In the Royal Palace of Greycastle, Tifeko held the scepter and looked at the proud chief alchemist Rayleigh Chenis in the audience.
"Do you have any clues about the alchemy formula that the defector Bol took away?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, this is the latest snow powder developed by the Alchemy Association, please let me demonstrate it for you." Rayleigh bowed.
After getting the approval of the new king, he waved back, and immediately two disciples came forward with a leather bag each. He spread two pieces of white paper on the ground, poured the snow powder from the skin on them, and evened them into two thin lines. One was off-white, the other was much darker, close to gray-black.
"Your Majesty, please see, this light-colored one is the snow powder originally used for celebration, and the dark one is the newly developed fast-burning snow powder." Rayleigh took out the flint, ignited the powder on the paper, and saw The light-colored snow powder burned slowly, and thick smoke came out, while the dark-colored snow powder burned up within a few breaths, and also ignited the white paper spread below.
"What does this mean?" Tifeko frowned. "My dear sister got something that didn't end with burning a piece of paper!"
"Of course not, Your Majesty," said Rayleigh, stroking his beard and smiling, "I wonder if you have noticed these fumes as it burns. The faster the snow powder burns, the more fumes are released in a short period of time, and That's why it's so powerful. I'll prove it with another experiment."
This time, it was two fist-sized parchment bags, which were tightly wrapped. The disciples lit the slender ropes drawn out of the paper bags, and then covered the two copper bowls on the paper bags. Mars followed the rope and gradually crawled towards the copper bowl.
"Attention, Your Majesty, the sound will be louder this time, please block your ears."
As soon as the chief alchemist finished speaking, he heard a loud bang. One copper bowl was turned upside down, while the other was thrown directly onto the roof. When it landed, it bounced a few times on the granite stone slab. A crisp crash.
Damn it! Tifeko clenched the scepter that he almost let go of, swallowed unconsciously, why didn't this old thing say it earlier!
The two disciples brought Zhenfei's copper bowl to the new king, he suppressed the anger in his heart and focused his attention on the bowl. open his help.
At this time, the copper bowl looked different, as if it had been beaten by a hammer from the inside, and the rim of the bowl had swelled in a circle.
"I have repeatedly verified that the power of snow powder is not in the combustion, but in these gases, which is the truth of the formula that Boll took away." Rayleigh stood in the center of the hall and talked, "If you increase the amount of snow powder, and tighten the Compressed tightly into a ball, it is powerful enough to tear through armor and rip apart the human body. I believe that this new type of snow powder will inevitably replace swords, guns, bows and arrows, and even a well-trained knight is no match for a snow powder skin. civilian."
This sentence caused a wave, and Tifeko saw that the faces of several knights in the hall were obviously gloomy. Among them, the steel-hearted knight Weimars seemed to want to go forward to argue with the other party, and he quickly tapped the floor with his scepter, " Quiet!"
After everyone bowed their heads, he looked at Rayleigh Chenis, "Is the formula that the defector took away exactly the same as the one you developed?"
"No, Your Majesty," Rayleigh shook his head, with a hint of disdain in his words, "Although saltpeter is a regular item in the alchemy workshop, there is not too much stock. When he was grinding and configuring snow powder, he just happened to find this formula, even if If he wants to experiment further, the weight is not enough for him to use it a few times. And my quick-burning snow powder is the optimal formula obtained after a lot of tests, and its power is far greater than the product of chance. "
"That's good," Tifeko breathed a sigh of relief. Although I knew that there were many people in the royal city that Garcia had arranged before, I didn't expect that the Alchemy Association would have her confidants. This defection was planned by the confidant, who took away the alchemist Bohr and more than a dozen apprentices. It was not a big deal at first. Alchemists are very rare in other cities, and there are about 20 people in Wangdu. It doesn't matter if one goes away, but this person found a kind of snow powder with extremely high lethality before leaving. , has not contributed the alchemy formula to the association, so that it can disappear without a trace the next day.
