"Alright, I've already won."
"Your Highness, one bullet might be..."
Before the maid could finish speaking, she saw the wild boar lean forward, fall down, struggle on the ground for a moment, and then remain motionless.
Only its mouth continued to open and close, its roars filled with pain.
"This is?"
"One of my little inventions, Alice. If you're curious, you can go and see that bullet."
Edward showed a satisfied expression, indicating that the current situation was roughly as he had anticipated.
"yes."
Alice was indeed somewhat curious about the bullet from earlier.
Although if she were to deal with a wild boar, all she would need to do is control the rock formations and use a spike to pierce the target's throat or abdomen.
But flintlock bullets? She knew about the army's equipment; unless it hit the eye, a single shot would only wound the boar, causing it to run away in pain.
"I'm practically dead now, what kind of bullet was that...?"
Reaching the wild boar, the silver dagger sliced through the skin, revealing a bullet embedded in the flesh.
Her movements froze. Even as an alchemist with considerable combat experience, Alice was somewhat surprised by the scene before her.
"The bullet disintegrated; the once-rounded bullet turned into thorns?!"
Just as she described, only the outermost part of the bullet that had penetrated the wild boar's body remained intact.
The remaining part transformed from a single entity into a wire that split like tree roots, penetrating deep into the target's body.
The bullet split into three wires, and Alice, after digging, discovered that these wires had split at least three more times.
The bullets spread from the spot where the wild boar was hit, and almost a quarter of its body was pierced by them.
It is sharp enough that it is not easy to break, and even the slightest movement of the target will cause extreme pain.
These wires have barb-like structures on them, so theoretically, the only way to pull them out is to cut away all the flesh at the point of impact.
Swallowing hard, Alice realized that the crown prince she had been protecting had done something quite unusual.
"This weapon..."
"The alchemical bullet I designed, I'll temporarily name it Iron Thorn."
Edward walked over, holding the bullet in one hand, and activated the transmutation circle on his left glove, restoring the Iron Thorns to its original state.
"This is a special activation device that I designed based on the formula of alchemy."
The mental energy pre-activated the transmutation array on the bullet; blood, flesh, and these things are closely related to the soul.
The moment it came into contact with the blood, the abnormal mental energy broke the stable mental energy on the bullet, triggering the alchemy array.
It not only transforms the metal of bullets into iron thorns, but it can also extract iron from the blood within the area affected by the transmutation array.
The presence of iron in blood was a fact that the El Empire discovered long ago.
Edward also took advantage of this.
In other words, the victim was lucky enough to survive the internal damage of the wire when faced with the iron thorns.
So, the iron extracted from the blood is enough to kill an already fragile life.
"Alice, what's your opinion? How would you rate my work?"
"...Your Highness, as a weapon, if it can be mass-produced, it will significantly improve the combat effectiveness of the army's lower ranks."
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