Chapter 222 Night Raid (Two chapters in one)

After thinking for a while, one of the guards said to his companion: "Jeff, go and report to Lady Veronica immediately. She is a master of birds and should know if there is any problem."

"Okay, I'll go right away." The young guard named Jeff, when he thought of the beautiful lady who could control the white seagull, his heart was warmed, and he immediately turned around to report.

In fact, there was no need for the young man to report. At this time, Veronica had already fought with the Blood Feather Hippogryph chick 'Blood Feather' and the Storm Crow in the open space in the backyard of the administrative office.

At first, it was 'Blood Feather' who discovered it first. It immediately discovered the sudden increase of Storm Crows around. Although Blood Feather was only a chick, as a naturally violent species, it had learned to fly the day before yesterday.

So, naturally, it regarded the administrative office where its master Ryan was, and even the sky above the fishing port town, as its territory.

As soon as it saw so many Storm Crows invading, Blood Feather attacked a Storm Crow.

At first, Veronica didn't notice anything wrong, thinking it was just some kind of crow-like bird, or a mutated crow.

It wasn't until Blood Feather defeated the storm crow of similar size that the other party quickly gathered more than ten storm crows to gather around, which immediately surprised Veronica.

While casting a water film spell on Blood Feather to improve its defense, she carefully observed it and soon found something wrong with these crows.

Veronica found that these crows were actually rare storm crows. There was no habitat for this kind of crows near Meister County, or even in the entire Munster Province.

The origin of the storm crows is Storm Fjord, which is thousands of kilometers away from here.

Another point is that the eyes of these storm crows are a little rigid, as if they were cast with some kind of control or surveillance witchcraft, which made Veronica alert instantly.

The enemy is investigating!

Without much thought, Veronica immediately ran to the training room nearby, because she knew that Lord Ryan and Lord Trevor had been exchanging archery skills here for the past few days.

In mid-air, the fledgling Blood Feather, with the blessing of the "Water Film Technique", was not afraid of more than ten Storm Crows and fought again. Suddenly, black feathers fell frequently from the sky.

"Dong Dong Dong!"

The rapid knock on the door interrupted the archery teaching between Ryan and Trevor.

The girl with twin ponytails walked in quickly and said anxiously: "Lord Ryan, Lord Trevor, come quickly, there are wizard apprentices nearby controlling Storm Crows to detect this side."

Hmm?

The two looked at each other and immediately followed Veronica out of the training room.

The girl said quickly as she walked:

"Just now I saw that there are at least more than ten Storm Crows parked around the administrative office."

"Storm Crows?" Trevor frowned, as if he thought of something.

"This is a bird that is often controlled by wizards for attack and reconnaissance. In this case, it is very likely that there is a third-level wizard apprentice or wizard who majors in negative energy nearby who is controlling these storm crows."

When the three rushed to the open space in the backyard of the administrative office, Nathaniel had just arrived at the backyard, and saw that Blood Feather and more than a dozen hen-sized storm crows were still "fighting".

Although Blood Feather was at a disadvantage, it was not injured due to the "water film technique" performed by Veronica. It was still energetic and pecked at the opponent, and its claws were tearing each other.

Ryan saw that it was indeed a Blood Feather Hippogryph that specialized in melee. This chick, which had only been out of the eggshell for a few days, had such combat power.

Trevor instinctively took off the longbow behind him and prepared to destroy this group of storm crows.

Just as Trevor pulled out an arrow and prepared to shoot, Ryan stopped him, turned around and smiled, "Sir Trevor, as a sharpshooter, you should be on guard against the enemy who may be nearby."

"As for these crows, leave them to me. It's a good opportunity to test the results of the previous archery training."

Trevor felt that the potential enemy was the biggest threat, and nodded immediately, saying, "Okay!"

Ryan quickly took out a sharp arrow, quickly drew his bow and aimed at a storm crow. With a "whoosh", the arrow instantly hit a hen-sized storm crow that was besieging Blood Feather.

Seeing that his master was also here, Blood Feather couldn't help but cry out loudly, and his morale was greatly boosted!

After a successful shot, Ryan quickly pulled out the arrow, drew the bow, and shot, and the whole set of coherent archery movements was like flowing water, quite beautiful.

More importantly, after this period of training, Ryan has already gained a lot of experience in the prediction of archery. He can grasp the flight trajectory of the storm crows with a little observation.

On the other hand, these dozen storm crows gathered together and besieged Blood Feather, which created good shooting conditions for Ryan.

For a time, Ryan's arrows were almost always accurate.

"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!"

After seven or eight consecutive arrows, the storm crows realized that their companions were getting fewer and fewer!

