Above the mage!

Chapter 486 The Red-Haired Beauty (Part 2)

Inside the Shattered Bones Tavern, Walker's fireball roared forward, the flames already licking the wine stains on the ground.

A line of fire spread along the liquid at an astonishing speed, melting ice into water wherever it passed, and the water instantly boiled, bursting with crackling bubbles in the cracks of the wood.

Immediately afterwards——

boom! !

The fireball exploded, and the deafening blast created a massive cloud of fire and scattered bones throughout the tavern.

The absolute darkness quietly dissipated at that moment.

The flames, like a giant beast breaking free of its cage, frantically devoured everything around it.

The oak barrels exploded in the high temperature, and the liquor turned into fuel, making the fire even more ferocious. The towering flames even penetrated the roof of the tavern.

The heatwave caused Santos, who was a step slower, to feel a stinging, burning sensation on his back.

Using the [Flight] spell to get ahead and perfectly dodge the explosive shockwave of the fireball, Walker, the instigator who was hovering in the air, seemed to sense Santos's anger and explained, "If we didn't use this move to restrain him, we wouldn't be able to escape at all!"

Santos was furious, but he dared not pursue the matter further with Walker. Now was not the time to settle scores. He could only grit his teeth and say angrily, "Let's go!"

The greenish-blue energy flow enveloped his body again, carrying him away from the Shattered Bone Tavern.

The two did not look back at the explosion, and headed in one direction to flee into the distance.

They all knew perfectly well that although the fireball spell was powerful, it might not be able to harm Lan Wen in the slightest.

Given the strength and methods Lan Wen has demonstrated, he must still have the resources to continue pursuing them.

However, as Walker explained, this fireball spell can greatly restrain Lanwen.

Because Lan Wen also needs to protect Gao De.

Gao De was able to skillfully use a combination of spells to block the [Lightning Bolt] inscribed in Santos's staff, but he was completely defenseless against the [Fireball] cast by Walker's Ascending Ring spell and needed Lan Wen's help.

This is Lanwen's biggest weakness.

The fact that Lan Wen had not chased after them out of the now-ruined tavern after two breaths had passed proves this point.

Although the two breathed a slight sigh of relief, they dared not be careless and hurriedly made their escape.

boom!
However, the two had only flown a few meters when a crisp click of a trigger was heard.

Then, as if something had exploded, there was a loud bang, which seemed particularly abrupt.

The magical energy rippled outwards like a pebble thrown into a lake.

Santos and Walker's pupils suddenly contracted.

In their line of sight, to their side, a teardrop-shaped bullet was flying towards them with a powerful magical aura and a deadly whistling sound.

The silver-gray bullet shimmered with a magical luster, leaving a wisp of faint black smoke trailing behind it.

As the bullet hurtled closer, a familiar, pungent smell, reminiscent of old-fashioned gunpowder, filled their nostrils, carrying the unique sweet and pungent odor of sulfur and saltpeter.

“It’s bad luck.” Santos’s face turned deathly pale instantly.

The distinctive smell of gunpowder immediately made Santos realize where the bullet came from.

The Demonfire Spear was once a very classic and powerful magical weapon, and could even be considered a milestone in the history of alchemy.

Its essence is a gunpowder weapon enhanced with magic, and its core technology lies in the enchanted barrel and special ammunition.

This groundbreaking design, which divides a magical weapon into two modules—the "weapon itself" and "ammunition"—gives the Magic Fire Gun many possibilities, allowing the user to use different types of ammunition to deal with different enemies.

But its glory ended a thousand years ago.

In the year 8650 of the Nolan calendar, in the workshop of the Oakenli family in the coastal city, the Oakenli alchemists created the first magic gun in the mage plane that was powered by magic crystals and did not require manual loading.

This is undoubtedly another milestone in the history of alchemy.

Compared to the Magic Fire Gun, the core technology of the Magic Energy Gun lies in the Magic Energy Circuit and Magic Crystal Power Supply.

