Chapter 179: The Name Of The Rose
I will make a bed of roses and make a thousand bouquets from the fragrant heads of my enemies.
-Marie Antoinette-
Ulrich had a Scotland Yard inspector bring a map of Serpentine Avenue, then began carefully drawing the range where the formation would be installed.
“The formation we’ll use this time is the Red Cliff Kalpa Frame, which partially reproduces the Marquis of Stategy’s fire attack. It’s a formation that concentrates the Yang Qi in the air and twists its flow.”
“It doesn’t actually need to burn.”
“A formation’s efficacy can be adjusted in detail depending on what medium you use.”
“Oh.”
With Watson and me watching, Ulrich began writing various notes onto the formation blueprint he’d drawn on the map.
“This time, instead of placing dry firewood along the edge, it would be better to set wet arborvitae branches. As for how changing the medium alters the formation’s efficacy, that would get long, so I’ll skip it…”