Volume 5: Taming the Beast Chapter 10: The Lair of the Dark Elves (Part 2)
With a "swish", the Red Mountain Summoner released a spell that could increase the attack strength of the familiar.
Looking at the empty magic effect on my body and Feiyin's innocent expression as if it had nothing to do with me, I immediately felt that my status was even lower than that of a familiar - no matter what, you should at least give me a frost shield!
I did not follow Feiyin's instructions and attack the Red Mountain Summoner from a distance. Instead, I habitually stood in front of Yan Zhen and Xiange Yayi, raised my shield, and prepared to resist the Red Mountain Penetrator and the Haketu Demon.
"Swoosh!" A feather arrow whistled out from my left side and flew straight towards the hideous face of the Haketu demon. It was so fast that I couldn't catch the afterimage it left in the air, as if this slender and vicious weapon suddenly lost its trace in the air. When the "buzzing" sound produced by the sharp blade tearing through the air still made my eardrums slightly painful, it had already pierced deeply into the eye socket of the Haketu demon.
"Well done!" I couldn't help but cheer loudly for this wonderful arrow, and subconsciously looked to my left and back, and then...
"Uh..." I couldn't help but be slightly stunned. Next to me, the elf archer Xian Ge Ya Yi, wearing glasses, was standing there. He held the bow with his left hand and stroked the bowstring with his right hand, his hands naturally hanging down in front of him. The extremely accurate arrow just now was obviously shot from his hands.
I know it may sound hurtful, but I have to admit that seeing Xian Ge Yayi hitting the target from more than three steps away really made me feel uncomfortable - even though I knew that the "glasses" had greatly improved his eyesight - you know, before this, the effective attack range of his bow and arrow was even closer than the sword in my hand.
Even Xian Ge Yayi himself was stunned by this unexpectedly accurate shooting - in fact, he looked more surprised than I. His hands hung limply in front of him, his jaw stretched to the limit at the risk of dislocation, and if it weren't for the two heavy lenses blocking his eyes, his eyeballs would have popped out of their sockets - even now, it was surprising that his glasses were not shattered by his wide-open eyeballs.
"Did you see that!" Suddenly, he pointed at the familiar that was hit by an arrow with both hands and shouted in a lost state of mind, "I hit it! I actually hit it! It was me! It was really me! Hahahaha... Ouch..." Just as he was cheering for his "virgin hit" in long-range shooting, the Hongshan sniper on the arrow tower shot another arrow, which hit Xian Ge Yayi right in the middle of his eyebrows. He immediately squatted on the ground holding his forehead, groaning in pain from the arrow wound, and humming with pride because of his unexpected hit, sucking his lips and making a very strange "slurping" sound.
"Huh? What's wrong with him?" Yan Zhen looked at Xian Ge Yayi in surprise, who was behaving extremely inappropriately, and asked curiously.
"Oh, it's nothing, you don't have to worry about him..." Fei Yin continued to shoot an ice spear at the Red Mountain Summoner while answering the question of Yan Zhen awkwardly, "...It's just a ritual to celebrate his fate."
"No way?" Feiyin's answer made Yan Zhen even more curious, "Does he celebrate like this every time he hits a target?"
"I don't know if it will be like this every time in the future. I only know that this is the first time he hits the target at the normal shooting distance of the bow and arrow." Feiyin threw another ice arrow without stopping. This was a completely asymmetrical magic battle. Even without the help of others, Feiyin had a complete upper hand in this magic battle with the Red Mountain Summoner - after all, the equipment that increased her magic attack power was not taken for nothing, not to mention that her level was three levels higher than her opponent.
I think it would be more practical for the long-haired female elf Yan Zhen to focus on the battle in front of her instead of being curious about the hit rate of Xiange Yayi. But then again, I really don't have much hope that she can provide much help in this battle - can you expect a woman who even bears and pythons find so cute that they can't bear to hurt her to play any role in the battle? What's more, the opponents are all handsome and extraordinary dark elf men - past experience tells us that these innocent and lovely girls always lack the most basic resistance to handsome strangers, even if they are in a hostile position with them...
"Boom!" A deafening noise mercilessly blew my thoughts - along with my slight prejudice against the elven female ranger - into pieces.
Compared with bows and crossbows, muskets have a shorter range and a slower firing rate, but are more powerful, and the scattered ammunition can cover an entire space and kill multiple enemies within this range at the same time.
The Red Mountain Piercer and the Haketu Demon who rushed forward side by side were completely unprepared and were sprayed with a myriad of reds by the large piece of iron sand, and they fell to the ground at the same time. The Red Mountain Piercer's long-prepared charge attack was immediately thwarted by this delay, and he could only stand up again and slowly approach. Judging from his slow and clumsy steps, the so-called "Piercer" in his name was completely unworthy of the name.
In the smoke with a strong smell of sulfur, I saw Yan Zhen holding the huge musket in both hands steadily, with the butt of the gun pressed against her chin, her left eye closed, her right eye looking straight ahead, her eyes as sharp as a knife. Her long black hair fluttered wildly behind her in the wind, adding a bit of ferocity to her pretty figure.
Well... OK, I admit that some of my views on Yan Zhen are completely wrong and unfounded prejudices, and I retract all my comments questioning her low combat effectiveness. And I have also seen some clues: her overflowing sympathy and distorted aesthetics seem to only work on various animals. When facing intelligent races and humanoid creatures, her bravery and ferocity will definitely make most combat-savvy men feel ashamed.
"That... the wild goose formation..." The huge contrast shown by the elf girl also shocked her male compatriots. Xian Ge Yayi wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and asked nervously as he looked at the smoking barrel of her gun, as if he was worried that she would raise her hand and shoot him if she was unhappy.
"…What do you do for a living?"
"Huh..." Yan Zhen blew away the smoke from the muzzle of the gun, skillfully loaded ammunition into the barrel, gently compacted it, and then aimed at the Red Mountain Penetrator and the huge familiar that were approaching again.
"I'm a veterinarian..." She smiled and pulled the trigger nonchalantly. After a loud bang, our two unlucky opponents were knocked over by this powerful firearm again, and their lives were in danger.
"Oh..." Xiange Yayi's face showed an expression of understanding, but I was even more confused: Veterinarian? I have never heard of such a strange profession.
"Your musket is quite good, very powerful." After coming back to his senses from the joy of the first hit, Xiange Yayi took out his bow and arrow again, and started shooting with the muskets of the wild goose formation. The use of "glasses" really brought a complete change to his archery skills. The clusters of feather arrows stuck upside down on the body of the Haketu demon proved that the elf archer's first hit was not a small probability event that happened by chance.
"It's a reward for a hidden mission..." Yan Zhen explained, and then she frowned slightly, expressing her dissatisfaction with her extraordinary weapon, "...It's too big, and it doesn't look good when I hold it."
Her words aroused my curiosity, and I couldn't help but take a closer look at this powerful and rare firearm:
"The musket 'Sera Jiong' is said to be the weapon of a famous centaur ranger. It is very powerful. Attack +78, Hit +9, Health +50, Scatter attack, and a 30% chance of triggering a knockdown effect..."
