In the Swamp of Mist, the crusade against the Gaia Worms has officially begun.

At the same time, on a high slope two kilometers away, the entourage of the transport vehicle worked together to unload the seven-meter-long naval gun Meteor and fix it at an overlook point with an excellent view.

Nolan personally inspected the Meteor and confirmed all its parts.

"There is no abnormality in the barrel, and it can be loaded with shells......"

"There is no abnormality in the turret, and the main gun orientation is being adjusted."

"There is no abnormality in the rangefinder, two kilometers from the target position, the pitch angle is corrected......"

"There is no abnormality in the connection of the magic source, and there is no abnormality in the tandem array warehouse......"

The parts were working normally, and Noren sat on the turret of the Meteor and sent a message to Ryan and the others in a deep voice:

"The Meteor is ready to guide the target to the designated position."

The Meteor's huge cannon body and mechanical structure to push the main gun azimuth and muzzle pitch angle make it slow to aim, which is also one of the inevitable drawbacks of large weapons.

Therefore, he decided to directly fix the angle of fire of the Meteor.

Instead of aiming at the Gaia Worm in motion, it was guided by Ryan and Sky Knight to "crash" into the Meteor's cannonballs on its own.

Relay the shooting coordinates of the Meteor to everyone connected to the Soul Link, which is the very center of the Misty Swamp, about two hundred meters from where the Gaia Worm is now.

"Just take it there!"

A gleam flashed in Ryan's eyes as he regained his momentum and lunged at the Gaia worm again.

The Gaia worm also showed no weakness, and with the tremor of the great earthquake, the waves of rocks up to twenty meters high rose into the sky, and slapped towards Ryan like a tsunami.

With all his might, the terrain of this area has been destroyed beyond recognition by the Gaia Worm's ground spells.

The ground level rises, the mountain rocks protrude, and with the north as the center, half of the swamp is a devastated rocky hill.

Rock waves rolled in, burying Ryan in it.

The next moment the light lit up, and his figure broke through the rock waves, but it was greeted by a sweep of the Gaia worm.

Ryan raised his arm shield in time, but was still knocked out by the unreasonable force of the Gaia worm, only to feel that his body was sore, and his chest was surging with blood.

Seeing that his strength was inferior to his own, the Gaia worm became even more furious, opening its monstrous abyssal maw, plowing the ground and biting at Ryan.

In its opinion, although the enemy's resilience was acceptable, he lacked powerful means of attack, and his threat to himself was not even as high as the eighth-order transcendent a few days ago.

It was only a matter of time before he was defeated, and as long as he was preyed upon, the Eighth-Order Transcendent Flesh would definitely be of great benefit to his injuries!

So after the first round of temptation, it immediately decided to include Ryan in its prey list, and immediately took the initiative to attack.

In the face of the menacing Gaia Worm, Ryan walked like a fly, taking advantage of the momentum of being knocked away to open the distance, and ran away.

He wasn't going to be swallowed by the Gaia worm, even the hard orichalis could be devoured, and once it entered its belly, it would be lifeless.

However, after running out for about a hundred meters, he only felt that his steps sank.

With the buff of "Energy Flow Burst", the range of the Gaia Worm's gravitational field was expanded again, including Ryan in the distance.

Even the coercion of the eighth-order knight could not offset the restraint of the gravity field, and the strength of the Gaia worm in this state was also the strongest among all the eighth-order demonic beasts.

Seeing that the abyssal mouth was getting closer and closer to Ryan, at this moment, a cannon rang out from above the fog high in the sky.

"Boom-"

At the critical moment, Yuna pulled Gungnir's trigger.

The six-acceleration circle unfolded, and steel nails whistled out from the fiery muzzle of the cannon, hitting the unhealed wound on the back of the Gaia worm with precision.

The wound was wounded by Augon's "Ember Slash", and two days later, only a transparent film had grown on the wound.

Although the membrane stopped bleeding, it was fragile because it did not grow silver-gray scales.

Thanks to this, the steel spike easily pierced the membrane and pierced the back of the Gaia worm.

"Woo-"

The spike attack interrupted the Gaia Worm's attack, and it shuddered as if it had been electrocuted, and let out an angry and painful chirping.

It raises its upper limbs to look for the trail attacker, but as an underground creature, it has no vision, and generally senses its prey through the flow of magic and the vibration of the ground.

Yuna is high in the sky, and there is a fog that can hide the magic power, and even the Gaia worm in the state of flux burst cannot lock her track.

However, although the nails hurt, they were unable to deal a critical blow to the Gaia Worm.

