Chapter 349: Crazy Shooting

Clack clack clack…

The rapid gunfire rang across the open plateau, reaching the heavens, instantly drawing everyone's eyes on the battlefield, all faces showing shock and terror.

They saw bronze wild horses unfurling wind‑wings, stepping through the air above the gray lizard cavalry, and the human knights on their backs wielded unfamiliar weapons that spewed fire, booming terrifyingly like thunder, yet far more dreadful.

The tip of the black weapon pointed forward, emitting something invisible to the naked eye, yet its power was astonishing; whether initial stage or Mid-stage barbarian cavalry, blood holes were instantly punched through their bodies.

The humans shot with great accuracy; the overwhelming majority were pierced through the head.

Even high‑level barbarians, with sturdy defenses, could not withstand the concentrated fire of a few human knights, dying even more miserably, without a chance to flee.

Each gunshot was accompanied by the death of gray lizard cavalry.

This was not an equal battle, but a one‑sided slaughter.

The airborne knight order swiftly pierced the gray lizard cavalry formation, leaving nearly two hundred corpses on the ground.

"Change magazines!"

"First volley left, second volley right."

Lei En issued two consecutive orders, and the three hundred gun‑wing knights split evenly into two streams, like a river hitting a reef.

He combined his former life's army organization with Ai Lun E Si's knight order rules, grouping ten gun‑wing knights into a squad, three squads into a platoon, five platoons into a company, totaling thirty cavalry units, ten platoons, and two companies.

However, so far only thirty squad leaders and ten platoon commanders have been appointed, with no company commander.

The gun‑wing knights had been training aerial formation for months; although still nervous, they grasped Lei En's command.

Two cavalry companies, one left and one right, turned around midair while swiftly changing magazines.

On the ground, the gray lizard cavalry on the left and right wings, being farther away, had just escaped a disaster and kept charging forward; when they turned back they saw the enemy returning, unable to strike, they were terrified and fled in all directions, unable to maintain formation.

Even running on foot, the cold‑toed gray lizard's speed was far slower than the bronze galloping horses, let alone flying.

The knight order caught up again in less than ten seconds.

The terrifying gunfire roared again.

The gun‑wing knights pressed one hand on their saddles for balance, the other wielding submachine guns in burst mode, easily picking off the fleeing gray lizard cavalry.

Lei En saw the enemy unable to mount a counterattack, buzzing around like headless flies, and shouted, "Disperse by platoon; don't let any of them escape."

Immediately, the entire knight order split into ten platoons, scattering through the sky to hunt the enemy.

Bullets flew one after another, striking the barbarian cavalry in the back of the head and piercing forward. Under Lei En's orders, the gun‑wing knights also gave no quarter to the cold‑toed gray lizards, shooting them down together.

In Lei En's vision, hundreds of souls surged forth.

He felt like a huge magnet; wherever he passed, souls within three to four hundred meters were drawn in. Though each soul supplied only a little spiritual power, the accumulation caused his energy to skyrocket wildly.

On the phone interface, the energy, already over 50%, rose one or two bars each second.

60%, 70%, 80%…

Lei En himself kept firing the submachine gun at enemies, indiscriminately emptying one magazine after another.

This time he led from the front, first to inspire confidence in the gun‑wing knights by personally commanding, and second to absorb souls up close, boosting his own strength; being too far would waste the opportunity.

He hadn't forgotten there were more enemies.

Looking beyond A Si Ta Te Cheng, roars rose; the legendary tyrant was reshaping his army, gathering three hundred Ka Ge Ba tribe barbarian shooters and blood spear hunters together, sending them to charge the gun‑wing knights.

The ogre sorcerer's bombardment of the city gates halted.

The over a thousand Duo La Ke berserkers contracted their formation, assuming a defensive stance.

Lei En instantly read the opponent's intent: Ka Li Gu La planned to use Ka Ge Ba shooters and blood spear hunters to attack the airborne gun‑wing knights, which was the only countermeasure.

Those two troop types were not the main line of the Duo La Ke tribe and could be sacrificed at any time.

Ka La Gu La sent them as a probe; if the situation looked unfavorable, he would immediately withdraw with his most relied‑upon forces.

"If I could let you withdraw, I wouldn't bear the name Augustus."

Lei En hummed to himself.

Today he resolved to annihilate the enemy completely, converting their souls into his own energy, soaring to level nine, and additionally cultivating a few legendary Extreme Warriors.

Two minutes later, the slaughter of the gray lizard cavalry continued.

Over six hundred gray lizard cavalry had mostly become corpses; the muddy snow was stained crimson, bodies strewn everywhere.

Clack clack clack a few times, the two gray lizard cavalry that fled farthest were riddled like a sieve.

The cavalry unit that completed the final shots returned to formation, regrouping with the knight order.

