For them, I believe in superior firepower

Chapter 1 reopened, started killing, and was caught by the saint

"I lost again."

Sitting in front of the computer, Xia En couldn't help sighing as he looked at the words Defeated on the screen.

"Era of the Firmament", in this RPG game, players need to play the leading role of the "life" path, leading the three heroines to explore the continent of Aurora, take part in adventures, exterminate alien beasts, and demons' invasion of humans.

The goal is very clear, the main theme is also very strong, even the paths of the three heroines are strong battle paths, the kind that is completely fine if there are more than one dozen.

The configuration is quite perfect.

But the problem is...

In the setting of this game, there is intimacy between the characters.

If the degree of intimacy is not well controlled, the three heroines will be at odds. They don't want to fight monsters and get promoted, but only want to have something to lose.

It made Xia En obviously play an RPG, but he felt like playing a love galgame abruptly.

Of course, the reason is that the characters controlled by Xia En are too weak.

His "Life" path has strong auxiliary abilities, but his sequence promotion is slow and his combat effectiveness is weak.

In the case where you can neither sleep... ahem, persuasion, nor convince the heroines, all kinds of decisions and actions for them will suffer a "limited effect" debuff.

So when fighting the BOSS, it is difficult for the heroines to obey orders and command.

Under such circumstances, they will easily be divided and attacked by the boss, and they will be defeated one by one.

Returning it again and again, back and forth without realizing it, is a vicious circle that forms a tight fit.

So, after several failures, Shane gave up.

He's here to have fun, not to piss off, let alone to be angry!
"Do you want to delete the game archive?"

A question appeared on the screen, as well as two options of "yes" and "no".

Sean chose yes without hesitation.

Rubbish game, ruining his youth!
"Please note that the player can open the second week, switch the protagonist sequence to the 'civilization' path, and experience the real era of the sky, do you want to try?"

Just when Xia En was about to get up and leave, he saw another message pop up on the screen.

"The way of 'civilization'?" Xia En stagnated, a little confused.

According to the game settings, the "civilization" path has been completely lost, and it needs a lot of exploration in the later stage to discover it.

Moreover, the "civilization" path is set, and compared with the same level, it can almost stably outperform any heroine.

But now... Can he transfer to the "civilized" path?

Looking at the text in front of him, Xia En suddenly felt a little ready to move.

Not to mention other things, the world setting of the game itself, as well as the internal combat system are still good, otherwise he wouldn't insist on dying many times before deciding to give up.

Now that there is a chance to reopen... why don't you give it a try?
Thinking of this, he reached out and moved the mouse, and clicked on the "Yes" button.

In the next second, his eyes darkened.

Before he fainted, he only heard a loud, clear, and deafening voice echoing in his ears.

"Steam roars, civilization begins."

……

"Woo, woo, woo..."

When Xia En woke up again, he could only hear the cold wind whistling around him.

He was lying in the snow field, the sky and the earth were all white.

This……

Xia En hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand decisively and slapped himself twice.

So immediately after the two slaps he gave himself, the cold wind gave him two more slaps, which made him shiver, and he no longer thought about whether he was in reality.

Looking at the surrounding scene, and then thinking of the "experience the real era of the sky" in the previous reminder, and the "steam roar, civilization begins", even if he doesn't want to believe it anymore, he has to admit that he was reborn, or traveled to " The world of Sky Age.

Came to the continent of Aurora.

He moved his hand, and his right hand felt something cold and hard.

Looking back, Xia En was momentarily stunned.

There was something on his right hand, and this thing looked strange, like a gun.

And if it is regarded as a gun, it obviously looks like a submachine gun with the drum on the top, but the body of the gun is too long, and the rear part of the barrel and the part above the trigger are even more surprisingly large.

Isn't this... a steam rifle?

Sean was stunned for a moment.

In the game, when he was exploring the northern region, he rarely saw NPCs or enemies holding this thing.

"Whoa!!!"

Before he had time to think about anything, Xia En suddenly heard the shrill howling of wolves not far away.

But a moment later, two more wolf howls sounded one after another as if responding to the first sound.

Only this time, the two wolf howls sounded much closer to him.

