It took longer than Roland expected to bury the black powder and the detonating device. The main reason was that it was very troublesome to transport the barrels of gunpowder to the preset location outside the city wall. When encountering evil beasts, the transportation has to be interrupted. Even if Lian assisted in digging and filling the pit, it took nearly a week to arrange it properly.
In order to ensure the best detonation effect, the gunpowder in all the buried areas is detonated by the electric detonator. There is a fire, and there are thin copper wires between the wires, forming a short circuit. When the current is passed, the copper wire will burn red and fuse, and the surrounding fire will be detonated at the same time.
The lead wires are all sunk into the ground through the lotus, and the depth of nearly five meters ensures that even if the line is not protected by a casing, it will not be affected by ground artillery or evil beasts. In the end, all the wires are merged into the console on the city wall. If you want to detonate the gunpowder in which area, you only need to shake the corresponding hand-cranked generator.
As a result, only the last preparation work was left for the exercise.
"Ahem, in this hunt for evil beasts, friendship is the first, competition is second, and safety is the first priority. Do not leave the surveillance area of Ye Zi, do you understand?"
Standing on the city wall, Roland looked at the "competitors" lined up in front of him.
For the sake of fairness and to lighten Ye Zi's burden, there are three groups of six participating witches, namely Ash and Andrea from the Sleeping Island team, Lightning and Maisie from the Neverwinter team, and Taquila's representative. Phyllis and Agatha of the team.
Originally, he also wanted Yifei and Annie to form a representative wolf heart team, but the latter was unwilling to participate in the hunt, and the other wolf heart witches had no fighting ability, so he had no choice but to give up.
"Understood!" Everyone replied in unison, especially Andrea Quinn, who seemed very motivated. Since tasting the Chaos Drink, this noble witch from the head of the three major families in the morning has been completely addicted to the unique taste of the Fire Dragon Wine, and even hopes to exchange a month's share of the Chaos Drink for the half-can of Fire Dragon Wine. .
In this regard, Roland's answer is that if he can win the first place, it is not impossible.
"The rules are very simple. The time limit is one day. Whoever can catch more evil beasts will be the first, but only if they are locked in a cage." He pointed to the iron cage under the city wall, "In addition, if someone leaves In the monitoring area of the leaves, the team is directly disqualified. Then, the hunting operation starts now!"
"Oh!"
As soon as the words fell, Lightning and Maisie took the lead and flew towards the Hidden Forest. The remaining two teams could only trek on their legs.
"Who do you think will win?" Tilly asked with a smile after all three teams left the city wall.
In her smile, Roland always felt that there was a different kind of meaning, "Well... I guess it should be Lightning and Maisie. Their abilities are indeed not the strongest, but you must put the evil beast in a cage to count the points. , those who are quick and quick will undoubtedly have an advantage.”
"Why don't we make a bet, brother," she said with the corners of her mouth raised, "I guess it's the first place in the Sleeping Island group."
Andrea and Ashes? Roland pondered, one of the two was a full-time long-range combat witch, and the other was an extraordinary person, and there was no doubt about their strength. However, it is easy for them to annihilate the enemy, but it is much more difficult to capture. If they want to bring them back smoothly, they must beat every evil beast to the death. It takes far more energy than killing the target directly. The first is probably a little difficult.
This seems like a sure-fire business.
"Okay, what are you betting on?"
"If I win, um... In the future, I hope to spend half of the income from the sale of Chaos Drinks to reward those witches who have made outstanding contributions to the development of the city."
Evelyn herself is from Sleeping Island, and this approach helps attract more witches, which is not a bad thing. In fact, even if she didn't mention it, Roland had similar plans.
"No problem, what if you lose?"
"I will live in Neverwinter in the future, how about it?"
Roland was slightly startled, and turned his head to look at Tilly, only to find that she didn't seem to be joking, "Really?"
"Of course it's true," Tilly's eyes showed a hint of slyness, "but you may not necessarily win, just watch if you don't believe it."
"I think so too," Nightingale whispered in her ear in the mist, "I forgot to tell you just now... Andrea's magic power has condensed."
"One hundred and twenty-five meters away from the front left, a wild boar is approaching you."
The tree trunks swayed, shedding strands of snow, and the rubbing of the branches and holly leaves formed the characteristic tone of the leaves. In this way, the leaves could talk to everyone while monitoring the audience.
"Uh... How far is one hundred and twenty-five meters?" Andrea, still not quite used to the new unit of measure promulgated by Roland, frowned and thought, "One meter is two steps... Then one hundred and twenty-five Rice is…”
"Don't forget," Ash rolled his eyes and took off the Ashbringer behind him, "I already heard its footsteps."
A moment later, a black figure appeared in the jungle. It was a wild boar transformed from an evil beast. It was almost the size of an adult, and its gray-brown fangs were almost as thick as an arm.
"Don't shoot, you have to catch the live ones," Andrea whistled at the evil beast, "Come to me!"
The "hiss" wild boar spewed out white air, stared at a pair of scarlet eyes, and rushed towards the blond witch who provoked it. If an ordinary hunter encounters this kind of scene, he will never have any idea of confrontation, either quickly climb the nearest big tree, or wait for an opportunity to escape, as to whether he can survive the fangs and trampling of the evil beast, then again is another matter.
But Andrea didn't move. She didn't even take down the beloved rifle from her back. Instead, she stretched out her hands, spread her index finger and thumb, and formed a diamond-shaped square circle. Through the center of the enclosure, the boar was no more than ten paces away from her, and she could almost see each other's dripping saliva and tufts of shiny bristles.
"Bang." She said softly.
A powerful air flow suddenly shot out from her palm, and at the same time made an explosion-like roar, the wild boar species seemed to hit an invisible wall, and the whole body was lifted up. The snow under his feet was swept away by the air waves, causing a dense white fog. After two weeks of tormenting, the huge body of the evil beast slammed on the ground, without even making a scream. twitching upside down.
This is Andrea's new ability. By observing the difference between bows and muskets, and Her Royal Highness Tilly's forced study, she realized the direction of her own evolution: since both give energy to arrows or projectiles, why? Can't the energy required for shooting be provided directly by magic? Over the course of more than two weeks of voyage, she gradually mastered this new fighting technique.
Even when there is no object to act as a projectile in hand, the impact force alone can kill the enemy. And this kind of archery is only related to her magic power, and its power far exceeds the previous finger shooting, just like bows and muskets. When unleashing all of the magic at once, the projected object can even injure herself.