I needed to stop the mithril from creating the harmonics. That required two things. I couldn't make the surfaces perfectly parallel. I had to add so microscopic imperfections to the press mold so the mithril plate would look smooth and plain but in reality, it was all wavy. At random. I used a Penrose tiling, which was infinite and never repeated itself. The second thing was to put a layer of Living Silk fabric between the Mithril plates to dampen emissions below a certain amount.
The number of Mithril layers was also limited to three for simplicity. It would still grant 86% energy dissipation, which was different from damage reduction. The impact of any attack on a Mithril armor was reflected and applied equally from all directions. That ant the biggest advantage of weapons, which was focusing damage on a single point, vanished. Most weapons didn't carry much energy. Even a 9mm bullet carried only around 600 joules of kinetic energy. 84 joules were about the sa energy as a strong hand slap, distributed over the entire torso of a person. At this point, it was basically massage.
Spoiler alert, people in Yznarian could punch with more force than a 9mm bullet. But they were tougher, though not as tough as they were strong.
Instead of personal armor, I wanted to see how it would fare as airship armor. Cladding an airship with Mithril was an extravagant luxury, even if compared to Adamantite armor. It was about 100 tis more expensive but also 15% of the weight even after all the support structures we added. I took the latest model of personal cruising airship and turned it into a sleek sci-fi ship, without masts but also not vacuum-proof.
In my Kyuubitaur form (Kyuubi centaur, the shape I used against the Broodmother), I tested the combination of Mithril and Living Silk armor with the [Unicorn King Spear], delivering a barrage of attacks as fast as I could. Despite the heinously loud sound (which even drew so elven Griffin riders to check), it didn't explode with harmonics this ti. I doubt anything in this world can hit harder than a giant fox-woman wielding the legendary weapon with my full unlocked Proficiencies and Perks. It was a success.
[Mithril Airship Armor Plating] - level 0
Price: Priceless.
> Enchanted with [Absolute Silence].
> Dissipates 84% of the energy received back to the inside or outside, depending on where it ca from.
> Distributes the remaining energy equally along the entire hull.
> Hardness: 2,000
> HP: 4.
> Weakens demons in a 100-ter range.
Mithril was nigh-impossible to damage as you needed to saturate it with energy to make any stick inside the tal. But when you reached this limit, it was weaker than paper. 2,000 base damage reduction was no joke. Unless you rolled that high on the dice, you would deal no damage and not all the multipliers in the world could help you.
The enchantnt on the Mithril made the armor entirely silent. Not even the sound of air being cut by this silvery-white beauty would be heard. It was the perfect stealth vessel if the enemy was blind. It also had as much propulsion as a similar model would use with the Adamantite plating. It should go as fast as a fighter jet.
The bolts had to be made out of Mithril too. The tip of the bolts was flat on both ends, and the threading grooves were deep, creating a lot of surface to dissipate energy from without channeling too much to the inside. The armor was anchored on a Truesilver-tempered steel fra that was designed to soak the hits from the Mithril plate and keep the interior of the airship stable.
Perfect, right? A nigh-invincible airship, light as an angel's feather, an aerodynamic bullet.
What could possibly go wrong? Give it so thought.
Ready?
Here it goes.
The airship was complete and ready for its maiden flight. We were hoping the airship would be the flagship of our anti-Demon offensive. Barbara took the honors of taking it up in the air for the first ti. We didn't use a Champagne bottle to baptize the ship because you don't want to throw a glass bottle at a Mithril plate. Trust . Also, we had no Champagne.
Everyone was excited. Mithril was revealed to the eyes of the public for the first ti. A lot of people gathered at the wharf, pointing, cheering, enjoying the unique occasion. Barbara was brimming with excitent to be the first one to pilot the Mithril Airship. She nad it "Queen Lorna's Vengeance".
It started to lift as smoothly as an Elder fairy flying in her ho. It cleared the dock, with all the people of Clovehaven and visitors gawking at the silver-white airship. I was on Barbara's side, excited as I could. Once we cleared the floating pier, the [Wharf Master] cleared us for cruise speed. The whole airship port worked like an airport for airplanes, which was reasonable considering that it was basically that.
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The ground crew released balloons and fireworks. The crowd shouted as loud as they could. Queen Lorna's Vengeance pointed north, toward the main continent.
"Full speed ahead!" Barbara ordered out loud, which did nothing but sound cool, and ntally commanded the airship to do so.
The airship accelerated like an arrow for 0.2 seconds, then kept moving at a leisure pace even though all the levitation crystals were working at maximum potency. I felt the air pressure inside the bridge increase slightly. We were gaining speed but at a very slow acceleration.
She nodded and commanded the crystals to stop pushing so hard. The air pressure normalized.
"What is wrong? Why won't it go faster?" Barbara bemoaned.
I ran so calculations and the answer was disappointing, though it should be obvious.
"But what about Queen Lorna?"
I suggested.
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