Witcher starts with Get Inspiration Panel

I saw hundreds of transparent spirits suddenly rising from the sea where the wreckage of the ghost ship had been, rushing towards the Queen.

This immediately shocked everyone on the boat. Only Richard and Stephana, who were familiar with spiritual bodies, remained calm.

Although there are a large number of these spirit bodies, the strength of each spirit body is not strong. In other words, most of these spirit bodies were just ordinary people during their lifetime.

As these spirits approached, everyone on the boat could clearly see the appearance of these spirits.

There are businessmen in silk, sailors in sailor uniforms, women in skirts, and old men on crutches.

But the expressions of these people were very pleased, with slight smiles on their faces.

After these spirits quickly circled around the people on the Princess, they shot straight into the sky.

"Master, these should be the people massacred by the ghost ship, right? This time we defeated the ghost ship and released the souls trapped on the ghost ship. They seemed to be expressing their gratitude!" Stephana said crisply The voice sounded.

Richard nodded, this world is so ruthless, the weak eat the strong. Among this huge group of spirits, he saw too many defenseless women and children.

But even so, the pirates on the ghost ship still didn't let them go when they encountered them.

Captain Baloric and a group of sailors on the side, after listening to Stephana's words, realized that these huge numbers of spirits came from people killed by the pirates on the ghost ship.

Because the Queen defeated the ghost ship, these souls who had been imprisoned by the ghost ship for an unknown period of time were released.

This also verified the past maritime legend!

It is said that the souls of those killed by the ghost ship will never rest in peace. They will always be imprisoned by the ghost ship and become puppets that enhance the power of the ghost ship.

Now, before these liberated souls leave this world, they fly over one after another and fly around the Queen to express their gratitude.

This strange sight made the sailors marvel!

It seems that they will have one more thing to talk about in the future.

——

the next day.

With his free time, Richard finally had time to carefully inspect the artillery on the Princess.

These artillery pieces are the hero!

If it weren't for them, the Queen wouldn't be able to defeat the ghost ship, and Richard wouldn't be able to kill Salidin, the shark monster.

The artillery of the Princess is divided into three different calibers, namely 12 pounds, 18 pounds, and 24 pounds.

Obviously, the larger the caliber, the greater the firepower!

Richard looked at the one-meter-long gun barrel made of bronze. He did not practice metal-related innate witchcraft, so he could not immediately change the caliber of the gun.

At the same time, he thought carefully. If the caliber of the artillery was adjusted, the corresponding ammunition specifications would also need to be adjusted simultaneously. Such a systematic project would definitely not be completed by him alone on the Queen.

Therefore, Richard could only do the next best thing and study the gunpowder technology of this world's artillery first.

If the gunpowder formula is not optimal, he can rely on the panel to directly find the optimal ratio!

Coincidentally, the two main ingredients of this world's gunpowder formula are actually sulfur and charcoal, and the other is a plant powder called ammonia.

Richard asked Balorik that this ammonia grass was a plant obtained by wizards through various hybridizations. At the beginning, no one paid attention to the ammonia grass that was circulated.

Pure weeds on the roadside, completely ignored.

But then a blacksmith discovered its powder, and after mixing it with sulfur and sawdust, it turned out to be incredibly powerful, and it suddenly turned from a weed that no one cared about to a rare thing!

Soon after, it was planted on a large scale, and now it has become a military-controlled material, with import and export strictly controlled!

Currently, almost all major kingdoms and principalities in the Business Alliance use a uniform gunpowder formula: 6 grams of ammonia grass powder mixed with 1 gram of sulfur and 3 grams of charcoal.

Richard took some raw materials and returned to his cabin.

[It was discovered that the host was preparing gunpowder. Did/does it consume energy to gain inspiration for preparing gunpowder? 】

After thinking for a moment, Richard dragged the slider to 1000 and selected "Yes!"

It's not that he doesn't want to spend more energy, it's just that he's just looking for the optimal ratio, and he really can't use too many energy points.

In an instant, Richard came to a dream space as if his soul was out of his body. This time, the space was also a cabin.

The first step was purification. Richard first lightly mashed a piece of ammonia grass with a wooden pestle, then added 100 ml of distilled water, diluted, filtered, drained, and removed impurities. After a while, he got turbid ammonia oil.

