After the test, Dath'Remar became even more fond of the Golden Holy Sword.
On the spot, he submitted an order for 100 Golden Holy Swords to Gale, 80 for the Moon Guard and 20 for the Sunstrider family.
Furthermore, he stated that once the order was completed, he would help Gale promote it to other Moon Guard detachments, and there would surely be many more orders in the future.
Gale expressed his gratitude and presented a freshly forged Golden Holy Sword to Dath'Remar.
Dath'Remar accepted it happily and repeatedly promised to help Gale secure more orders.
Having received his "kickback," Dath'Remar was very enthusiastic. Not long after he returned, he sent someone to place another order for 100.
Like the Mages of Nathalas Academy, the Moon Guard loved the Golden Holy Sword. Although they hadn't seen the actual item, spending 50 gold coins to collect an epic weapon was still worthwhile.
Gale hadn't expected that all the combat tools he manufactured would be purchased by Mages as collectibles.
However, although the orders were considerable, Gale couldn't forge so many weapons at once. The main reason was that adamantium was too scarce, and the adamantium stored at Nathalas Academy had already been used up. Therefore, Gale sent Pisaster to Suramar City and Sin'dorei to acquire adamantium, and also entrusted someone to search for adamantium ore veins, as this useful metal would certainly be needed frequently in the future.
Sethonis's testing work was finally completed, and after summarizing, two runes were selected. The Wind Power rune could increase the initial velocity of arrows and extend their range. The Lightning Strike rune increased the penetration of arrows and added lightning damage.
After enchanting the two runes onto the crossbow arm, the effect was indeed outstanding.
However, Gale still needed to redesign the crossbow's structure. First, he needed to reduce the length of the bow and the arm, as they shouldn't be too long for combat in the forest. Second, he needed to change the structure of the trigger mechanism, transforming it from two parts (the sear and the trigger) into four parts (the sight-sear, trigger, nut, and catch). Then, he would reduce the thickness of the bow to make stringing easier, and use ox tendon attached to the outside of the bow to ensure that the bow's recovery speed remained unchanged.
After the first draft of the blueprint was completed, he immediately had craftsmen manufacture it for testing.
The difficulty of stringing was greatly reduced, but it was still somewhat strenuous for rangers to use. The power of the crossbow bolt was weakened after being fired, but with the penetrating effect of the Lightning Strike rune, it was enough to cause damage to trolls. After adding the sight, the accuracy significantly improved.
Based on the shortcomings of the first draft, the second draft made further improvements.
Pulley blocks were added to both sides of the bow to increase the length of the string, using the string installation method of modern compound bows to go around the pulley blocks. This made stringing much easier, and the initial velocity of the arrow also increased significantly.
After testing, a new problem emerged. The lifespan of the pulley blocks was not high; they needed to be replaced after about a hundred shots.
Sethonis worried that this would affect the quality of the crossbow, as its power level was at least epic. If it dropped to a fine-grade due to the lifespan of its components, it would be bad and might affect the selling price.
"Don't worry, as long as the crossbow's power doesn't decrease, its quality won't drop. At most, we'll include a pulley block and provide installation instructions. This way, we can solve the pulley block problem, and in the future, we can even make some money from the pulley blocks. We've already given one for free; they can't expect us to replace the pulley blocks for free every time, can they?"
Sethonis was dumbfounded; Gale had opened a new world to him. This cunning merchant even wanted to make money from pulley blocks?
Why not make money?
Gale thought triumphantly, it was only because he was kind-hearted. Otherwise, if he reduced the lifespan of all the crossbow's components, he would earn even more.
Oh, I just can't bring myself to do it!
It seems I don't have the talent to be a capitalist.
Magic is indeed a good thing; manufacturing things is too simple. Refining metal became easy, making molds became easy, and many industrial technologies didn't need to be mastered to create very complex things.
If Gale wanted to, he could completely conjure a mecha with magic; it would just take a bit more time.
Gale wasn't bragging; Nathalas had a course that taught the creation of golems. Golem technology was far more complex than mecha, as mecha only needed human operation, while golems were different; golems were equivalent to robots with "artificial intelligence."
Although the "artificial intelligence" in the magic world was simpler than human artificial intelligence, it was not a technology everyone could master. It was only because the Kaldorei Empire's magic technology was advanced that if you had money, you could pile up golems.
Ten thousand years later, whether in Quel'Thalas or Dalaran, golems were a technology only mastered by top Mages. Even if they were created, they were extremely cherished and could only be used to guard important locations.
Otherwise, with Quel'Thalas's financial power, they could have accumulated thousands or tens of thousands of golems over ten thousand years. When Arthas attacked, if they had released ten thousand golems, no matter how many undead there were, they wouldn't have been a match. Even with demon assistance, it could have severely crippled the undead and even had the possibility of killing Arthas.
In that case, the history of world of warcraft would have taken a different turn.
After the final version was set, Sethonis asked Gale to give the crossbow a resounding name. Through the Sanction Blade and the Golden Holy Sword, he greatly admired Gale's naming ability.
Gale pondered for a moment, "Let's call it Wind Power!"
Since there were no suitable names in Honor of Kings, he might as well exploit League of Legends.
These two games had given Gale a lot of inspiration. The characteristics of the Sanction Blade and the Golden Holy Sword were similar to the attributes in the games. The characteristics of Wind Power were based on the attributes of the Sunstreak Bow, but the name clearly didn't match the Sunstreak Bow.
Gale didn't force the naming; there were plenty of game equipment names anyway.
After using up the names from Honor of Kings and League of Legends, there was still world of warcraft!
After using up the names from games, he could also create his own. Following the pattern of the Windfury Blade, he could come up with hundreds of names.
Sethonis nodded approvingly, "That name is resounding enough. Gale, I truly admire you."
Gale humbly said, "I just thought of it casually."
Sethonis's mouth twitched, clearly having been impressed by him.
After calculating the cost, both were quite surprised. Because the price of oak and other bow-making materials was not high, plus the enchanting materials, it didn't even amount to 1 gold coin.
However, Gale still set the selling price at 8 gold coins. The technology applied to Wind Power, and the cost of purchasing patents also amounted to a significant sum, which had to be included in the cost.
He would never admit that he was afraid a too-low price would affect the selling price of other epic weapons.
"If it weren't for the flaw in the pulley blocks, it could totally sell for 10 gold coins," Gale said regretfully.
Sethonis rolled his eyes. This cunning merchant wasn't satisfied with an 800% profit.