Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 175 Gunpowder
"Saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal." Rhodes replied.

"What is saltpeter?" The young man who had been lazy before suddenly became interested, because he thought he was knowledgeable and knowledgeable about all kinds of alchemy materials, and rarely heard of materials he hadn't heard of.

"The main ingredient is potassium nitrate." Rhodes answered without thinking. After he realized what he said, there seemed to be something wrong. The result of saying this made the young man stare at him even more puzzled.

"Let me look for it first, a kind of off-white ore, which is very easy to dissolve in water and burn easily." Rhodes thought for a while and said.

The young man stood up from the chair, went to a cabinet and took out a piece of off-white ore and handed it to Rhodes.

"Is this it?" asked the young man.

Rhodes had only experimented with potassium nitrate in a university laboratory, but he had never seen saltpeter formed in nature.

"We generally call it gray salt." The young man sat back on the chair and continued to lean lazily.

"My name is Rhodes, what's your name?" Rhodes said his real name, and he had an idea of ​​wanting to make friends with this young man.

After he owns the territory, he will need this kind of talent to help him do some chemical experiments, such as researching fertilizers, explosives and the like.

"Gilbert, you may call me Jill," replied the young man.

Chicken?What a great name.

"I also need some charcoal and sulfur," Rhodes said.

Jill stood up and brought charcoal and sulfur for Rhodes. "Why do you want these worthless things? It seems that only gray salt is useful. It can be dissolved in water to cool down those potions."

"Someone told me that mixing these together can cure diseases, do you have more?" Rhodes felt that it was okay to tell Jill his real name, but telling him that it was to create a flame that could explode was too dangerous.

"I have plenty of gray salt and sulfur here, how much do you want?" Jill asked.

"Bring me a big bag first." Rhode thought for a while and said, there is not enough charcoal here, so you can buy it in other grocery stores. Winter is coming, and there should be many places selling charcoal for others to keep warm.

"You wait." After Jill finished speaking, she went to the grocery store and brought two bags.

"How much should I pay you?" Rhodes asked.

"Just look at it, I'm not very interested in money." Jill leaned back on the chair lazily.

Another person who is not interested in money, how much should I give?
"I'll give you a gold coin first, and I might buy something from you in a few days." Rhodes threw a gold coin on the counter and left with two bags.

He went to another grocery store and bought a bag of charcoal and some small sacks, then walked towards the south gate.

Rhodes is going to find an empty place outside the city to conduct an experiment.

He felt that the gunpowder explosion should not hurt him. He has a golden bell-covered iron cloth shirt and is not afraid of ordinary flames. It doesn't matter if he is blown up a little bit.

When he was leaving the city, no one stopped him to ask what he was bringing. He found a hidden cave in the mountains next to the fortress and began to experiment.

By the time he developed gunpowder that could explode, it was already dark outside the cave.

In the end, only one large bag of gunpowder was produced from the materials of the three large bags, which exploded due to a collision in the middle.Fortunately, Rhodes wearing the dragon scale armor was not injured.

Rhodes carefully took the wooden box full of gunpowder out of the cave and found that it was already dark. Thinking of the curfew system in the fortress, he decided to spend the night in the cave.

The wooden box containing the gunpowder was made by himself by cutting a tree while he went out, because he remembered that friction would also cause the gunpowder to explode, so he did not use sacks to pack the ready-made gunpowder.

He also didn't know whether the explosion power of a large box of gunpowder could blow open the city gate.

Rhodes took out the magical wooden barrel from the system, washed his hands with the water inside, and ran outside the cave to hunt. He was a little hungry after not eating all afternoon.

Although it is already dark now, Rhodes can use the mage ball to find prey...

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Inside the huge castle in the middle of the Glory Fortress.

"Are you sure you can find the killer last night?" asked a handsome blond man who looked to be in his 30s, wearing golden armor and a white cape with a lion's head embroidered with golden thread .

"Yes, Your Majesty. But the premise is that he continues to run out tonight to do what he did last night. My mental power is monitoring every intersection and every important position in the fortress." An old man wearing a dark blue mage robe replied , he closed his eyes and put his hands on a glowing crystal ball.

"Can't you expand the scope of surveillance?" asked the emperor of the Roman Empire, whose full name was Herman Lionel.

"If I want to maintain monitoring throughout the night, I can only monitor these locations, and I won't have the magic power to continue monitoring like this night tomorrow." The old mage replied somewhat helplessly.

The old man knew very well that the emperor knew nothing about magic, fighting, and commanding. He was better at eating, drinking, and having fun. It didn't mean that he could create something new in eating, drinking, and playing. What he was good at was being able to eat, drink, and play without any worries.

A few years ago, the emperor didn't care about the war in the north. Last year, he heard that the Nords had reached the Fortress of Glory, so he proposed the idea of ​​a personal conquest. When he came to the Fortress of Glory, he didn't give any useful suggestions. It's a lot of trouble.This made everyone wish that the emperor would continue to focus on eating, drinking and having fun as before.

That terrible thing happened yesterday. Almost all the people in the entire soldier camp were killed. Only a few officers and Earl Hayden, who was in charge of the camp, survived.

This incident also caused the emperor to fall into a state of panic. He not only strengthened the vigilance of the entire castle, but also wore heavy armor.

This made the old mage feel a little ridiculous. In this kind of castle protected by countless people, their cowardly emperor was too scared to take off his armor and sleep.

"You know, I'm counting on you. If you can't catch the real murderer, I won't be able to sleep at night like before." The emperor said earnestly.

A strong knight next to the emperor smiled disdainfully under his helmet, but he didn't laugh out loud.

"I understand, Your Majesty. You'd better go back and rest at ease, no one can sneak into this castle." The old mage comforted with a sigh...

(End of this chapter)