"Huh? Lord Priest, these are fire arrows for ignition. Some use expensive gunpowder, and some use cheap sulfur... Mm, the Tendai Sect really is wealthy! These whistling fire arrows are all using gunpowder. I'd guess a single arrow costs dozens of mon!"
"Iehiro! I'm asking, your Wagoku actually has gunpowder too...?"
"Uh?! This question... Lord Priest, Tang Land and Joseon have been using gunpowder for several hundred years already. Back when the Yuan Invaders attacked, they even had those roaring stone-shooting cannons... Wajin Land would naturally learn from Tang Land, so of course it has gunpowder too. It's just that natural saltpeter is very rare, produced only in the mountains of Kyushu and in Settsu Province on Honshu. They say there's also a man-made way to make saltpeter, but very few warrior houses know it, and I've only heard of it..."
"What?! You're saying that several hundred years ago, the western Great Ming Alliance already knew how to use the gunpowder of Divine Revelation?"
"Huh? My lord... Several hundred years ago, Great Ming didn't exist yet. As for 'Divine Revelation gunpowder,' I'd guess it was either the Tang People or the Song people, and then they passed it on to the Yuan Invaders..."
"?... In other words, the Ryuzoji Clan has no source of gunpowder, the Kakizaki Clan doesn't either, but the Tendai Sect Temple does? If the kingdom wants to get gunpowder, it still has to go through the Tendai Sect Temple's channels?..."
". My lord, look at this whistling rain of fire filling the sky! It's plain as day, plain as day!"
Cold wind blew from the north, and a sky full of fire rained down in flurries, whistling from the heavens, able to burn even on the earth. Faced with this "fire-rain spell" they had never seen