"500 meters? This kind of thing that is launched and ignored, wants to accurately hit an ice wall that is slightly higher than a person? What nonsense are you talking about?"
Safka shook his head in his mind and was quite dissatisfied with the target distance reported by Polu, but he thought very openly: "Forget it, if it's not accurate, it's not accurate. Anyway, under normal circumstances, the range of the spell is not
Trying to attack targets beyond this distance is a waste of energy."
Savka is also an old battle mage. He feels that his best attack range is between 300-400 meters, which is safe and easy. If the target exceeds 500 meters, he is not worried about not being able to hit that far, but the guidance spell will
It's a bit laborious.
So he squinted his eyes, estimated the distance, raised his hands to prepare, and pulled up an ice wall about 400 meters away. He turned around and said to Polu:
"400 meters, trapezoidal ice wall, the narrowest is 1 meter thick, two meters high, and four meters wide. It is about the same size as the cabin just now. An ice wall of this size is enough to block most missile weapons attacks. It can
Did it hit?"
"Of course."
Bolu's expression remained unchanged, but he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed at being slighted: "I'm already cheating at 500 meters. If I reduce it to 400 meters, I still doubt whether I can hit it. Do you really think I'm a trebuchet? At 500 meters, I'm just afraid of the ballistic trajectory."
It hasn’t even started falling yet!”
"Fight hard, don't be in a hurry, and try to hit the target with one shot."
Savka smiled and retreated into the crowd. He could see that the young alchemist was a little emotional about his doubts, but he didn't care. These things still have some use, and Savka hoped that Polu would behave well.
So that you can successfully pass the review of the budget department.
He was not worried about the attack range. The currently known range of the two small cannons exceeded the unarmed casting distance of most mages. It was similar to the magic range after the magic tower increased, but it was far behind in terms of dispersion. So he
I was really worried that the black and thick tubular weapon in front of me wouldn't be able to touch the ice wall - 500 meters was not far, but it wasn't close either.
"The accuracy of this thing is just like that of an apprentice who has just become a formal mage. It can hit a fixed target and form a circle. Forget it, let's lower the requirements a little. At least it will not occupy the magic tower's magic allocation. Look at the coverage strength and suppress the charge.
It must be very effective. I must buy some of this."
Polu looked over, but still felt that the thickness of the reflective ice wall could not be seen clearly. He decided not to think about it anymore. Can we take a shot and we will know?
"Semi-armor-piercing bullet! Load!"
To someone who doesn't know what's going on, this 100-meter cannon looks exactly the same as the previous one, but they are actually not the same thing at all. It is actually a rifled cannon!
According to the data collected in actual combat, which is actually the conclusion reached on the fire giant warriors before, it is still too reluctant to use smoothbore cannons to hit steel poles. Although it successfully penetrated the wrought iron shield, the kinetic energy basically continued to penetrate the plate.
After that, the armor will be exhausted and turned into a large javelin. Although the giant was stabbed to death in the end, this still made Bolu very disappointed.
After all, flying out with the entire limb was what he expected.
Since it was difficult to continue to increase the chamber pressure for a while, and he did not want to waste precious materials on consumables such as rods, he decided to change his mind.
Recently, he got enough copper, and Bolu was finally willing to use a copper cartridge belt on the cannonball. The fuze unlocked by centrifugal force was also successful - all the conditions have been met, and semi-armor-piercing projectiles can finally be fired!
"Aiming completed, loading completed!"
A report sounded, and Bolu decisively gave the order to fire!
"Fire!"
The artillery made a much louder roar, blue flames sprayed out from the wide muzzle brake to both sides, and warheads that were too fast to be seen with the naked eye sprayed out from the muzzle, and half a second was only enough for the blink of an eye.
, the warhead had already crushed the sloping ice surface and crashed into the ice wall!
"boom!"
The blue light flashed, and the evenly glowing ice wall set up by the battle mage Safka suddenly raised a large amount of white mist, which could not be distinguished from ice slag or steam. Some large pieces of broken ice emerged from the white mist.
Fly out!
