A weapon that allows ordinary people to defeat extraordinary witches
After Wendy left, Agatha kept thinking about this sentence, do they really know what a superhuman is
It's a pity that I don't have a balance magic stone on hand, otherwise I can clearly understand the magic power and types of these people.
When she was about to get impatient, Nightingale appeared at the door of her room, "His Royal Highness invites you to watch the test firing of the new weapon, if you don't want to go."
"I'll go," she said solemnly, "please lead the way."
Seeing Prince Roland yawning with a sullen face, Agatha suddenly had the urge to slap him with ice and make him wake up. However, this kind of behavior that is easy to cause misunderstanding by other witches can only be thought about in the end.
After leaving the castle, it was the first time she saw the whole town in daylight.
Against the backdrop of the heavy snow, the first feeling that jumped into my mind was that neatly arranged double-storey houses stood side by side, all of the same size. The black streets are all going straight, dividing the town into squares of similar size. Looking from near to far, the scenery you see is completely the cycle of buildings, trees, streets, trees, and streets, just like a floor. Layered up in general.
Even Taquila, the inner city can't be so neat and orderly!
But what made her feel that she had regained a city was that apart from the castle, there were no other buildings in this town worth taking a look at, and even the castle itself was far less magnificent than Taquila's Quest Tower. .
It's just a small town after all, Agatha snorted disdainfully and turned to look at Nightingale, "How many people live here?"
"Well... There were only 2,000 people at the beginning, but now it's close to 30,000 people including the refugees in the north and south."
2,000 people dare to say that they want to defeat the devil. It's a fool to say, wait, 3... 30,000? Agatha's eyes widened. Taquila could only accommodate 50,000 people at its peak. How could this palm-sized place have 30,000 residents? Wouldn't she have included the population of the surrounding villages
While it's true that these boxy brick houses do look like they can accommodate more residents than wood bungalows, the increase in residents is not a simple number. Once the population crosses a certain threshold, the demands on the city grow exponentially. The first is the dramatic increase in demand for food and water, the second is the deterioration of security brought about by the expansion of squatter areas and slums, and finally, even the disposal of manure has become a thorny problem.
In the later stage of the Second Battle of Divine Will, Taquila encountered such a problem. With the fall of major cities, the number of people pouring into the Holy City has surged. Paralyzed, the situation was not stabilized until the Federation forced the removal of a group of refugees.
It was because of her personal experience that Agatha knew the difficulty of expanding the city's population. Seeing the casual look of the other party, she was suspicious, maybe Nightingale didn't know the answer at all, she was just deceiving herself.
It's better to ask Wendy for such questions in the future, she thought, at least the latter's attitude seemed more sincere.
Passing through the crowded streets, Agatha followed the prince and the others up a section of the city wall made of mud. This kind of low wall is completely irrelevant to the majesty and sturdiness. There are no barbs buried in the wall, and there is no moat around it. The devil doesn't even need engineering equipment, he can climb up on his hands and feet alone.
The disappointment in her heart deepened.
Every hundred steps or so on the city wall, there is a relatively spacious platform that protrudes from the front and rear, which seems to be left for the erection of crossbows. Not long after walking along the top of the wall, Agatha quickly saw the subject of this test.
The shape of the weapon is so special that it's hard to ignore its existence.
It was a long tubular object made of metal, a bit like an iron spear magnified several times, but it had no spear tip. It's smooth throughout, looks silvery gray, and doesn't look like iron. The parts at the end of the long tube are more complicated. In addition to the fixed bracket, there are two shorter tubes, which are attached to the upper and lower parts of the main tube. There are neither ropes nor arrow slots. It does not look like an enlarged bed crossbow or Trebuchet.
But she also didn't figure out how this thing should attack the enemy.
"This is the latest weapon developed by Border Town, a 152mm fortress standard artillery that symbolizes justice and glory!" The prince raised his hand and said, "Compared with the 12-pounder field gun, it has many improvements and outstanding indicators. It can be called an epoch-making weapon!"
Agatha couldn't help frowning, what justice and glory, the fortress standard type, sounds very frivolous. The series of introductions that follow are incomparably tongue-in-cheek, and they are completely made up words. Is he really the erudite prince Wendy said, trusted by the witches
"Papapa," only Nightingale applauded, and the atmosphere seemed a little stiff for a while.
"Cough cough," Roland cleared his throat, "Then let's not talk nonsense, let's test fire now. Iron axe, let's start."
"Yes, Your Highness." The three men in uniform immediately acted.
Agatha stood by, staring intently at every movement of these people, hoping to get a clear idea of how this weapon works.
I saw one person slide down the iron block at the end of the long pipe, and the other person immediately stuffed an orange-yellow pointed object into the pipe, and then closed the iron block.
"Report, preparation is complete, ready to launch!"
"Everyone, cover your ears," the prince made a demonstration gesture and nodded, "fire."
Wait... so soon? Just as Agatha was about to open her mouth to ask, a loud bang suddenly exploded in her ears! There was a buzzing sound in her head, and the surroundings suddenly became quiet. An orange flame erupted from the front section of the long metal tube, which was dazzling and short-lived. At that moment, she felt the powerful power contained in the flame. The city wall beneath her feet seemed to tremble, and a wave of heat rushed towards her, making her body almost unable to stand. Take two steps back in a row. The gun itself sank sharply back but soon it returned to its original position smoothly.
"" Nightingale supported her from behind, as if she was saying something, but she could only faintly hear the faint words intermittently, as if they were coming from a very distant place... It was not until the buzzing gradually subsided that her hearing returned to normal. ,"Are you OK?"
She shook her head and turned her gaze to the open snow ahead, but saw nothing changed.
Is this flame just to scare the enemy
"Have you observed the landing point?" the prince asked a witch with green hair beside him.
"After hitting a hill, the closest thing is the red flag," the latter waited and watched for a while, "but it's still farther away."
red flag? Agatha looked at Roland suspiciously, what were they talking about
Fortunately, His Royal Highness quickly answered her doubts, "This weapon can project cannonballs as crossbow arrows, and use them to strike enemies who are still in the distance. In order to observe the range of the cannonball, I let the lightning strike every other day. The red flag is the last pole, standing five kilometers away." He explained, "According to the dimensions you are familiar with, one thousand meters is almost three hundred feet, and the distance is close to two miles. ."
Agatha was stunned in place. Could it be that the other party meant that it had just thrown the crossbow arrow that was stuffed into it ten miles away? Obviously there is no rope and power storage mechanism, how does it do this? You must know that even a siege beast that relies on magic power, the farthest projection distance is only three to four miles. If he didn't lie, as long as he built a towering and thick city wall, with this weapon, he could effectively block the pace of the devil's attack.
But... with a weapon with such an amazing range, it might not be easy to fire it once.
"If you can't see where the shells landed, I always feel that something is missing," the prince said, rubbing his chin. "Next, I'll test three bursts of quick flat shots and attack the target at close range.".
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