When the Saintess Arrives, No King Exist-Chapter 837 - 788: The Holy Alliance’s 1st Grenadier Regiment

Standing on the ten-meter high wooden tower, Horn's cloak was flapping loudly in the wind.

Raising the telescope in his hand, Horn gazed at the scarecrow targets erected on the Ibe River beach in the distance.

These targets were arranged in a triangular shape and adorned with feathers in the Leia style.

Two hundred meters away from the targets, behind clay barriers, six artisans were setting up a tubular device on a tripod.

This tubular device is a small, spring-driven grenade launcher.

Using less than a pound of mountain brass spring, along with a front launching tube roughly the length of a calf, makes for a suitable small mortar, or grenade launcher.

This grenade launcher squad is an evolved version of the hand cannon squad, specifically designed to launch clockwork grenades and Green Dragon Breath smoke bombs.

The Green Robe Faction, which mastered the production of Green Dragon Breath, made a fortune by selling the patent. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

But today, Horn was testing not the clockwork grenades or smoke bombs, but a brand-new grenade meant to replace the Red Dragon's Breath.

Even though he was far away, he could still see the "shells" being loaded into the tubular device through the telescope.

Cylindrical shells must be stored in a low-temperature environment, immersed in cold water.

Once the temperature is too high, they become unstable.

If unstable, even the slightest collision could result in dire consequences.

These shells are made of a crystal-like cylinder, and if close enough, one can see the lightning solidified inside the crystal.

An apprentice artisan, holding a plasma bomb akin to purple crystal, stumbled in running, the electric light casting a blue-purple shadow on his face.

Yes, this is the new weapon recently developed in Long Embankment City—the plasma bomb.

The preparation method is simple, anyone with an Ethereal Tower, moon mercury, and lightning spell wizards at home can try.

Simply put, when the Ethereal Tower guides the ether, use lightning to bombard the ether.

The charged ether will then be sealed in a moon mercury pool below, and using the Red Dragon's Breath preparation method, crystallize the electrified moon mercury.

Then you can extract the electrified moon mercury crystals, equip them with a buffer and trigger device at the back, and use them on the battlefield.

Horn personally named it "plasma bomb", though this "plasma" is not exactly the same as other plasmas, but the Saint's Grandson instructed so, no one objected.

"Woo—"

The test field suddenly erupted with the shriek of a pressure release valve.

"Loading ready!" The artisan in charge of the grenade launcher waved a command rod tied with colorful flags.

Rotating the crank, the grenade launcher stood upright at a 60-degree angle from the ground, with its 50-millimeter barrel pointing straight at the apprentice.

Swallowing hard, the apprentice carefully dropped the plasma bomb into the end of the grenade launcher.

Then he bent over entirely, scrambling awkwardly to the side.

Whether it was a psychological effect or not, everyone around could hear the faint cracking sounds.

In the next second, with a "thunk", the plasma bomb that had just landed in the grenade launcher shot up into the sky at high speed.

Because they had calibrated several times beforehand, this plasma bomb was quite accurate.

It traced a standard parabola, landing precisely in the middle of the three scarecrows.

At the moment of landing, Horn couldn't help but grip the telescope's barrel tightly; time seemed to pause for a second.

The next moment, a deafening explosion tore through the cold air.

In the middle of the triangular formation of scarecrows, what erupted was not flame, but a ball-shaped lightning with a half-meter diameter.

Spiderweb-like electric snakes crawled through the air, charring the ground instantly, leaving black grooves where they passed.

The iron armor on the three scarecrows melted into red-hot molten iron in the plasma, dripping onto the grass with a sizzling sound.

"Hiss—" The spectators emitted a similar gasp of cold air.

When the electric snakes dissipated, a charred pit was left at the site, and the armor of the three scarecrows was daringly retrieved by the artisans.

They came before the spectators, showing them the armor in their hands.

The side of these armors facing the plasma bomb had melted into dark red holes.

The molten iron solidified into droplet-shaped protrusions on the surface of the armor remnants, not to mention the grass inside the armor fully burned.

The onlookers, first observing from afar and then close up, all showed subtle changes in expression.

Especially those representatives from North County, South Mande County, and Mande County.

Most of them come from minor noble backgrounds or landed monk backgrounds, and many have been to the battlefield.

They had all witnessed the power of clockwork grenades and smoke bombs.

But the power of these plasma bombs was indeed rare to see.

They could even envision the effect these plasma bombs would have when falling among formations or chargers on the battlefield.

Putting down the telescope, Horn nodded in satisfaction.

If the grenade launcher wasn't limited by its short range and slow projectile speed, which might be shot down by Extraordinary Knights with arrows, it could replace the spring cannon.

He calmly turned to Petier, who had arrived unknown: "Monthly production?"

Petier didn't need to look at notes, answering directly from memory: "Each ether guidance can produce about five rounds, but we must also allocate some for celestial gear charging, so about ten rounds every three months."

"Wasn't the ry Court Barracks saying that we could soon calculate the second ether point with a hand-cranked calculator?"

What is referred to as ether point, can be seen as a set of new independent guiding rituals apart from the old ones before.

In this way, if originally only two times a month, it can now become four times a month.

Petier shook his head: "Bachelor Kerben was transferred to research mountain brass conversion, Lord Senius went to Shangruifo County, and the number of assisting university students is drastically decreasing..."

"Wait." Horn raised his eyebrows, previously smooth, "I understood the first two sentences, but why are the university students decreasing?"

"Your Majesty, the Thousand River Valley is at war with Leia Kingdom now; many university students fear being affected and choose to flee to Falan..."

"Aren't they continuing their studies?" Duvalon asked in response.

Petier, however, replied helplessly: "Studies aren't as important as life, but almost all teachers and students from Thousand River Valley have stayed."

"Alright, let them be," Horn could neither stop them nor wanted to, "Now you know why I want to fully develop my own schools?"

Duvalon and Petier exchanged a glance and laughed: "In the end, it's better to rely on our own."

Holding onto the tower railing, Horn was lost in thought.

He only turned around when the second round of test shots began.

"The Salvation Army and Black Champion Army can be equipped with a grenadier squad, not too many, averaging two per infantry regiment, primarily for firing clockwork grenades and smoke bombs."

Petier immediately took out a small notebook to record.

Horn continued his instructions: "In addition, tomorrow's drill between the new recruits and the Black Champion Army must be arranged well, allowing today's attendees to participate together in the parade.

Remember to write a list; I want to meet each one individually after tonight's banquet."

Although Horn didn't specify what the list was for, Petier nodded knowingly.

Duvalon, standing beside them, instead seemed concerned about the new recruits, chuckling lightly: "The bride must eventually meet the groom; after six weeks of training, it's about time they see the world."