The dust splashed after the kobold soldier's explosive bomb exploded seemed to have the smell of gunsmoke, and of course, it was also filled with bloody gas, but for the soldiers who were already tired, this was the most easily ignored smell on the battlefield.

At least for Lieutenant Mia.

As a veteran of the Battle of the Shadow Valley, the young hunter lieutenant is now a rising star in the People's Army, her archery skills trained with "Sniper Master" Qu Ge are definitely in the top five in the current army, and this excellent huntress has also personally thwarted the old jackal Manson's plot to tear Murphy away with the astral plane.

Whether it is professionalism or qualifications, she belongs to the kind of "potential stock" that will be remembered by General Maxim, which can be seen from the rocketing speed at which Mia was promoted from sergeant to lieutenant in just two months.

But in a system of warfare as large as the Maginot Line, whether you are a potential rising star or a newly enlisted soldier, you have to honestly obey the command and enter your position and hold out there until the next order comes.

This is of course what the hunter lieutenant is doing at this time.

In the middle of the position guarded by Lord Murphy himself, she and her platoon of chasseurs occupied an undulating high point, constantly moving from several sniper positions to get the most out of the battle.

Now that the Blood Vulture Claw Rifle has been distributed to KPA soldiers, firepower is no longer a problem for the Translancians, and although there are many problems with these automatic rifles, they can be used against a dozen armed kobolds without squeaking.

The biggest problem with this thing, though, is that it's hard to kill the vigorous gnolls in one hit.

Especially the jackals in a berserk state, even if they are hit in the head or heart, it is difficult to kill them immediately, so the military sequence of hunters came into being, as an ancient military unit, they were given a special mission in the midst of the black plague.

In the case of the jackal charging with the kobold, the hunters must kill the leading gnoll as soon as possible to achieve deterrence against the kobold.

To achieve this, the hunters use different guns than regular soldiers, with the standard Vulture Claw for clearing out the Miscellaneous Soldiers, as well as a modified replica of the Mosin Nagant, which fires more accurate and penetrating gold ammo, and is designed to hunt gnolls.

Marksmen like Lieutenant Mia are also equipped with the very special "Trolls' Hammer" anti-large creature rifles, a bulky device that has proven several times in previous battles that can kill even silver-tier gnolls in an instant if they hit them in the deadly spot.

It's powerful, but there's an awkward problem with it's too heavy.

A hunter couldn't carry this thing around in battle, so Mia had a strong observer to help her carry the weapon.

Mia's platoon of chasseurs was deployed on the position at the beginning of the battle in the early hours of the morning, and in just one direction, the number of gnolls who had died under the well-armed thirty people from the early morning to the present had exceeded more than fifteen hundred, and the morale of the armed kobolds they had indirectly caused was countless, greatly relieving the pressure on the front trench area.

But this also put the high-performing Chasseur Platoon on the radar of the Gnoll Overseers.

Just now, a team of dog-headed artificial soldiers gave a large platoon to the moving chassesses through the tactics of excavation and blasting, and when Lieutenant Mia, whose head was broken and bleeding, shook his head and got up at the explosion site filled with the smell of gunsmoke, he saw a mess.

The hunters were reimbursed by the ferocious blasting, the crater was full of corpses and broken arms, and the soldiers who did not die were also wounded by everyone, and the lieutenant was lucky, at least his hands were still there, and he could still pick up his rifle and continue to kill the enemy.

Seeing more kobolds rushing out of the underground tunnel, Mia, who was still bleeding, picked up the blood vulture claws on her chest and pulled the trigger on her knees, and the flying hot bullets killed several kobolds who rushed out of the tunnel, so frightened that the rest of the guys screamed and shrank back.

These dog things are simply a typical example of "bullying the weak and fearing the hard" when they are not led by the jackals.

