Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki
Episode XIII: Bow, Freedom and
Lucier and I left the house in time.
In the great hall of the village, one soldier's armor was placed. What's available is the stiffest thing the captain wore. It will not be a coincidence that this has been chosen.
"Come on, Cyril. Show me through this thick armor right now."
The mayor's magnificent voice echoes.
Most of the villagers gather on this occasion with a mixed look of anxiety and curiosity.
Lucier, next door, was shuddering her shoulders as she shrunk nervously.
In the meantime, I turn to each and every villager with an arrogant look on my face.
It's okay. I can do it. I conveyed the feeling with my gaze.
And gently put your hands on Lucier's shoulder.
Just a little but her tremor stopped.
"Let me try. Before the demonstration, I prepared a new bow to introduce the weapon piercing this armor. Its name is Crossbow."
I raise a crossbow made of iron and wood high.
Then the eyes of the villagers around him turned discouraging, and the village chief and his surroundings, loosened their expression.
It's the way I expected it.
"Are you insane!? Cyril, with your father's big bow and his impenetrable armor, like a toy bow?
"I don't care what you think, such a small bow"
"You said you'd let Lucier use it. It must be a bow for girls."
Village chief and surrounding curse sounding around.
I open my mouth with a smile on my face.
Just a little bit, I'm going to have a little fun uplifting the place now.
"Once an elf warrior was invincible! I've bounced through many invasions with the power of the wind and bow!
It's the glory of the past, which is now gay.
The demon stone of the elf has been eyed by humans for hundreds of years. I can't count the number of times I've been invaded. Still, we kept winning until they introduced metal armor.
"No enemy arrows reached the warriors of the elves who could follow the wind, and our arrows reached everywhere"
Elf warriors manipulate the wind.
On the battlefield, enemy archers were constantly forced to release arrows in the headwind; on the contrary, the arrows unleashed by the elves were sheltered by the wind, and the air around them did not even receive air resistance by avoiding the arrows, boasting an incredible range.
As a result, it was unilaterally ravaged in long-range warfare.
"But five years ago, when Imperial iron making technology was raised, metal armor came out, and our arrows stopped piercing our enemies, our pride was crushed with the arrows, and the elves' inflexible warriors fell one after the other, eventually allowing the invasion"
What changed such a battlefield was the spread of metal armor. Imperial improvements in steelmaking technology have made armor that arrows can't penetrate.
No matter how far away the arrows were, they were caught in armor, all of which allowed them to approach, and one, two, and the skilled archers were slain, and the elves lost their power to resist.
"Our glory was always with the bow. If you wish to regain pride, make a strong bow and no other way to pierce the iron armor, the imperial prestige! For the first time, we can take the next step."
Shout out your voice, your emotions, and sing out loud.
"Now let's see the arrow that brings back our pride"
I humbly thank you, pull the strings, and hand Lucier the crossbow with the arrows set.
But I stopped doing that just before.
Because her hands were shaking.
If you look closely, your expression is also beefy and blue.
Something that works at this rate doesn't work either.
I only sound like Lucier. Twinkle with a whisper.
"I'm nervous, so let's make it easy on you. Look, hand in hand."
"Ugh, yeah"
"Well, it hurts a little, so bear with me."
"What?"
Look at Lucier's blind face and pinch that Lucier's hand together so I can clap.
It sounded panicky.
"It hurts. Cyril."
Lucier complains in a whisper after suddenly turning his eyes in surprise. The expression is softer than it was earlier.
"But you stopped trembling. You don't have to think hard. You can do what you practiced yesterday. You don't have 10 meters. This distance would hit you if you closed your eyes, right?
"But, but, me, if I fail here,"
"At that time, shall we have a butterfly pen? Raw, of course."
"Tell me a joke at a time like this"
"Because this is the time. Look, take everyone's guts off him."
"Cyril is as usual, isn't she? I'm nervous. I'm starting to look stupid."
Lucier was thin, really thin but smiled. This will be fine.
A crossbow gripped by Lucier's thin hand was pointed at the armor and the trigger was unwrought.
Panting, the arrow pierced the ground as it sounded dry, easier to armor.
