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Bobby: "We don't make spears for human use. We never have. And we're not usually asked to order them."
Flint: "No one with a normal IQ would ask a dwarf to do this."
King: "Don't the dwarves make their own weapons?"
"We usually use golems to guard our cities." Bobby answered.
Flint complained, "Nonsense, your crossbows have such a complicated mechanical structure, are so troublesome to maintain, and are so expensive, so they only need adventurers who are facing small-scale high-intensity conflicts to buy them for use. Adventurers also have the leisure to carefully maintain them, put them in the dimensional bag after maintenance, and take them out when they need them.
The dwarfs were excited.
Wang: "Okay! I share my knowledge without reservation, but you guys are keeping it a secret! Do you think I don't know? You must have added something that can make explosives. I tell you, I know much more about this than you do!
"I was originally considering teaching you how to make real gunpowder weapons, but now it seems unnecessary!"
Xiaobai's chest also changed: "Ahhhh my my my!"
He turned to the dwarf. "Did you add any extra ingredients to your grenades?"
Wang: “That’s fine.”
Wang took a deep breath and confirmed again that he was holding the insulating part before pressing the button!
Just as Bobby was about to answer, he was poked in the back by several dwarfs.
Flint snorted, "How dare you call me short! You're not even as tall as my knees!"
While the other dwarves pretended to enjoy the scenery, only Bobby looked at the king with an apologetic look: "I, I didn't check it carefully. Give us a chance, we will fix it."
The king did not care about all this. After the spasm in his joints stopped, he was about to fall to the ground. Elizabeth hurriedly supported him.
Flint: "Carlisle Newman's belly button, is it possible that the complexity of the detonation method made it more likely to become a dud?"
The dwarf spread his hands and said, "Because their grenades explode extremely violently, and they burn whatever they stick to for unknown reasons, even things like steel that normally wouldn't burn."
Apparently some of her muscles were temporarily disabled.
King: "That's not right. Aren't the dwarf worm cavalry very famous? They don't use weapons either?"
A dwarf craftsman shouted unconvincedly: "Our grenades are very reliable! In order to ensure that they can be detonated, each grenade has many different detonation methods."
Flint: "Yeah, I did. What's wrong?"
"Humans will also buy our crossbows."
Xiaobai had returned to normal by this time, and except for his hair becoming frizzy and looking like mink fur that had been chewed by a dog, he looked fine.
"Especially adventurers, they all like to use our crossbows. But for some reason, the armies of human countries don't like to purchase our crossbows."
"Brynden's worm cavalry mainly relies on the worms themselves to attack," Poppy shrank her neck, "The cavalry's main task is to control the worms and decide where the worms will dig holes. They usually carry a crossbow as a backup. By the way, we are quite good at making crossbows."
"Speak quickly!"
The king frowned, "Wouldn't the Fiery Glue be like this?"
One of the dwarf craftsmen slapped his forehead and said, "It's broken. I forgot to insulate the button!"
As soon as I pressed the button he started to convulse: "Ohhhhh me me me!"
"Kill this dwarf!"
Wang: "You have got this opportunity. I hope that the electric trebuchets and electric ballistas will not have such problems in the future. In addition, Flint, you said that the dwarves' grenades are very popular? They just need to remove the fuses?"
Atoli sighed, "This spell will last for a while, and to be honest, we don't want to waste it. We may have to go in and rescue your dwarf craftsmen later."
Wang had not expected that after the electric shock spear was built, he could not find a test target.
He frowned and looked around. At this time, Xiao Bai, who was riding on his neck, sighed: "I'll turn into an animal and give you an electric shock. If the power is not strong, it usually won't hurt me."
Wang: “Uh, okay.”
After all, the impression given to everyone recently by the dwarf device is that it may explode at any time.
After all, it is a weapon that is charged only after it creates an explosion.
The dwarfs looked at each other again, then poked Poppy in the back together.
King: "Well, Lord Atoli, can I ask you for a favor? I want to test the power of this spear, and you happen to have the lightning protection spell."
Wang: "Is there any difference between a dwarf grenade with the fuse removed and a regular fire glue?"
Flint: "Of course not. Dwarf weapons are notoriously complex and prone to malfunction. Their most popular weapons are bombs, but when people buy them, they remove the dwarf detonators and replace them with their own detonators and even fuses."
Seeing this, the others began to distance themselves from the king. Even Elizabeth, who usually stuck close to the king, ran away.
Flint cast a healing spell on Wang's thigh, then teased, "This is what dwarf weapons are like. Do you know why people like to remove the fuses after buying dwarf grenades?"
"Yes, kill him!"
The dwarfs looked at each other, but no one answered.
Xiaobai slid down from his neck again and turned into the signature white bear.
"Yes, we are quite good at making crossbows."
He threw down the spear in his hand and pointed at the dwarves: "You!"
She also glanced at Wang and burst into laughter.
The king turned his head to look for the target of the discharge, and then saw Atoli and two attendant knights who were cast with lightning protection magic.
The discharge ended in an instant, and the subsequent howling was just the spasm of the nerves after being electrocuted.
Wang's hair stood up, and she looked like a hedgehog in defense mode, with smoke coming out of her hair. Xiaobai was in a similar situation, her white bear hair was shorter, so it wasn't standing up noticeably, but she stuck her tongue out and tilted it to one side.