Xia En's expression immediately became serious.

In the last week, he spent a lot of time exploring the northern border, and encountered many strange beasts in the wild.

In the snowfield, it was not uncommon to hear such howls of wolves, because the speaker of this sound was a very dangerous beast.

And as if to confirm his thoughts, three figures slowly appeared in the heavy snow.

Those were three creatures that looked like wolves, but not just like wolves.

Their eyes are ice blue, sharp and menacing, and there are several crystal clear ice edges standing behind them, approaching Xia En in a fan shape.

It's a direwolf.

Seeing the appearance of these three figures, Xia En's heart tightened.

Because creatures like direwolves have extremely strong vitality, it is very difficult to kill them with pure external damage.

When dealing with them, ordinary adventurers will try to destroy the three ice edges behind them.

Because that's their only weakness.

Once all three ice edges left their backs, or were crushed, the direwolves would die immediately.

Thinking of this, Xia En simply picked up the steam rifle, moving skillfully, as if he had been a veteran for many years.

and many more!

Seeing his skillful movements, Xia En suddenly reacted.

Since I have opened the second week and arrived in Aurora, I should have successfully converted to the "civilization" path, right?

Before he could feel his own abilities, the direwolf who saw his movements opened his mouth wide, bared his sharp teeth, and made a trembling sound.

And the crystal clear ice edges behind them trembled slightly.

In the next instant, the three ice ridges separated from the ice wolf and shot straight at them like arrows from a string.

Shane didn't think much about it, just rolled over while holding the steam rifle.

The ice edge flew past his cheeks, and plunged into the snow in the cold wind, leaving a waking pain.

"Hiss..." He gasped in pain and raised his rifle again.

When the direwolves lose their first ice edge, they usually fall into a cautious state, no longer throwing out the ice edge at will, but use encirclement and force to force the opponent to reveal its flaws.

And this is Sean's chance.

At the moment he just rolled over, he had already confirmed that he had successfully transferred to the "civilization" path and became the "gunner" of Sequence Nine.

Among the gunner's three skills, two skills are of great use right now.

While thinking about it, Xia En quickly checked the ammunition and pulled the bolt. The movement was so fast that there was almost a double image.

The first skill, "Gun Mastery".

Passive skills, only effective for rifles, speed up aiming, reduce recoil, improve shooting accuracy, reduce shooting intervals, and speed up projectile loading.

In the next moment, he raised his gun to aim like a conditioned reflex, and aimed at the ice edge of the ice wolf on the left with the fastest speed.

On the snowfield, there were suddenly three loud bangs in succession.

It covered the whistling sound of the cold wind and the rustling sound of snow falling.

It seemed that even the harsh celestial phenomena should be terrified by these three loud noises.

The remaining two ice edges of the ice wolf on the left made a clear and crisp sound of shattering, and then the light in the eyes gradually disappeared, and the body fell limply.And one of the ice edges of the ice wolf in the middle shattered, causing it to fall into a state of "hesitation".

The second skill, "Triple Combo".

Can use the steam rifle to shoot three times in a row quickly and accurately. If it hits the same part of the target, it will cause overlapping injuries, or the effect of breaking the defense.

The gunner can use the "three-strike combo" up to three times in a row in Sequence Nine, and then he will be unable to use his skills for a short time due to excessive physical load and exhaustion of spiritual energy.

And this short time will be determined according to various factors such as the gunner's own state and the external environment, and it is not a fixed time.

But now, it is obviously far from the time when Xia En's physical strength and spiritual energy are exhausted.

It was precisely because the three direwolves gave up their crazy attack just now that Xia En was able to aim and hit three combos in just a moment.

He pulled the bolt quickly, aiming the rifle directly at the direwolf on the far right.

As for the direwolf in the middle, he ignored it.

Because the direwolf in a state of hesitation, if it finds that the prey can show the same attack ability, it will run away.

If it can't, it goes on the offensive.

And the next moment, the steam rifle in Xia En's hand roared again.

Following three crisp cracking sounds almost simultaneously, the remaining two direwolves lost the light in their eyes at the same time, and fell limply.

Sean panted heavily and sat down in the snow with unconcealable joy.

