My health recovery is incredibly fast.

"Then this kind of underwater reconnaissance tool will have to be used as a consumable. The enemy will definitely destroy it immediately when they spot it. We need to carefully weigh the cost and benefits of its production. Oh... wait... I see them."

Hillenburg's team immediately stopped moving.

The same goes for Field's squad.

"The flag of the Crystal Remnants is about 160 meters directly in front of me, corresponding to plot F4:B2:A1." Helenburg paused, examined it carefully, and then said:

"I saw their team, all four squads were standing silently by the flag."

“Looks like they’re just waiting for us to walk right into their trap.” Huberon pondered the enemy’s strategy for a few seconds. “Everyone, prepare to attack. Team leader and Field, you two step back a bit and use underwater bullets to fire at them alternately. The rest of you, aim at the F4:B2:A1 area and fire in short bursts.”

“Shazo,” Huberon called out to the control panel, “correct our trajectory.”

"Received, I've got it." Xia Zuo kept a close eye on the monitoring bead, then found the battle map and a pencil.

"5 seconds to go, attack. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, fire!" Huberon slammed the trigger of his makeshift sniper rifle.

A stream of water shot out from the gun muzzle, carrying a faint blue glow from the magic array, and rushed swiftly and silently toward the target hundreds of meters away.

Sniper rifles, also known as precision marksman rifles, require manual bolt action to eject spent cartridges and reload.

Its barrel is much longer than most rifles, and the barrel is extremely gas-tight before the bolt is pulled back.

This means that almost all the kinetic energy is concentrated in the bullet, and the bullet's muzzle velocity and accuracy will be far higher than those of semi-automatic or fully automatic kinetic energy firearms.

In the first round of firing, the underwater bullets fired by Huberon, along with the attacks from the two vanguard squads, landed next to the Crystal Remnant's group.

The Crystal Remnants reacted quickly; upon detecting the rapidly approaching underwater bullets, they immediately deployed water shields to deflect the projectiles.

Just when they thought the fast-flying underwater bullets would be deflected, a dozen supercavitation bubbles appeared out of nowhere, blooming like white fireworks around the Crystal Remnants.

Sand and gravel churned, rocks shattered, and seawater surged wildly. The fragile supercavitation bubble unleashed astonishing destructive power, devouring everything around it like a ravenous beast.

The crystal remnant's water shield became the first main course of supercavitation.

This water-based spell, which uses high-speed water flow to deflect projectiles onto open ground on both sides, encountered a formidable opponent. Their water flow was ruthlessly cut off by supercavitation, turning into scattered water droplets that barely managed to deflect the slender underwater projectiles.

The Crystal Remnants blocked most of the underwater bullets, but because the Water Shield spell was forcibly terminated, the combat puppets that supplied it with energy inevitably fell into a very brief pause.

The remaining underwater bullets caused effective damage, carrying rings of bubbles as they penetrated the ranks of the Crystal Remnants, tearing apart the reactive deflector shields blocking their way.

The Crystal Remnant's Blessing Master enhanced the output power of the Resist Aura emitter, and a bright yellow halo surrounded the position, deflecting underwater bullets, but it was helpless against supercavitation.

Two combat golems underestimated the power of the bubbles and were deceived by their apparent fragility; their arms were torn off in an instant.

"Outstanding effect!" Xia Zuo cheered. "Of the 13 underwater bullets, 10 were blocked, and the remaining 3 severely injured two combat golems. The crystal survivors haven't even realized that the damage was caused by the supercavitation. They are currently condensing an even more powerful water shield. Six combat golems are about to launch water mines. Be careful to avoid them!"

Xia Zuo's reminder was timely; within two seconds of his words, a large number of mines shot over.

The projectile, which explodes upon impact with a hard object, was deflected by the Hillenburg team's water shields.

The loud explosions were quite a spectacle, but they only resulted in two minor injuries.

After nearly 20 seconds of back-and-forth firing, the two sides exchanged fire.

