Tetsunosuke smiled, and said, "Seriously, there's no mention of the zhuge nu here? But what about I got here?" He then materialized the zhuge nu that he had once made before. Most of the appearance of the old creation were repeated in the plans for the new."All my ideas about the repeating crossbow originated from here. This is almost as old as the regular crossbow, as it was a 2400-year old creation, but re-engineered by the great tactician Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms period to fire two or more arrows, hence the name zhuge nu. When operated by a capable marksman it can fire two bolts in three seconds. All because of this." He then pushed the lever of the crossbow, which placed the bowstring in a notch, and then pulled the lever, which made the bow stretch, and something was heard dropping. He then pushed the trigger under the crossbow, and a quite short quarrel flew towards a vacant spot in the basement. He then pushed and pulled the lever and pushed the trigger, and another quarrel flew. "The only problem about it is it had a quite small draw length, and some of the energy goes into making the magazine move, and so this could not penetrate easily. I wanted to make a one-handed version of this, but the small power still bugged me. And so, with some research and trials, and your suggestion about a crank, I made this. The magazine will not move anymore, so more energy will go into the quarrel. Connected to the crank is a pin-and-slider mechanism to draw the bowstring quite far, so there will be much more energy for the quarrel. The crank could be operated using the thumb so that it could be operated with one hand, and, using the small switch to disable the trigger, the crank could be used to fire the quarrel as fast as a flick of the thumb, increasing the speed of fire for up to how many thumb flicks the marksman could do per second. The loading mechanism is the only thing similar to the old repeating crossbow as it ensured that it will not be loaded except when the string is fully drawn." He then heard his suggestion about using magnets to maybe add an extra energy to a metal arrow. He then said, "It will work, provided that the magnets are sufficiently strong. However if that, we should do away with bows, since they will never add to each other in terms of energy. And so it will be narrower, has an ability to shoot an arrow as fast as it will be loaded in the hurling mechanism, and so it will truly be the ranged weapon of the future, if the magnets were powerful enough. Else the arrows will not even penetrate anything."
Eyas put on a smile. This was a good idea. Magnets were always a good idea too. Thinking on the two ideas, she figured the best option would be to have something that didn't hinter a normal draw. Regular magnets could hinder her, if she didn't have time to switch a switch. Whereas, with her limited knowledge of electromagnets, she knew that her sword would not be locked into place, and could be launched with a powerful charge. Yeah, that would work. "Do the battery. I'm working on Aeromancy myself." With that, she could practice her own electromancy, and keep her sword charged. Yes, this was a good idea. @Emerath Katou
