It took longer than Roland expected to plant the black powder and detonating device, mainly because it was very troublesome to transport barrels of gunpowder to the preset location outside the city walls, the snow below his knees made it difficult for the carriage to move, and the transportation had to be interrupted whenever it was infested by evil beasts, and even with Lian's help in digging the pit and filling it, it took nearly a week to set it up. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In order to ensure the best detonation effect, all the gunpowder in the buried area is detonated by an electric detonator - the principle of the latter is very simple, because it does not consider carrying and storage, it is basically composed of a small section of sealed copper pipe and two wires, the copper tube is filled with cotton wool, and there is a thin copper wire between the wires, forming a short circuit. When the current is passed, the copper wire will be blown and detonated at the same time.

The wires were all sunk into the ground through the lotus, and the depth of nearly five meters ensured that the lines would not be affected by ground artillery or evil beasts, even if they were not protected by casing. Eventually, all the wires were fed into the console on the city wall, and all you had to do was shake the corresponding hand-cranked generator to detonate the gunpowder in any area.

As a result, only one last preparatory work remained for the exercise -- a live target.

"Ahem, this hunting of evil beasts, friendship first, competition second, protection and safety are the top priority, don't leave the monitoring area of the leaves, understand?"

Standing on the city wall, Roland looked at the "contestants" lined up in front of him.

For the sake of fairness, and to ease the burden on the leaves, there are three groups of six witches who participate, namely Ash and Andrea of the Sleepy Isle team, Lightning and Maisie of the Neverwinter team, and Phyllis and Agatha of the Tachira team.

Originally, he wanted Ife and Anne to form a wolfheart team, but the latter was unwilling to participate in the hunt, and the other wolfheart witches had no ability to fight, so he had to give up.

"Understood!" replied in unison, especially Andrea Quinn, who looked energetic. Ever since tasting the Chaos Drink, the aristocratic witch from the head of the three families of Dawn has become completely addicted to the unique taste of the dragon wine, and even hopes to exchange a month's share of the Chaos drink for the only half of the remaining dragon wine.

In this regard, Roland's reply is that if he can win the first place, it is not impossible.

"The rules are very simple, there is a time limit for one day, whoever can catch more evil beasts will be the first place, but they must be locked in a cage to count. He pointed to the iron cage under the city walls, "In addition, if someone leaves the monitoring area of the leaves, the team will be disqualified." Well, the hunt now begins!"

"Oh!"

As soon as the words fell, Lightning and Maisie took to the air first, flying towards the Hidden Forest, and the remaining two teams had to trek on their legs.

"Who do you think will win?" asked Tilly with a smile after all three teams had left the walls.

In her smile, Roland always felt that there was a hint of something different, "Hmm...... I guess it's Lightning and Maisie. It is true that their abilities are not the strongest, but they must put the evil beast in a cage to calculate the score, and the fast ones are undoubtedly more advantageous. ”

"Let's make a bet, brother," she said, curling the corners of her mouth, "I guess it's the first place in the Sleeping Isle group." ”

Andrea and Ash?, Roland pondered, one of these two people was a full-time ranged combat witch, and the other was even more transcendent, and there was no doubt about their strength. However, it is easy for them to annihilate the enemy, but it is much trickier to capture, and if they want to transport it back smoothly, they must beat each evil beast to death, and the energy spent is far greater than killing the target directly, and it may be difficult to take the first place.

It seems like a surefire business.

"Okay, bet on what?"

"If I win, well...... In the future, I hope to spend half of the proceeds from the sale of the Chaos Drink to reward the witches who have made outstanding contributions to the development of the city. ”

Evelyn herself is a native of Sleeping Isle, and it's not a bad thing to help attract more witches. In fact, even if she didn't mention it, Roland had similar plans.

"No problem, what if you lose?"

"How about I stay in Neverwinter in the future?"

Roland was slightly stunned 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 can't necessarily win, so just watch if you don't believe it." ”

"I think so," whispered the nightingale in the mist, "I forgot to tell you just now...... Andrea's magic condensed. ”

"One hundred and twenty-five meters in front of you, a wild boar beast is approaching you. ”

The trunk of the tree shook, shaking off the bunches of snow, and the sound of branches rubbing against the holly leaves formed the leaf's characteristic tone - in this way, the leaf could monitor the audience and talk to everyone at the same time.

"Uh...... How far is one hundred and twenty-five meters?" Andrea thought with a frown, still not accustomed to the new unit of measurement issued by Roland, "One meter is two steps...... Then one hundred and twenty-five meters is ......"

"Don't forget it," Ash rolled his eyes and removed the "Ashbringer" from behind him, "I can already hear its footsteps." ”

A moment later, a black figure appeared in the middle of the forest, it was a wild boar transformed into an evil beast, almost the size of an adult, and its gray-brown fangs were almost the thickness of an arm.

"Don't make a move, you'll have to catch it alive," Andrea whistled at the beast, "Come to me!"

"Shhh If an ordinary Orion encounters this kind of scene, he will definitely not have any thoughts of confrontation head-on, either quickly climb the nearest big tree, or wait for an opportunity to dodge, as for whether he can survive the fangs and trampling of the evil beast, that is another matter.

But Andrea didn't move, she didn't even take off her beloved rifle behind her back, but stretched out her hands, spread her index finger and thumb, and pasted them into a diamond-shaped square circle. Through the center of the pen, the boar was no more than ten steps away from her, and she could almost see the dripping saliva and tufts of shiny mane.

"Bang. She said softly.

A powerful air stream suddenly burst out of her palm, and at the same time it exploded with an explosive roar, and the wild boar species seemed to hit an invisible wall, and its entire body was blown away. The snow under his feet was swept away by the air waves, stirring up a dense white mist, and after two weeks of churning, the huge body of the evil beast slammed into the ground, not even screaming, the corners of his mouth were already foaming blood, and his limbs twitched to the sky.

This is Andrea's new ability - by observing the difference between a bow and a musket, and by Tilly's compulsive learning, she has learned the direction of her evolution: since both are given energy to arrows or projectiles, why can't magic directly provide the energy needed to shoot? Over the course of more than two weeks, she has gradually mastered this new combat technique.

Even if you don't have an object in your hand that is used as a projectile, you can kill an enemy with impact alone. And this kind of archery is only related to her magic, and its power is far greater than that of the previous finger shots, like bows and arrows and muskets. When the full power is unleashed at once, the projected object can even hurt herself.