Seeing that the lieutenant suppressed the kobold's assault, Warrant Officer North, a chasseur who had been with Mia since he joined the army, gritted his teeth and pounced, pulled out the two grenades on his waist and threw them into the kobold's tunnel, and then rolled outward and lay there, and after a few seconds there were two muffled noises in the ground, and then it was quiet again.

"Quick, heal the wounded!"

Mia took a breath, covered the wound on her head with the cuff of her military uniform, and gave an order to her soldiers, who were alive, and immediately moved the injured who could not move to the side for first aid.

Although it was only a simple bandage and a shot of the alchemist's pick-me-up, it kept the wounded until they were sent to the rear, and first aid was one of the weekly training subjects for the KPA soldiers, taught by the famous physician of Translancia, Mr. Trouser Demon.

The lieutenant himself bent down and picked up the heavy trolls' hammer from the side of the explosion crater.

She glanced at her observer, the tall, honest young man staring blankly at the sky, and the lower half of his body was shattered.

"You're out of luck, Mia."

While bandaging his arm, his old partner North complained:

"This is your second observer, the last brother who was with you was fired by the gnolls in the swamp, and if this continues, no one will dare to be your assistant."

"You talk a lot!"

Mia's eyes widened, and she tossed the anti-large bio-rifle in her hand to North and picked up her other old partner, Pappel, who had been injured in her left leg.

She glanced back at the three wounded soldiers who had been placed behind her, then at the others, and then at the other three hunters and told them to take the wounded to the medical point in the rear position, and by the way to get six boxes of ammunition.

As a result, there were only more than ten people left in the original thirty-man chasseur platoon, and they did not receive the order to retreat, and they had to continue to fight.

After a few minutes, the hunters were back in hunting mode.

"Bang"

The slight vibration of the sniper rifle in his hand sent the bullet out of the chamber, piercing the heart of a jackal who was jumping into the trench with a halberd hundreds of meters away, and the hapless man fell into the trench and was shredded with bayonets by the hunters in the trench, and the kobolds who followed it were screamed by a few bullets and turned to run.

Warrant Officer North, who had fired the fatal shot, let out a breath, pulled the bolt to load the new bullet, and whispered to Mia, who had already set up the Trolls' Hammer and entered the sniper state next to him, while searching for his target:

"This encounter reminds me of the Valley of the Shadows. The night we moved through the tunnel, the gnolls were so crazy, when will these dogs be killed? ”

"You can't kill it."

On the other side, Warrant Officer Papel was wounded in the leg and had to pull the trigger in a prostrate manner, and he simply killed a gnolll hunter who was about to throw explosives, causing the guy to turn into ashes along with the dwarven bomb in his hand.

Amid the sound of the cartridge casings being discharged, the more literary Papel whispered:

"I've heard psychics say that gnolls are so fertile that we can't wipe them out all at once, and in a few years they'll grow again, like weeds on the farm.

They say that's why the gnolls keep unleashing the Black Plague.

There were too many of them, and there wasn't enough to eat in that damn place in the Dark Mountains.

The Psionist said that the terrible Black Plague was also a way for the Gnolls to adjust their numbers, which they called the 'Ecological Cycle'. ”

"Hey, the ecological cycle of ghosts, then why don't these bastards go east to trouble those Callum people? At the end of the day, they still bully the weak and fear the hard, and think that we are better bullies than the Callum people. ”

North scolded:

"But we are not afraid of them anymore, the Transansians led by Governor Murphy will definitely enter the Dark Mountains and wipe out these bastards to Mia, at nine o'clock! See? An Overseer has come up! ”

"Huh"

Lieutenant Mia, who was holding the big gun, immediately shifted the muzzle of the gun, and under the magnification of the magnification of the Trolls' hammer's own psionic sights, she clearly saw the Gnoll Overseers riding wolves on the chaotic battlefield thousands of kilometers away.

The latter was dressed in very heavy barbarian armor, and the wolf also had a battle flag on it, and he looked like a big man.