The second step is to dry. Place a plate on top of a vessel similar to an alcohol lamp. Then, Richard gently pours in the turbid ammonia oil. Under the heat of the flame, the water begins to evaporate.

However, Richard discovered that the ammonia plant powder dried using the method Baloric told him still contained many invalid ingredients.

But that's not the point this time.

Richard plans to complete the optimal ratio work first.

Since it was a dream, Richard kept trying to optimize and make mistakes, and he had the rough formula of black powder in his memory, so the experiment progressed very quickly.

The sound of various big and small explosions like ping ping ping pong can be heard in the dream space!

"boom!"

The power has become weaker instead!

Richard shook his head.

After testing hundreds of times, Richard has optimized the ratio to single digits. The current ratio of ammonia grass powder, sulfur and charcoal has been optimized by Richard to 75:10:15.

It can be said that this is very close to the optimal ratio.

In other words, in terms of single-digit accuracy, it is already the optimal ratio.

"boom!"

Sure enough, Richard was very satisfied with the last explosion in the dream. This was the strongest explosion so far.

According to the current ratio, the explosive power of the new gunpowder formula can be directly increased by 23%.

Richard thought for a moment and realized that subsequent decimal-level optimization was completely unnecessary because the quality of the material itself would fluctuate.

Afterwards, Richard used the optimal ratio of gunpowder to conduct a test firing of the artillery on the Princess!

The five most experienced gunners fired 10 shots in a row.

The results of the test firing shocked everyone around him, including Captain Baloric and others.

Unexpectedly, in just one day, the wizard Richard optimized the gunpowder formula and directly increased the lethality of the artillery by about 10% to 15%.

After the power of the gunpowder explosion is increased, not only the initial velocity of the artillery projectiles is increased, but the range is also increased!

Therefore, this lethality is the comprehensive result after calculating these points.

Richard thought for a while, and planned to give it to Meiro's father, Earl Norris, after returning to the Loras Peninsula after the voyage, and let him sell it to maximize profits.

After all, a maritime power must be willing to pay a considerable price to purchase this formula.

——

One month later.

There has been no news from the Poseidon Sect since its last failure. It may be that the other party suddenly couldn't find the trace of the Princess, or it may be other reasons.

At this time, Richard and Stepina were chatting with Baloric in the captain's cabin.

Long-term ocean voyages can make people a little tired of the eternal deep blue color of the sea.

"Sir Richard, we are now halfway through the voyage. We will arrive at Basileus Island in about a month." Captain Baloric thought for a moment and pointed to the chart.

"It will take another month?" Stepina on the side suddenly felt a little discouraged.

"Haha, Miss Stephana, are you feeling a little bored after a long sea voyage?" Captain Baloric couldn't help laughing.

"Yeah, why not bring some sea monsters for us to fight!" Stephana said with a smile.

Just a few seconds after Stephana finished speaking, the Queen's hull suddenly shook violently and sank about ten centimeters.

Immediately everyone on the boat became unsteady!

"Not good!" Captain Baloric changed his color instantly and said: "Two adults, we have encountered a sea monster!"

Apparently, the sky is clear outside and the problem is only at the bottom of the ocean.

The Princess is currently located in the deep sea, so naturally it cannot be a reef. What can cause the Princess to vibrate so violently must be a large creature in the ocean, such as a sea monster!

"Master, I." Stephana suddenly turned pale.

She just made a joke, but she didn't expect it to come true within a few seconds.

When Richard saw Stephana's look, he couldn't help but shake his head and said with a smile: "You! You really have a crow's mouth, it's so effective! Remember not to talk nonsense next time."

While talking, the two of them quickly came to the deck.

I saw a group of sailors hurriedly looking into the sea on both sides of the ship to see what kind of monster they had encountered, but obviously found nothing!

At present, it can only be confirmed that the attack came from the bottom of the sea, but what kind of creature it is is completely uncertain.

After Richard thought for a moment, he came up with an idea.

He chanted the spell softly, and the next second, a light green inverse pentagram formation lit up on the deck in front of Richard, and four skeleton archers were immediately summoned by Richard.

Richard pointed at the sides of the ship, and the four skeleton bows and arrows instantly divided into two groups, two on each side, and came to the side of the ship.

