Chapter 44: Siege at Akkee sect (9)
"Damn it! And I spend those time back and forth with vegetable oil. It good that wine was very close and flour was on the same place." David swear.
David now looked like a house gecko when he stuck to the window he came in. There was no sign of it before and he never thought about any usage. He also did not believe that the Chinese descendant who spread the technologies for the paper here would keep it from the world.
David convinced himself that because the group of Chinese who arrived here knew only of paper or unable to do the others as the paper was the simplest of the 4 and in his opinion the most important ones of the four.
The compass needed a lodestone. Another thing was Noseth's sea which too dangerous to sail a ship as 10 meters sharks and similar size squids would attack at the middle of the sea. Not many humans on their right mind would go too far from the shore, and even a shore was sometimes filled with seawater crocodiles. The compass thus became not much needed.
The gunpowder needed three ingredients and a recipe for mixing it. David never heard about the use of gunpowder before in Noseth, and he did not want any gun in his land either.
While the printing machine needed a person to know the alphabet. The woodblock printing of China better suited to Chinese characters than movable type but harder to use as it was inflexible. And for a block type which China also invented were widespread at a later time than the other three.
Those reasons were something he came up with, but he was wrong, there was gunpowder here.
If each one of the boxes contains 100 kg of gunpowder, in front of him, were approximately 1 ton of gunpowder or its ingredients, combined with the opposite shelf there should be 2 tons in this store alone.
"No, I was wrong. How could I survive? I will surely die if it was a trap." David thought this amount of gunpowder was enough to blow his body away without anything left to remember as he was at the center of the explosion, thinking about this sent chill down his spine.
"Master, there was no sign of a trap. But the noise you made moved one of the guards to the back of the store."
"What! That's great." David could not be happier, he did not afraid of them at all as he could finish them all, but he needed to do it one by one to make it soundless.
He went to the top of the roof and looking for the victims, he gently lowering himself like a cat without any noise. The guard was not aware of his back as he moved.
David concentrated his force toward his right hand, grabbed the neck through the gap of the armor and helmet, crushed it and slowly put the body down. There was a sound of metallic crashing a bit but the other guard thought of it as a sound that occurred because of walking.
For the other guard, David moved at an unmatchable speed and pierced straight at the guard face with his hand, the result was similar to the watermelon that was hit by a sharp side hammer. There was a little sound but no one noticed. The body also did not instantly fall to make a loud noise as the spine still intact with the head, he slowly lowering the corpse.
David looked at the door and thinking of the way to open the iron door without a sound. The door to the gunpowder store made from iron, it was locked with an iron chain and key which as thick as a finger. The height should be around 250 centimeters, while the width should be around 100 if the door was thick at least 30 this means the door could weight over 500 kilos.
David did not have any problems with the chain, but it was difficult for the door. He could melt it but that would alarm the enemies. So he had no choice, but to use a normal way to open the door.
Even someone like David with a vast pool of force reserve was not confident in pushing this door without any sound, but the result was good. At least the people here seemed to take good care of it as there was no rust and the joint was carefully maintain with lubricant.
Now, David had a lot of time and good material for sabotage. He regretted a bit that he did not check it beforehand and spend almost half an hour to prepare for a fire.
David knew that there were magicians with water attribute here so he needed oil and wine as it was harder to extinguish with just water.
Also, the rain was coming so he needed to hurry after he spent too much time on climbing. It was true that leaving everything to Iris was far more effective but that was simply no fun at all.
Even if it was really a trap, he was not much worry, but everything would be different from this lot of gunpowder. Thinking about this, he complained to Iris again.
"Iris, you should warn me about it. I almost shocked to death."
"My apology, it was my fault that the history of Noseth never showed about gunpowder until the moment you open the box. My information and analyzing, although better, come from data you gathering through your five sense."
"...There is a smell of sulfur, even I know that sulfur was gunpowder ingredient. Yeah! saltpeter too! And charcoal!"
"This Akkee sect was on the top of an inactive volcano, also the use of sulfur were many other than the making of gunpowder. Do you want me to explain other use of sulfur? As for potassium nitrate, didn't you eat food that contains it on a daily basis? And charcoal, really? It could be a store for fertilizer or lumber. Anything else?"
"No, thanks. That's enough."
David thought for a bit and decide to put one box of gunpowder near the granary. As for left over, he would put it in a building with no people.
Frankly speaking, the number of people was a lot less than the number he received, this part should be the living quarters of the outer disciple of Akkee sect where those born from the lower class family of the clan put their youngling to train together as outer disciples.
"Well, that make my job easier."
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