Wearing black silk for a foreign woman

Chapter 208: The First Bloom of Art

Since the militia had to be selected from the serfs, it took some time after the mobilization speech before finally a militia of 80 people was selected.

The 80-man army was not randomly selected. Those who escaped from the fall of Dundalk were mostly strong laborers. In addition, the two knights had been training them in basic military skills in turn over the past two months, so there was no need to worry about the quality of the soldiers. However, according to Lind and Ilufa's requirements, some people were not selected.

According to Linde's request, all craftsmen were not allowed to be selected, and then all literate people were not allowed to be selected. Whether they were skilled in crafts or literate, they were all extremely valuable talents. Not to mention losing one, even if one was injured, Linde would be heartbroken for a long time.

In addition to the craftsmen, several experienced old farmers were also selected by Lind to stay. The reason was not for anything else, but because during the casual chat with these old farmers, Lind heard them talk about the knowledge of seed selection and breeding.

Before crossing over, he was just a doctor, and after crossing over, he became a knight's squire. There was a lot of knowledge that he didn't understand, or only understood a little bit. After the lesson of the blacksmith Stanley, Lind felt that he had underestimated the locals in this world. For those areas that he didn't understand, he still had to rely on these locals to solve them.

The selection process did not take too long. Although the serfs were very enthusiastic about joining the war, not all of them wanted to go to the battlefield, and women were not suitable. Those who were not selected stayed behind to guard the camp and prepare logistical supplies.

After everything was ready, it was already around three or four in the afternoon. After everything was ready, Ilufa personally led the team, led 180 troops, to Dongshankou.

It takes about four days to walk from the camp to Dongshankou. According to reconnaissance, Lion King Mara's troops will arrive in about eight days. In order to seize the favorable terrain and build the necessary fortifications, we must hurry up.

The army set off, but unexpectedly, Lind did not set off with them, but stayed in the camp.

"Sister, isn't Linde going with us?" In the marching team, Shanoya came to her sister-in-law and asked curiously.

As the son of the Earth Mother Goddess, Lind is a banner of the New Beastmen Coalition, which can unite different New Beastmen tribes and boost the morale of the army. If Lind does not come, it will be a huge blow to the fighting will of the coalition. There is no reason for Ilufa not to understand this.

Are you asking Lin De to stay at home? Sister, you can’t spoil him like this!

"No, he will come, but he will leave later." Illufa explained. "Didn't Alisa come too?"

"It's normal for Alyssa not to come. She's only thirteen." Shanoya said puzzledly. "Then why did Linde leave late?"

"To prepare a weapon." Ilufa explained. "In short, Lind will never flee from the battlefield. As for the contact with the new beastman coalition, you don't have to worry. The Earth Mother will explain the situation on your behalf."

Shanoya was skeptical about her sister-in-law's explanation. She winked at Cynthia in her team, and Cynthia immediately understood, slowed down, and took the initiative to fall behind under the cover of the war sisters, and finally disappeared in the woods beside the road.

Since Linde was not there, Shanoya looked around and saw that no one was eavesdropping, so now was the best time to ask that question.

But Shanoya was hesitant to make up her mind. She was worried that once she asked this question, her relationship with her sister-in-law would be completely ruined.

"Just ask whatever you want to ask." Ilufa saw from the corner of her eye that her sister-in-law hesitated several times and immediately understood her intention. "You want to ask about the sword, right?"

"Yes." Seeing that her sister-in-law had made the problem clear, Shanoya no longer hesitated.

"As the backbone of the Allied Forces, Lind needs a capable weapon, and I happen to have one here." Ilfa said concisely.

"If you need weapons, I have a lot of spares here. They are all top-quality weapons. You can give them to him."

"Your weapons have all been blessed by the priests of the Divine Emperor Church, right?" Ilufa narrowed his eyes. "Are you willing to let the hands of pagans touch blessed weapons?"

Weapons blessed by priests of the Divine Emperor Church can be called holy weapons. In the eyes of devout and fanatical followers of the Divine Emperor Church, allowing pagans who are not followers of the Divine Emperor Church to hold holy weapons is a blasphemy against the Divine Emperor.

"Don't worry, I lent him the sword. I will take it back after the battle." Ilfa comforted Shanoya.

