Chapter 200: Situation At Oresfall II
Chapter 200: Situation At Oresfall II
He looked at the five elite knights.
"Our scouts have brought us some urgent information." the assassin reported. "The Ironhold Kingdom’s army is currently marching toward Oresfall. They are moving through the eastern forest and they will be here in exactly three to four hours. We must be prepared."
The assassin quickly laid out the numbers too.
"There is a small group of mages and a much bigger group of knights." the assassin said. "There are around twenty mages and almost three hundred knights. They have also brought seven hundred regular foot soldiers to support them."
He gave them a serious look.
"And every single one of them is armed pretty heavily." the assassin warned. "The soldiers have chain mail and leather armor. As for the knights, they are wearing full steel plate armor."
The five teenagers looked at each other.
"Okay." Octavia nodded. "Let’s get ready."
The chef hurried over, quickly placed the steaming plates of food on the table, and immediately excused herself. She practically ran out of the room to get to safety and she knew well to not talk about anything she just heard.
"We will be there." Octavia told the shadow. "Get the rifle squad ready and in position. We will eat our dinner and we will meet you at the rally point."
The assassin nodded and quietly walked out the door.
The five of them sat back down at the table. They ate incredibly quickly, shoving the hot food down and finishing their entire dinner in less than five minutes. They strapped on their custom leather and chainmail armor, grabbed their heavy weapons, and walked out of their apartment.
Behind Adrian’s main mansion, out on the massive training grounds, thousands of soldiers were already getting ready for war.
The amount of enemy troops marching toward them was almost a thousand men, which included three hundred heavily armored knights and twenty mages. Oresfall had a vastly bigger army right now, which was over two thousand sworn knights alone if they excluded the regular soldiers. And even with such a massive advantage, they were all serious.
They were not treating this invasion as something small.
The five teens looked at the massive army. They spotted Burke shouting orders to the infantry, and they saw Knight Captain Thorne doing the same thing.
Then they just walked away toward the far side of the training field.
They spotted a man dressed entirely in black clothing standing near the edge of the forest that connected to Adrian’s mansion. The assassin gave them a quick nod and started walking.
The five of them followed him silently. They circled around the territory, walking just outside the main defensive wall. They stayed incredibly close to the wall as they moved.
And after walking in the dark for a while, they finally met up with the elite rifle squad.
The rifle squad was basically made completely out of assassins. Adrian had given them the custom bolt-action rifles months ago. And he knew that with their lethal, stealthy skill set, they could easily utilize the ranged weapons to their fullest extent.
And due to their specific needs, Adrian had also given them a highly modified version of the rifle.
These specific rifles did not use the messy, loud gunpowder. They were completely powered by pure magic. It worked using a brilliant combination of runesmithing and mana engineering to build the firing mechanisms.
And the bullets that they loaded into the magazines were different from the first versions too. They were dense, armor-piercing rounds. Their aerodynamic shape perfectly resembled the modern armor-piercing rifle bullets that Adrian was used to seeing back on Earth.
And due to the magical propulsion made by the runes, the bullets were incredibly fast.
They weren’t subsonic so they definitely did produce a loud, cracking sound when fired.
To counter the stealth issue, Adrian had already solved the problem of thick white smoke by just making a gun that uses pure mana instead of black powder. So there was literally zero smoke to give away their firing positions.
But the sound was a different story.
To muffle the loud mechanical noise of the firing pin, Adrian basically used a complex runic chain. He carved a chain of magical symbols into the barrel that basically formed a localized Silence spell.
What this did was muffle the initial launch. He still used the reliable gust spell to shoot the bullets out. The moment the bullet was shot outward, the gust spell did the same thing that regular bullets did. Gust was compressed and shot out and when it would come out of the barrel all the compressed air would expand outwards.
And this expansion would create the explosive boom sound.
So Adrian basically added a few runes at the end of the barrel to absorb these expanding gasses, which was basically just mana. This increased the efficiency of the weapon and reduced wasting mana.
But as for the incredibly loud, deafening sonic boom that came out when the bullet broke the supersonic speed barrier mid-air... there was no solution for that yet.
So Adrian just left it as it is.
At this point in his experimentation and research, he really did not know how to fix the sonic boom issue without severely slowing the bullets down.
So he just let it be since he he knew the reality of the situation.
The first bullet would easily hit the target before the enemy could even hear the sound of the projectile traveling. The bullet would travel faster than the speed of sound, so as long as the engagement distance was right, the bullet would hit its mark before the targets even realized that there was something coming at them.
So this modified rifle already gave his assassins the ultimate first-hit advantage.
But after that initial shot, the loud cracking noise would expose their general location to the surviving enemies. This was the best that Adrian could do for them right now.
The assassins knew all about this flaw already. But none of that mattered to them at all.