In the woods outside the plantation.
Xia Huilong grabbed the prey for today's hunt, flapped its wings and flew up.
The prey was a three-meter-tall giant ape with a red mane. It was a powerful sixth-level monster with a strong physique. But at this time, it lost its vitality and was thrown by Xia Huilong at will near its lair like a rag bag. .
This is its usual dining place, and these days, it has been filled with the corpses of various monsters.
Xia Huilong landed, stepped on the giant ape's body, spread its wings and let out an angry dragon roar.
Several rays of thunder fell from the sky, and the sound of thunder, together with its roar, spread far away.
Warcraft is very sensitive to the concentration of magic power in the environment. Since the concentration of magic power near this cave has become high, more than one of them is coveting this treasure.
It is true that the low-level monsters fled under its dragon power, but some bold high-level monsters quietly approached here, hoping to get a piece of the pie.
Among them are not only sixth-order monsters, but also seventh-order monsters.
But how can we allow others to snore and sleep on the bed? In particular, dragon monsters have a stronger sense of territory.
Relying on its strong strength, during this period, all the monsters that tried to approach the cave were preyed upon by it.
Its roar and the thunder it released just now are both its demonstration and its warning.
It is declaring its strength and territory. In fact, the seventh-level sub-dragon species is enough to dominate the outside of Linfeng Mountain Range.
After roaring a few times, Xia Huilong was about to start enjoying his lunch, but he suddenly raised his head and looked at the woods not far away with sharp eyes.
It heard the closer and closer sound of horse hooves, a sound it had never heard before——
There can be no mistake, the human gang that injured it more than ten days ago is here again!
In terms of strength, each of them individually is weaker than the seventh-level monsters it has encountered in the past few days.
But once they join forces to besiege, the battle that should have been one-sided becomes difficult.
Among them, it was particularly impressed by a certain special individual that could fly in the air. The shot she fired at the right moment caused serious injuries to its chest.
Even though it was nourished by a high concentration of magic power and had the recovery ability of dragon blood, it had not been able to heal the wound on its chest until a few days ago.
This is also the most serious injury it has suffered in this period of time!
Sure enough, a team of ten people appeared in the woods, which was the same human group that had tried to challenge it before!
You let them escape last time, but you didn't expect them to dare to come again this time?
Xia Huilong's eyes flashed an angry scarlet, it flapped its wings, and with a high-spirited dragon roar, it directly entered the electrified enhanced state!
"Hmph, we are really popular."
Staring at its green dragon eyes, Julius subconsciously tightened the knight's sword in his hand.
"Act according to the battle plan." Guderian commanded while shooting arrows, "Spread out and prepare to resist its first wave of offensive!"
The arrows he shot were still as accurate and powerful as ever, but after suffering a loss once, Xia Huilong would not let him scratch his cheek again this time.
The dark green wings, which were harder than steel, swept the arrow aside as soon as they were raised, and at the same time swooped down and plunged into the crowd, slapping and biting as if they were in an uninhabited land.
The knights were no match for the unreasonable physical power of Xia Huilong in its strengthened state, and the situation turned into a serious disadvantage the moment the battle began.
Even though they were taking care of each other, and there were high-level mages behind them who were using defensive spells to support them, they were still sweating in the face of Xia Huilong who was pressing every step of the way, and the defense line became precarious.
At this level, do you still dare to continue to challenge yourself?
Just now, he glanced around and saw that the special individual that could fly in the sky and fire a beam cannon did not appear, which made him lose even his last worries.
Seeing this, Xia Huilong became even more powerful. It activated its "Lightning Domain" with all its strength, and at the same time slashed out with one wing.
Julius was distracted to avoid the threat of thunder above his head. He saw the scythe-like wings of death slashing towards him. He hurriedly raised his shield, but in the next moment he was pushed backwards by the huge force coming from the shield.
He only felt a sweetness in his throat, and then he forced down the surging air pressure. Seeing Xia Huilong chasing him again, he quickly shouted: "Help me——"
As he spoke, he glanced at the battle situation from the corner of his eye, only to find that his comrades around him were too late to support him!
The "Lightning Field" enveloped the whole place, with countless electric arcs flowing on the ground. In conjunction with Xia Huilong's powerful and ground-shaking attacks, every blow made the knights' hands and feet numb, and they gradually lost their ability to resist.
