Chapter 31: The Competition
"Archers shoot freely!"
Before Audrey and Siphus had returned with their guns and ammunition, Rafa had only to order the knights to use their bows and arrows to begin to defend themselves against the wolves who had rushed under the walls.
Because of the relatively strong city walls, Rafa was not too worried about the giant wolves rushing into the city, but the werewolves stopped in the distance made him a little worried.
The werewolves who were riding on the giant wolf were clearly aware of the extreme range of the knights' iron bows, and they stopped just outside the range, and the eyes of the gloom stared at the humans on the city wall with a slight redden.
The giant wolves who pounced at the foot of the city wall scratched the towering city wall like crazy, they should know that they would never be able to climb up on their own, but they didn't seem to care, even if the sharp arrows above their heads came to the top, they still didn't leave and still spread their limbs and scratched on the city wall as if they were enchanted.
The way the wolves stood upright and scratched at the walls was so comical that it was a pity that none of them could laugh.
It's so weird!
Could it be that the werewolves ordered these giant wolves to die, or was it to test the hardness of the walls of Icefield City and to scout for the army behind?
This is the idea of ordinary people, and in Rafa's eyes, these giant wolves are actually "outcasts" used by werewolves to get a glimpse of human weapons.
The wolves died very tragically, because their fur was too heavy, and it often took several arrows to completely kill a giant wolf, so at this time, every dead giant wolf under the city wall was full of arrows, and some of the giant wolves who were not dead fell to the ground and were still using their somewhat weak claws to grasp the wall as high as the sky.
In his memories of his previous life, there were also monsters similar to these werewolves, transformed into humans, and the usual means of these monsters were to control the beasts with low intelligence to find their way or use them as shields, and at this time, the methods of these werewolves were very similar to those monsters.
The wolves were dead, and the werewolves on the backs of the wolves in the distance began to move slowly, walking to the newly built railroad tracks, and began to look at the big guy who was still smoking.
"If you dare to break my steam engine, I'll have to do it!"
At the same time, Audrey finally climbed the city wall with two knights carrying large boxes.
"Audrey, how many guns are there?" asked Rafa, staring at the wolves in the distance, without looking back.
"There were thirty-eight guns, but the bullets were still behind. Audrey replied truthfully.
"The bullets arrived, four hundred and sixty-one rounds. ”
Rafa turned around and saw Felihill without his coat.
"Very well, Curnow, find thirty-five knights. ”
The two looked at each other, each lifting a gun from the box.
Those two guns were the prototype guns that the craftsmen imitated, and they were also the two most elaborate and beautiful guns.
"It took so many days for more than a hundred craftsmen to make more than thirty guns, Rafa, when will the ten thousand gold coins you owe me be paid?" Removing the magazine, Felihill began to reload the bullets on his own.
Seeing the strange eyes of the people around him, he hurriedly approached Felihill, "Ahem...... Fili, can you please stop talking about these things outside?"
Felihill didn't answer, but quickly loaded the bullet, and then with a "click", the bolt was reinserted, the chamber was closed, and the gun in her hand was ready to shoot.
Felihill slung the gun to her shoulder, as if she couldn't wait to shoot, but suddenly she thought of something and put it down, "Your bolt-action rifle was called 'Elle One', right?
"This... I haven't thought about it yet, so why don't we call it 'Fili One?'" Rafa beckoned to the knights chosen by Curnow to come closer, and then demonstrated how to load in the magazine.
"Why do you use my name?" asked Felihill.
"And what do you call it?"
"Lilith Two. ”
"Everything is at Madame's ......," Rafa replied with a smile, but said in his heart, "Cut, it's really nothing new." ”
"Come Bibi?" Philicille tilted his head slightly as Rafa finished reloading.
Felihill was already tall, and when she raised her head like this, everyone present could see her provocation even if they were blind.
"I don't come to a contest without a bet. Rafa smiled as he examined the firearm for Audrey, who had seen it several times, but had never used it herself, not even touched it.
"What do you want to bet on?"
"Ahem......" Rafa put his face to Felihill's ear and whispered something in front of everyone's eyes.
Just as everyone was staring and wondering what His Royal Highness had put forward the bet, Felicille replied very quickly.
