The New Civilization of Witches

Chapter 34: Explosion of the experiment

At first, when Roland started building the cement-making house, he had already made follow-up plans for future development projects.

They are mostly centered in the northern mining area so they can easily be 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 into 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, broken down with a hammer, filtered, and filtered.

If all powders have a uniform grain size, only then is it guaranteed to have exceptional combustion performance.

To prevent accidents due to static, the entire production process is done without 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?

Although this 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, a trained warrior or mercenary would never see or respect them.

But ...

the knight chief 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 that of an average animal, perhaps this item could be of unexpected use?

For example, I heard that loud explosions could scare away animals that would then escape, thus reducing the pressure on the defenders side.

Roland gave the wrapped gunpowder to Carter, and then he took out a pouch with a tool to burn the powder,

“Alright, we have to go outside the city wall. Iron Axe should have been waiting for us.”

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

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.

Right now, everyone knew that the new ruler of Border Town had never been stingy about the remuneration of his 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 break it.

Toward the city wall, he had arranged for his knights to prevent anyone from approaching by accident.

Roland checked all the preparations once more and then asked,

"Did you take your prey with you?"

"Your Majesty, it's here," Iron Axe dragged the cage with him and stepped forward.

Carter, looking at the cage, noted that it was filled with some pheasants and rabbits.

“Good, put the tied animal every five steps from the center, until you reach thirty steps from the center”

Carter unwittingly shook his head and tried to propose a fix, though,

“Your Highness, I'm afraid you picked the wrong animal. You can't test the effect with them, they are very shy and only a little sound is needed before going to escape.

So if you can scare them, that doesn't mean you'll be able to scare the demon beasts.”

"Disappearing demonic beast?"

for a moment Roland hesitated a little and replied,

"I don't mean to scare them, even though the sound of an explosion would be an incredible thing."

He took out a bag of gunpowder from his leader, went to the middle, and put it down.

After that was done, he took out bottles filled with gunpowder and sprinkled a little trace of it starting from the tear in the bag as he continued to step back.

Today the weather is calm and perfect for the first gunpowder explosion ever. He stopped after he was nearly 100 meters away from the bag.

"Well, it's supposed to be pretty far out here,"

he once again calculated the distance and after confirmation, he ordered Carter,

"Go and get the hunters."

Right now, Roland's heart was beating faster because he was full of hope. He had already done a small test before, so he was not worried about his test results.

But all he cared about was that this would 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, while lying on the floor, saw the distance between him and the sparks rapidly increase.

In his heart, he could not accept this as true..

They were so far away that they wouldn't even hear a bronze bucket full of snow powder,

so it has never been talked about producing any damage so far, but His Highness the Prince only had everyone lying on the floor.

But since the 4th Prince ordered it and did it himself, it was not good if he said something.

The ground froze due to the cold temperature, crossing the protective chain, 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 –

Because their distance to the gunpowder was too close, the sound of explosions and shock waves reached them at about the same time.

Carter felt his ears ringing and then the world suddenly calmed down. As the earth's tremors began to diminish, he looked up and saw black clouds slowly rising into the sky, followed by pebbles and mud falling like rain.

To Roland, the impact was much smaller than a knight head. Even if it was just a small firecracker, he would immediately cover his ears when lighting the explosive powder, he said,

so he was naturally ready. The explosion is not like the explosions in the movies, which always produce large fireballs. In the explosion, a lot of mud gushed from the ground, even reaching a height of over 10 meters into the air. When the dust has made firecrackers.

As it died down, the only feeling Roland had was that his voice was much louder than the sound of a loud firecracker.

As for the Iron Axe and a few other hunters, they were dumbfounded.

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 where it was tied to the ground.

He examined the other animals one by one. The pheasant was placed at a distance of ten steps and the fifteenth step lay motionless on the ground, seemingly dead. There was no visible trauma,

Roland still knew that they died from the shockwave.

The only survivor was a gray rabbit thirty steps away, but his thin eardrum was crushed, and blood was flowing out of the ear.

Seeing someone approaching him, he did not try to fight anymore and die, as if that loud voice had snatched away 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 become far superior to that of astrologers.

Iron Axe's gaze on the prince had completely changed, though,

“Your Highness, if the militia will really get 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 be mass-produced?”

Roland thought about it, "Perhaps not, until the Moon Demon begins, I believe that we will only be able to produce twenty or thirty of them."

The main ingredient is belching. In this age, belch production tools are still very primitive, they will use the sewerage of people 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 run out soon. They needed to use weapons like weapons, bows, and bows as the ultimate assassins of the demonic beasts.