Jerome sat in the captain's room, unable to calm down for a long while. He was not part of the Expeditionary Force's artillery corps, and his understanding of magic cannons was limited to what he had read on paper, but he still knew perfectly well how powerful those things were.
The Holy Temple Expeditionary Force had spent no small amount of money to purchase those magic weapons from the Dwarven Kingdom.
But those stingy dwarves had no intention of selling the magic cannons in their possession.
The reason was simple: Magic cannons were nonrenewable resources.
Why had a magic weapon like the magic cannon become a nonrenewable resource? Mainly because magic cannons were products of Hex Technology. They were powerful magic weapons created by Goblin inventors during the era of Goblin Civilization.
Later, when the goblins were no longer satisfied with creating Magic Puppets, they began collecting the divine sparks of fallen gods to create Titans...
The earliest Titans possessed only demigod-level strength. After repeated optimization and upgrades, their power gradually approached that of lesser gods. This blatant act of blasphemy brought catastrophe upon the goblins.
The decline of Goblin Civilization signaled the end of the Hex Technology era.
People gradually forgot Hex Technology. Only the dwarves, who excelled at excavation, discovered fragments of it in ancient ruins. They began inheriting the products born from the collision between technology and magic...
Such as Magic Brooms, Gnome Military Knives, Magic Firearms, Floating Devices, magic cannons, Dimensional Space folding gates, and so on.
Among these Hex Technology creations, Magic Brooms, Gnome Military Knives, and Floating Devices were renewable resources, because dwarves and mages had already mastered the core knowledge behind them. Whenever they needed them, they could manufacture them.
But advanced Hex Technology like magic cannons and Dimensional Space folding gates still