Chapter 170: Legend of the Shooting Blast

The deafening gunfire sounded like a death‑cursing spell.

The guards at the front were struck down as if by an invisible colossal force, falling in swaths like wheat being reaped.

No matter what extraordinary profession, what armor, whether they had defensive Elements, or how agile their movements were, under bullets traveling at nearly nine hundred meters per second, the result was the same.

Lei En swept his gun left and right, spitting bullets.

Yellow‑tinted casings and link pins flew out, scattering across the ground at his feet.

Three to four bullets were fired every second, each striking an enemy, penetrating to cause damage, sometimes even passing through multiple foes.

A fourth‑rank berserker, wielding a massive axe in each hand, body swelling red, let out a wild roar and charged.

The charge halted abruptly midway.

A few bullets swept past his waist, cleaving his corpse in two, leaving no last words.

A gunman fired at Lei En but found himself too far away to threaten Lei En at all.

Their actions instead caught Lei En's attention; he swung his muzzle toward them, instantly shattering the few enemies brandishing Soul Guns into fragments.

A Mid-stage Shadow Warrior, frightened, slipped into the shadows to flee.

But the shadow escape did nothing; seconds later, Lei En's muzzle swept over an empty meadow, blood spattered, and a cloaked corpse fell out.

Gunfire roared, life vanished.

Lei En kept his trigger pulled tight, his phone's gyroscope and the dual aid of the Soul Eye finely guiding his aim.

Where the muzzle pointed, it mercilessly reaped enemy lives.

This was not a battle but a massacre, and a one‑sided massacre at that.

Yet his heart remained unmoved; he even recalled shooting games from a past life, seeing these guards as big experience‑granting loot boxes.

The gunfire continued for almost twenty seconds, then abruptly stopped.

Click!

Lei En lowered his head to inspect, found the machine gun jammed, calmly pulled the bolt handle and tossed the stuck cartridge out of the receiver.

The hillside before him was already a river of blood.

Just over a hundred guards had surged out of the castle; by now most lay as corpses, their gruesome deaths unbearable to behold, none intact, the blood staining the hillside red.

A few, whether lucky or cursed, escaped fatal hits and clung to life, writhing in the blood pool, screaming and sobbing for rescue.

"Ah..."

"Goddess, please save me!"

The surviving guard, seeing this, finally snapped back, his face ashen, turned without looking back and fled toward the castle.

Yet, barely two steps after they fled, the terrifying gunfire roared again.

Clack clack clack…

Lambo's Gun fired bullets at nearly nine hundred meters per second; at that speed even the extraordinary could not track the trajectory, let alone dodge.

From the mountaintop to the moat below was just over four hundred meters, fully within Lambo's Gun's range.

The slope offered no obstacles, no cover, no escape route.

One enemy after another fell.

Ten seconds later, no one remained standing.

Lei En ceased fire, letting the heated barrel cool slightly, and exhaled. At his feet, casings carpeted the ground.

Inside the castle, silence hung like cold cicadas; no one dared to show their head.

Outside the castle, it was even more dead silent.

Legendary Wizard Maytil, who had been hovering mid‑air, now ducked into the castle, unwilling to expose himself to Lei En's sight.

However, Lei En's Voice of All Things had already locked onto Maytil.

He hadn't taken the chance to shoot Maytil earlier because he was unsure whether the machine gun could threaten a Legendary Wizard; he needed to clear the small fry first before focusing on Maytil.

Even with a machine gun in hand, Lei En didn't want a head‑on fight with a Legendary Wizard; if the opponent wisely withdrew, that would be ideal.

After waiting a while, Maytil neither emerged nor left through any portal.

Lei En waved toward Panxi Er in the distance.

Panxi Er immediately understood, bringing the silver‑armored knights to surround the stone arch bridge and the main gate.

"Do not let anyone escape the castle," Lei En ordered.

"Yes, my lord Earl."

The Secret Fire Guard and the silver‑armored knights responded in unison.

A minute ago they thought Lei En was too reckless; now each face bore reverence, with no resistance to the command.

Panxi Er's gaze fell on Lei En's machine gun, eyes filled with shock and curiosity.

Not only her, but everyone wanted to know what this weapon actually was.

Lei En cradled the rune book in his left hand, opened it, gun in one hand and book in the other, leapt over the wall and climbed the slope, preparing to assault the castle.

Treading the blood‑stained grass, Lei En quickly reached the midway point.

Clack clack clack!

