Chapter 332 - Genius Among Geniuses

Seeing the explosion squad, Angus immediately approaches them. Noticing the incoming Angus, everyone from the explosion squad immediately gets a cold sweat and stands straight while saluting at Angus.

Ignoring the nearby explosion squad, Angus approaches Squad leader Anne.

"Did you bring my order?" asked Angus to Squad Leader Anne.

"Yes, sir. Everything you ordered is here." replied Anne while giving a space pouch to Angus.

"Good. How is everyone? Are they ready?" asked Angus after receiving the space pouch.

"Yes, most of the soldiers here are fourth-grade combatants or the ones that managed to use explosion skill to a certain degree." replied Anne.

"Excellent. This will be the explosion squad's debut in battle. Make sure everyone is in their best condition when the monster wave comes." said Angus.

"Yes, sir." replied Anne shortly.

Then, Angus leaves Anne to take care of the explosion squad and go towards the Black Fortress Wall. Since Angus knows that the explosion squad will arrive, he asks Valter to send him various kinds of bombs through Anne.

Chain Bomb is only one of Valter and his team's products. There are many kinds of other bombs that could be used in the incoming monster wave. However, all of them are pretty expensive since their production cost is relatively high.

Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, they couldn't be causally used. Still, for Angus, who has a lot of money, this kind of price is nothing.

In the end, Angus decides to buy some of these useful bombs stored in the explosion squad warehouse using his own money. At first, Jacob was against this idea since these bombs could only be used one time.

Although they are still not certain about the strength of the incoming monster wave, with all their current reinforcement, they should be able to defend the Black Fortress even with a lot of casualties. At least until the support from the other affiliated nobles.

As a Duke who lives in this magical world where power is the actual law, it is normal to think lower-grade soldier's and adventurers' lives are dispensable.

However, Angus thought differently than his father. Although Angus is not a pacifist or saint, he still believes that every life is precious. Unless they are his enemy, he will not at least try to end their lives if possible.

Angus, who lived in the Earth's modern life before, knows that every life is important. Therefore, Angus thought reducing casualties and exchanging them with these bombs was worth it. 

Arriving at the wall, Angus begins to inspect and observe the surrounding Black Forest perimeter. He also uses [Great Mana Echolocation] to monitor the surrounding forest. Seeing that there is still no sign of the monster wave, Angus immediately jumps down from the wall.

He planned to plant some traps and bombs in front of the wall. Previously, he already used all his Chain Bomb to make the trap in the hunting area. Now, with the supply he gets from Anne, he could also deploy some bombs to deter the incoming monster.

After using Featherfall to stop his momentum and land on the ground, he begins to think to maximize the bomb's effectiveness. Before that, he needs to know about the current rune trap deployment from the Black Fortress enchanter.

He approaches the enchanter leader and immediately discusses the best way to maximize the bomb's effectiveness. There is a reason why bombs and explosions are hard to use in large-scale battles. Bombs and explosions may have tremendous power and are very destructive.

However, they also couldn't differentiate between ally and enemy. This also applies to the trap bomb. Once the bomb triggers and explode, it may also destroy the surrounding trap rune and make them useless.

Some bombs are also very destructive and could trigger the other trap bombs and make them explode too early. Hence, planting a trap bomb needs a lot of calculation and serious consideration. Otherwise, it will render the other trap to be useless.

After discussing with the leader of the enchanter for a while, Angus finds that all his bombs could easily be triggered by the other bomb, rune traps, or even the attack from the magic cannon on the wall.

Then, Angus begins to think for a while before taking out some parchment and drawing various complicated rune diagrams on it. 

After a few hours of trial and error, while wasting a lot of parchment, Angus finally stopped drawing and went to the empty area. Then, he began to draw a complicated rune according to the diagram in his parchment.

The nearby rune enchanter is also curious at Angus, but they also have their job of scribing rune traps on the ground as many as possible. They could only ignore Angus for now. After a while, Angus finally completed the rune and put a small bomb on it.

Without wasting any more time, Angus active the rune, and the bomb on the top of the rune disappears. Then, Angus creates a Fireball on his hand and shoots at the rune. *Bom* The Fireball exploded and left a charred ground on the surrounding rune.

On the other hand, the rune itself is still intact. Angus immediately inspected the rune from a distance since the rune may malfunction and explode the bomb.

At the same time, the Fireball explosion attracted all the nearby people and soldiers on the wall. Seeing it come from Angus, they immediately feel relieved. 

Because of the massive reinforcement from the nearby cities, everyone becomes quite tense and realizes this is not an ordinary monster wave. Each day passed by the soldiers and adventurers became more restless.

Therefore, Angus's little experiment immediately attracted everyone. Ignoring everyone's stares, Angus keeps focusing on the rune in front of him. 

After ensuring it is still working properly, he creates some distance between the rune and himself. He also didn't forget to cast some Fire Barrier, and other barrier spells to himself. 

After taking a deep breath, "Release!!" said Angus while triggering the rune.

Suddenly, the rune shines brightly and launches its stored bomb in the air. In a split second, the bomb immediately active and exploded. *BOM* The explosion is more destructive than Angus' previous Fireball. It also creates a small shockwave towards the surrounding area.

Looking at the bomb destructiveness, 'and he said this is just a nameless bomb.' thought Angus while looking at the bomb's aftereffect.

Like any other researcher, Valter is quite eccentric. He often didn't name some of his bomb products and only called its number production. Only a unique bomb like Chain Bomb or others that he will name them.

However, even the bomb is nameless. It didn't mean it was a failed product and still quite destructive. The bomb that Angus exploded just now is called Bomb 67.

'If I am not wrong, Valter said Bomb 67 is only an average bomb in terms of destructiveness. Haa… I could never understand that person's mind.' thought Angus.

After the dust settled down, he immediately looked at the rune engulfed by the explosion earlier. Seeing that his rune still survived the explosion, he couldn't help but smile.

"Fiuuhh.. With this, I am half done." said Angus.

Then, Angus begins to test his rune a few times using the bomb he had. Seeing this, everyone becomes ignoring Angus and leaves him to himself. Unbeknownst to Angus, he managed to loosen up the tension in the surrounding soldiers and adventurers.

At the inner base, Jacob also noticed what Angus did, but he decided not to disrupt or stop him since he knows Angus never did something without purpose, especially at this time.

Although he still feels that using those bombs is only wasting resources or materials, he knows that Angus is quite wealthy, and their current family does not lack any kind of resources. 

After finishing his experiment for a while, Angus comes towards the Enchanter leader again and explains the rune he just tested and created. Hearing Angus' explanation, the enchanter couldn't help but be surprised.

"This is brilliant!! If it works as you said, our rune trap will be many times more effective." said the Enchanter Leader.

"Yeah, not only that but with this rune. I could also plant the bomb like my previous plan." said Angus.

"Sure. But, we already lay hundreds of rune traps around the area. We can't just erase all those rune traps and apply them with the new one. We simply didn't have time to do that before the incoming monster wave." said the enchanter leader.

"True. That's why I also prepare the variation of the rune traps. Now, you only need to modify the previous rune slightly, and it will work like the new rune. Here take all these diagrams of the modified new trap runes." said Angus while giving the enchanter leader a stack of parchments.

Seeing this, the leader couldn't help but be surprised.

'I-In short time, he managed to do all this?!! No wonder everyone called him a genius among geniuses. His future is definitely boundless.' thought the enchanter leader.

"Alright, then I will immediately tell the others to modify the current trap rune.." said the enchanter leader before calling every enchanter in the surrounding area.