"Boom... Rumble!..."
"Boom... Crack!..."
On the coast of the Ma'en Great Tribe, an 8-pounder Cannon, its rust polished away and its surface wiped clean, had just finished a test shot and was still trailing faint blue smoke. In the thicket its muzzle faced, dust billowed up. A towering Guaiacum Tree had been struck head-on by the heavy stone ball; branches snapped, trunk splintered, and it was smashed clean in two!
"Main God! This demon artifact is actually this powerful?!"
"Ancestors and great spirits! Healing Wood this thick would take half a day to chop through with an axe... and it was broken in one strike by a thunder artifact?!"
"Ayi! The resin's flowing out! Good stuff, cures sickness! Bring bowls and collect it!..."
Seeing the effect of the 8-pounder "heavy cannon" bombardment, the watching Taino Militia cried out again and again. Even the Kingdom Warriors were dumbstruck, a faint fear showing through. The power of this long-barreled artifact had clearly surpassed imagination; it was several times that of the kingdom's Tiger-Crouching Cannon and Eagle Cannon!
And after shouting for a while, several local tribesmen forced down their fear and went over with clay bowls and wooden bowls to collect the resin from the broken Guaiacum Tree.
This tree, a specialty of the Caribbean Sea, was also called "Healing Wood" by the local tribes. The resin it produced had very strong anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects. It could treat the wound infections, rheumatism of the joints, and gastroenteritis common among seaside tribes, and, mm, it could also treat syphilis, against which the native peoples of the Americas had strong resistance.
"Good! Very good! The Main God's blessing is good! Old Sea Turtle, the pearl-gathering team you led did very well! You have the Main God's blessing, a skill ordinary people can hardly