After formulating a new agricultural policy with Siduri and handing the rough draft over to her, Marika went on to implement her next plan.
A week after completing the farming project, Marika is now in a room near the library in Stormveil castle. This room was originally a sorcery classroom she assigned to Sellen to train up new Glintstone sorcerers. But to complete her project, she asked Sellen to temporarily use the library as her classroom, while she is temporarily occupying this room.
Marika was sitting attentively at the desk in the classroom at this time. On the table were her tool bag, clay pots, some kind of black powder, various tools and synthetic materials. Marika carefully poured the black powder into one of the clay pots with a paper filler, stuffed the pot with a pencil-sized hemp rope, and sealed it with soft clay.
"That should do it." Marika looked at the fruit of her labor that took her two full days to complete
If one were to look closely, anyone who has studied chemistry will recognize the black powder that Marika is using as gunpowders.
In the world of the Lands Between there is a material similar to gunpowder, which is the explosive stone that the miners use to mine caves. In addition to being used as throwing gadgets in the game, explosive stones can also be synthesized into explosive crossbow bolts and explosive crossbow bolts. But the Erdtree sadly is incapable of producing inorganic substances like explosive stones. But the explosive stones did give her good inspiration.
'Since there are no exploding stones, I'll just make them myself. '
And Marika happens to have the best substitute, which is the gunpowder of her original world. When she thought of this idea a week ago, she asked the system for the material formula of the gunpowder, and then ordered the soldiers to collect the materials to make it. And a week later, the soldiers successfully produced gunpowder under the instructions given by Marika. However, the soldiers in charge were puzzled by the black powder they had toiled a week to produce. Although according to Marika, this is a substance that can replace explosive rocks, they really can't imagine how this black powder can create an explosion.
After collecting the required materials, Marika began to use the tool bag to try to make a clay pot bomb using the flame clay pot as a design template. At this time, Marika was very grateful that she had a tool bag, which made it more convenient for her to make items. Coupled with the thoughtful guidance provided by the system, Marika was like a fish in water. However, it still took her a few days to fully understand how to make gunpowder.
After the completion of the production, Marika couldn't wait to go to the training range of the barracks to test her new work.
When she arrived it was in the early morning, but seeing their goddess rushing to the shooting range, the soldiers gathered curiously to see what inventions Marika had come up with this time.
Some sharp-eyed soldiers saw that what Marika was holding was a clay pot, but this only made them more puzzled. They have seen all kinds of clay pots as weapons, a simple gadget that is simple to produce, not a rare thing at all. So they were all a little confused when they saw the clay pot in Marika's hand.
They watched as Marika took a torch and ignited the fuse on the clay pot, then threw it into the center of the shooting range. The flame on the fuze quickly burned into the clay pot, and then there it was, a loud, resounding bang. The clay pot exploded in an instant, and the fragments flew everywhere. Fortunately, Marika threw it far enough, otherwise the soldiers on the side would be injured by the fragments.
"NICEEEEE!"
After Malika saw the success of her experiment, she couldn't help but crossed her fists and do a Jojo reference happily.
The soldiers on the side were still immersed in the shock of the explosion. When they recovered their senses and asked Marika about the explosion just now, Marika had already been teleported back to the castle through the sights of grace to continue her gunpowder experiment.
Marika spent the rest of the afternoon in her makeshift lab until sunset. When she was done, Marika had now created Explosive Bolts and Explosive Megabolts. The gunpowder container for the explosive crossbow bolts is made using bamboo shoots created by the Erdtree and fixed to the tip of the crossbow bolts, while the container for the giant exploding crossbow bolts is directly made of wooden barrels in the same way as their smaller counterpart, except that the amount of gunpowder is naturally bigger.
Marika stretched her waist, she was very satisfied with her work progress today.
On the battlefield, explosions have a very good suppression effect, because most soldiers are instinctively afraid of explosions. For the armies in this world that are still in the Middle Ages, Madika's explosive crossbow arrows and pots will undoubtedly be good for area damage, effectively scaring and clearing off common soldiers. The only pity is that Mal\rika couldn't make a cannon. In her world, the Turks in the fifteenth century swept across Europe with cannons as a siege weapon. However, with Marika's current manpower and resource conditions, it would be impossible to mass-produce such weapons.
Finally, Marika mentally communicated to the human and hybrid artisans led by Hewg the method of mass producing explosive pottery pots, explosive crossbow bolts and explosive giant crossbow bolts provided.
After notifying Hewg, Marika's day's work was finally completed.
"Go and see what Morgott and the others are doing."
Thinking of her two new children, Marika decided to go and check up on them. She has only the most basic knowledge about parenting, but at least she knows that some proper time together can't hurt parent-child relationships. Therefore, apart from researching gunpowder these past few days, Marika has spent it hanging out with Morgott and Melina, and today is no exception.
Marika soars into the sky above Stormveil city. Looking from above, the streets were neat and orderly, and the people all had genuine smiles on their faces. The number of golem guards have been increased to four and they continue to watch over the four walls of the city. Looking at the thriving city, she couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment. Perhaps she really could create a sanctuary in this world where people could live away from war and oppression.
After inspecting Stormveil City from the sky, Marika used the system map to Morgott and Melina who were in the knight's training ground in the barracks.
