Light Spirit Epic Chapter 2741: Shadow Lord (14)
Chapter 2741 Shadow Lord (fourteen)
After the war, it was an unbelievably sunny day.
Arthur wears the armor of the Holy See Crusade, pretending to be a crusader, and at the same time fiddling with something on the deck of the ship. The sailboat followed the wind and headed for Fononica. There was no shadow of other warships in the sea except their ship. It was calm for the time being.
"What are you doing, Lord Aslan?" Verne asked curiously.
"I'm tinkering with something that can effectively kill the enemy." Arthur hummed, "Don't be distracted and continue to monitor the movement on the sea. Didn't I tell you that if you see the port from a distance, you will report it. "
"Yes------" Verne replied in a long tone, then raised the telescope and continued to look east.
Arthur is tinkering with a yellow crystal on the boat. Naturally, that crystal was not created out of thin air, but a chemical substance that he condensed from the air with his alchemy gloves. This yellow crystal is *****, commonly known as "yellow..color fried..medicine". The materials are only carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, all of which can be easily obtained from the air. However, the molecular structure of yellow .. color explosive .. drugs is relatively complex. Even if you use alchemy gloves to operate accurately, you can only produce this kind of low-purity crystal powder with extremely low efficiency.
But of course, this kind of thing is still very powerful. Moreover, it will hardly get wet, nor will it explode due to impact. It can be stored stably for a long time and is most suitable for Arthur's "army fire" storage. Its only way to detonate is an open flame, that is to say, as long as it is stored away from an open flame.
He is about to face the massive army of the Church. Before that, Arthur had been worried about how to effectively kill the enemy in a large area. If the enemy was not killed, the necromancy could not be activated; and if Arthur faced too many enemy sieges at once, he would always Outnumbered and defeated.
But if you use this "golden powder" that surpasses the common sense of the times, you can wipe out dozens or even hundreds of enemies in one go, activate Arthur's necromancy, and instantly turn the dead into Arthur's army.
------Then the tide of battle will be reversed in one go.
Theoretically so. Arthur took a deep breath. But it took him an hour to prepare the "golden powder" which is less than a small bottle, and its purity is not very high. At most, this explosion will kill and injure a dozen or so enemies within the range, and probably most of them are injured but not killed. To create larger-scale killings, more "golden powder" must be prepared, so Arthur needs more time to prepare.
The position of the sun has deviated from the sky 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 Fononica, it can only prepare about three or four times more than the powder on hand. It is obviously unrealistic to rely on this reserve to cause a large number of casualties in port cities. And Arthur doesn't intend to use "golden powder" in a densely populated place with too many innocent people.
So sure enough, we should try our best to avoid fighting in the port city. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the awkward Crusader armor he was wearing. This is already the set of armor he has found from the corpse of the enemy, the most suitable for his size. If this level of camouflage can fool the guards in the port, that's a good thing. But what if something goes wrong?
"Hmm...it's itchy." Johnny Zuster complained while groaning at his waist and abdomen: "Lord Aslan, you said it's really necessary to wear this armor now? ? I always feel uncomfortable wearing this, shouldn't its previous owner have skin disease or something?"
"Be patient." Arthur turned his head to look at Johnny in the armor of the Pope's knight, and said angrily.
The big man was well-suited in armor, as he was built to be a mighty knight. However, the armor had suffered a lot of damage in the previous battle (it was knocked out by Johnny with a silver whip), and it was dented everywhere, looking very suspicious. Arthur knew that Johnny's brain was full of muscles, and his eloquence was not very good. Relying on him to pretend to be the highest-ranking pope knight on the ship and talk to the people in the port, the risk of revealing the truth is not low. But damn, it's only Johnny now, after all, the others obviously don't fit in that armor.
"What we're trying to do is get into the city of Fononica with as little conflict as possible." Arthur said, "You can't relax until you succeed. You walk around the ship wearing this and get used to the Pope's knight as much as possible. The feeling of wearing armor, so that the action will be more natural and not easy to be seen. Have you memorized the speech I prepared for you just now? You use your eloquence to help us at the critical moment, please be sure to memorize it. The content of the speech."
"Uh, yes," Johnny scratched his head: "There is a back. Of course there is."
A drop of cold sweat appeared on Arthur's forehead. In front of this big guy with muscles in his head is not reliable at all. It looks like a backup plan needs to be prepared in case things get out of hand.
"Phosphorus..." The King of Knights murmured, "If only we could find phosphorus."
"Phosphorus? Is that what the alchemists use often?" Johnny asked.
"Hmm." Arthur's mind was spinning rapidly, trying to find the available phosphorus element from nature. If Phosphorus can be found, even if it's just a compound, the Gloves of Alchemy can refine them into [White Phosphorus]. White phosphorus is a good smoking agent and can be used as a smoke screen at critical moments.