The machine gun suddenly burst into flame, a window on the castle exploded, bullets pierced the wall and killed the person hiding behind it.

Lei En walked and fired, and the castle echoed with cries of agony.

Within the Voice of All Things, a man's voice shouted, "Lord Maytil, if you don't act, we will all die here."

"Lord Maytil!" others pleaded.

Lei En had heard this man speak before; he was the steward of the Earl of Glamorgan's domain, earlier mocking Lei En inside the castle, now his voice trembled.

He locked onto the source of the voice, the machine gun raking the wall wildly.

Meanwhile, energy surged through the rune book in his left hand, a ball of flame coalescing rapidly into a fireball the size of a head.

Bang bang bang…

A large hole was blasted in the wall, a fireball whooshed out, flew over a hundred meters, and precisely fell in through the opening.

Boom!

Flames erupted, half of the wall collapsed, and the room inside fell silent instantly.

Lei En heard the heartbeat in his ears suddenly drop by more than half, unsure whether the overseer was dead. He was about to throw another fireball in when a silhouette flew out from the collapsed opening.

The person's speed was great, his whole body cloaked in a cyan magical shield.

"Mai Ti Er."

Lei En's heart jumped, but his hand moved without delay; the machine gun locked onto Mai Ti Er and fired continuously.

When Mai Ti Er materialized, he was already casting, but his movements were half a beat too slow, and bullet after bullet struck his shield, stirring violent ripples.

Clack clack clack…

The bullets rained down like a gale storm; though they couldn't pierce the shield, the resulting vibration made Mai Ti Er turn pale, his Soul Power unstable, and the spell he was casting was abruptly broken.

Lei En saw this and felt greatly delighted.

"Indeed, machine gun bullets cannot break a legendary Wizard's shield, but they are enough to threaten him."

Casters above the legendary level have shields tougher than steel, comparable to a dragon's scales, and without a duration limit—like a constant spell. As long as their Soul Power isn't exhausted and attacks don't exceed the shield's capacity, the shield can persist indefinitely.

However, such a shield has a drawback: it constantly drains Soul Power.

If the shield faces continuous, intense attacks, it can instantly consume a large amount of Soul Power, potentially affecting the caster's own spellcasting.

Under normal circumstances, this rarely occurs, and casters avoid putting themselves in such a dire situation.

Lei En considered this, which is why he chose to fabricate the gun mechanism.

In just a few seconds, Mai Ti Er's Soul Power plummeted, his shield began to waver, and realizing something was wrong, he raised his hand and instantly cast a spell.

A cluster of transparent air currents shot out.

Lei En's pupils contracted; at the instant Mai Ti Er cast, he recognized it as a Qi Explosion Technique.

The technique originally had only one ring, but Mai Ti Er upgraded it to four rings and mastered an instant-cast super-magic skill.

Four-ring Qi Explosion Technique!

Without hesitation, Lei En activated a flash.

When his figure appeared over twenty meters away, he immediately charged, trying to get even farther.

Snap!

A strange, eerie howl erupted at the previous spot, the air collapsed inward, then burst out instantly, forming a white shockwave that radiated outward like lightning.

Within the shockwave were countless wind blades, like sharp swords, cutting wildly.

Charging forward, Lei En couldn't dodge; several wind blades struck his back, and thorny electric armor materialized, crackling with electricity, blocking the attack.

Lei En turned around and saw a crater blown into the grass.

Within a thirty-meter radius, the ground was scarred with hundreds of cuts; anyone caught there would be unable to resist and meet a gruesome fate.

"The Qi Explosion Technique has such power; a legendary Wizard is truly terrifying."

Lei En swivelled the muzzle and kept firing.

However, after launching the Qi Explosion Technique, Mai Ti Er completed a second spell: a wind wall stood before him, while white mist spread, obscuring vision.

"What a quick reaction."

Lei En couldn't help but praise the opponent's combat experience.

This legendary Elementalist, hailing from Weizelan Fu Kong Cheng, is a typical Mo Du Wizard, specializing in a few spells, mostly wind Element related.

Bullets struck the wind wall, still penetrated, but their power was reduced a notch.

After passing the wall, the bullets could no longer threaten Mai Ti Er.

The mist's area expanded rapidly, soon covering the vast grassland before the castle; Mai Ti Er, hidden in the mist, cast spells calmly.

But he didn't know that the mist couldn't block Lei En's sight at all.

In Lei En's Soul Eye, an Element of Mai Ti Er lit up; it was a five-ring "Summon Wind Element", capable of summoning a powerful servant from the wind Element plane.