This is exactly the favorite prey of the Trolls' Hammer and elite hunters.

Lieutenant Mia didn't hesitate, she took a deep breath and held her hands more steady, this was still the method that Master Qu taught her, and after a few seconds of fine-tuning, she pulled the trigger.

"Bang"

The muffled sound of the special hunting bullet when it was discharged made North subconsciously cover his ears, and the big gun supported by the tripod also vibrated at this moment, although there was a brake to balance the recoil, but the shock force of the big gun made people wonder if it would break Mia's too thin shoulder.

The lieutenant didn't change her posture, she used her psionic sight to observe her target.

She was relieved to see her bullet shoot into the Overseer's roaring mouth and tear open the other's fragile spine.

"Awesome! Mia. ”

North applauded:

"Now you have one more star on your badge and shotgun."

Well, this is a new habit that the hunters have formed during these months of fighting, and it is said to come from the tradition of the Gentiles, whenever a hunter snips a worthy target, they can carve a star on their military insignia and shotgun.

This thing is also exquisite.

Ordinary gnoll captains can only carve hollow five-pointed stars, and elite enemy grassroots commanders can engrave silver five-pointed stars, such as the silver overseer killed by Mia this time is the highest-level gold star, which is basically the highest-level target that ordinary soldiers can hunt with equipment bonuses.

And if it is an independent sniper, without the help of others, you can engrave the legendary blood star.

In this way, the Scarlet Venus, which can only be obtained in dreams for ordinary hunters, already have a full three on Lieutenant Mia's Trolls' Trolls.

She's not just known as a role model for hunters because of her marksmanship.

"Keep guiding the goal!"

Mia didn't get complacent because of the successful hunt, she indifferently withdrew from the thumb-thick bullet case and added a new one, North and Pappel, who were familiar with Mia's character, knew that this was a manifestation of Mia's extreme anger, apparently because the kobolds' previous attack caused heavy losses to the chasseur platoon to let her enter this state of "cold-blooded killing gods".

The other soldiers of the chasseur platoon were demoralized because of the lieutenant's supernatural performance, and they were also holding back the anger in their hearts, and they were even more ferocious in the next hunt.

However, the Gnolls had noticed the trouble that this active hunter had caused them, and with their constant sniping, the quality and quantity of the Gnolls and Kobolds had never been perfect, and now another Overseer had been killed, which made the Overseer in the rear completely unbearable.

Under its direct orders, a group of 100 dog-headed artificials set out along the previous tunnel, led by a hunter electr, and just as Mia locked onto the second Silver Gnoll brute vanguard, her brilliant hunting instinct caused her to alert her, causing Mia to immediately turn her gun around and aim behind her.

In the pit dug by the kobold earlier, more noisy voices rang out, and the blood-colored arc of light jumped out like a ghost.

As it came out, it looked up and saw the muzzle of the gun aimed at it, and the trolls' hammer fired from a distance of less than fifteen meters, and the piercing gold-burning bullet hit the electorate right in the chest.

Despite the fact that it has ranged ineffective shelter from the Lord of the Hunt, it is not completely immune to ranged damage, and the special sniper bullets did not kill it, but it rolled over and fell as if it had been punched in the chest.

"Meet the enemy!"

Mia shouted, and the hunters immediately picked up the blood vulture claws and fired continuously behind them, suppressing the steady stream of armed kobolds rushing out of the tunnel, the lieutenant had no time to change the bullets in the big gun, she emptied the cartridge of the blood vulture claw, picked up the shotgun, loaded the bayonet, strode forward, and pierced the ugly kobold in front of her with a single shot.

But the explosives in the latter's claws and strapped to her body had already been ignited, and the fuse burned to the end, causing Mia's pupils to dilate, when a figure pounced on her and knocked her out.

"Boom"

Violent explosions exploded in place, engulfing everything around them, followed by a series of explosions, and the kobolds' connection exploded like a wall of fire across the high ground.

