Andrea had just ascended the corner of the city wall when she saw a scene that shocked her.

A line of militiamen stood at the wall, holding a strange weapon in their hands—mostly a musket in the ashes.As the evil herd approached, the muskets erupt out of flames and smoke, and successive explosions reverberated in their ears.

It should be a weapon similar to a bow, but she could not see the cross-bow, probably because the smoke was too large.The evil beast in front of him fell to the ground like something, and fell to the ground one after another.

But the soldiers did not observe the results, nor loaded, but continued to shoot the enemy, faster than their own bow and arrows.

“Is that what you mean by a terrible weapon?”Andrea felt a little dry lips, "the speed of shooting is indeed very fast, but the hit rate seems to ..."

“Before they were recruited by the First Army, they were miners, farmers and hunters,” the ash interrupted, “they have been using this weapon for less than half a year.”

It takes five years for a trained warrior to develop, and the archer is longer, and even the shortest bow in training takes about the first half of the year to keep the farmer from stirring.What about the actual fight?God knows what they can shoot, and most of them are just around them.

Andrea** can't help but swallow her mouth, she is no stranger to these training, the family has also trained outstanding knights, so naturally understand what it means to be able to enter the actual battle in about half a year.As long as the weapons and food were well supplied, Roland could piece together a large army in a short period of time, and the army did not worry about breaking down in a close-up fight, and even the elite knights could not be approached without any interval.

This has nothing to do with the courage and will of the militia, and it is the strength that the weapons give them.

“Do you know anything else about guns?”Tiley thought for a moment and then asked Hilway.

The latter nodded, "I have looked closely many times, it is indeed a weapon similar to a bow, and the arrows fired out are very short, there are no arrows and no tail feathers."The difference is that the arrow does not rely on the elastic force of the string, but on the impact of the black powder when it explodes - it can instantly increase the arrow to a very high speed.

“The black powder?”Ash asked, “What is that?”

"It's a kind of alchemy," she said, shaking her head. "I don't know the exact ingredients."

"It should be very expensive," said Andrea, "what the alchemist has never made is a bargain."

The ashes brushed aside, "Yes... but the look at them shooting is not at all like how expensive the goods they are using."

"Wait, something's coming," said Hilvi, who was watching the battlefield, "god, is this also an evil beast?"The walls are high!It looks like a giant tortoise with a huge carapace on its back.”

Andrea came to the spirit, "Crust?"These muskets are probably limited in effect, as long as I am close to the range of ten steps, even the city walls can not stop my magic arrows.Ashes, you cover me."

"Well, well," said Ash, taking the sword behind it, "let's say, don't lose your excellency Tilly's face."

“Don’t go,” Hilway stopped, “they still have—”

Andrea did not hear the second half of the other person's words, she only heard a deafening roar, like a thunderbolt in her ear.Looking back, the metal tubes erected on the wall erupt from each other, this time she vaguely captured the trajectory of the arrows flying - they were like a shadow, flying away to the monster that had just appeared in the distance.

After counting, several high snow pillars were raised around the monster, and the flying snowflakes drifted behind, and the ugly huge evil beast was still at a fixed speed - apparently this time the attack failed to hit each other.

But even so, it was enough to surprise Andrea... This distance, far more than the longbow and the heavy crossbow, “This is...”

“His Highness called it a field gun, and in short, it was an enlarged musket,” said Hilvi, loosening his covered ear, “and much more powerful than a musket and far more distant, and he took advantage of this to easily defeat Tiffeko’s militia fleet at the fork in the Red Water River.”

The luck of the evil beast did not continue, the second round of shelling had two rounds of accurate impact on its crust, Andrea saw very clearly, the uneven carapace raised a layer of mist in the dull impact sound, near the side of the head was directly bombarded out of two large holes, black blood and internal organs from the hole, splashing everywhere.

It was not long before the battle ended, and the corpses of the evil beast fell in front of the city walls, and the hot blood fluttered the snow, and the soldiers began to carry out the aftercare work, and she never found the opportunity to shoot.

"It seems I was wrong," said Tiley, laughing helplessly. "He doesn't need the help of a fighting witch."

“The last time I went to town, this weapon was not yet widespread, only the chief knight could possess it, and now he had created so many ...” Ashes sighed, “Perhaps that is why His Highness dared to insist on the existence of an open witch under the great pressure of the Church.”

Andrea did not answer, if in normal times, she would have taunted the ashes, but now she only felt that her heart was unusually bored, and even the strength of the quarrel was gone.

Returning to the castle, His Royal Highness Roland still prepared a hearty lunch for the witches.

Seeing the five-colored dishes on the table, Andrea felt more blocked in her heart.

The upper aristocracy of the morning kingdom pays attention to the beauty of nature in the diet, and they are willing to spend a lot of gold dragons and energy to acquire some rare cherished ingredients, and then cook them in the most authentic way.Foods like Grey Fort, which are full of spices and sauces, are extremely vulgar in her eyes – the seasonings are just to cover up the defects of the food itself, and the more it is put on, the worse the taste.

But... every plate of food on the table is delicious.

Like carbon-roasted mushrooms, where did your Highness get such a fat and juicy mushroom?With a slight bite, the spilled juice can almost fill the mouth.

There is also this green soup, which looks very ordinary clear soup, but it has a thick smell in the mouth, as if it is cooked with whole chickens, chops and kelp.

Especially after-dinner dessert – ice cream bread.The milk-scented ice cream sandwiched between the two pieces of bread, and after taking a bite, the feeling of ice and softness simply made her addicted to it, although it was "winter", which did not prevent her from eating one piece after another.

Damn, even that was completely lost.

Looking at the ashes with a provocative smile on her, Andrea did not respond for the first time.

(Unfinished.)