Chapter 110: Shooting Range, Live Ammunition, General's Interest
"How's that, does the target layout meet your requirements?" Glancing at the snowflakes in the sky that were constantly blown from side to side by the cold wind, Lille asked.
"Very good, thank you." Moriarty took his fiancée's hand and nodded.
"So, let's get started." Lille let out a long white breath and stepped back slightly.
"You stand back a bit, too." Moriarty patted the back of Haiyna's thick fur gloved hand and said softly, then took a step forward and looked at White, "Try the incendiary arrow first." ”
"Okay."
With a slight nod, White untied a white leather pouch from his back and removed a half-folded black heavy crossbow from it. Then, as the other three watched, White slowly unfolded and fixed the folded crossbow wings, adjusted the stiff body of the heavy ironwood, and attached and slowly tightened the bowstring made of tungsten wire. It had been more than five minutes until the entire crossbow had been assembled unhurriedly. But Moriarty and the other three, who witnessed the whole process, not only did not feel the slightest boredom, but had a feeling of pleasure in the flow of water. It seemed that in White's hands, the originally lifeless heavy crossbow faintly revealed a vibrating aura.
"It's really worthy of being a crossbowman." On the side, Lille watched White's every movement intently, and secretly praised in his heart.
In the end, when White held the debugged heavy crossbow smoothly and pointed at the target puppet a hundred meters away, a moving killing aura immediately rose, and this was the silent killing intent of the lion's roaring long-range heavy crossbow.
Nodding in satisfaction, Moriarty walked over to White's side, loaded an armor-piercing incendiary arrow into the crossbow, and then stepped back away, then let out a soft "um".
Hearing Moriarty's instructions, White turned his gaze, as if he had just casually glanced at the leather-armored puppet a hundred meters away, and suddenly tapped his index finger. Listening to the sound of "bang", the crossbow string of tungsten steel wire instantly scraped through the body of the ironwood crossbow, stirring up a string of red sparks. Strongly stimulated by the crossbow strings, the armor-piercing burning arrow immediately flew out at a speed that could not be distinguished by the naked eye, with a faint afterimage, and in an instant, it crossed a distance of 100 meters and accurately hit the front chest of the puppet, and the wind and snow blowing in the sky seemed to have no effect on the flight trajectory of the crossbow arrow.
Almost at the same time as the cluster of arrows pierced the puppet's body, a dazzling red flame erupted violently from the front and back of the leather armor, like a firework lit at both ends. Then, the churning flames quickly converged, and then turned into a fiery cloud of fire that enveloped the leather puppet. In less than a minute, the target melted into a cloud of soft mud under the ravages of the fire cloud, and fell weakly to the snow, unable to distinguish its original shape.
"Shhh
Everyone in the Bonda team, who was hiding in the bunker not far away, couldn't help but gasp collectively when they saw the leather armor puppet that had been wiped out by the armor-piercing burning arrow. And when they turned their heads to look at Moriarty again, there was a deep awe in their eyes in addition to the original closeness.
"Change the Iron Armor Doll!"
At this moment, the roar of the leader of the Lille squadron suddenly came from the other end of the target road, and Bonda immediately reflexively jumped up, led the team of soldiers, moved a new puppet dressed in standard iron armor, placed it in a new target position, and hurried back to hide behind the cover.
"Try the Iron Armor!" Standing beside Moriarty, Lille had a stern face, and his eyes shone like steel.
"Of course." Moriarty smiled and loaded the lion's roar crossbow with an armor-piercing incendiary arrow.
White then raised his crossbow and fired, and the incendiary arrow once again hit the center of the target's breastplate.
It's just that it doesn't completely penetrate the puppet like before, and because the defense of the iron armor is much higher than that of the leather armor, the three-edged crossbow cone of the armor-piercing burning arrow is powerless to move forward after piercing the puppet's body at a depth of no more than half a finger. However, the half-finger breach alone was enough to open the way for the subsequent fire attack. Like the most vicious fire snake, under the activation of the arrow cluster magic array, the fire sulfur grease mixed with the cold air, penetrated into the target puppet's chest and abdomen through the gap in the iron armor in just one second, and then quickly ignited a flame enough to melt gold and iron, melting all the virtual internal organs of the puppet. …,
"Change the steel armor!" There was no doubt that the ironclad had been knocked out with a single blow, and Lil took a deep breath and yelled again.
"Yes!" Bonda shouted in response, but it was more like a churning vibration in his chest.
And the appearance of the steel armor puppet finally stopped the pace of the armor-piercing burning arrow.
Due to the strong resistance to blows and punctures of the steel armor itself, the armor-piercing incendiary arrow could not penetrate the frontal armor up to an inch thick in one fell swoop, but was directly bounced away. In this way, the flame attack of the flaming arrow is also blocked outside the armor, and it cannot deal effective damage to the puppet inside the armor. Moreover, a person who can freely run and jump in battle after wearing more than one hundred and fifty pounds of steel armor in actual combat has the strength of a mid-level warrior or above. In front of a warrior professional of this level, the flames like fighting cattle across the mountains are not trivial at all.
