My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World: Volume 10 [Parts 1 to 4] by Tamamaru

Author:Tamamaru
Language: eng
Format: epub

What weapons do I need to strengthen our defenses? Everyone’s got their favorite weapon partner for close combat, so making more of those is unnecessary. That leaves weapons for ranged combat. The best ranged weapon is one that can be wielded even by those not used to fighting.

In other words, I needed something that even Rike could easily use. I wasn’t going to put her on the front lines, but it would be great if she could launch a preemptive strike from the back row and then support everyone. And if Rike could use the weapon, everyone else in our family would be able to as well. It would be even better if the weapon could adapt to each person’s strengths, sizes, and combat styles.

“All right, let’s get started on that crossbow,” I said.

In truth, I’d wanted to begin making one sooner, but a stove was essential for our daily life. The crossbow would be important during attacks, but it wasn’t an absolute necessity that had to be prioritized. Still, I couldn’t keep it on the back burner forever.

It was time to make a new weapon.

Roughly speaking, a crossbow was a drawn bow that had a latch or something to hold the string back and keep it from launching. Releasing that latch would release the string and fire an arrow. I had to be precise when building it, though. My plan was to have a disk of some sort in the center of the crossbow body. This disk would spin on a horizontal axis, and it would have a groove cut into it where the string could nestle when drawn back. To keep the disk from spinning prematurely because of the tension in the string, I would also cut a notch on the opposite side of the disk and add some sort of contraption that would lock the disk—and thus the string—in place. If this contraption was released, the tension of the string would cause the disk to spin, and the bowstring would release, firing an arrow.

I decided that the contraption would be similar to a gun and its trigger. On a gun, pulling the trigger releases the sear, which unleashes the hammer, and a bullet is fired. That was what I had in mind for the crossbow.

Of course, when a weapon is fired, the trigger must return to its original position. Guns generally used trigger springs for this, but I decided to use a U-shaped leaf spring for the job. Back on Earth, matchlock guns used leaf springs—because of the spring’s shape, it was nicknamed pine needle spring, tweezer spring, or simply, spring. I was going to make something similar.

I couldn’t make a coil spring just yet; the technology was a bit futuristic for this world. I’d heard that on Earth, Leonardo da Vinci had sketched a diagram of a pistol using a spring. However, it would launch this era forward quite a bit if a similar stroke of inventive genius suddenly appeared, and I had no intention of being the da Vinci of this world.

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