Chapter 377：Fear

Dudian looked at Old Fulin: "Patriarch it seems you are thinking to high of me."

Old Fulin was confused.

"My appearance on the battlefield will be a show." Dudian said: "All the civilians and nobles of the consortia think of me as a talented architect but nothing else. They may think that I can make excellent weapons but don't think that I'm a mighty war general. Moreover, what kind of a role I can play in the war? In terms of personal strength I'm like a drop in the ocean!"

"So it's pointless for me to enter the battlefield in the early period. As long as I join the battlefield towards the end I will win!"

Old Fulin was speechless.

Dudian continued: "I have never said that I'll be fighting against the barbarians face to face and come up as a hero of the front line! Of course, if a physically weak architect did this then the effect will be different. But right now the civilians haven't experienced enough pain. I want them to crush their teeth because of pain of loss. Their hearts have to be broken. Their anger has to be stimulated to the max. IF they don't experience loss then how do you think I'll use their anger to overthrow a consortia in the outer wall? If only a small number of people feel the pain of the war then the survivors will abandon those families. They will be excluded from the society. They will be powerless even if I wanted to use them."

"So the only answer is to let them experience ultimate pain. The desperation they feel have to drive them crazy and angry so that we can direct it."

There was silence in the study room.

Old Fulin, Sander, Nicholas, Kroen and others looked at the indifferent expression on the teenagers face and listened to the words that came out of his mouth. The coldness spread through their body because of those words.

Old Fulin's eyelids slightly shook. He looked at Dudian as he slowly said: "Will army be able to repel the barbarians by relying on your legendary military weapon? If not, I'm afraid..."

"Of course."Dudian said in a tone full of confidence: "The weapon should be easily pierce through the armor and skings of the barbarians. However it will be hard to kill the monsters outside the giant wall relying on this steam rifle."

In this era because of the monster intrusion outside the giant wall the cold weapons have advanced to the extreme as the smelting process was developed. But the purification of steel was lacking as the technology was insufficient to achieve that type of steel that Dudian wanted. So unless the armor was improved it wouldn't be able to resist the bullets of the steam rifle. Otherwise when the rifles were introduced in the medieval Europe they wouldn't be able to defeat the knights back then. The countries well-equipped with cold weapons weren't able to stand in front of countries that used gunpowder technology. They were beated and unable to parry with them. (I think it refers to Germany's accomplishments against Poland and other countries in the second world war)

Moreover his steam rifle's driving force was steam but no gunpowder. It was the earliest and most basic method used in the old era's firearm principles.

The firearms were invented in Song Dynasty in China. To be precise they were used by the Southern Song Dynasty. Although Tang dynasty was the first to introduce gunpowder to the military but they only made 'rockets.' (author note: gunpowder tied to the arrows). The firearms used by the Chinese had effective range of 100 meters and could easily pierce the armor of enemy.

But the mechanism used by the Dudian was able to generate kinetic energy due to steam and couldn't match the power of the gunpowder based rifles. That's why his steam rifles didn't have range and destruction power of the proper firearms.

But it was enough for Dodian.

He didn't want a real rifle or gun to appear in this chaotic wall.

After all he was in a high position and had too many enemies. He wouldn't be able to dodge every bullet if an enemy hid in the shadows and aimed at him.

However if he could reach the power that the Dragon girl had which was beyond the combat power of the senior hunter then even the firearms wouldn't be a threat to him.

Even though steam rifle couldn't be compared to the firearms but it would be able to break through the armor of the soldiers within the effective range of 50 meters. So using armor of hunters or general didn't mean that they couldn't be punctured.

Moreover the steam rifle had maximum range of 50 meters. He believed that he would be able to see through such a plot if someone tried to kill him. Even if the other person disguised very well but noone was aware that he was able to see the heart and blood vessels of the others. He could roughly determine the hidden emotions of the others through the abnormal contradiction and speed of the heart. He had synesthesia which he could use to sense the sound that metal product emitted.

In addition, Dudian was fortunate about the deformity in the development. The Inferno family from the Dark Church had come up with gunpowder and the artillery was introduced into the military. IT was much faster than the introduction in the old era. After all, the gunpowder in its early days was used in alchemy in China and Tang dynasty introduced it to military at its last days. Afterwards it was passed to Souther Song dynasty. It took three hundred and fifty years for the firearm to be made after that gunpowder changed hands. If compared to the invention of gunpowder and artillery within the giant wall then that time leap is too long.

However it was not surprising as Dudian had learned history of this development from the super chip. The reason the firearms were introduced was the frequent wars that happened at the borders of the Souther Song dynasty. The war was the most effective way which was a catalyst to the development of the new weapons.

The conclusion is that the development of advanced weapons was closely related to the environment.

This is the reason why the medieval sosciety collapsed in the West after the introduction of the gunpowder.

It was likely the current situation within the giant wall. However the repeated harrassments at the border by the barbarians played a minor role. A total of two or three times a large scale war had happened. As a result it gave birth to the artillery.

But after the emergence of the artillery the development halted. The firearms, missiles and other things weren't invented. The main reason is that the gunpowder was a taboo!

Artillery itself was a taboo weapon and wouldn't be used in ordinary small-scale wars. They wouldn't even leave a cannon at the top of the fortress. It was a proof of how afraid they were of this thing!

Who would dare to develop something which was taboo? In the old era the scientists dared to experiment on this that were contrary to the rules of the country. But it was different in the old days. The scientists could escape from one country and relocate to the another. But where could you flee within the giant wall?

Moreover the Dark Church also didn't dare to study it and banned gunpowder!

Old Fulin was relieved and assured as he looked at Dudian's confidence. However he was not feeling good in his heart. Although he didn't care about the civilians but the thought of such a slaughter made his heart uncomfortable and guilty. He knew that those feelings were useless and from the rational point of view Dudian was right. But extreme rationality brought cold bloodedness...

"I'll go and contact consortia." Old Fulin sighed and got up.

Dudian nodded: "It's hard on you."

Old Fulin wanted to lift his palm and pat Dudian's shoulder but he changed his mind. He used the crutches to slowly leave the room.