Richard opened a leather bag from his own soldiers, which had been found from the dwarven musketeers and was filled with gunpowder. Richard poured some gunpowder into the bottle, then placed the bottle on a rock, retreated into the distance, and raised his hand to shoot a ray of flame.

With a loud bang, the powder vial exploded suddenly, and the momentum was beyond Richard's imagination! A small vial of gunpowder exploded the rocks below, and the air wave even affected Richard more than ten meters away, and the flying fragments cut several barbarians who were standing close.

This explosion Richard knew in his heart, this gunpowder was obviously a new recipe, and it was several times more powerful than the gunpowder used by the Norland dwarves. It was with them as fillers that the power of those muskets was so great.

Richard called Quicksand over, handed the musket and gunpowder to Quicksand, asked her to look at it too, and said with emotion: "I really didn't expect that there was something more advanced than Noland in the Faro plane." ”

In Richard's words, quicksand heard a thick sense of vigilance and worry. With a few dwarven muskets in front of you, there is a chance that some kind of alchemical puppet will appear in the future, or even strange machinery powered by gunpowder or something.

All in all, this is a plane whose power system is not much weaker than that of Noland, and the same legendary powerhouse means that it can also have wonders. So far, apart from the absence of the Demonic Pattern Construct and the Eternal and Time Dragons, there is really no difference with Norland in other places. And Norland's magical civilization is indeed more developed, but judging from the knowledge and experience accumulated in the endless plane war, the magical civilization is not the only high-level civilization.

Quicksand scrutinized every part of the musket, then looked at the gunpowder again, and kept flipping through the book of time. After a moment, he said, "Sure enough, their muskets are much more powerful than the Norland dwarven muskets. However, we probably don't have to worry too much about it. Richard, think about it, the Norland dwarves are also a powerful race, they occupy not a lot of territory, and there are several large empires. Do you remember what the dwarves of the various tribes of Norland are known for?"

Richard was equally knowledgeable, and immediately said without thinking: "The cornerstone of the dwarven kingdom is the great warrior, the holy warrior, and the priest." I'm talking about the combat effectiveness aspect. ”

"Yes, the dwarves of Norland are not known for muskets, and they don't need them. Quicksand said.

Richard thought for a moment and said, "You mean, it's because Norland's magic and combat skills system is too powerful that the development of muskets is suppressed?"

Quicksand raised the dwarven musket in his hand and said, "This musket is indeed powerful, but if it is placed in Norland, its effect will become the same as the original dwarven musket, and it can only be used to deal with demonic beasts." You must know that in Norland, so-so can find a dozen great magicians, and in front of them, no matter how many dwarven musketeers there are, they are nothing more than cannon fodder with iron rods. ”

Richard pondered for a moment, but shook his head and said, "Not necessarily! Probably this kind of musket can't affect the pattern between the strong, but it can change the situation on the battlefield." If the number of muskets reaches a certain size, like my grenadiers, the power will be incredible! In certain situations, such as fort defense, it can be a nightmare for the enemy! And don't forget, this is Faro, and Faro is not so-so to pull out a dozen great magicians. ”

Richard then inquired about the Thunder Anvil tribe and learned that it was a large tribe with a population of hundreds of thousands, and that there were 'tens of thousands' of muskets in the tribe. The dwarves rarely had the ability to deal with numbers, so none of the guys in front of Richard could give a roughly precise category. Anyway, there are many, many muskets in the Anvil of Thunder.

Richard ordered the dwarven musketeers to be taken down and locked up. He's going to digest it slowly.

At this time, the battlefield clean-up had been preliminarily completed, and the caravan was carrying all the rare ores obtained from the Thunder Anvil tribe, ranging from mythril and refined iron to spheroidal steel, there were more than a dozen kinds. If these ores can be transported to the Sequoia Kingdom, the price will exceed 200,000 gold coins, and the cost of purchasing this batch of ores, plus all the personnel of the caravan and related expenses, will only add up to more than 20,000 gold coins.

Sure enough, the windfall profits obtained from crossing the bloodstained land are tenfold!

Now Richard's retreat to the Sequoia Kingdom is temporarily blocked, and if this shipment is to be realized immediately, it will also need to pass through the various forces of the Blue Water Oasis. Not only was the Iron Triangle a long way away, but it was also home to the Red Cossacks, and Richard wasn't stupid enough to rob their caravans and sell them back home.

But Richard had a new appreciation for the value of the Bloodstained Lands, especially the richness of the White Heights and the Ancestral Highlands. Because in this caravan, several large pieces of magic crystal ore were also discovered! These ores, if cut into standard units of mana crystals, can exceed seventy units! This means that the brood can add another fifth-order class or fifth-order ability. Used in construction, it is enough to create more than a dozen shrunken version of the construction. What's more, in the territory of the Anvil of Thunder in the White Heights, there is a deposit of magic crystals. This made Richard more and more interested in dwarves.

There were still more than a hundred survivors of the caravan, and Richard ordered them all to be released and let them bring back the news of their reappearance in the Bloodstained Lands. Richard was now neither merciful nor murderous, and began to gradually have a mellow taste. But this was no sign that he wanted to ease relations with the Red Cossacks, who were determined to wipe the caravan from the bloodstained lands after more than a month of continuous pursuit by the Red Cossacks in the last round.

It is impossible to reap the benefits of a bloodstained land without a full display of power, and there is no better way to do so than to cripple or wipe out a powerful force in the region.

After dealing with this qiē, Richard called a personal guard and asked him to rush to the Blue Water Oasis on a fast horse to contact several important people. With such a large caravan annihilated, it was necessary for Richard's plans to change. At least with dozens of truckloads of goods is not maneuverable.

The rest of the road was peaceful.

Five days later, Richard was back in the Blue Water Oasis to reunite with a few old friends in the same hotel that had been auctioned off at the last auction. Although the Blue Water Oasis has inevitably undergone the baptism of Sinclair's blood, these old friends are obviously very knowledgeable about current affairs, and all of them are still intact.

Tiffman looks fatter than last time, according to his words, that is, there is really nothing happy lately, only two more bites of food to satisfy **Shang**, to fill the emptiness in his heart. So the more sad he is, the fatter he becomes.

Amman gradually showed some sharpness, while Bilier was worried. Clarke, on the other hand, seems to be more interested in Richard himself, and constantly observes him unabashedly, but fortunately he refrains from using skills such as reconnaissance on Richard.

The meal is eaten quickly, because the big drama is after the meal. When the table was cleaned, Richard took out a box, placed it on the table, and said, "This is my latest harvest." In the box is the sample, you can see if you need it. ”