Farming in a Parallel World and Becoming a God-Chapter 99 - 90 Forbidden Knowledge_2

"You think I haven’t considered this matter?" Bede couldn’t help but sigh again, "Ten people, twelve different desires, this one fears making too little while that one fears others making more than him. To get them to pull together is really too difficult."

"Difficult as it may be, you have to do it, otherwise you’ll always just be a bunch of lone wolves." Gaven spoke with a hint of pride, "Not to boast, but at the rate you’re developing now, it won’t take long before you fall behind me. Don’t blame me for not waiting up for you."

The speaker was unintentionally pointed, but the listener took it to heart.

Bede wore a solemn expression. Gaven’s pace of development was clear for all to see.

The beginning is always the hardest.

The hardest part was apparently crossed by him so easily.

Not to mention with his current solid foundation, he believed future development would only accelerate.

Judging by the current situation, both in terms of ideas and pace, there might indeed come a day when they couldn’t catch up.

Bede believed that day wasn’t too far off.

By that time, once Gaven started cooperating with other large conglomerates, even if Gaven bore them in mind out of old times’ sake, those large conglomerates certainly wouldn’t be polite to them, they would push them out bit by bit for the sake of benefits.

No way.

He would never allow this to happen. This was a gold mine they had worked hard to uncover; how could they just hand it over to someone else so easily?

No matter what, he had to bring that group of scattered business owners together; he couldn’t let them act independently any longer.

It wasn’t only Gaven who worried about another Klay appearing; Bede did too.

Klay’s actions were not only undermining Gaven’s business but the entire caravan’s as well.

"Brother Gaven has said a lot, and I will take this matter seriously. Wait for my good news," Bede promised solemnly, holding Gaven’s hand.

"Good." Gaven mentioned it casually; he wasn’t very concerned about this issue.

He had cooperated with Bede and the others before because he had no other channels and had to settle for what he could get.

Now that he had tangible goods and had become a seller, the supply and demand dynamics shifted, and gradually businesses would come to him.

Bede came quickly and left just as quickly.

After discussing the matter with Gaven, Bede left in a hurry, accompanied by four heavily armored guards from the Red Crow Mercenary Brigade.

Although Gaven was very envious of the heavy armor that the four guards wore, he had to painfully let it go so as not to offend the Red Crow Mercenary Brigade.

No sooner had Bede left than Gaven made his way into the newly established Alchemical Laboratory at Blackwell.

He was busy working out how to improve the Quake Bomb with that Gnoll Alchemist from Eagle Cliff Burrow.

To be more precise, Gaven was trying to figure it out while the Gnoll Alchemist made the modifications.

Those five clumps of dirt that had caused the Goblin Wolf Cavalry and Klay’s caravan to turn heads were none other than the special Tremor Bombs produced by the Gnolls.

In Gaven’s view, these bombs were far too unstable.

This instability wasn’t just in how they were used but also in their potency.

It was just as likely to be a fart from a Half-Ogre as to rival the Fireball Technique.

The Tremor Bombs produced by the Gnolls came in three types—weak, strong, and dragon.

The production cost of a Weak Tremor Bomb was around one hundred Gold Coins, and it weighed about half a kilogram.

Its lethality was quite disappointing, akin to a bottle of strong acid, dealing 1D5 points of acid damage (1-5 points, depending on the degree of splash) to all living creatures within a three-meter radius.

Such a Tremor Bomb wasn’t even worth producing for Gaven.

The Strong Tremor Bomb cost about three hundred Gold Coins to produce, also weighing approximately half a kilogram.

Its killing radius and lethality were better, with a splash radius of three meters, but its stability was terrible. It dealt 1D4*1D6 acid damage to any creature within the blast radius.

Gaven had never seen such an oddly worded Identify spell before. Probably only the equally unreliable Gnolls, or their Goblin counterparts, could come up with such strange creations.

That means you roll a 1D4 and a 1D6, multiplying the results to determine the damage it deals upon explosion.

Thus, the Strong Tremor Bomb had an equal chance of causing 1 point of damage as it did of causing 24 points of damage (though it was most likely to cause around 9 points of damage).

The situation with the Dragon Tremor Bomb was similar to the Strong version, except that it cost a thousand Gold Coins to produce, and it weighed over a kilogram.

The killing radius reached about five meters, and the damage increased to 1D6*1D8, meaning anywhere between 1 and 48 points.

The Gnoll Alchemist clearly didn’t have any concept of trade secrets and didn’t mind Gaven watching him make Tremor Bombs because he didn’t believe Gaven could learn the craft.

And indeed, Gaven couldn’t learn it because it involved not only physical materials but also the application of Magic during the process of neutralization and mixture.

When magic was involved, it couldn’t be explained clearly in just a word or two.

Gaven might not be able to mix the substances, but he understood some basic principles of explosions.

The Quake Bomb clearly utilized two different substances which, when shaken, were mixed and reacted chemically, causing an explosion that sprayed acid.

It was certain that the more thorough the mix of the two substances, the greater the force of the explosion, and vice versa.

Gaven was working on this principle, trying to find a method that would allow for a more stable and thorough mix.

Once he got the idea straight, finding the method wouldn’t be hard.

Because he had at his disposal not only physical and chemical means but also magic.

He just needed to add a small magic whirl to the inside of the Quake Bomb, which upon activation would spin rapidly, driving the mixture of the two substances.