Chapter 255 Beheading
In this world, if there is anyone who can face the bombardment of twelve 75mm recoilless cannons without getting hurt, it may be only a top alchemist like Purficott. , or only human demigods who have broken through the knight class have that possibility.
However, even so, they could not rely on physical strength to resist, but used various other methods to avoid or prevent the bombardment.
For example, when Purficott faces this situation, she can raise a defensive barrier made of diamonds, or control the airflow to deflect the trajectory of the cannonball, so that the cannonball cannot hit her.
The more powerful knights can avoid the bombardment by moving at high speed. In fact, this can be done by most knights who are agile enough.
Just like in the original world, someone can dodge bullets, but in fact what he dodges is not the bullet that has been shot out of the gun, but the shooting line. After all, as long as your reaction is faster than the shooter, you can avoid the muzzle of the gun. With that trajectory, dodging bullets is not impossible.
But for a dragon that is more than 20 meters long, it is not that easy to dodge the cannonballs.
After all, no matter how fast it is, with such a large body here, it can't dodge one or two rounds, but it can't dodge ten or twenty rounds.
Under the siege of twelve steam knights, no matter how powerful the dragon was, it could not defend itself from all directions. The wounds on its body gradually increased, and it gradually became exhausted and began to fall into a disadvantage.
Although this giant dragon is not a being that is smarter than humans like the wise dragon in Purficott's impression, it is not a completely brainless beast, at least in this state where it is covered with wounds. Next, this giant dragon is ready to escape.
In fact, this is very inconsistent with the behavior of animals, because most animals will not fight back immediately after being attacked under normal circumstances, but will choose to escape, especially wild animals. If you do not stimulate it, Under such circumstances, effective threats and attacks will make them run away.
Because for animals, survival is the first factor. If they are not sure of victory or are forced to the edge of a deadly fight, animals usually will not take the initiative to fight, which will waste valuable resources. of energy used to survive.
But the giant dragon fought back as soon as it was attacked. After that, even though it suffered a fierce attack, it kept trying to fight. It was not ready to run until it was beaten and injured all over. , this is really not consistent with common sense.
Of course, it may also be caused by its low IQ. After all, only the dumber the animal is, the more likely it is to fight to the death when attacked. Smart animals are usually prepared before they are seriously injured. Escaped.
But for this giant dragon, it is too late to escape now.
At this time, the rotting corpses wrapped around the dragon's body had already been blown to bits by the artillery fire, not only revealing the pale and lean body of the dragon, but also opening at least a dozen bloody holes in its body. .
If armor-piercing bullets had not emphasized penetration rather than lethality, half of this giant dragon's body would have been blown to pieces.
Of course, it is also possible that the high-explosive bomb has insufficient penetration to cause huge damage to the dragon's body.
But now that the dragon's body has suffered so many injuries, some steam knights who had fired armor-piercing bombs have begun to change to high-explosive bombs and continue shooting, and this has undoubtedly brought more serious injuries to the dragon. Injury, thus forcing it to want to escape.
But obviously, it is impossible for the steam knights present to let it escape. The dragon-slaying martial arts is something that everyone wants. There is no way they can just watch this giant dragon and let it escape from them. Escape from under his nose. Especially the direction in which it fled was the direction of Perfectcott, who was deliberately avoided by Samantha during the battle.
"Oops! Lord Earl! Everyone, go and protect Lord Earl!" Seeing the dragon flying towards the location of the bunker, Samantha ordered in a panic.
Although she has deployed defenses in that direction, it is the weakest link in the entire encirclement. Only a part of the guard soldiers are in that direction.
Originally, in Samantha's plan, she would avoid spreading the battle in that direction in order to protect Perfecticot. As long as she did not lead the dragon in that direction during the battle, Perfecticot would There is indeed no danger.
Furthermore, the location where Purficott is located is not facing the valley. The dragon will not flee in this direction if it wants to escape back to its lair.
So in Samantha's judgment, this position should be safe enough.
However, she didn't expect that the dragon would flee in that direction because there was no attack in that direction. Now, Perfectikt had to face a fleeing dragon.
You must know that animals are the most vicious at this time, because if they don’t fight hard, they will really die.
It’s just that although the steam knights chased the dragon immediately and wanted to block it, the guard soldiers were also ready to fight and wanted to risk their lives with Flesh and blood came to stop the dragon and buy time for Purficott to evacuate, but they did not play their due role.
It’s not that the dragon broke through their obstacles and defenses all at once, or that their defenses were overcome, but that the dragon died.
He was directly pierced through the chest and abdomen by a huge rock gun that rose from the ground. Like a roast chicken pierced by a barbecue fork, he was hung on the rock gun and died.
Immediately, the soil on the ground surged, and Perfectcott, holding a cane, walked out and looked at the giant dragon hung on the rock gun.
As if to prevent the giant dragon from dying, Perficott turned the cane in his hand and quickly stabbed out multiple twigs from the rock gun, completely killing the giant dragon. I felt a chill in my heart, as if someone had inserted an open umbrella rib from inside my body.
Looking at the dragon blood flowing out, Perficott seemed to have thought about it, and activated alchemy again, opening a diversion channel on the rock gun, and then the dragons who seemed to be still scalding hot The blood just flowed down the diversion channel she opened.
"Is this the legendary dragon blood? Sure enough, even if you are dead, this blood contains rich vitality. No wonder it is said that bathing in dragon blood can make the human body stronger." Purfe Kurt collected the dragon's blood into a container that she rubbed casually, took a drop of it and observed it with his omniscient eyes, and couldn't help but admire it.
Adhering to the principle of not wasting, all the dragon's blood spilled on the battlefield was gathered towards her under Purficott's control and put into the container in front of her.
(End of this chapter)