On the contrary, the pain stimulates its ferocity even more.

"Woo-"

It chirped, and the dense silver-gray scales on its back began to wriggle, towering like the thorns of a hedgehog to prevent others from sneaking up.

At the same time, an earthy yellow halo flowed, and a layer of dark black rock armor glowing with a reddish glow quickly covered the whole body, and also covered the bleeding wound on the back.

The eighth-order earth spell "Obsidian Guardian" has been recorded.

Knowledge +260.

Effects: Unfolds the obsidian barrier that greatly increases physical and spell resistance, and is immune to all negative effects caused by supernatural powers below the eighth rank (the negative effects that have already been applied do not count).

This is the most powerful defensive spell of the Gaia Worm, and it can also be amplified by the "Energy Burst" to take its defense to the next level.

If this spell had been cast at the beginning, even the Ogion of Alto's army would not have been able to damage it easily.

However, there are pros and cons to this trick.

If you maintain the two eighth-order spells of "Energy Flow Burst" and "Obsidian Guardian" at the same time, not only will the mana cost be huge, but the Gaia Worm will not be able to distract from casting other attack spells such as earthquakes, rock waves, and gravity fields.

Do you want to give up the sustainable spell damage for extreme defense and physical attack for a short period of time? Now it has made its choice.

It has to fight quickly, preying on the enemies in front of it with absolute strength, and then fleeing away in search of new predators.

"Whew-"

At this time, the Gaia worm was covered with black thorns glowing red, and it looked much more hideous than before.

With the dual blessing of "Energy Burst" and "Obsidian Guardian", almost every black thorn on its body has become an indestructible blade.

It drove a huge forty-meter-long body to snake forward, and with the end of the black thorn rolling up the dust, it swept unstoppably towards Ryan!

The attack range is too large for Ryan to dodge, so he can only raise his arm shield to make the most perfect defensive stance.

"Boom-"

The next moment, the tail of the Gaia worm slapped against Ryan's arm shield.

This arm shield was originally given to him by the royal family of the empire when Ryan had previously won his military exploits.

Coupled with the bonus of the skill "Seamless", few enemies have been able to leave traces on it for decades.

Then, with a "click" sounded -

After a brief stalemate, Blackthorn shattered the shield of the arm.

The irresistible impact hit his face, and Ryan only felt that his eyes were dark, and when he came back to his senses, he had been knocked high into the air.

Pain ensued, his shield and armor scarred by the black stabs, and his body was momentarily immobilized as if it had been knocked apart.

"Ahem—" Ryan's face turned pale, and an irrepressible mouthful of blood spurted out.

Seeing that its prey was wounded, the Gaia worm rose to its feet and opened its abyssal jaw towards him.

The kicker status of "Energy Burst Burst" is coming to an end, and it will use this blow to decide the winner!

"Boom-"

Just then, the sound of artillery was heard from another position in the fog high in the sky.

Gungnier couldn't fire a second shot in a short period of time, and this time it was Liz who struck.

Just now, she was hovering in the air like Yuna, using the drone's field of vision to keep aiming at the Gaia worm.

Yuna was encouraged by the first shot to damage the Gaia Worm, and when Ryan was threatened again, she did the same.

"The white raven has done it, and I will do it too!"

With this in mind, Liz pulled the trigger.

The spike roared out of its chamber, shooting precisely at the wound to the Gaia's back.

"There it is!"

The moment the spikes were discharged, Liz had a bottom in her heart, which was her instinct as a shooter.

But then her face changed.

At this time, the back of the Gaia worm was covered with black thorns glowing red, and although there were no black thorns in the wounded area, there was also obsidian armor to protect it.

"Boom-"

The steel spikes slammed into the obsidian armor, barely halfway into it, and then ran out of kinetic energy, stuck in it unsustainably.

Although the steel spike is made of demon-breaking silver iron, it is effective in breaking spell shields.

However, Obsidian armor is not a simple spell creation, as a terrestrial spell, it has its own entity, and it has its own live-fire defense attribute.

Coupled with the buff blessing of "Energy Flow Burst", its defense is almost impossible for even Gangnir to break.

Sure enough, Liz's shot did not interfere with the Gaia Worm's attack, and it continued to pounce on Ryan without pause.

"Oh no, Captain Ryan, he-"

Liz panicked, and what she wanted was passed along the soul link to Nolan's side.

And looking at the abyssal giant mouth enlarged in front of his eyes, Ryan's eyes did not despair.