I put my hand on Lucier's head and brutally stroked him.
"Liar!
"Unbelievable."
"An arrow released by a girl like Lucier pierced her armor?
"With such a small bow?
I can't get enough excitement around me.
The crossbow I made has nearly twice as much bow power as the big 89 kg, with an initial speed of 102 m/s. Approximately 360 km/h at speed. This much armor penetrates naturally.
"Guys, have you seen it? This bow can be used by powerless women and children to pierce anything, and with this, anyone can fight the Empire!
Boost that excitement even further.
However,
"Don't be fooled, I did pierce the armor, but the strings were drawn beforehand. There's no way a string of such a powerful bow could hit Lucier!
Mayor Chan enters.
"Then, Lucier, try it as I taught you yesterday"
"Yeah, okay"
Safely and successfully the arrow hit the armor and wrapped in relief and joy, Lucier pushed the wheel on the tip of the crossbow against the ground, stomping and securing it through his toes.
Additionally, attach two S-shaped tools that snap onto the string you gave yesterday, pull the string with your hands and spine, and snap onto the strut to secure it.
I can't pull a string of 89 kg bow force with one hand, but if I pull it with both hands and spine, even a girl can pull about 100 kg.
Then I'll shoot you again.
"Please, Lucier."
When I say so, Lucier sets the arrow on the rail indentation and plays the trigger. Then, again, the arrow pierced the armor.
"As you can see, even Lucier can pull this bow. Besides, unlike a normal bow, I can move with the strings pulled"
"You could certainly pull it off even in Lucier. But unlike a normal bow, if you had a tip on the ground every time, you wouldn't be able to fire in a row."
"I don't care about that stuff, depending on a little training and operation. Besides, do we need a series of shots in the elves? We just have to stop with one blow."
When I say that, I take a different crossbow from what I gave Lucier, keep moving away from the armor, and stop my leg about 200m away.
"We elves have good eyes, excellent sense of distance and are loved by the wind"
That's why the elves are so good as bowmen.
You can see things far away, have excellent motor vision, and an exceptional sense of distance. Everything you need to handle a bow.
"The arrow you release with your soul won't come off"
Unleash windswept magic with arrows.
Arrows unaffected by the wind do not go mad except by gravity.
Besides, I've tried it several times, but in this world corioli power… has no effect due to the rotation of the earth.
So if we only calculate the free fall, the arrows fly in the orbit of the street we aim for.
Originally, as a weakness in the crossbow, due to the inability to apply long arrow feathers, on top of having to shorten the structural ascent, the straightness is inferior due to the power of inertia and the difficulty of receiving lifting force, the arrows are shaken or the range drops, but for the elves that weakness can be ignored.
"Look, as you can see"
Arrows with a speed of 104 m/s arrive after 1.9 seconds, from which the calculated free fall distance is 18.1m. I fired an arrow aiming up from the center of my armor only for that distance.
The arrow pierced the armor so that it could only be sucked in.
Thanks to the wind, there is no air resistance, so the power of the arrows does not diminish.
And the protection of the wind is also a simple sorcery that can be mastered first and used by anyone, if it is an elf.
Yes, everyone on this scene is letting go of a deadly arrow from 200 meters away.
Look at my long-range fire. The venue boils even more.
Move near the armor again while making sure of that.
"Even if we can't even shoot long ranges like right now, we elves would be able to shoot in the middle in less than 100m with a little training. We can kill every soldier in the empire by the time they're slaughtered."
"Stupid, bow training would take on an annual basis. Five years ago in the battle, all the top bowmen died. A bow is out of the question."
The evil ascension of the village chief continues.
In fact, bows are difficult to handle. Stand by, puller angle, timing to release. They all require skilled moves. It takes a few years to become a first-rate archer.
"If it's just a bow. But Crossbow just pulls the trigger. Then let's try it. Anyone who wants to try and pull this bow, come on in."
When I said that, some people came down first, so I gave them me and Lucier's crossbow to shoot.
The villagers pulled strings in a brief lecture, connected arrows, and let the armor 20 m away pierce them.
