The brave man opened the coffin and rose

After the order was passed down, the entire Sweet Leaf Town and the troops were mobilized around Kronos's idea.

The townspeople were not informed of this news.

On the one hand, it is to avoid causing panic, and on the other hand, whether the Lizard People will attack is ultimately just Kronos's opinion.

Normally, Abes believed in her, and even other people recognized that the daughter of the Mels family was extremely intelligent, but this did not mean that they could blindly follow others in entering a defensive state and preparing for battle.

If there are civilians in Sweetleaf Town who heard the news and felt that they did not get the news in advance and felt unfair and unfree, then they have reason to speak out.

First of all, it is the middle of the night now, and the situation has not yet reached the point where the enemy is at the gates. They would not knock on every door in the middle of the night and prevent people from sleeping just to inform them of a possibly false news.

Secondly, they have spent a lot of money and ordered a large number of production line orders in Tianye Town. The work is in the town, and food, clothing and other necessities are all provided. Why do they always think about things outside Tianye Town?

The third reason is that they themselves know how chaotic the small kingdom of Womuza is right now. It is probably much safer to stay in the town than to run around outside.

However, although the townspeople were not notified, Kronos called Wilford.

Before Abes talked to Wilford about the uses of sugar, he had asked Kronos about the technology of explosives.

For now, Kronos and Wilford in Sweetleaf Town may be the only ones who know that Abes wants to use explosives as weapons.

The Northerners did not unlock the technology of black powder, but instead developed an explosive method similar to nitrate.

What replaced the nitrate was a mineral that was much more abundant in the North than in other places due to the influence of sedimentation, a companion mineral of iron ore - lava crystal.

The explosive made by burning this mineral and sugar together is called molten crystal dynamite.

In order to build armaments these days, a lot of iron ore has been mined, and the lava ore crystals have also been sent to Wilford's production line.

Now that the battle is imminent, it is time for this big sugar merchant to contribute his strength.

"How much molten crystal explosives have been produced?"

Kronos asked anxiously, she was in desperate need of molten crystal explosives for the upcoming battle.

Wilford replied carefully, "Lord Kronos, please rest assured that we have produced enough molten crystal explosives. May I ask why you suddenly ask this? Does Lord Abes have a way to detonate them?"

Kronos was relieved at first, but suddenly became nervous later. "What do you mean by [there is a way to detonate them]?"

Wilford asked doubtfully, "Don't you know that whether it is a magical explosion or a non-magical explosion that hardly requires the participation of mages, it requires ignition technology, which is firmly in the hands of the military and the royal family."

"Lord Abes told me not to be nervous, and that he would find the right talent... Isn't that Ms. Hiinagi researching this?"

After hearing Wilford's explanation, Kronos showed a puzzled expression on his face, and then became panicked.

She recalled her previous conversation with Abes and found that the issue of ignition technology was indeed not mentioned.

Kronos' heart slowly sank, she needed to come up with a solution that could be quickly applied.

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"Do you have any idea?"

In short, Kronos now asked Hyoga about the technical difficulties of detonating molten crystal explosives.

Of course, in order to deal with the possibility of imminent battle, the ideas proposed must be simple, cheap, and able to be produced and applied quickly and easily.

If Abes were here, he would immediately think of detonators and C4 explosives.

C4 explosives are more powerful than TNT. Although they have incredible explosive power, it is not easy to detonate them.

Simply "detonating" it with fire will only cause it to burn quietly, and even shooting it with a gun will not cause the explosive to explode.

This counterintuitive inert explosive is particularly similar to the molten crystal explosive they are producing now.

As a "high explosive", the detonation of C4 requires the setting of "detonator" that can produce corresponding conditions based on its chemical properties.

It takes a considerable shock to trigger the reaction of C4, so it is not the heat and temperature that works to detonate the detonator or blasting cap of C4.

But impact.

The detonator is just a smaller explosive that is relatively easy to detonate. The charge is transferred through the detonator cord to the blasting cap, which explodes to give the C4 a powerful shock, triggering the explosion.

Then, as long as the conditions for detonating molten crystal explosives are found, the secret of the so-called ignition technology will be revealed.

However, Hiinagi, who had no foreign knowledge about detonators and C4 explosives, frowned.

"The detonation of the molten crystal explosives seems to be an impact. Magic power is omnipotent, so we should be able to use it..."

In the middle of her speech, Bing Nagi stopped talking.

Use magic to activate it?

This is not ordinary or cheap at all.

And she is the only mage in Tianye Town right now. Does she have to mark them out one by one and then detonate them remotely?

Not to mention how much time it would take her to develop the remote-control magic. If a war really broke out, she couldn't be left doing nothing all day long, just working in the logistics department to cast spells to detonate explosives.

Use the materialized magic crystal developed by Sister Agatha?

That thing is not stable now. They all remember that during the experiment when it was put into use directly, the magic crystal was able to directly destroy the front end of the rune group imitating the third-order fireball.

"Wait!" Bing Nagi suddenly raised her hand. She vaguely realized that she seemed to have grasped something key.

What stability is needed for explosion!

Isn’t an explosion an uncontrollable unstable state?

"Kronos, didn't you take the books on rune sets from me to study? Have you figured out the pattern of the front end that often breaks down?"

Kronos nodded, "Oh, that one, I named it the Charging Zone, and its purpose is to convert the magic power input by the casters into the magic shock waves required for the spell."

"Because the materialized magic power that Grandma Agatha researched, that is, the magic power crystallization, is actually equivalent to a large amount of magic power in an instant. It is different from the stable, low-frequency magic power input by the magician. Therefore, every time we conduct an experiment, the result is that the magic power will break down as soon as it reaches the charging area."

"In order to improve it to the point where it can ignite and heat the blast furnace, I need to redesign a new set of runes for the charging zone to replace this part."

"If Lord Abes hadn't suddenly disappeared, I wouldn't have abandoned my research on the magic blast furnace and come here to deal with affairs. In fact, I also want to learn. You and Grandma Agatha are both very good researchers. I can learn a lot from you..."

Hiinagi held Kronos' arm tightly until it almost hurt him, then she loosened her fingers as if she suddenly realized something.

"You are really a smart kid. I didn't expect that among the three of us, Sister Agatha, you are the first one to understand the application of what Master Abes said about [Splitting]."

"It seems that you have almost finished designing a new rune set for the Magic Blast Furnace. But I have good news for you. The rune arrangement design of the original charging area of ​​the rune set imitating the third-level fireball spell is not useless."

"Won't it be unable to withstand the high purity and instantaneous high intensity of the magic crystal, and output an impact strong enough to shatter the stone engraved with the runes?"

Then, the ice-blue wizard and the silver-haired girl looked at each other and spoke in unison.

"It's a method of detonation!"