Chapter 784

Su Xiao's breathing slowed. Every time he pulled the trigger, a dwarf crossbowman on the fortress half a kilometer away would fall. When he fired his first shot earlier, he discovered that killing a dwarf crossbowman actually granted 60 points of war merit.

How could Su Xiao miss such a golden opportunity? He didn't use the special 17.36mm armor-piercing rounds, but instead used ordinary, low-quality bullets. These bullets weren't expensive to produce and weren't produced by the Reincarnation Paradise, but were forged by someone he found in the Mechanical Street for emergencies.

Each special armor-piercing round cost 150 Paradise Coins, which was simply too expensive, while the imitation low-quality bullets cost 25 Paradise Coins each. Although their attack power was only one-fifth of the special armor-piercing rounds, it was enough to kill a dwarf crossbowman.

On the fortress.

Splat, brains splattered as a dwarf crossbowman was headshot. The headless corpse was knocked back by the impact of the bullet and fell to the ground. Now, the dwarves couldn't laugh anymore.

This was just the beginning. In the next few minutes, over 50 dwarf crossbowmen were killed. Of course, some of these were bullets or long-range attacks from other Qiyuezhe; Su Xiao wasn't the only one.

Although there were many dwarf crossbowmen on the tribal side, they couldn't withstand such killing. One had to know that the cost of training a dwarf crossbowman was not low, and these dwarf crossbowmen had weak melee combat abilities; they only knew how to operate the "Fortress-Guarding Heavy Wheel Crossbow."

Su Xiao's act of sniping the dwarf crossbowmen reduced the pressure on the Imperial side to pile up stones, which surprised Legion Commander Carlos on the battlefield.

The rapid death and injury of the dwarf crossbowmen caught the attention of the Mountain Dwarf King on the fortress.

The Mountain Dwarf King looked around at the Imperial army below. The sky-high shouts of battle drowned out the sound of gunfire, and the Mountain Dwarf King couldn't locate Su Xiao's position.

The Mountain Dwarf King indeed couldn't find him, but the Qiyuezhe from the Apocalypse Paradise could. There were snipers among them too, and snipers from both sides had already begun to trade fire.

"Target found, 11 o'clock direction on the hillside. Although the accuracy is decent, visually the sniper rifle's power isn't much; the barrel is very long, just a paper tiger."

A man with short brown hair and a cigarette in his mouth found Su Xiao's position. He was standing at the edge of the fortress wall, in front of him was a one-meter-high obsidian low wall, which was originally meant to prevent Imperial soldiers from falling off the fortress, but now it had become cover for the enemy.

Only the man's head was exposed above the cover, and he had several teammates beside him.

"Black Gun, find a way to take out the opponent."

The captain of the Qiyuezhe squad spoke.

"No problem, his firepower isn't in the same league as mine."

Black Gun took out a heavy sniper rifle, about a meter long. Although it looked imposing, compared to the nearly two-meter-long Spider Queen, this gun was like a "teenager" still in middle school. According to the Reincarnation Paradise's quality conversion, this was a high-rated purple-quality sniper rifle.

"Killing happily, aren't you."

Black Gun spat out the cigarette in his mouth and kissed the sniper rifle in his hand.

Aiming and firing were done in one fluid motion. In the chaotic battlefield, it was impossible to sense this shot unless the opponent specialized in perception-type skills.

The moment the bullet left the chamber, Black Gun felt that the shot had hit.

On the Imperial side, Su Xiao, who was sniping enemies, felt a sense of crisis approaching, but the surroundings were full of soldiers pushing forward, and he couldn't sense which direction the attack was coming from.

Pow!

Blood splattered; Su Xiao was hit. The bullet hit his thigh. The enemy had originally aimed for his head, but he rolled half a circle on the ground at the critical moment. Although the posture was a bit ugly, he avoided being hit in the head.

The muscles on Su Xiao's thigh tightened. The bullet hadn't gone very deep; if his stamina attribute hadn't been high, it would have hit the bone.

Squeezing the bullet out of his muscle, the enemy's second shot arrived. Su Xiao was already prepared; how could he be hit by a second shot?

Ding!

The bullet hit the energy shield in front of him. Based on the impact point of the bullet hitting the energy shield, Su Xiao judged the enemy's general direction.

Looking through the scope, Su Xiao found a sniper on the fortress with only their head and gun barrel exposed.

Ding!

Another bullet hit the energy shield. Su Xiao ejected the Spider Queen's magazine, took out a magazine filled with special 17.36mm armor-piercing rounds, inserted it, pulled the bolt, simultaneously deactivated the energy shield, aimed, and pulled the trigger.

On the fortress, the sniper named Black Gun had already pulled his head back, hiding behind the low obsidian wall.

Whoosh~

The whistling sound flew over Black Gun's head, startling him into pulling his head back, and his nearby teammates subconsciously pulled their heads back too.

"Didn't you just say no problem?"

