"So, what does it mean after all?

The princess heard the sound of a guest's carriage leaving the hall leaving the gate of the fort. Once again, when I got to the table, Zaylus and the others turned to me drinking wine.

"I see how it goes. You mean our reconnaissance. He came from the other side, so I was able to get a lot of information."

Saying so, I will explain to everyone the information that they have learned and the information that they have learned.

At least we know how the terrain around the fort relates to our forces and the Kingdom of Cardina. I wouldn't pry too much into my relationship with the denomination. It's like poking a bullet, and in case you find out it has something to do with it, you know it's going to be a hell of a thing. I think we have to be thorough with what we don't know.

This is easy to do even if you know what they're up to and you know what they're up to.

I mean quite a strategist.

At least it means you won't come by helplessly. Then the reinforcements should also send in quite a bit of thought.

"You're not going to raid easily, are you?

"Are you saying you can't repeat the invitation after the rear blockade of the example?

"You will. The basics will be fine with that, but you will also need to change it a little. Besides, the final purpose of the three kingdoms is more than clear."

The grain has already been incorporated. There is no indication that the cereals as taxes taken up as they stand will be moved to the Kingdom of Madenium. This is extremely important as a heavy item given the large army that reinforces the Kingdom of Cardina.

It may be assumed that it is possible to move large armies.

"Are you going to burn down the food?

"I'd love to do it if I could, but the fort warehouse would be stone built, wouldn't it?

"… right. The fire arrows we fire will be annoying to the fort, but that's all we're talking about."

"If you were to set fire to a stone building, what hand would you use?

"Don't light the burning objects inside the building. We often throw in pine lights."

Will it still be so? So you can light the flammable material in the building. It is no bother if you use pine lights. I can't use this method.

"By the way, staple foods are bread, right? Where do you make cereal flour?

"It's a flour mill in the fort. I take turns hitting stone mounds when it's just right for infantry training. It'll cost me 10L a bag, but it's a good pocket money for soldiers."

I guess it will be a form of tax. I don't think I use a water wheel or a windmill. Our bread seems to be bought in the village, so maybe the villagers are wearing stone mounds.

But that would make for an interesting operation.

"If we ask the fort for powdered hiccups, will you do it?

"You won't have to say no, but will you take last year's wheat?

"Then I thought of something interesting. Let's do it under no circumstances."

One bag weighs 40 kg and is unified. I will have ten bags of powder for a period of three days. Instead, the price would be ten times the market price for ten pieces of silver coins. He'll be happy to do it.

On the night of that second day, fire arrows are unleashed on the powdery field of the fort.

"I don't know, is that good? I think the enemy soldiers will be happy………………"

Mr. Zairas doesn't seem to take it personally, he looks sinister.

"You don't even understand me. We know the location of the fort's powdery field, and it's an easy place to reach if you fire an arrow with our bow..."

"I have a high percentage of people who don't do well, so don't tell me to put it down. But if it works, you'll know the results immediately."

The guys gathered at the table look at me with a lot of suspicion, but going bad won't be wasted because you get ten bags of milled wheat.

A few days later, Mr. Torrell accompanied a wagon to the fort at the foot.

We headed in one platoon, so we won't be attacked in the unlikely event.

It must be a little while before they attack us in the daytime, more than once they know our names around us as the Knights.

That night's report seemed generous of you to take it on. It's ten times the price. We should also be taking plenty from the village of Altenham, so we will be turning the stone mould late tonight.

"Banter, I really don't know what it means to ask the fort for a powdered meal..."

In the words of the princess, the people who surrounded the table also nod.

"Is this, like, a little? operations, so I don't know what will happen to me either. But if it turns out the way I thought it would, you might have to do some powdering in Althenum in our village of Mictus."

"Fire arrows are good for tomorrow night, right? Let's get our troops out of here."

Mr. Zairas looks at me with a slightly more anticipated eye, although he has considerable doubts.

You'd be surprised if it went well. Well, let's not say here.

The next day, waiting for sundown, Mr. Zairas and the others leave for the fortress at the foot.

However, when I pressed the fire arrow's aim correctly, I gently slapped my head from the horse and went out.

"You will soon find out, but you still can't tell me?

"Maybe you don't know from here. Wouldn't it be possible near here if I tried to see the fort at the foot?

"It's not like that. There is no ridge in the way of the fort if it is a ridge west of the barracks. Would you like to go out?

