Steampunk Era: Mad Abield
Chapter 880: Section 579: Plans and Changes (Part 3)

Chapter 880: Section 579: Plans and Changes (Part 3)

Bishop Kaser of the National Church was sent to the Benevolent Church that very night due to a heart issue, and in the words of the Benevolent Church’s doctors, if it wasn’t for Malin’s medical potion sustaining him followed by external cardiac compression surgery to pull him through, this old fox would have likely died on the spot.

Indeed, as a major figure of the black-robed faction of the National Church, Kaser Bishop relied on the various action squads he himself had trained, coupled with the collaboration between the black-robed and the Night Watchers, who were the Church’s armed force operating under the guise of having everything under control, rendering others incapable of action. Yet, Malin, like a formidable dragon crossing the river, managed to thoroughly eliminate the root of the problem on both ends.

Thus, with Bishop Kaser’s hospitalization, the black-robed faction in Copenhagen could only call over another black-robed Bishop, Lin Mengping, who was also taking a break.

Like Bishop Tang Wenlin of the Church of Justice, Lin Mengping was a Thanan man, but unlike Bishop Tang whose ancestors traveled with a fleet to Carterburg and eventually ended up in Copenhagen, it is written in the history books of Lin Mengping’s family that the Lin clan has always lived in the Northern Kingdom.

Of course, many people doubt his story, believing his family must have arrived here several millennia ago during a tumultuous period when chaos reigned, and no one really knew how it all transpired.

As for how a Thanan family came here from Thainan during those chaotic millennia, nobody could say for sure, not even Bishop Lin himself.

Malin knew—they were Chinese who had lived in Northern Europe even before the Great Destruction Era.

Just like Bishop Tang , whose family had mixed blood over the generations, the only sign of his Thanan heritage were his black hair, while Bishop Lin was completely a Northerner, without any other physical traits matching those of the Thanan people apart from his name.

However, it must be mentioned, Bishop Lin spoke fluent Thanan language, so fluent that Malin could even converse with him in it.

Their returning to Koser Town along with others brought quite the cultural confusion—apart from Bishop Tang, the rest like Lady Isabella of the Night Watchers, the small squad from the Mage Tower arriving to rebuild after the battle, and two bishops from the violet and red factions of the National Church as witnesses, all had baffled expressions as they couldn’t understand what the two were talking about.

When they arrived at the courtyard, Malin had the Mage Tower’s squad start to reconstruct the battle sequence—a Spell Formation meant to trace back all the events that took place in a certain area over a period of time. Sometimes, it could be disrupted by various Spell Formation reactions left at the scene, but it was generally still usable.

Usually, Malin could complete this himself, but considering the possibility of fabrication, it was deemed safer to have an impartial third party, the Mage Tower, handle it.

As the Spell Formation started to be set up, Bishop Lin kept the other observers occupied with Malin’s new model Firearm, completely engaged in all manner of weaponry as expected of a black-robed bishop. Malin was prepared to personally demonstrate the cross-era firepower of the semi-automatic rifle, but instead, he randomly selected ten soldiers from his troop to shoot.

The bishops watched from the temporary firing range outside of town, and when they saw the slowest soldier take twenty-four seconds to fire all twenty-one bullets from his semi-automatic rifle onto a target three hundred yards away, Bishop Tang was the first to express his desire to order new guns for the followers in the Great Wilderness, and after Malin mentioned that the Church of Justice in the Great Wilderness had already obtained the blueprints and could even manufacture the guns themselves, he immediately wanted to order twenty-seven thousand for his own Northern District—Copenhagen’s Protectorate Army had about twenty-one thousand members, and buying an extra six thousand for replacements, as well as more for spare parts, sounded like a good plan.

The National Church, not to be outdone, had Bishop Lin directly request one hundred sixty thousand—enough for every member of the Church’s structures, the Protectorate Army, the black-robed faction, and the military-grade clerical staff to be equipped with one.

Malin agreed, noting that with one hundred sixty thousand, his second-line troops could reschedule their re-equipment to just seven days later.

Thus, with all sides satisfied, Bishop Lin stated that he could make decisions on behalf of Malin’s side, and back with the black-robed, he would explain the situation; the battle was a case of the prepared against the unaware, and having such superior new-style Firearms on Malin’s side meant there was no shame in confessing a mishap—after all, which Church hadn’t experienced such blunders nowadays.

Returning to the scene, Malin sat aside—he had witnessed the whole battle process on-site and hence didn’t go over to join the crowd watching the reconstruction.

After witnessing the reconstructed battle, even Bishop Tang of the Church of Justice was astonished by the power of the cannon—it destroyed the entire third floor with a single shot; something only an enhanced Flame Burst Spell inside the Spell Formation could achieve, requiring at least a fifth-ring Mage who could not use it many times in a day.

On the other hand, Malin noted that as long as barrel rifling wasn’t a concern, a few hundred rounds could be fired leisurely throughout a day.

Thus, the intentions to purchase the new-model cannons were settled; unlike the Firearms, both Churches ordered fifty pieces each and then planned to buy production licenses from Malin.

This interest from the Mage Tower in purchasing fifty cannons was something Malin hadn’t anticipated.

In response, the helping Legendary eight-and-a-half ring Mage commented that Malin’s previous batch of battle Mages had greatly impacted the Mage Tower, and in his view, battle Mages utilizing this modified bombardment-type weaponry could be more effective in dealing with Chaos from the skies.