Children, Bad News: Technology Is About to Be Banned, Good News: Magic Can Also Be Banned

"Only now was it discovered."

Lynn immediately recited the whole thing: "Turn coal into coke, extract toluene at over 220 degrees. I don't know what they call that stuff, but I call it toluene."

"Combine toluene with sulfuric acid and nitric acid for nitration."

"Do it three times, and you get that dye."

"It's stable. You need an explosion to set it off."

"Not advanced, at least not to us."

"Slimes themselves are magical creatures. Their bodies contain acidic fluid. Remove the fluid and magic power, compress them, and then mix them according to their attributes."

"Wood-attribute Slimes are already like they've been nitrated."

"Fire-attribute Slimes are fire-resistant, but they can also explode. They just need to be blown apart, or detonate their own bodies."

"Combine the two and process them in certain proportions, and you get propellant."

"It doesn't even require a particularly complicated process. It's just that how Slimes are processed is strictly confidential."

"There are also Slime explosives. Their essence actually has some magic hidden inside."

"When they explode, they release energy while triggering the surrounding magic power to react and release energy as well, so they're somewhat more powerful."

Sigris froze. She had never known any of this before. "So the yellow explosive we've been focusing on for so long has no technological advantage or generational gap over us?"

"I've never even heard of these things."

Lynn said, "The magic power that can produce a few grams of matter, if fully utilized, could completely destroy everything within several kilometers."

Lynn chose to place the gemstone on the table. "You had quite a blast with it a few days ago. You blew up their entire battlefield."

"This gemstone can reduce magic power consumption when casting spells. Not bad, right?"

Sigris nodded timidly, smiling awkwardly, extremely nervous. "That