In the clearing along the river, a group of young and strong young men stood in a row, each holding a long musket in his hand. In the wetlands by the river, there is a row of paper targets.

There were 40 people in this group of young men, and next to them, Anne held a small brightly colored flag in her hand and said loudly: "Ready~~~"

"Click~Click"

The boys raised their muskets in unison, with the handle of the gun in the right shoulder socket, their heads slightly sideways, their left eyes closed, and their right eyes, the crosshairs of the guns, and the bullseye a hundred meters away were connected in a line.

"Put!" Anne shouted.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

A burst of fried beans appeared at the same time, and a puff of green smoke came out of the muzzles of the muskets in the hands of the young men, and large holes appeared in the targets by the river at the same time.

Anne waved her chess piece again and shouted, "Muzzle to the ground!" ”

"Wow~"

The boys took their muskets together, their muzzles pointed at the ground at forty-five degrees.

After making sure that everyone was strictly following the order, Anne turned her head to look at the target by the river, and after a few glances, she said, "Hans, empty target!" Glick, empty target! Ferro, empty target! All out! ”

The faces of the three named young men turned red, and the three of them took a step forward together, shouting at the same time: "Here! ”

Anne turned the chess piece in her hand, pointed to the open space on the side, and shouted: "Gun on the safe, carry the gun and run three laps!" ”

The three young men did not dare to disobey in the slightest, and began to run in the open space with muskets weighing 8 kilograms. Although it was winter, after running two laps, dense beads of sweat oozed from the foreheads of the three of them.

Anne's expression was solemn, her tone was cold, and she admonished loudly: "Warriors, muskets are the only weapons we can use against monsters!" In this dark and cruel world, only muskets can keep us alive! However, it is not enough to have a powerful musket, we must also become stronger ourselves, and we must use it to the best of our ability. On the battlefield, every bullet must fall on the monster, understand! ”

"Understood!" The boys shouted with all their might, each of them clutching the muskets in their hands with a resolute expression.

After waiting for a while, the three young lads completed 3 laps and returned to the team again.

Anne waved the bunting: "Keep training!" Ready to ~~~~~ release! ”

"Bang Bang Bang~"

In such rigorous training, the young soldiers fought for two hours continuously, and each soldier fired more than 400 rounds of ammunition, and the barrels of the muskets were piping hot, and all the bullets brought out were also exhausted.

"Today's training is over, go back to camp!"

The young warriors turned in unison, lined up in a neat line, and trotted back to a plank-made bungalow beside a stone house not far away.

Along the way, Anne also ran, and as she ran, she said, "I announce that from tomorrow, when the target training is held, the results will be recorded." The top 10 fighters will form a strong squad. Squad members will be equipped with new, more powerful and accurate muskets! ”

After hearing the news, the warriors did not say anything, but everyone's breathing became slightly rapid, and everyone subconsciously clenched the musket in their hands.

After returning to the camp, Anne said to a swarthy young man with a majestic figure, "Grede, I'll leave it to you here." ”

"Yes, Instructor!" Greid replied loudly, he was the captain of the musket team, with a high level of shooting, a calm personality, and a good brain, and was personally selected by Rosen.

Anne turned and left the barracks, heading towards the stone house next to the barracks. As soon as she arrived at the door of the stone house, she saw the magician Xiuma approaching her.

When Shuma saw Anne, her eyes lit up and she smiled, "Lady Anne, you came just in time, Master Lawson happened to be looking for you." He asked me to tell you that if you have time, go directly to the alchemy room on the second floor to find him. ”

Anne hurriedly said, "Oh, I'll be right over." ”

She quickened her pace and trotted towards the stairs, and when she reached the second floor, she turned left and walked a few more steps, and there was an iron door, which was closed, and the sound of the wind came from inside.

Anne walked over and reached out and knocked on the iron door, "Rosen, I'm coming." ”

"Squeak~"

The iron door immediately opened, and a warm air stream mixed with the smell of iron rushed in. Anne looked inside the door, and in a room of about 50 square meters, there were four magicians around a large stone table, busy all the time, and there were all kinds of strange tools on the stone table, as well as several piles of half-finished bullets.

The little girl, Garoni, was also there, sitting next to a magician named Daros, holding a handwritten notebook in her hand, her eyes unblinking.

Lawson was standing by the window, with two big guys on the ground beside him. One was a grotesque-looking, massive metal musket, and the other was a large slatted wooden box.

Rosen also saw Anne and beckoned, "Come here, over here, come and see this new thing." ”

Anne walked over, her eyes fixed on the metal musket. Although she hadn't seen the power of this thing yet, she vaguely felt an oppressive force through the cold and heavy body of the spear.

"How does it work?" Anne asked.

Rosen smiled, with some smugness on his face: "Like other muskets, just aim at the target and pull the trigger." ”

"Where should the bullets be placed? And where is the trigger? Anne looked closely at the new musket, but found no position for the magazine or trigger.

"The magazine is here." Rosen opened the lid of the wooden box.

Anne looked over, and she found that the wooden box was filled with steel bullets, which were very large, more than 2 centimeters in diameter and more than 15 centimeters in length, and there were also a lot of them, more than 1,000 by sight. Strangely, these bullets are packed in a long chain of exotic materials.

"What is this?" Anne still didn't understand.

Behind him, Rosen picked up the bullet chain, stuffed it into a groove in the middle of the musket, fastened it, and then walked up behind Anne and gently pushed her behind the musket: "Hold these two metal handles." Yes, clench, yes. The body also needs to stand firm. ”

"That's it?" Anne was a little nervous, she found that she didn't know when, all the magicians in the room stopped what they were doing, everyone turned to look at her, and the expressions on their faces were strange, as if they were a little nervous, and they seemed to be a little reluctant.

