A quarter of an hour later, in the lower city, a scavenger in ragged clothes and covered in dirt hunched over and looked at the priests in front of him, and carefully told them everything he had seen.
Anluk said nothing, looking down at the marks left by the flames on the ground. The red blood had turned into dark red after being evaporated by the high temperature. The turned-up ground and the shattered flesh and blood residues all showed the cruelty of the battle.
The cause of such severe damage was most likely the second-level magic [Pyroblast]! "Where's the body?" Anluk suddenly asked. There were obvious traces of battle on the ground, but there was no Blaney's body.
The scavenger swallowed his saliva and spoke with difficulty. "After the witch hunter died, the wizard threw him into... into the Jin River..."
“This is blasphemy against God!”
Before Anluik could speak, a middle-aged priest behind him excitedly shouted.
Over the years, thanks to the "wise" actions of the Duke of Nordland, the entire lower reaches of the Yin River has long become a veritable filthy place.
You should know that Blaney's identity is not just a simple witch hunter, he is also a member of the Holy See's God Punishment Army. He even drank the [Divine Grace Potion] in advance, and he has become God's messenger on earth.
The reason why he frequently participates in witch hunts is just to enhance his resume.
But the wizard who was corrupted by the devil brutally killed the other party and threw the body into the filthy river. This was undoubtedly a provocation to the majesty of the Holy See!
The scavenger's body trembled and he lowered his head in fear.
Anluk tightened his grip on the scepter, his anger rising. He turned to look at the slightly trembling scavenger and questioned him again.
"Did you see clearly what the wizard who killed Blayney looked like? Were there other people involved?"
"I just took a few glances from a distance, Your Excellency the Bishop. There shouldn't be another wizard..." The scavenger replied with a slight tremor. "That man seemed to have just reached adulthood, with brown hair, and was about the same height as you."
"Carl..." Anluk muttered to himself, thinking about the other party's information in his mind.
Before this, he had never paid much attention to this unknown wizard apprentice. After all, according to the intelligence he had obtained, the other party had only been a student for about half a year and was not taken seriously by the wizard Kelu on weekdays. He was the least threatening one among all the targets...
But now it seems that is not the case...
Unleashing the second-level magic [Pyroblast] to kill two witch hunters in succession was definitely not something an apprentice who had just come into contact with magic could do! Unless the other party had a powerful alchemical item, or... was a formal wizard like Kelu! ...
A few days later, in an inn in the town of Ur, on the border of Nordland.
Lynn, awakened from a nightmare, jumped up from the hard wooden bed, and then ran to the window as fast as he could to observe the scene outside.
Seeing that everything was normal and no one came to attack him, Lin En finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Ever since he killed the two witch hunters in the slums five days ago, he had been worried about the Inquisition's subsequent pursuit. He deliberately took a detour to the town of Ur and even fabricated some false traces of his escape.
Perhaps his half-baked anti-reconnaissance skills really worked, or perhaps the Inquisition had no time to pay attention to a little wizard apprentice like him, because he had not encountered any pursuers so far.
But even so, the journey can only be described as difficult.
After all, there are no mobile phones or computers here, no familiar family or friends, and no hot breakfast in the morning. I can only eat a piece of hard-to-swallow black bread with water...
The only thing to be thankful for is that he has all the memories of his original body, Carl, and understands the language and writing of this world. He is also quite skilled and can intimidate some short-sighted thieves so that he doesn't die on the road.
After several days of torture, Lin En reluctantly accepted the fact that he had traveled through time, and this was already the second day since he arrived in the town of Ur!
Out of caution, Lynn did not rush to look for the whereabouts of other wizard apprentices. After discovering the marks left by the other party, he returned secretly, spent a day familiarizing himself with the terrain, and purchased a dozen new flints and a bag of black bread.
A few days of life on the run made Lynn a little nervous, but after getting to know the town of Ur, he immediately understood why Johnny chose this place as the venue for the rally.
As a small commercial town on the border of Nordland, the people coming and going here are mixed, and there are often caravans coming and going. One or two unfamiliar faces will not attract too much attention.
As Lin En thought about it, he reached out and took the mortar beside him, put the flint that had been broken into blocks into it, and then used a small wooden stick to grind it into fine powder.
During the time of entering the town of Ur, in addition to looking for marks and familiarizing himself with the terrain, Lin En spent the rest of his time making white phosphorus!
White phosphorus is a single substance of phosphorus with the chemical formula P4. It appears as a white or light yellow translucent solid.
There are two commonly used production methods.
One method is to mix calcium phosphate, quartz sand and carbon powder into a mixture, heat it to 1400 to 1600 degrees Celsius, and then pass the generated phosphorus vapor into cold water to solidify it into white phosphorus.
The second method is to isolate the air, heat the red phosphorus to 416 degrees Celsius, and then cool it to sublime.
However, in this world without an industrial system, similar to ancient Europe, it is not easy to find all these raw materials in a short period of time.
Although 071 had shown him some ancient and "convenient" methods of extracting raw materials, Lin En had no intention of using them unless absolutely necessary.
Fortunately, Lin En soon discovered a surprise. The surface of the flint he had used was mixed with some red phosphorus!
This is not surprising considering that red phosphorus is a highly effective flame retardant and was used in the manufacture of matches in the last century to improve their safety performance.
It seems that the natives of this world have discovered the element phosphorus, but their application is still very crude.
Under the constant grinding of the wooden stick, the flint fragments were gradually decomposed, and after removing some impurities, only clumps of red powder were left...
He didn't have any professional instruments in his hands, but his magical power was much more useful than those scientific instruments!
[Master's Hand]! Lin En's mind moved, and the dense red phosphorus seemed to be inspired by something and automatically floated up. Then, under the effect of [Primary Material Deconstruction Technique], it was deconstructed into a basic molecular state...
(PS: I want anything for the new book!) (End of this chapter)