Xia Zuo scribbled on the battle map, quickly drew a few solid lines with a pencil, and said after doing some mental calculations:

"Huberon, adjust the horizontal position 6 degrees to the right and the vertical position 2 degrees downward to reduce the power delay by 1.2 seconds. This firing direction is directly facing the main force of the Crystal Remnants."

"Roger." Huberon paused firing, turned the gear with the ratchet wrench, clicked and clicked, the gear turned slightly, adjusted it was in place, and continued firing!

“Daniel, adjust your horizontal position 7 degrees to the left. There’s a tubular coral in the trajectory direction. Blow it up, and then you can directly hit the densely populated areas of the enemy. The power reduction delay is also 1.2 seconds,” Shazo said.

"Roger that." After a brief pause, Danielle's team fired again, first bombarding the tubular coral with mines, and then switching to underwater bullets after hearing the collapse.

The Crystal Remnants did not disappoint the rapid response advantage brought by the crystal array.

Except for the first round of mines used to locate Hillenburg's team, which were not detonated, all subsequent mines exploded before hitting the water shield. Shrapnel swept through the space around the enemy, and sand and dust rose from the sea, but this did not slow down Hillenburg's team's offensive.

In the next few minutes, everyone realized they had underestimated the power of underwater bullets! Including Hillenburg's team!

When a naval mine is launched, it takes about one second to adjust the direction of the blast hole and set the detonation method and detonation delay.

However, underwater bullets don't require such complicated procedures. As long as the firing angle is adjusted, the corresponding elemental energy is injected into the gun, and the delay time for reducing the power of the magic array is adjusted, the firing interval can be reduced to no more than 0.5 seconds. If you are skilled enough, you can reduce it to 0.3 seconds.

It has a faster firing rate than the opponent, and its bullets travel at more than twice the speed of the opponent's bullets. It consumes less energy and has a strong power.

In a direct firefight, the Crystal Remnants would be no match for Hillenburg's group.

"Two more of them have fallen!" Xia Zuo shouted.

Huberon gave the order:

"Field, lead your team to bypass our trajectory and advance. Team leader, keep firing and provide cover for Field's team."

"Roger that!"

“Go, Field! We’ll do everything we can to suppress them.” Hillenburg said, increasing his power output and channeling most of his energy into his underwater rifle.

A barrage of underwater bullets pounded against the water shield, and the Crystal Remnants, their vision obscured by the violently trembling white bubbles, failed to notice the movements of Field's squad in time...

It's also possible that they simply don't have the energy to spare.

After discovering that water shields were ineffective against underwater bullets, they tried stone shields and sand shields in turn, but to no avail. Under the pressure difference of supercavitation, unless the hardness level reached 100 or higher, they were no different from blank paper.

“Huberon, we’re only 30 meters away from them.” Field paused, then typed in a few numbers. “1, 2, 3… The remaining eight of them are all near the flag. Should we gamble on cluster bombs and wipe them all out?”

There is a hidden way to win in Capture the Flag mode: eliminate all enemy targets.

“Okay, Field. Throw accurately, you only have one chance,” Huberon said.

Field raised his right fist behind a rock that served as cover, signaling his men to stop. "Use my mine magazine as a cluster bomb. Quick, stuff all your mines in there."

On the back of Field's combat golem was a metal canister that looked like an oxygen cylinder, containing uncharged sea mines.

After being disassembled, this canister can be thrown out and used as a cluster bomb, detonated by either a delayed detonation or manual detonation.

Field took the mine from his teammate, stuffed it into his own magazine, and then filled it with almost all its energy. When the magazine glowed with a ghostly blue light, he shouted:

"Cover me!"

The team members fired their guns, creating a barrage of bullets that obscured the vision of the Crystal Remnants.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Field sprinted forward, twisting his body outside the blast radius of the cluster bomb, and the magazine in his hand flew out of his palm in an arc.

