The Black Crow Green Seer, who had just woken up, first lowered his head and examined his Others-transformed male human body for a while.
Then he stretched out his hands to both sides and slowly raised them.
The frozen soil on both sides of the river, covered in ice and snow, began to bulge outwards from within, and the countless skeletal remains that had slept within for many years struggled to break through the earth.
Among them were both Free Folk and animals, but the most numerous were the forest of children with small skeletons.
Whoosh!
This scene made Mint and the other Children of the Forest who were kneeling extremely uncomfortable, and they immediately became somewhat panicked.
"Don't... don't be afraid. All... all power belongs to the source of all things.
Now... our former ancestors and companions are fighting alongside us again!"
Seeing this, the Black Crow Green Seer immediately spoke to comfort the Children of the Forest, but when he spoke the source language with a human body, he stumbled and was very unfluent.
Hearing the Green Seer attribute this power to the source of all things, the Children of the Forest gradually calmed down and then began to sing praises of the Black Crow Green Seer's great power.
From this, it can also be seen that any race has the instinct of double standards.
When this power was used by the Night King, who was beyond their control, it was an evil power that desecrated corpses.
When used by the Green Seer, it was a righteous great power that allowed their ancestors to fight alongside them again.
Afterward, the Black Crow Green Seer ordered the Children of the Forest to search near the hill caves for materials that could be used to make Exploding Fruits.
After all, this ambush of Jacaerys had used up all the Exploding Fruits accumulated over the years, and they needed to work quickly to produce more.
Mint, who was worried about Leaf, stepped forward, relying on her status as the Black Crow Green Seer's guardian,
and asked in a low voice, "Great Black Crow Green Seer, you now possess such great power.
Should we immediately head south to purify the pawns of the evil god from another world and bring Leaf and the others back?"
"Mint... Mint... Do you know why I joined forces with the Green Prophet Qingmiao to set up this trap?"
The Black Crow Green Seer did not answer Mint's question but instead asked her in return.
"Of course, it was to purify the King of the Dead and the pawns of the evil god from another world."
"What you said is the ultimate goal of setting the trap, but the fundamental reason is that the power of the evil god from another world's pawns is too strong!
Due to the influence of the evil god from another world's power, I cannot see his future too far ahead.
And now even our proud Hammer of the Waters magic cannot do anything to him.
Although I have gained this great power through the plan, it is still far from enough.
Fortunately, the source of all things has shown a miracle!
In the process of traveling through the River of Time this time, I have realized a way to purify the evil demon with the help of divine power.
Believe me, it won't be long before we no longer have to hide everywhere in this bitter cold land.
Westeros will once again become a paradise for the Children of the Forest!"
As he quickly adapted to this human body, the Black Crow Green Seer's fluency in speaking increased.
And hearing the grand vision painted in his words, Mint's eyes were immediately filled with longing.
She nodded and asked, "We will obey you in everything, great Black Crow Green Seer.
So, what should we do next?"
"Send people to protect the Green Prophet Qingmiao's 'soul seed' and then find as many human settlements Beyond the Wall as possible."
As soon as the Black Crow Green Seer finished speaking, his azure eyes were completely occupied by a layer of white.
A wild raven Beyond the Wall instantly had its eyes turn white, and then it spread its wings and flew south.
... ...
As Jacaerys expected, the dragon Womax, which gained explosive speed by burning its dragon blood, had significant side effects.
Womax's flying speed towards Deepwood Motte became slower and slower, and by the time it reached Deepwood Motte, it was almost at the point of crawling along the ground.
According to Jacaerys's speculation, the dragon Womax's burning dragon blood was like the adrenaline that humans release in emergency situations.
The speed that burst forth at that time was indeed unmatched, but after it faded, it would fall into a state of weakness due to significant blood loss.
And how can the blood-making function be faster?
Naturally, it is by supplementing red meat rich in iron and fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin C.
With Jacaerys's order, Earl Glover immediately had his family's soldiers deliver the limited number of cattle and sheep, fresh fruits, and vegetables in Deepwood Motte to Womax's mouth.
Of course, Jacaerys was always generous to those loyal to him, and he would later bestow upon them golden dragons worth ten times more than these things.
Womax rested for a full five days this time.
This was also because Jacaerys was using this purple characteristic for the first time and did not know that it would produce such severe side effects, so he maintained the burst time a bit longer.
If, in future battles, he only used the blood-burning burst for a super short time at critical moments, the weakened state should be very short, or even non-existent.
