King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 394 arrow technique tournament (below)

The registration fee for the tournament is one Copper Coin. The near-nothing, purely symbolic threshold is not a pressure on even the most strapped new land-grant entrants, ensuring that the entrants aren't too few to keep the game going, and that Igor's desire to be a good shooter won't be taken for granted. stumped.

The downside of doing this is that the level of the contestants is horribly mixed.

The target was more than 70 meters away, which is a "normal but slightly challenging" distance for a normal shooter - however, this is judged by the standard of the average Seven Kingdoms shooter of. And the fact is: many of the new land-grant players from beyond the wall use oneself's bow and oneself's arrows. In the "beyond the wall" where there are no standard weights and measures, they can't even tell how far oneself can shoot. Maybe some of them are indeed one of the very best experts in the oneself village or tribe, but a small target more than seventy meters away?

Queenscrown has no snow today, but the wind is blowing as usual. In this open-air environment, it is normal to have a very low target rate or even miss a single shot due to insufficient skill. The most funny thing is that - because you are still young and have insufficient strength or your bow is too poor, you can't even reach the target. The players...they lost their minds after shooting a few arrows, and either exited in embarrassment, or temporarily changed to the Night's Watch standard bows and arrows provided by the organizer. It is conceivable: using the guy you touch for the first time to play directly without practice, what the hell is there to play beautifully.

Although the occurrence of various unexpected situations has added excitement and drama to the game, fortunately, even if the situation occurs, no one will be in the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch in front of because of the registration fee of a copper plate. one's eyes make trouble. In stark contrast to these foils are the serious shooters, who quickly emerged from the crowd of competitors: Theon and "divine archer" Angai, of course, easily advanced with a full middle score. Among the latter's partners... Dondarrion, as a nobleman, is good at archery, it's no surprise that Igor can't expect Thoros to be a Red God priest who can also use bows. The three players sent by Castle Black all passed the second round. In addition, Ygritte became one of the few new land-grant players who made the cut, which made Igor a little helpless: as a oneself In the direct line troops and the confidant officer corps, the promotion ratio of soldiers in the logistics department is somewhat unsatisfactory.

No way, although the scientific system, advanced theory and diligent training make this team composed of civilians quite good in discipline and overall combat capability, but the personal martial skills The disadvantage is that it is impossible to catch up with the Warriors and nobles who have been able to touch the bow since childhood.

However, if I don't like it, I don't like it. Igor is now not only the Boss of the Night's Watch industry and the head of the logistics department, but also the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch... As long as he is the black clothed person of the oath brother. There are a few who can hold on, and he has nothing to be embarrassed about.

The only thing that made Igor slightly uneasy was that Arya actually led several Winterfell guards into the next round - oneself had expected her to be eliminated early because she couldn't draw the bow, see. The strength of this girl is stronger than oneself imagined. The Seven is on top: If Miss Stark really broke into the top ten, should oneself take her on the front line to deal with Others in the final battle?
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Worry just flashed through my mind, after learning about Arya's promotion score: half of the target, he relaxed: Queenscrown and Night's Watch Legion Although not very talented, But it's far from the point where such a little girl can also enter the final round. It is not as easy as it seems to draw the bow and open the arrow. After two more rounds of competition, she will definitely not be able to lift her arms.

Taking advantage of the gap between the games, Myrcella whispered again: "Lord Igor, your attitude towards Miss Greyjoy is too...hard."

"I can't help it. Igor glanced at Asha's back a few meters away, sighed helplessly, and explained in a low voice, "There are always some women in the world who feel that oneself has several points of beauty, and men should turn around her or look at her differently. Let her understand my attitude, she will only mistakenly think that I am interested in her, and she will feel more and more that I can use meat...in exchange for 'some price' for something." Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered that the opposite of oneself was just a girl , it's slightly inappropriate to discuss this topic with her, so I can only quickly skip part of the content, "If you don't take a tough attitude, it will only add more trouble to oneself."

"I'm not saying...you should Accept the deal with her." Myrcella is also a woman, and it can even be said that she dared to approach Igor to seek support and help, and subconsciously, she dared to do so because she had some confidence in the appearance of oneself, and a cloud suddenly appeared on her face. Blush, "I know, because of the face of Lord Theon, you have to give him some preferential treatment for the elder sister, but you don't want to have too much trouble with her... But have you forgotten about her 'sword technique' with Arya before? , this time she didn't hurt Arya's brain, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. You later told Arya not to do it again, maybe she would listen to you... But think about it: the sword technique is definitely stopped, but as a 'Friend', when Asha met Arya on the road in Queenscrown, she called her and wanted to say a few 'girl-to-girl whispers', with Arya's temperament, would she pretend not to hear it and ignore it?"

