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nAs the auction progressed, Landon continued observing all the items displayed.

nSo far, all the items weren't really impressive to him.. but to these people, these goods were mind blowing.

nThere were a lot of pottery items that showed the art style of the people of Morgany, as well as new goods like horse saddles, unique clothing items and so on.

nFinally, it was time for the last item on the list to be auctioned off.

nThis item that had brought everyone out today.

nEven spies and assassins were seated within the crowd...including those from the Ghostly Prince's side.

nIt was finally time for the big reveal.

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"Esteemed guests, for our final item... we have what is popularly known within the Morgany Continent as snow powder.

nFor better understanding, we decided to show you all what it could do.

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nImmediately, an auction worker came up to the stage with a wooden boards, some tubes, ropes, sticks, snow powder, arrows and bows.

nFor the first setup, several sticks were tied together in the shape of triangles, and mounted to the ground.

nThe auction worker made 2 triangular stick-stands, and placed a long large stick above both triangular mounts.

nIt was kinda like 2 camera tripod stands, that had a stick placed on top of them... this long stick connected both Tripods.

nEach tripod stick-stand, had 3 legs that formed formed a triangle, and stood mounted to the ground...

nOne end of a large long stick was placed on top of the first tripod stick stand, while the other end of the stick was placed on the second stand.

nOnce that setup was done, the worker then filled a tiny tube with snow powder, placed the tube on one end of the long stick, and aimed at a wooden board a little distance away from the setup.

nThe tube had about the same size as hand-held dynamite sticks back on earth.

nWhen everything was ready, another worker quickly brought a fire torch and lit the tube.

nOnce it was shot, white smoke instantly began to fill the stage.

n'Boom!!'

nOne-fourth of the board was shattered into pieces.

nEveryone was shocked.

nEven the calm and collected spies and assassins almost stood up from their seats.

nWhat kind of weapon was this?

nThis was groundbreaking technology that would definitely help them in their quest for power.

nJenette was brimming with joy.. this was exactly what she was looking for.... With this, her victory was definitely guaranteed.

nShe would kill her old man, as well as that b**ch Angelina.

nAs for Landon, he had realised that the explosive power was not even up to 20% of his gunpowder back in Baymard.

nIt was understandable, since the people didn't necessarily understand science.

nFor these people, if they combined several stones with charcoal, then gunpowder would be formed.

nBut that wasn't necessarily the right way to go about it.

nFor example most of these rocks only contain maybe 30-50% sulphur within them, and the other components were seen as impurities.

nSo since these people didn't understand chemistry, or even knew what sulphur was, how could they succeed in creating any powerful explosions?

nIf they wanted to have a good explosive power, then they needed to use at least 98% pure sulphur.. . And the same thought process went out for the other raw materials.

nThat was why chemical extraction and preparation was necessary.

nAnother important factor was that they didn't know the ratio in which they should mix the raw materials.

nBack in Baymard, Landon had made several potion cups, containers and glass dishes which were used by the people to estimate the ratio.

nThe correct ratio was 2 parts pure sulphur, 3 parts charcoal and 13 parts pure saltpeter.

nThese cups and containers were now used even in cooking.

nPeople could say things like: add 3 parts rice, 4 parts water and so on.

nOnce the right ratios were properly mixed, Landon had the men fill sacs of gunpowder and place in the storage rooms.

nApart from the people in Baymard, the rest of the world didn't know the ratio, and just went with what they thought was right.

nIn fact, there were so many reasons why their explosive power was weak... Heck, it sounded more like a loud fart, than a thunderous clap.

nAnd from the looks of it, those around the shots weren't even affected by the explosive force form the shot.

nWell... this was definitely good for Baymard.

nBack on earth, hand-held cannons were generally made between the 12 and 14th centuries.

nAnd even at that time period, gunpowder still had a weak explosive power.

nBut when the era of science and all the geniuses like Albert Einstein came about, people started understanding were they went wrong with gunpowder.

nThe era of science mainly happened between the late 16th to 20th century.

nPeople started building large gigantic cannons, war machines, and gunpowder guns.

nBut presently, sticks were used to launch the gunpowder filled tubes at an inclined angle.

nAs well as attached some of these gunpowder filled tubes onto metal arrows, and use their bows to launch their attacks.

nThese kind of weapons would never be enough to destroy Baymard's walls, that's why Landon could sigh from relief.

nWithin the audience, King Barn had also disguised himself as a V.I.P merchant.

nThis snow powder was what he needed to prepare himself against City Lord Shannon's attack on him.

nHe had been having several sleeplessn nights since the disappearance of City lord Shannon.

nIf the fool really planned on attacking him, then he would use this gunpowder to completely destroy Shannon.

nFor now once he got the powder, he would get his alchemists to study and create large scale batches.

nAnd if anyone got in his way of obtaining this powder, hehehehe... thet person would wish that they had never been born.

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"My esteem guests... we have only 50 large sacs of snow powder being auctioned off today.

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nOne had to know that this powder was extremely expensive, so the merchants couldn't bring a lot back from the Continent of Morgany.

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"These sacks would be sold in groups of 5 .... So let's start the bidding for the first group shall we?

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