Hearing this, Shanoya finally let go of her worries. It was just a loan, that was another matter.

The reason why Shanoya was so nervous was that the sword was not just a precious magic sword, it also had a special meaning.

At the same time, after the army set out, near the blacksmith shop in the camp, Elisa was smelting quartz in a furnace with a resentful look on her face.

"I shouldn't talk so much, I shouldn't talk so much..." Alisa sent magic power towards the heating runes of the furnace, raising the temperature of the entire furnace in order to melt the quartz inside.

Earlier, when her mother and Linde were discussing, Alyssa interrupted about the issue of delaying the speed of magic power transmission, saying that quartz could be used to slow down the activation speed of magic runes, and then continued her miserable life as a tool.

Think about it, she is the daughter of an earl. In the Holy Empire School, if not the center of attention, she is at least a young lady, and everyone is polite to her. But now that damn Lind is using her as a tool.

Anything will become boring if you do it too much. At first, Alisa was quite happy that she could be useful. Now, if time could go back, Alisa would definitely slap herself in the face.

And then my mother wanted me to marry him...

"Is the quartz ready?" Linde came over and asked Alyssa.

"Over there." Alyssa pointed to a few disc-shaped pieces of quartz nearby.

"Thank you for your hard work." Lind picked up a few disc-shaped pieces of quartz and walked excitedly to the other side where Efit was.

Efit was responsible for drawing a few line-level small-power explosion magic runes. Efit could draw such simple runes by hand. He picked up the magic runes and quartz, and then took a small piece of Shaloman stone and combined them together.

"What are you doing?" Alyssa asked in confusion as she watched Lind pile three things together.

"Doing art." Lind replied, then he put the magic rune that was split into two parts together, kicked his legs and ran away.

About five seconds later, the Salaman stone exploded.

Chapter 209: The Prototype of the Magic Bomb

As a loud explosion sounded in the open space, the remaining serfs in the camp looked in the direction where the sound came from, with expressions of fear on their faces.

An enemy is coming to attack! ?

When they saw that the sound came from an open space not far from the blacksmith shop, all the serfs showed expressions of understanding and then continued to do what they were doing.

The nobles are performing magical magic again. Don't be nervous, just proceed as normal.

All the ruled serfs knew that the noble masters who ruled them could use powerful magic to crush them like ants.

As for magic, most serfs had only heard of it and knew that it was very powerful. They rarely saw magic being used with their own eyes. Considering the occasions where magic would be used, most serfs were actually unwilling to see it being used.

But it is different here. The serfs can see the magical effects of magic with their own eyes and can even use magic themselves. The furnace in the blacksmith shop has already begun to use magic to smelt iron.

The serfs had little education, and few could read. Those who could write their own names were considered high-level intellectuals, and they counted by counting on their fingers. Although the education level was generally low, the serfs were still aware of one thing: the nobles of today were different and were willing to let lowly commoners like them use noble magic.

An explosion sounded in the open space, raising a cloud of dust. After the dust settled, a small pit and a pile of blasted debris were revealed on the ground.

Linde and his two female secretaries stood in the open space. The three had different expressions. Linde looked excited, Efit looked confused, and Alyssa looked distressed.

Such a precious Salaman stone was blown up like this.

"What you did is more wasteful than throwing gold into the sea..." Alisa complained. She felt genuinely hurt by Linde's wasteful behavior of using magic to detonate the magic crystal.

Magic crystals are extremely precious, not only in the Holy Empire, but also in any country. Although they are not out of stock, they are more valuable than gold. But Lind directly used line-level fire magic to blow them up?

Elisa swore that if the old professors of the Imperial School of Magic saw Lind's behavior, some of them would probably leave on the spot out of anger.

Linde ignored Elisa's complaints. After the dust settled, Linde ran over excitedly and checked the small hole on the ground.

When he was sure that the experiment was completely successful, Lind jumped up excitedly.

"Success!" Lind shouted excitedly.

"Congratulations, young master." Seeing this, Efit also joined in the celebration, although she didn't quite understand what they had accomplished.

Elisa forced an ugly smile on her face. She didn't quite understand the value of Linde's action.

"What are you doing?" Elisa asked in confusion.

