Offshore from Jadefire Town.
"The enemy flagship is underway, traveling at approximately twenty-one nautical miles per hour. Wind from the southeast, wind speed steady. Firing solution calculated. Fire!" David ordered the gunner to shoot, targeting the King's Fleet's flagship directly.
After the New-Style Cannon was developed, the techniques and knowledge inherited from traditional artillery could no longer bring out the Mage Hunter's full potential. Even an experienced artillery expert like David could not reliably hit a target over two thousand meters away.
The Mage Hunter had tremendous range, power, and firing speed. Behind that high performance lay more complex factors affecting its accuracy.
These included the relative positions of friendly and enemy warships, their movements, weather conditions, and more.
To maximize the Mage Hunter's power, Rowan reluctantly paid his dues to the system. A full five thousand emotion points bought him a mechanical data model: a firing solution.
This was a term from modern warfare. Although the Mage Hunter's sighting equipment could not fully accommodate the data model, the firing solution formulas greatly improved its accuracy.
The Mage Hunter was no ordinary cannon. Every shell it fired cost the Ground Technology Research Institute a full six hours of work.
Previously, Rhonin had still had some spare energy for academic research. Ever since the Mage Hunter's creation, however, he and his little assistants had devoted almost all their working hours to its production.
They had gone from magical scholars to magical laborers.
All of that cost an Archmage's time and money. Rowan was rich, certainly, but the mages of the Morris Industries District were not expendable. For now, the New-Style Cannon was still a high-end luxury to him.
To improve accuracy and reduce the waste caused by missed shots in wartime, Rowan had finally decided to spend a large sum of