Agathe, who was closest to him, was also stiff and slow in his movements at this time, and it was too late to block the blow for him!
According to the plan, their original duty was to continuously consume Xia Huilong's physical strength, survive its first strengthening, and force it into a state in desperate need of replenishing its magic power.
But I didn't expect that Xia Huilong's offensive this time was even more fierce than before. They couldn't hold off their opponents for too long just relying on their strength!
At the critical moment, the black-robed knight who had been wandering on the edge rushed into the battlefield.
He raised his arm shield and calmly blocked the blow. The lightning field tore his black robe to pieces, revealing the fully armed knight armor underneath.
"Captain!" Julius said in shame, "I'm very sorry for asking you to take action in advance!"
"It's not your problem." Ryan said solemnly, "It's probably the favor of the high-concentration magic environment. After not seeing it for more than ten days, its strength has become even stronger.
“Even so, you guys managed to hold on for a while, and you did a great job... Leave the rest to us.
"Mage team, prepare to cast spells!"
"yes!"
The mages began to chant spells, and Xia Huilong temporarily stopped attacking and looked at the knight who had entered the battle with caution.
It knew that this knight could steadily block the blow that enhanced his status, and his strength must not be underestimated.
But because Ryan deliberately concealed his aura, he never took the initiative to attack.
Therefore, it cannot be sure whether this is a real eighth-level knight.
Maybe it's just the seventh level who is good at defense? If it was the eighth level, why didn't he take action directly?
At this time, the increasingly powerful magic wave in the distance attracted its attention again. Xia Huilong roared and took a few steps back to temporarily distance itself from the mysterious knight.
Then its wings changed from dark green to glazed color, and it began to prepare for the impact of high-level spells.
It doesn't matter whether the opponent is level 7 or level 8. As long as you use "Spell Absorption" to replenish your magic power, even if you cannot defeat level 8 in your enhanced state, you will still be confident enough to escape!
And if the opponent is only at level seven who is good at defense, the Thunder God Sword it will then use will tear the opponent in half.
The Thunder God's Sword is one of the most powerful seventh-level attack spells. Especially when using this move in the enhanced state, it is sure that it has no opponent at the same level!
When I fill up my status, I will immediately kill all these humans who dare to offend me!
"As expected, the proud dragon monster will not escape easily."
Seeing Xia Huilong's defensive posture, Ryan's eyes were deep, "Everything is going according to plan... Let's do it, White Raven.
"In just a few days, let me see how much you have grown?"
"boom!!!"
The next moment, several high-level spells fell on Xia Huilong one after another.
Ice bloomed, strong winds raged, and rocks fell... The sky and the earth changed color at this moment, and about two kilometers away from this chaotic battlefield——
Yuna is equipped with a Valkyrie flying wing and is parked on a nearby mountain peak.
Different from the previous equipment style of holding a beam cannon in one hand and a magic gun in one hand, she was holding a two-meter-long sniper in both hands at this time, overlooking the distant battlefield through the cover of the surrounding trees.
"It's already started over there." Nolen's voice came from his mind, "Are you confident that you can hit a target that far away, Yuna?"
"Yes." Yuna responded simply, focusing on the target two kilometers away through the high-precision sight mounted on the sniper rifle.
This is the new weapon Nolen made for her yesterday, its full name is the smoothbore sniper-type magic cannon "Gangnir".
Yes, because the barrel is filled with large-caliber live crossbow arrows, its size, especially its length, is larger and longer than the original beam magic cannon.
Rather than a gun, this has completely reached the level of a cannon.
Of course, only a magic weapon of this level can pose a big enough threat to dragon monsters.
This is a confident work that Master Nolen and Luo Zhen have been pondering for a long time. Yuna has no doubt about its power, but the problem before her now is how to use it to hit the target.
Different from previous mid- to close-range battles, in order to prevent Xia Huilong from being detected in advance and taking precautions, which would lead to the failure of the battle, it was also to test the combat performance of "Gangnir" at long distances.
This time she wanted to snipe the target from two kilometers away.
Most people in this era have no idea about two kilometers away. In fact, she had no idea until yesterday afternoon.