After all, dragons themselves are physically strong, and their blood-making ability is also very astonishing.
While Womax was resting, Jacaerys either chatted and exchanged ideas with Leaf every day or forcefully participated in Ela's magic research.
Leaf, who had been captured again because she was too naive before, completely ignored him now.
Jacaerys was not in a hurry, as he was not in a hurry to extract more information from Leaf's mouth right now.
If truly needed, he could always threaten Leaf with those two Wood Dancers.
Ela, on the other hand, successfully analyzed this one-time magic item using the Exploding Fruits seized from Leaf.
First, the materials, as Leaf said, Exploding Fruits are made from a mixture of several very common green grasses and wet mud.
And the production method is even simpler, just chop the green grass and put it in wet mud, then knead it into a spherical shape.
So the difficulty lies in the final step, which is engraving a miniature magic array on the wet mud sphere while baking it.
In fact, there is a small step in this final step, which is to infuse the finished one-time magic item with magic power.
But this is the easiest for the extraordinary, so it is not counted.
From the previous few extraordinary battles, it can be seen that the magic in the Game of Thrones World is largely similar.
It mainly relies on three major elements: casting medium, magic array, and magic power.
And the reason why the threshold for the extraordinary is so high, the difficulty in finding casting mediums, and the limitations of magic power are all part of the reason.
But the most important reason is the perfect engraving of complex magic arrays.
A mage of Ela's level has already deeply imprinted the magic arrays she has learned in her mind.
The casting incantation process is the process of hinting and constructing the array in the void with spiritual power using the corresponding language.
The strength of mental power and the degree of understanding of the magic array directly affect the casting speed.
High-level mages can completely instantly cast relatively low-level magic.
So even if the level of the exploding fruit's magic array is not too high, the workload of engraving a miniature array on a soft wet mud sphere is large, and it requires full concentration and completion in one go.
Even a small mistake will result in complete failure.
This is also why Leaf can only make five or six Exploding Fruits at most in a day.
In the early stage, Ela might make some Exploding Fruits to do some experiments, but Jacaerys knows that with her personality of pursuing magical truth, she will start researching other things after getting tired of playing with this.
For example, dragon materials, and source language magic, and so on.
However, when Jacaerys learned about the Exploding Fruits from Leaf's mouth earlier, he had already been thinking about how to mass-produce this kind of magic grenade in his mind.
Information transmission in the Game of Thrones World, besides ravens and cavalry, relies only on bards or word-of-mouth among common people.
So naturally, there can be no newspapers or magazines, let alone printing.
The brilliant Chinese civilization in his previous life had block printing technology as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, and what Jacaerys wanted to borrow was an upgraded version of woodblock printing.
He did not tell Ela his idea but first tried to create the most basic 'block'.
Since it is mass production, the production time must be shortened as much as possible.
So Jacaerys prepared to combine the first few steps of the exploding fruit production.
It's hard to say about other things in Deepwood Motte, but there are as many trees as you want.
After being introduced by Cregan, a true Northman, Jacaerys quickly selected the raw materials for making the blocks.
Ironwood, a special kind of tree that only exists in the Wolfswood in the North and the Ghost Shadow Forest Beyond the Wall in the entire Westeros.
It is hard in texture and dark in color.
The gates of Winterfell and the crypt gates are made of ironwood wrapped in iron plates.
If the soldiers of Deepwood Motte were to cut down this hard ironwood, they might not be able to cut down two or three ironwood trees in a day.
And creatures like dragons, even if they are not on the battlefield, are also top-notch laborers.
With a single thought, Jacaerys made Womax control three dragon servants to either bite a small patch of ironwood forest with their dragon mouths or directly crash into it with their dragon bodies.
In less than an hour, the ground was covered with broken, thick ironwood trees.
Then these three dragon servants transported the ironwood trees, which were nearly five meters in diameter and thirty meters high, to the vicinity of Deepwood Motte.
Jacaerys drew his Valyrian steel longsword, cut off a small branch, and then returned to Deepwood Motte and threw it into the kitchen stove.
Looking at the scene where the leaves were scorched by the high temperature, but the branch only cracked, a satisfied smile appeared on his lips.
That afternoon, Jacaerys took a round iron ball about the same size as an exploding fruit and went to find Ela, who was focused on magic research.
He asked her, who was unhappy because her research was interrupted, to use the Valyrian steel dagger seized from Aemond,
to engrave the miniature magic array on the surface of this round iron ball, and then Jacaerys quickly ran away.
