Nancy had no way of estimating the power of the gunpowder she had made because she had no tools to test the dosage.
But the amount was enough to fill the entire barrel, so Nancy felt that it would not be as simple as just a "bang" if she lit it directly.
"Father, it's better for us to hide behind the wall."
Nancy found a fuse coated with animal fat and pulled it to the edge of the garden.
According to the distance units on Earth that Nancy recently learned, this place should be about a hundred meters away from the barrel.
Nancy also felt a little uneasy standing here. She wanted to hide behind the building and light the fuse, but Morris III had already summoned the defensive barrier of the earth core at this time.
"If the knowledge to create those particles was really taught to you by the gods, then I must witness it in action with my own eyes." Morris III summoned a transparent magic barrier and said to Nancy, "Nancy, the earth core will protect you."
Speaking of the sacred existence of the earth core, Nancy believed that this barrier could withstand most attacks in the world.
But the problem is that black powder has surpassed the technological scope of this world. Nancy recalled the fire that was caused by the explosion of Scarlett that night, which was definitely not something that could be resisted by magic or something like that.
"Father! The fuse is still long enough! We must hide inside the building!"
The most uncomfortable thing for Nancy when she was getting along with her father was that her own father would make some unreasonable judgments because of his beliefs.
If there really were so many gods in the Far South Continent, Nancy really doubted whether they would reward this believer of "fraternity" with joy when they found him, or would they just beat him up.
After Nancy's persuasion, Morris III gave up the idea of watching the miracle up close and came to the room where seeds were stored at the edge of the garden.
This room had a window that looked out over a powder keg in the middle of the garden.
“Then I lit it.”
Nancy did not try to dissuade her father. The greenhouse was more than 250 meters away from the powder barrel, and with the protection of the magic barrier, Nancy felt that there should... probably... probably wouldn't be any problem.
"Let the fire burn, my daughter." Morris III had no intention of hiding. He stood by the window and stared at the powder barrel in the distance.
Morris III was so eager for power that when Nancy's mother died, he longed for the power from God to resurrect his wife.
But the gods did not respond to him. Morris III thought that if one god was unwilling to help him, then he would find a few more gods.
Unfortunately, even though he built the church of the God of Death and the God of Souls, his wife could only rot in the coffin after her death.
Maurice III did not give up. He stubbornly asked for more help from the gods. Now facing the crisis of invasion by the Far South Empire, Maurice III had the same idea again.
But what’s different from before is that this time the gods may have responded to him, or rather, to his daughter
Nancy used the flame inscription to ignite the long rope covered with animal fat in her hand. The long rope began to burn rapidly, and the flame spread quickly to the location of the explosive barrel like a winding snake.
This lasted less than five seconds, and out of curiosity Nancy also stood up and looked through the window at the gunpowder barrel in the distance.
She stared at the burning rope with her nerves tense. When the rope was gradually "swallowed" by the gunpowder barrel, Nancy immediately covered her ears and narrowed her eyes.
Although she was curious about the effect of her masterpiece, Nancy would still be afraid if it really exploded.
But more than ten seconds passed and there was no response.
"Huh?"
Nancy slightly loosened her hands that were covering her ears and looked at the barrel of explosives that was silent.
"It shouldn't be like this." Nancy didn't understand what she had done wrong.
"Have you been deceived again?" Morris III heard his daughter's confused voice. For some reason, he suddenly felt a surge of anger from his heart. "It's been so many years! What exactly made you dissatisfied?"
Morris III quickly walked to the door of the greenhouse, opened it and prepared to go out.
"Father! Wait!"
When Nancy saw her father preparing to walk towards the barrel of explosives, Lu Cheng's instructions suddenly rang in her mind, 'Even if your test explosion fails, don't approach it rashly. Either use fire magic to ignite it... or... never approach that area again!'
Before Nancy could remember what Lu Cheng's next instruction was, Morris III had already walked out of the greenhouse. The next second after he stepped out of the greenhouse.
Flames. Flames were all Nancy could see in her pupils.
There was also a horrible shock. She felt as if her heart was hit hard by something, and her chest was so stuffy that Nancy could not bear it.
But the most terrifying thing was the deafening explosion. The land at the center of the explosion was like a whale suddenly jumping out of the sea, and when it fell again, it set off huge waves.
The soil rose up directly under the violent explosion and rushed into the sky along with the flames.
At this moment, Nancy heard the sound of something completely shattered, and her ears were buzzing... She didn't have time to cover her ears at the moment of the explosion.
It took her dozens of seconds to barely regain her spirit. Nancy stood up with the help of the wall, and the picture in front of her suddenly cracked.
Nancy was stunned for a moment and took off her glasses. She found that there was a crack on the left lens.
"How could this be..."
A feeling of discomfort welled up in Nancy's heart, but it quickly turned into worry.
"Father!"
Nancy walked out of the greenhouse looking for her father. She saw her father's back in the rising dust.
Morris III stood at the edge of the garden... When Nancy ran up to him, blood was already flowing from his ears.
"Dad! Are you hurt?" Nancy was completely frightened at this moment.
The soldiers on duty outside the garden heard such a loud noise and could no longer obey the king's order that 'no one was allowed to enter', so they swarmed in.
But the horrifying scene in the garden stunned them. Flames began to spread in the garden. The place where the gunpowder barrel was originally placed had turned into a dark deep pit with charred marks all around.
It was just like the legendary fire of divine punishment falling from the sky!
Some soldiers began to look for their king, but they heard laughter.
And their king, Maurice III, was laughing wildly in the flames of the garden!
"Finally!" Morris III's laughter even drowned out the sound of the flames burning the branches. He laughed loudly and shouted to the sky, "Are you finally willing to respond to me? Damn gods!"