After a breakfast in which I bickered with Liana like normal, we moved on to the special training field in the forest near our castle.
This place, a roughly 50x50m clear ground was being used for training martial arts for the three of us, and the assassination squad as well.
Their official name is the Silent Death Squad, what a horrifying and cool name, I like it. They're assassins under the direct order of the royal family, their missions usually involve killing highly dangerous criminals, or just taking out enemies silently, if there is a war going on.
Throughout the years of their activities, they have used mostly melee weapons, martial arts, magic or poisons, and such to eliminate the targets. But then I came in, and now they have been trained to use guns as well.
Each one of the seventeen members is equipped with a Glock and an M41https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_carbine, of course, with silencers. It took me quite a while to make all of these, though, the result was quite satisfying.
I'm not sure if this is just the default setting, or rather, characteristic of elves, but our aim is phenomenal. It's on the level of like, that one dude in an FPS game2First Person Shooter game who's just doing 360 no scope non-stop, and somehow they hit you every single time. It's something like that.
Anyway, in the past few years, I've been working on a bunch of different bullet types, and I made one of them specifically for assassination.
I call them Ghost bullets, because when we do eventually have to use guns to kill people in the capital of the Empire... That sounded wrong. But the point is, I don't want to give away anything related to our weapons by letting someone see our empty shells on the ground or even the tips stuck somewhere.
So the solution that I had was to make the bullet itself out of mana, By freezing mana in the air, basically forming lasting mana coats over nothing, with the shapes of the casings and tips, then make the structures of mana so that they shatter upon impact, pour some gunpowder in, and voila, we have ghost bullets that don't leave any obvious traces, with the power of normal bullets.
I didn't use mana to replace gunpowder because I wanted to preserve the durability of the guns, with magic as fuel those bullets became quite taxing for the guns, and not everyone can maintain mana coats over their guns for long enough.
Also, there's the problem of availability, it's not easy to make these, so far only I and several other Advance mages in our production team can make them, and they don't last forever. So we need to use it wisely.
But regardless, I think we're quite ready for our mission.
As I think about that while watching the squad train with their guns, the captain of the squad walks up to us and salutes.
''Good morning, Your Highness and ladies. What may I assist you with today?'' He's Adam, although he looks like a pretty young man with just a few unfortunate minor scars on his face, he's well over 200 and is the master of assassination himself.
''Oh, I don't actually need anything, I just came here to observe you guys training. It looks like you guys are doing pretty good.'' I reply.
''It's an honor, Your Highness.'' He smiles back.
''Ah, we want to train our martial arts today, can we have a few matches?'' Liana raises her hand.
That's right, they wanted to train martial arts with the S.D. squad today, I'm not, my CQC techniques are quite miserable, and having a short figure and a pair of F-cup breasts doesn't help either. Sorry if that sounded like a flex, I know.
I'm here today to carry their lunches, and my lunch as well, having a meal outside sometimes is pretty nice. I had them in my inventory space, I'll have to heat them up later.
The inventory space doesn't freeze time for you, it's such a pity.
''Hey! Anyone want to be Lady Campbell and Lady Seymour's opponent? They're here to train!'' Adam shouts to the people shooting below, causing them to stop firing.
After a few seconds, 7 of them step forward.
''Good, let's clear out space for them.''
It's been a little while since I've started watching these guys fighting. Each one of my friends took on an opponent and fought separately. It's pretty close, actually, although these two are undoubtedly geniuses, without using mana, they still fell short of the well-trained veteran soldiers. This is why it's good to learn from the squad.
After a bunch of exchanges, a woman thrusts her hand towards Liana's throat, stopping just before they touch, both of them panting.
''...That was a good one.'' Says Liana.
''You've improved a lot, my lady.'' The woman smiles.
''Thanks.'' Liana turns her gaze to Emy, who's still fighting a middle-aged man fiercely, and then she turns to me.
''How long has it been?''
''Around 3 hours, it's 11:30 A.M now.''
''Hmm, I think I'll stop for now, help me with my lunch.'' Liana walks towards me while using water and wind magic to clean herself.
''Sure. Let Emy continue the fight for a bit, then.'' I reply, taking out our lunches. It's rice and roasted pork belly today, with scrambled eggs and a lot of veggies, I'm hungry.
I use fire magic to heat the metal boxes up while Liana flops down next to me on the bench I've been sitting on.
''...''
''...You know, sometimes I really think you would make a good wife.'' Liana suddenly says, propping up her chin on her hands, smiling gently.
