In the palace of the Grey Keep, Tifeco held his scepter and looked at the chief alchemist, Rayleigh Chenis, who looked smug in the audience. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Do you have a clue about the alchemy formula that the defector Boll took away?"

"That's right, Your Majesty, this is the latest snow powder developed by the Alchemy Society, please let me show you it. Rayleigh bowed.

After receiving the approval of the new king, he beckoned back, and immediately two disciples stepped forward with a leather bag in their hands. He laid two sheets of white paper on the ground, poured the snow powder from his skin on them, and formed two thin lines. One of them is grayish-white, while the other is much darker, bordering grayish-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 quick-burning snow powder. Rayleigh took out the flint and lit the powder on the paper, only to see the light snow powder slowly burn and emit billowing smoke, while the dark one burned all in a few breaths, and ignited the white paper laid underneath.

"What does that mean?" said Tifekco, frowning, "My dear sister didn't just burn a piece of paper!"

"Of course not, Your Majesty," Rayleigh smiled, stroking his beard, "I wonder if you notice the smoke it emits as it burns." The faster the powder burns, the more smoke is released in a short period of time, which is why it is so powerful. I'll prove this with another experiment. ”

This time it was two fist-sized parchment packets, tightly wrapped on the outside, and the disciples lit the slender ropes drawn from the paper packets, and then covered the two copper bowls on the paper packets. Mars followed the rope and gradually crawled towards the copper bowl.

"Your Majesty, please note that this time the sound will be louder, please plug your ears. ”

As soon as the chief alchemist's words fell, he heard a loud bang, one copper bowl turned upside down, and the other was thrown directly onto the roof, bouncing a few times on the granite slab as it landed, making a crisp crashing sound.

Damn!Tifeko clenched the scepter that he almost got out of his hand, and swallowed unconsciously, why didn't this old thing say it sooner!

The two disciples sent the bronze bowl of Zhenfei to the new king, and he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart and focused his attention on the bowl - after all, the other party was the pillar of the Alchemy Association of the Royal Capital, and if he wanted to study alchemy weapons, he couldn't do without his help for the time being.

The bronze bowl looked like it had changed at this point, as if it had been struck from the inside with a hammer, and the rim of the bowl was swollen in a circle.

"I've proven time and time again that the power of snow powder is not in the combustion, but in the gases, and that's the truth of the Ball takeaway recipe. Standing in the middle of the hall, Rayleigh said, "If you increase the amount of snow powder and compress it tightly into a ball, it will be powerful enough to tear through the armor and tear the human body apart. I believe that this new type of snow powder will inevitably replace swords, guns, bows and arrows, and even a well-trained knight will not be able to defeat a civilian covered in snow powder. ”

This sentence caused a wave, and Tifeco saw that the faces of several knights in the hall were obviously gloomy, among them, Weimas, the knight of the steel heart, seemed to want to step forward to argue with the other party, he quickly knocked on the floor with his scepter, "Quiet!"

It wasn't until everyone looked down that he looked at Rayleigh Chenis, "Is the recipe that the defector took with him exactly the same one you developed?"

"No, Your Majesty," Rayleigh shook his head, a hint of disdain in his words, "Although saltpeter is a common item in the alchemy workshop, there won't be too much in stock. He only happened to find this recipe when he was grinding the snow powder, and even if he wanted to experiment further, it wasn't enough for him to use it a few times. My quick-burning snow powder, on the other hand, is the best formula that has been tested a lot, and the power is far greater than that of a serendipitous product. ”

"That's good," Tifeko breathed a sigh of relief. Although she knew that there were many people in the royal city that Garcia had arranged before, she didn't expect that the Alchemy Association would have her henchmen. This defection was planned by henchmen, taking with them the alchemist Pol and more than a dozen apprentices. Originally, it was not a big deal, alchemists were very rare in other cities, and there were more than twenty in the royal capital, so it didn't matter if he got rid of one, but before leaving, this person found a very lethal snow powder, and he had not contributed the alchemy formula to the association, so he disappeared without a trace the next day.

