my armed maid

Chapter 152 Chapter 149: I will not miss (two chapters in one, please follow up)
In the Misty Swamp, the crusade against the Gaia worm has officially begun.

At the same time, on a high slope two kilometers away, the entourage of the transport vehicle worked together to unload the seven-meter-long naval gun Meteor and fixed it at an overlooking point with an excellent view.

Nolen personally participated in the inspection of the Meteor and confirmed all its components.

"The gun barrel is normal and can be loaded with shells..."

"There is no abnormality in the turret, and the main gun position is being adjusted."

"There is nothing wrong with the rangefinder. It is two kilometers away from the target position. Correct the pitch angle..."

"There is no abnormality in the connection of the magic source, and there is no abnormality in the serial array warehouse..."

With all components operating normally, Nolen sat on the turret of the Meteor and sent a message to Ryan and others in a deep voice:

"The Gunmeteor is ready. We need you to guide the target to the designated position."

The Meteor's gun body is huge, and a mechanical structure is used to push the main gun's azimuth and muzzle pitch angle. The aiming speed is slow, which is also one of the unavoidable drawbacks of large weapons.

Ryan raised his arm shield in time, but was still knocked away by the unreasonable force of the Gaia worm. He felt his body was sore and blood surged in his chest.

Thanks to this, the steel nails easily pierced the membrane and penetrated into the back of the Gaia worm.

"Woo-"

The next moment the light lit up, and his figure broke through the rock waves, but what came face to face was a sweeping attack from the Gaia worm.

At the critical moment, Yuna pulled Gangnir's trigger.

Instead of aiming at the moving Gaia worm, it uses the guidance of Ryan and Sky Knight to let it "bump" into the Meteor's cannonball.

Facing the menacing Gaia worm, Ryan walked as fast as flying, using the momentum of being knocked away to distance himself, and ran away.

With all their strength, the terrain of this area has been destroyed beyond recognition by the Gaia Worm's earth spells.

Seeing that his strength was inferior to its own, the Gaia worm became even more violent. It opened its ferocious abyss mouth, plowed the ground and bit into Ryan.

A flash of light flashed in Ryan's eyes, and he regained his strength and rushed towards the Gaia worm again.

Although the membrane stopped the bleeding, it was very fragile because no silvery-gray scales had grown.

"Just take it there!"

However, although the steel nails hurt, they could not deliver a critical blow to the Gaia worm.

However, after running only about a hundred meters, he felt his footsteps sinking.

The wound was injured by Ogoang's "Ember Slash". Two days later, only a transparent film grew on the wound.

This is the most powerful defensive spell of the Gaia Worm, and it can also be amplified by "Energy Burst", making the defense effect even higher.

The Gaia worm did not show any signs of weakness. As the earth trembled, rock waves as high as 20 meters rose into the sky, hitting Ryan like a tsunami.

And Yuna is located high in the sky, and there is a fog that can block the magic. Even the Gaia worm in the state of energy burst cannot lock her trace.

If this spell had been cast from the beginning, even Ogoang of Alto's army would not have been able to damage it easily.

It is only a matter of time before he is defeated, and as long as he is preyed on, the eighth-level extraordinary flesh and blood will definitely be of great benefit to his injuries!
So after the first round of testing, it immediately decided to include Ryan in its prey list, and immediately launched an attack.

The ground level rose, the mountains and rocks protruded, and with the north as the center, half of the entire swamp became a devastated rocky hill.

The six-acceleration magic circle unfolded, and the steel nails roared out from the flaming muzzle, accurately hitting the unhealed wound on the Gaia Worm's back.

Rock waves rolled in, burying Ryan in them.

Pass the shooting coordinates of the Meteor to everyone connected to the soul link. It is the very center of the misty swamp, about two hundred meters away from the current location of the Gaia worm.

It raised its upper limbs to look for traces of the attacker, but as an underground creature, it had no vision. It usually sensed its prey through the flow of magic power and the vibration of the ground.

Even the coercion of the eighth-level knight cannot offset the constraints of the gravity field. The Gaia worm in this state is the strongest among all eighth-level monsters.

At the same time, an earthy yellow halo circulated, and a layer of black rock armor with a faint red light quickly covered the whole body, also covering the bleeding wound on the back.

The steel nail attack interrupted the Gaia worm's attack. It trembled as if it was electrocuted, and let out an angry and painful cry.

Knowledge points +260.

With the benefit of "Energy Burst", the range of the Gaia Worm's gravity field has expanded again, including Ryan in the distance.

On the contrary, this pain stimulated its ferocity even more.