Bird droppings are phosphorus-containing. Arthur dropped his work and went aft. Although there were no birds in the cages there, there was indeed a thick layer of bird droppings on the bottom of the cages. Although it is unclear how much white phosphorus can be refined from this bit of bird droppings, Arthur still touches it with an alchemy glove, trying to create something.
Naturally, what is generated in his hands is red phosphorus. White phosphorus oxidizes very quickly, but it is not prepared in a good way now. It is completely oxidized before it reaches the port, and the ship will be full of smoke. Red phosphorus can also be used as a smoking agent, but it needs to be ignited by an open flame to generate smoke, which is far less convenient than that of white phosphorus directly contacting the air. Because red phosphorus and white phosphorus have very little difference in molecular structure, Arthur intends to mix red and white phosphorus in actual combat. After all, red phosphorus can be easily converted into white phosphorus with alchemy gloves, and even the moment before the red phosphorus is squeezed into the hand and sprinkled, it is converted into white phosphorus, which is completely in time.
In addition to red phosphorus, Arthur also produced ammonia. He carefully filled the glass jar with ammonia, which had an inexorable stench that Arthur never wanted to spill on him. Ammonia water is strongly irritating to mucous membranes, turning them into a mist and releasing them together with the shock wave of the alchemy glove, making the affected person unable to open their eyes.
"Wow, something red came out of bird droppings. Is Lord Aslan an alchemist?" Joey asked with interest.
"Actually, it's the magic tool," Arthur said. Naturally he didn't want to explain what the red phosphorus and ammonia were for. It's a pity that the amount of bird droppings under the bird cage is actually not much, and the red phosphorus prepared by Arthur is only a small handful in his hand, and the purity is not high enough. If you use this to re-refine white phosphorus, the quality of the product obtained will be less.
"That's not enough either..." Arthur was worried, "If only I could get more bird droppings."
"That should be there." Verne said suddenly.
"Huh?"
"There are so many petrels flying around, there must be a small island inhabited by seabirds nearby, you can find them by following the petrels, but you have to take a long detour."
Arthur just remembered that, Verne had always used arrows and rocks to knock down seabirds to eat, or just use harmless flying objects to play seabirds. The child likes to hunt birds so much, and is naturally very familiar with the living habits of various seabirds.
"Just take a detour and take us to Seabird Island." Arthur said: "This red powder in my hand is a very useful thing. I can prepare as much as I can."
"Understood, to the southeast, in the direction of three o'clock!" Verne shouted.
"Southeast, three o'clock!" Old Zust, who was in charge of the helm, also shouted, and the ship changed course.
"Looks like it's too late to reach the port of Fononica before evening." Belleta sarcastically said, "Is it really worth the trouble to fetch bird droppings, Mr. Great Alchemist?"
"It's worth it." Arthur threw a pinch of red phosphorus from his hand toward the edge of the boat as a demonstration. Before leaving the alchemy glove, the red phosphorus turned into extremely fine white phosphorus powder, and before falling into the sea, it turned into a billowing thick smoke, which wafted in the wind into a large cloud and spread behind the ship.
"Huh." The witch grunted, with reluctant admiration.
Around 8 p.m., Port of Fornonica.
A moderately damaged warship, apparently experienced in heavy fighting, has docked.
Disembarking from the warship was a Pope's knight and three other Holy See crusaders, as well as some entourages on board in commoner clothes. From the blood-stained and damaged state of their armor, it was clear that the fleet had endured a hard battle.
"Stop~IndoMTL.com~ Seeing that the people on the fleet were going to leave the port, another group of people guarding the dock immediately called to stop: "Where are you going? What happened to your fleet? What happened to the fleets that departed for Corsica and Elba? Why is there no regular contact? What about your report? "
"Uh," Johnny Zuster stopped and said a little hesitantly: "It's all destroyed. The enemy was so powerful that both fleets were sunk by them. The other side had about sixty A warship is attacking aggressively. We have to report to our superiors, and we cannot delay the battle."
"What nonsense are you talking about? I'm your superior?" The Pope Knight who had just called Johnny Zuster said arrogantly and fiercely.
The man had a thin face, a burly stature, and dark skin. At first glance, he looked like an officer who often commanded operations in the field.
Regardless of whether his commanding ability is good or bad, it seems from his gorgeous outfit---the original Pope's knight's armor has a lot of pure gold carvings---It seems that, This Pope Knight should be higher than the other Pope Knights, and it is very likely that he is the captain of the Pope Knight Order.
The situation is bad. Arthur and his party actually met the captain of the Pope's Knights as soon as they arrived in Hong Kong!