Unexpectedly, the mages who had not seen any of the process were stunned for a moment. They only felt the platform under their feet shake violently, and then heard a thunderous explosion coming from the ice wall!
"Is this a hit?"
"What happened in the middle? I didn't see anything flying past at all?"
"How about we strengthen his eyesight and let him take another shot?"
Polu, who was in high spirits after the first hit, signaled the gunners to fire another shot. So under the control of the gunners, a pallet was raised from under the platform, holding a cannonball as thick as a human thigh on it. The pallet turned over and released the cannonball.
It was placed in the guide groove and then pushed into the gun barrel by the force field.
This process attracted the attention of many mages, and they started discussing:
"This process looks very precise."
"Faster than you can prepare a big fireball!"
"Fire!"
The roar interrupted the discussion of the mages again. A blue light flashed again in the white mist covering the ice wall!
"Hey, I hit it again. This thing is pretty accurate."
Savka laughed: "The power is not bad."
He waved his hand, and a strong gust of wind passed over the ice wall, taking away all the white mist, revealing the ice wall that had turned into many fragments of different sizes and scattered on the ground.
He nodded and said to Hendrick beside him: "Teacher, what do you think?"
This title surprised Polu. Before he could think about it, Hendrick nodded: "I think it's OK. The distance, accuracy, and power are stronger than most shooters' attacks."
"Most of them, including the elf archers?"
Hendrick laughed.
"To be able to penetrate this ice wall with one arrow from such a distance, there are no more than 100 people in Edith's group, and they must use specific enchanted arrows. Oh, 100 elves. As for human archers, it's even worse.
It’s so pitiful.”
"Explosive arrow?"
"No, it's another type. It needs to be charged before shooting. It's rare. I forgot the name."
Polu nodded and signaled the gunner to move to the third turret.
"Is it so exaggerated, humanoid artillery? There are actually 100 such powerful elves?"
Bolu turned his head, looked in the direction of Edith and Ella with his peripheral vision, and decided to ask again later.
"I didn't think I saw so many powerful shooters when I went there last time?"
Thinking of this, he suddenly recalled the arrogant crossbow that he had almost forgotten.
"I don't want to use this thing anymore, and the elves don't like it, but can I sell it to Kakart? It's okay to shoot wolf beasts. Kakart's slave soldiers should like this very much.
"
Although it was impossible for the elves to tell him directly about their shooting limits, they did not hide it from him when shooting, so Boru probably had an idea. Excluding the top-level macho combat power that he didn't know much about, most of the ranger's shots were in terms of strength.
It is difficult to compare with your own weapons. Of course, considering the characteristics of the environment in which it is used - the characteristics of the forest, the lightness of the bow and arrow still has a huge advantage.
But for a small bow, no matter how much magic power is used to strengthen it, the increase is always limited - after all, you have to rely on your arms to draw the bow. If everyone is so powerful and can make the arrow's muzzle velocity reach the level of a machine gun, the sniper rifle will not
You will be welcomed!
Polu nodded: "I don't know much about other projectile attacks. So, as long as I can penetrate this ice wall, the attack power of this 100-meter cannon will already exceed most projectile attacks.
Right?"
"That's right."
Savka nodded.
"As long as you can penetrate this ice wall, there is no difficulty in dealing with ordinary camps. Well, it should be good at dealing with stupid large targets. So this weapon is somewhat similar to a magic scroll. In fact, everything is already prepared. You only need
Released on this specific device?”
"Yes."
Savka thought about it for a moment. If the performance of this thing is always so stable, it will indeed be of great practical value. This combat power is much stronger than the missile scroll, and there is no need to waste higher-level materials to create high-level spell scrolls.
.
“A very useful supplementary tool.”
He made this definition in his mind.
Before Syracuse was completed, Sanders came to harass it. It would always send out a large number of human shields to dilute spell damage, such as hill giants, to cover the close distance of the real elites.
This tactic put great pressure on the original Safka - powerful single-target spells require preparation time, which makes it impossible to quickly clear out the rapidly approaching soldiers. And ordinary spells are difficult to destroy the tenacious hills.
The giant fell down.
This is probably what it feels like to hit an elephant with a 38 small revolver.
