- I take it there won't be any problems with shotguns either?
- Yes, I can easily make them, - the vampire confirmed Konstantin's guess.
- Ah, a thing! Too bad bullet weapons are so easily stopped by the "air wall"!
- Well, if there are a lot of bullets, the "wall" won't hold!
- What will not withstand the "air wall", will withstand the "stone wall", - cut off the designer triumvir, - But you still make samples of weapons. Then show Leonid, Oleg and Sergey. Perhaps they will be interested in something. About the gunpowder I'll give orders. Anything else?
- I'd better tell Mikhail. He's got me busy with other things. This is more important.
- You're right. I'll give Mikhail an order, too. Also, since you're good with mechanics, check out the artifact crossbows. Almost any artifactor can easily repeat the principle of sending a bolt into flight, but to make it self-loading ...
- I'll take a look," the man promised, "I think I can make the existing ones self-loading, too. It's simple.
Konstantin thought for a second.
- Then small arms are in the background. Look at crossbows first.
- And maybe...
- No," interrupted the triumvir, "the artifact creates a greater force for the projectile than gunpowder. Of course, the accuracy suffers, but you won't hit the silver from two kilometers away. And you can put more powerful spells on a bolt than a bullet. And most importantly, we don't have a cartridge factory, and you can stuff rocks from the ground into the damn artifact. Crossbows are more important to us. If you say you can make them self-loading, then do it!
The vampire only had to bow and leave, leaving the already made revolver in the study. Svetlana Lvovna was next. Naturally with another plan.
- I've been thinking about alchemy, - the former psychologist began from afar, - Maria has made different medicines. So maybe we can get some kind of virus.
- And what? - Konstantin asked tiredly, quietly admiring the revolver.
- Well, we'll infect everyone with this virus, and then we'll treat them!
- You know, Sveta (Svetlana), I expected to hear such a proposal from Gena (Gennady) rather than from you.
- You don't understand! We'll treat at cost price! The main thing is that the medicine is only for us!
- And what will it give us?
- At first nothing, - the girl confirmed the obvious fact, - But then we will change the strain of the virus and infect everyone again! And cure them again! And we'll do it again! Until the locals can't do it without us! And that's it! The power is ours!
I wanted to laugh, but Konstantin kept an extremely serious expression on his face.
- First of all, you didn't take magic into account in your plan. Those whom we need to cure to take power will be cured not by us, but by magicians. Secondly, the production capacity needed to make medicines for the whole world. If we are able to create them, that alone will mean that we already have the power.
- And if we make money from it? - Svetlana persisted.
- We have enough money and I don't intend to kill hundreds of thousands of people for their sake.
- And in the future?
- Okay! Answer me a question. What do you want to do with power?
- Well... It's good... No one will touch us, for example.
- Sveta. Power is those who are hated and criticized in the first place! No one will touch us if no one knows about us!
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