"boom--"

He did not intend to be swallowed by the Gaia worm. Even the hard Orichalcum Colossus could be swallowed. Once he entered its belly, he would definitely die.

However, this move can be considered to have pros and cons.

Effect: Expand a personal obsidian barrier, greatly increase physical and magic resistance, and be immune to all negative effects brought about by extraordinary powers below the eighth level (negative effects that have been attached are not counted).

The eighth-level earth spell "Obsidian Guardian" has been recorded.

Seeing that the huge mouth of the abyss was getting closer and closer to Ryan, at this moment, a cannon shot was heard above the mist in the sky.

"Woo-"

Therefore, he decided to directly fix the shooting angle of the Meteor.

In its opinion, although the enemy's toughness is acceptable, it lacks powerful attack methods, and the threat to itself is not even as high as that of the eighth-level extraordinary person a few days ago.

It screamed, and the dense silver-gray scales on its back began to squirm, standing up like a hedgehog's thorns to prevent others from sneak attacks.

If the two eighth-level spells "Energy Burst" and "Obsidian Guard" are maintained at the same time, not only will the magic power be consumed hugely, but the Gaia worm will also be unable to distract itself from casting other attack spells such as earthquakes, rock waves, and gravity fields.

Do you want to give up the continuous output of spell damage for the ultimate defense and physical attack in a short period of time? Now it has made its choice.

It wants to fight quickly, use absolute power to prey on the enemies in front of it, and then flee away to find new prey targets.

"Woo——"

At this time, the Gaia worm's body was covered with red-glowing black spines, and it looked much more ferocious than before.

With the dual blessing of "Energy Explosion" and "Obsidian Guard", every black thorn on its body has almost become an indestructible sharp blade.

It drove its forty-meter-long body to snake forward, with one end with black spines swirling up flying dust, and swept towards Ryan unstoppably!
The attack range was too large, and Ryan could not dodge. He could only put up his arm shield and make the most perfect defensive posture.

"boom--"

The next moment, the Gaia worm's tail slapped on Ryan's arm shield.

This arm shield was originally given to Ryan by the imperial royal family when he gained military exploits in the past.

Coupled with the bonus of "seamless" combat skills, few enemies can leave traces on it after decades of fighting.

Then, with a "click" sound——

After a brief stalemate, the black thorn shattered the shield surface of the arm shield.

The unstoppable impact hit his face, and Ryan felt his vision go dark. When he came back to his senses, he had been knocked high into the air.

Pain followed like a tidal wave. His shield and armor were riddled with black stab wounds, and his body was unable to move for a moment as if it had been knocked apart.

"Cough——" Ryan's face turned pale, and a mouthful of blood spurted out uncontrollably.

Seeing that the prey was injured, the Gaia worm rose up and opened its abyssal maw towards him.

The amplification state of "Energy Burst" is about to end, and it will decide the outcome with this blow!
"boom--"

At this moment, the sound of artillery was heard from another location in the high-altitude fog.

Gungnir was unable to fire a second shot in a short period of time, and this time it was Leeds who took action.

Just now, she was suspended in the air like Yuna, using the drone's vision to continue targeting the Gaia worm.

Yuna was inspired to fire first, damaging the Gaia Worm, and when Lane was threatened again, she followed suit and fired in support.

"The White Raven has done it, I will do it too!"

With this belief in mind, Liz pulled the trigger.

The steel nail roared out of the barrel and accurately shot at the injured location on the Gaia Worm's back.

"Have it!"

The moment the steel nail came out of the chamber, Liz felt confident. This was her instinct as a shooter.

But then her expression changed.

At this time, the back of the Gaia worm was covered with red-glowing black spines. Although there were no black spines in the injured area, it was protected by obsidian armor.

"boom--"

The steel nail hit the obsidian armor and only managed to penetrate half of its length. Then it ran out of kinetic energy and was stuck inside unsustainably.

Although the steel nails are made of magic-breaking silver iron, they can effectively break the magic shield.

But obsidian armor is not simply a magical creation. As an earth spell, it has its own entity and has its own live ammunition defense properties.

Coupled with the bonus of "Energy Burst", its defense is now almost impossible to break even with Gungnir.

Sure enough, Liz's shooting did not interfere with the Gaia worm's attack, and it continued to pounce on Ryan without stopping.

"Oops, Captain Ryan—"

Liz panicked a little, and her thoughts were transmitted to Nolen along the soul link.

But looking at the huge mouth of the abyss that enlarged in front of his eyes, Ryan's eyes did not despair.

He turned to look at the mountains in the distance and shouted in his heart: "What are you waiting for? It's now!"

