God knows how Duke sensed the anvil's ill-intentioned sin in the thick beard of the dwarves.

But when he heard the Energy Stone, he still couldn't turn around.

He thought that something that could be used as a substitute for gunpowder should also have some of the characteristics of gunpowder, such as powder, or the effect of burning and exploding when exposed to fire.

However, it is usually a large crystal-shaped magic stone, and no matter how you look at it, it can't be compared to gunpowder.

"Energy Stone?" Duke asked uncertainly.

"Yes, the Energy Stones, the ones you sent me the other day. Anvil agreed with some cheerfulness.

After observing his steam rifle, Duke asked someone to give him some very high-quality energy supply stones as gifts, which he called as research materials.

This made his jaw almost drop, just the batch of energy supply magic stones he received that day exceeded the total amount of energy supply magic stones he had seen in his previous life, and the function of these precious energy supply magic stones was to try the steam rifle according to the lord.

From that point on, he suspected that the Lords had mines that could afford to buy them at will, and in fact Duke did have one of the best iron mines in the North in the Connaughton area.

Either there is still a mine, but the existence of this mine is a bit appalling, after all, the energy supply magic stone mine has long been declared extinct on the mainland, so he will give up thinking about it.

But none of this prevented him from using this method today to let the lord experience the feeling of being jaw-dropped.

Looking at Duke's shocked and puzzled expression, Anvil finally couldn't help but explain more: "Actually, I'm talking about grinding the energy supply magic stone into powder, you know, the magic power contained in the complete energy supply magic stone is orderly and can be used directly." If the Energizing Stone is ground into powder, this order will be broken, and a chaotic and violent tide of magic will be formed. ”

Duke touched his chin thoughtfully, mainly because he really didn't know that the Energy Supply Magic Stone still had this effect.

In fact, his own knowledge of magic was inherited from a man with little common sense, and if Lenia was here, he might have reacted to the anvil's claims and understood these principles.

Thinking about it, he immediately noticed another point, that is, energy magic stone powder is not uncommon, every time you go to the mine, you will see soldiers cutting larger crystals into shapes that are convenient for transportation and use, and there will always be some magic stone powder piled up on the ground, but there has never been an accident similar to ** explosion, which shows that in most cases, the energy magic stone powder should be in a steady state, and it is difficult to be excited.

"So how do you excite these magic stone powders, just like the effect of gunpowder is to produce a thrust to push the projectile out after the barrel ignites and explodes. So Duke directly raised his question

The anvil had obviously expected this a long time ago, nodded and replied: "Your question is very good, in fact, the magic chaos of the energy supply magic stone powder is a kind of calm chaos, and it takes a fire from outside objects to make them produce a powerful power like **, and the origin of this fire, you have given me a great reminder." ”

As he spoke, he took out a figure ten crossbow out of nowhere, dismantled its crossbow machine by dividing it by two, pulled the trigger below to show Duke to see, and then continued: "The trigger you mentioned is actually somewhat similar to our crossbow machine, both of which are realized by mechanical transmission to release the blocking iron, of course, the so-called trigger now has no effect. ”

He pulled out a small carving knife from his pocket and carved it lightly on a small hammer-like object, occasionally dipping it into some unknown paint with a faint magical glow.

After a while, an ordinary crossbow machine with no features that was originally just made of mortal iron turned into a simple magic prop engraved with orange runes under the skillful hands of the anvil, exuding an extremely faint magical aura.

"You see, now when this hammer pulls the trigger, it will 'ignite' the energy supply magic stone powder that was originally maintained in the balance of magic power with a hint of external magic, producing an explosion-like effect and pushing the projectile out, I don't think this effect is worse than gunpowder, and maybe even better. ”

He handed the magic trigger to Duke to look at, and gave his last thoughts.

Duke was amazed at the small object in his hand, he had witnessed how the anvil had turned an ordinary crossbow machine into the magic trigger it is today, and the anvil's statement was very plausible.

With this magic trigger as a fuse, the Powered Stone Powder can be used as a substitute for gunpowder, and it has greater advantages than gunpowder.

One is the extremely strong stability, which is known to not cause the accumulated energy supply magic stone powder to explode under various conditions such as open flame, impact and friction, which can be seen.

Then there's the fact that its explosion mechanism is essentially chaotic mana fluctuations, and it doesn't produce the smoke that obscures the view that rises from the early muskets, jumping directly to the level of smokeless gunpowder.

As for the others, we still need to wait for the anvil to make a sample before we can experiment and compare.

"I thought dwarves were purely mechanical, but I didn't expect so many places where magic runes play a major role. Duke half-jokingly said, whether it was the internal structure of the steam rifle or the magic trigger in his hand now, he could always see that the dwarves were extremely advanced in magic runes, and they were not a group of science and engineering technicians as he had imagined.

"Lord, the magic rune is just a tool after all, like a hammer and a pincer, only technology and thought are the essence. Anvil explained to Duke with some emotion, and finally pointed his finger at the location of his brain, indicating that the essence was here.

Duke was a little stunned, and then he realized that the mistake he had made all along was to speculate about the operation of the world with his original way of thinking.

Although he had been here for a short time, he still hadn't turned a corner in his thinking, and he didn't fully realize that this magical world had fundamentally changed from his original world in terms of many rules and principles, as well as common sense.

For example, the previous gunpowder experiments and the trigger engraved with magic runes did not seem to have as many technical problems as originally imagined if they were solved with the minds of the natives of this world.

Because magic is something new and magical, and all he has to do is gradually bring his mind into the magical world.

"Taught. He smiled at the honest dwarf in front of him and said sincerely.

Anvil was a little inexplicable, but still responded kindly to Duke's sincerity.