In the next few days, aside from advancing the various research projects that almost filled up the entire schedule, Aiven spent most of his spare time on this warship.
Led by Aiven, Walkley, and the few most skilled craftsmen originally from the "Storm Horn," a task force was formed.
After Aiven presided over the first meeting and explained his vision, all members of the task force were very interested in this new type of battleship that had so far only existed on paper and were eager to make it a reality.
So they began tirelessly designing the preliminary modification plans.
During this process, it was inevitable to have several design plans scrapped.
Either they didn't align with Aiven's vision and couldn't achieve the expected performance, or they were too fantastical, unable to meet his requirements with the current material's structural strength.
Later, Walkley Jeffrey straightforwardly abused his authority to share a vast amount of the kingdom's warship data with Aiven. This allowed him to use "Data Visualization" to perform data statistics and analysis and then feedback to the task force for continuous subsequent modifications.
Because the warship's main material, oak, grows naturally and is not as standardized and homogenized as steel, even ships with uniform specifications have significant differences.
Even shipborne artillery or firearms in soldiers' hands are the same, due to the limitations of casting processes, requiring craftsmen for fine secondary processing, which also causes discrepancies in weapon performance.
Therefore, they are not being overly meticulous.
They hope the first new type of warship born from their hands could achieve the best performance and even become a model for the kingdom's new warships.
A full week passed again.
Even when Aiven's most critical research project, the "Adventurer's Blood" suppression plan, was successful, they finally proposed the best plan under current conditions and gained unanimous approval from everyone.
As Walkley said:
"Modifying on the existing foundation is simply ten times more difficult than re-designing a battleship!"
Of course, the more difficult part was yet to come.
A large number of sailors were gathered non-stop to unload the open shipborne artillery, then began to dismantle the upper fore and aft castles and the open deck bit by bit.
But those who always feel that warships aren't sturdy enough in combat found themselves troubled by the solid hull this time.
Take the open deck, for example:
After it was completed, tar was used to soak cloth to block gaps, and then hot tar was poured to completely seal the seams, making the deck not only effectively waterproof but also more stable overall.
Thus, for warships that need to be scrapped, the navy generally won't bother to dismantle and recycle but uses them directly as targets to be sunk at sea.
But the "Stendeburg" was different; these ship materials still had other uses after dismantling, so they couldn't possibly be violently demolished.
So even with Aiven gathering all available hands on the island to work overtime 24/7, the engineering progress was hardly satisfying.
Moreover, although rebuilding a sailing ship doesn't take as long as a new build with three to five years, it is still a time-consuming and labor-intensive task.
If relying solely on these sailors, completing the preliminary work before their mission in the New Continent term expires would already be considered highly efficient.
Thus, to avoid unnecessary variables due to delays, Aiven finally decided to postpone his other research projects and take control personally, to show these useless guys what it means by a wizard's productivity!
Another day and night of tireless work.
But this time, unlike the previous days, most of the soldiers had already left the dock, leaving only the ship engineer Walkley Jeffrey, essential craftsmen, and a small number of assistants.
Of course, upon hearing what Aiven was planning to do, the officers of the "Storm Horn" and Captain Robbins of the "Endeavor" also stayed to join and watch the excitement.
"Captain, I mean no offense, but...is it really possible to build ships using witchcraft?"
Since hearing Aiven's proposal until tonight when the time came, Walkley, the senior engineer, still found it hard to believe.
In a place like the New Continent, where strange and bizarre things occur innumerably, the extraordinary separation is far less stringent than in the Old Continent. As a quite high-ranked senior engineer, he of course had heard about wizards.
Yet, his impression remained on peculiar things like poisonous spiders, lizard tails, bizarre potions, curses, totems... Never had he thought that witchcraft could be associated with mankind's most magnificent weapons.
"Of course! How do you think the locally booming mechanization came into being?"
Answering without turning his head was Aiven, busy with Milan drawing techniques on the dry dock floor.
If it didn't benefit the ordinary human world, how did the "Light of Alchemy" spread openly across multiple countries? And the methods I intend to use would be even more intuitive by comparison!
"Hoo, it's done!"
At this moment, the complex technique had fully formed in the hands of the two.
An eight-meter-diameter perfect circle passed through five small circles inscribed with spiritual text, each interconnected and combined with dense spiritual text to form a complex rune array.
They individually represent the four basic elements of alchemy: earth, wind, water, fire, and the fifth element, "soul."
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