A beautiful blue trail of flame shot out from the tail of the magazine, reaching above the heads of the Crystal Remnants before plummeting straight down.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

The seabed trembled slightly, and the sound of a huge explosion echoed in the trench, weaving together a soul-stirring roar.

This cluster bomb contained at least 60 mines, enough to thoroughly excavate the area around the Crystal Remnant's flag several times over, leaving absolutely no survivors.

The explosion lasted for nearly three minutes before gradually subsiding, and the sand and dust that filled the sky gradually settled into the sand bed.

"Ding~" The alchemy room of the Crystal Remnants turned on the lamps on the base, using yellow and white light to indicate that they had surrendered.

"Yes! We won!"

"Hahaha! We won!"

"fantastic!"

"Underwater bullets are so powerful!"

Xia Zuo heard cheers and laughed happily.

Although it was a friendly match, with friendship first and competition second, winning is still a happy thing!

Huberon clenched his fist and waved it, patting the makeshift sniper rifle that had fallen apart, filled with hope for Hillenburg's team to advance.

Just 10 seconds before Field's team was to drop the cluster bomb, the makeshift sniper rifle reached its limit and exploded into parts with a loud bang...

Huberon's action of pulling the trigger was thus interrupted.

In that instant, he snapped out of his battle frenzy and scanned his teammates' status in a few seconds.

It's a combat state where the person and the gun resonate with each other. The person only needs to pull the trigger to fire bullets and attack the enemy, without having to worry about any messy parameters such as detonation method, explosion direction, detonation time, etc.

Pulling the trigger and firing away is the truly enjoyable way to shoot.

Chapter 76 Azure-Eyed Spinosaurus

The upper ocean in the western Mediterranean.

This place is close to the border between the Silvermoon Federation and the Crystal Remnant Territory, and navigation is only permitted with permission from the Federation army.

The floating castle in Lumington dispatched two licensed tugboats to guide Hillenberg's team's integrated underwater alchemy chamber back to the floating castle.

The return journey did not require Hillenburg's team to control the course, which was perfect for conducting a post-war debriefing.

At the conference table in the alchemy lab, the members sat in their seats, having calmed down from the battle, with a hint of joy still on their faces.

For a team composed entirely of alchemists, winning their first encounter with another player is definitely a morale-boosting event.

They were either whispering to their companions or biting their pens as they summarized their experiences in their notebooks.

Hillenburg appeared in a beam of teleportation. He had just met alone with Kra Arcane, the leader of the Arcane Alchemist Group—a purely alchemical exchange conducted under the supervision of guards in both locations, without involving other fields, as required by the Temple's decree.

"Guys, I'm back. Clara O'Dragon was full of praise for our underwater bullets. Haha, he joked that his own combat puppets were as fragile as bubbles in the face of underwater bullets," Hillenburg laughed heartily.

“They must be incredibly curious about these bullets, haha,” Field laughed.

Huberon chuckled a few times, but then frowned. "If you ask me, with the alchemical talent of the Crystal Remnants, discovering the existence of supercavitation wouldn't be difficult. Perhaps they'll develop it soon."

“Don’t panic, Huberon. Hehe.” Hillenburg chuckled meaningfully and said:

"The feedback results for our underwater bullet patent will be available soon."

"The live footage of the battle just now was delivered to the castle's administrators by the guards of the sea castle. If all goes well, the Category 3 Disaster Response Department of Lumington City will help us push forward the patent application process for underwater bullets."

The group of members chuckled softly.

Within the alchemical school, patents are considered sacred and inviolable.

Once a patent application is approved, it will provide patent protection for up to 100 years.

During this period, anyone who infringes on another's patent will be punished by the alchemy school.

Often, alchemists who intend to plagiarize the alchemical achievements of others can bypass patents by controlling the degree of similarity and thus imitate a certain alchemical tool.

However, this approach may not work with underwater bullets.

Before Xia Zuo applied for a patent for underwater bullets with his team, he took some time to carefully recall information about underwater bullets from his previous life.