The wind wall remained; machine gun bullets couldn't strongly attack the shield, and the distance was too great to interrupt the opponent's spell.

From the corner of his eye, Lei En saw a graceful figure flash by, his heart stirred, and he turned to retreat down the slope.

A few seconds later, two massive Wind Elements emerged from the mist, towering over six meters tall, semi-transparent, surrounded by whirlwinds, moving at extreme speed like twin hurricanes sweeping the area, raising grass clippings and dust wherever they passed.

By then, Lei En had retreated to the foot of the hill, widening the gap with Mai Ti Er beyond his casting range.

The Wind Elements charged down the slope.

A flash of insight sparked in Lei En's eyes; Truth Willpower pierced illusion, reaching deep inside the Wind Element's body, locating a crystal-clear core, thumb-sized, like a cyan gem.

The core's position constantly shifted, making it impossible for ordinary people to locate or attack.

Lei En fixed his gaze on the core.

The machine gun spewed flames.

Bullets whooshed out, repeatedly striking a Wind Element, piercing its protective vortex, entering, and exquisitely hitting the core, blasting it apart.

The Wind Element emitted a mournful wail, its towering body turning into a gust of wind and vanishing.

After a few gunshots, another Wind Element drifted away with the wind.

Within the mist, Mai Ti Er wore a stunned expression; the Wind Elements he summoned, as powerful as high-tier giants, weren't meant to kill Lei En but to restrain him, yet they were eliminated the moment they appeared.

He gauged the distance to Lei En and found it too far.

None of his spells could reach.

This gave Mai Ti Er a ridiculous feeling; Wizards have always preferred to keep as much distance from the enemy as possible, the primary rule of combat being not to let the enemy approach.

But the current situation required him to actively close the distance.

He had never encountered such a scenario, and it suddenly felt extremely tricky.

Maitir quickly thought of a solution, waved his staff, and released another wind wall that settled in the middle of the hillside.

Behind the wind wall, a vast spread of mist drifted outward.

He then opened a portal leading to the mist on the hillside and stepped through.

Amid the fog, Maitir looked toward Lei En's position, froze in surprise, and could not see Lei En's figure.

"He's invisible."

Maitir recalled the data on the newly arrived Earl of Glamorgan: the opponent is a battle Wizard who also wields magic, having just used Fireball and Blink.

He immediately cast Insight Technique on himself, preparing to locate Lei En.

His eyes pierced the illusion and he searched the city wall at the foot of the hill, but found nothing.

Maitir instantly realized something was off: Insight Technique and Invisibility Technique are both three‑ring spells, and they counter each other; the one with the higher ring count gains the advantage.

His Insight Technique had never been upgraded, still three‑ring, yet he could not see the enemy.

This shows Lei En's Invisibility Technique exceeds three rings!

"There's another Wizard intervening in the shadows."

The thought flashed in Maitir's mind, and he suddenly sensed a magical ripple behind him, within the mist, only a few steps away!

He didn't hesitate and activated Blink to escape.

However, this Blink failed; he remained in place as a purple ring about three meters in diameter materialized around him, faint runes drifting in the air.

"Binding Ring!"

Maitir let out a silent scream; it was Five‑ring Arcane, sealing the space within the ring, prohibiting teleportation and Blink, usable only by legendary Arcane mages.

He spun around sharply, seeing Lei En emerge from a portal, his weapon spewing flames.

Clack! Clack! Clack! Clack…

At such close range, the bullets poured onto the shield like splashing water, stirring violent ripples.

The soul force surged downward like a breached dam, forcing Maitir to stagger back repeatedly, while the Binding Ring shadowed him, preventing a swift escape.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The machine‑gun bullets struck the same spot on the shield, creating a resonance effect that would breach the shield in seconds.

Maitir's face turned pale as he raised his hand to unleash a Qi Burst Technique, intending to blow Lei En to death.

However, after raising his hand, the Qi Burst never manifested.

The spell was countered!

Maitir's face showed despair; this must have been the work of the legendary Arcane mage hidden in the shadows. He couldn't worry about Lei En, but fortunately his Flight Technique was still active, and he vaulted into the air, trying to flee.

Clack! Clack! Clack! Clack! The gunfire never paused for a second.

Maitir's speed was swift, soaring higher, yet his shield grew thinner and his flight grew unstable.

Bang!

With a burst, the shield finally exploded, and Maitir fell from mid‑air.

(End of Chapter)