He really had no choice but to be unhappy, because even if he had been promoted to Sequence Seven in the last week, as a support staff, he would definitely be chased and screamed whenever he ran into a direwolf.

There is no power to fight back at all.

The so-called no output, no frankness, can only wait for someone to rescue.

But right now, he is only a Sequence Nine of the "civilization" path, a "gunner".

With only one gun, he killed three direwolves in the encounter without any injuries!
In any other sequence, Xia En couldn't think of a way to pass the level without injury under the same circumstances.

Is this the noble long-range DPS? !

Xia En complained in his heart, gasping for breath, crawled into the snowdrift beside him, and dug out the three ice edges stuck in it.

The ice edge of the direwolf is a pretty good supernatural material, but it is difficult for ordinary low-sequence ability users to use it—because it is very hard and strong, and it takes a lot of energy to process it.

However, low-sequence ability users of the "civilization" path need it.

Because the last skill of Sequence Nine "Gunner" is "light gun casting", which means that the gunner can use ordinary materials and some extraordinary materials to cast, repair, and modify steam rifles and steam rifle projectiles to a limited extent.

It's hard to say whether this skill is strong or not, but if you feed more materials, it is very likely to work hard to create miracles.

Therefore, Xia En just wants to find a place to rest for a while, repair and modify the steam rifle by the way, and then get more rifle bullets.

As a result, before he could leave, there were intermittent voices coming from the cold wind.

"The voice just now sounded here?"

Gentle, calm, is a female voice.

And I don't know why, when Xia En heard this voice, he always felt so familiar.

For a few seconds, he thought about it and decided to call for help.

Because if you find someone in the snowfield, you may be killed or rescued, but if you can’t find anyone, you can only choose one of four options: freezing to death, dying of thirst, starving to death, or being bitten to death.

As a good young man in the new era, Xia En still understands probability.

"There's someone here!" Xia En yelled at the source of the voice.

The cold wind seemed to suddenly calm down for him.

Then, within a few moments, a group of knights pierced through the heavy snow and appeared in Xia En's sight.

There were ten knights in this group, with one in the lead and the other nine in the rear.

They wore uniform white robes, but they had gold threads embroidered on places like the shoulders, chest, and bottom of the robes.

As for the mounts of these knights, they are all white horses. Although the saddles are normal brown, the white horses all have the same headgear on their foreheads.

And the meaning of this headdress is quite clear.

They are knights of the Holy Order.

Seeing this group of people, Xia En subconsciously took a breath.

Last week, he dealt with the Holy Cult.

There are quite a few people in this group who only accept death, and they are both difficult and capable.

But why are they here?
Sean was puzzled for a moment.

This is the Northern Territory, not the Holy Kingdom?
If he knew that the knights of the Holy Cult would appear in the northern border, he would never speak out directly.

As for now... Judging from Xia En's situation just after the field battle, any confrontation at this time would be tantamount to suicide.

"Put down the steam rifle in your hand!" The knights on the left and right sides of the leader in the middle got off their horses almost at the same time, drew out their long swords, and approached Xia En step by step.

Xia En quickly put down the gun and raised his hands, "I'm not hostile!"

Seeing him resolutely give up resistance, the movements of the two knights obviously slowed down, and even the knight on the right turned back to look at the leader, "Miss Saintess, look?"

Saintess?

Xia En frowned when he heard the name.

The Holy Church has a saint?
How can he not remember?
And even if there is, it should stay in the capital, how could it appear in the northern border?
What about trouble?

But that "Holy Maiden" didn't move, just stared at Xia En and the steam rifle in his hand for a long time.

"Uh... two..."

"Shut up!" The knight on the left handed the long sword forward.

Shane stopped talking immediately.

"Stop." The saint whispered.

The two knights put their swords back into their sheaths immediately, and there was no extra movement.

"Who... are you? Why did you appear here?" The saint's face was covered by the hood of the white robe, so she couldn't see her face clearly.

"Uh... When I woke up, I was here, and then I was surrounded by these direwolves..."

"Hmph... take it away!" The saint suddenly ordered, then turned the horse's head and walked away.

(End of this chapter)