Kampf

The Development

A week has passed since Felix's first flight.

He was now floating above a stage, overlooking at the hive of people who are busy making something.

On his left is his gunsmith and friend, Jarvin.

On his right is the new general manager of his company, Heinrich Müller. He was an old person, just as the same age as their Grand Butler, however, his experience as a mechanist speaks levels.

Felix and Javin once presented the AVH-1 to Heinrich. The mechanist then inspected the gun as much as possible, and after 5 minutes of inspection, he knew the full detail of the gun. He knew the length of the barrel, down to the what wood would they use for the gun.

Heinrich was impressed by the gun that was presented to him. The only downside on this gun is that it uses a milled receiver, which takes a lot of time. He ask his boss if there is an alternative to this, and Felix told him to find a better way to heat treat stamped metal sheets.

Faced with the task, he thought about it and he had an idea on how to do it, yet he needed to experiment on it more.

He then asked the prince and the gunsmith if there are any more designs.

Concluding that the old mechanist as a trustworthy person, Felix presented to him the two schematics that he showed to Jarvin.

Heinrich was impressed by the design and the theorized functionality of the guns that were in the schematics. He promised his boss to help in the development of the gun, which Felix was a bit thankful since developing a gun is kinda hard.

Back to the present, the trio are now overlooking the fourth and final batch of their supposedly competition. The individual's task is to create a milled receiver in an hour.

When the mechanists heard this, they were shocked since a typical milled receiver cannot be made within an hour. Most of them can only make it within several hours at least. They were a bit apprehensive yet they still tried their best. They do not know the reasons for this, but they only knew that this is an opportunity.

At the stage, behind the trio, there are numerous milled receivers from the past three batches. Each batch has 50 people in it, so in total, there are 150 receivers behind them.

They are now in the final minutes of the competition and most of them does not yet have a made receiver. A handful of people finished the task at hand, so they are now standing at an alert position, briefly looking at their competitors, yet still staring back at the prince that was overlooking at them.

They are respectful since a member of the imperial family is in front of them. They then thought about the implications of this and thought that this might be an important matter. Briefly proud at themselves for finishing fast, they went back to reality after the final seconds of the 'competition'.

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1.... STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING! Briefly put your name on the part that you made with the pen and paper in your desk. Attach it to the bottom of the stuff you made and make your way at the front of the stage to deposit it at the table."

The mechanists quickly done what they were tasked to do and left the venue. Many were sad since they failed to do the task but regardless, they are still proud for leaving their own bubbles by attempting to do a milled gun part in just one hour.

After all the participants have left, the trio went on to examine each and every receiver that was made.

Three hours has passed after they started inspecting the receivers, they are finally done. Honestly, there were only 10 receivers out of the 200 that are made properly, the others are substandard or completely wrong and can't be used.