He turned his head to look at the mountain in the distance, and shouted in his heart: "What are you waiting for, it's now!" ”

"Nolan—" Yuna's voice came from her heart.

"I know." Receiving reminders from the three of them at the same time in his mind, Nolan narrowed his eyes slightly.

Originally, their battle plan was to shoot the Gaia Worm's wounded back with the Meteor Gun, but now that it has cast "Obsidian Guardian", the situation has changed.

The obsidian armor under the blessing of "Energy Burst Burst" has extremely high defense, and even if the ship's cannon is shot, there is no certain certainty that it will be able to kill it instantly.

So, what to do now?

In fact, Ryan has already given the answer.

A seasoned knight, Ryan was always inferior in head-to-head battles with the Gaia Worm, but he did induce it to fall into the Meteor's attack range step by step.

Then, after noticing a sudden change in the state of the Gaia worm, he quietly changed his position again.

From having the Gaia worm with its back to the mountain, to having it face the mountain.

If the Gaia Worm is blessed with obsidian armor all over its body-

The place where the Meteor needed to be aimed now was, of course, its defenseless mouthparts!

The idea was proposed by Ryan at that moment, and then immediately adopted by Nolan.

He sat on the turret and aimed at the swamp below the high ground, and through the view provided by the drone, the front sight in the scope pierced through the fog at this moment, locking onto the abyssal jaw of the Gaia worm two kilometers away.

Two kilometers, which is actually quite a long distance, the last time this achievement was completed was when Yuna sniped the glow dragon.

Now, it's your turn to replicate it.

It's just that Yuna was able to do it because her fighting talent was unmatched.

She is simply a natural warrior, she can use any equipment proficiently, and her unparalleled "fighting feeling" is a testament to his genius.

But he Noren is not such a fighting genius, and he already knew this in his heart when he became a knight.

His motor nerves are very average, whether it is controlling a jetpack or using a weapon, his proficiency is not top-notch, and he may not even be as good as Julius and Liz.

But, including Yuna, there is only one thing that everyone can't compare to him-

That's computing.

Alchemists rely more on rigorous experimentation and calculation than on feeling, and this is especially true in the field of applied science.

How can you build houses and weapons by "thinking by me", how can alchemy be such a child's play?

So he doesn't rely on the experience and intuition of the warrior to aim at the target, he relies on the machine.

As the designer of the Meteor, he knew exactly what each part could do, and how to get the most out of it.

He'd done a check, and the Meteor was working properly.

Since it can theoretically hit the target accurately at this distance, then, he will turn this theory into reality-

"380 mm high-explosive armor-piercing shells have been loaded, the target is at a distance of 2,110 meters, and there is no wind ......"

"The muzzle is pointed correctly, the pitch angle is correct, the projectile hit time is expected to be 0.8 seconds, and the position of the shell landing point is about to coincide with the target......"

Quickly calculating all the data in his head, a wonderful feeling rose in Nolan's heart.

The so-called omniscience, as long as the calculation is accurate enough, all accidents will become inevitable.

Don't doubt yourself, just be fully prepared –

Looking at the raging Gaia worm below, for a moment, he calmly and forcefully pressed the launch button of the turret.

"—I'm not going to miss it."

In the next moment, a ten-layer cyan acceleration circle quickly unfolded on the seven-meter-long black cannon barrel.

"Boom-"

There was the roar of a cannon on the hill, and the terrifying recoil of the shells as they fired rattled Noren's ears on the turret.

In the smoke and fire, 380 mm caliber high-explosive armor-piercing shells burst out from the muzzle.

With the blessing of the Ten Acceleration Array, the distance of more than 2,000 meters was fleeting in a blink of an eye, and it was like a sudden meteor, falling straight into the open mouthparts of the Gaia worm.

The angle of this cannon was extremely tricky, and Noren not only aimed at its mouthparts, but also accurately strung the most dazzling position of its soul body in a straight line.

The most dazzling position of the so-called soul body is generally the consciousness center of a living being.

In the case of a human, although it is covered in a whole red soul body, his head is the most dazzling.

The Gaia worm is no exception, and in drone detection, although it has the same mouthparts at both ends, it looks difficult to distinguish head and tail.

But in reality, the brightest part of its soul body was at one end, which happened to be the end of its opener biting at Ryan.

"Poof—"

The high-explosive armor-piercing projectile pierced through the layers of fog, giving the Gaia worm almost no time to react before entering its mouthparts.

The inside of its mouthparts was far less hard than the obsidian armor-clad shell, and sharp bullets rolled in its mouth, tearing flesh unstoppably forward.

