116 retribution 3 (1/2)
Thinking about it, Alex could see the appeals of her idea, while not optimal, it would be good to start with their food supplies. Taking the wagon won't do, seeing their size, the dragon knights would immediately see it from the sky, even in the night. The fact that soldiers had lits fires all around the commodities storage wouldn't facilitate it.
He could just take his aircraft and just drop a few tens of hydrogen canister but destroying that much food when he knows it would be used for the less fortunate didn't sit well with him. Is the best shoot was to creates a distraction.
Nodding had is thoughts he know it was time to craft more weapons. Unwilling to implicates the girls into this, he takes out Tiffania house to let them stay inside rather than the cramped interior of the cockpit, after casting an overpowered notice-me-not ward on it.
It was far from the perfect solution, but they had already the shade of the woods to protect them and the house wouldn't move, as long as the dragon knights only patrol the area and not actively search for them here, they would be fine.
Taking enough materials, he recreates his aircraft' railgun in the shape of an M1 Garand. A scope enchanted with IR, night vision, and zoom hallowing shoot until 4.500 feet.
The rifle itself had a silencing, self-filling, unbreakable, recoil-absorption, ammo-selection and stabilisation enchant.
Taking his crafting table, he rapidly devises the same bullets used for is plane, but rather that the ten-second return enchants, he opts for a keyed portkey. The first was the usual portkey, set to activate at the impact, and leading to two different locations. The other was a portkey beacon. At the moment of impact, it would register the location coordinates, sent them into a terminal at his side and return, ready to be used again.
The first two rounds were created like the other, Evans steel core and Steel outer shell, enchanted with 1 and 2 denomination, and an additional self-repairing enchant in case they came across something enough to deform them. The other round would be the inverse, a steel core and an Evans steel outer shell to prevent any mishap.
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Leaving the bullets being products, he enters deeper into the wood he set the first portkey point. Transmuting the ground to make a little more place, he delimits the fifty zone that will receive the wagons, each of the fifty bullets leading to a unique emplacement to avoid any mishap.
After working on other trinkets he would surely need he depart for laying another part of his plan.
A little further, he creates a large 100*100 feet stone box without a lid. A liberal amount of bottomless enchant later, he set the portkey point in the centre of the box, two meters in the air. Done with his preparation, he returns to the House, founding the two girls playing board games he made for them while he works on the army demise.
Wath was left was to wait for the night to come.
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After the two had gone to sleep, not before a small amount of protestation, I settle on the highest tree of the copse he had set the two portkey locations.
Aiming with my enhanced M1 Garand' scope, I could see the dragon knight changing of the Guard, through the night vision of my scope. Using the moment of distraction, I start to fire rounds after rounds, aiming first for the centre of the formation of the wagon.
Behind me, I could hear the soft sound of the wagon appearing and cushioned by the cushioning charms put on the emplacement.
Thank the recoil absorption and stabilisation enchantment, aiming at the wagons was a breeze. By the time they soar into the sky and start their patrol, I had already potched nine of them.
Put in two separated five by five formation. I would have at most until shooting the first layer before they understand what happened. Having emptied the first core of the formation, I start on the other one.
I won't have to fear them founding the wagon from the air, the concealing rings that I put on the surrounding tree top would see to that, but I need to be careful about the girls. Even if they are sleeping into the aircraft with it camouflage active 1,500 feet behind. I could attract them to it if I m not fast enough.
A quick peek at the sky throughout the scope tell me that they would soon return and overflight the encampment. Not fast enough before I poach nine other wagons. Holding my breath, I see the first group fly over without a second glance beneath. They are either looking for an outside threat ore a growing lazy, either way, it plays in my favour.
Changing for the rounds '2' I raise my rifle, aiming at the dragon on the end of the formation. A silent shoot and three seconds later, I hear the slight sound of whistling wind when the corpse appear just above the open box.
The moment he appears, I had already shot the next, that rejoin him. If the knight weren't crushed under its body' weight, their shout wouldn't be heard thanking the silenced box. Taking them down as fast as possible Was able to take them down before they were too far, but I nearly miss my last two shoots.
'I will need to strike before they are too far from the camp, it had its risk, but I don't have the choice.
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Using the time need to the second group to appears, he snipes the sleeping guards around the fire, drunk if the upsides skin and the dark patch on the grass was to be trusted.
While he was thankful that the discipline was this lax, he knows that he was deemed to be found sooner or later.
The alarm was given by the second group of dragon knights. Seeming more duty-driven that the first, they had immediately seen the missing half of the wagons. The silence of the night was broken by the sudden yell and stomping of waking soldiers. his surprise attack busted, he immediately shoots the remaining wagons, robing them under the powerless eyes of the dragon knight.
Done with the first phase, he starts to shoot down the beasts themselves. By sniping the dragon in the middle of their formation, he would throw confusion inside their rank and leave him more time to kill more.
After losing two other groups, they seem to understand that the opposite side was able to snipe them in the air, so they land.
It didn't change something but he leaves them into their false sense of safety, his second target starting to gathers.
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In the middle of the camps, a large tent was erected to allow the officer meeting. Ten minutes after the alarm was given, all the general, their aid and most of the officer in charge of the different platoon were regrouped.
”What do we know?”
”All our food supplies are gone, not a single trace left behind.” Report grimly the officer in charge of their transport and safety. His report didn't seem to be welcome when the general that ask for it strike his fist on the wooden table between them.
”How? How could fifty goddamnit wagons worth of several tons of food vanish out of the blue! What were doing the guards, why didn't they report immediately?!” Angrily shout him.
The officer was feeling the heated glare of all present, swallowing difficulty, he gives what he knows will anger them more.
”By the trace left behind, they were most than likely drunk.” There was a silence for a few seconds before the same general explode.