Chapter 281: Extreme Combat Readiness Unexpected reinforcements: Queen Calamity
A full 20,000 official necromancers with standard equipment summoned by the Necromantic King himself, and perhaps counting the countless cannon fodder-level skeleton zombies who have been resurrected from the graveyard, this terrifying legion with no fear, no mercy, no fear, and no need to rest is heading to the battlefield.
With less than a day left, the three people who represent the strongest fighting force have done their best to survive the coming war, or to survive the arrival of the Arthurian knights' support......
Merlin, as the elder of the Druid Sect, issued the maximum summoning order, and in one day, about a dozen or so Druid mages who lived in seclusion in the nearby mountains and forests could be summoned, although the number was small, but it could still play a precious value, and at the same time, he also explained the seriousness of the matter to the people in the city as a great sage, and tried his best to boost the poor morale that was too low to be good;
Flora led the female warriors to run around the neighborhood almost without rest, and gathered the nearby villagers, livestock and other living creatures into the city, on the one hand, they could select barely usable soldiers from them, and on the other hand, it was also to prevent themselves from having more enemies to deal with, even if they were vulnerable to cannon fodder skeleton zombies, they would become quite deadly when they were already short of troops;
Xiao Lan doesn't know how to train and won't recruit, but what he does is also quite crucial, using his magic power to refine the weapons in the city that are still in the ancient era, he relies on the soul fragments to replenish the magic power that is quite sufficient, and the average level of the soldiers' weapons has been upgraded to the level of modern technology, at least he will not cut the bones a few times and the blade can no longer be used, but he is powerless when the magic weapon does not have a high-level soul.
In addition, he also found some inspiration from the plot of "Evil Dead 3".
In the movie, the actor Ash also made a series of arrangements for the attack on the Necromantic Army, the brightest of which was to use a copy of "Basic Chemistry Course" to prepare black powder as an attack weapon.
It just so happens that Xiao Lan has not forgotten some things in high school, whether it is black powder, nitroglycerin, or trinitrotoluene (T.N.T explosive), he still clearly remembers the production method and specific steps: black powder only needs to carefully mix and grind potassium nitrate charcoal and sulfur in proportion to obtain, nitroglycerin can be prepared by nitrification reaction of pure glycerin with a mixed acid composed of concentrated nitric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid, and trinitrotoluene can be produced by reaction of toluene with concentrated nitric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid under certain conditions......
Glycerin can be easily extracted from animal fat, benzene can be extracted from coal tar from coal, charcoal can be found everywhere in this forest area, saltpeter and sulfur are scarce because they are not near volcanoes and saline lands, but the most crucial part of this is very fortunate to be solved in the case of a strange alchemist in the city.
Under the leadership of Xiao Lan and the assistance of Merlin, with the magic power and the skills of modern technology, they prepared several raw materials including concentrated nitric acid and concentrated sulfuric acid in this day's time, and then used an almost incredible speed to prepare enough explosives to blast a city into the sky in the small alchemy workshop.
Both TNT and nitroglycerin can be used as bombs, and it is logical to use them to make explosive arrows, and black powder made from coarse residue is the most powerful, although it is powerful.
Due to the lack of accurate measurements, Xiao Lan is not able to make firearms, of course, except for heavy machine guns, bullets basically have no effect on the undead who are not critical, but the demon has created more than a dozen front-loading smoothbore guns in the Age of Discovery, after all, the production of shells with shells is really not hurt without an assembly line, but the power of front-loading guns after using the paper shell shell process is also not bad, and a sufficient amount of black powder is opened to the point that the barrel is overheated and cannot stand it, which is completely sufficient.
As for whether this will change history, Xiao Lan said that there is no need to worry too much.
There is no way to correct the life and death of key historical figures, but it is not difficult for technology and items to be submerged in history, and it is estimated that there will be descriptions of new types of destruction magic in later history, and there is no corresponding process and productivity, and technology ** can not be crossed casually!
If there is any trouble, it is when weapons are tested......
Firearms are almost no different from magic to ordinary people, Xiao Lan also simply uses the word alchemy items to describe it, and they are more likely to accept this concept if they don't feel the difference between magic breath, but when the artillery test is fired and the bomb is detonated, a group of people are still frightened, and even Merlin, the ** master who participated in the entire production process, was surprised by the terrifying destructive power.
A blow blasted a huge crater on the ground that was nearly ten meters wide and several meters deep, and the magic of this level of destructive power can only be mastered by high-level destruction warlocks today, after all, the spellcasters of the Arthurian era who are on the verge of the end of the law no longer have the concept of the same as the mobile turret, most of them are working on various auxiliary abilities such as hypnotic illusion spells, and the main force of the war is completely supported by knights who have a strong power of faith, such as a knight of Flora's level who uses all his strength to bombard ten or so rounds, However, the worst thing is that even Lancelot can't catch a few attacks of this level, and of course, it is basically not difficult to avoid the ballistic trajectory, and Merlin has a very far-sighted opinion on this.