Two days later, Jacaerys came to find Ela with a smile on his face, asking her to infuse the Exploding Fruits he had made with magic power.
Ela, whose magic research had been interrupted repeatedly, had a dark expression and did not give Jacaerys a good look at all.
But she could only express her dissatisfaction in this way, and then obediently told Jacaerys to bring the Exploding Fruits.
But Jacaerys said that he had accidentally made too many Exploding Fruits.
He couldn't bring them over, so he could only ask her to come over.
Ela rolled her eyes when she heard this. How many could be made in just two days?
Relying on ordinary people who had never learned to engrave magic arrays? Probably not even one exploding fruit that could be infused with magic power could be made.
She didn't say anything more, just got up and followed Jacaerys out of her temporary magic research room.
Ela had already decided to let Jacaerys be hit hard by reality, otherwise, he would really think that anyone could make magic items.
And after he lost interest in making magic items, she should be able to conduct magic research in peace.
Following Jacaerys to the exploding fruit production room, which was temporarily converted from the Deepwood Motte granary.
Ela saw a small mountain of round black balls at first glance, estimated to be at least four or five hundred.
She went forward with a shocked expression, picked up a few round black balls, and checked them one by one, finding that the surface of these fully dried round black balls was covered with miniature magic arrays that she had engraved.
This is impossible!
Even Ela herself could not engrave the exact same miniature magic array every time.
As if remembering something, her eyes glowed, and the magic power in her body was infused into the Exploding Fruits without any hindrance.
What! It really can be infused with magic power!
How was this done?
Looking at the few round black balls in her hand that had become one-time magic items due to the infusion of magic power, Ela turned to look at Jacaerys with a puzzled expression.
Jacaerys smiled slightly and raised his hand to point to the innermost part of the production room.
There were several craftsmen there, who were constantly making round black balls like a production line from his previous life.
First, a carpenter used a heated tool to take out solid wooden balls, slightly larger than the round black balls, from a section of ironwood trunk.
Then they neatly cut this solid wooden ball into four pieces and hollowed out the inside.
After doing this, they passed it to the blacksmith below.
The blacksmith took out a round iron ball from the heated furnace with tongs, which was the one that Ela had engraved with a miniature magic array.
He placed the round iron ball in the center of the four wooden pieces and then combined them back into a complete hollow wooden ball.
Sizzle sizzle sizzle!
A smoky smell rose, and the blacksmith immediately took out the round iron ball inside and handed the hollow wooden ball to a potter below.
The potter quickly kneaded the green grass and wet mud into a spherical shape and stuffed it into the hollow wooden ball.
Then he placed the hollow wooden ball in a boiler next to him to bake for a few minutes, and then handed it to the last Stark Family soldier.
The Stark Family soldier used a dagger to peel open the hollow wooden ball covered with cracks and took out the round black ball covered with miniature magic arrays.
So that's how it is!
Ela stepped forward and picked up the hollow wooden ball, looking at the miniature magic array patterns branded inside by the round iron ball, with an expression of sudden realization.
This is still only one iron ball block. If Ela could engrave a few more, it would not be a problem to make thousands of Exploding Fruits in a day.
Of course, the premise is that Ela has enough magic power to infuse so many Exploding Fruits!
Jacaerys did not disturb Ela, who was observing the entire process again, but instead took the few Exploding Fruits that she had infused with magic power and walked out.
There are two ways to use Exploding Fruits. The first method is the simplest, and anyone can use it.
That is to use any tool to destroy the miniature magic array on the surface of the exploding fruit.
When the miniature magic array is destroyed, the magic power in the exploding fruit will explode within seven to ten seconds.
The second method must be used by an extraordinary person who possesses magic power.
They infuse their own magic power into it to make it lose balance, and it will also explode within a few seconds.
Moreover, this method is also operable. If the extraordinary person's magic power is drawn but not released, the exploding fruit can be used as a timed grenade.
Walking to an open space, Jacaerys used his fingernail to destroy the magic array on the surface of an exploding fruit, then counted for a few seconds in his mind before throwing it out.
Bang!
Crash!
The exploding fruit, trailing a blue flame tail, exploded right in the middle of a tree, and the tree was directly blown into two pieces, and then both sections were ignited by the orange-red flames produced by the explosion.
Looking at the burning tree, Jacaerys's mind had already envisioned himself leading the Westeros army to conquer Essos.
The scene of blowing up the Lys and Volantis coalition forces and the Dothraki cavalry with Exploding Fruits.
To use a network meme from his previous life, it would be, gentlemen, the times have changed!