Chapter 46: Chapter 46 Sky Sniping (Please Follow)
Back in his dorm room, Richard set Wuni free, guiding it towards Chax’s laboratory.
During this period, Richard had completed the implantation of the Soul Seed. He could now not only see through Wuni’s eyes but also control it to carry out certain operations. Through Wuni’s vision, Richard could clearly see the apprentices on the ground from nearly a kiloter high in the sky at night.
This was the source of Richard’s confidence.
After handing over Wuni, Richard began the task of making “bullets.”
The choice of material for the bullets was crucial.
Richard knew that Joseph definitely had Magic Equipnt on him that served as armor. It was very likely to have full Defense Magic protection, covering both physical and magical attacks.
To breach this protection, Richard decided to invest heavily, opting to make bullets out of a Demon-Breaking tal, sold for one Magic Stone per gram.
This type of tal had a certain degree of demon-breaking properties. Upon contact with a Magic Barrier, it would “wedge” the magic aside, making it the best choice for breaking through Defense Magic.
Shaping, grinding, polishing… Richard spent a whole night making the bullets. By the dawn of the next day, four deep grey bullet heads with tapered tails lay on his table.
With the bullets ready, the next step was to test their power and how to mitigate strong wind interference.
According to Richard’s plan, he would control Wuni to fly at an altitude of five hundred ters to shoot, but this brought up another issue: avoiding wind interference.
Given the high speed of the bullets, even a slight gust could send the bullets off course by a significant margin.
“Perhaps a spell could counteract it,” Richard mused while looking at the bullets.
Although the anti-magic properties of the tal might interfere with or even nullify the effects of spells, that weakening process needed ti.
And he only required the spell to last less than a second to counteract the wind’s interference. This weakening process was of little concern to him.
With his idea in mind, Richard added a structure similar to a shell at the end of the bullet. This structure was etched with a spell known as Airflow Barrier, allowing the bullet to fly without disturbance from airflow during its trajectory.
“Caaw! Caaw!”
Suddenly, a series of crow cries ca from outside the window. Richard turned to see the modified Wuni return to the balcony.
From the outside, Wuni looked unchanged. But when Richard controlled it to open its mouth, a steel pipe startlingly protruded from its throat.
A piece of parchnt was tied to Wuni’s leg. Richard opened it and found written instructions on feeding Wuni.
After the modification, Wuni could no longer eat with its beak, so Chax had installed a mouth on Wuni’s abdon. The food could be chewed by this abdominal mouth before being sent directly into the digestive system for digestion.
Richard enticed Wuni’s abdominal mouth, which was concealed by feathers, to open wide. Instantly, a gaping, sharp-toothed orifice appeared before Richard. He fed flesh into it, and within seconds, the piece of flesh was reduced to minced at and sent into Wuni’s digestive system.
“Curse Wizards’ creature modification… Truly boundless imagination,” Richard remarked, then took Wuni to the test zone.
After renting a secluded area to avoid surveillance by the Academy Inspector, Richard spent ten Magic Stones to rent a tal target equipped with a Magic Barrier.
Controlling Wuni to fly close to five hundred ters in the air, Richard carefully adjusted Wuni’s position; at such a height, a slight deviation could lead to missing the target.
“Three, two, one, fire!”
Richard counted silently, then used magic to activate the Magic Equipnt.
Magic flowed through the Magic Conduction circuit, activating rune after rune. Shortly thereafter, the Power Spell was activated, and the bullet started moving;
Bang!
Sparks erupted on the tal target. Its built-in Magic Barrier only slightly reduced the velocity of the anti-magic bullets, but the bullet that passed through the barrier easily penetrated its tallic body, leaving behind a bullet hole with burnt edges.
“Good effect.” Richard smiled satisfiedly as he looked at the bullet hole.
Next, Richard tried targets with double and triple barriers; in the end, he confird that the effective lethal number of barriers for the anti-magic bulletheads was three. Beyond three layers, the bullet would lose all potency.
“This power is enough. If he can deploy four layers of protection and I still can’t kill him,” Richard muttered as he touched the bullet hole, “I’ll accept that.”
…
The news of the failed curse quickly reached Joseph’s ears. The people from Turn Alley refunded half of the deposit to indicate that they were abandoning the business. The other half that wasn’t given was their paynt for the attempt.
“A bunch of useless wretches!” Joseph slamd his fist onto the table, creating a big dent on the surface of his newly purchased desk.
Though he had prepared himself for this outco, this did not quell his towering rage.
He had hired a senior Curse Wizard from Turn Alley. Accordingly, even if Richard had proxies and Curse Wizards to help him, shouldn’t this curse have at least caused him so injury, if not his life?
But why hadn’t he heard any news at all?
News of an alchemy apprentice, flourishing in the business district, being severely injured by a curse couldn’t possibly stay contained.
But now, all was calm.
Joseph paced around his room anxiously. If Richard didn’t die, his Magic Potion business wouldn’t possibly recover.
He had seen Richard’s Magic Potions; their nearly terrifying consistent quality sent chills down his spine.
How could soone produce a hundred bottles of Magic Potion a month and yet maintain almost the sa quality?
Ultimately, after pacing countless tis around the room, Joseph swept up his sleeves, approached a drawer, and took out a Curse Worm and a scarecrow-shaped Magic Equipnt.
He knew that he couldn’t keep his cursing of Richard a secret. He’d been too sloppy with it, anyone who knew the connections could guess that he was the perpetrator.
But fortunately, even if the mission from Turn Alley failed, they wouldn’t disclose the employer’s na; he needn’t worry about the Academy Inspector arresting him.
For the short term, he only needed to be wary should Richard seek revenge by the sa ans.
After securing the Magic Equipnt and the Curse Worm, Joseph left the Central Black Tower to clear his mind.
As he stepped out of the Black Tower, a pair of eyes fixedly watched him.
“So, you’ve finally co out?” Richard coldly chuckled as he observed Joseph through a sensory link from his room on the fifty-sixth floor of the Central Black Tower.
In the pitch-black night sky, the wings fluttered by Wuni rged almost seamlessly with the night. It constantly circled above Joseph’s head, adjusting its position, while Joseph on the ground inexplicably felt a chill running down his spine.
He felt as though sothing was watching him.
“Who?” Joseph cautiously scanned the surrounding woods, as two layers of pale blue barrier appeared on him. “It’s against the rules to take action within the Academy.”
There was no response from the woods, but his sense of crisis kept escalating.
“Who is watching ?” Joseph continued to turn, trying to find what was focusing on him, but he never did see that in the sky above, a crow was glowing with the brilliance of Magic Power.
Richard smiled, and a black flash shot out from Wuni’s mouth, traveling at maximum speed aided by the Airflow Barrier, without even touching the air until…
Bang!
The anti-magic tal collided with the Magic Barrier, producing a loud noise, and a burst of blood mist exploded.
In the sky, the Death Crow cawed joyfully.
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