"If this weapon is widely spread, it will be a catastrophe for humanity."
Knights who generally have the skills of [Weapon Mastery] and [Vehicle Mounting] can quickly master the use and response of new weapons, and the difficulty of upgrading from riding a horse to riding a motorcycle and then upgrading to driving a mecha is not as great as imagined, but civilians do not have that ability and are completely unable to resist such attacks, and then the killing will become extremely simple, and they will suffer hundreds or even thousands of times more severely!
Merlin, who did not rely on the power of his own prophet, came to the same correct prediction: in less than two hundred years after the spread of firearms, the number of people killed on earth directly exceeded the number of people killed in the previous two thousand years combined......
However, this consideration is still a little premature, and in this moment of imminent necromancy, the role of a good and powerful weapon to pray will be very crucial!
In the last short period of time, Xiao Lan taught a group of people how to use artillery that did not need to be aimed, and with the help of Merlin, gave everyone a few necessary hints: do not put explosives and open flames together, pay attention to the degree of fuse when lighting bombs, and handle explosive arrows with nitroglycerin with care.
If the explosives do not blow up the enemy, but blow themselves up first, it will become a tragedy that people will laugh to death......
After completing this series of preparations, the sky was already completely dark, and Xiao Lan and the three of them, who had been busy all day, finally stopped.
It is up to people to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen.
Having done almost no better, the only thing they could do next was to wait for that fateful moment to come.
Merlin's Eye of Discovery, Xiao Lan's Breath Perception, both of them could feel the unconcealable aura of death of the Necronomicon Legion, and according to the speed at which they were advancing, they would almost enter the battlefield at dawn.
In other words, they still had about four or five hours to rest, and they were tired and seized this last chance before the arrival of the Necromantic Legion to recuperate.
After maintaining the necessary vigilance that he would wake up if there was a situation, Xiao Lan, who had consumed a lot of magic power in this day, fell asleep directly, but at midnight he was awakened by an abnormal throbbing -
In his aura perception, in addition to the necromantic legion that had not yet entered the battlefield, there was another team of about two hundred people rapidly approaching from the flank and rear!
This movement speed ...... Cavalry?
Xiao Lan, who didn't feel a large number of powerful aura, didn't think that they were King Arthur's knights, but he didn't know the situation, and he soon got the exact news from Merlin, who had also woken up.
"It's Gnavel, Queen of Calamity...... old man's expression was a little strange, and he frowned and said something that should have been happy, "because my crow must have been in the Camelot, so she took it upon herself to come to our aid with her own guard." ”
Gnavel, for Xiao Lan, this name is also thunderous.
"She will bring calamity, and she must not be kept by force."
When King Arthur married her, the prophet Merlin pronounced this sentence, and this became a real reality later.
As a standard calamity, she is almost no less than Helen, who led to the Battle of Trenyi, sandwiched between three men with complex relationships, Arthur, Lancelot, and Mordred, and she serves as the root cause of the contradictions and divisions of the Knights of the Round Table.
Lancelot drew his sword for her brave court to her companions, Arthur traveled to France to conquer Lancelot because of her, Mordred took the opportunity to seek power and usurp the throne with the help of Morgan, King Arthur heard the news and led the army all the way back to his own country, cutting down his originally loyal subordinates one by one under the holy sword, and killed his son Mordred at the cost of serious injuries in the Battle of Camran, after which the Knights of the Round Table were the only one left to be responsible for returning King Arthur's holy sword to the lake elves, and the huge knightly kingdom fell apart......
When Merlin took Xiao Lan and Flora to meet the reinforcements with a strange face, he could be considered to have seen the beauty that was enough to make the men who approached her make a big mistake under impulse.
This is probably the legendary innate body, not so much the temperament she has, but the magic that is close to the curse level, even Xiao Lan, who has excellent magic resistance, was almost lost by her bewilderment......
No wonder Merlin said she was the daughter of calamity, and no wonder several of the strongest men turned against her!
At this time, her pure love affair with Lancelot may have begun, but the conflict between the Knights of the Round Table, led by Gawain and Lancelot, has not yet begun, because it happened after Arthur's twelve glorious battles were completed.
But now it seems that this queen is not a vase character.
Xiao Lan, who had come to his senses, maintained an unusually calm and calm attitude, and paid more attention to the strength of this reinforcement, and then he suddenly felt a burst of joy in his heart.
Two hundred elite longbow archers, the queen of knightly strength herself......
With the addition of these few but all elite new forces, the upcoming war, although still hopeless, is no longer the original complete despair!
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