If Hendrick hadn't teleported for reinforcements and saved the battle single-handedly, Sanders was afraid of losing too many elite forces, and he almost succeeded. This is why Hendrick and Karkart could still try to communicate peacefully.
, but it was the beginning of a fight to the death for Sanders.
Thinking of this, he looked forward to the third turret even more: Hendrick had already revealed to him that among these three weapons, he was more inclined to buy the third one, that is, compared with the behemoth next to him, the one in front of him was
, a small cylinder that appears quite compact.
"Among these three weapons, the Mage Tower can do what the other two can do. But the Mage Tower cannot do the third one."
This made him very confused: "Large-scale mage towers can do it, why can't this smaller one do it?"
At this moment, the small cylinder suddenly made a strange spinning sound, and he saw that the six gun barrels, which were not too thick and were fixed together, began to rotate, but nothing was fired.
In order to see clearly the trajectory of the 100-gun attack, he had enhanced his vision, and he was sure that he did not see it.
Just as I was about to ask a question, suddenly everything changed.
A continuous roar sounded!
The roar was so dense, it was like tearing apart low-quality linen!
The bullet casings fell on the platform, making a clanging sound like hail! Blue fire erupted from the muzzle, and the sounds were connected together. Even with his enhanced vision, he could not see each warhead clearly, only one could be seen.
A black line shot out from the muzzle and flew towards the distant target.
He saw that the target area seemed to be shrouded in a heavy rain, with dirt and target fragments flying everywhere. He opened his mouth, but could not say anything:
The accuracy is bad enough, but the rate of fire has completely saved this weapon.
He had to admit that even if he did it himself, he wouldn't be able to shoot at such a fast rate!
The gunners easily controlled this weapon, sweeping back to the ice wall from a distance, and then sweeping from the ice wall to the collapsed wooden house. The dense shells connected a rising earth wall between the two targets!
After dozens of seconds, the bullet casings had covered the platform, but the shooting still did not stop, which made him even more surprised: "Doesn't this thing need to be loaded?"
"How is that possible! The ammunition supply part is under the platform!"
"Then let's go down and take a look!"
Soon, Safka came under the weapon platform that sprayed water so fiercely that it sprayed water to cool down, and brought up a lot of steam when it rotated. Edith and Ella also followed secretly.
Here, they were faced with this machine that was four times as big as the surface, and they were a little hard to understand: "You mean, this is what the entire rotary gun looks like? Why does it need such a large space?"
"There is no other way. The rate of fire is too fast. It takes two hours to reload and three minutes of fun. If we don't build such a large ammunition supply mechanism underneath, the shooting will be over in three minutes."
The four loaders were taking turns taking down the huge round drum from the rack behind them, and stuck it in the groove of the ammunition feeding machine. The occasional flash of familiar light made Savka recognize it: "This is
Force field?”
"Yes, they are all force fields. The four drums supply ammunition in turn, and then are pushed into the machine along this pipe by the force field."
"The application is quite clever, but isn't this system too cumbersome? It really takes up space on the first floor of the mage tower."
Thinking of this, he laughed: After all, we are defending Syracuse, and we don't have to carry it out. It's big, so what does it matter? In his mind, he failed the maneuverability of this huge system.
At the same time, I gave it a perfect score for its suppressive power during shooting!
"It's great. If I have this thing, I don't have to worry about being rushed under the tower by soldiers when fighting against important targets!"
"Great! With this thing, it can reduce the pressure of many wolf beasts attacking the temple! We want this cannon!"
Ella's decisive voice sounded, and she simply decided to buy it!
"Hey! Miss Elf, I was the first to take a fancy to this cannon!"
"It's me first! We didn't want to buy it, you wouldn't know!"
"You don't even ask..."
As soon as Polu spoke, the two of them stared back.
One person and two elves argued for a while, while glaring at each other, they looked at Bolu angrily: "Bolu! Make a price! I have to buy it today!"
Seeing that the two of them were about to enter the bidding mode, Bolu had no choice but to come out and smooth things over: "Don't argue, we still have this thing, there are more than one of it! You can buy it all, there is still it! There is still it in the warehouse! In stock!"