Chapter 524: The Court Mage's Chemical Spell
"This Moore still has some ability, it can be regarded as a character, but that's limited to it, if it weren't for the enemy to play with himself, I'm afraid he would only have to be defeated and killed, those frost werewolves run away after grabbing things every year, without the slightest idea of continuing to go deeper, if the frost wolf king leads the army here at this time, the Fik kingdom will still perish, but the frost wolf king suddenly fell seriously ill at this time, and then his general Marcus ยท Icefang's battle with his heirs made it impossible to go south for several years, and the kingdom of Fik was given a respite. โ
Carlos looked at the current situation, coupled with the prediction of the Book of the World, he probably knew what would happen next: King Ovi was addicted to wine and abandoned the government, and the Frostwolf Kingdom had serious internal fighting, and neither side planned to continue to attack the Fik Kingdom, and the Fike Kingdom began to rise gradually under the hard work of Mohr, and its military strength became stronger day by day, and Moll completed the feat of counterattack, so he almost shouted "Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, don't bully the young and poor!" Now, and the most interesting thing is that it seems to have taken exactly thirty years for Moore to sweep through both countries.
However, Carlos's mind is not in the wars of some mortal countries, he is more curious about the masters of those mysterious powers in this plane, and the source of this power, why the Aurora continent has such a name, and what is the reason for his here.
Clueless, he is still lurking in the shadows, looking down on this vast number of beings from various angles in the dark, he has not seen the mysterious power so far, it may be because the Fike Kingdom and the Aowei Kingdom were separated at the beginning, and because they have been fighting for too long, the only remaining cultivation methods and special professions are gone, and the Frost Wolf Kingdom has just been established, and the shamans who are responsible for sacrificing the Frost Wolf Ancestral Spirit He really haven't seen any signs of mysterious power.
"I always feel that even if I go to find the so-called court mages or shamans, most of them are so-called liars, no, I can't just beat them to death with a stick, at least most of those court mages know some knowledge of alchemy (or chemical and physical phenomena), and those shamans know how to crush herbs to heal wounds, and they may also make some poisons. โ
Carlos has observed this phenomenon through the magic eye, and he even saw a court mage show to the king of the kingdom of Ove how to make the water basin on fire, only to see that the court mage waved his hand to make the water on fire, and there was a fireball circling around the basin, burning for a while before extinguishing, and then blood began to gush out of the basin, and the court mage called it demon blood, and said that the person who drank this blood would be cursed by the devil and would be tortured for dozens of days before dying miserably.
When he said this, the others naturally avoided this bloody basin, which undoubtedly greatly reduced the risk of exposure, after all, in this era of superstition and ignorance, even a high-ranking king would not dare to anger a mysterious wizard at will.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the destructive power of flames that can burn in water (or water, to be exact) is undoubtedly even more amazing, after all, ordinary flames can be extinguished by a splash of water, so this respected court mage even King Ovi respects him very much.
However, Carlos looked a little ridiculous, only to see the court mage who looked like he was in his seventies and eighties, wearing a wrinkled face, wearing a blue robe and a pointed hat, muttering a strange spell with a bull's head and a horse's mouth, and then secretly dripped phenolic acid into it while the others were not looking.
The reason why the water can catch fire is because the old man secretly put a piece of sodium in the water in advance, sodium is the active element, and when it encounters water, it will undergo a chemical reaction to generate hydrogen and a lot of heat, so the water basin is blazing with fire, and the water basin turns red after burning, because the court mage secretly dripped the phenolic acid hidden in the wide blue sleeves into the water basin, and the phenolic acid can turn red when it encounters alkaline solution, and the sodium reacts with water to form alkaline solution, which means that this is completely a trap one ring after another.
After performing the so-called "spell", the court mage left the palace tremblingly under the service of a group of servants, and when he left, he also received a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry from King Ovi, plus various precious resources that serve as wages every month, it can be said that being a court mage is indeed a very lucrative profession, but once exposed, the crime of deception is enough to make these liars who have some chemical knowledge finished.
Carlos looked at another court mage and walked into the palace to perform a magic show, this court mage had short gray hair, looked about thirty years old, and his body was a little thin and pale, I saw that he just bowed to King Ovi and then spread out his hands wearing brown leather gloves, and soon his hands burned white with blue-green flames, this flame flew with his palm, it looked very scary, and under the movement of his palm, this flame followed closely behind, like a living fire snake.
Then he turned around, and the flames in his palm suddenly rose up, three or four meters high, and even rushed to the ceiling, this scene undoubtedly brought a powerful visual impact to King Ovi, he didn't feel any heat, but this did not prevent him from believing in the "spell" of this court mage, even the most powerful knight could not defeat the fire snake flying in the palm of the court mage.
"It's okay to pretend to be a ghost with phosphorus fire, but I didn't know what the accelerant was before, maybe kerosene, after all, the technology developed in this era can make not much combustion liquid. Carlos almost squirted out the mountain spring water he drank in his mouth, and it can only be said that the ideas of these court mages are really messy, and even the guys who use phosphine have come out.
After that, Carlos observed several so-called court mages, but none of them had any real materials, and the most bizarre of them was a court mage who looked to be in his forties but was thin and bloodless, this guy was actually planting poppies, Carlos always felt as if he understood how the old king died.
I saw the man pick up the pot-shaped poppy fruit, skillfully cut the unripe poppy fruit, and the white pulp flowed out, and he took out the jars and jars to collect the pulp, and took it to the open space to dry, and there was also opium paste that had been dried in the open space, and this opium was called raw opium.
Raw opium cannot be smoked, and needs to be further processed and boiled to become cooked opium, also known as refined opium, and cooked opium can be used for smoking.
Cooked opium is raw opium that has been boiled and fermented to be made into strips, plates or blocks, and its surface is smooth and soft, greasy, brown or golden yellow, and when smoked by drug addicts, cooked opium can emit a strong sweet smell. Raw opium is brown in color, black in some varieties, can be made into lumps, cakes or bricks, and is generally dry and brittle on the surface, but remains soft and sticky on the inside, with a pungent smell โ the old smell of urine and a bitter taste.
After the court mage had made the opium, he kneaded it with his hands and kneaded it into a small ball, and then placed the ball in a small crucible, and the flame under the small crucible rose, and the court mage began to smoke the smoke produced by the burning of the opium with a look of intoxication.