Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 366: Magic Barrett

The training location for the sniper mission was arranged in a dense forest outside the territory's city wall.

The messy gravel and grass slopes and thick, disordered trees can not only simulate a relatively complex shooting environment, but also ensure that an uninhabited area is cleared to prevent accidental injuries to ordinary civilians.

Harvey personally brought everyone to watch the training. In addition to the sniper rifle that Wayne was currently using, he also asked Chris's laboratory to rush to make an additional spare kit overnight. It was also a three-section split type, equipped with a new set of magic sights.

During the training preparations, Chris began to talk nonstop about the powerful sniper rifle that Harvey had named "Barrett." "Two thousand meters is the average range measured. If you don't consider the accuracy of the hit, it can actually hit even further..."

As he spoke, he picked up the split sight and carefully disassembled the lens to reveal the tiny magical runes engraved within. "This sight is an alchemical artifact that solidifies the Eye of Reconnaissance spell. The casting model has been specially modified and adjusted, allowing the operator to share line of sight with it, accurately observing targets thousands of meters away."

Captain Tommy muttered quietly, "My bloodline talent can do the same thing... Alas, my lord didn't assign me to complete this task."

Vaughn quietly kicked Tommy's butt from behind and scolded him in a deep voice, "As your Excellency's personal guard, what could be more important than protecting your Excellency's safety? Besides... in terms of patience and observation, how can you compare to Wayne? Isn't he always the one who beats you in the shooting competition?"

Tommy scratched his head in embarrassment and finally shut up in the face of the ironclad facts.

It only took Harvey half an hour to help Wayne adjust his usual shooting posture. He asked him to lie prone on the ground with his whole body, place the thick and long "Barrett" directly in front of him, and put his single eye close to the sleeve of the alchemical sight to observe the shooting.

This shooting training was mainly divided into "medium-range" aiming at 1,500 meters and "long-range" aiming at 2,500 meters, respectively responding to two pre-set sniper positions. The warehouse staff of the Dragon Stone Chamber of Commerce stationed in Fengyuan City sent a detailed map of the city, accurately marking out several areas where Grand Duke Ralph frequently moved around.

The Duke's Mansion, located on a semi-high slope in the west of the city, was naturally the place where he spent the most time. It was also the place with the tightest defense and the most difficult sniping angle to find, so Harvey gave up on it directly.

The other place is the military base in the southern corner of Fengyuan City. The terrain there is open and flat. If the Duke shows up there, it would be most appropriate to snipe him from a hill outside the city facing the military camp. Except that the hit rate may not be ideal due to the long distance, it is a perfect ambush location and can also facilitate their quick evacuation.

The last location chosen was found from a detail that accidentally caught Harvey's attention in the intelligence sent by the Dragonstone Chamber of Commerce. Duke Ralph's family used the Frostwing Eagle as its family emblem. This bird of prey, which is native to the central part of the southern continent, has been specially domesticated and raised by the Duke's family for many years. This allows them to transmit messages through this bird of prey without relying on spellcasters and intercept carrier pigeons released by opponents and enemies.

The current Duke Ralph himself is particularly fond of taming Frost-winged Eagles. For this purpose, he even built an eagle house as tall as a tower in Fengyuan City. He would go there in person every once in a while and let the two Frost-winged Eagles he raised fly and play with him on the high tower of the eagle house.

In Harvey's words, this is equivalent to being a chosen sitting duck.

But in order to hit Duke Ralph on this high tower in the center of Fengyuan City, the ambush site outside the city is relatively far away, and the shooting position must be moved into the city. So after Harvey discussed with everyone, they finally chose a section of the inner city wall in Fengyuan City that had been abandoned for a long time.

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When shooting training officially began, Wayne prioritized a long-range position on a high slope, 2,500 meters above sea level. Following the shooting position Harvey had taught him, he crouched on the ground, set up his Barrett rifle before him, and carefully placed his monocular sight close to the Alchemy sight. "How's it going? Can you see the target?" The Eye of Illusion half-crouched behind Wayne. As a participant in the mission, he and the Astrologer naturally had to train with the sniper to improve their coordination.

As soon as Wayne got close to the sight, his vision was immediately pulled closer rapidly in a dizzying spin, as if something was pulling his eyeballs and taking him around at angles and speeds that ordinary people could not understand.

He frowned and broke away from the observation of the anchor. His face turned pale and his lips trembled for a moment. Finally, he couldn't help but vomited with a "wow", causing the Eye of Illusion beside him to shake his head in disgust.

"Fool! Don't connect directly with your naked eyes to the Reconnaissance Eye. Learn to concentrate your mental energy and use magic to guide the stability of your observation field of view!"

The Astrologer rolled his eyes and said woodenly, "Mr. Sniper is not a spellcaster! Are you crazy?"

The Eye of Illusion then remembered that his mission partner was only a Bloodline Warrior, and he couldn't help but say awkwardly, "What should I do then? If I don't use magic, I'll have to suffer a lot to fully control and adapt to the Eye of Reconnaissance."

The dizzying feeling of moving at high speed can make any tough guy vomit bile.

Wayne squatted aside and vomited for a while, but wiped his mouth nonchalantly, and lay down in front of "Barrett" again, and put his eyes close to the magic sight again without any hesitation.

About ten minutes later, Wayne, pale and drenched in cold sweat, took the initiative to speak: "Mr. Eye of Illusion, Ms. Astrologer, I see the target!"

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The reason why Harvey asked two high-level wizards to cooperate with Wayne to complete this deterrence mission was, first, that he needed to use the super high maneuverability they gained after casting the flying spell to ensure that the sniper could quickly and safely escape and return after the mission was completed.

The second reason is naturally that the special magic bullets used in the special magic sniper rifle "Barrett" cannot be mass-produced in the laboratory... In order to activate and release such a magic bullet at a very long distance, it is necessary to inject a sufficient amount of liquid magic energy, but this also makes it impossible to reduce the caliber of the ammunition, and ultimately maintain it at the size of a small magic-powered shell.

But this obviously can't be stuffed into the magic gun...

It was Harvey who finally came up with a solution to this problem - since it was impossible to produce bullets of the right caliber, it would be better to make blank bullets that could contain magic power, and then let high-level spellcasters who could compress magic power infuse the blank bullets with magic power on the spot. As long as the bullet engraved with the "stability" rune was fired within a short period of time, the internal structure would not be destroyed by the high concentration of compressed magic power, causing a magic explosion.

That's why Harvey joked that the Eye of Illusion and the Astrologer are equivalent to the living sniper ammunition carried by the sniper Wayne.

(End of this chapter)