"To develop new weapons." Linde said as a matter of course. "Imagine replacing this linear magic rune with a square-level explosion rune, and then expanding the size of the Shaloman Stone to be large enough to launch the explosion spell."

"...If that's the case, it will be very large." After thinking about it in her mind, Alisa frowned slightly. "And why waste such precious Salamanthe? Mom can use the Four-square Explosion Technique, there's no need to waste such precious Salamanthe."

"That's because you only have one mother, and I need more than one of your mothers." Lind replied seriously.

Alisa blinked in confusion.

"Ahem." Seeing that the other party didn't understand, Lind continued to explain. "Look, if I put these things together, for example, into a sphere, with a large enough salaman stone inside and an incomplete explosion magic rune outside, and put a quartz stone between the rune and the salaman stone to delay the activation of magic, can it be considered as something equivalent to an explosion spell?"

"If a person with enough strength first combines the magic runes and then throws it at the enemy within five seconds before the explosion, then is the effect played by this person equivalent to a magician releasing an explosion spell?"

"Then, what if I have a hundred such soldiers, and throw out a hundred such things at the same time?" Lind explained with a smile.

Under Lind's guidance, Alyssa imagined this scene. Two armies confronted each other, one side launched a charge, and then when they were thirty or forty meters away, the soldiers of one side took out one of these things and threw them at the other side...

Thinking of this, Alyssa couldn't help but shudder. Releasing hundreds of explosions at the same time would be enough to overwhelm even the most elite Holy Emperor Knights.

Since magicians are almost all from noble families, and have long training cycles and short combat endurance, no human power can form an army of magicians. Just thinking about how powerful an army of magicians can be, no power can afford it. If Lind's invention can be implemented, it can have a similar effect.

Magic needs to be regulated and standardized, and people who are not magicians should be able to use magic. Alisa suddenly felt that she had a deeper understanding of Lind's words.

"Wow, that's awesome." After listening to Lind's explanation, Efit also showed an excited expression. "What a wonderful scene it would be if a hundred of these things exploded at the same time."

"Right!" Lind excitedly grabbed Efit's hand, feeling like he had found a confidant.

"Wait a moment." Alisa instinctively felt threatened, not sure if it was because of her being a magician or a woman. She interrupted the heated atmosphere between the two. "Your idea is good, but it has a fatal flaw."

"What shortcomings."

"Stones! Stones!" Elisa stressed. "If you want someone who is not a magician to use magic, you must use other methods to provide the magic power needed to activate the magic. But magic crystals are very precious. Even if you use them regardless of the cost, what if they are all used up? Are you not going to use them anymore?"

"And if it's an explosion, remember when we just met, you used something similar, wouldn't that work?"

Elisa felt very sad about Linde's waste of the magic crystal, and then she thought of something similar.

Lind knew that Elisa was talking about gunpowder, but there was no saltpeter mine on Aiwozhen Island, which was essential for making gunpowder, and it would take a lot of time to build a saltpeter field.

"I know this is a waste, but the situation is urgent. Let's solve the problem of survival first." Linde waved his hand.

Chapter 210 Where is His Royal Highness the Son of God?

What Lind said made sense. We should first find a way to survive, and then we can consider other issues. If we can't even survive, then there is no use for precious things.

Alisa had seen the brutality of the Chaos Beastmen more than once. When facing the Chaos Beastmen, surrender was not an option. Even if she was the daughter of an earl, she was not worth exchanging for ransom. Once she lost the battle with the Chaos Beastmen, as a girl with a good appearance, Alisa knew that her fate would be more tragic than dying directly.

It was just a pile of stones, so we could use them if we wanted. We could look for more later. Alyssa even suggested that if there weren't enough stones, we could use the large piece of Salamanthus stone that was connected to the furnace in the blacksmith shop and used as a magic pool.

The initial experiment was successful, and Lind's idea was feasible. This idea came from the hand grenade in Lind's previous life. It was basically impossible to make a gun in a short period of time, but it was possible to make a hand grenade. The manufacturing difficulty was not that high, and the use method was not complicated. The only trouble was that the user had to have enough strength.

When Elisa asked what this thing was called, Lind thought about it and directly said the name of the grenade in his previous life.

