In the woods outside the plantation.

The dragon grabbed the prey of today's hunt and flapped its wings and flew up.

The prey was a three-meter-tall giant ape with a red mane, a powerful sixth-order demonic beast with a strong physique, but at this time, it lost its vitality and was thrown near its lair by the Xiahui Dragon like a rag bag.

This is its usual place to eat, and these days, it is already filled with the corpses of all kinds of magical beasts.

The dragon landed on the ground, stepped on the corpse of the giant ape, and spread its wings and let out an angry dragon roar.

Several bolts of thunder fell from the sky, and the thunder, along with its roar, rolled far away.

Demonic beasts are sensitive to the concentration of mana in the environment, and since the concentration of mana near this cave has become high, it is not only coveted this treasure land.

It is true that the low-level demonic beasts fled under its dragon power, but there are also some bold high-level demonic beasts that have quietly approached here, in vain to come over and get a piece of the pie.

Among them, there are not only sixth-order demonic beasts, but even seventh-order demonic beasts.

Where can you lie on a couch allow others to snore? In particular, the dragon beast's territorial awareness is heavier.

With its own strong strength, during this time, all the demonic beasts that tried to get close to the cave were preyed upon by it one by one.

Its roar and unleashed thunder are both its demonstration and its warning.

It was asserting its strength and territory, and in fact, the seventh-order wurm species was enough to dominate the periphery of the Linfeng Mountain Range.

After a few roars, Xia Huilong was about to start enjoying his lunch, but suddenly raised his head and looked at the woods not far away with sharp eyes.

It heard the dense sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer, the kind of sound it had heard—

There can't be a mistake, the human gang that injured it more than ten days ago is here again!

In terms of strength, each of them pulled out individually was weaker than the seventh-order demonic beasts it had encountered in the past few days.

But once they joined forces to besiege it, what should have been a one-sided battle became tricky.

It was particularly impressed by a particular individual that could fly through the air, and the shot she fired at the right time caused it a serious wound in the chest.

Even if it was nourished by a high concentration of magic power and had the ability to recover from the dragon bloodline, it had only healed the wound on its chest until a few days ago.

It was also the worst injury it had ever suffered in this time!

Sure enough, a team of more than a dozen people appeared in the woods, and it was the human gang that had tried to challenge it before!

Let them escape last time, I didn't expect to dare to come again this time?

The eyes of the Xia Hui Dragon floated with a touch of angry scarlet, it flapped its wings, and with a high-spirited dragon roar, it actually directly entered the charged strengthening state!

"Hmph, we're really popular."

Gazed at by its green dragon pupils, Julius subconsciously tightened the knight's sword in his hand.

"Act according to the battle plan." Guderian commanded as he shot his arrow, "Spread out and prepare to fend off its first wave!" ”

The arrows he shot were as precise and powerful as ever, but after suffering a loss, Xia Huilong would not be bruised by him again this time.

The dark green wings, which were harder than steel, swept the arrow aside as soon as it was raised, and at the same time swooped down, plunging headlong into the crowd, flapping and biting as if no one was in a no-man's land.

The knights were defeated by the unreasonable physical strength of the Xiahui Dragon's strengthened state, and the situation became extremely bad the moment the battle began.

Even though they took care of each other, and there were high-level mages behind them to cast defensive spells to support, they were still sweating in front of the approaching Xia Hui Dragon, and the defense line became precarious.

At this level, do you dare to continue to challenge yourself?

Just now, it deliberately glanced around, and the special individual that could fly in the sky and shoot beam cannons did not appear, which made it have no last worries.

Seeing this, the Xiahui Dragon was even more imposing, and it urged its "Lightning Domain" with all its might, and at the same time, it slashed out with one wing.

Julius, who was distracted by the threat of lightning overhead, saw the scythe-like wings of death slash at him, and hurriedly raised his shield, but the next moment he was pushed upside down by the force of the shield.

He only felt a sweetness in his throat, and then forcibly lowered the surging qi and pressure, and seeing that Xia Huilong was chasing after him again, he hurriedly shouted: "Help me-"

As he spoke, the corner of his eye swept the battle situation but he found that his comrades-in-arms around him had no time to support him!