"Nolen——" Yuna's voice also came from her heart.

"I know." After receiving reminders from three people at the same time in his mind, Nolen narrowed his eyes slightly. Originally, their battle plan was to use the naval gun Meteor to shoot the Gaia Worm's injured back, but now that it has cast "Obsidian Guardian", the situation has changed.

The obsidian armor blessed by "Energy Burst" has extremely high defense. Even if the naval gun hits it, there is no guarantee that it can be killed instantly.

So, what to do now?

In fact, Ryan has already given the answer.

As expected of a seasoned knight, although Ryan was always at a disadvantage in the head-on battle with the Gaia Worm, he did induce it step by step to fall within the attack range of the Meteor.

Then, after noticing the sudden change in the status of the Gaia worm, he quietly changed his position.

From having the Gaia worm face away from the mountain, to having it face the mountain.

If the Gaia worm's entire body was blessed with obsidian armor——

The place that the Meteor needs to aim now is naturally its defenseless mouthparts!

The idea was proposed by Lane at that moment and immediately adopted by Nolen.

He sat on the turret and aimed at the swamp below the high ground. Through the field of view provided by the drone, the crosshair in the scope penetrated the fog at this moment and locked onto the abyssal mouth of the Gaia worm that opened to its limit two kilometers away.

Two kilometers is actually quite a long distance. The last time Yuna accomplished this achievement was when Yuna sniped Kasumi Dragon.

Now, it's his turn to repeat this operation.

However, the reason why Yuna can do it is because her fighting talent is unparalleled.

She is simply a born warrior, able to use any equipment skillfully, and her unparalleled "combat feeling" is proof of her genius.

But Nolen is not such a fighting genius. He already knew this when he became a knight.

His motor skills are very average. Whether it is controlling a jetpack or using weapons, his proficiency is not top-notch, and may even be inferior to Julius and Liz.

However, there is only one thing that everyone, including Yuna, cannot compare to him——

That's calculation.

Alchemists rely more on rigorous experiments and calculations than on feelings, especially in the field of applied sciences.

How can you build houses and weapons all by relying on "I think"? Is alchemy such a child's play?
So he doesn't rely on a warrior's experience and intuition to aim, he relies on a machine.

As the designer of the naval gun Meteor, he clearly understands the role that each part can play and knows how to maximize their effectiveness.

He had just checked and found that the Meteor was operating normally.

Since in theory it can hit the target accurately within this distance, then he will turn this theory into reality——

"The 380mm high-explosive armor-piercing projectile has been loaded, the target is meters away, there is no wind..."

"The muzzle is pointed correctly, the pitch angle is correct, the estimated impact time of the artillery shell is 0.8 seconds, and the impact point of the artillery shell is about to coincide with the target..."

After quickly calculating all the data in his mind, Nolan felt a strange feeling in his heart.

The so-called omniscience, as long as the calculation is accurate enough, all accidents will become inevitable.

Don’t doubt yourself, just be fully prepared——

Looking at the violent Gaia worm below, at a certain moment, he calmly but powerfully pressed the launch button of the turret.

"——I won't miss it."

The next moment, ten layers of cyan accelerating array quickly unfolded on the seven-meter-long dark gun barrel.

"boom--"

The roar of cannons came from the top of the mountain, and the terrifying recoil when the shells were fired made Nolen's ears ringing as he sat on the turret.

Amidst the huge clouds of smoke, dust and fire, 380mm high-explosive armor-piercing projectiles shot out from the muzzle.

With the blessing of the Ten Acceleration Array, the distance of more than two thousand meters disappeared in the blink of an eye. It was like a sudden meteor, falling straight into the open mouthparts of the Gaia worm.

The shooting angle of this cannon was extremely tricky. Nolen not only aimed at its mouthparts, but also accurately aligned the most dazzling position of its soul body in a straight line.

The so-called most dazzling position of the soul body is generally the center of consciousness of a creature.

Taking a human as an example, although its whole body is made up of a red soul body, its head is the most dazzling among them.

The Gaia worm is no exception. In drone detection, although it has the same mouthparts at both ends, it seems difficult to tell the head from the tail.

But in fact, the most dazzling part of its soul body is biased towards one end, which happens to be the end where it opens its mouthparts and bites Ryan.

"Pfft-"

The high-explosive armor-piercing projectile penetrated the layers of fog and sank into the Gaia worm's mouthparts without giving the Gaia worm any time to react.

The inside of its mouthparts is far less hard than the outer shell covered with obsidian armor. The sharp bullets roll in its mouth, tearing apart the flesh and blood as it moves forward unstoppably.