Tifeko's spies only had time to capture the henchmen who stayed behind to confuse their vision, but they failed to intercept Bol and his party. Upon hearing the news, he immediately ordered the Imperial Prime Minister to purchase saltpeter from all over the city, and asked the Alchemy Society to reproduce Boer's snow powder recipe as soon as possible. Now that he had a clear result in two months, he was quite satisfied, and even the old fellow who had little respect for himself was a lot more pleasing to the eye.

Tifeko cleared his throat, "Well done, I'll reward you with twenty-five golden dragons." In addition, I will open a snow powder workshop in the inner city of the royal capital to produce this quick-burning snow powder in large quantities, and you must not let up and study its use further. If you can do what you say, you can make the commoners defeat the knights, and reward you with titles and territories. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After the chief alchemist left, Sir Weimas couldn't help but stand up and say, "Your Highness, although this kind of thing looks scary, it is impossible to use it to defeat the knights. As you can see, it needs to be ignited, and the damage range is only about half a step, and I have dozens of ways to get civilians to fall to the ground and kill them before they get close to me. Even if you are close to your side, you can take advantage of the gap between the ignition to kill your opponent and then leave calmly. Rayleigh's statement is just the imagination of someone who has never been on the battlefield. ”

"We think so too, Your Majesty. The other knights spoke.

"That's why I asked him to continue to find better ways to use it," Tifeko reassured, "for example, to shorten the ignition time, or to be able to throw it, and so on." Of course, no matter what kind of weapon, I believe that knights do better than farmers. ”

That being said, there was also a hint of disapproval in his heart. Civilians are indeed useless, they are cowardly and ignorant, and they are greedy for life and afraid of death, but with the control of the pill, snow powder can become a powerful weapon. At least when storming the gates and shield lines, it only takes a few snow-dusted berserkers to get close to the target, and it is enough to tear a hole in the strong defensive line.

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, it seems that the militia you sent to the west has been severely damaged, and now the defeated army has returned to the royal capital, and I heard that it also brought a letter of reproach from Roland Wimbleton, and now many people know about it." ”

"What?" Tifeko was stunned, "Shut them up, and bring me all who are still alive to the castle!"

......

In the courtyard of the castle, a group of militiamen in rags knelt on the ground like mud and begged, "Your Majesty is merciful, please give us some pills, I can't stand it anymore." ”

You waste, you are useless except to consume the enemy, and you are a waste of food to live, and you dare to ask me for pills? Tifeko looked at these people coldly and asked in a deep voice: "How did you lose to your opponents? What about the battle process? Whoever can tell clearly, I will reward whoever I want to give the antidote." ”

Everyone immediately shouted, "We were attacked on the ship, and the fleet was quickly disorganized. The knight ordered the landing and assembly, but when he went ashore, there were people who kept firing with bows and crossbows, and they were so dense that they could not fight back at all. The knight was the first to surrender, and so did we...... Dropped. ”

"What about the knight who leads the team?"

"No...... I don't know, they escorted us back to the camp, but we didn't see the knight. ”

Tifeko frowned, his voice getting colder, "And how did you get back?"

"Prince Roland let us go," said one of them, "and he gave us a letter to pass on to you." ”

"You guys?"

"yes, I have that too!"

"Your Majesty, I also have a letter!"

A group of people hurriedly shouted, and they all took out Roland's letters from their arms.

Hey, did he really give it to everyone? Tifeco motioned for the guards to take the letterheads, and found that all of them had the same passage written on them.

I regret your foolishness, Tifeco Wimbleton. Repeatedly invading the Westside is a grave mistake, and you will pay for it. I will attack the royal capital at the beginning of the second month of autumn, and you will find that your position is far less secure than you think. At that time, all the citizens of the royal capital will see that your throne is on the verge of collapse.

- Roland Wimbledon. (To be continued.) )