Even if the field of vision is clear, without the assistance of a sight, the knight's vision cannot accurately lock onto an enemy at such a distance.
And even if Gangnir is equipped with the latest high-precision sight developed by Flamel City, which can allow her to clearly see enemies from such a distance, there is still one thing that will give her a headache.
That's shooting error.
In the past, she didn't have to worry about shooting errors at all. On the one hand, she mainly launched attacks at medium and close ranges. On the other hand, her weapons only cast attack spells, and most of the spell trajectories were in a straight line.
In that case, he could still hit the target even if he fired blindly or from the waist, but it was different now.
Not only were they shot at long range, but live weapons were used.
Since it is a live ammunition weapon, it will have weight, so factors such as bullet speed, wind speed, and fall must be considered.
Even though Gungnir's sight is very accurate and can basically hit where it points, the ballistic trajectory of the live ammunition itself will deviate during the flight, and the crosshair is different from the actual impact point.
She knew this when she tried firing the weapon for the first time yesterday afternoon after getting it.
However, although she knew the difficulty of sniping from a long distance, she was still confident about this mission.
The first reason is that the target of this sniper attack is very large.
Xia Huilong is a large dragon-like monster, and when it absorbs spells, it will fold its wings and stand still, which is equivalent to a large fixed target.
The second reason is that she is in a good location.
This is the best sniping spot chosen by Nolen for her. From here, you can have a clear view of the surroundings of the cave, but her location is covered by vegetation and will not be easily discovered.
As for the third reason...it's the feeling.
After her first two test shots missed the target yesterday, she quickly found the feeling of live-fire shooting and improved her aim by adjusting the sight density and stabilizing her shooting posture.
After that, the third and fourth test shots all hit the target two thousand meters away.
Originally, Nolen was still considering whether to shorten the shooting distance to about a thousand meters or even shorter since it was his first actual shooting and considering his lack of proficiency.
But after seeing her wonderful performance and my affirmative reply, I finally decided to keep the distance of two thousand meters.
It is true that she has not received any professional sniper training, and no one in this era will teach this aiming method. She herself is a pioneer of the era.
But she can master the use of new equipment at an astounding speed.
Whether it's the original "Valkyrie" jetpack or the current smoothbore sniper-type magic cannon "Gangnir".
On what? By feel.
This unusual feeling is proof that she is a genius.
"If you think you can do it, I believe you."
What Nolen said to her at that time echoed in her mind now. Yuna took a deep breath and her heartbeat slowly slowed down.
Although she was holding a sniper cannon weighing dozens of kilograms, her hands did not tremble at all, and her body did not sway at all.
Extended to a distance of two thousand meters, any insignificant fluctuation will greatly affect the final impact point of the live ammunition.
As the dust caused by the high-level spell bombardment began to disperse, Xia Huilong appeared in the sight of the scope with its glazed wings wrapped around itself.
With a calm expression, Yuna slowly placed the crosshair slightly to the right of Xia Huilong's head.
There are indeed considerations such as calculating wind speed, ballistic descent, etc., but what is indispensable is her innate intuition for aiming—
I wonder if I can hit it here.
And like this unique sniper gun, the live ammunition that is pre-filled in the barrel is also specially made.
Its main body is a 60-centimeter-long large-caliber magic-breaking silver iron crossbow arrow. The outside is wrapped by a layer of bullet holders, and the bullet pods contain special alchemical gunpowder and an "ignition" array.
As she pulled the trigger, the trigger's mechanism simultaneously triggered the firing pin and connected the series acceleration array in the array chamber.
The firing pin hit the bottom of the bullet holder, activating the "ignition" circle and detonating the special alchemical gunpowder inside.
Under the power generated by the explosion, the cannonball began to move within the barrel. At the same time, six "acceleration" arrays unfolded from the barrel.
When the cannonball passed through the long barrel and came out of the barrel, it already had a terrifying speed under the influence of six "acceleration" arrays.
"boom!"
The outer shell fell off during flight, revealing the large-caliber magic-destroying silver-iron projectile that shone with silver light.
It tore through the air, crossed a distance of a thousand meters, and hit the Xiahui Dragon with its glazed wings!
Thanks to Jiuli Sword Master for the reward
(End of chapter)