Igor raised his eyebrows, and Myrcella pointed out a blind spot in oneself's previous thinking: A strong female warrior like Asha doesn't necessarily have to be on the school field with swords and people to learn from each other. A threat to people, if she wants to do something... Indeed, oneself forbidding Arya to practice sword with her is not a surefire way.

"Aiya, it's a mess, you don't hear it, sir, and I'll reorganize the language." Myrcella shook her head vigorously, "My suggestion is that you can't just ignore it. Expect her oneself to calm down, figure it all out and be a decent prisoner. Not everyone is as calm and never emotional as you are, if you've been doing it this way with a negative attitude - no one who sees any hope, Crazy things can happen. You either keep her as a complete prisoner, or give her some hope and drop two verbal promises - like asking House Stark for her, thinking about it Give her something to do. There's no rush to deliver, but there's hope—at least you'll see when she's about to go crazy."

Honestly, Myrcella's proposal this time around Not as sharp and eye-catching as the previous ones, it can only be regarded as has several points of truth. Igor thought for a while, and didn't want to swipe Little Princess's kindness, so he could only nodded: "Well, I'll talk to her at lunch to appease my prisoners. At least make sure she... don't... What kind of nonsense is coming up again."

Myrcella quickly nodded... After that, she was about to feel guilty until her cheeks were hot, revealing clues.

She forcibly found a topic to speak for Asha, of course, not because she liked her, but largely because she was selfish, and she wanted to test Igor. If he is really an incorrigible, impartial and incorruptible person who just wants to be a competent Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, then the idea of oneself hoping to use him to change his destiny will only fail, and he can give up early. On the contrary, he is willing to talk to Asha today, and he is willing to do a little favor to others tomorrow... In this way, he is accustomed to stretching his feet and wiping the edges of his duties and authority again and again... When oneself begs him to "rescue" in the future, may be considered.

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Igor didn't know what Myrcella was thinking, and even if he knew, most of the time he would just laughed and pat her head. The competition was still going on, and by the end of the morning, the top 30 had all been decided, and Arya had been eliminated as Igor hoped, finally saving him the tangle of whether to let her participate in the battle.

After briefly talking to Asha around noon and promising her that she would "help find out about House Stark" after the war, Igor faced a little trouble: due to the fact that this was not very formal. The arrow technique tournament uses multiple people shooting targets at the same time, and finally calculates the number of arrows on the target to decide whether to stay or stay. So the pace of the game was too fast to control. If it goes on like this, the tournament will end with tiger's head, snake's tail, at most one hour in the afternoon.

It is a rare event, and it has to be arranged for the whole day, and other activities can be carried out logically in the evening. Igor touched his chin and quickly had an idea: Before the afternoon tournament started, insert a temporary program - a simple slingshot precision tournament.

As the main "heavy fire" along the Queenscrown and Wall, in the absence of real artillery, Igor has heavily equipped each fort with mediums capable of projecting Wildfire and Dragonglass bombs. Small stone throwers, and required these "artillerymen" to put accuracy first in their training. The training results, he has already taken the exam in private, and it's not bad... At this moment, he acts as an emergency activity to make up the number, showing his face in front of the spectators, which can not only pass the time, but also further let the Queenscrown military and civilians understand the defensive ability of this fortress , increase confidence, one move, two gains.

Ten "Artillery Teams" were named to take part in this exhibition match, striking a large circle painted on the ground from a distance of 150 meters away (the circle was sized to kill with Dragonglass bombs) The scope is roughly drawn), and the rules are the same as in the arrow technique tournament: the one who can hit the target with the same weight as the Dragonglass bomb is the winner.

A small number of spectators who were eager to see the results of the arrow technique tournament expressed no interest in the trebuchet competition, but most of them watched the whole process with great interest. After the episode ended in more than an hour, the last leg of the arrow technique tournament also started as scheduled. In order to increase the viewing experience, the organizers appropriately reduced the number of people playing at the same time. However, the people who are still on the field up to this point are basically all good players. Not only do accidents rarely happen, but often one or two missed arrows can quickly decide to be eliminated or promoted. There are fewer and fewer people on the field, and There were more and more spectators on the sidelines, and in this warm atmosphere, the top 20 and the top 10 were finally decided one by one.

The 10th and 8th places were taken by a new land grantor and Mountain clan Warrior, respectively, whom Igor did not know; , the unexpected arrow technique is not bad, and finally won the ninth; sixth is the famous "Kiss of Fire", the only woman in the top ten Ygritte; fifth is a Winterfell soldier - Igor is thinking if Should Catelyn return to Winterfell now to keep him in order to cash out the "Lightbringer to the Showdown" reward; 7th, 4th and 3rd are all from Castle Black Rangers, former colleagues of Igor, led by the current Chief Ranger Jeremy Lake...

