The Release That Witch
Chapters 34's

Originally, when Roland started building the cement-making house, he had already made a follow-up plan for the future construction project. They are mostly centered in northern mining areas so they can be easily kept together - the construction of brick huts with wooden ceilings is very fast, and does not affect the construction of city walls.

A large number of burps purchased from Willow Town were transported to a nearby storage warehouse, and only maids to grind or weigh burps were allowed to enter the warehouse. The same procedure is also applied to charcoal and sulfur, and the entire handling process for each material is carried out by a completely different group so that the risk of leakage can be minimized.

Roland weighed twenty pounds of the gunpowder already produced and slowly poured it into a nice sheepskin bag.

This gunpowder must go through a strict processing plan. It should be compacted, air dried, crushed with a hammer, filtered, and filtered. If all powders have a uniform grain size, then the powder is guaranteed to have exceptional combustion performance. To prevent accidents caused by static electricity, the entire production process is carried out without any metal products. Instead, they use ceramic and wood products.

After pouring all the gunpowder into the sheepskin, Roland piled three more layers of sheepskin on top of the bag and then tied it with a rope. .

"That's it?" ask Carter. Can this package in front of him be called a weapon? Even though it is a modified snow powder product, with sound alone, you can only scare someone, right? A farmer who has never been on the battlefield can affect the battle as well, albeit only slightly. However, any trained warrior or mercenary would never look up to or respect them. But ... The Chief Knight carefully reconsidered once again, His Majesty's recent actions seem to have no reason at all, but the effect is always very alarming. If a demonic beast possessed intelligence similar to an animal in general, could it be that this thing could be of unexpected use? For example, I heard that a loud explosion could scare the animal which then fled, thus reducing the pressure on the defender's side.

Roland gave Carter the wrapped gunpowder, and then he took out a bag with the equipment to burn the powder, "Alright, we have to go outside the city walls. The Iron Axe should have been waiting for us."

To the west, about two miles from the city wall and located between the forest and the mountains was the testing area they designated.

Iron Axe and a few other hunters had been waiting here for a long time. Other than Iron Axe himself, the others were the best local archers. When they heard that the task given to them came from His Majesty, they could not wait and immediately followed the Iron Axe.

Today, everyone knew that the new ruler of Border Town had never been stingy regarding the salaries of its employees.

According to Roland's orders, they built a fence out of wooden poles and ropes, which surrounded the entire testing area so that no one would pass through. In the direction of the city walls, he had arranged for the knights to prevent anyone from approaching by accident.

Roland checked all the preparations once more and then asked, "Have you brought the prey?"

"Your Majesty, here," Iron Axe dragged the cage with him and stepped forward. Carter, looking at the cage, noticed that it was filled with a few pheasants and rabbits.

"Good, put the tied animal every five steps from the middle, until you reach thirty steps from the middle"

Carter unwittingly shook his head and tried to propose a fix, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid you picked the wrong animal. You can't test the effect with them, they are very shy and only need a little noise before going to escape. So if you can scare them, it doesn't mean that you can scare the demonic beast. "

"Scaring the demonic beast?" For a moment Roland hesitated slightly and replied, "I don't mean to scare them, although the sound of an explosion would be an incredible thing."

He took a bag of gunpowder from his head, went to the middle, and put it down. Then he cut a small hole into the bag with his dagger and let a bit of powder leak out. After he finished, he took out a bottle filled with gunpowder and sprinkled a small trail starting from the tear in the bag as he continued to step back.

Today the weather is calm and is perfect for the first gunpowder explosion.

"Well, here should be far enough," he once again calculated the distance and after confirmation, he ordered Carter, "Go and catch the hunters."

Right now, Roland's heart was racing as he was filled with hope. He had already done a small test before, so he was not worried about his test results. But what he cares about is that this is going to be a historic moment. Starting today, thermal weapons will officially take the stage, and he will forever be remembered as the inventor of this milestone.

After everyone had gathered, Roland ignited the gunpowder.

Carter, lying on the floor, watched as the distance between him and the sparks grew rapidly. In his heart, he could not accept this as the truth. .

They were so far away that they would not even hear a bronze bucket full of snow powder, so never talk about producing any damage so far, but His Highness the Prince had everyone lying on the floor. But since the 4th Prince ordered and did it himself, it would not be good if he said something.

The ground froze due to the cold temperature, along the chain of armor, he could feel the chill spreading. Carter shifted his body in preparation to save his chest from the cold when he suddenly heard the earth-shattering sound of an explosion - the

Because their distance to the gunpowder was too close, the sound of explosions and shock waves reached them at almost the same time. Carter felt his ears ring and then the world suddenly calmed down. As the earthquake began to diminish, he looked up and saw black clouds slowly rising into the sky, followed by pebbles and mud falling like rain.

For Roland, the impact was much smaller than for the knight head. Even if it was just a small firecracker, he would immediately cover his ears while igniting the explosive powder, so he was naturally prepared. The explosions are not like the explosions in the movies that always produce big fireballs. In the blast, much of the mud escaped from the ground, even reaching heights of more than 10 meters into the air. When the dust had subsided, Roland's only feeling was that his voice was much louder than a loud firecracker.

As for Iron Axe and a few other hunters, they had been stunned. They only knew from Iron Axe that this trip was to test a new weapon, but they never expected that the momentum of the new weapon would be so fantastic.

Perhaps it could only be compared to the punishment of the heavens, lightning and thunder! !

Roland stood up and brought everyone back to the center of the explosion. Here, the ground became a hole as deep as half a yard, and the rabbit closest to the center of the explosion had completely disappeared, leaving only a short wooden pole tied to the ground.

He examined the other animals one by one. The pheasant placed at a distance of ten steps and fifteen steps lying motionless on the ground, appeared to be dead. Although there was no visible trauma, Roland still knew that they died from the shockwave.

The only survivor was a gray bunny that was thirty steps away, but its thin eardrums were crushed, and blood was flowing out of the ears. Seeing someone approaching him, he did not try to fight any longer and die, as if a loud voice had taken his soul.

Carter had to swallow, his ears that continued to ring slowly began to function normally again. He slowly realized what His Highness the Prince meant as he said, "I don't mean to scare them". Is it really a modified snow powder? With results like this, I fear that the strength of the alchemy workshop will be far superior to that of astrologers.

Iron Axe's view of the prince had changed completely, "Your Majesty, if the militia really obtain such a weapon, I think Border Town will no longer need to fear the threat of demonic beasts. I myself do not know. , but can it or be mass produced? "

Roland thought about it, "Perhaps not, until the Demon Moon begins, I believe that we will only be able to produce twenty or thirty of them." Primer of the material is burp. In this era, belch production tools were very primitive, they would use the wastewater of the inhabitants and their livestock along with a mixture of lime to separate potassium nitrate crystals. Other than the upper nobles and alchemy workshops, there was no great demand as there was almost no purpose to it, so there was not much production. If all the saltpeter is used to make the bomb, it will soon run out.

They needed to use weapons such as weapons, bows, and arrows as the ultimate assassins of demonic monsters.