"Well, if I lose, I'll do as you say. ”
"So refreshing? Fili, you won't regret it, will you?"
Felihill's indifferent expression did not fluctuate in the slightest, as if he did not want to answer this stupid question, "Come here, I am going to talk about my conditions too." ”
"Yes, ma'am. ”
Rafa approached her slightly, and Felihill whispered something in his ear as he had just done.
The knights present began to look at each other again, thinking, "These two couples are really interesting."
"Very well, Fili, I bet with you. ”
After hearing Felihill's terms, Rafa resolutely accepted the bet.
"Let's familiarize the knights with their guns, twelve rounds each, and we'll start after the knights have finished fighting. Felihill forcibly suppressed the frenzy in his eyes and offered to let the knights start first.
"It's still Madame who thinks thoughtfully. Rafa felt that every time he used the word "madame" outside, it was like taking advantage of Philisille.
Rafa then had the knights with guns stand in a row on the city walls, and behind each of them stood a few more knights who were observing, because they had to use their guns sooner or later, so it was also good to observe them in advance.
At this time, the werewolves in the distance had no intention of leaving, and dangled near the steam locomotive for a while, and then began to look at the heavy iron gates of Icefield City again.
"Take aim and shoot freely, just be careful not to hit the steam engine and rails. ”
Standing side by side with Felihill, Rafa shouted the command.
As soon as the words fell, the knights, who had long been unable to resist their curiosity about the new weapon, began to shoot.
Because the outside of Icefield City was very open, the loud gunfire barely echoed, and it was simply cut off.
In the distance, the people of Lang, who were riding a giant wolf, obviously did not know what was going to happen next, and were still swaying within three hundred meters of what they thought was safe.
When loud gunshots rang out, their attention was drawn to the city.
Just when he was puzzled, the flying bullets arrived at the same time with a strange noise, and flew down into the wolves, countless blood splashed, and the giant wolves began to scream, and the werewolves led by him turned back in horror and found that many giant wolves had a lot of blood blooming on their white fur, and the strong giant wolves began to fall without warning.
"Are you aiming, why are you shooting so fast?"
Except for a slight pause after the first shot, and then saw the wolves blooming blood red, all of them happily quickly pulled the trigger, perhaps because the wolves were still standing relatively dense at this time, so they thought that they could get something by shooting casually, and there was no intention of precise aiming.
"This thing is much more powerful than a bow and arrow!" the knights present suddenly fell in love with the thing in their hands.
However, this also hit the wolves hard, as long as it was hit head-on, almost none of the giant wolves could stand up, and the others scratched by the bullets were basically injured, and for a time the whole wolf pack began to stir in a panic.
It's just that the werewolf led by it was really lucky, after seeing a large number of giant wolves behind him injured, it immediately bowed its head, and the giant wolf it was riding was shot several times, but it itself was unscathed, lying on the ground and crawling backwards, and then after pulling down the corpse of a giant wolf on the back of his companion, he rode on the giant wolf and shouted at the wolves to retreat.
At this time, the bullets in the hands of the knights were almost finished, and the empty cabin revealed the empty magazine inside.
"It's still a woman who holds her breath. ”
Rafa had been carefully observing the knights' hit rate, and found that the female knights were not as impatient as the male knights when they shot, and even if they were not jammed, the hit rate was much higher than that of the male knights.
Among them, the highest hit rate is Audrey, with twelve bullets hitting six accurately, which should be the best result among the knights.
"Ao Dai, good job. ”
Audrey was still standing straight after shooting, and like all the other knights, she liked the new weapon.
Then Rafa secretly complained in his heart that the knights' archery skills still needed to be improved, and then glanced at Felihill.
"Let's get started while they haven't run far. ”
"Hmm. The frenzy in Felihill's eyes could not be resisted.
"Knight Kono, Audrey, see through your binoculars. ”
"Yes. The two replied in unison.
The knights retreated to both sides, and Rafa and Felihill walked to the wall, each raising the Lilith II in their hands.
"Don't regret losing. Rafa pressed his face closer to the barrel of the gun.
"That's what I said to you. ”
"Bang!"
