Lenia walked through the door in her new bright silver armor and found her lord and colleagues looking at her expectantly.

But she knew she was going to let them down.

"My lord, I have taken people to explore all the known areas, and I have not found any magical beasts. ”

Seeing Duke's disappointed expression, she added, "Of course, we are not all without gains, at least we can be sure that there must be undestroyed demonic beasts hidden in the depths of the unexplored Dark Mountains. ”

"But in this situation, we are too passive and can only constantly strengthen our vigilance, and it is difficult to be effective. Vlavic sighed, saying something that Lenia didn't say explicitly.

"In this case, we can only deal with it in this way, you are also tired from a day today, so let's go down and discuss the plan just now, and if it is feasible, act as soon as possible. Duke himself is optimistic, and although he is a little disappointed that he can't solve the problem, he is not discouraged by it.

After the three ministers had bowed and retired, Duke did not rest, but called the guards to re-prepare the carriage.

He was now planning to consult with Anvil for a while, as recent events had made him feel the need to continue to improve the strength of his army.

Although with the two hundred sets of dwarven craft armor given by the previous system as the equipment of the original veterans, they serve as the elite of the entire army.

But as the size of the army continues to grow, these two hundred people are simply not enough. Just like this suspected Warcraft attack sentry, it was scrapped without being able to play any role in a surprise situation.

When it comes to quickly improving the combat effectiveness of soldiers in the feudal era, simple early firearms are undoubtedly the most popular and effective method for crossing the public.

So this time he planned to find an anvil to find a way to try to make a batch of muskets first, even if he couldn't make more advanced rifled guns, as long as he could make arquebuses, he could barely use them.

As the carriage babbled along, Duke saw the old dwarf standing at the doorway to greet him.

He jumped out of the car a little impatiently, and asked, "Anvil, do you have charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter here, preferably of higher purity?"

Anvil really didn't expect to encounter such a strange problem when he saw the lord for the second time today, he thought for a while before answering: "Charcoal and sulfur are both commonly used materials when we usually forge equipment, but this saltpeter ......"

He was silent for a moment before he grimaced Duke's anxious gaze and said, "I haven't heard of anything like this in my memory. ”

No saltpeter?

Duke's eyes widened in some shock, and it was only when he noticed that Anvil was hesitant and strange when he said the word 'saltpeter,' as if he had never said it before.

And he examined his memories and found that the word 'saltpeter' was really made up by him in the context of this world.

This shows that saltpeter may not exist in this world at all, and even the existence of nitrogen is a question mark.

"It's the kind of material that can be used to make ice, and if you pour it into water in the summer, it will absorb heat and then you can make ice, do you know this kind of thing?" Duke still didn't give up, and told the anvil what he knew about the effect of saltpeter.

He still doesn't quite believe that the world will not have what Blue Star has, otherwise what will the plants and crops in this world rely on as nutrition. If this is the case, then the fertilizer can also be directly vetoed.

But Anvil frowned and thought about it for a long time, and called a few older dwarves to reminisce with the humans, but in the end no one had heard of it.

Moreover, they said that if they made ice in the summer, the nobles would ask a special magician to make ice through magical magic, and ordinary people would feel great satisfaction when they had a bowl of cold well water.

Duke stretched out his hand to cover his face, this time he was really a little frustrated, he didn't expect that the firearm, which was one of the hole cards, could not even achieve the first step.

"Lord, do you want to do something?" Anvil asked with some concern, looking at Duke's frustrated look.

Hearing Anvil's inquiry, some hope rose in Duke's heart.

Although the traditional method from Blue Star is not good, there should still be a local way of playing in line with the rules of this world, and everything is changing, as long as you grasp the main direction, you can still open up some ideas.

And the dwarves, who are the best craftsmen, are always able to surprise him, and maybe they will have a different opinion.

"That's right. Duke gestured with both hands, then picked up the barrel part of the steam rifle next to him and said, "I want to make a powder whose function is to be able to produce a huge thrust by exploding in a small space after ignition, pushing out the projectile in the barrel, so as to achieve the purpose of attacking the enemy." ”

As he spoke, he gestured at the various positions of the barrel of the steam rifle, and briefly explained to the anvil what he knew about the principles of the musket.

After Anvil expressed his understanding, he began to tell him intermittently about the more advanced rifled guns, trigger triggers, and rear-loading ammunition that he didn't know much about, so that Anvil was also ignorant and absorbed these fragmented knowledge.

After a long period of science, Duke asked Anvil with some concern, "Can you understand this? Is it possible?"

"I can understand what you mean, what you really want is a cheap version of the steam rifle in a different form of excitation, and the 'gunpowder' you are looking for as an alternative to the steam backpack. Anvil stroked his messy beard and added, "Actually, if you just follow the kind of musket you mentioned at the beginning, it is not very difficult, and it is easy to make. The only difficulty was finding something that could replace gunpowder. ”

"As for the triggers, rifling, and rear-loading ammunition, we're going to need to spend some time looking at them. Speaking of the latter, he spread his hands with some embarrassment.

"Don't think about it so much, I just want the simplest kind, and the most important thing is to be able to quickly form combat effectiveness. Duke shook his head, he wasn't that demanding.

The anvil thought for a while, and then suddenly said with a malicious smile: "Actually, it is not that there is nothing that can replace gunpowder. ”

"What's that?"

"Powered Magic Stone!"