Throne of Vientiane Civilization

Borrowing the training ground of the Royal Guards Corps in the palace, Zhou Xu planned to see how the newly forged sword actually worked.

At this stage, this sword with fire crystal added has been enchanted with the 'basic weapon blessing', and it is a serious enchanted weapon.

Zhou Xu found a Guards soldier to do the specific testing work.

After all, what he wanted to test was a weapon. If Silk came, the impact of his individual strength would be too great.

Under this premise, his Imperial City Guards were a good choice. Each of these soldiers was considered an elite soldier and could, to a certain extent, represent the level of their Great Zhou soldiers.

The first target to test the knife on was a wooden stake as thick as the mouth of a bowl.

The Guardsman held a sword in his hand, and after taking a deep breath, he swung it down.

During that process, the blade clashed violently with the air. Zhou Xu could clearly see that a string of sparks burst out from the blade!

It's too late, but it's soon.

When the knife fell, the wooden stake as thick as the mouth of a bowl was cut off on the spot.

Zhou Xu quickly stepped forward to confirm the incision of the wooden stake.

The edge of the wooden pile was slightly black, as if it had been burned by fire.

Reaching out and touching the cut, it was extremely smooth, enough to show the sharpness of this sword.

At the same time, Li Gan also gave a timely explanation at this moment.

"In terms of chopping wood piles, the sharpness of this sword is basically the same as our current mass-produced crystal iron sword."

However, Li Gan also knows that basically staying flat is not enough.

Because during forging, fire crystal must be added. In order to ensure that the fire crystal can be completely melted in, the workload of the knife forging craftsman increases significantly.

If the final actual effect is the same, then it is better to continue to forge the original crystal iron sword. At least the forging efficiency will be higher.

Without any delay, after receiving Zhou Xu's movement signal, the Imperial Guard soldier holding a sword quickly walked to the second wooden stake.

The thickness of this second wooden stake is basically the same as the previous one. The difference is that the surface of this wooden stake is also covered with a layer of scale armor, which simulates the state of a soldier wearing armor.

No nonsense, another swipe of the knife.

The blade rubbed against the metal scales, making a slightly harsh sound.

The scales covering the surface were directly cut open, and the entire slash went deep into the wooden stake behind.

So far, the results of the two tests are basically consistent with the mass-produced version of the crystal iron sword.

In fact, before the sword was officially presented, the forging department had already conducted tests within it.

Therefore, Li Gan basically knew the result.

The reason why they are doing it again now is to let His Majesty confirm it with his own eyes.

But even so, from a mass production perspective, the new sword has no advantage over the crystal iron sword.

After all, without forging new swords, their forging department would be more efficient, and the demand for fire crystals would also drop significantly.

As a result, the mining pressure on the fire crystal veins will also decrease, freeing up a large amount of labor for other projects.

But this new sword obviously has another advantage.

While talking, according to Li Gan's wishes, they took out a brand new sword and then slashed with the same brand new crystal iron sword.

There is no need to completely cut it off. If you cut it off four or five times, you can basically see the result.

Soon, two swords appeared in front of Zhou Xu's eyes at the same time.

"Your Majesty, please take a look. This is the crystal iron sword in active service. This is a new type of sword. The crystal iron sword is obviously curled and chipped, but the damage to the blade of the new type of sword is very low."

After a brief explanation, Li Gan gave a conclusion.

"The new sword ensures sharpness and at the same time has higher toughness than the current crystal iron sword!"

This conclusion was a bit beyond Zhou Xu's expectation.

"What's going on? Can fire crystals also improve the toughness of weapons?"

Zhou Xu thought about the introduction of the fire crystal stone, but it didn't mention that it could improve toughness.

In response to this issue, as the minister of the Forging Department, Li Gan has obviously studied this issue carefully.

"Reporting to your Majesty, according to my current research, this is probably because of the flame energy contained within the fire crystal."

"Tell me more about it."

"This is just my subordinate's speculation..."

Li Gan took a dose of vaccination first.

"Your Majesty, you also know that before a piece of alloy is cast into a weapon, it must first be repeatedly forged. During this process, the alloy also needs to be continuously fed into the forging furnace for heating."

Li Gan was not a particularly sharp-tongued person. Although he had thought about this matter for a long time after discovering it, he still felt unclear when he was in front of their Majesty.

Regarding this, Zhou Xu also told Li Gan not to be impatient and to clarify his thoughts before talking.

"What I want to say is that the alloy mixed with fire crystal will absorb the flame energy when it is sent to the forging furnace for burning, and when it is taken out for forging, it will release the flame. energy!"

"The flame energy it releases will make the alloy being forged more thoroughly quenched. After repeated several times, after experiencing the quenching effect formed by the continuous release and absorption of flame energy, the alloy will be melted. As you become more perfect, your resilience grows!”

Listening to Li Gan's analysis, Zhou Xu blinked.

Although this is all Li Gan's speculation, Zhou Xude admitted that there is indeed some basis for it.

Don’t forget, forging work itself is closely related to ‘fire’.

When he discovered the fire crystal, he only thought about weapons with flame energy, but he didn’t expect that this flame energy could also play such a miraculous effect in improving the toughness of weapons.

This can be said to be a pleasant surprise, and it can even be said to be the biggest surprise that the fire crystal brought him!

Compared with the effect of improving the toughness, the little flame attack that comes with it, which has basically no lethality, is not worth mentioning at all!

If, before this, Zhou Xu felt that the comprehensive value of the new war knife at this stage was completely inferior to the crystal iron war knife, and these two war knives were put together, and he didn’t need to worry about which one to mass-produce.

Now, he began to worry...

Based on this toughness advantage alone, the comprehensive value of the new war knife has obviously exceeded that of the crystal iron war knife.

But it is also true that forging a new war knife takes more time, and the fire crystal required also makes the manufacturing cost higher, which is beyond doubt.

As the standard weapon of the army, cost and production efficiency itself are also very critical issues.

Zhou Xu pondered over these questions for less than half a minute.

"Let's do this. The new swords will be provided to the Xianzhen Camp first. As for the ordinary troops, they will still be mainly equipped with crystal iron swords for the time being. We will see the specific situation later."

At this point, Zhou Xu paused.

"As for the name of the new sword, let's call it 'Red Flame Sword'."

"Yes!"