Volume 3 Chapter 6 (2/2)

Up until this moment, all the fighting the others had been doing including Ancient Elf was ultimately nothing more than an opening act and everything hereafter was main event.

Thus, the griffon corps flew right up the ceiling of room. One by one, they each dropped some kind of metallic cylinder to the ground.

Since Ancient Elf had exterminated every flying enemy monster in the sky, there was no one that could stand in the griffon corps' way.

Upon dropping the cylinders, the corps returned as I ordered. The cylinder, on the other hand, hit the ground and then exploded. It didn't stop there though. The raging flames spread to a wide area and it just kept spreading. It spread and spread and spread.

”Master, what is that? That's no ordinary flame, is it? It feels sinister.”

Ancient Elf who could control nature voiced out the fear she somehow felt.

”Yeah, that's no ordinary flame, alright. That is science… no, rather, those are the flames of demons.”

It was ironic calling them such considering the demon-type monsters being burned by it.

One of the monsters that got caught in the explosion and yet still lived tried to extinguish the flames all over its body by rolling around in the ground. Despite its best efforts though, the flames remained. It screamed and trashed about until it drew its last breath. Nevertheless, the flames still kept on burning.

At another spot, a certain monster was engulfed in the flames to the point of driving it mad. In its desperation, it lopped off another monster's head, causing a fountain of blood to spurt on him. All the same, the flames continued to burn.

As I had said to Ancient Elf, these were no ordinary flame. The bombs that gave birth to these flames were actually called Napalm Bombs. During the day, the Skeletons worked on making delicious breads but at night, they diligently made these bombs.

”Those flames, as soon as they are started, will continue burning unless they had exhausted all the oxygen in their surroundings or a special mixture is used on them.”

A napalm bomb was a fuel gel incendiary device made of a combination of gel-like thickeners and some kind of fuel. The term napalm was coined out its thickener's two primary components: Naphthenic acid and Palmitic acid. Napalm would continue to spread and burn at extremely high temperatures like 1300 degrees Celsius.

Its worst feature was, as was mentioned before, the ability to burn as though it would continue to do so forever; as soon as one was caught in its flames, they would keep on burning until they die and even after that.

”It's gruesome, isn't it? No kind of attack, whether through magic or some kind of ability, has this kind of effect.”

”Yeah, it's more than what I expected. It's a good thing we had this chance to try it out.”

It was great that I had thought of the napalm bombs and then make them but I didn't think I would be lucky enough to have the chance to experiment on their effectiveness. To actually have that chance, this war was a great boon indeed.

Against the monsters and even some humans of this world, ordinary bombs weren't enough. Their bodies were weirdly resilient that even an explosion wouldn't be enough to kill them. That couldn't be said for the effects of the napalm though. They would continue to burn even long after they had died; no matter how resilient their body was, they would burn.

”Oh, I remember now; these bombs are being made in the underground dungeon.”

”Yeah, we've made a lot in order to prepare for when the humans choose to be our enemies, if they so dared. We have enough to raze a full city.”

Originally, I had decided to make these napalm bombs to anticipate for when the humans launched an assault on Avalon.

I intend to have peaceful negotiations with them but in case they were not so inclined, after showing our power by incinerating their armies, I intend to use the bombs as some kind of deterrent by threatening to raze one of their cities down.

Napalm bombs were dubbed to be the weapon of demons due to its far too inhumane effects. It was even greatly frowned upon if not prohibited to be used on wars. However, to make up for whatever it was that I lacked, it was something I needed.

”………If possible, I'd rather that not be used.”

”Yeah, I think so too. Anyway, shall we go? If we fly in the sky, this fire won't affect us.”

Despite having burned and killed each and every monster here, the flames kept on burning even to this moment.

”How about these flames? How do they disappear?”

”If we leave it be, I think it will continue to burn until it has exhausted all the oxygen here. But then again, dungeons are mysterious things. It might ignore the laws of nature and provide things that are necessary to live, like oxygen, so maybe the fire will only stop burning if there is nothing left for it to burn. Either way, this flame will serve as a roadblock to keep the enemy within the dungeon so it's best to leave it be, I say.”

Ancient Elf was always keeping the air around her clean so our platoon could safely pass on through but in case this thing was used in a closed space, it would result in instant carbon monoxide poisoning for everyone in that said space that somehow hadn't burned. Hence, the reason I ordered the griffon corps to return after dropping the bombs.

On the other hand, this space full of invisible poison was the perfect means to keep the enemies within.

As I thought of such, I climbed onto the Griffon's back while the Mythological Foxes and the Dwarf Smiths each rode a Hippogriff. And thus, we safely crossed the sea of flames.

We have to do our best so that we won't lose to Kuina and the others, I thought as we exited the first room of this dungeon.

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