Elizabeth ran up hurriedly and was about to show concern for the king, but when she saw his expression she burst out laughing.
Wang: "Are the dwarf weapons poorly reviewed?"
As soon as Poppy finished speaking, the dwarf technicians following him started arguing:
At this time, Xiaobai used her hands and feet to climb up the king's back to his shoulders and rode on his neck. Then she raised her head, glanced at the dwarves on the ground, and smiled with contempt and satisfaction.
The king looked at Bobby: "Bobby?"
The king looked at the dwarves and midgets who briefly united against the outside world and then became hostile to each other, shook his head, and turned his attention back to the spear in his hand.
The dwarves and dwarves shouted to the king in unison, "Shut up, tall man."
"what!"
The Lightning Protection Spell has an upper limit on the amount of damage it can sustain. If the limit is exceeded, the spell will become ineffective.
The queen took a few steps back to distance herself from Xiaobai, and pointed the tip of her gun at the white bear.
Even though it would be uncomfortable and tiring to hold the insulated part of the spear, it might still be quite powerful.
"No soldier in the general army has a dimensional bag, nor does he have the knowledge to maintain your complex mechanical crossbow."
The king looked at the dwarf, then at the midgets, and said, "To be fair, your taunting is excessive. They are at least up to your chest. I can only say that they are not as high as my knees."
"Admit your mistake now!"
Poppy: "S-sorry. I-we forgot you were from the outer plane. Our grenades use something called Blackstone Smoke Powder, which is our unique formula. The key content is still the smoke powder made by alchemy, but we added other ingredients.
"I-we can give you a list of ingredients."
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Wang got the ingredient list from Bobby and found out that they had accidentally produced nitroglycerin without any basic chemistry knowledge.
So he asked Bobby: "Do your dwarf grenades sometimes explode even if the fuse is removed?"
Just as Bobby was about to speak, he was kicked by an unknown dwarf craftsman. Bobby's three hairs drooped down and he replied, "That's not true. Our dwarf products are very durable. The so-called flammable and explosive products are just propaganda from our competitors!"
Wang: "How is that possible? This thing you made is very unstable and could easily explode."
Poppy was shocked and looked back at the dwarf craftsmen.
One of the dwarf artisans asked loudly, "You know liquid smoke powder?"
"Of course I know. I also know how to make more powerful and safer explosives." Wang frowned, "But I don't know whether I should spread this knowledge here. After all, this plane is idealistic. Although our Mage Tower does not prohibit the spread of materialistic knowledge in the idealistic side... Shit, what am I hesitating about? You have already mastered some electricity."
He took out a notepad and pencil and was about to write something on it, but suddenly frowned: "If it is a substance that you have not discovered, there is no point in me writing their names.
"Although you can copy the name from the outer plane, it doesn't exist in your language and you don't know what it is.
"It's like tungsten. Even if I tell you it's called tungsten, you still don't know what it is. I have to use alchemy to refine it."
Wang: "Oh, that should mean we have reached our destination. We are now above the Black Dragon's lair that the old liar in Minsk told us about."
Flint: "You don't know the nature of dwarven creations. Most of the dwarven war machines break down before they reach the battlefield, or they kill more of their own people than the enemy. For so many years, the only reliable high-end combat power of the dwarves is the worm cavalry.
"But the worms will not leave their habitat near Brynden, so the worm cavalry cannot leave Brynden either."
Rosalie took out her dimensional bag, took out a big sausage from it, stuffed it into Xiaobai's pocket, patted her head, turned to Wang and continued, "Look! If it weren't for Xiaobai, Ms. Atoli's first resurrection would have been consumed here! Before resurrection, we have to work hard to piece together the broken bones.
"I don't even dare to imagine what will happen if you add more dangerous items to the island."
Rosalie frowned. "So we are now at the border of Isonzo? It took longer than expected."
The other airships were either rented by the Crusaders or belonged to the volunteers of the Republic of Sissel, and were now parked in the newly recaptured Shallow Water City.
The dwarf patted Gaines on the back and said, "Send the message quickly. I guess an airship full of things our boss wants will set sail from the Thorn Islands or Brynden soon."
Wang quickly wrote a line on the note: Do not mix the raw materials for making liquid tobacco powder, and transport as much as you can to the floating island.
A dwarf craftsman tried to test him: "Then you can refine these things like tungsten, and we will know what they are?"
Wang: "You can write the letter first and mail it when the next airship arrives."
Elizabeth: “Yeah, what else?”
Wang raised his thumb and gestured to the thing that had risen to the highest point: "It's too far away, beyond the range of the Feather Fall spell. Xiaobai!"
Gaines held his left chest and bowed to the king: "It is my pleasure. But I must remind you that I need to send a letter to make use of my connections, but there is no airship on the island that can take the letter away for me."
Wang: "Really. Actually, I originally wanted to make the electric lance to achieve this goal, but now it seems a bit far-fetched."
When Oscar heard this, he immediately perked up: "Really?"
Elizabeth was even more surprised: "Really?"
Elizabeth was excited: "Are we going to go spelunking?"
Flint: "Yes, because if you act rashly, the Iron Golem's iron head might regard you as an enemy."