Chapter 1314

"Is there something inside?"

"I don't know, it feels soft when I touch it, like sand, or some kind of powder. Should we open it?" Even as the soldier asked, he had already drawn his dagger and sliced open the grey burlap sack with one cut!

From within spilled white, grey, and black powders and crushed stone, three different kinds, and the air was filled with a strange, choking smell.

"This looks like gunpowder." Yan Liu's memory gradually drifted back several decades, to something called Black Flame that the old alchemist in the stockade used to make — its explosive power was tremendous, and as long as there was enough of it, black powder could blast through a small hill.

But compared to martial artists who possessed spiritual shields, black powder could only be effective against fixed structures; of course, it was still extremely threatening to ordinary martial artists.

Now it might help defend the city!

"Where did you find this stuff? Is there any more?"

"I found it in a corner under the city wall. If the cannon fire hadn't cracked the ground open, I never would have discovered this thing. It looks like someone buried it here on purpose."

The soldier led Yan Liu to the spot under the city wall where the black powder sack had been found. Yan Liu crouched down and pried apart the broken floor tiles, and soon discovered a long fuse. Following this fuse, he found another black powder sack. It seemed that as long as he pried up the floor tiles along the city wall, every so often he would discover a new black powder sack.

Putting it together with the earlier events — the Taji soldiers who had been garrisoned here and then retreated so easily — could it have been left behind by them?

Just as Yan Liu was lost in thought, another soldier came to report.

"General, we found similar cloth sacks under the city wall outside the city as well."

In an instant, Yan Liu understood.

If the allied forces of the Holy Kingdom had not come, these black powder sacks could have easily destroyed Corin's defenses. But now the Holy Kingdom's allied forces had come, and the people of the Taji Kingdom didn't seem to have told the Holy Kingdom about the black powder, so it was discovered just like that?

"Everyone, hurry up and dig out all the black powder sacks. Be careful, keep them away from open flame. These are good things — they can help us defend the city! Maybe we can even survive!"

Yes, sir!

Hearing that it could help them defend the city, the soldiers of Eternal Night happily sprang into action. Before long, they had dug out every single black powder sack buried on both the inside and outside of the city.

The fellows from the Holy Kingdom would never have expected the Taji Kingdom to leave behind such a trump card, only for it to be discovered by them of all people.

If they knew the truth, would they be furious enough to blow their tops?

"General, how should we use this stuff?" a soldier asked curiously.

Most of the soldiers, like him, knew nothing at all about what black powder was.

"That's a good question. This black powder… was originally something made by the alchemists of our Emperor Tianwu's Empire. It can explode, with tremendous power. It's very destructive against low-ranked martial artists and buildings, but against the strong, it's barely worth mentioning."

"This stuff didn't cause much of a stir back in our Emperor Tianwu's Empire, but in the Western Regions it seems to have been used as a powerful weapon for a time… Now we can use it the same way to defend the city."

"Just light the fuse with a torch, then throw it at the enemy. Before long it will explode — wait, you bastard, put that torch down! Are you trying to blow us all up? Wait until the enemy comes to attack before using it."