Chapter 20: Marksmanship
Victor stood on the hillside on one side of the valley and watched the battle in the valley.
The instinct to survive causes these cunning and ferocious gnolls to burst with incredible power, running, jumping, dashing, and roaring furiously, attacking all creatures that stand in their way, including their own kind.
However, these are in vain.
Humans may not be as physically strong as gnolls, but the sophisticated equipment and close coordination make these well-trained soldiers as terrifying as killing machines.
Crossbowmen fire powerful arrows at lone gnolls, spearmen stab wounded gnolls to death in groups of three, while chainmail shield-wielding infantry watches vigilantly in the surrounding grass, and when a gnolls threaten a soldier who is not good at close combat, these elite soldiers will show the gnolls what despair is.
And when facing a powerful knight, the strong gnoll is as vulnerable as a scarecrow.
Victor saw that Bruce's apprentice knight Calvin used a long sword to split a gnolf in half from shoulder to crotch, and the huge wind pressure brought by the long sword caused the half-human-high weeds to fall in all directions, forming a circle of 2 meters on the ground.
"There were 39 gnolls, 6 coyotes, 42 goblins and 23 kobolds. Eleven gnolls have been killed. Victor said softly, and with the assistance of X-3, Victor accurately reported the data within his line of sight.
"Your Excellency, you're right!" said the one-eyed Gru, who didn't know if Victor was right.
Gru and several powerful guards are by Victor's side, who will be responsible for the safety of his lord, while Master Edwin remains in the castle at Bruce's request, and Nicole, who was originally responsible for protecting the White Tower Scholars, will be standing by Victor's side.
This beautiful female probationary knight, dressed in silver-white women's scale armor, carried a long sword and a round shield, and her hair was simply tied back her head, looking heroic.
"Gru, bring me a heavy crossbow. "Victor can't go down to fight the gnolls, but he doesn't want to be just a bystander.
Gru glanced at Nicole with some embarrassment, and Nicole hurriedly persuaded Victor softly: "Victor, the battlefield is full of our soldiers, and the heavy crossbow is not easy to operate, if you hurt our people, it will not be good, what do you say?"
"Don't worry, I'll never shoot at a place where there's a person, and you'll instruct me, right?" Victor smiled at Nicole.
The ethereal temperament and graceful demeanor brought by the blood of the moon elves attracted Nicole so much that she couldn't bear to refuse Victor's request.
"Okay, but you're going to shoot under my guidance. ”
A military heavy crossbow was taken, a powerful weapon that could shoot arrows up to 300 meters away, and even through chainmail targets at 100 meters, but the weight of the heavy crossbow made it impossible for most people to shoot accurately.
Gru used the winch to push a pure steel crossbow arrow into the shooting slot, and handed the heavy crossbow into Victor's hand, Nicole clinged to Victor's body, and held Victor's arm with her hand, pointing the crossbow arrow at a jackal who was uninhabited, this intimate gesture made Miss Knight's face blush.
Overrun opening, wind speed, distance, speed and path of the gnolls' movements, these data are constantly refreshed in Victor's eyes. After receiving Nicole's signal, Victor shoots a crossbow arrow.
The sharp arrow pierced the gnoll's shoulder, and the strong force caused the gnoll to flip over, but driven by the desire to escape, the strong gnoll got up and continued to run, ignoring the arrow on his shoulder.
"Shoot beautifully!" Gru praised loudly without losing any time.
Victor shook his head dissatisfied, he was aiming for the gnoll's head, but the first shot was not enough to understand the performance of this heavy crossbow, coupled with Nicole's interference, his shooting action was a little deformed.
"One more time. Victor instructed Gru.
The heavy crossbow was reloaded, and before Nicole could hold Victor's hand, Victor pulled the trigger of the heavy crossbow.
The steel bolt pierced the jackal's head over a distance of 100 meters, causing him to fall to the ground and kill him instantly.