The two gunshots rang out almost simultaneously, and if it weren't for the white smoke coming out of the muzzles of both guns, one would almost think that only one person was firing.
Everyone's eyes looked towards the wolves in the distance, except for the corpses left all over the ground before, the remaining giant wolves seemed to be a little "unfinished", ran for a while and looked back, as if trying to estimate the range of this "new weapon".
The two bullets were accurately shot into the foreheads of the two werewolves who were still looking back, and the two huge forces immediately flipped them out of the giant wolf's back, and the whole wolf group was startled and accelerated to escape, and even the giant wolf, who was injured in his legs and feet and couldn't walk fast, limped and ran quickly.
Rafa took a deep breath and sped up the star, the scorching heat swept through his body, his mental power and vision were greatly improved in an instant, and the wolves in the distance seemed to be in front of him, and even the laws of their running seemed to be under control.
"Bang ......"
Rafa frantically pulled the trigger.
In everyone's astonishment, he shot all the bullets in the magazine in just a few breaths.
"His Royal Highness didn't want to win at all, did he?"
The knights glanced strangely at Rafa, who had put down his guns and looked into the distance, and followed suit.
"How is that possible!?"
Although the wolves had run far away, the corpses they left behind were very visible in the snow.
Ten dense blood flowers bloomed on the snow, and it was clear that these were his achievements!
The knights, who felt dwarfed, were a little ashamed, but they didn't expect His Royal Highness the prince to be the hidden "master".
On the other hand, Felicille on the side, she is much calmer, Rafa's good record does not seem to have affected her at all, and she still pulls the trigger unhurriedly.
Influenced by Felihill's beauty, the knights thought that even the sound of shells bouncing out of Felihill's magazine was so good.
Rafa didn't want to look any further, as if he already knew the result, he turned around, leaned against the wall, and looked at Felicille, who was shooting intently.
"What a beautiful ......"
He sighed in his heart.
The interval between Felihill's shots seemed to be very regular, as if they were dripping water droplets when they gathered to a certain extent, very smooth and unobtrusive, almost a breath and a shot.
Sure enough, twelve breaths later, twelve bullets were also fired.
"Let's talk about the results. ”
The casing of the last bullet landed, and Felihill lowered the gun, and his eyes returned to indifference.
"His Highness Rafa hits eleven targets, and Madame hits eleven targets. ”
Knight Audrey put down his binoculars and spoke of this astonishing result.
Knight Kono chimed in, "My observations are the same. ”
There is no objection to the result.
"It's a pity. Rafa handed the gun to Audrey, slipped his hands into his pockets and shrugged.
Since it was a tie, Felihill had nothing to say, dropped a "I'm going back" and left with a gun.
Watching Felihill's back go away, Rafa smiled slightly.
"You seem to be expecting me to win. ”
After instructing the knights to go out and clean up the battlefield, he lay down on the wall and took his hand out of his pocket.
Flick your palm open, and it was an intact bullet.
Although the wolf cavalry was expelled, the rumors of orcs outside the city made the workers who were going out to mine fearful, for fear that the wolf cavalry would attack during the mining time, so the workers who were going out the next day lingered at the city gate until almost noon.
Rafa had no choice but to take the lead and go out of the city in person, and the workers were not afraid when they saw His Royal Highness, so they naturally followed him to the mine.
After finally coaxing the workers into the mine, he himself began to worry that if the wolf cavalry really attacked at this time, it would be the end of it.
After three days in the mines, he wondered if the idea of building a wall might need to be implemented sooner.
"Lianna, it's time to go, remember, as soon as a wolf cavalry moves towards Icefield City, stop immediately and come back to report. ”
"Understood, you've said it no less than ten times!" Lena replied impatiently as she hugged her three sisters one after another, walked into the distance, waved at the crowd, and then turned into a howling hurricane and quickly moved away.
"Audrey, call Kaido, the captain of the building. As soon as Lena left, Rafa began to work on her plan.
"Yes. ”
After Audrey left, Rafa stood behind a large piece of fresh clear floor-to-ceiling windows, staring at the mist that appeared on the glass.
"Hopefully those beasts will give us some more time. ”