It uses a precise, finely adjustable array of magical energy conduction runes paired with standardized magic crystal slots to create magical energy bullets instead of traditional bullets. Compared to traditional magic fire guns, magic energy guns have advantages such as high rate of fire (as long as the magic crystal has energy, it can fire continuously), simple operation (no need to reload bullets, just replace the power supply magic crystal), long ammunition endurance (a standard Orik crystal has high energy density and small size, making it easier to carry and replenish than bullets), and multiple functions (due to continuous technological advancements), and quickly became the mainstream.

The Demonfire Gun only has one bullet, and it needs to be manually reloaded after each shot, and the reloading process is extremely complicated and tedious.

Not only does it require a certain amount of training to become proficient in the loading process, but loading while moving or in an unfavorable posture is also very difficult.

In addition, special ammunition is difficult to manufacture, extremely expensive, and relatively bulky, limiting its carrying capacity.

The Demonfire Gun itself is also extremely difficult to maintain and repair.

After the appearance of the magic gun, the magic fire gun was generally regarded as a symbol of being bulky, inefficient, and outdated, and gradually disappeared, becoming an old friend eliminated by the tide of history.

After thousands of years of development, the magic gun has undergone dozens of iterations and technological advancements, and has become a prominent category in the field of alchemy, almost rivaling the status of the staff.

Of course, the Oakenliy family remains the undisputed leader in the field of magic gun manufacturing, possessing the most advanced and powerful core technology for magic guns.

The ten most powerful magic guns currently in circulation all originated from the Oakenley family.

However, over the years, with the development of magic gun technology, other workshops have been able to produce qualified or even cost-effective magic guns, and they are no longer the exclusive magic weapons of the Oakenli family.

As a result, the price of magic guns was driven down considerably.

In this situation, who would continue to use the old-fashioned magic fire gun, which is completely outclassed by the magic energy gun in every aspect?
Except for that one.
Sarah Fortune, a legendary figure in Black Sails City in recent decades.

Her personal magical weapon was not a common staff, but an enchanted gun like that of the pirate king Davy Jones.

Moreover, there were two of them.

One of them is the most mainstream magic gun, named "Good Luck".

The other is an old-fashioned magic fire gun that is almost never used anymore and is considered a creation of the previous era.

Its name is "Misfortune".

"Good luck" brings good luck to Sarah; "misfortune" brings misfortune to the enemy.

In other words, this bullet came from "misfortune," from Sarah Fortune.

This is an incredibly despairing thing.

Santos and Walker immediately activated the protective spells of their extraordinary equipment, and at the same time, they unleashed their most powerful protective spells without reservation, wrapping themselves in an energy barrier that was completely impenetrable.

The bullets arrived in the next instant.

The air around them rippled clearly.

Immediately following was a series of sounds of energy shields being destroyed.

Despite the heavy defenses, the silver-gray bullets maintained their speed without diminishing, ruthlessly destroying everything in their path as they hurtled towards the enemy.

It first struck Santos precisely in the neck, splattering blood and shattered muscle tissue everywhere, causing Santos's eyes to widen and bulge out like a dead fish.

The cyan energy on his body instantly dissipated, and he could no longer maintain his flight. Before he could even let out a scream, his body fell from the sky like a kite with a broken string.

The bullets did not stop.

After passing through Santos's neck, it drew an extremely eerie arc in the air and shot into Walker's chest, who was positioned behind Santos.

It didn't penetrate; instead, it exploded directly inside Walker's body.

A huge, charred wound appeared on Walker's chest, collapsing down with its edges curling up to reveal shattered rib fragments.

His eyes were filled with disbelief, and he clutched his chest wound tightly with both hands, but he couldn't stop the blood from gushing out from between his fingers, as if he had suffered a hemorrhage.

The next instant, he plummeted from the sky like Santos.

This simple bullet actually shot down both Santos and Walker at the same time.

Kill two birds with one stone!
In the last moments before Walker's life returned, during his fall and as his consciousness blurred, he looked down and saw a flash of red on the roof of a house below.

It wasn't the dark red of tavern flames, nor the crimson of blood, but a fiery and dazzling red, with an incomparably beautiful flowing form, dancing up and down like seaweed in the salty sea breeze of the Black Sails City.

(End of this chapter)