In the end, only the competition between the champion and the runner-up is left: the King's Landing Tourney archery champion who claims to be the first, and Angie, nicknamed "divine archer", did not expect oneself. The best player who has defeated the Seven Kingdoms will meet a strong enemy in the cold and remote place of Queenscrown - Theon Greyjoy is younger than him in age and experience, but the advantage is that he has been in the North for ten years and is familiar with the temperature, humidity and cold in the North. wind. The two never missed an arrow from stepping into the arena until they eliminated all other players - in this match with the above target percentage rather than the number of rings, no matter what their true strength is, at least they are still tied for now. !
After Yam ran to the auditorium and asked Igor what to do, the two sides played an extra round.

After five arrows, both sides are still all on target!
Igor got excited and announced a new rule on the spot: "Three arrows in a round, both sides shoot in turn. If the score is still tied at the end of each round, the target will be moved back thirty feet...and so on, until it is separated. The outcome is until the end."

Unlike hot weapons, arrows as cold weapons have almost all the kinetic energy they shoot from the muscles of the bow drawer, which consumes a lot of energy. As the distance from the target increases, The increase will only make it worse... With such a fast-paced increase, even if the archery skills of both sides are unparalleled in the world, sooner or later, someone will be defeated due to the disadvantage of endurance!
Peak duel between experts! Since most of the land-grant residents have never seen the world, the atmosphere of the arena is gradually boiling - the emotions of the audience who have been waiting for the end of the game are mobilized again, just like the football game entering the penalty shootout stage, there are only two people left on the scene Duel, and the rules have been adjusted to be simple and crude, even if the audience is not a supporter of either team...or even a fan, they may stop and take a look out of curiosity!
All three arrows, plus thirty feet.

Three arrows x2, plus thirty feet.

Three arrows x3, plus thirty feet!

After adding 30 feet three times, the distance between the target and the shooter has reached an astonishing nearly 100 meters, and a large number of spectators growing in the mountains or beyond the wall...especially the latter, have widened their eyes Showing an unbelievable expression: they are not not good at archery, Ygritte and another new land giver player in the top ten are also excellent innate talents, the reason why they lost early and failed to achieve better results , that is, the loss of the self-made bow performance is too poor. 100 meters... Ygritte's Weirwood's short bow is difficult to reach this distance in a row, but the two players in the field still maintain a perfect score!
One arrow, both hits the target!

Two arrows, both hit the target!
Three arrows, two hits!
Still a draw.

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At this moment, everyone forgot about each other's cultural and religious differences, forgot that they had hated each other and were enemies, the roars, cheers and discussions all around the arena The sound is like boiling water, the noise almost tore apart the clouds in the sky, and the gloomy atmosphere of Battle Qi in Queenscrown has been swept away!

Ahead, the staff rushed into the field with great energy to move the target, and in the shooter's position, the Queenscrown archery instructor turned helplessly towards the main stand, shrugged.

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Theon Greyjoy's bow is a fine purple clothes wooden longbow, given by his adoptive father Eddard Stark Duke when he was sixteen. Not to mention 100 meters, he dares to try 150 meters. However, under normal circumstances, daring to try is one thing, but now... after shooting dozens of arrows in a row, he felt a soreness on his shoulders, and the last arrow was already shaking.

On the other hand, the "divine archer" Angie who appeared out of nowhere and didn't even have a surname, had a relaxed expression on his face, as if he could shoot a hundred more arrows. Even knowing that he might be bluffing, it still caused a huge blow to the confidence of Theon, who was inexperienced and inexperienced.

After seeing the Lord Commander nodding encouragingly towards him, Theon turned around, gritted his teeth and looked towards the arena. The staff who moved the target ran away from the dangerous area, while An Gai on the other side took an arrow and bent a bow. As if he didn't need to adapt to the changing distance and wind speed, he "aimed at random" and let go of the arrow.

The arrow draws a beautiful arc and flies over a distance of 100 meters. Under the blow of the crosswind, it deviates from the shooting direction by a few degrees, but it is like being held by an invisible hand - on the contrary On target.

With an inaudible crash, the arrow hit the target!
The applause of mountain cry out and sea howl.

Theon gritted his teeth and touched the arrow to put it on the bow, put on a good posture, exerted force on his shoulders, and made a final attempt with the brace oneself.

His posture is a little deformed. The correct way is to relax the arms and exert the strength of the back muscles, but the actual situation is that he can no longer draw the bow to Can shoot that far.

Holding his breath, adjusting the aiming point according to the direction and speed of the wind, it was extremely laborious to maintain the bow posture, and he had to let go as soon as possible.

But just as Theon fired the arrow, a horn and an alarm bell sounded from the direction of Queenscrown's sentry tower.

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(end of this chapter)