What is it like to be a teacher as a magister?

Chapter 91 Arrow Experimental Analysis
"Captain Roderick, how is your archery?"

Colin was wearing a black windbreaker and a felt hat. The cold weather made him reluctant to take his hands out of his coat pockets.

Perhaps because of the altitude, Winterwinter Stronghold is cold almost all year round.

"still alright."

Roderick didn't expect the lord to ask this question when he first met, he hesitated and continued: "Because of the particularity of the fortress, we have the longest training time in archery."

Colin nodded to express his understanding, and stretched out his hand to call for Annie and others beside him to come over.

Anne Heckert led seven or eight young manor students up, each holding a quiver in his hand, but there were not many arrows in the quiver.

"This is a modified arrow, I hope you can help me do a test."

Colin casually took out an arrow made of birch from the quiver in Anne's hand, and handed it to Roderick.

Roderick took the seemingly indistinguishable arrow and was slightly stunned for a moment.Then the heavily armed guard captain took off the giant iron bow he was carrying with one hand and walked to the city wall.

"If possible, I hope you can aim at their chests." Colin asked before the opponent made a move.

In normal offensive and defensive battles, large-scale salvos do not require high accuracy, but this does not mean that soldiers cannot be accurate, and Roderick, who is one of the best archers in the team, does not care about this requirement.

"Yes, my lord."

Don't talk about the chest, just shoot the nose.

Roderick drew his bow and arrow neatly, almost without aiming, and shot the arrow.

The running orc was raising its head and roaring, its huge fangs closed and opened like two doors.It was hit by arrows in the face and legs, but the damage couldn't stop it at all.

An unremarkable arrow hit the left chest accurately.

"boom."

There was a moderate cracking sound in his chest, and the orc ran a few more steps relying on inertia, and smelled a smell of barbecue, and then a severe burning sensation came from his chest.

This is more painful than being directly pierced by an arrow.

The straight-line thinking and stubborn character made it want to continue running forward, but in the end it was no match for the instinct of the body, it slowed down slowly, and finally clutched its chest and knelt down on the ground.

Colin said to Anne next to him, "Remember the location of that orc."

"Hmm." Annie seemed to know what to do.

Roderick looked at the scene in front of him in surprise, and immediately understood that it was the effect of the arrow.

"Sir, this is..."

Before he could ask his doubts, Colin drew out an arrow again.

"Try this again."

"Yes."

Roderick could only hold back his doubts and took the arrow.

This time, he kept an eye out and carefully observed the whole arrow when nocking the arrow.

That's right, the birch arrows that the fortress has always used.

After the residents of Twilight City felled the birch on the mountain outside the city, it was split, soaked, polished, feathered, and repaired, and finally it was completed by pressing the arrowhead that was forged by the blacksmith in the city for several hours.

For so many years, the Winter Fortress has largely been guarded by these humble arrows.

No matter the weight or feel, Roderick is too familiar with it.

Can't go wrong.

Except... there seems to be something painted on it...

"Captain Roderick?"

"Yes, my lord."

After realizing that he was in a daze, Roderick didn't continue to check, and immediately selected a target and let go of the arrow.

The effect this time is slightly different from the previous arrow. The power of the blast is not that great. Although the orc who was hit felt uncomfortable, he rubbed his wound with his hand and continued to run forward. However, after the blast, a large number of Sparks scatter in all directions.

It's just that these sparks, which are less than the size of soybeans, have limited damage. After touching the surrounding orcs, they can only burn them at most.

With the numb nerves of orcs, they don't care at all.

Colin turned his head to Anne again and said, "Record the radius of the splash at this range, visually measure the number of sparks, estimate the effect, and then record the last position of that orc."

Annie nodded immediately, then lowered her head and wrote quickly on the notebook in her hand.

Roderick was at a loss for a moment when he heard the lord's words.

I wanted to ask after they had finished their communication.

As a result, just as Colin finished explaining to Anne, he immediately took out another arrow from the quiver next to him.

"Captain Roderick, try this again. This time, I need you to aim at their faces or genitals."

Roderick: "..."

……

There was still no big surprise in this battle.Although the number of orcs has increased a lot, it is still within the expectation of the fortress defenders.

When the last few orcs were gone, Colin looked at the devastated battlefield, and the stench of blood in the air made him a little uncomfortable.

"Captain Roderick, I need to bring back all the orcs who were shot just now, no matter whether they are dead or alive." Colin said, pointing to Annie and the seven or eight students beside him, and said: "They will help you point out the location .”

"Yes, my lord."

After Colin returned to the castle.

Roderick shouted: "Small team, follow me down the city wall."

……

Ke Lin sat on the soft chair behind the desk, half leaning on his body, reading a stack of materials in his hand.

Annie sat opposite, also lowered her head and scratched the manuscript with a pen and said:

"A total of 19 sets of experimental data, of which 6 experimental subjects died on the spot, 5 died two hours later, and 8 are still alive, but according to Captain Roderick's estimation, only one orc can survive at most by tomorrow. "

"Annie, the way you organize the data is very good." Colin admired.

"I learned it according to your article 'Ryegrass Germ Anatomy and Analysis Data'."

"Well, your writing style is better than mine."

"Is this considered an advantage?" Annie smiled.

"Of course, it is said that the graduation thesis of the Youlan Alliance Advanced Magic Academy has a paper score."

"Western Continent..." Annie suddenly sighed.

She herself is a studious person. After reading "Elements and Magic Basics" compiled by Ke Lin, she felt that most of the previous year in the academy was wasted.

Of course, this is not a problem with the academy, but rather the inherent concept of the entire magic world - only magicians are suitable for research, and magic apprentices only need to learn basic skills such as magic pattern inscription - which is equivalent to a magical aspect craftsmen.Although some purely theoretical things will also be taught, in the end it still serves the former.

If everyone thinks this way, there is nothing wrong with it. After all, there is a great demand for "magic craftsmen", and the Youjin Chamber of Commerce has a headache all day long about the lack of excellent magic apprentices.

However, an embarrassing fact is that most of the magic apprentices who can enter the academy to study are for formal magicians. During the apprenticeship, they either dawdle or practice building spell models all day long to prepare for awakening. Few people are willing to calm down Come and learn the theory of elements that are destined not to be used.

This phenomenon is not unique to Tulun, but the Western Continent has less pressure to survive, so magicians are willing to pay more attention to elemental research, which also creates a relatively strong academic atmosphere in it.

After Anne's thinking changed, it was reasonable to yearn for the West Continent.

"According to the comparison of the data, the effect of the magic pattern No. 2, No. 4, No. 9, and No. 15 should be the best, but there is still room for improvement." Colin finally concluded.

"Yes." Annie agreed.

"Then come one by one, try No. 2 first, 87 people, [-] arrows, can you make it in two days?" Ke Lin asked.

"The current students are not very proficient. It takes about 5 minutes to engrave an arrow. Let me do the math...it should be no problem." Annie said.

(End of this chapter)