RELEASE THAT WITCH

Chapters 331-340

Chapter 331 The Key to "Art"

'It feels as if the Church just suddenly has appeared from out of nowhere.'

This sentence continued echoing through Roland's mind as he was returning to his office.

He closed his eyes and carefully looked through the memories of the 4th Prince, but he still couldn't find any relevant information about this. His understanding of the Church was the same as that of any other ordinary nobleman. During his time at the palace the 4th Prince never bothered spending that much effort in learning anything useful, so his knowledge concerning the occult was practically a full-on blank space. But, if what Tilly had said was true, then the Church's propaganda strategy was also rather strange.

Taking his former world of religious myths, for example, since the beginning of the world there have always been gods and the routine everyone agreed on was that the gods were the ones who created the world. Stories such as the creation in seven days, karma, reincarnation, and so on... those were legends used to describe the power of the Gods and were a standard part of every religion.

Compared to them, the Church of this world was quite... lacking.

But Roland didn't have any more clues to consider, so he shook his head and decided to put such thoughts behind him.

Maybe their questions would be answered when they went to explore the ruins within the Concealing Forest.

He went to the window and looked towards the garden where a huge coating was laid out on the ground – in the middle of the vast expanse of white snow its bluish green appearance seemed particularly eye-catching.

Nowadays Soraya was creating a bigger air sac, the new hot air balloon's volume would become much larger and would thus be able to transport a larger crowd of people. This was preparation in case they were unable to free the trapped woman when going to the ruins in the case that Anna wasn't able to cut-down the whole "ice-coffin" and bring the woman and some of the transparent stones back to Border Town.

They would depart in in two days.

The people that would be going along had already been decided. Tilly, Sylvie, Shavi, Ashes and Andrea would be from the Sleeping Island witches while the Witch Alliance would send Anna, Wendy, Nightingale, Nana, Lightning, and Maggie. This line-up could be said to be unprecedentedly powerful. Its attack, defense, and battlefield awareness were of the highest level, so as long as there was no God's Stone of Retaliation being used, the Devils wouldn't even have a chance of approaching them.

"Your Royal Highness, Chief Alchemist Sir Kyle Sichi wishes to see you," one of his personal guards said from the door.

"Let him in."

Kyle wasn't alone, this time he had come together with his colleague Chavez, "Your Royal Highness, the outline for your requested large-scale production of nitric acid has been completed."

"Really?" Roland stared blankly but soon after a burst of happiness flooded his heart. This was probably the best piece of news he had heard within these past few days. He stood up in excitement and personally poured a cup of tea for the two chemists as he asked, "Tell me, how did you manage it?"

"The credit for this belong to Chavez," he said laughingly, "so I will let him explain it."

"Your honorable Highness," the young Chavez bowed, seeming somewhat reserved as soon as he opened his mouth. "Your alchemical... no, the chemical reaction used in the laboratory to produce nitric acid is produced by distilling saltpeter to obtain diluted nitric acid and then it's purified with concentrated sulfuric acid. I tried to put the two together by placing the saltpeter directly into the concentrated sulfuric acid for shared heating. By doing so I successfully obtained nitric acid, even more, its purity was very high, so much so that it was possible to observe the phenomenon of fuming which was spoken of within "Elementary Chemistry".