Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 1058 - 272 Secret Weapon

Chapter 1058: Chapter 272 Secret Weapon

"Yabushan! Yabushan!" A desert warrior sprinted from a distance, running and shouting, "The enemy is here! Our enemy is here!"

"They should have come earlier," Ali Dai wiped his thick beard that covered half of his face, slid the golden blade into its sheath, and climbed up the wooden ladder leaning against the earthen wall with a "thud, thud, thud." He turned back to the group of strong men and yelled, "Hurry up, chop down those date palms!"

The desert warriors immediately bowed and answered, dragged two bodies aside, and each pulled out their gleaming scimitars, heading towards the dense rows of date palms thirty yards behind the dirt wall. The sharp scimitars chopped into the tough wood, ringing out with a "clang, clang," and these date palm trunks, already half-cut, now fell one after another with a "crash, crash," as they were struck by the sharp blades.

Tall and shiny figures of "Tower of Light’s Wish" emerged from the date palm groves; several men were busy taking off the camouflage made of camel hides, tree leaves, and wild grasses.

A total of twelve "Towers of Light’s Wish" — that was all the numbers within the "Kalimantan" Caliph’s Royal Palace. Ali Dai couldn’t contain his joy and squinted his eyes in admiration at these city defense weapons.

The Desert Kingdom had its great cultural history, born from the Euphrates River, which had fostered a splendid desert culture. Compared to the crude glass-making technology of the Aegean Continent, most kingdoms in the desert were already capable of producing pure and transparent glass. One was colored glass; the other was clear glass. Just by the names, the gap could already be seen.

Since the Mulan Empire annexed the Moya kingdom three hundred years ago and captured a large number of highly skilled glass artisans, the glass-making technology of the Mulan Empire had become unparalleled across the desert — or it could be said, across the entire world.

The mirrors of today’s Mulan, coated with a layer of mercury, were the clearest in the world.

The "Tower of Light’s Wish" was a weapon accidentally invented when Mulan’s best mirror makers discovered that if the finest mirror sheets were ground into a strange convex shape, they could focus the sunlight into a scorching beam powerful enough to burn an ant.

The clever Mulan artisans took advantage of this feature and fabricated mirror cannons by mounting the best convex prisms onto pillars forged with Uz fine steel. Master Magi engraved light flame talismans on these pillars to absorb and focus light, storing it in the "Morning Star Gems" at the rear end of the mirror cannons — thus creating the powerful "Tower of Light’s Wish."

The magic power of the talismans was directed through the convex mirrors, and if the sunlight and moonlight collected in the "Morning Star Gems" were emitted, within five hundred yards, this concentrated light could instantly scorch ten square feet of raw iron into smoking hot iron. The weapon did have a small flaw; a "Morning Star Gem" needed four hours to gather sunlight during the day and eight hours at night, yet it provided only enough energy for a single beam shot.

Thinking of this, Ali Dai couldn’t help but feel a bit proud.

If it wasn’t for the current Sultan of Mulan, Emperor Hagan, being the adopted son of the previous Sultan and born to the Caliph of the western province, Harifa Abdullah — who as a vassal king, could normally have had only four "Towers of Light’s Wish" — the defensive weapons, although crucial during the Mulan army’s defensive battles, were limited due to the rare quantity of "Morning Star Gems" and the difficulty of making convex mirrors. The entire Mulan Empire only possessed forty "Towers of Light’s Wish." Kalimantan City’s twelve "Towers of Light’s Wish," like the eighteen in the capital "Damascus City," followed a standard model, each embedded with no less than twenty "Morning Star Gems," whereas the "Towers of Light’s Wish" in the Empire’s other three provincial capitals each had only ten "Morning Star Gems."

"Yabushan! The enemy seems to have around two thousand four hundred soldiers," a thousand-man commander lay on the ground listening for a while, stood up, and pointing at the Beamon warriors marching across the oasis front, said.

The men of the desert, used to not relying on their eyes to discern how many enemies there were, preferred to press their ears to the ground to listen — within thirty miles, the numbers they reported were never off by more than a hundred.

"Doo—doo—doo—"

The loud and deep sound of the cow horn bugle kept reaching Ali Dai’s ears from the distant wilderness, and through the wavering air on the horizon, the enemy’s faces could already be vaguely seen. With their synchronized steps forward, the clanging of their armor and the shouting of their officers became distinctly audible.

A craftsman adjusted the angle of the "Observation Mirror" and came to report to Ali Dai; on the wooden battle platform built behind the mud wall, the "thump, thump" of warriors running back and forth jostled the craftsman, occasionally pushing him against the merlons.

The "Observation Mirror" was also made with convex lenses set front and back in a bronze frame, purely focusing through lenses to observe the distance. Compared to the astonishingly effective eagle-eyed scopes, this device was like a cannon, a box-like reflective mechanism that allowed an observer to scrutinize every detail within fifty miles with half their face pressed closely against it.