Chapter 91 Explosive Rune

Baron Paul's grandfather was once a four-ring magician in the Celtic United Kingdom.

The magic organization active in the Celtic United Kingdom is called the Heart of Elements.

Although the Heart of Elements is not as powerful as the Magic Conference of the Kingdom of Markholm, it is also a super organization in the field of magic.

The national strength of the Celtic United Kingdom far exceeds that of the Grant Kingdom, and can almost be compared with the entire Orc Empire.

Paul's grandfather's job is to make magic bombs for the Heart of Elements.

Unfortunately, Paul's grandfather lost his life because of the explosion experiment, and also blew up the three-story magician tower and caused trouble.

The family had no choice but to leave the Celtic United Kingdom and come to the Grant Kingdom for refuge.

Paul's uncle became a wild magician and served the Grant royal family in the capital, so he did not dare to continue researching alchemical bombs.

Because of the psychological shadow of alchemical bombs, Paul's uncle did not read the research notes and magic books left by Paul's father, which involved alchemical bombs.

This scroll came from Baron Paul's mother.

Her mother had no talent for magic, but she liked magic from the bottom of her heart.

After studying and reading his father's notes for decades, he restored the magic runes engraved on the magic bomb through the knowledge recorded in the notes.

This scroll records the magic runes.

To make a magic bomb, you need to prepare the explosives first, and then engrave the explosive runes on the magic metal.

Then wrap the explosives with magic metal and ignite them with a fuse.

The explosive runes and the explosive formula are the two difficulties in making magic bombs.

The better the explosive formula, the closer the magic runes are to the essence, and the stronger the explosive power of the magic bomb.

Paul's grandfather encountered life-threatening dangers in magic experiments in order to study better explosive formulas.

This scroll only records the explosive runes, without the formula of explosives, and cannot be used to make magic bombs.

Paul has no talent for magic and does not like magic very much.

Although this scroll is very precious to magicians, it has no practical application value for Paul.

It is very cost-effective to exchange for the heavy catapult drawings that are of great significance to the territory.

Richard and Sophia are both magicians. In the Grant Kingdom, it is very difficult to learn any magic knowledge.

Even Sophia had never seen the explosive rune. After taking a quick look, the two of them immediately became eager and immersed in the magic knowledge.

Although they didn't know whether the explosive rune was true or not, Richard and Sophia immediately agreed to Paul's request.

Both parties completed the transaction immediately and felt that they had made a good deal.

Paul didn't even have lunch and hurried back to the territory, fearing that the other party would regret it.

"Sophia, I know a formula for explosives, but I don't know if it can be used to make magic bombs. If magic bombs are successfully made, they will become the most lethal means in the territory. The help that magic bombs bring to the territory should be stronger than heavy catapults."

"I heard that to make magic explosives, a precious mineral called fire crystal is needed. This mineral is scarce and almost all of it is in the territory of the dwarves in the western continent. How many fire crystals are needed for the explosive formula you know?"

"The formula I know only uses sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal. It is quite simple to make and does not require fire crystals."

"I have seen the scenes of magic bombs exploding several times in the Kingdom of Markholm. The conditions in the territory are now in place. We can immediately build a test site and start magic experiments."

After getting the explosion rune scroll, Richard and Sophia discussed it and immediately started making magic bombs.

The Harland territory can produce some low-level magic metal blood steel, which can be engraved with explosion runes.

Sofia studied for more than ten days and used magic to make a small steelmaking furnace. She used the energy of magic crystal to melt blood steel into molten steel, and used the lost wax method to cast a thin-skinned steel ball the size of a watermelon, and engraved magic runes on the steel ball.

Richard also made the gunpowder he knew in his previous life, put it into the blood steel ball through the small hole, carefully compacted it, and finally installed the fuse.

When it came to the time to test the power of the magic bomb, Richard and Sofia came to a deserted place, lit the fuse and immediately avoided it.

There was only a rumble, and the rubble of the explosion splashed from all sides. A small tree nearby was actually blown off.

"The power is far less than the magic bomb that uses fire crystal as explosives. But the advantage is that the explosives are cheap to make and can barely be used in actual combat."

The black gunpowder made by Richard is the original black gunpowder formula, one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal.

This black gunpowder is of poor quality and actually has a lot of room for improvement.

There is no shortage of sulfur mines in the northern border. This mineral is commonly used as a dye and is very cheap.

A sulfur mine was also discovered on the edge of the Harland territory, near the Shaprafer Union Territory.

Charcoal is even more abundant in the northern border.

Richard plans to purify sulfur first, and then use charcoal made from various trees for experiments.

See which charcoal works best?

Saltpeter mines are not too scarce in the northern border. There are large areas of saltpeter resources on the two riverbeds in the territory.

In addition, some saltpeter can be produced in the corners of houses, animal pens, public toilets and other places. With the development of the breeding industry, there will be no shortage of manure.

With manure, composting can be used to make saltpeter fields.

There is no shortage of raw materials. Richard constantly improves the formula of explosives, and the process of producing gunpowder is constantly changing.

Finally, Richard found that charcoal burned from alder trees is the best for making gunpowder.

After this set of processes, the power of the explosives has become very considerable.

After Sofia's appraisal, it can reach half of the genuine magic bomb.

Although the explosives were successfully manufactured, the output of magic bombs was very low.

Including Wendy, there are only three magicians in Harland Territory, and they can draw a dozen explosive runes at most every day.

In addition, the manufacture of blood steel shells is also difficult.

The output of blood steel is insufficient, and enchanted armor needs to be made, and the process of making bomb shells is also difficult.

On average, Richard, Sofia, and Wendy make two or three magic bombs a day.

Although the daily output is very low, it accumulates over time.

By the time the orcs invaded, the number of magic bombs accumulated was already very considerable.

If thousands of magic bombs were put into the battlefield at one time, it would be enough to severely damage an orc main force.