Chapter 426 – 426. Desire Feeds on Blood (9)
– One –
The observer blankly looks up at the snow cloud.
“Ahhhhh…”
Whoop, whoop, whoop.
He yawns continuously and licks his lips.
To chase sleepiness,
Whack, Whack!
Burrrr
Shake your legs or shake your head.
It was ugly.
Squeak, squeak.
Snow clouds move quickly on high-altitude, rough winds.
Sarah, Sarah.
It sprinkles snow nonstop for days and days.
The soldier frowns.
Looking up at the falling snow,
Ah ah ah ah ah.
Open your mouth wide and take it in.
‘Nimi… It’ll be less boring being put into the snow removal operation, bittersweet…’
Grumble inwardly
Just because he had good eyesight, he had to devote himself to observing the sky whenever he opened his eyes.
The sky is always dark, thick snowflakes that seem to warmly embrace the whole world, warm thermal magic tools, and boring anti-aircraft observations.
It all seemed to be whispering to him to sleep.
Whoa oh oh oh
Even the deadly cold breeze felt refreshing to him now.
However, the observer does not take his eyes off the air for a moment.
Until the shift personnel were brought in, he never made an observation.
It was because it was directly related to the glory of His Majesty the Emperor, and it was something that could never be neglected.
‘Ha… Should I ask for shifts for a while and come get some fresh air? … ?
Still, boring was boring.
Rather than falling asleep like this, it seemed that it would be better to come back to my senses after getting some fresh air.
‘Yes, fuck. Let’s go for a little walk or something. I’m really going to fall asleep like this.’
He decides to request a shift for a while.
That moment,
“Uh…?”
In the eyes of an observer,
Boo woo woo!
Fuhuaaaaa!
“…!”
Sudden anomalies are detected.
Part of the snow cloud is torn away.
Through that gap, something long and round can be seen.
He doesn’t hesitate
Shashak, Tup!
With a whistle hung around his neck,
Beep Beep!
Blow it with all your might.
As soon as the whistle blows,
Aaaaah!
Aaaaa!
A long alarm sounded throughout Regal’s encampment.
“Enemies!”
“An enemy has appeared!”
“Observer! Measure the enemy’s position!”
“Artillery, no, snipers! Shoot them down!”
“Ready to shoot!”
It was only in an instant that the quiet rear was stained with turmoil.
– 2 –
Phi yi.
Bullets fly
In José’s extremely thought-accelerated world, it feels like a slug crawling.
Boo woo woo
Dissipates thrust from the port side.
Woo oh oh
The airship turns right.
Slow.
Carded.
Jose bites his teeth.
Even that is slow.
‘Can I avoid it… ?’
Measure the line
Predict the direction the conical bullet is heading.
He wasn’t as brilliant as Margarita, and had superior arithmetic skills, but
‘If you move a little faster, you can avoid it…’ … !’
Boo woo woo
He had an animal sense that had been honed in countless battles.
Even after he mastered the aura, he didn’t use it to release it.
He focused on strengthening his muscles and sharpening his senses, and mainly used auras as a means of assisting in combat.
By training the body and strengthening it with an aura, endurance and the ability to sustain battle are extremely strengthened.
That was the driving force and practical secret that made Jose go through numerous battlefields and finally reach the pinnacle of the battlefield.
Oh oh oh!
Whoo!
Even now, by using aura to extremely strengthen the senses, the speed of thinking was accelerated differently from normal people.
By linking his senses with Margarita in that state, he has an extensive sensory system covering the entire battlefield.
At the same time, in the slow passing time, I was avoiding the bullets fired by the sniper with my own eyes.
However, it put a huge load on his nervous system, brain, and mana circuit in his body.
Kujik.
Tteuk.
The sound of something dislocating echoed through his body.
Flinch.
‘Kuheugh… !’
He trembles weakly
Swallow a moan inside
The eyeballs are bloodshot.
Deed Deuk.
Blood vessels bulge out from all over his body.
Tto tot.
There is a feeling that something is bursting in the nasal cavity.
‘Huh… !’
A fishy smell that can often be smelled on the battlefield lingers in his nostrils.
It’s a familiar smell.
Rumble.
A trickle of blood drips from his nostrils.
Before Margarita sees him, he thinks he should wipe his nosebleed, but he just can’t.
There was not enough time to put it into practice.
Kurrrr.
It was because she couldn’t let her go because her vibrations were getting stronger as she continued her aerobatics.
Phi yi.
‘Another one.’
Peeing, peeing.
Peeing.
‘No, 34.’
Bullets also fly constantly.
The accident was accelerated, so he watched it all.
‘The path…’
Considering the oblique line, find the optimal line of movement.