Stepina on the side looked at this scene with confusion and said: "Master, are you summoning archers? The monster is at the bottom of the ship, and it can't be attacked now."

"You'll know it just by looking at it!" Richard smiled mysteriously.

After that, he continued to cast a rare zero-level witchcraft - Undead Sight.

All of a sudden, four small "screens" opened in Richard's field of vision, as if a "surveillance" had been turned on. The pictures showed the sea outside the ship's side on both sides.

"Plop!!"

Four skeleton archers, under the command of Richard, immediately jumped into the sea.

Captain Baloric also looked at Richard in surprise at this time, and thought to himself, "These normal-sized skeleton archers, to be honest, even he can deal with them. He didn't know that Richard sent these weak skeletons." What are the archers doing in the sea?”

The seriously injured orc Otombo and a group of melee team members who were originally resting in the cabin below also walked onto the deck, preparing to deal with the sea monster's attack.

When they saw that Richard did not summon the huge abomination, but instead summoned four weak skeleton archers to go into the sea, they were also confused!

They couldn't understand that compared to the huge sea monsters, these skeleton archers were probably not enough to fit between their teeth!

Let alone defeat the opponent!

A few seconds later, Richard saw different details from four angles on the "monitoring screen".

One of the skeleton archers, not long after jumping into the sea, was caught by a tentacle and crushed immediately!

This made Richard's mental state sting a little, but at least he could see the enemy's appearance clearly.

"A giant squid again or some kind of octopus?"

But soon, Richard discovered something was wrong.

Because the overall appearance of this kind of tentacle is very weird, it is thin at the top and thick at the bottom, and the surface of the tentacle is rough. There seem to be huge black spheres on the surface of the tentacle, which look like human eyeballs.

At this time, several other skeleton archers also passed on what they saw to Richard!

"This is a hundred-eyed starfish??"

During this time, Richard also learned a lot about sea monsters. He immediately identified what kind of strange marine creature the attack on the Queen was coming from.

I didn’t expect it to be a hundred-eyed starfish!

"Captain Baloric, it's the Hundred-Eyed Starfish! Please get everyone off the deck to prevent the other party's mind control skills."

"What? It's actually a hundred-eyed starfish?" Baloric's expression changed. At the same time, he was extremely surprised that Richard could find out the identity of the monster at the bottom of the ship so quickly.

But he didn't doubt what Richard said and immediately started giving orders!

"The gunners and sailors who are not determined enough should get off the deck!! Quick! It's a hundred-eyed starfish!!" Captain Balorik yelled.

At this time, Stephana had already realized that it was his eyes and ears that Richard sent down.

The purpose of his master sending skeleton archers to jump into the sea was to find out who the enemy was so that he could make targeted arrangements.

The hundred-eye starfish has five thick soft tentacles, with large and small black eyeballs on both the tentacles and the main body. It has the unique mental ability to control living things.

In addition to the eyeballs, the main body also has large suction cups with amazing suction power!

It seems that the other party has the suction cup firmly attached to the bottom of the Queen's ship, and intends to drag the Queen's ship into the sea. However, the displacement of the Queen's hull is too large, and the Hundred Eyes Starfish cannot drag it at once, so they are deadlocked here.

The effect of the zero-level witchcraft of Undead Vision was immediately reflected, allowing Richard to instantly judge the reality of the enemy. Otherwise, Richard would face unknown enemies, which would greatly increase the difficulty of the battle.

Now that he knew who the enemy was, Richard turned to Captain Baloric and said, "Prepare alchemy depth bombs!!"

This is the product of Richard's random research during this month.

"Plop!!"

Three large brown red wine barrels prepared in advance were thrown into the water.

These wooden barrels have their own buoyancy, but Richard placed a large amount of modified black gunpowder in them, mixed with Fire Dance Star and Silver Moon Dust, so that their weight slightly exceeded their buoyancy.

So if thrown into the sea, it will slowly sink!

In addition, Richard's mental impact acted like a delayed fuse.

"Boom boom boom!"

Following three violent explosions, the hundred-eyed starfish under the boat let out a piercing scream!

Unable to withstand the horrific damage from the depth charges, a huge starfish with a diameter of more than ten meters suddenly climbed up from the bottom of the boat.