Soon, they noticed that someone was actually attacking them on the ground. Out of biological instinct, a noisy and sharp crow cry sounded densely.

The storm crows in the entire fishing port town were mobilized, and more than a hundred storm crows began to gather in large numbers above the administrative office.

These storm crows flapped their wings vigorously and flew in circles quickly. Ryan could vaguely see the shape of the surging airflow, which seemed to be generating a trend towards a tornado.

Sure enough, there are only wrong names, but no wrong nicknames.

It seems that the word "Storm" in the Storm Crow is not in vain.

Seeing this, Ryan was worried about the loss of Blood Feather and immediately summoned it back.

However, Ryan looked at the large group of Storm Crows flying in circles in the sky, and his heart became more and more calm. He continued to draw arrows, draw bows, aim, and shoot arrows, and the speed of the whole set of actions became faster and faster.

For a while, the shooting speed increased to his current limit.

Faintly, Ryan felt that he had grasped the secret of the Blood Rage Archery - the trick of 'rapid continuous shooting'.

"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!"

Ryan shot arrows with great rhythm. The interval between the two vibrations of the bowstring was almost fixed. The vibration of the bowstring gave people the feeling of playing a musical instrument.

Veronica and Nathaniel, who were about to chant the spell, stopped chanting the spell and looked at Ryan in surprise.

Veronica's pretty face showed doubt. She didn't expect Ryan's archery to be so strong.

Because when she and Mr. Ryan faced the Federation Curse Master together before, she had never seen Ryan use such a strong archery. Otherwise, the battle should have been easier.

Nathaniel knew that his teammate Trevor was teaching Ryan archery these days. He occasionally went to the training room to take a look, so he was even more surprised at the speed of Ryan's archery improvement.

Compared with the previous few days, Ryan's archery skills at this time were almost a qualitative leap!

Under Ryan's precise rapid-fire offensive, in less than a minute, the large group of black storm crows had become sparse and began to flee in all directions.

As for the tornado that was about to form at the beginning, it also stopped abruptly at this time due to the dispersal of the storm crows!

The sky above the administrative hall of the fishing port town was completely clear. The winter sun shone down, making Ryan, who was holding a metal bow, look like a pure gold sculpture, shining brightly.

And around where Ryan stood, due to the airflow fanned by the storm crows before, some fallen black feathers were circling in the air, faintly combining into one ring pattern after another, rotating around Ryan.

"Sir Ryan, beautiful shooting." Trevor on the side couldn't help but give a thumbs up and praised.

As a sharpshooter, Trevor knew best how difficult it was to achieve the level of Ryan.

Even if he took the lead, his killing efficiency would not be much higher than Ryan's.

Ryan was slightly stunned, because just now, the system prompt appeared:

[Your skill Blood Fury Archery has been upgraded, experience value +1159]

[You have experienced a battle, weapon master (legend) professional experience value +118]

(Note: The above skill experience has enjoyed the 30% increase of the exclusive talent 'primary extraordinary understanding'.)

[Congratulations, you have unlocked the exclusive secret skill of Blood Fury Archery: Rapid Continuous Shooting! ]

Due to the 30% experience value bonus of the exclusive talent 'primary extraordinary understanding' of the weapon master (legend), the experience bar of Blood Fury Archery lv5 has skyrocketed by more than half, directly reaching lv5 (1498/2000).

If the remaining 20 or 30 storm crows had not escaped just now, perhaps Ryan could have upgraded Blood Fury Archery to lv6.

At this time, it was the last prompt that attracted Ryan's attention.

At the same time, Ryan's mind had more memories of the exclusive secret skill of Blood Fury Archery 'rapid continuous shooting'.

Huh?

Seeing

the archery secret technique suddenly unlocked, Ryan couldn't help but show joy and surprise.

According to the experience of Giant Bear Swordsmanship, if there is no "Sword Specialization", the secret technique will be unlocked after reaching level 6.

Soon, Ryan saw a brand new icon above "Blood Fury Archery" on the Weapon Master (Legend) panel.

The pattern in the icon is a war bow with a bowstring drawn, and an arrow about to be shot on the war bow, but the more eye-catching thing is that in front of this arrow, there are three consecutive arrows flying in the air. At the bottom

right of the icon, there is a line of small words:

Rapid Continuous Shooting lv1 (Secret Technique) Effect: Use a fast and continuous arrow shooting method to shoot as many arrows as possible in a short period of time.

(Note: Rapid Continuous Shooting is a secret skill and cannot be directly upgraded through skill points.)

(Rapid Continuous Shooting lv2 requires the following conditions: 1. Blood Fury Archery lv8 or above (Bow Specialization can offset some of the level requirements); 2. Strength 18 points or above, Agility 22 points or above, Constitution 16 points or above.)