I don’t know how fast the bullets fly, or how the bullets flying at high speed draw a spiral.
Relying on brute-like senses, it senses everything instinctively.
‘Damn… It cannot be completely avoided. Then… !’
However, the flying bullets were so fast that it was hard to see with the naked eye, and there were too many to count.
On the other hand, the airship was huge and dull, so it was difficult to avoid all of them, no matter how much they accelerate accidents.
Woo woo.
Fuhuaaaaa.
The airship accelerates and tears through the snow clouds.
Whenever an airship appears through the gap,
Phiyi.
Phi yi yi.
Peeping, peeing.
The number of flying bullets increases.
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa.
Numerous bullets tear through the atmosphere.
Fills the void
Kwajijik.
Hit the airship
The tree that makes up the fuselage bursts.
Coo coo coo.
Rumble.
“Kyaaaaa.”
The airship shakes.
Cadde deuk.
Cringe
Jose bites his teeth.
There is impatience in his heart.
– 2 –
At the ends of long sticks aimed at the sky,
Puff puff puff!
With an explosion, flames are continuously spewing out.
At the same time,
Siwoong, Ceeeee!
Bullets soar,
The bullets ejected from the ends of the rods,
Whoops, whoops!
Geeying!
The moment it reaches its maximum speed, it invariably begins to vibrate.
Mana coils around the bullet.
Immediately after that,
Push shot, push shot!
Push shush shoot!
The bullet shoots fire fiercely from the tail.
Use it as a driving force
Pip Pip Pip Pip!
Peeping!
The bullet starts accelerating again.
It was invisible from the beginning, but it became even faster.
For an uninformed person, it was almost as if the bullet itself disappeared in an instant.
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa!
Bullets exceed the speed of sound.
Leap across space.
The bullets fired by the snipers were all equipped with a 2-speed acceleration function.
As such, its performance, accuracy, and destructive power were superior enough to disallow comparison with ordinary bullets.
Moreover, since it was a kind of consumable magic tool, the manufacturing cost itself was very expensive.
But,
Pipipipiping!
It proves that its price does not guarantee accuracy.
“Ah…!”
“Oh, shit…!”
Sighs erupt from the mouths of the snipers and observers.
The target flying across the sky, that is, the airship presumed to be loaded with enemy reinforcements,
Boo-woo, boo-woo!
Wheein!
By gaining altitude in an instant, you are completely out of the line of fire of all bullets.
No.
Patter.
As if it had not completely escaped, small fragments fell from the airship and crashed.
Scatter
However, neither the snipers nor the observers were satisfied with that fact.
It is because only very fine scratches were made on its surface to the extent that it can only be described as scattering.
“Seapearl!”
“It’s crazy, it’s a ruined baby!”
“Does that make sense…?”
“No, that’s an airship! Why is it flying so ridiculously fast like that?”
Swear words come out of their mouths.
The cost to pay for using that devastating bullet wasn’t just limited to money.
Gurgling, gurgling.
Patty pounding.
“Hee-eok, hee-eok, hee-eok…”
“I’m dying, seriously…”
The sniper had to send mana to it every time so that the bullet’s second-stage acceleration could work.
In other words, the cost of using bullets had to be calculated, even the sniper’s mana.
Therefore, the sniper raised by Regal was a very high-class soldier, and the bullet-type magic tool, which was a consumable good, was also a very high-class resource.
In the current situation, there was no other type of soldier to replace them, so the longer the airship was out of action, the snipers had no choice but to be overworked.
Of course, the growing financial burden that Regal had to shoulder could not be ignored either.
“Hmm…”
Swoop, Swoop.
One of the sniper’s commanders strokes his chin.
As if his rank was not very high, there were no flashy marks on his epaulettes.
But,
“More than that…”
When he opens his mouth
Slither.
Shashak.
All the snipers and commanders beside him looked back at him in unison.
Even if the rank was no more than a mid-level executive, it seemed to be the best in terms of skills.
“Something, Lord Porton?”
“Did you see anything, Pisco?”
“No, well. I see the same thing with the same magnification scope, but what I see is no different from others.”
Contrary to his sharp-looking impression, his tone was very relaxed and flexible.
It was a tense and frustrating situation, but no one brushes him off.
Just by looking at it, it was easy to see how high his status was.
“It’s just weird.”
“What do you mean?”
“That, that airship. Even though it’s flying at an altitude of 1,278m, the guy who operates it seems to be watching us every single gun barrel.”
“What…?”
Upon hearing the unexpected words, the soldiers and commanders opened their mouths wide.
I thought the enemy was simply amazingly good at evasive maneuvers, but no one could have imagined that they would evade while checking their gun barrels one by one.
If not for them, few would have imagined such absurdities would be possible.
