The New Civilization of Witches

Chapter 33: Gunpowder

Not until a quarter of an hour of rest, the Iron Axe clapped and shouted,

"Everything stands, Your Highness, the 4th Prince is coming."

Van'er soon returned to his place, due to the special training he had before. He had learned to follow orders almost unconsciously,

so he picked up his spear doll and took a position ready to stab it with his wooden stick.

The prince and his followers walked behind them on the wall. Van'er noticed from the corner of his eye that the prince had slowed his pace when he was near Van'er.

Roland sighed in silence,

as the saying 'a late night will destroy the morning', and 'waking up too early will ruin the whole day' is absolutely true.

Just as he finished processing the incident of the attack on the castle, he was reminded that he should check the results of the militia training.

Roland pityed himself. He had not slept all night, so now he was sleepy all day.

But he had to come, because now that the team had been transferred to the combat training stage, and he, as the supreme commander, if he had not shown himself for a long time, his team morale would have become shaky.

Well... What would someone usually say when reviewing a team?

Roland thought for a while, 'Are we just comrades only at good times or are we also comrades during hardships'?

If he didn't get an answer after shouting this slogan, the whole atmosphere would be very awkward.

It would probably be best to pull someone aside and talk to him, ask his impression and gain a good reputation.

So he began to implement his new plan, and patted the shoulder of a young man who looked quite sturdy.

“Is the exercise hard and do you feel tired?

Is eating three meals a day enough?”

Based on his past experience watching the news, his response to his question should be a loud shout, no,

“Not tired, and very good!”

But the result was completely different from what he had expected.

The man turned directly towards her and knelt down, which really surprised Roland.

Van'er felt that he had been blessed, His Highness the Prince actually took care of him and even kindly asked if he was tired from training!

When talking about the royal family or even just ordinary nobles, they were usually all reluctant to speak a word with their soldiers.

He subconsciously imitated the veneration of a knight in honor of His Majesty.

Regardless of whether this ritual suited her, she only had one thought: later when she returned to the streets, she could be considered a new person.

When he was asked to stand up, his brain was still a mess, so he could not even remember what he replied.

In the end, His Majesty had asked all of them. If someone has any comments or suggestions about training, he or she will step forward.

Suddenly Van'er's mind is completely clear once again – this is a great opportunity!

If his mind was right and His Majesty's militia had to guard the wall alone, they were unable to bear the heavy responsibility.

Maybe my worries of running away or staying are unnecessary, right?

He carefully thought about how to pronounce the sentence,

"Your Majesty ... Your Highness, the number of militias right now is too small. If we march in the same way as we train during training,

when a demonic beast attacks, we will only be able to defend a third of the entire wall and will not survive.”.

Even if the prince started recruiting some militia groups now, Van'er feared training time would not be enough.

Moreover, the weapons used by these people would also be a huge expenditure, it was already difficult to supply 100 soldiers in the remaining time.

Even now they were still holding their wooden sticks to practice.

If His Highness the Prince could also realize this, perhaps he would recruit a group of mercenaries from another city as their main defense.

At least they do not require training and can be directly sent to the battlefield, and they are already carrying weapons and armor, he said,

but the price to hire them is relatively high.

Roland thought for a moment, nodded and said,

"Yes, you're right, with our current militia forces to guard the entire city wall, it's very unrealistic."

Van'er felt very pleased, Your Majesty actually .. agree with his view?

But he did not expect the next words that the prince said,

"Demon Beasts are in a sense just a variant of ordinary beasts, they don't become more intelligent, do they?"

even their habits are basically the same as before the change, but I haven't seen many of them,

so I'm not sure that this is true for all of them.”

“That's what I want to hear. Although there is a distance of nearly six hundred feet between the Shishui River and the foot of the North Mountain Slope,

we can lure them to attack certain areas that we have prepared in advance.”

“Means His Majesty by using a trap?” ask the Iron Axe.

“Yes we can use traps, but not the type commonly used by hunters. Traps are commonly used to capture prey with camouflage, as well as,

but I mean to do the opposite. We will create a roadblock in a direction far from the city wall, he said,

like fences, slopes, and trenches, it forced these mindless demonic beasts to walk around them.

The barrier will constantly guide the prey to the designated place, where we will place our main defense. ” when Roland got to this point, he immediately looked towards Iron Axe, where he was,

“As for how to lure these monsters, I think no one knows more about it than you. “

After a while, Iron Axe replied, “It's fine to guide them, wolves have hydrophobia, wild boars have photophobia, and other demonic beasts also have their own fears.

But Your Majesty, in this way we need to face all the ferocious beasts at one small point, isn't that too dangerous? “

“If we only rely on spears and bows, it is true.” Roland took a deep breath and said confidently,

"But now we have a new weapon!" When it was time for the prince to leave, he once again came to Van'er,

"Your observations are very good, what's your name?"

"Va-Van'er, Your Majesty."

"I'll propose that you be vice-captain for one of the teams to my chief knight, Mr. Van'er, I'm very satisfied, good work."

*

Next to the cement production house, Roland built a new house. It is for snow powder production – or more precisely, gunpowder.

It only had one large room that had an area of three hundred square meters and only one entrance.

He also implemented the most stringent security regime. Two knights always guard the door, though,

and anyone who wants to get in has to register first and go through a body search, looking for something that could light a fire.

Indoor.any fire source is prohibited, so it is only possible to work during the day.

To prevent Nightingale from sneaking into the room, she hung a cotton curtain over the door.

*

"This is what we call a new weapon"

Carter was called to see the new discovery, he took the powder in his hand and sniffed,

"It's not snow powder, is it?"

Maybe Iron Axe (Iron Palm)

don't know what snow powder looks like, but Carter often participates in royal ceremonies,

so he naturally knew how the snow powder looked.

It was the best creation of the alchemy workshop. The recipe was a secret to outsiders, but if the prince wanted to know about it, he would definitely be able to obtain it.

"It's snow powder, but not entirely," Roland said,

"This is the last product improvement of the alchemy workshop, I call it gunpowder."

Gunpowder can be described as the perfect product for mass production. It does not require exotic materials.

As long as you have charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter and mix it in a ratio of 1:1:7.5, it can be produced without technical barriers.

In this period, snow powder was mixed in a ratio of 3:1:1 and sometimes also contained some strange ingredients

(such as mercury, butter, honey, etc.) are sometimes mixed into it in a ratio of 2%,

but with a slower combustion yield and less gas release, this does not provide an advantage for gunpowder,

However, Roland knew that the alchemist would continue to test other ratios, and he estimated that they would only need 30 years until a recipe that was close to the original gunpowder recipe would appear.

In Roland's former world history, gunpowder was discovered long before the production of the first cold weapons.

The reason for this is because the recipe and the process of making the appropriate weapons do not work simultaneously.

However, what many people ignored was the fact that one did not need to rely on weapons, the gunpowder itself was an extremely formidable weapon.