Cave Refuge-Chapter 317 - 293 Rapid-Fire Cannon and Revolver

Artifact refining, like cultivation, is exceedingly unscientific, yet profoundly idealistic.

It’s like the Orc Alchemist from the past who could create a tool in accordance with his thoughts simply by declaring, "I have an idea."

Artifact refining functions similarly, Magic Artifacts need a slightly more concrete design blueprint, but when it comes to Spiritual Artifacts, no matter what the appearance turns out to be after refining, they will ultimately possess the functions the refiner desired.

Therefore, even if Dong Tianyu did not have a detailed blueprint for a rapid-fire cannon, as long as he understood the principles during the refining process, and had a general idea of its internal structure, along with adding the appropriate materials, as long as the refining was successful, he would obtain the Magic Artifact he wished for.

The recent attempt to refine the steel pillar yielded a fist-sized artifact refining material, and this was just reaching the minimum standard for crafting a Magic Artifact; to improve the quality of the artifact, this fist-sized material needed further refinement.

Estimating the volume of the rapid-fire cannon in his mind and through simple calculation, if he used ordinary steel for refinement, at least a thousand cubic meters of steel would be needed to produce a Magic Artifact version of the rapid-fire cannon.

No mistake here, not in weight but in volume—the thousand cubic meters refers to the volume of solid metal ingots. Normally, a cubic meter of metal ingots weighs around eight tonnes, meaning about eight thousand tonnes of metal ingots would need to be consumed.

The amount of steel actually consumed by a typical rapid-fire cannon isn’t much; a small rapid-fire cannon’s own weight is at most around two to three hundred kilograms, while the large ones used on ships weigh only about a ton.

A rapid-fire cannon weighing around a ton is probably at the limit for its weight, given that its main purpose is to defend against missiles and aircraft assaults, capable of firing as fast as one shot per second.

Thinking of this, Dong Tianyu suddenly felt something was off—his original intent in learning artifact refining was to create a weapon he could carry and use freely.

He had initially wanted to create a Gatling gun, but now, somehow, he had unwittingly upgraded to a more powerful rapid-fire cannon.

One should know that even a small rapid-fire cannon is not a personal weapon. However, since it had already been designed, Dong Tianyu had actually found a suitable place for this device.

Remember when Dong Tianyu wanted to create a vehicle for Mr. Thompson? In order for others to use it normally, Dong Tianyu specifically made an Ink Artifact that did not require Divine Sense to control. However, Dong Tianyu didn’t anticipate that everything transformed by the Cave would be soul-bound and only usable by Dong Tianyu himself, making it nearly impossible for ordinary people to operate.

Conveniently, the Black Car had been left in the camp and hadn’t moved for a long time due to an earthquake, which provided Dong Tianyu with an opportunity to create a new armed vehicle for himself.

Of course, compared to Magic Artifacts controlled by Divine Sense, the manually operated Ink Artifacts are not as convenient to use after Dong Tianyu had acquired Divine Sense.

However, as long as these items were in the Cave, converting Ink Artifacts into Magic Artifacts was relatively easy, albeit somewhat costly.

But then Dong Tianyu thought of mounting the rapid-fire cannon on the vehicle, the huge ’magazine’ initially designed as a base could be abandoned, although a separate ’magazine’ would be needed for energy storage.

The magazine could still be connected to the vehicle, sharing one Spirit Power pool, as there was ample space inside the vehicle to accommodate a larger Spirit Power pool.

After all this consideration, the metal that had been melted into liquid by the Spiritual Fire had now returned to solid state. Dong Tianyu casually tossed the refined material aside and began to search through the Storage Space for metals that were no longer needed.

However, after searching for a long time, he did not find much metal, and only then did Dong Tianyu remember that in order to acquire more refining materials, most of the metals in the Storage Space had been buried into the Spirit Vein, leaving not much metal in the Storage Space.

Realizing this, Dong Tianyu knew that although he could use the resources in the Spirit Vein to build sentinel guns, this would affect the future resource output of the Spirit Vein.

Therefore, Dong Tianyu had to abandon the painstakingly designed sentinel gun project and instead opted to refine a more universal firearm.

Dong Tianyu, no longer aiming too high with Spirit Power firearms, made a revolver that he could carry with himself.

It might have been just a revolver, but after Dong Tianyu’s redesign, it was no longer a Magic Artifact but a Magical Weapon.

The revolver, produced by Dong Tianyu, appeared similar to those commonly seen in film and television. The reason it emerged as a Magical Weapon instead of a Magic Artifact is that Dong Tianyu had spent a significant amount of money in the Scripture Hall to purchase a one-time Formation script for the Mount Meru space. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Using this type of Formation script during artifact refining allowed the finished product to embody the effects of the embedded Formation.

The better the materials used in refining, the more Formation scripts could be integrated. Of course, the effects of these Formations couldn’t conflict with one another in their attributes.

The revolver produced only had two differences compared to an ordinary one.

Each chamber of the revolver was connected to a Mount Meru space, so despite the revolver having only six chambers, each was actually composed of an independent Mount Meru space.