Landing on the training ground, Marika immediately heard the whooshing sound of blades being waved through the air. Marika looked towards the center of the field, and saw the tall, still fully armored Artorius with the Valkyrie trio, who were in civilian clothes that were convenient for training. The trio copied their master's move as he swung his sword. The great curse black sword danced with lifelike grace in the hands of Artorias, and the knights who watched from the side shouted praise again and again. But Sophia, Misha and Bella, who were doing sword swing training with Artorius, seemed much more strenuous. They all use the knight swords that are standard for knights of the Lands Between, but the power gap between the knights of the Lands Between and the knights in this world is far too wide. For them, the great sword, which was just right in weight, seemed as heavy as a boulder in the Valkyries' hands. Moreover, the Valkyries are not a combat unit that excel at strength, so Sophia and her two partners are having quite the tough time in training.
But they didn't complain at all. After seeing Artorius' unparalleled martial arts and power, as knights, they naturally wanted to learn his powerful swordsmanship. And these girls are also the hard-working types, never neglecting the training assigned to them by Artorius.
Malika nodded in satisfaction when she saw the three girls who were training hard, and then continued to look for Morgott and Melina. Her eyes soon caught sight of her two children standing by the fence of the practice field. Morgott and Melina noticed Marika who was walking towards her so they hurriedly saluted. Beside them, three tall knights in menacing black armor and black cloak also saluted her. These black knights are none other than the Night Cavalry. The Night Cavalry is a knightly order led by Morgott during his time in the Lands Between. They specialize in helping Morgot hunt and kill all heroes who dare to rebel against the Golden Order. They didn't mind at all that their lord was an it would be more accurate to say that they already knew Morgott's true identity when the Night Cavalry was first founded. The reason they followed him was because they were moved by his utter devotion to the Golden Order and voluntarily joined him.
After unlocking them, Marika summoned them as Morgott's subordinates in the spare time of the past few days.
"My children, why did you come here to watch Sir Artorias' training today?"
Marika nodded to them with a smile, and then asked why they were here.
"Mother, I've heard great praises from the men of Artorias' swordsmanship for a long time. Since I have some free time today, I decided to come watch him at work with Melina."
Morgott replied respectfully. Morgott now no longer wears his old shabby cloak, but a new golden robe with a green cloak tailor-made by Boc. As the prince of the Golden Dynasty and her own son, it was naturally impossible for Marika to not let him wear tattered clothes all day long. One funny thing to note, when Boc learned that he was going to sew clothes for a demigod, he fainted from joy again, which made Kenneth worry a lot.
"I see... Then what do you think of his swordsmanship?"
When Marika heard that they were interested in Artorius, she became interested and asked them for their opinions. Marika was very curious about what the demigods at the Land Between border had to say about one of the four knights of Lordran.
For Marika's inquiry, it was Melina who answered:
"Sir Artorius' swordsmanship is very special, and Morgott and I both admire it very much. Morgott also said that he saw a bit of Crowned prince Godwyn's figure from his swordsmanship."
"Is that so? I am very happy that you can appreciate Sir Artorius' martial arts. Sir Artorius is indeed a rare gem of a general."
Marika was startled when she heard Godwyn's name. But on the surface, she still maintained a peaceful smile, and turned to look at the master and his apprentices on the training ground.
Godwin was the first child born to Marika of the Lands Between. There are very few descriptions of him in the game, but all that remains is words of praises for him. Born with great power and handsome looks, he perfectly inherited all the advantages of his parents. His great feats of defeating the ancient dragons and becoming close friends with one of them is a tale known to everyone. It's a pity that such a perfect prince fell in the assassination planned by his half (?) sister Ranni. His soul was killed by the black-knife assassins, but his body lingered on, mutated into death root, and caused a terrible undead disaster in the Lands Between.
The reincarnated Marika knew from the game's lore pieces that these black-knife assassins were also Numens, and it should have been under the command of Marika. But they killed the original Malika's son. The reincarnated Marika does not believe for a second that her original self had nothing to do with the assassination plan. So now that Morgott mentioned Godwyn, Marika's heart was high strung, fearing that she would slip up and cause them to doubt the truth about the night of the black knives. So she could only deliberately keep silent so as not to arouse everyone's suspicion.
"Brother, why did Mother suddenly stop talking? Did I say something wrong?"
Melina felt puzzled seeing Malika suddenly stop talking. So she turned her head to the side and asked her elder brother on her side. The three apprentices of Artorius who were training beside them secretly pricked up their ears even though they were extremely tired after hearing their conversation, hoping to hear what royal family secrets Morgott would reveal.
Morgott sighed heavily, and then whispered to Melina:
"Sigh~ I'm afraid the Mother is thinking of Prince Godwyn again. Back then when our eldest brother was assassinated, the whole country mourned unceasingly, not to mention the Mother who gave birth and raised us with sweat and tears. It has been so many years, but looks like mother still missed him deeply"
The Valkyrie trio, who were eavesdropping, were very surprised when they heard this information. They never expected that the powerful queen who grinded the empire and the kingdom to the ground in battle would have such a tragic story. The sad story of a mother sending off their children is always a heart-wrenching story no matter which world it is in, and the Valkyries can't help but feel a little sympathy for Marika.