The "Lightning Field" enveloped the entire field, countless arcs of electricity flowed on the ground, and with the powerful and earth-shaking attacks of the Xiahui Dragon, each blow made the knights' hands and feet numb, and gradually lost the ability to resist.

Agaté, who was closest to him, was also stiff and sluggish at this time, and it was too late to block this blow for himself!

According to the plan, their original duty was to continuously consume the strength of the Radiant Dragon, survive its first strength, and force it into a state where it urgently needed to replenish its mana.

But I didn't expect Xia Huilong's offensive this time to be even more fierce than before, and they couldn't drag the opponent for too long with their strength alone!

At the critical moment, the black-robed knight who had been wandering on the edge rushed into the battlefield.

He raised his arm shield to calmly block the blow, and the lightning field shredded his black robe, revealing the fully armed knight's armor inside.

"Captain!" Julius said ashamedly, "I'm very sorry for letting you make a move early!" ”

"It's not your problem." Ryan said in a deep voice, "It's probably because of the favor of the high-concentration magic environment, I haven't seen it for more than ten days, and its strength has become even stronger."

"Even so, you guys held out for a while and did a great job...... Leave it to us.

"Team Mages, prepare to cast spells!"

"Yes!"

The mages began to chant incantations, and the Radiant Dragon temporarily stopped attacking, looking at the knight who had been thrown into battle with a little vigilance.

It knew that this knight could steadily block the blow of his strengthened state, and his strength must not be underestimated.

But because Ryan deliberately hid his aura, he didn't take the initiative to attack.

Therefore, it couldn't determine if this was a real eighth-order knight.

Maybe it's just a Seventh Order who is good at defense? If it was the Eighth Order, why didn't he just make a move?

At this moment, the gradually powerful wave of magic in the distance regained its attention, and the Radiant Dragon roared, taking a few steps back to temporarily distance itself from the mysterious knight.

Its wings then changed from dark green to glazed color, and began to prepare for the onslaught of high-level spells.

It doesn't matter if the opponent is 7th or 8th, as long as you use "Spell Absorption" to refill your magic power, even if you can't beat the 8th order in the enhanced state, you will have enough confidence to escape!

And if the opponent is only a seventh-order that is good at defense, the sword of Thor that it then sacrifices will tear the opponent in half.

Thor's Sword is one of the strongest seventh-order attack spells, especially when it is used in a strengthened state, it is sure that it has no opponent in its rank!

When I fill up my state, I will immediately kill all these humans who dare to offend me!

"The arrogant dragon beast really won't run away easily."

Seeing Xia Huilong's defensive posture, Ryan's eyes were deep, "Everything is in plan...... Do it, White Raven.

"But in ten days, let me see how far you have grown?"

"Boom !!"

In the next moment, several high-level spells fell on Xia Hui Dragon one after another.

Ice blooms, winds rage, rocks fall...... Heaven and earth changed color at this moment, and about two kilometers away from this chaotic battlefield—

Yuna, armed with a Valkyrie wing, was perched on a nearby mountain.

Unlike the previous equipment style of holding a beam cannon in one hand and a magic guide gun in the other, she was now holding a two-meter-long sniper in both hands, overlooking the battlefield in the distance under the cover of the surrounding trees.

"It's already started over there." Nolan's voice came to mind, "Are you confident that you'll hit a target that far away, Yuna?" ”

"Hmm." Yuna replied simply, focusing on the target two kilometers away through the high-precision sights mounted on the sniper rifle.

This is the new weapon that Noren made for her yesterday, the full name of the smoothbore sniper magic cannon "Gungnir".

Yes, because the barrel is filled with large-caliber live bolts, its size, especially its length, is larger and longer than the original Beam Magic Cannon.

Not so much a gun, this has fully reached the level of a cannon.

Of course, only a magic guide of this level can pose a big enough threat to the dragon beasts.

It was the result of a work of confidence that Noren and Master Luo Zhen had been pondering for a long time, and Yuna had no doubts about its power, and now the problem before her was how to use it to hit her target.

Different from the previous mid-range and close-range combat, in order to prevent the defeat of the battle due to the early detection and preparation of the Xia Hui Dragon, it is also to test the combat performance of "Gangenir" at long distances.

This time, she was going to snipe at a target two kilometers away.