Looking at the sentence "Bow Specialization can offset some of the level requirements of Archery", Ryan was thoughtful.

So that's it!

No wonder I can master the secret skills in advance with only lv5 Blood Fury Archery. The key to the problem is here.

This is the true value of the exclusive talent "Primary Weapon Mastery" in the Weapon Master (Legend) profession!

Immediately, Ryan thought of something else.

It seems that relying on this exclusive talent, he can also master the exclusive secret skills of a certain extraordinary combat skill faster and earlier than ordinary people on other weapons.

——With

the death of seventy or eighty Storm Crows, the black-robed woman Zenina, who was several kilometers away, shook her whole body slightly.

The Storm Crows that were killed were the targets of Zenina's witchcraft "Eye of the Crow", so at this moment, she suffered a certain degree of witchcraft backlash.

She frowned, rubbed her temples and said:

"Lord Waxman, maybe I have found that Ryan."

"But the strange thing is that the other party does not match the situation described in the information you gave me. The other party seems to be a sharpshooter. Just now, he shot and killed more than 80 of my Storm Crows in a very short time."

"Huh? Sharpshooter?" The black-robed woman Zenina immediately stunned Waxman.

He knew very well that when Nehru came to him two days ago, he described the other party in detail, saying that he was a young knight who was good at using a two-handed warhammer, but he did not say that the other party was a sharpshooter.

This kind of situation where the information does not match the actual situation is relatively rare.

Waxman, who has rich combat experience, immediately became alert.

At the same time, Waxman immediately thought of something and asked:

"Can you tell me in detail how the other party found out that there was something wrong with your Storm Crow?"

"Yes, sir. At that time."

After a question and answer.

Waxman paced back and forth on the beach for a while, and asked again:

"So, after the other party found out that your Storm Crow was not right, he started shooting your Storm Crow with a bow and arrow? During the whole process, no one else intervened?"

"That's right, Lord Waxman."

"Then are there other people around the other party who need attention?"

"Yes, according to my preliminary judgment based on the 'Eye of the Crow', there are at least two wizard apprentices and another sharpshooter beside the target person."

"Two wizard apprentices and another sharpshooter? This strength is no less than an elite squad of the Dragun Empire Navy." Waxman couldn't help but blurt out.

"Yes, sir, I am also quite surprised."

"But one of the men and the woman has cast a spell, and the other man is holding a war bow. I think my judgment should be correct." The black-robed woman Zenina said with certainty.

For a moment, Waxman couldn't help but hesitate.

Because the situation of the target person at this time is already different from what Nehru said, not a little bit.

Not only are the weapons that the target person is good at different, but also the strength of the people around the target person is not just the female rookie wizard apprentice that Nehru said, but there is also a sharpshooter and another wizard apprentice.

This situation was a bit unexpected for a while.

It's not that he can't force it.

The key problem is that this will become a loss-making business.

It's okay to ask him to do it, but Nehru has to pay more!

"Zenina, just let the Storm Crow keep monitoring from a distance. Once the target person leaves the fishing port town, tell me immediately."

"In addition, you send a message to Nehru and tell him the current situation. If you want me to take action, you have to pay more. It's not that I'm raising the price, but Nehru's information is wrong, so ask him if he agrees to two boxes of shadow steel ingots."

"Yes, sir!" The black-robed woman Zenina bowed slightly, and immediately stepped back two steps and began to chant spells.

-

Administrative Office of Fishing Port Town.

The sudden arrival of the crows alarmed the other people in the administrative office, including Major Marika who was drafting a letter, and they all rushed to the open space in the backyard.

Looking at the backyard full of black feathers, Major Marika knew that the enemy was not simple.

Soon, several people discussed in the office of Governor Ryan.

"Nathaniel, Miss Veronica, both of you are experienced wizard apprentices, can we track the enemy's position through the storm crows?" Trevor asked proactively.

Trevor believed that offense is the best defense, and as a sharpshooter, he has a considerable advantage against wizard apprentices who need to chant spells and have average defense. Even if the opponent is a wizard, he is not afraid.

After thinking for a moment, the two shook their heads.

"Trev, I can't track it, but I can tell that the opponent should be using the shadow magic 'Crow Summoning'."

"Of course, the opponent's magic should have been improved, so it attracted storm crows that are much stronger than ordinary crows." Nathaniel was experienced in combat and immediately expressed his judgment.

After thinking for a moment, Veronica explained: "Sir Trevor, the opponent's crows are summoned by magic, and they are not usually around the caster. This is completely different from the process of improving and taming birds."