Why suddenly? And what's that gentle face??
''...That's good then, that means whoever I marry in the future will be lucky.''
''Very true, I'm very lucky indeed.'' Liana moves her left hand behind my neck to pull me closer to her, uses her palm to fix my head facing her, then leans in and kisses my forehead.
chut
Awawawawawawa-
I urgently force my head the other way while pushing the hot lunch box towards her. ''Just eat the lunch before it's cold again...!''
''My, I'm very tired from all that fighting I did, I wonder if there's anybody here that can feed me instead?'' She again pulls me closer to her and makes my face turn back to hers.
''F-Fine, I'll do it, so keep some distance.''
''Heh, sure thing.''
Phew...
So I begin feeding this oversized baby. She happily eats the lunch.
After a bit, I see Emy come back and look at us intently.''...Feed me too, I'm tired.''
''....You lazy bunch.''
After the meal, we rested for a bit, and now we're flying in the air, towards a mountain range where I will be testing my new baby today.
The range is a little bit far, located outside our city. The reason why I have to go here is because of the special bullet I made a while ago, that one definitely couldn't be used anywhere near our castle or our city.
After one suffocating hour of flying, we landed in a clear spot. Before us is a pretty long and vast range with snow-covered mountains standing tall and proud, here I can shoot whatever I want.
Like before, I take out the table and chairs, plus some earplugs as well. I then take out my Hecate II placed in a case I made, together with the bullet box.
''You've been worrying about that bullet for a while now, is it that bad?'' Liana says while looking at one particular shiny bullet in my box.
''In theory, yes, I think it can blow up half of our castle. Even.''
''...That's dangerous, you sure you'll be alright?''
''Don't worry, it won't explode until I activate the spell.''
''Hmm~''
"Let me do the normal bullets first.''
So I take out 7 .50 caliber BMG bullets, load them in the magazine, and then spread out a blanket I prepared beforehand. I set the Hecate down, stabilize it with the bipod at the front and the monopod below the stock.
I lay face down on the blanket, the boobs provide pretty good cushion. Now increase the mana coat on my body, and let's do one on the gun as well, just for sure. Insert the magazine, pull the bolt back and push it forward, that was very satisfying.
I look into the scope, it takes a bit to get used to, but not bad, I can clearly see a few dead trees in the distance, around 1900m or 1950m from here, I think?
''Wow~ I have a very good view here.'' I exclaim.
''Good view indeed.'' Liana whistles. Why do I feel like she's staring at my butt...?
Anyway, I steady my breath, aim carefully at the dead tree, and slowly pull the trigger.
BOOM
Wow, that was a pretty significant concussion, but the recoil is good. Now for the target, looking into the scope again, I can see a sizable hole in the tree, mhmm, I shot just below my mark a bit, I can fix that.
Pulling back the bolt, an empty shell is ejected out of the right side of the gun. I'm ready for the next shot.
So I emptied my mag, and after the first shot, I pretty much bulleyed all of the remaining shots. Shooting this baby was so good.
Standing up and turning back to the table, I can see my friends each holding a binocular, looking at the targets.
''That's terrifying accuracy, and power, even at almost 2 km, this one is insane.''
''I agree.''
''Heheh, that was nice, but now onto the star today.''
I pull out a needlessly fancy-looking bullet in the box, the case is made out of diamond, and the tip is actually the highest quality Lapis Lazuli, shaped into a bullet tip. I call this one 'Gungnir'.
I had to infuse my mana into the tip for almost 5 hours for it to be done, I threw in a spell to make it explode with all the mana inside when I triggered it, and then I infused a layer of mana coat outside so it doesn't break when shooting.
The diamond casing? That's just for decoration. Don't blame me on it.
Anyway, I load in the bullet and lie down again. Now pull the bolt and push the bullet into the barrel, I'm nervous.
After aiming at the dead tree for a good minute, I finally pull the trigger back.
BOOM
The bullet flies out, leaving behind a blue trail, hitting the dead tree, to trigger the explosion, I need to snap my finger-
snap
I then witness an enormous blue explosion on the side of the mountain, blinding me for a second, after the initial explosion, smoke is gushing up from the spot, looking like a mushroom.
Exactly 5.5 seconds after the explosion, the sound hit us-
BOOOOOOM
After a while, the smoke clears out, and I can see-
Half of the mountain is gone.
''...My wife is scary.'' Liana mutters.
