It! Had! To! Be! Held! In! The! Hand! To! Fire!
Three hundred kilograms, held in one hand... the recoil had to be several tons, right?
His Faithguard Army had to be superhuman just to use this kind of cannon, didn't they?
Theus's eyelid twitched. "Couldn't the soldiers hold the cannon steady while firing it or something?"
"No, that would be dangerous." Richard pulled out a set of blueprints from the satchel he carried. "Strictly speaking, this kind of cannon was already extremely dangerous. In order to successfully communicate with the Machine Soul, the grip had to be placed almost right beside the firing chamber."
"Firing it like this is exceedingly dangerous. The Machine Soul must protect the user, otherwise..."
"The barrel will explode?"
"No. Something even worse. It will self-destruct."
Theus swallowed. At least there was no need to worry about the enemy picking up this weapon and turning it against them. The moment they fired it, it would blow up on its own.
"If the cannon is held steady while firing, communication with the Machine Soul will be disrupted. There would be no way to ensure that the Pollution properly mixed with the shell's propellant charge, and that could cause a Pollution overflow. That would be extremely dangerous."
Pollution was exceptionally dangerous to Transcendents, while ordinary people were comparatively safer from it.
But that was only relative. If ordinary people came into direct contact with tangible Pollution, they would still be immediately corroded and lose control. The reason Steam Engine stokers could add Pollution to the furnace was mainly because the Machine Soul actively suppressed it.
The same was true for the Dragon Breath Cannon. Its most crucial function was actually having the Machine Soul suppress the Pollution. If the Machine Soul went on strike, the hand cannon would