Metal Mage 5 by Eric Vall

Author:Eric Vall [Vall, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“So, you’re saying you changed the composition of the metal?” Cayla asked. Her blue eyes were keen as she leaned closer, and I flexed the limbs of the crossbow once more to show her the effect.

“Exactly,” I said with a broad grin. “I adjusted the carbon content and then treated the metal just enough to give it a higher-yield. So, it’s still steel, but it’s called spring steel.”

Cayla nodded as she listened carefully while Stan nodded along from his spot on her collarbone. “And you can use it for many things as well?”

“That’s the best part,” I told her. “Since it bends just enough for a little flexibility, but it returns to the exact same shape without losing any tensile strength over time, I can use it for the frame of the bows as well as the mechanism I’m attaching.”

Aurora smiled from the other side of the chunk of metal in front of me. “Which is?” she asked curiously.

“I need to make sure I can build it first,” I admitted. “I know how the concept works, but I’ve only ever seen it on what’s called a repeating bow, and I want something more than that. I want something strong enough to account for the tension of the metal and the style of shooting the elves are accustomed to. And I want the magazine to require less effort to reload. A repeating bow needs to be pumped, kind of like the shotgun. This weapon should be able to reload with only the pull of the bowstring.”

“What’s a magazine?” Shoshanne asked. She was cross legged at my other side, and she twirled a shuriken absentmindedly between her fingertips.

“Think of it like the bullet chamber in the revolver combined with a quiver,” I told the Aer Mage. “A magazine is a mechanism that’s spring loaded, so you can load several arrows into it, and the springs will press the arrows up and into place on their own with your next draw.”

Aurora’s lips curled upward as she considered the design. “I want one,” she said decidedly, and I sent her a wink.

“Everyone’s getting one,” I assured her. “No elf I make a deal with is gonna have a weapon I don’t get to fuck around with as well.”

“Really?” Cayla asked, and the eagerness in her voice was clear as day.

“Hell yeah,” I replied. “I’m making one for each of you, one for me, and probably about twenty for House Fehryn. Thrungrig knows how much I like steel, so there’s just a shit ton of it in that sidecar. If Rhys and his warriors can’t get an upper hand on House Natyr with twenty of these babies, then there’s seriously nothing I can do to help them. But in all likelihood, if I can get the mechanism right, they’ll probably kill every one of Onym’s men off within the week.”

I sighed at the thought. It was a dangerous one, but House Natyr had put a target on all of our backs, and so far, they were the only elves in Nalnora who hadn’t shied away from acting on it.

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