The Ka Ge Ba shooters and blood spear hunters, only halfway to their charge, were no fools; they deliberately slowed their pace, lingering anxiously, watching the hovering enemies, seeming ready to turn and flee at any moment.

Lei En glanced at the phone interface; the energy had reached full.

The soul world tree in his mind trembled gently, all its leaves glowing, entering a soul‑ascending state; Lei En was already familiar with this process, which would last at least a few minutes.

In the early days, a full energy bar meant no further soul absorption.

Later, after lifting the Blood Soul Curse, both could occur simultaneously; souls continued to fly out of the corpses on the ground and be absorbed, yet they could not increase his energy.

Lei En had to channel the converted spiritual power into Wind‑Thunder Wings and Electric Claw Technique.

Both spells were only at three rings.

When they rose to four rings, the excess spiritual power could only be poured into "Strength" and "Steel Body", two bottomless pits.

Lei En produced a communication device and ordered, "Xi Ka Liu Si, engage."

By then the gun‑wing knights had already formed their ranks and changed magazines.

"Charge!"

Lei En shouted loudly, urging the bronze galloping horses into motion; their four hooves thundered, translucent cyan twin wings fluttered, trailing two long radiant light ribbons, charging toward the Ka Ge Ba shooters and troll hunters ahead.

The wild surge linked the auras of all bronze galloping horses; the gale struck like a wall of pressure, its terrifying force causing the already low‑morale Ka Ge Ba shooters and trolls to scatter in panic and flee.

A few barbarian shooters loosed several arrows from massive bows; the arrows flew far, only to be shredded into fragments by the raging wind.

At the speed of the bronze galloping horses, the barbarians could not escape.

Another massacre began.

The combination of air superiority and long‑range firepower is invincible on any battlefield in any world.

Ai Lun E Si had long ago organized aerial legions, such as gryphon knights or pegasus knights, and knew how to strike enemies from the sky—either by throwing spears, shooting arrows, a few using soul‑cannons, and even a very rare spell‑caster legion that bombarded with magic.

But these attack methods are limited by range, power, high cost, or combat endurance, so they never became mainstream.

They only appear occasionally on a small scale, used as surprise troops.

The overwhelming majority of extraordinary legions still follow the conventional knightly formation, using close‑quarter charges to inflict damage; even aerial legions dive from the sky to make their charges stronger and faster, and they often have to fight on the ground.

Lei En completely abandoned this primitive charge model.

In his vision, the primary combat method of the Gunwing Knights is to keep distance from the enemy, fully exploit aerial advantage, and use submachine guns for long‑range shooting.

Unless absolutely necessary, Gunwing Knights will never engage the enemy in close combat.

It is somewhat like mounted archers, only the bows are replaced with submachine guns, and they can also fly.

Of course, a submachine gun alone is not enough.

In the future, more weapons will certainly be equipped, such as Rocket Launchers, throwable explosives, and so on, all of which must be modified and "re‑invented" by themselves.

But for now, dealing with the high‑plateau barbarians is more than sufficient.

Kageba archers collapse at a touch; the submachine gun's report sounds like a death curse, streams of fire tongues surge, harvesting their lives and souls.

A single sweep kills over a hundred enemies.

The Gunwing Knights turn and disperse mid‑air, brandishing their guns to chase down foes; the scene is exactly like the earlier shooting of the gray lizard cavalry, and the outcome will be no different.

The Dorak army watching from afar cannot help but gasp in amazement.

Dorak berserkers are brave and fearless, but against an opponent on a completely different level, charging forward is suicide, leaving no chance to counter; fear arises in their hearts, and they cannot muster any fighting spirit.

Even the dim‑witted ogres begin to retreat.

The few two‑headed ogre mages turned and left, taking dozens of tribe members off the battlefield; they wished they could sprout two extra legs and fled south desperately, even though their tribe resides in the north.

"Retreat!"

A low horn sounded, and Ka Li Gu La issued the retreat order.

Lei En glanced from afar at the legendary tyrant surrounded by slaves; the wild man's features leaned more toward a barbarian, with few human traits, rugged features, a stature taller and stronger than ordinary Dorak barbarians, wearing a black iron crown, his eyes filled with resentment and anger.

He sensed Lei En's gaze and stared back unflinchingly, his face full of murderous intent.

Lei En didn't care at all, simply continuing to fire his submachine gun at the enemies below.

He looked up and saw a flock of flame dragons emerging from the Makurag Mountains behind Astat City, numbering over twenty, diving from high altitude.

Each flame dragon carried two to three Extreme Warriors on its back, and in an instant they flew over the Dorak army, casting a shadow that blotted out the sky, sending Dorak berserkers into panic.

Roar…

Amid a roar, the flame dragons opened their massive blood‑red mouths, spewing clusters of exploding fireballs, commencing the first wave of savage bombardment.

At the same time, the Extreme Warriors' Rambo Gun also erupted with flame.

So clumsy… Chapter three is so suspenseful…

(End of chapter)