellent, and a golden treasure largely makes up for the weak defensive performance.
That’s the spinning disc!
The designer constructed this component intentionally.
Normally, the disc adheres to the hull, like a layer of dragon scales covering it, providing considerable defense.
Not only in terms of physical impact, but also to a certain extent, it can refract and scatter pure energy attacks.
The spinning disc can be used defensively or offensively.
When attacking, these discs fly out and hover into the air, which can disperse the downed beam cannons and form a precise and large-scale strike.
Overall, the Golden Shining is a flying mana ship with high attack and low defense.
This is why Huantong hid it in the snow and didn't take it out until later in the war.
In order to accurately attack those pirate boats and seize the wealth of Eye Island, Huantong directly released the flying disc.
The optical network bombardment shocked both the enemy and ourselves, and the results were huge.
But now the problem arises!
Suddenly faced with the bombardment of gold-level artillery, Huantong had no time to recover those spinning discs.
Hearing the siren, the old fish-man patriarch was even more anxious than he was: "Hurry, hide quickly!"
Huntong said before that he would transfer this flying mana ship to the old murloc leader.
Can the old leader of the fishmen not be anxious?
But now it's too late to worry.
The next moment, the giant murloc in the deep sea fired a cannon.
Gold level arc cannon!
Gold level python stray bullet!
Thick currents shot straight into the sky.
In an instant, the sky and the earth turned pale.
The terrifying electric column left a scorching shock in everyone's retinas.
boom!
Even though the Golden Shining tried its best to avoid it, it was still hit.
A piece of hull as big as a house is directly separated from the main body.
A light-concentrating turret collapsed completely.
The flames burned.
Under the stunned gaze of everyone, the Golden Shining tilted from high altitude, dragging a plume of black smoke, and plunged into the sea.