In the palace of the castle, Tifeko holds a scepter and looks at the chief alchemist Reely Chenis on the stage.

“Do you have a clue about the alchemy formula that the defector Ball took with you?”

"Yes, my lord, this is the latest snow powder developed by the Alchemy Society, let me show you."Rayley is on the way.

After receiving the new king's approval, he beckoned back, and immediately two disciples came forward with a leather bag.He laid out two white papers on the ground, poured the snow powder from the skin, and sfolded it into two thin lines.One of them is grayish-white, and the other is much deeper, close to grayish-black.

“Your Majesty, this light-colored is the snow powder originally used for celebration, and the dark-colored, is the newly developed rapid-burning snow powder.”Raytheon took out the flora, ignited the powder on the paper, saw the light-colored snow powder slowly burning, and billowed smoke, while the dark color burned all in the amount of interest, and also ignited the white paper laid below.

“What does that mean?”Tifeko frowned, “What my dear sister has got is not finished by burning paper!”

"Certainly not, your majesty," said Rayley, smiling with his beard, "whether you have noticed these flue gases that are emitted when it burns."The faster the snow powder burns, the more smoke is released in a short period of time, which is why it is extremely powerful.I'll prove it with another experiment."

This time it was a parchment bag the size of two fists, wrapped tightly outside, and the disciples lit the slender ropes introduced in the paper bag, and then covered the two copper bowls on the paper bag.Mars followed the rope and gradually climbed to the copper bowl.

"Your majesty, this time the voice will be louder, please close your ears."

The voice of the chief alchemist had just dropped, only a loud bang was heard, a copper bowl turned over the bottom of the sky, and the other was directly thrown onto the roof, and when it landed, it bounced a few times on the granite slate, making a crisp impact sound.

Damn!Tifeko clasped the scepter, unconsciously swallowed his mouth, how could this old thing not say it sooner!

Two disciples sent the Seismic copper bowl to the new king, he pressed the anger under his heart, let the attention on the bowl - after all, the other side is the top pillar of the Wangdu Alchemy Association, want to study the alchemy weapons, he is temporarily inseparable from his help.

The copper bowl looked changed at this time, as if it had been pounded hard from the inside by a hammer, and the side of the bowl had widened.

"I have repeatedly verified that the power of snow powder is not in burning, but in these gases, which is the truth of the formula that Bohr takes away."Rayley stood in the middle of the hall and talked, "If the amount of snow powder is increased and tightly compressed into a mass, it is powerful enough to tear the armor and tear the human body apart."I believe that this new type of snow powder will inevitably replace the sword and the bow and arrow, and even the trained knight is not able to defeat a civilian clothed with snow powder skins.”

This sentence caused a wave, and Tifeko saw that the faces of several knights in the hall were visibly sombre, and that the steel-heart knight Wei Maas seemed to want to argue with the other party, and he quickly knocked on the floor with his scepter, "Quiet!"

When the crowd bowed, he looked at Rayley Chenis, “Is the recipe taken by the defector exactly the same as the one you developed?”

"No, sire," said Rayley, shaking his head, with a hint of disdain in his words, "and although the nitrite is a standing item in the alchemy, there will not be much stock.When he grinded the snow powder, he only happened to find the recipe, and even if he wanted to test it further, the amount was not enough for him to use it several times.And my rapid-burning snow powder is the best recipe for a lot of testing, and it is much more powerful than the product of chance."

“So it’s all right,” Tifeko said with a sigh of relief.Although I knew that there were many people in the royal city who had arranged before, I did not expect the alchemy association to have her confidant.This defection was planned by the confidant, taking away the alchemist Bohr and more than a dozen apprentices.Originally not a big deal, the alchemist in other cities is very rare, and Wang Dou said that there are more than 20 positions, it does not matter to walk away, but this person found a very lethal snow powder before leaving, and has not yet contributed the alchemy formula to the association, so that the next day disappears without a trace.

Tfeko's spies only had time to catch the confidant who was left behind, but he could not intercept the Boer party.Upon learning the news, he immediately ordered the former prime minister to buy the city's nitros, and asked the alchemy association to reproduce Boer's snow powder recipe as soon as possible.Now two months have a clear result, which makes him quite satisfied, even this old man who has a little disrespect for himself is quite eye-opening.

Tifeko cleared his throat, "Do a good job, I will reward you with twenty-five golden dragons."In addition, I will open a snow powder workshop in the inner city of Wangdu to produce this rapid-burning snow powder in large quantities, and you cannot relax, and you should further study its use.If it were as you say, it would be possible for the common people to defeat the knights and to grant you a knighthood and territory.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty!”

After the departure of the chief alchemist, Sir Weimas could not help but stand up and say, "Your Highness, although this kind of thing seems to be intimidating, it is impossible to use it to defeat the knight."You also see that it needs to be ignited, and the kill range is only about half a step, and there are dozens of ways for civilians to fall to the ground before they come near me.Even if you are close to the side, you can take advantage of the gap in the ignition to kill the opponent, and then leave calmly.Rayley's words are nothing but the imagination of those who have never been to the battlefield at all."

"We think so, Your Majesty."The other knights spoke.

“That’s why I asked him to continue to explore better usage,” Tifeco reassured, “for example, shorten the time to fire, or be able to throw it and use it.”Of course, no matter what kind of weapon, I believe that the knight does better than the farmer."

That said, he was also in disapproval.Civilians do have no effect, they are weak and ignorant, and they are greedy and afraid of death, but with the control of the pill, the snow powder can become a powerful weapon.At least when attacking the city gate and shield line, just a few frenzied militiamen wearing snow powder close to the target is enough to tear a mouth on the solid defense line.

At this moment, a troupe suddenly sounded outside the door, and a guard anxiously walked into the hall of the palace, and got down on one knee, "Your Majesty, the militia team you sent to the west seems to have been severely damaged, and now the defeated soldiers have returned to the royal capital, and I have heard that they have brought Roland Wimbledon's letter of reproach, and now many people know this."

“What?”Tifeko froze, "Let them keep their mouths shut, and bring me all the living to the castle!"

...

In the castle courtyard, a group of tattered militiamen knelt on the ground like mud and begged, "Your majesty, please give us some pills, I can't stand it."

Your waste, in addition to consuming the enemy, is useless, alive is also a waste of food, but also dare to ask me for pills?Tifeko looked at the crowd coldly and asked, “How did you lose to your opponents?”What about the fighting process?Whoever makes clear, I will give the antidote to whom I will reward.”

The crowd clamored, “We were attacked on board, and the fleet was soon in disarray.The knight ordered the landing, but some people who landed on the shore did not stop the bow shooting, and it was very dense and could not be returned at all.The knight surrendered first, and we followed... down."

“Where is the leader’s knight?”

"No... I don't know, they escorted us back to the camp, but they didn't see the knight."

Tifeko frowned, and his voice was colder, “Then how did you get back?”

"Prince Roland let us go," said one, "and he gave us a letter, which he may pass on to you."

“You?”

“Yes, I have it here too!”

“Sire, I have a letter too!”

A group of people shouted and pulled Roland's "letters" from their arms.

Damn!Did he really send this to everyone?Tifeko motioned for the guard to take the letter and found that the same paragraph was written on all the papers.

"I am sorry for your folly, Tifeko Wimbledon.Repeatedly making the West is a serious mistake, and you will pay for it.I will attack the Royal Capital at the beginning of the second month of autumn, and you will find that you are far from safe in a position you think you are.Then all the people of the capital will see that your throne is crumbling."

“Roll-Wimington.(Unfinished.)