Rosen nodded: "Yes, that's it." Alright, now turn the tip of the gun and aim at the big tree stump in the distance. See that stump? I specifically brushed it with white lime. ”

"See, but isn't that a bit far?" Anne turned her gun on a huge wooden stake about 200 meters away and about one and a half meters in diameter.

"It's not that far. Are you ready? Rosen asked.

"Ready. What now? Anne was a little nervous.

"Look here, there's a switch on the handle, and this thing is the trigger for this musket. When you want to shoot, just press your thumb up......."

Before Rosen could finish speaking, Anne's thumb pressed up.

"Toot ~~~~~"

There was a strange sound, some like the frantically beating drums of war, some like the hoofs of horses charging at a cavalry, which Anne had never heard before.

At this sound, Anne saw the chain belt full of bullets burrow madly into the groove of the musket, and the empty chain quickly came out of the other side of the musket, and in the muzzle of the musket appeared a bright line, like a flaming whip, and struck fiercely at the great stake in the distance.

In an instant, wood chips flew on the stake, and after 5 seconds, the large stake with a diameter of more than 1.5 meters and a height of nearly 1 meter actually broke into several pieces.

"God~" Anne was so shocked that she couldn't speak, and her thumb subconsciously pressed the button.

"Stop! Stop! Rosen yelled.

Anne relaxed the button, and she turned to look at Rosen blankly: "This thing is amazing!" ”

She had been using the musket for quite some time, and she had a deep understanding of the power of this new weapon.

She knew that a normal musket could only make a hole in it, similar to the big stake before, and that such a musket would be enough to easily break the arm of a small monster like a ghoul. Now, the new musket can smash large wooden stakes to pieces, which would have to be smashed to the flesh of a ghoul.

Lawson smiled wryly: "The new weapon, of course, is very powerful." But the bullets also consume very quickly, and in just a moment before you, more than a hundred bullets were fired. ”

Anne was taken aback: "So many? No way? How much time has this been? ”

A magician's painful voice came from behind him: "This musket, in a breathing time, can shoot 20 bullets, and to make these 20 bullets, it will take more than half an hour, not counting Master Rosen's preliminary preparations." ”

Anne was secretly speechless when she heard this, and hurriedly said, "I'm very sorry, I didn't know it would be so soon." ”

Lawson waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's not necessary to apologize." This gun is mainly up to you, but of course you have to familiarize yourself with its power. Also, this musket is a weapon of mass destruction and is not easy to use. It is used to suppress the cluster charge of monsters, or to deal with particularly powerful monsters. Do you understand? ”

Anne recalled how she felt when she used the musket just now, and nodded seriously: "I understand. ”

She stepped forward and looked carefully at this dark musket, and the more she looked at it, the more shocked she felt, only to think that this thing was a silent beast, if it was not violent, it would be enough, and a wave of death would be set off when it broke out.

Looking at it, she couldn't help but ask, "Does it have a name?" ”

"Hmm~ Yes." Rosen smiled slightly: "Due to its great power and the scene when it is launched, we call it Thor's Whip." ”

"Thor's Whip...... Well, very graphic. Anne nodded repeatedly.

Rosen removed the bullet chain from the musket, put it back in the wooden box, and said to Anne, "How's the training of the musketeers?" ”

Anne looked grim and said seriously, "It's not bad. For targets 100 meters away, the fighters have been able to achieve an average of 10 shots and 8 hits. Excellent has basically been able to hit ten shots. Captain Grod, the fighter Daliou's results are particularly good, not only can he hit ten shots, but also basically hit the bull's-eye. Especially the warrior Daliou, although he is the youngest, he has a very good shooting talent, not only 100 meters can hit 100 shots, even within 150 meters, he can also hit the bull's-eye, very powerful. ”

"Not bad~ Not bad~ It's not in vain that we people are desperately trying to make bullets." Rosen nodded his head as he listened. The work of making bullets is not very difficult, but it is particularly boring, but in order for the musket team to develop combat effectiveness, it must be fed with a large number of bullets. For the safety of the camp, Rosen and his assistants could only grit their teeth and insist.

The magicians present also breathed a sigh of relief.

At the beginning, when they made the musket, they thought it was quite fresh, but after half a month of continuous work, after repeating the same action tens of thousands of times, everyone would feel very bored.

Anne hurriedly said: "I will try to save the consumption of bullets as much as possible. ”

Rosen smiled and waved his hand: "You don't have to be too economical. We've made some tools specifically for making bullets, and they're several times faster and much easier to make bullets than before. With a little improvement, ordinary people can come and help. ”

"That's good." Anne breathed a sigh of relief, she had seen the process of making bullets, it was hard and boring, and to be honest, sometimes she was really worried that these magicians would not do it.

Rosen continued: "Since this Dariu has such a strong talent, it would be a bit of a waste of his talent to continue to let him use an ordinary musket. In this way, the place for a heavy sniper rifle will be given to him, and you have to train him well. On the battlefield, the two of you hide in seclusion, supporting each other and sniping at those tricky monsters. ”

"I see." Anne nodded.

"As for Captain Grod...... This is a well-rounded warrior who has performed well in all aspects, so let him continue to be the captain. Also, you choose a few fighters with strong arms and a steady heart, but not very good at shooting, and ask them to throw bombs and get a bomb team to deal with unexpected situations. ”

Anne wrote them down one by one.

Rosen looked at the gloomy sky outside the window, and said in a deep voice: "The defense of the fortress is basically completed, and I can rest assured that you are stationed in the camp." Tomorrow, I can start planning for the next step. ”