And Lille didn't know whether to be satisfied or disappointed by such a result.
"It's good that your armor-piercing incendiary arrow didn't kill my target this time, otherwise I'd really wonder if you used illusion on me." Lille looked at the steel armored figure and the red flames that were rolling in the snow a few meters below his feet, and stood silent for a moment, then turned back to Moriarty.
"Something unexpected?" Moriarty asked rhetorically.
"Indeed." Lille nodded slightly apologetically: "I have to admit that miracles always happen to you." Come on, let's move on. Replace it with an armor-piercing blast arrow, and the target is still a steel armor puppet. ”
"Heh, okay." Moriarty smiled indifferently.
Unlike the Burning Arrows, the cluster of Armor-Piercing Burst Arrows was smaller and shorter, but it had a faint orange glow, like a small orange cake in the shape of a cone.
And it was such a seemingly small and cute crossbow arrow, but when it hit the steel armored puppet at the end of the target path, it instantly erupted into a terrifying fire wave as high as ten meters. The roaring shockwave carried the deadly heat, and in the blink of an eye, it mercilessly swallowed the puppet's surroundings within a radius of ten meters. Even from a distance of 100 meters, Lille could clearly feel the heat of the explosion slapping his tense cheeks again and again. Undoubtedly, that's the smell of hellfire.
Half a minute later, the flames were finally suppressed by the cold wind, and what appeared in front of everyone's eyes was a target puppet that was no longer a human and a standard steel armor that was almost torn apart.
Kill the steel armor puppet in one hit, and the armor-piercing blast arrow already has the terrifying power of a "mid-level killer".
Looking at the target of his success and destruction, Lille forced himself to calm down, but his heart was beating faster and faster than ever.
"Moriarty, you stay here, don't go anywhere, wait for me to come back!" As if gritting his teeth viciously, Lille muttered to Moriarty as if half-commanding.
After saying that, the squadron leader turned around and left the shooting range without looking back, and sped away in the direction of Blue Crystal City. And before leaving, Lille yelled at the Bonda team to impose martial law on the entire shooting range.
"What's wrong with Lille him? Why did you leave all of a sudden? At this time, Haiyna, who had been standing quietly behind, slowly walked up to Moriarty's side, grabbed her fiancé's arm, and asked softly, with undisguised joy and pride in her eyes.
"I should be looking for his boss." Moriarty shrugged and said casually.
"The boss of Lille? Isn't that General Cruyff? Lowering his crossbow-wielding left arm, White turned.
"Naturally, it's General Cruyff. After all, Lille doesn't have the right to make decisions on even fire procurement. Moriarty smiled confidently.
About half an hour later, a group of cavalry stepped on the heavy snow and rushed into the empty and lonely firing range of the city defense army. Cruyff was at the top of the list, followed by Lille's mount. …,
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Your Excellency." As a junior and half of his subordinates, Moriarty immediately stepped forward with Hayyna and White.
"I heard from Lille that you've made something new, and it's very powerful, right?" As the host of Moriarty's engagement to Haiyna, Cruyff didn't need any politeness at all, jumped off the war horse and asked straight to the point.
"It's two of the latest magic bolts to be developed in my studio." Moriarty said, handing the old man one Armor-Piercing Burning Arrow and one Armor-Piercing Blasting Arrow.
"Magic bolts?" The old man took it, glanced at it roughly, and then handed it back to Moriarty: "Try again, I'll see it with my own eyes." ”
"Yes, Your Excellency." Moriarty saluted.
As with the results of previous experiments, the new batch of leather, iron, and steel armor figures were also destroyed by the armor-piercing incendiary arrows and burst arrows without any suspense.
After witnessing the effect of live ammunition, Cruyff was also silent for a moment, and then asked in a deep voice: "How do you plan to sell these two kinds of equipment?" ”
"The price of the Armor-Piercing Burning Arrow is eighty gold coins each; As for the Armor-Piercing Burst Arrow, it was two hundred and fifty gold coins each. Without hesitation, Moriarty quoted the price that had already been calculated.
At first glance, some people may think that Moriarty's asking price is too harsh, but in fact, such an offer is quite generous. After all, in the case of equal-fire products, a 100 percent profit margin is just an average. Besides, the Armor-Piercing Burst Arrow is still a weapon that can threaten the mid-level warrior professional, and it is a unique product of Earth Studio, so the price of eighty and two hundred and fifty gold coins is really not high.
"Yes, I see. I'll take six samples with me, and I'll talk to you again in three days. The old man was a man of knowledge, and he had been dealing with the procurement of all kinds of munitions all year round, so he immediately saw that Moriarty did not have a lion's mouth, so he nodded with satisfaction.
"Of course, Your Excellency. EarthStudio is at your beckon. Moriarty smiled and bowed to the old man.
"Hehe, I'm afraid that this time Blue Crystal City will be lively." After another deep look at Moriarty, Cruyff smiled meaninglessly, turned on his horse, and left the shooting range with the guards.
And the only one left was shocked and admired, and he couldn't say anything, just cocked his thumb at his mage advisor, and didn't put it down for a long time.