Chapter 193: Holding The Wall
Chapter 193: Holding The Wall
’That did not work.’ Adrian analyzed quickly.
He immediately changed his approach and decided to use the things that fly well without needing shafts or feather.
This time, he reached into his dungeon storage and pulled out a handful of actual, modern bullets.
He did not pull out the entire cartridge. He did not need the brass casing or the gunpowder, so he just pulled out the copper lead alloy projectiles that he had custom forged months ago.
He floated ten heavy lead bullets in front of his chest. He gathered the compressed wind magic right behind the flat base of the metal bullets.
Then, he fired.
The bullets shot forward. And this time, they were ridiculously fast. They were much faster than the wooden arrows and they didn’t lose momentum as quickly and they also didn’t go in random directions.
The bullets zipped across the open fields and slammed right into the monsters at the front. They easily ripped through tough hide and buried themselves deep inside their bodies while some even reached their internal organs.
Adrian grinned when he saw it working.
He started slow at first. He fired a volley of ten bullets, reloaded the bullets with telekinesis, and fired another ten.
But a few seconds later, his casting speed skyrocketed. He got into a fast, flawless rhythm.
His speed at using the telekinesis and the explosive gust spells simultaneously was so insanely fast that everyone standing nearby just stopped to stare at him. Draven, his wives, the knights, and even Aria standing high up on the wall just watched him in pure shock.
It was basically ten bullets. Then ten more rounds fired off half a second later.
It was an absolute show of domination. He basically turned himself into a modern Gatling gun as he mowed down those monsters.
Pew. Pew. Pew. Pew.
Except, there was no booming gunshot noise.
There were no deafening bangs. There was just the sharp, hissing crack of compressed air and that was it.
Adrian knew why it was so quiet though. The others did not understand the physics, but Adrian did.
The bullets were flying at a subsonic speed.
He could have easily pushed more mana into the gust spell and made the bullets fly faster than the speed of sound. But keeping them at subsonic speeds was actually intentional on his part.
Adrian basically treated this apocalyptic monster invasion as target practice. He actively used the chaotic environment to train his control over exactly how much magical power he pushed into the bullets.
If he used too much mana, he wasted his reserves. If he used too little, the bullets wouldn’t have the power or the distance.
He slowly ramped the power up. He kept cranking the velocity up until the bullets flew just under the supersonic limit.
They never actually broke the sound barrier so they never produced that ear splitting crack. But they still moved ridiculously fast.
And the damage spiked massively as the horde closed the gap. Because less distance meant the projectiles did not lose much of their kinetic momentum to the wind.
So they hit really, really hard.
Adrian just massacred them. He did not just shoot in a straight line. He aimed in different directions, firing relentless volleys of bullets into every single direction where the monsters were clumping up.
His suppressive fire actually slowed the entire horde down. The charging monsters tripped and stumbled because they were forced to jump over the massive, bleeding piles of their own fallen comrades.
The archers standing up on the wall fired large volleys to take out the monsters lagging far behind in the back lines.
And the few lucky beasts that actually managed to survive Adrian’s hailstorm of bullets and the rain of arrows finally reached the defensive line..
They slammed directly into the shield wall of the waiting knights and soldiers.
A mutated goblin leaped over a pile of corpses and lunged straight for Adrian.
Adrian barely even registered it as a threat. He casually put a single bullet right through its brain mid jump. The goblin was dead before it even fell back to the ground.
Another huge beast immediately leaped over the falling goblin to attack his blind spot.
Claire stepped up instantly. Her steel sword sliced diagonally and she cleanly beheaded the monster in a single, fast swing.
Hot, dark blood sprayed everywhere. It coated Adrian’s steel armor in a thick layer of monster blood.
Adrian immediately stopped casting his bullet spells. The monsters were too close now. Ranged magic was too dangerous in a chaotic melee fight since he could accidentally shoot his own people and he did not want something like that happening.
He reached into his spatial ring and pulled his ten steel chakrams back out.
He rushed forward into the monster hoard that was still coming.
The chakrams instantly started spinning around his body in a tight orbit. Every single monster that tried to get near him, or tried to swipe at him with their claws, instantly got sliced into pieces by the chakrams.
Claire stayed right behind him. She carefully positioned herself just a few meters outside the death zone made by his chakrams.
A pair of screeching goblins slipped past the front line and Claire, noticing this, slammed her kite shield forward. The heavy shield crushed their ribs and tossed both goblins right into the ground.
A towering ogre stepped up and swung a thick tree branch at her head without caring about the goblins.
Claire just ducked. She spun on her heel, thrust her sword up, and chopped the ogre’s arm clean off at the elbow joint. Then she used that exact same spinning momentum to turn around and chop the head off a dire wolf trying to snap at her ankle.
She turned back to the fallen goblins after effortlessly beheading the ogre too.
She brought her foot down hard and completely crushed the first goblin’s skull in.
And she stabbed her sword straight down through the second goblin’s throat at the exact same time.