Most people in this day and age have no idea of two kilometers away, and she didn't have it until yesterday afternoon.

Even if the field of vision is clear, without the aid of sights, the knight's vision cannot accurately lock on to the enemy so far away.

And even if Gungnir was equipped with the latest high-precision sights developed by Flamel City, which allowed her to see the enemy from such a distance, there was one more thing that she would have a headache for.

That's the shooting error.

In the past, she didn't have to worry about shooting errors at all, on the one hand, she mainly launched attacks at medium and close range, and on the other hand, her weapons cast attack spells, and the spell trajectory was mostly in a straight line.

In that case, even if you shoot blindly or waist, you can still hit the target, but now it's different.

Not only long-range shooting, but also the use of live-fire weapons.

Since it is a live-ammunition weapon, it will have weight, and it is necessary to consider factors such as bullet speed, wind speed, and falling.

Even if Gungnier's sights are very accurate, basically to the point of pointing where to hit, but because the trajectory of the live ammunition itself will deviate during flight, the crosshair is not the same as the actual landing point.

She knew this from the first test firing after she got the weapon yesterday afternoon.

However, although she is aware of the difficulty of long-range sniping, she is sure of this mission.

The first reason is that the target of this sniper is large.

The Radiant Dragon is a large dragon beast, and when it absorbs spells, it will converge its wings and stand still, which is equivalent to a large fixed target.

The second reason is that she is in a good position.

This was the best sniper spot Noren had chosen for her, and from here she could see the surrounding area of the cave in full view, while her position was sheltered by vegetation that would not be easily detected.

As for the third reason...... That's what it feels like.

After the first two test shots yesterday, she quickly found the feeling of shooting with live ammunition, and improved her aim by adjusting the tight position of the sight and stabilizing the posture when shooting.

After that, the third and fourth test shots all hit targets 2,000 meters away.

Originally, Nolan was still thinking about whether to shorten the shooting distance to about a thousand meters, or even shorter, considering the lack of proficiency in the actual combat shooting.

But then I saw her wonderful performance and my positive reply, and finally settled on a distance of two kilometers.

It is true that she did not have any professional sniper training, and no one in this era would teach this method of aiming, she herself was a pioneer of the era.

But she's just able to get up to speed with new gear at an astonishing rate.

Whether it's the original "Valkyrie" jetpack or the current smoothbore sniper magic cannon "Gangenir".

By what? By feeling.

This unusual feeling is a testament to her genius.

"If you think you can do it, I believe you."

What Nolan had said to her at the time echoed in her mind at the moment, and Yuna took a deep breath, her heartbeat slowing down.

Holding a sniper gun weighing dozens of pounds, her hands did not tremble at all, and her body did not shake at all.

Stretched to a distance of 2,000 meters, the slightest bit of shaking will greatly affect the final landing point of the live ammunition.

As the dust from the high-level spell bombardment began to dissipate, the glowing dragon appeared in the scope of vision with its glass-colored wings wrapped around its body.

Yuna's expression was calm, and she slowly placed her crosshair to the right of the top of the glowing dragon.

There are indeed considerations for calculating wind speed, ballistic fall, and other factors, but what is indispensable is her natural instinct for aiming—

I'm looking for what I can do here.

As with this unique sniper, live ammunition that is pre-filled in the barrel is also custom-made.

Its main body is a 60-centimeter-long large-caliber demon-breaking silver iron crossbow arrow, which is wrapped in a layer of bullet stock, which contains special alchemical gunpowder and a "ignite" circle.

As she pulled the trigger, the trigger's mechanism simultaneously touched the firing pin and connected to the tandem acceleration circle in the chamber.

The firing pin hits the bottom of the stock, activating the "ignite" circle and detonating the special alchemical powder within.

Under the impetus of the explosion, the shell began to move inside the barrel, and at the same time, six "accelerated" circles unfolded from the barrel.

By the time the cannonball exited through the long barrel, it had gained terrifying speed under the influence of six "acceleration" circles.

"Boom!"

The outer butt fell off during the flight, revealing the large-caliber demon-breaking silver iron projectile that shimmered with silver light.

It tore through the air, traveled a distance of kilometers, and slammed straight into the glowing dragon with its glass-colored wings!

Thank you for the reward from the Nine Mile Sword Master

(End of chapter)