After a breakfast in which I bickered with Liana like normal, we moved on to the special training field in the forest near our castle.
This place, a roughly 50x50m clear ground was being used for training martial arts for the three of us, and the assassination squad as well.
Their official name is the Silent Death Squad, what a horrifying and cool name, I like it. They're assassins under the direct order of the royal family, their missions usually involve killing highly dangerous criminals, or just taking out enemies silently, if there is a war going on.
Throughout the years of their activities, they have used mostly melee weapons, martial arts, magic or poisons, and such to eliminate the targets. But then I came in, and now they have been trained to use guns as well.
Each one of the seventeen members is equipped with a Glock and an M41https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_carbine, of course, with silencers. It took me quite a while to make all of these, though, the result was quite satisfying.
I'm not sure if this is just the default setting, or rather, characteristic of elves, but our aim is phenomenal. It's on the level of like, that one dude in an FPS game2First Person Shooter game who's just doing 360 no scope non-stop, and somehow they hit you every single time. It's something like that.
Anyway, in the past few years, I've been working on a bunch of different bullet types, and I made one of them specifically for assassination.
I call them Ghost bullets, because when we do eventually have to use guns to kill people in the capital of the Empire... That sounded wrong. But the point is, I don't want to give away anything related to our weapons by letting someone see our empty shells on the ground or even the tips stuck somewhere.
So the solution that I had was to make the bullet itself out of mana, By freezing mana in the air, basically forming lasting mana coats over nothing, with the shapes of the casings and tips, then make the structures of mana so that they shatter upon impact, pour some gunpowder in, and voila, we have ghost bullets that don't leave any obvious traces, with the power of normal bullets.
I didn't use mana to replace gunpowder because I wanted to preserve the durability of the guns, with magic as fuel those bullets became quite taxing for the guns, and not everyone can maintain mana coats over their guns for long enough.
Also, there's the problem of availability, it's not easy to make these, so far only I and several other Advance mages in our production team can make them, and they don't last forever. So we need to use it wisely.
But regardless, I think we're quite ready for our mission.
As I think about that while watching the squad train with their guns, the captain of the squad walks up to us and salutes.
''Good morning, Your Highness and ladies. What may I assist you with today?'' He's Adam, although he looks like a pretty young man with just a few unfortunate minor scars on his face, he's well over 200 and is the master of assassination himself.
''Oh, I don't actually need anything, I just came here to observe you guys training. It looks like you guys are doing pretty good.'' I reply.
''It's an honor, Your Highness.'' He smiles back.
''Ah, we want to train our martial arts today, can we have a few matches?'' Liana raises her hand.
That's right, they wanted to train martial arts with the S.D. squad today, I'm not, my CQC techniques are quite miserable, and having a short figure and a pair of F-cup breasts doesn't help either. Sorry if that sounded like a flex, I know.
I'm here today to carry their lunches, and my lunch as well, having a meal outside sometimes is pretty nice. I had them in my inventory space, I'll have to heat them up later.
The inventory space doesn't freeze time for you, it's such a pity.
''Hey! Anyone want to be Lady Campbell and Lady Seymour's opponent? They're here to train!'' Adam shouts to the people shooting below, causing them to stop firing.
After a few seconds, 7 of them step forward.
''Good, let's clear out space for them.''
It's been a little while since I've started watching these guys fighting. Each one of my friends took on an opponent and fought separately. It's pretty close, actually, although these two are undoubtedly geniuses, without using mana, they still fell short of the well-trained veteran soldiers. This is why it's good to learn from the squad.
After a bunch of exchanges, a woman thrusts her hand towards Liana's throat, stopping just before they touch, both of them panting.
''...That was a good one.'' Says Liana.
''You've improved a lot, my lady.'' The woman smiles.
''Thanks.'' Liana turns her gaze to Emy, who's still fighting a middle-aged man fiercely, and then she turns to me.
''How long has it been?''
''Around 3 hours, it's 11:30 A.M now.''
''Hmm, I think I'll stop for now, help me with my lunch.'' Liana walks towards me while using water and wind magic to clean herself.
''Sure. Let Emy continue the fight for a bit, then.'' I reply, taking out our lunches. It's rice and roasted pork belly today, with scrambled eggs and a lot of veggies, I'm hungry.
I use fire magic to heat the metal boxes up while Liana flops down next to me on the bench I've been sitting on.
''...''
''...You know, sometimes I really think you would make a good wife.'' Liana suddenly says, propping up her chin on her hands, smiling gently.
