Chapter 747 (1/2)

The night was not the perfect hour to fight

The sun and thethe Months of De desert, faintly tracing the curve of sand hills The area which light failed to penetrate was, in contrast, pitch dark

Given the poor lighting condition, torches beca

When glitters of fires eed here and there in the oasis' direction, Danny polished his clip, slipped it into the loading port and bolted

”Attention, ene”

”I saw them”

He first mimicked Malt's voice and then replied to himself

In this way, he could pretend that Malt was still fighting beside hier a member of the sniper team

Shortly after Danny had been released froun battalion, Brian had coht him a brand new flintlock

It was exactly the one he was holding right now

Although the new flintlock did not look any different froun used by the sniper tea it in the hand

Like longswords that bore a sied by blacks purposes; some of them, however, were splendid weapons, whose blade could bite into flesh as easily as cutting through cheese

The leamed, its surface as smooth as a maid's skin The joints were all polished like a work of art The gun was perfectly s

What surprised Danny raved with two straight, crisscrossed fine lines, the intersection of which exactly aligned with the place where a bullet should land

Danny did not understand why the distant target, which had been blurry and tiny earlier, becah the telescope This un had, in a way, been extended During the testing shooting session, Danny had further verified his theory He had noticed that the new flintlock was un When there was no or little wind, he could successfully hit the huet 500 meters aith a headshot at an accuracy of 90

When he had learned that the weapon had been specially made for him by His Majesty, Danny had aliven high hopes by his Majesty and was even granted the power to freely choose his shooting positions Danny knew he had nothing to pay back the king for his benevolence but his own life

When Brian had asked him whether he wanted to select a protector, however, Danny had declined the offer immediately

He had his own protector already

It was this gun

And Malt

Like his coed and they covered the desert like fallen stars Before every battle, the superiors would usually disclose the operation intention and operation target to each team in detail so that soldiers would knohen they should expect to see the battle end

For example, the cannon unit would lit bonfires at their rampart and fire every seven minutes or so to entice ene off strength froeneral attack at dawn The lit battle the firing rate was to avoid a fierce, swift bo enemies

Of course, Danny knew the artillery battalion did not have the capability to control their firing rate

Soldiers from the artillery battalion had no idea how ant, incohters who probably could not even transport basic equipbird not helped theun battalion were un battalion was responsible for carrying both weapons and ammunition