Upon reaching the center of its consciousness, the explosives in the shell were detonated.

"Boom-"

There was a violent muffled sound from the Gaia worm's body, and its huge forty-meter-long body stiffened for a moment, maintaining a forward posture and plunging headlong beside Ryan.

"Success?"

Ryan stood up with the pain in his body, looking warily at the Gaia worm rolling and twitching in front of him.

"Well, it has been detected that its soul body is rapidly weakening." Nolan took a deep breath and stood up from the turret.

"Perfect fit, we succeeded."

Pressing his hand to his chest, he could feel his heart beating violently and rapidly.

Just now, with the alchemy weapon he made, he personally killed an eighth-order demonic beast with the strength of a second-order knight.

This is the possibility of alchemy, this is the power of the Meteor Gun!

Originally, if you take the experience of the previous life as a reference, naval guns of this caliber are generally rifled guns.

Because the rifling can make the shell rotate and fly, the flight stability is improved, and the effective range is longer.

And the reason why the Meteor naval gun is still a smoothbore gun is also a reason.

First, rifled guns also have their disadvantages, because the rifling will rub against the shell and lose muzzle velocity, which is even more obvious for magic cannons that rely on acceleration circles to increase muzzle velocity.

The second is path dependence, as the factory's alchemists discovered that Gungnir's technology could still be copied to the Meteor, eliminating the need to study rifling from scratch.

Therefore, in order to make it as quickly as possible, the original version of the Meteor was still a smoothbore cannon.

As for the future rifled version, the alchemy is still in production.

However, for this raid, the smoothbore version of the Meteor may be a better choice.

Two kilometers is actually considered a close-range shot for naval guns, and the accuracy of rifled guns at this distance does not have a significant advantage over smoothbore guns, but the latter's bullet speed and power are better.

Coupled with the fact that he accurately hit the mouthparts and vital positions of the Gaia Worm, all kinds of factors were superimposed, and he was able to kill the powerful eighth-order demonic beast in one blow.

Over the swamp, the sound of artillery came from there only now.

Julius and the three looked in the direction of the cannon sound in shock, and the cannonballs that had just fired dissipated the fog along the way, and they could even see the hill where Noren was in the distance through the trajectory of their flight.

"I can actually kill an eighth-order demonic beast in one hit......"

Julius swallowed, "This is the power of the Meteor!" ”

"That's an exaggeration!" Liz was also in a trance.

"Gangnir couldn't break through its defenses at all, and even the strongest Captain Ryan was caught in a bitter battle against the monsters, but Lord Norren easily turned the tide of the battle......

"Now I finally understand why the Lord of the City entrusted such a young Noren with such a task in the first place.

"As long as we can grasp this power, Linfeng City will definitely not be bullied anymore!"

Generally speaking, the powerhouses at the town level are all around the eighth order, and most of them are relatively close to each other's strength.

In a heads-up situation, even if you can distinguish which is stronger and which is weak, it is difficult to kill the other party, and in the end, both sides are often defeated.

This is also the reason why the town-level powerhouses will not take action easily unless they have to, because there is no need for this.

The exception to this is the Meteor, a naval gun made by Nolen, which can deliver powerful strikes at enemies from a relatively safe distance.

As long as he is hit head-on, even an eighth-order transcendent will not be able to escape death.

And once the town-level powerhouse is killed, the battle is basically over.

Being able to have the strength to threaten enemy generals at a low cost means that Peak City has since become a first-class force in the Empire, and no one dares to show off its might in front of it easily.

As the head of the Knights, Ryan also knew what this meant, and he looked at the Gaia worm in front of him who gradually stopped struggling, and couldn't help but sigh:

"Although this result has been expected, ...... It's impossible not to be surprised.

"Nolan, your talent is terrifyingly powerful."

The powerful opponent who had been difficult to defeat for decades of penance was so easily killed by a strange weapon concocted by a young man, which made him feel a little complicated.

I am glad that I didn't believe in the wrong person, and the lonely thing is that from now on, I will no longer be the most powerful hole card in Linfeng City.

"I'm also a legendary alchemist." Nolan retorted his collar.

"However, I really want to say that this is also a common credit to all of us, without your guidance and cover, the Meteor would not have been able to launch so smoothly."

As he spoke, he drove the Eye of Odin gear toward the swamp.

"Well, the crusade is over, and now it's time for the exciting loot harvesting.

"It's an eighth-order demonic beast, it should have more good things on it than Xia Hui Dragon, right?"

(End of chapter)