"However, judging from the number of crows attracted by the opponent, the opponent should be the same as us, and it is likely to be a third-level wizard apprentice, not a wizard." "

Because, I heard the instructor talk about this magic. If it is performed by a formal wizard, it can at least attract thousands or even tens of thousands of crows to attack."

Ryan nodded.

Not a formal wizard, but a third-level wizard apprentice?

It's a bit strange.

From this point of view, the possibility that the opponent is the last federal trickster is not high.

However, Ryan noticed from the corner of his eye that Major Marika, who had not spoken, frowned slightly and looked thoughtful, so he took the initiative to ask:

"Major Marika, what do you think about this matter?"

"The storm crows you just mentioned reminded me of the descriptions of crows in several reports from the Imperial South Sea Fleet before."

"Oh, Major Marika, if it's convenient, why not tell me about it." Ryan raised his eyebrows and said.

"Let me think about it. The first time was when Major General Zhu Quinn of the Fourth Fleet was assassinated. The situation report seemed to mention the appearance of this large crow."

"The second time was when Major General Bravo, the captain of the fourth-level ship of the First Fleet, was assassinated. There was also a description of black birds in the report." "

As for the third time, I can't remember it clearly."

"So, I think this is probably just an enemy exploration, and then the other party will launch a real attack!"

Major Marika's words made everyone look solemn.

If the powerful sorcery 'Call of Crows' is just an appetizer, it is conceivable that the subsequent attack of the opponent will be difficult to resist.

"After Major Marika's reminder, I remembered that I had heard before that there seemed to be several difficult people in the Eagle Federation Navy's combat team who were very good at decapitation operations." Nathaniel said seriously.

"Federal Navy? Then they are in the same group as that trickster."

"Then the opponent's target must be Mr. Ryan!" The twin-tailed girl next to her suddenly thought of something and blurted out.

The remaining three people immediately fixed their eyes on Ryan.

Ryan smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm not that fragile."

After pondering for a while, Ryan continued to ask, "Major Marika, the two major generals you just mentioned should be the strength of formal knights, right? What was the cause of their death?"

"Yes, both died under the blade. According to the autopsy results at the time, it was judged to be a dagger, and it is said that it was not an ordinary dagger, because both major generals had lost a lot of blood."

"Moreover, the fighting time was extremely short. In the assassination of Major General Bravo, it took only ten seconds from the exclamation to the rush of the guards."

Used a dagger?

And a captain of a fourth-level ship with rich combat experience only lasted less than ten seconds?

Ryan immediately groaned in silence, his eyes flickering.

He was thinking from the perspective of the murderer, exchanging him with the murderer, estimating and comparing the killing time, so as to judge the opponent's approximate strength.

Even if it was a sneak attack, if the opponent kept dodging or running away, Ryan thought it would be difficult to kill a great knight with rich combat experience within ten seconds. From this point of view, two points can be inferred.

First of all, the enemy is very fast. Secondly, the opponent's attack or dagger is very powerful and difficult to resist.

Finally, the opponent has used assassination several times. It is very likely that the opponent does not like or is not good at direct combat.

"Is there any way to reduce the enemy's movement speed in a certain area?" Major Marika seemed to have thought of the problem that Ryan was considering, and spoke first.

"In addition, if the opponent's target is Lord Ryan, do you have any items that can improve defense?"

"Reduce the enemy's movement speed?" Trevor thought about it and quickly said, "I don't have this kind of witchcraft props, but I do have paralysis poison, which is used to apply on arrowheads to deal with some large sea beasts."

"Would you like to prepare some, Lord Ryan? It works very quickly. If an arrow hits, it only takes a few seconds to turn a cow over. Large sea beasts will need more arrows."

On the other side, the girl with twin ponytails said weakly, "I used the witchcraft props to improve defense before. Can the substitute doll be used?"

-

Night.

On a hidden beach in the fishing port town.

In the gap between several tall reefs, a bonfire was burning.

With the "crackling" sound of firewood, a flapping sound of wings sounded in the sky, and a black crow landed and stood on the shoulder of the black-robed woman Zenina.

Zenina said respectfully: "My lord, Lord Nehru finally replied. Although he was very reluctant, he agreed to your request for two boxes of shadow steel ingots."

"Zenina, in this case, let's go!"

"Look, how beautiful the night is tonight." Waxman slowly stood up, smiled and looked at the night sky covered by dark clouds with only a faint starlight.

"Yes, sir!"

Zenina followed Waxman, slightly behind half a body.

As the two gradually left the range of the bonfire, the shadows gradually lengthened, and then, the figures of the two could no longer be seen, as if they had merged into the darkness.

Thank you for the 300 starting coins reward from the dead tree moth!

(End of this chapter)