Mr. Torrell seems to care too.

I got my luggage ready, and we were all supposed to go out, and I even got into the luggage for Mr. O'Brie and Mayley.

Well, maybe it'll be a little night's drive.

Mr. Torrell, follow a detachment of men to the west ridge of the barracks.

When we get to the ridge, laying the rug on the grass creates an incineration nearby. If you put a pot near the fire, you totally feel like a picnic. It's a waste of time that it's night. Looks like we could invite everyone here in the daytime. The north fort is quite far away, and with the double fences running north and south, you'll still be able to escape to the fort at your leisure after you find your opponent.

"The fort at the foot is that direction, isn't it? It will take a long time for Lord Zaylus and his men to attack."

"Not that way, huh? Sometimes it's good to see it. Banter, haven't you told me yet?

"We're almost there, so let's wait and see. Looks like the pot's boiling too."

The wind is cold, but I'm wearing thick clothes, and I have a bonfire. The knights are also drinking tea with their bodies turned to the fort at the foot as they sip tea.

It was when I took out the pipes and tried to light them on fire.

"What is that!

"We've got a ball of fire in the direction of the fort at the foot!

After all, did it happen? Maybe the people of this era didn't have that kind of knowledge.

When you see the Red Lotus Fireball clearly here, you'll be worried if there's anyone in the fort who's been helped. I hope the damage has not been done to Mr. Zairas and the others...

"It's not a banter measure. Can you use a giant [Mel] as far away as that while you're here?

The princess turned to me and asked me, but I was so scared that there was no expression on her face.

"That's not magic. It's one of the reasons for the fire, but I didn't think it would be such a big explosion. In that case, the soldiers in the fort will not be safe. I hope Mr. Zaylus and the others didn't wind up."

"The fire must be caused by a fire arrow, right? But fire arrows don't spread like that."

"That's something we'll talk about when Mr. Zairas gets home. Now, is it time to pull it up"

Everyone seems to be quietly thinking about that explosive phenomenon, even in the carriage on the way home.

I wonder if that's ever really happened before?

Gotgoto and a rocking carriage, and now I've figured out how to explain it.

When Mr. Zaylus walks into the hall late at night, he stares at me. You must still be mad at me, huh?

"It's a banter. Even if I wasn't sure, I wanted you to tell me that could happen!

"I'm sorry. I was in the mood for a moment, and I didn't think it was going to be as big an explosion as that either."

Did you find out that I exceeded my expectations, Mr. Zaylus softens his expression a little too?

"But the power is right there. I dived into the blown gate where the fire faded... There are no survivors. I didn't say that, I didn't burn everything down, I wasn't blown away. More than half the soldiers didn't burn, but they were dead."

"There's no way you can have an explosion like that with a fire arrow. To my mind, you did the trick on the wheat you carried before that, didn't you?

The princess is confidently talking about that, but is it also gunpowder in this world?

"I, too, think the wheat I sent earlier is suspicious, but can you, for example, unleash a fire arrow to appear a sphere of fire like that? Besides, there's no way Lord Banter can touch that bag of wheat after he brings it from the village or do any tricks."

"That's right. Normally impossible. But Banter did it. Banter, I think it's time to make some seeds."

Sounds like it's time to talk to him.

"That's a phenomenon called dust explosion. When the fire approaches when fine particles are drifting in the air, the particles drifting in the air explode in a chain of flames. There are few things I can do to wake you up, but there were some fires and explosions that caused it at our place.

Mainly, it's happening in mines and mills, so I tried a little bit, but it's a bit of a big explosion. "

"Does the powder burn?

"It doesn't burn if you light the powder directly, but if it drifts in the air, it doesn't matter."

Because you just happened to be doing well. I don't necessarily go the same way next time.

"But what is it about being dead like you were asleep?

"Oh, that's a phenomenon called acid deprivation that seems to have happened in that explosion. Think of the lack of acid as the air to breathe was gone for a short time in that explosion. You breathe in a place like that, you die unconscious on the spot."

I don't know what it is to say that oxygen is consumed. You wouldn't be so wrong to think that there's no more air to breathe.

"Is that all you're gonna die for? We went into the fort after that, but you're going to tell me we picked up our lives."

"If the flames were burning everywhere, there would be no such danger. Because the air will be switched around immediately. But whoever was there would have been exposed to it."

I won't use it again. It's a little vague.

But you said the princess cares.

Later, we'll see if we can do that by other means.