Arthur was wearing the armor of a Holy See Crusader, pretending to be a Crusader, and was also tinkering with something on the deck of the ship. The sailboat was following the wind, sailing towards Fornonica, and there was no one else on the sea except their ship.
The shadows of other warships were calm for the time being.
"What are you doing, Lord Aslan?" Verne asked curiously.
"I'm tinkering with something that can kill enemies efficiently." Arthur hummed, "Don't be distracted and continue to monitor the movements on the sea. Didn't I tell you that once you see the port from a distance, you should report it."
"Yes------" Verne replied in a protracted tone, then raised his telescope and continued to look eastward.
What Arthur was tinkering with on the boat was a yellow crystal. Naturally, the crystal was not produced out of thin air. It was a chemical substance condensed from the air using his alchemical gloves. This yellow crystal is commonly known as "yellow explosive". The material is only carbon.
, nitrogen and oxygen, all of which can be easily obtained from the air. However, the molecular structure of yellow explosive is relatively complex. Even with precise operation using alchemical gloves, this kind of low-purity explosive can only be produced with extremely low efficiency.
Crystal powder.
But of course, this kind of thing is still very powerful when it explodes. Moreover, it will hardly be affected by moisture and will not explode due to impact. It can be stored stably for a long time and is most suitable for use as Arthur's "munitions" reserve. It
The only way to detonate it is by open flame, which means that it only needs to be stored away from open flames.
What he is about to face is a huge army of the church. Before this, Arthur has been worrying about how to effectively kill enemies on a large scale. If the enemy is not killed, necromancy cannot be activated; and if Arthur suddenly
Faced with the siege of too many enemies, he will always be outnumbered and defeated.
But if you use this "gold powder" that surpasses the common sense of the times, you can eliminate dozens or even hundreds of enemies in one breath, activate Arthur's necromancy, and instantly turn the dead into an army for Arthur.
------Then the situation of the battle will be reversed in one fell swoop.
Theoretically, this is the case. Arthur took a deep breath. However, it took him an hour to prepare the "golden powder" which was less than a small bottle, and its purity was not very high. If it exploded, it would only blow up to ten people in the range.
The enemies must have been killed or injured, and the majority were probably injured but not dead. To cause larger-scale damage, more "golden powder" must be prepared. For this, Arthur needs more time to prepare.
.
The position of the sun has deviated from directly overhead and moved to the west. The time should be around three o'clock in the afternoon. Based on this calculation, before arriving at the port of Fornonica, we can only prepare about three or four times more medicinal powder than the ones we have on hand.
It is obviously unrealistic to rely on this small amount of reserves to cause a large number of casualties in a port city. Moreover, Arthur does not intend to use "golden powder" indiscriminately in a densely populated place with too many innocent people.
Sure enough, should we try to avoid fighting in a port city? With his peripheral vision, he glanced at the ill-fitting Crusader armor he was wearing. This was the one he found among the enemy's corpses, and it was the most suitable for his figure.
A suit of armor. If you can fool the port guards with this level of disguise, that would be a good thing. But what if the matter is exposed?
"Yeah, it's itchy." Johnny Zuster came over and complained while flexing his waist and abdomen: "Master Aslan, do you think it is really necessary to wear this armor now? I always feel uncomfortable wearing this.
Could it be that its last owner had a skin disease or something?"
"Patience." Arthur turned to look at Johnny, who was wearing the armor of the Pope Knight, and said angrily.
The armor of the big man fit perfectly, because his body shape was suitable for being a powerful knight. However, the armor had suffered a lot of damage in the previous battle (it was still hammered out by Johnny with his silver whip).
There were dents everywhere and looked very suspicious. Arthur knew that Johnny was only thinking about muscles and his eloquence was not very good. By pretending to be the highest-ranking papal knight on the ship and talking to people at the port, there was no risk of revealing his secrets.
Low. But damn, I can only rely on Johnny now, after all, the armor obviously doesn't fit the others.
"What we have to do is to sneak into the city of Fornonica with as little conflict as possible." Arthur said: "We can't relax until we succeed. Wear this and walk around the ship as much as possible, and try to get used to the Pope Knight wearing armor.
This way, the movements will be more natural and less likely to be seen through. Have you memorized the speech script I just prepared for you? It is up to you to use your eloquence to help us out at the critical moment. Please be sure to memorize the content of the speech script.
ah."
"Uh, yes," Johnny scratched his head: "There is a back. Of course there is."
A drop of cold sweat broke out on Arthur's forehead. The big man in front of him, who even had muscles in his brain, was not reliable at all. It seemed that he needed to prepare a backup plan to prevent things from getting out of control.
"Phosphorus" the Knight King murmured: "It would be great if we could find phosphorus."
"Phosphorus? Is that what alchemists often use?" Johnny asked.