By the time Lieutenant Mia coughed and clutched her chest, the hunter position in front of her had fallen silent, and the hunter in front of her, who had suffered a massive explosion, had only one arm left, but it was pulling its bone knife out of the back of Warrant Officer Pappel's heart.

The badly burned face twisted around and stared at Lieutenant Mia, who had struggled to pull out the huntsman's knife in the most terrifying nightmare gesture.

On the high ground filled with gunsmoke and death, in the background of the shouts of killing that seemed to never be able to be quieted down, a man and a wolf stared at each other.

They're probably the last ones alive here.

"Phew"

Mia, who was also burned, spat at the side of blood, a splinter stuck in her chest that prevented her from breathing, she knew that she was going to die, even if she killed the jackal, she would not survive.

But at the last moment of her life, she did not choose to escape, but reached out and held the military insignia on her chest decorated with three blood-colored gold stars, which seemed to give her strength, so that she took the initiative to pounce on the hunter with her hunting knife, who was also the last of the crossbows, but still smiled and stepped forward to meet the enemy, but a figure pounced from behind.

That's Warrant Officer North!

He was so miserable, both legs were blown off, and his face was full of scars, but at this moment, he gritted his teeth and threw himself behind the hunter, and restrained his remaining arm with the last of his strength, so that Mia, who was rushing in the smoke of gunpowder, could plunge the sharp hunting knife into the heart of the jackal, and then pull it out, and plunge it into its second heart.

How to kill a gnoll is the first lesson the hunters learn when they join the army.

Even the Hunter would not have survived with both hearts destroyed, but the fierce man still plunged his strange bone knife into Lieutenant Mia's waist and abdomen before he died, and he lived a long life.

In the next second, the three of them fell down in unison, and Mia struggled to crawl over and hugged North, who only had his last breath left.

"Ha, ahem, my first Scarlet Star I. I'm going to catch up with you."

North coughed up blood and tried to smile, and he said to Mia:

"I am. The best, right? ”

"Of course you are!"

Mia also felt life escaping from her body, like a broken balloon, she felt dizzy, and at the last moment, she said to North:

"The three of us are the best hunters, we didn't disgrace the Funk Street kids"

"Live, Mia."

North's voice weakened, and he said:

"They all say there's no future for Translasia, but I don't believe it. Stay alive! Take a look at Papel and me."

Mia could no longer answer him, and the lieutenant had closed his eyes.

There was no one who could stand up on this dead and silent high ground, until a pair of huge bloody wings spread out in the smoke of gunpowder, and the serious-faced tribune Kudel looked at the tragic battlefield, and his heart was like a stone, and when he saw the corpse of the hunting voters, he could not help but sigh for the fierceness of the hunters.

Is this really something that mortals can do?

No one responded, and the tribune sighed and prepared to leave, but the next second, his vampire senses were telling him where the last shred of life was coming from.

With a thud, Kudell almost teleported to Lieutenant Mia's side, and he looked at the emaciated female soldier who had already set foot on the path of the dead but still had to be saved, and the tribune knew that there was only one way to save her.

But that means he has to break the rules he has set for himself.

Kudell hesitated, he looked at the slain hunter, wouldn't it be worth it for these hunters to break that ridiculous rule by themselves to do such a miracle in mortal bodies?

I was a vampire a hundred years ago.

I've just been deceiving myself, and the power of this curse can be used to do something good.

So he put his hand on Mia's badly burned forehead, and used the secret method of a vampire to ask:

"Brave hunter, are you willing to start a second life with a vampire's curse?"

"I'm going to live."

The weak response represented a strong obsession, and the canine teeth of Kudel's mouth poked out, and before the first embrace, he asked:

"Why? Is there anything that must be done that would make you rather abandon the purity of your soul than survive? ”

"I'm going to see it, I'm going to see that future with my own eyes. The future of Translasia, led by Lord Murphy. I want to live. I promised them."

(End of chapter)