Then when it reached the location of its consciousness center, the explosives in the shell were stimulated and detonated.

"boom--"

A violent muffled sound came from the Gaia Worm's body. Its huge forty-meter-long body froze for a moment, and it maintained a forward posture and plunged into Ryan's side.

"Success?"

Ryan endured the pain and stood up, looking warily at the Gaia worm that was rolling and twitching in front of him.

"Well, it was detected that its soul body was rapidly weakening." Nolen took a deep breath and stood up from the turret.

"Perfect coordination and we succeeded."

Putting his hand on his chest, he could feel his heartbeat beating violently and rapidly.

Just now, with the alchemy weapon he made, he personally killed an eighth-level monster with the strength of a second-level knight.

This is the possibility of alchemy, this is the power of the Gunmeteor!
Originally, if past experience was used as a reference, naval guns of this caliber were generally rifled guns.

Because the rifling can make the cannonball rotate and fly, it improves flight stability and has a longer effective range.

There is a reason why the Meteor's naval gun is still a smoothbore gun.

First, rifled guns also have their shortcomings, because the rifling will rub against the shells and cause loss of muzzle velocity. This phenomenon is even more obvious for magic cannons that rely on acceleration arrays to increase muzzle velocity.

The second is path dependence, because the alchemists at the factory discovered that Gungnir's technology can still be copied to the Meteor, eliminating the need to study rifling from scratch.

Therefore, in order to manufacture it as quickly as possible, the first version of the Meteor was still a smoothbore cannon.

As for the future rifled version, the Alchemy Factory is still working on producing it.

However, for this crusade, the smoothbore version of the Meteor may be a better choice.

Two kilometers is actually considered a close range for naval guns. At this distance, the accuracy of rifled guns has no obvious advantage over smoothbore guns. On the contrary, the latter's bullet speed and power are superior.

Coupled with the precise hit on the Gaia worm's mouthparts and vital locations, the combination of various factors allowed it to kill the powerful eighth-level monster in one blow.

Over the swamp, the sound of cannons coming from over there came over belatedly.

Julius and the three of them looked in the direction of the sound of cannons in shock. The cannonballs that had just been fired at a high speed dispersed the fog along the way. They could even see the hilltop where Nolen was located in the distance through its flight trajectory. .

"Can actually kill an eighth-level monster with one strike..."

Julius swallowed, "This is the power of the naval gun Meteor!"

"This is too exaggerated!" Liz also looked dazed.

"Gangnir couldn't break its defense at all. Even the strongest Captain Ryan was in a tough fight against the monster, but Lord Nolen actually easily turned the tide of the battle...

“Now I finally understand why the Lord of the City entrusted such a young Lord Nolen with such a heavy responsibility.

"As long as we can grasp this power, Linfeng City will never let anyone bully us again!"

Generally speaking, the strong men at the town level are all around the eighth level, and their strengths are mostly close to each other.

In a one-on-one situation, even if you can tell who is stronger and which is weaker, it is difficult to kill the opponent. In the end, both sides often lose.

This is also the reason why a town-level powerhouse will not take action easily unless absolutely necessary, because there is no need.

But the naval gun Meteor manufactured by Noren is an exception. It can strike powerfully at the enemy from a relatively safe distance.

As long as he is hit head-on, even an eighth-level extraordinary person cannot escape death.

Once the town-level strong man is killed, the battle is basically over.

Being able to threaten enemy generals at a low cost means that Linfeng City has since become one of the first-class forces in the empire, and no one dares to show off its power in front of it easily.

As the leader of the Knights, Ryan also knew what this meant. Looking at the Gaia worm that gradually stopped struggling in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh:

“Although this result has been expected, it is impossible to say that I am not surprised.

"Nolen, your talent is so powerful that it's scary."

The powerful opponent that he had struggled to defeat after decades of hard training was so easily killed by a strange weapon tinkered by a young man with one blow. He was relieved but also felt a little complicated.

What makes me happy is that I did not trust the wrong person, but what makes me feel sad is that from now on, I will no longer be the most powerful trump card in Linfeng City.

"I am also a legendary alchemist." Nolen straightened his collar reservedly.

"However, to be honest, this is the joint contribution of all of us. Without your guidance and cover, the Meteor would not have been able to penetrate the soul so smoothly."

As he spoke, he drove the Eye of Odin equipment and flew towards the swamp.

“So, the crusade has ended successfully, and now it’s time for the exciting part of harvesting the spoils.

"It's an eighth-level monster after all. It should have more good things than Xia Huilong, right?"

(End of this chapter)