A strange world

Chapter 285 Chapter 138. The truth about black powder

"You haven't seen the faces of those rat men. They must hate me..."

After cleaning up the lord's palace, Annan was sitting in the study, describing the previous defense battle of the lord's palace to Olmedo, his smile gradually disappeared: "I seem to be in trouble?"

Annan's smile moved to Olmedo's face: "Yes, they must hate you."

"I should have said that I was Gemma Diatra..." Annan regretted.

"Let him go..." Olmedo said: "The king's capital has heard your voice. Next, we can observe the kingdom's reaction... Annan, beware of the rat-men with a grudge attacking you."

What Annan said was "I am the nemesis of the rat-men", but what he was thinking was that the ten-meter city wall was still too low. Twenty meters, thirty meters, it would be better to raise the floating island!

Xingyue Bay's finances were originally maintained at about 10,000 gold coins. After the coastal ports fell and it became difficult to dump goods to the south and bear the expenses of nearly 5,000 workers, it consumed about 700 gold coins a month.

For a normal powerful lord, it would be unforgivable for his territory to continuously consume his property. What Annan thought was: We can survive until next winter!

As for a small city-state with a population of nearly 10,000 that has a crazy high wall of more than ten meters...the lords will scold it for being a prodigal, and the people will want to be a part of it.

Mr. Swaro left without recharging the amulet - he said that Annan would go over to comfort his daughter and then talk about recharging the amulet.

So Annan had to go to Breeze City first.

While the Rat Man hadn't reacted yet.

Before departure, Annan also discussed with Ingrid whether this visit to the royal city was considered a "defensive war"? Should medals be issued?

They just issued a second medal a few days ago for defending Xingyue Bay...

Finally Annan decided to create a third medal. Xingyue Bay does not have the right to mint coins. The gold mined can only be sold to Breeze City or piled in warehouses. It is better to mint medals and award them to soldiers.

After three wars, the ratio in Xingyue Bay is still a few to thousands - the only casualties are civilians.

Since the amulet was not charged, Annan, who felt insecure, spent 10 gold to recruit Ilimayas to give him a ride. He set off in the morning and arrived at the parking area at the foot of the mage tower in the afternoon.

The dust stirred up scattered, and the falling blue dragon retracted its wings.

Annan hugged Ilimoyasi's neck, slid down, raised his head and said: "They all know that you are my... friend, and no one can hurt you, so don't attack others."

"The noble blue dragon disdains humans." Ilimoyas said.

Annan greeted the greetings with relief and walked into the mage tower as if he were home.

Ilimayas, who stayed in the parking area, looked around, retreated to the dotted line of the parking area, and retracted her dragon wings.

…

Knock knock knock——

Annan knocked on the gilded wooden door of the alchemy room, and not long after, a girl opened the door.

Flora, the mage apprentice who had a conflict with the goblin Dorai.

"Where is Michael?" Annan asked her.

"Come with me!" Flora said in surprise, leading him to the second floor of the laboratory. We haven’t seen him for a long time. Michael looks very “decadent”, unkempt and stubble-covered. Annan was initially pleased that Michael was working tirelessly to study gunpowder, even though there was no result yet... But then he discovered that there were countless discarded magic stones piled up in the laboratory, with no sulfur, no saltpeter, and no charcoal.

"Where's my gunpowder!"

Poof——

Michael's hand, which was carving the magic stone, trembled due to the sound. Magic energy was released from the damaged area, and the magic stone quickly faded into gray crystal.

Michael just sighed, because this scene had happened hundreds of times.

"Annan, alchemy is not that easy..."

Annan stopped being fooled and scanned the discarded magic stones and unused magic stones: "Is this why you misappropriated my funds?"

"Hmm...how could that happen?" Michael was still thinking of an excuse. "I just happened to be doing another very important piece of research...well, very important."

The more Annan thought about it, the angrier he became. He gave Michael one thousand gold coins and waited for four or five months... But until now, he has not produced any results. If it takes her up to three days to leave it to the elf mentor, but she only has to pay a sum of gold coins and be touched by the elf mentor like a cat for half a day.

"Flora, do you know the truth?" Annan, who sneered, tilted his head and asked the mage apprentice.

Michael gasped and winked at her: "Flora, you know the reason, right?"

Teacher and admirer, Flora sided with the latter: "After getting your money, Mr. Michael ran to buy a bunch of magic stones to study magic energy."

Annan nodded: "Flora, do you have gloves?"

Flora took out a lace glove from the pocket of the mage's robe. Annan took it and threw it in Michael's face: "I challenge you to a duel!"

Seeing that he could no longer maintain his lie, Michael let out a long sigh: "Annan, you have been lied to. I don't know where you got this alchemy formula called 'Gunpowder', but it doesn't have the effect you said." …”

Michael took a wooden box from the corner of the laboratory and opened it to reveal a layer of rough black gravel: "The gunpowder you mentioned. They don't burn as well as candles, they also emit pungent smoke, and they can only burn for a few seconds. , it’s even more nonsense to use it as a weapon. If you throw an elite warrior into gunpowder and then light the gunpowder, it will only burn away the guy’s hair.”

"I'm not worth it for you, so I'm researching magic energy, and the results will be greater than gunpowder..."

"So I have to thank you?"

Michael said happily: "You're welcome."

Annan looked around, but in the alchemy room, except for Michael's horned staff, there was nothing that could be used to smash his head.

He temporarily focused his attention on the wooden box. The smell of coarse gravel powder was very similar to gunpowder. Annan took the candle handed by Michael and moved closer to the gunpowder. The choking sulfur smoke rose up. It burned a little slowly, but it was indeed burning. It is the prototype of gunpowder.

"Because it's black powder..."

The difference between black powder and yellow powder is like the difference between arcane missile and greater arcane ray.

"So you're superfluous and throwing away gunpowder and turning to studying magic?"

"Superfluous? How can you say that to me! I just want to help you!"

"Do you know the people I interact with? They are either epic mages or master mages. I just scolded a few legends and Holy Grail knights in the capital just now."

"Oh Annan, you really hurt me by saying that..."

Annan was indifferent: "Give me a thousand gold coins and you can recover from the injury."

Confirming that today's Annan is no longer the ignorant little Annan before, Michael spread his hands ruthlessly: "I spent all my money."

"That's one thousand gold coins..."

It only cost Annan a few dozen gold coins to lure Ilimoyas to Xingyue Bay from start to finish.