The day Richard arrived in Graystone, he became the focus of the town.

The townspeople, who drove on ordinary horses, apparently could not accept for a moment the fact that he was pulling the cart with five helmeted wolves with flying manes.

These five armoured wolves, the size of ordinary stallions, dragged his magnificent golden carriage on the only street in Greystone, and all of them froze in place.

Not only because of the surprise in their hearts, but also because the horses and bulls they were pulling were so frightened that they couldn't breathe.

These poor beasts, when have they ever seen such a powerful magical beast. No matter how unruly they are, they are glared at by the helmeted wolves, and they have become children who are scared and crying by their parents with a feather duster, huddled in the corner and shivering.

But after coming to Greystone Town and confirming that the map of Shenmu was accurate, Richard was not in a hurry to hit the road. Instead, I chartered a country house with a yard to prepare for future trips.

It's time for an important mission, and he's going to have to gather information.

There is also an important thing, and that is the fact that the evil dragon has awakened and the war is about to start.

Although he saw that there were seven more thugs under his command, Richard still planned to strengthen his strength again.

During this time, he bought a large amount of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal from the town, in order to make some gunpowder for self-defense. Of course, in order to avoid being discovered about this precious recipe, Richard has been hiding from the crowd and buying a whole bunch of extras of weirdness.

Because of Richard's status as a magician, no one pursued his actions.

The purchase of sulfur and charcoal is very easy.

Graystone is located on the edge of the mountains, and there are several extinct volcanoes nearby, so sulfur is not a problem. As for charcoal, it's even more so much.

It's just saltpeter that is in some trouble.

At this time, people don't seem to have discovered a method of large-scale nitrate production. For its collection, it can only hire some people to go to the shacks of cattle and horses, or go to the manure tank to dig the soil. That's right, one of the recipes for this gunpowder, which sounds like a tall mineral, is so unsightly about its origin.

The main component of saltpeter is potassium nitrate, which is a chemical component in human or animal metabolic excrement.

In ordinary life, you can often encounter it. For example, some dilapidated earthen houses in the countryside, in the corner of the wall, are often covered with some white substance, which is saltpeter.

The land near the manure tank can form a large amount of nitrate over the years.

The primitive large-scale nitrate production method is also written from, pee and fart.

However, the only thing that is fortunate is that the people of Roland have recognized the wonderful use of saltpeter. Knowing that this low-born thing has the ability to lower the temperature avoids further misunderstandings.

Unfortunately, although Roland is also a high-magic world, the positioning of magic is still circling around "weapons" and has not fully entered people's lives.

It's just that when Richard learned more, he suddenly made a strange discovery.

With the improvement of the status of magicians, the rather primitive natural philosophy of the Roland world has also been understood by more people, especially the Four Elements Theory.

This set of primitive natural philosophy, which is very similar to the Five Elements Theory, classifies saltpeter, which has the ability to lower the temperature and can be used to freeze ice, as an important water element. Sulfur, which is produced from volcanoes and has a special smell, is fire. Charcoal is also coincidentally regarded as a kind of soil element, after all, it is born in the soil and returned to the soil.

This is very similar to the experience of discovering gunpowder on Earth.

There is an important reason why those alchemists in ancient times mixed saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal, which are three things that are not related to each other.

They follow the Five Elements Theory.

Saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal are regarded as the essence of water, fire, and wood due to their production methods and characteristics. Although the elixir of life has not been rectified, it has made a crooked four major inventions.

It's just that metaphysics is an evil road after all, and in the end, the ancient Celestial Empire did not develop modern chemistry from this, and even gunpowder became one of the revolutionary forces promoting the progress of the West.

In the end, the gunpowder matter finally paid off.

Richard scraped all the saltpeter that the town could find in a short time, and produced nearly five tons of black powder. Although Richard did not feel that the number was up to his needs, it was undoubtedly more than enough to cope with the journey.

In addition to the gunpowder matter, Richard also set his sights on paper and cotton.

"Parker's recipe is about 14% ...... to 86% ratio of water and wood chips"

Before processing cotton and paper, Richard experimented with sawdust to see if the "Ice Carrier" from another world could successfully set sail.

He stayed in the house and carefully weighed the wood chips and water with the scales he bought.

According to his orders, five relatively obedient helmeted wolves were released by him to inspect the courtyards around the villa, and Richard's original words were "not even a bird to enter".

The helmeted wolves will undoubtedly have to eat again tonight.

Xiong Da and Xiong Er were sent by him to guard the gate.

"Parker" is a powerful thing, and the status in Richard's heart is no less than gunpowder.

Parker's name came from a crazy idea. During World War II, due to the shortage of steel, Britain planned to build ice aircraft carriers from this material.

This stems from the discovery that by adding various fibers to water, such as sawdust, paper, and cotton, and freezing them, the resulting mixed ice will have the ultra-high strength that ordinary ice does not have, and can be used for bulletproofing.

After using his magic to freeze the water in the barrel, Richard emptied the barrel of Parkrate. For contrast, he also prepared two other types of ice.

One is the ice formed by simple water.

The other is the water mixed with sand and ice.

The three solidified barrels of ice in front of him were lined up one by one in front of him, and Richard held a sledgehammer and slammed them one by one. Then, to his delight, something strange happened, and the sawdust ice really had the effect he wanted.

When the other two lumps of ice were smashed by the hammer, the yellowed thing was so strong that only a shallow hammer mark was left.

"Succeeded......"

Richard suddenly used the Wind Giant's object control on the lump of Patrick, and then he literally moved it to his body.

Looking at his entire arm wrapped in sawdust ice, Richard had a series of astonishing thoughts in his mind.

Xiong Da Xiong Er, who was in a daze at the door and yawning, suddenly received an order from Richard, and then they also joined in the ice smashing business. Richard wanted to test the hardness of the various Packetts with their great strength.