Tifeko's spy only had time to catch the confidant who had left behind to confuse his vision, but failed to intercept Bol and his party. After learning the news, he immediately ordered the former Prime Minister to purchase the saltpeter in the whole city, and asked the Alchemy Association to reproduce Bohr's snow powder formula as soon as possible. Now that there is a clear result in two months, he is quite satisfied, and even this old guy who has little respect for him is a lot more pleasing to the eye.
Tifeko cleared his throat, "Good job, I will reward you with twenty-five golden dragons. In addition, I will open a snow powder workshop in the inner city of the capital to produce this kind of quick-burning powder in large quantities, and you We can't relax, we should study its usage further. If it can really be as you said, it can make the commoners defeat the knights and reward you with titles and territories."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
After the chief alchemist left, Sir Weimars couldn't help but stand up and said, "Your Highness, although this kind of thing looks scary, it is impossible to use it to defeat the knight. You also saw that it needs to be ignited, And the killing range is only about half a step. Before the civilians get close to me, I have dozens of ways to make them fall to the ground and die. Even if they are close to my side, I can kill the opponent while the ignition is open, and then leave calmly. Rayleigh's The argument is just the imagination of people who have never been on the battlefield at all."
"We think so too, Your Majesty," the other knights said.
"That's why I let him continue to explore better ways to use it," Tifeko reassured, "for example, shortening the ignition time, or being able to throw and use it, etc. Of course, no matter what kind of weapon, I believe that the knight is better than the peasant. do better."
Having said that, there was a trace of disapproval in his heart. Civilians are indeed useless, they are cowardly and ignorant, and they are greedy for life and fear of death, but with the control of pills, snow powder can be turned into a powerful weapon. At least when storming the city gate and the shield line of defense, it only takes a few maddened militiamen wearing snow powder to approach the target, which is enough to tear a hole in the solid line of defense.
At this moment, footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door, and a guard anxiously walked into the palace hall, knelt down on one knee and said, "Your Majesty, the militia team you sent to the western border seems to have been severely damaged. When I returned to the capital, I heard that I also brought a letter of rebuke from Roland Wimbledon, and now many people know about it."
"What?" Tifeko was stunned for a moment, "Hurry up and shut their mouths, and bring all those who are still alive to the castle!"
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In the courtyard of the castle, a group of clothed militiamen knelt on the ground like mud and begged, "Your Majesty is kind, please give us some pills, I can't take it anymore."
You bastards, apart from consuming the enemy, are useless at all. Living is also a waste of food. How dare you ask me for pills? Tifeko looked at the group of people coldly, and asked in a deep voice: "How did you lose to your opponents? What about the battle process? Whoever can explain clearly, I will reward whoever has the antidote."
Everyone immediately shouted, "We were attacked on the boat, and the fleet quickly became chaotic. Lord Knight ordered the landing to gather, but on the shore, some people kept shooting with bows and crossbows, and it was very dense. There is no way to fight back. Lord Knight surrendered first, and we followed… surrender.”
"What about the leading knight?"
"No... I don't know, they took us back to the camp, but they didn't see Lord Knight."
Tifeko frowned and his voice became colder, "Then how did you get back?"
"Prince Roland let us go," one person said quickly, "He also gave us a letter for everyone to pass to you."
"you?"
"Yeah, I have it here too!"
"Your Majesty, I have faith too!"
A group of people shouted quickly, and took out Roland's letter from their arms.
Heck! Did he really send this stuff to everyone? Tifeko motioned for the guards to take the stationery, and found that the same paragraph was written on all the papers.
I regret your folly, Timothy Wimbledon. Repeatedly entering the Westlands is a serious mistake, and you will pay for it. I will attack the capital at the beginning of the second month of autumn, and you will find that your position is far less safe than you think. At that time, all the citizens of the capital city will see that your throne is already crumbling.
Roland Wimbledon. (., Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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