The whimsical shooting left everyone stunned, and even Gru forgot to take the opportunity to slap Victor on the back.
If this arrow was just a coincidence, then Victor's next shot made everyone reject this idea.
Each powerful bolt Victor fires takes the life of a gnoll, and all of them are shot in the head. If Nicole and the guards had gotten closer, they would have been more surprised to find that most of the arrows had pierced the gnolls' eyes or ears.
In this regard, the soldiers fighting below have a deeper experience.
George was an elite infantry under Baron Esric, and he was responsible for protecting the crossbowmen and spearmen, but the long artemisia grass caused him a lot of trouble, and he had to keep an eye on his companions' movements, which made him neglect his own safety.
A strong gnolll in the grass pounced on the soldier without him noticing.
The Gnoll's surprise attack made George panic a little, but the well-trained man blocked the Gnoll's claws with his shield the moment he was pounced, and stabbed his short spear into his opponent's side.
It wasn't enough to kill a strong gnoll instantly, but the intense pain drove the gnoll even more insane, and it opened its bloody jaws full of sharp fangs and bit down on George's face, and the stench made George smell death.
However, the expected pain did not happen, and when George was lifted up from under the jackal by his companions, they were shocked to find that the jackal's head had been pierced through the ear hole by a long crossbow arrow, and it was dead.
This arrow made everyone around Victor can't help but open their mouths, even the beautiful Miss Nicole, and it also makes the broken tooth hidden in the grass feel cold.
As a ferocious gnoll, Broken Tooth is far more intelligent than his kind.
As soon as the battle began, Broken Fang took advantage of the chaos and plunged headlong into the deep grass, the breeze surrounding its body and allowing it to sneak silently through the grass towards the slopes on the side of the valley.
Running up the hill and over the hills to escape the encirclement of the human army is what many gnolls think. However, as soon as they are out of the cover of the weeds, the human archers will tell them with a dense barrage of arrows how stupid the idea is.
But Broken Tooth doesn't care, climbing the hill will slow down the Jackal's escape speed, but it won't bother Broken Tooth, and the affinity of the wind element not only makes it agile and fast, but also makes it have a more acute perception, it can dodge in advance before the arrow hits.
Even if it can't dodge all the arrows, the breeze around it can weaken the power of the arrows, and as long as it dodges the vital parts and doesn't get shot, it can completely escape this encirclement.
In this process, you may be injured a little, but it will never be fatal, and you can escape with your super physical fitness and amazing speed, which is the idea of broken teeth.
The appearance of the marksman on the hillside made Broken Tooth despair.
Broken Teeth may be able to withstand the fire of a normal crossbow, but it definitely does not include military heavy crossbows. It saw a crossbow bolt from a hillside shoot through the head of an unlucky man, and after a meter of flying with a 300-pound guy with great force, the bolt of pure steel pinned the creature's head to the ground.
Broken Tooth wouldn't be worried if there was only one archer, but it wouldn't be able to defend against such a terrible shot in the midst of a dense barrage of arrows.
Broken Fang decided to escape from the safety of Victor's sight, but the smaller encirclement frustrated his plans.
So Broken Tooth decided to take the risk.
Since you can't escape the blow of this marksman on the hillside from that side, you can only get close to this shooter and find another opportunity to kill or severely damage this shooter, otherwise even if you can run out of the hillside by his side, you will expose your back to this terrible guy, so you must kill him!
Broken Tooth saw Victor's side guards, including a powerful Tin Man, but it was only a human female.
Human females are always weak in the impression of broken teeth, and they always scream in horror and flee in panic when they see a gnolloll, which always arouses the gnoll's strong appetite.
This cognitive bias gave Broken Tooth some confidence, and in fact it had no choice.
Broken Fang cautiously reached in the grass towards the hillside where Victor was, and waited quietly in a bush of grass beneath the hillside.
It was waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity that Hogg had created for it.
Then, it's going to fight for life.