Claude walked in the alley leading to the lakeside. The alley was deserted and there was no one around.
Last night, in the same alley, Claude had a serious bloody conflict with the Black Snake Club's youngest member, Cross-Eye Kamadi, and others, resulting in four deaths and four injuries. The result of this is that the residents in the residential areas on both sides of the lane are frightened, for fear of being implicated in this disaster, so they close their doors early and turn off the lights and candles, making the lane increasingly cold and dark.
Claude felt a little shocked. He had tried the magic effects on the two spell scrolls just now in the grocery store in Huli'an. Using the Feather Falling Technique, he climbed onto Julian's counter, and it really fell down like a feather, falling to the ground silently. As for the long-range arrow protection, he put it on Julian and shot him with the magic hand crossbow he had just obtained from a distance of only three meters. Then he watched with his own eyes the arrow that was enchanted with sharp magic effects. The iron crossbow slipped past Julian's body less than an inch away.
There is no way, there is no need to test whether the spell Madam Maria gives to Claude is effective, because Claude believes in her. But when trading with Julian, a fat old man, he must check whether these two spells are effective, so as not to be deceived, even if he consumes one-third of his magic power.
Both spells are real, effective and usable. Julian said that in fact, these two spells were wind-attribute spells, and they were sold by one of his mage friends who was planning to raise money to buy an alchemical magic talisman array. It's just that I couldn't find a suitable successor for a while, so I kept it until now, which was an advantage for Claude.
Claude asked Julian a little strangely, why the long-range arrow protection could block the magic hand crossbow shot at a distance of three meters, but could not block the musket shot. Julian laughed, and he said that it had been the case for many people over the hundreds of years. The magician has been pursuing the problem, but there has been no result. Not to mention this long-range arrow protection spell, a higher-level energy shield cannot withstand musket fire from one or two hundred meters away, otherwise the magician would not be driven from the Farea continent to a distant place. Went to Higros Island.
After leaving Julian's grocery store, Claude has been thinking about this issue. He had a vague idea in his mind that it was probably the difference in muzzle velocity between the crossbow and the musket that caused this result. But Claude was not a firearms research expert in his previous life. He only remembered a post on the forum that said that the initial velocity of a bullet when it exits the barrel expresses the damage power that the bullet can cause.
Claude didn't remember whether the point of view of this post was correct. He just glanced at it and had no interest at all. However, the buildings below the post were very high, and some people used crossbows to give examples to prove that muskets became long-range weapons. The necessity of being the first choice, among them, it is said that the difference in initial velocity when launching results in different damage power, which ultimately made the musket obsolete the bow and crossbow.
Claude guessed that both this long-range arrow protection and the more advanced energy shield behind it should have a speed limit. As long as this speed limit is exceeded, the spell will be disabled and cause real damage. The crossbow's shooting probably did not break through this speed limit, so it was effectively prevented. The gun fired by the musket, driven by the stress of the gunpowder explosion, has exceeded this speed limit, so these two spells lose their preventive effect when faced with musket fire.
Thinking as he walked, Claude quickly walked out of the alley and came to this forest with only a few dozen trees. There are also no traces of pedestrians here. At a glance, there are only tree trunks and tree shadows forming shadows under the silver moon.
No, Claude suddenly became alert. I could still hear a few insects and frogs chirping in the woods on the way here. Although the weather has begun to get cold, it is not yet the snowing season, and there are still traces of flying birds and a few insects in this forest. But now it's quiet everywhere, there's no sound at all, something's wrong.
{} The moonlight shines down from the gaps in the woods, shining right on the black shadow. Only then did Claude realize that this dark figure was dressed similarly to himself. He was also wearing a dark burqa and a black mask around his face. He seemed to be a little taller than himself, about 1.8 meters tall, but His body looks much stronger than his own, and even his voice is rough.
Although both are wearing burqas, Claude gives the impression of being slender.