Since the experiment was successful, the next issue was mass production. Alisa estimated that the remaining sharoman stones in the camp could make about 150 grenades. She called the blacksmith over and asked him how difficult it was to make the shell. The blacksmith replied that with the new furnace and the powerful magic power, their work efficiency was greatly improved. They could make 150 grenade shells within three days. There were some minor problems, but it should be possible to try.

But then, the creation of magic runes encountered problems again. One hundred and fifty magic runes, even if they were line-level magic runes, were a huge project to draw one by one. Now in the entire camp, there were only two people who could draw magic runes, one was Alisa, and the other was Efit.

Regarding the mass production of magic runes, Lind thought about using a ruler and compass to draw, scaling, and pressure stamping, but these were only ideas and could not be realized in a short period of time, so Lind could only use the second option.

"We don't have to make 150 small ones, we can just make two big ones," Lind suggested.

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Since Lind had to hurry up to research new weapons, the camp army was led by Mrs. Ilufa herself to the east pass of the central mountain range.

That was the battlefield that was planned and agreed upon by everyone in the camp after discussion.

After five days' journey, a team of 180 people arrived at the designated location as scheduled, and some people had already arrived here first.

"Hello." Benio, the host of the Sheep New Beastmen, whose tribe was nearby, led his troops to greet Ilufa. "Dear Madam, I am Benio, the chief of the Sheep New Beastmen who live nearby."

"I know. I saw you when you came to the camp." Illufa smiled.

Judging from their appearance, Benio and Ilfa are somewhat similar, both are intelligent and mature women who look to be in their thirties, but Ilfa is truly intellectual, while Benio simply looks intellectual.

During the simple greetings, both parties were also sizing up each other.

"How many people have come?" "Excuse me, isn't His Highness the Son of God here yet?" The two asked at almost the same time.

"Let me answer your question first." Benio smiled. "There are already nearly a thousand new beastmen troops gathered here."

In front of Ilufa is the legendary East Pass. Just as Lind said, the terrain here is dangerous and the road is narrow, which cannot accommodate large troops.

In four days at most, nearly ten thousand enemies will arrive here, but only a thousand of them came?

Beside Ilufa, Knight Ram frowned and interrupted, "Only a thousand people? Wasn't it agreed that there would be seven thousand?"

"There are indeed 7,000 people, but due to distance and other reasons, compatriots from other tribes will not arrive so quickly, and the time notified by Mother Earth is also a bit tight. But don't worry, others will arrive one after another."

Ram frowned at this answer. As a planner with extremely bad luck, Ram instinctively felt that something unexpected would happen in this situation.

"I have answered your questions. Now it's your turn to answer mine. Where is His Royal Highness the Son of God? Isn't he here?" Benio said as he stood on tiptoe and looked into Ilfa's team, searching for the Son of God.

Not only Benio, but other new beastmen who had gathered were also looking around the camp, searching for the figure of a certain Son of God.

As new beastmen, Mother Earth is their racial god. Without Mother Earth, there would be no new beastmen today. Naturally, the Son of Mother Earth is the banner that brings these beastmen together.

Although the direct reason for the establishment of the alliance was the threat from the Chaos Beastmen's Beast King, Lion King Mara, it was entirely because of the presence of Linde, the Son of God, as a flagpole that brought all the new Beastmen together to fight for a common goal.

Don't assume that just because everyone is a believer of the Earth Mother Goddess, the New Beastmen will naturally form an alliance. If there is no one who can calm the situation, the New Beastmen will fight among themselves for a long time just because of who will be the boss.

Irufa saw the anxiety and worry in the eyes of the new beastmen. If the Son of God did not come, these new beastmen would be like a wolf pack without a leader. After assuring the new beastmen that the Son of Goddess of Mother Earth would arrive in a day or two, these new beastmen who were somewhat at a loss gradually dispersed.

Compared to himself as the boss, Lind is more like the leader of the coalition, Ilfa thought to himself with self-mockery.

Before leaving, the chief of the sheep tribe, Benio, told Ilufa an unexpected situation.

"Internal strife!?" Ilfa was surprised when he heard this.

"Yes." Benio nodded. "We sheep can easily climb the steep mountain. We have been keeping a close eye on the Lion King Mara's team on the other side of the mountain. Not long ago, we learned that an internal conflict broke out in the Lion King Mara's team."