"Hmm." Arthur's mind was spinning rapidly, trying to find usable phosphorus elements from nature. If phosphorus elements can be found, even if they are just compounds, the alchemy gloves can refine them into [white phosphorus]. White phosphorus
It is a good smoke-generating agent and can be used as a smoke screen at critical moments.
Bird droppings contain phosphorus. Arthur put down his work and walked to the stern of the boat. Although there were no birds in the bird cage there, there was indeed a thick layer of bird droppings at the bottom of the cage. Although it was not clear what this was.
How much white phosphorus could be refined by dotting the bird droppings, but Arthur still touched it with his alchemical gloves, trying to create something.
Naturally, what is produced in his hands is red phosphorus. White phosphorus oxidizes very quickly, but it is not prepared in a good way. It will be completely oxidized before it reaches the port, and the ship will be filled with smoke. Red phosphorus can also be used
It can be used as a smoke agent, but it needs to be ignited by an open flame to produce smoke. It is far less convenient than white phosphorus to produce smoke when it directly contacts the air. Because the difference in molecular structure between red phosphorus and white phosphorus is very small, Arthur plans to mix red and white phosphorus in actual combat. After all,
Alchemy gloves can easily transform red phosphorus into white phosphorus. You can even pinch the red phosphorus in your hands before it is transformed into white phosphorus just before throwing it out. There is still enough time.
In addition to red phosphorus, Arthur also prepared ammonia. He carefully put the ammonia into a glass bottle. This stuff had a stench that was difficult to get rid of. Arthur never wanted it to spill on himself. Ammonia has a strong effect on mucous membranes.
It is irritating, turns them into mist, and releases them together with the shock wave of the Alchemy Glove, making the affected person unable to even open their eyes.
"Wow, something red came out of bird droppings. Is Master Aslan an alchemist?" Joey asked with great interest.
"Actually, it's the credit of this magic device." Arthur said. Naturally, he didn't want to explain the use of red phosphorus and ammonia. Unfortunately, the layer of bird droppings under the birdcage was not actually very large, and the red phosphorus prepared by Arthur was also
I only have a small handful in my hand, and the purity is not high enough. If I use this to refine white phosphorus, the quality of the product I get will be even lower.
"This is totally not enough," Arthur said worriedly, "It would be great if we could get more bird droppings."
"That should be there." Verne said suddenly.
"ha?"
"There are so many petrels flying around nearby. There must be a small island where seabirds live nearby. You can find it by following the petrels, but you have to take a long way around."
Only then did Arthur remember that Verne had always liked to use arrows and stones to knock down seabirds and eat them, or just use harmless projectiles to kill seabirds for fun. The child liked to shoot birds so much,
Naturally, we are very familiar with the living habits of various seabirds.
"Let's take a detour and take us to Seabird Island." Arthur said: "The red powder I have is a very useful thing. Prepare as much as you can."
"Got it, go to the southeast, three o'clock direction!" Verne shouted.
"Southeast, three o'clock direction!" Old Zuster, who was in charge of the helm, also shouted, and the ship changed its course.
"It seems that there is no time to arrive at the port of Fornonica before evening." Bayoletta said sarcastically: "Is it really worth the trouble to get the bird droppings, Mr. Great Alchemist?"
"It's worth it." Arthur threw a small handful of red phosphorus toward the edge of the boat as a demonstration. The red phosphorus turned into extremely fine white phosphorus powder before leaving the alchemy gloves, and turned into billowing smoke before falling into the sea.
A large cloud spread out behind the ship.
"Ha." The witch groaned, but there was a hint of reluctant admiration.
Around eight o'clock in the evening, Port of Fornonica.
A warship that had obviously experienced a fierce battle and was moderately damaged docked.
Stepping off the warship were a papal knight and three other papal crusaders, as well as some civilian attendants on the ship. Judging from the blood-stained and damaged state of their armor, this fleet had obviously experienced a battle.
Fight hard.
"Stop." Seeing that the people on the fleet were about to leave the port, another group of people guarding the pier immediately stopped: "Where are you going? What's going on with your fleet? Set off to Corsica and El.
What happened to Ba Island’s fleet? Why is there no regular contact? Where are your reports?”
"Well," Johnny Zuster stopped and said hesitantly: "They were all wiped out. The enemy was so powerful that both fleets were sunk by them. The opponent had about sixty warships.
The attack is coming with great momentum. We have to report to our superiors and cannot delay the war situation."
"What nonsense are you talking about? I am your superior?" The Pope Knight who just stopped Johnny Zuster said arrogantly and fiercely.
The man had a thin face, a tall build, and dark skin. At first glance, he looked like a commander who often commanded operations in the battlefield.
Regardless of whether his commanding ability is good or bad, judging from his gorgeous outfit--the original Pope Knight's armor had a lot of pure gold carvings--it seems that this priest
The Apostolic Knights should be higher than other Pope Knights, and are most likely captain-level existences in the Pope Knights.
The situation was very bad. Arthur and his party actually met the captain of the Papal Knights as soon as they arrived at the port!