Why suddenly? And what's that gentle face??
''...That's good then, that means whoever I marry in the future will be lucky.''
''Very true, I'm very lucky indeed.'' Liana moves her left hand behind my neck to pull me closer to her, uses her palm to fix my head facing her, then leans in and kisses my forehead.
chut
Awawawawawawa-
I urgently force my head the other way while pushing the hot lunch box towards her. ''Just eat the lunch before it's cold again...!''
''My, I'm very tired from all that fighting I did, I wonder if there's anybody here that can feed me instead?'' She again pulls me closer to her and makes my face turn back to hers.
''F-Fine, I'll do it, so keep some distance.''
''Heh, sure thing.''
Phew...
So I begin feeding this oversized baby. She happily eats the lunch.
After a bit, I see Emy come back and look at us intently.''...Feed me too, I'm tired.''
''....You lazy bunch.''
After the meal, we rested for a bit, and now we're flying in the air, towards a mountain range where I will be testing my new baby today.
The range is a little bit far, located outside our city. The reason why I have to go here is because of the special bullet I made a while ago, that one definitely couldn't be used anywhere near our castle or our city.
After one suffocating hour of flying, we landed in a clear spot. Before us is a pretty long and vast range with snow-covered mountains standing tall and proud, here I can shoot whatever I want.
Like before, I take out the table and chairs, plus some earplugs as well. I then take out my Hecate II placed in a case I made, together with the bullet box.
''You've been worrying about that bullet for a while now, is it that bad?'' Liana says while looking at one particular shiny bullet in my box.
''In theory, yes, I think it can blow up half of our castle. Even.''
''...That's dangerous, you sure you'll be alright?''
''Don't worry, it won't explode until I activate the spell.''
''Hmm~''
"Let me do the normal bullets first.''
So I take out 7 .50 caliber BMG bullets, load them in the magazine, and then spread out a blanket I prepared beforehand. I set the Hecate down, stabilize it with the bipod at the front and the monopod below the stock.
I lay face down on the blanket, the boobs provide pretty good cushion. Now increase the mana coat on my body, and let's do one on the gun as well, just for sure. Insert the magazine, pull the bolt back and push it forward, that was very satisfying.
I look into the scope, it takes a bit to get used to, but not bad, I can clearly see a few dead trees in the distance, around 1900m or 1950m from here, I think?
''Wow~ I have a very good view here.'' I exclaim.
''Good view indeed.'' Liana whistles. Why do I feel like she's staring at my butt...?
Anyway, I steady my breath, aim carefully at the dead tree, and slowly pull the trigger.
BOOM
Wow, that was a pretty significant concussion, but the recoil is good. Now for the target, looking into the scope again, I can see a sizable hole in the tree, mhmm, I shot just below my mark a bit, I can fix that.
Pulling back the bolt, an empty shell is ejected out of the right side of the gun. I'm ready for the next shot.
So I emptied my mag, and after the first shot, I pretty much bulleyed all of the remaining shots. Shooting this baby was so good.
Standing up and turning back to the table, I can see my friends each holding a binocular, looking at the targets.
''That's terrifying accuracy, and power, even at almost 2 km, this one is insane.''
''I agree.''
''Heheh, that was nice, but now onto the star today.''
I pull out a needlessly fancy-looking bullet in the box, the case is made out of diamond, and the tip is actually the highest quality Lapis Lazuli, shaped into a bullet tip. I call this one 'Gungnir'.
I had to infuse my mana into the tip for almost 5 hours for it to be done, I threw in a spell to make it explode with all the mana inside when I triggered it, and then I infused a layer of mana coat outside so it doesn't break when shooting.
The diamond casing? That's just for decoration. Don't blame me on it.
Anyway, I load in the bullet and lie down again. Now pull the bolt and push the bullet into the barrel, I'm nervous.
After aiming at the dead tree for a good minute, I finally pull the trigger back.
BOOM
The bullet flies out, leaving behind a blue trail, hitting the dead tree, to trigger the explosion, I need to snap my finger-
snap
I then witness an enormous blue explosion on the side of the mountain, blinding me for a second, after the initial explosion, smoke is gushing up from the spot, looking like a mushroom.
Exactly 5.5 seconds after the explosion, the sound hit us-
BOOOOOOM
After a while, the smoke clears out, and I can see-
Half of the mountain is gone.
''...My wife is scary.'' Liana mutters.