This is also a crossbow charm. Even elves with the necessary qualities for archers can't handle bows without training. The village chief is right, most of the bow's famous men died in the battle ahead. Now only a few people who have to go hunting can handle bows properly.
Everyone will be able to use it in a few days this time when building a weapon. I thought that was the minimum.
In the village of Elves, we cannot afford to make experts in battle. It makes sense for the first time that ordinary people can fight in one hassle of agriculture.
"Do you still have a complaint about this?
"Oh, there is. What can you do with just two bows! How many soldiers do you think are coming at once?"
Rebuttal as planned. I was waiting for that word.
"Who said only two?
I do a partial opening of [Round Regression], activate Deet's [Item Box], and retrieve all 50 crossbows made by yesterday.
There was such a different atmosphere in the sight that the soul would be enchanted, lined with an overwhelmingly destructive crossbow.
"It's not enough, but let's still get it ready. Everyone watching, as you can see, has a lot of bows. Anyone who wants to shoot, keep shooting."
The villagers who were watching in far-flung circles in those words come together.
One arrow after another, the armor was no longer full of holes.
It's just a moment when a villager instantly turns into an archer piercing the armor of a formidable soldier.
"Now you know, don't you? There is no longer any need to fear the armor of the Empire. It's just blunt!
The basic tactics of an imperial soldier. Abandon unwinnable ranged battles and storm and slam with invincible armor.
Destroy its root from its roots.
"We can win! I won't let anyone take it anymore. Get your freedom back!
Sweet words nobody believed until now. The power of the crossbow makes you believe that.
Shoot the crossbow and you'll see. We can kill our own soldiers in the empire. If you actually pierce the hateful imperial armor with your own hands, there's no way your emotions can be stopped.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa."
"I can win! I can win!
"I'll take your mother's revenge!
repression by fear until now. The anger of being deprived of someone important begins to fly.
If this happens, we can leave it to the future.
"Easy, easy, everybody. Indeed, Cyril made a weapon that might beat the Empire. But you could lose! Fight and we'll all die! All right, stay where you are, and follow the Empire quietly, and there will only be ten people to die every year."
"Mayor, I don't think I've got ten."
"But if you fight, you'll die more."
"I won't let you do that. Crossbows are one of a number of weapons. I'm going to make sure I don't let everyone in this village die."
Speak up grandiose. My actions so far make that word persuasive.
"But..."
"Let's hear the opposite. Why, you don't want to fight that far?
"I've said it many times. To make a little less sacrifice!
"Really?"
Look me straight in the eye and I'll ask.
"Isn't that what the village chief is saying because he's happy with his current life?
"Become, what are you talking about!? That's not true!
"Well, good for you. I think. Even the villagers themselves decide the future of this village. So I want you to let me hear everybody."
I look around at each and every villager around me.
"Do you like to live in fright, as it is, deprived and exploited of liberty and dignity! You fight to protect freedom, pride and, above all, the lives of the people you care about! Pick it on the spot."
Listen to what I say and there's tension around.
"First of all, applaud me for what I want to live in right now!
When I say that, the village chief and his children applaud him thoroughly. Not even a dozen people have seen it.
"Next, give me a round of applause for choosing to fight and regain my freedom"
Applause. Most of the elves clap full of strength. Yes, everyone wants to change this now.
"As you can see, village chief. The villagers have chosen to fight. You ignore this thought!
"Shut up! Everybody just got enthusiastic! Can we decide on such an important matter here! I will let you go."
That's what the abandoned village chief disappeared.
Then the village elves gathered at my place.
"Cyril, that's amazing. I can't believe you really built a weapon that pierces your armor! Where was all this material?"
"Leave the armor and sword alone with you when you steal food. I melted it and used it. And then there's the tree of Caede. The trees are bigger, so I can count them all."
"In addition to this bow, is it true that we have preparations?
"Oh, sure. I'm all set to keep everyone from dying, and if I get hurt, I'll fix it. So I want you to fight with me."
That's what I say and I bow my head.
Then everyone told me that we would fight together.
The villagers' feelings hardened. All we have to do is do something about the village chief.