“There are well over 500 people, so are you saying the enemy is watching them all?”
“Even a wizard would have a hard time doing that…?”
The commanders are distrustful.
Rather than distrusting Pisco’s discernment and insight, it’s hard to believe that his enemies can do that.
“And I assure you, this is absolutely not an observation through sight. Whether it’s magic, sorcery, or an unknown superpower, it’s clear that it simultaneously observes a much wider area than normal vision.”
“Um…”
“Furthermore…”
Swoop.
He pauses his words and looks up at the sky.
The airship poked its head out of a gap in the clouds.
Shashak!
Chuck.
Quickly aiming at it,
Whoa!
Whoops!
Fires a single bullet.
Push!
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa!
The bullet accelerates in an instant.
But,
“Look. You avoided it this time too, right?”
Hearing Pisco’s question, the snipers and commanders nodded in unison.
They kept their eyes on the scopes, so they could clearly see that his bullets had missed.
“Right.”
“If you reverse the change in the square, it doesn’t seem like its movement speed is that fast…”
Shut up
The snipers groaned in unison.
I couldn’t quite understand.
“That’s an unusually fast reaction. I’m guessing, in less than 0.1 second, he must have noticed that I was shooting, and moved the airship around the same time.”
“Her…”
“That means it’s not a group of people cooperating to pilot the airship. It’s not someone observing, someone else figuring out the best route, and someone else steering the airship according to that.”
“What is that…”
Those who heard his words let out a sigh in unison.
According to his claims, it was clear that something really nonsense was going on.
“To sum it up, someone who can observe an incredibly wide range in detail, and at the same time, can perceive our attack at an incredibly fast speed. And they don’t just perceive it, they react at the same time. It can be done. That kind of goddamn monster is piloting that airship.”
“…”
“I guess so…”
Even the visible evidence was clear, so no one can refute Pisco’s assumption.
Far from refuting, everyone was busy sympathizing.
“Actually, you have to be a monster to some extent, but I don’t know if you can do something like that. Isn’t it?”
“What,”
“Perceive our attack, figure out the line of fire one by one, search for an appropriate route, and at the same time operate the airship in the optimal route to reduce damage. Even by forcibly accelerating that slow airship by some means, It means that you do it until the bullet arrives. In terms of time, it’s done in a very short time, like two seconds.”
“…”
Only then did the snipers realize what a ridiculous enemy they were dealing with.
What was more surprising than Pisco’s sniping skills was the fact that the accuracy of his measurements was ridiculously high.
It was widely known among the Regal snipers, so the snipers did not even try to verify it using magic tools.
“So you’re saying there’s no way to hit that, Sir Forton?”
“Yes. For now. Well, if you overdo it and try to hit it, you might be able to slightly scratch the surface of it. Do whatever you want. Instead, use the expensive magic bullets that His Majesty personally bestowed on you, Just remember that you’re going to be ridiculously wasting this money-grubbing monster that’s worth half a year’s salary per shot, like water.”
“Kuhm…”
“Keuhum, kuhum! Temper and…”
“If you just tell them not to shoot, then why should I say that? People, really…”
The commanders quietly avert their eyes.
Ignore him
At that time,
“Hey, Sir Forton…?”
Swoop.
Chuck.
A timid-looking female sniper cautiously raises her hand and calls out to Pisco.
“Hmm?”
Pisco only rolls her pupils to her.
She seemed to be answering in a very casual way, but if you looked closely, his eyes were stained with anticipation.
“Did you just say ‘for now’…?”
“It did.”
“You mean… You mean you can hit that thing if you wait a little bit…?”
“Maybe?”
Seed profit.
Pisco smiles.
It must be because she accurately grasped her own intentions.
“What?!”
“Tell me in detail!”
Commanders urge him on.
Pisco looks at them with pitiful eyes.
But they completely ignore it.
It was probably because it was more important to fulfill the order given by their emperor than to be ashamed for a moment.
“Of course, unless you’re an ancient race from the Age of Mythology, who can stack ridiculously high-level spells, even a great mage or a great sorcerer can’t do that.”
“I agree.”
“Thus, if you look at it with common sense, it’s obvious that the guy driving that airship is overdoing it while cutting my lifespan.”
“Ah…”
“Right!”
The elasticity bursts out.
Their faces brighten up.
With a slight shift in thinking, they too were able to come up with a simple solution.
“So that’s what I mean…”
Swoop.
Pisco stares at the airship.
It was hidden behind a cloud of snow, but based on the movement of the cloud, his gaze followed the airship’s trajectory almost exactly.
“Would you like to try what I said?”
He has very pleasant imaginations as his brown pupils shine.
Of course, it was imagining that he hit his target with the bullet he shot and crashed it.