The Qiyuezhe squad captain glared at Black Gun. Black Gun didn't speak; he felt something was wrong. The opponent had clearly been hit by his shot, and although it only hit the leg, that nonchalant attitude was too exaggerated, as if a stamina-specialized person had been hit. He glanced at the sniper rifle in his hand, doubting if he was holding a toy gun.

"It's not a big problem, this obsidian wall is very sturdy, the bullet can't..."

Splat!

Black stone chips splattered, hitting Black Gun's cheek and causing pain, and a warm liquid splashed onto his face.

Black Gun touched the warm liquid on his face; his hand was covered in red. It was blood!

Thud, a middle-aged man fell at Black Gun's feet. The middle-aged man's body twitched a few times and then stopped moving; most of his torso had been shattered.

The moment the middle-aged man fell, everyone behind the stone wall threw themselves to the ground.

Splat! Splat! Splat!

Three consecutive shots arrived, and the obsidian wall was shattered into pieces, stone chips flying, giving one a sense of violence and brutality.

The Qiyuezhe squad captain looked at Black Gun with anger.

"This is what you called 'not much power'? You take a shot and let me see."

Black Gun was speechless and began to crawl toward the inner side of the fortress wall. Now, whoever dared to stand up would die.

Su Xiao observed the shattered stone wall through the scope, waiting for the enemy to show their head.

【Hint: The Hunter successfully killed an enemy Qiyuezhe, gaining 3 Reincarnation Paradise Merits.】

The war had been going on for so long, and Su Xiao finally gained Paradise Merits. Although he took a bullet, it could be considered a good start.

Killing an enemy Qiyuezhe of average strength could grant 3 Paradise Merits; the Reincarnation Paradise's meaning was clear: it encouraged its own Qiyuezhe to kill enemy Qiyuezhe.

After observing for a while, Su Xiao found that those people no longer showed their heads; it seemed they were scared by him.

Su Xiao changed the magazine and continued to snipe the dwarf crossbowmen. He had been sniping happily before, but the opponent had to come and provoke him. Wasn't it bad enough to snipe Imperial officers on the fortress?

Thinking of officers, Su Xiao searched the fortress through the scope but didn't see any dwarves suspected of being enemy leaders. However, the dwarf holding the small flag high on the fortress wall was very eye-catching. Earlier, snipers from his own side had tried to shoot the opponent, but the dwarf was surrounded by a transparent barrier, which should be a product of alchemy or magic.

Su Xiao hesitated for a moment and loaded three special armor-piercing rounds into the Spider Queen's chamber, which was equivalent to 450 Paradise Coins.

Aim, fire.

Bang!

Before the sound of the gunshot could spread, the bullet had already hit the barrier in front of the dwarf flag-bearer.

Crack, cracks appeared on the transparent barrier. The dwarf flag-bearer inside the barrier was stunned on the spot, likely shaken quite hard.

Bang, bang, bang...

Gunshots rang out one after another in the Imperial army; these were other snipers trying to pick the low-hanging fruit. In the early stages of this war, melee-type Qiyuezhe were a bit miserable, only able to watch, while long-range ones were making a fortune.

Each of Su Xiao's bullets cost 150 Paradise Coins; how could he let others pick the fruit? The second bullet had already been fired before those gunshots arrived.

A hole the size of a plate was blown into the transparent barrier, and the dwarf flag-bearer was directly shattered, exploding into a sky full of flesh and blood, plastered inside the transparent barrier.

【Hint: The Hunter killed an enemy special unit: Fortress-Guarding Heavy Wheel Crossbow Command Flag-Bearer, gaining 200 points of war merit.】

Seeing this hint, Su Xiao raised an eyebrow; this reward should be about the same as killing an enemy leader.

The war continued for half an hour without anyone noticing, and dwarf crossbowmen on the fortress died batch after batch.

Compared to the casualties of the dwarf crossbowmen, the number of Imperial soldier casualties was even more shocking. In about half an hour, at least 60,000 Imperial soldiers had died. That's right, 60,000. One volley from the Fortress-Guarding Heavy Wheel Crossbow would kill a whole area, and furthermore, the Imperial soldiers were still actively pushing forward.

The tribal side wasn't just killing enemies with the "Fortress-Guarding Heavy Wheel Crossbow"; Green Phosphorus Fire incendiary bottles and Goblin cannonballs were thrown below the fortress as if they were free. At this moment, below the fortress was already a sea of green fire, and because the outer layer of corpses was being burned, the high slope piled up by flesh and stone had lowered somewhat.

The Imperial side suffered heavy casualties, but they were not far from charging onto the fortress. The high slope was only ten meters away from being level with the fortress.

The tribal army had once charged onto the fortress this way, and today, the Imperial side would use the same method to charge onto the fortress.

Charging onto the fortress didn't mean victory; that only counted as the beginning of the war. On the other side of the fortress, a neat stone slope had already been built; this was built by the tribal side.

Once there were slope buffers on both sides of the fortress, it wouldn't be a siege battle anymore, but a highland battle. Both sides would charge at each other, and the side that knocked the other down would gain ownership of the Black Soil Fortress.