Kuro no Maou

The Alsace Village Adventurer Guild, hated by the Crusaders for its Black Hall (Black Box), served as a powerful battle tower that showered countless arrows to its enemies.

Almost everyone who names a class of adventurers best at bows, such as archers, is placed in the guild, with the exception of some, such as "Princess Sanhou".

For this reason, it is the swordsmen and warrior classes who are currently deployed at the main entrance and shooting bows directly from the front of the Crusaders.

Thanks to this, the incumbent archers are protected by a guild that boasts a robust defense by blackening from high positions conducive to shooting enemies and are able to concentrate on backup shooting.

And on the guild rooftop, which was lined with the most archers, on its even tallest pedestal, was Simon, who set up a great sniper rifle.

"Direction at two o'clock, distance 380, unit leader class from outfit, no shield"

Next door, Rank 4 Bandit Suse as an Observer (Spotter).

In addition to her supposed observer role, she serves as a scope replacement for guns.

It returns the arm to its original appearance, the slime, and adjusts its transparent body components to form a lens that can magnify the view as far away as binoculars.

A change that can also be called a kind of intrinsic magic (extra), Simon is sniping this slime-type telephoto lens instead of a scope.

"... caught"

In his sight is a magician man who exposes himself during an unprotected chant.

Presumably the head of the Crusaders' Corps of Mages, he never noticed until the earliest moment that he was being targeted from the roof of an Alliance standing opposite him, and was blown over the head to permanently interrupt the magical chant.

"You've done it again with one blow, good arm."

"Nothing, the gun is just awesome...... but thanks"

Simon responds by dyeing his cheeks just a little to the unfamiliar words of praise.

But for him, "the gun is amazing" is a fact that is not false.

The gun that Simon is now using, although it is a rapid work that he has developed and completed immediately since the day he met Chrono, boasted unparalleled performance compared to what he has used so far.

In the first place, Chrono asked Simon for two roles: one to manufacture machine guns and the other to join the fight as a sniper (sniper) himself.

Retrospectively, a few days ago, in Simon's lab, it was a story after Chrono somehow drove Lily back, who had literally jumped in because of her angry mind.

"Hey, brother, let me hear you talk about a gun in my hometown."

It was Simon who shook the story first.

There won't be a wack that doesn't care about the presence of the weapon that I built with the most effort, the gun that I think is probably the same.

"Oh yeah, uh, I wonder where to start -"

Chrono briefly explained the gun because he didn't have time to relax.

That in Chrono's hometown (Earth) guns are the main equipment of the army, what shape, what structure, and that guns are a terrible weapon that can take more lives than swords.

That said, Chrono is not going to preach that danger to Simon, who built a separate gun, because what he needs now is a more powerful gun.

"There are three improvements I can make right now: installing a gun bed (stock), applying a rifle ring to the barrel, and -"

Chrono activated a demon bullet (Barrett Arts) at his fingertips, placing a pitch-black bullet shaped by black magic in front of Simon.

"Using my bullets"

"This is the bullet your brother just magically shot, right?

"Oh, I can't make gunpowder, but I can make as many hard warheads as steel can.

If you apply Eternity well, you'll be able to retain its shape for days, and you'll have plenty more lead ammunition to prepare than you can make from Ichi. "

"But you can't shoot without gunpowder, I'm no wizard.

The gunpowder I'm using now is not very cheap because it uses the fire-bearing type of demon stone as its main ingredient. "

Apparently, the effects are the same. But the raw materials of gunpowder differed in the first place between those made on Earth and those made in different worlds.

However, as a chrono, it doesn't really matter how different the material is, you should shoot a bullet for it. So the only thing that bothers me is getting what Simon calls raw materials.

"Demon Stone?

I didn't know Chrono.

But Simon keeps talking without any particular concern.

"Look, that red crystal that's often on the flame wand, oh that kind of thing.

You know magic wands are a lot more expensive than swords, and I'm just wondering if I can afford one. "

The fact that Chrono, who even calls himself a wizard, doesn't know the "Demon Stone" stems from his previous failure to dare buy a magic wand.

At the stage of the adventurer registration, Chrono, who had already obtained the 'Black Barista Replica', did not have to bother to buy other canes, and the canes of the minor black magic or dark attributes were not placed in the tool shop of the village of Iles in the first place.

However, I have seen the wand itself equipped by the sorcerer many times, and since I had grasped the structure, I could understand it as soon as I was told that "that part is the demon stone".

It's just that the magic wand doesn't necessarily use demonic stones, but that's another story.

"Then how many flame canes can you actually make enough gunpowder?

"With ten bottles, I won't be bothered with gunpowder until next year. I can't help but say that I'm totally, totally deserted."

"Then I'll get you ten."

"- What?"

"What, it's not enough?

"No, I'm not! How do you prepare ten of them?

"Whatever you do, you're free to use what's left of the village, and that's how much you'll get if you take out the armorer's warehouse"

"What's that bandit theory!? Isn't that looting!?

This may be the case if you ask me again, but for Chrono, who has already run Operation Scorched Earth, we have no hesitation in using the ‘resources’ currently left over ourselves.

Although Simon, who has a small civic sense of money, can remember a touch of anxiety in Chrono's "use everything you have" opulent statement.

"Let's make things in the village available as a matter of priority, and we'll need a blacksmith workshop to build guns, and let the equipment and blacksmiths cooperate fully with this"

Chrono's proposal is too attractive for Simon, a poor alchemist who has so far been able to develop only a low budget on his own.

"Regards!

As a result, Simon didn't care about the details, he went into manufacturing guns.

That's how it was done, possibly the first sniper rifle in the other world, "Yataglass," which is currently deciding one headshot after another on the Crusader mage.

By the way, the name is Chrono,

"Back in my hometown, when the head of a mercenary unit used a gun called 'Yatta Glass',

When I heard the word, some goofy Simon adopted the name.

(That's a really awesome gun. "Yatta Glass" could do so much thanks to your brother's advice and cooperation)

Simon Kaishin's gun still sprays fire from its muzzle and shoots out a sorcerer standing on the opposite shore.

Although still single-shot on boulders, Simon, with his all-around skills, has already earned more kill counts on this roof than anyone else.

(But not yet, there's still room for improvement in guns, even machine guns should be able to shoot without magic depending on how they are built)

Since the day he met Chrono, Simon has been filled with new research in his head.

His home town, or knowledge of the planet, brought about so much by Chrono, is worth more than gold for Simon.

(So I will never die, I have so much to make!

They suddenly showed up like they didn't know what they were doing, and they were killing me!!

Simon, who has yet to demonstrate more fighting and survival instincts than ever before, was calm enough to set his aim on the target, back-to-back with his hot chest.

"Mm-hmm. That's..."

"What's wrong?

The first thing I noticed about ‘it’ was Suse acting as an observer.

"Tenma Knight is here, eleven o'clock, do you see?

Through the scope replacement slime lens in front of Simon, the shadow of the Tenma Knight Squad approaching from far beyond the woods seemed dotted.

"Than I thought...... you have a lot"

"Right, but now I guess I just have to believe it"

"... Yes"

Simon re-grips the grip and measures the concentration again.

He doesn't have to deal with the Tenma Knight yet, now he just knows his part in burying many magicians.

I've heard more about the horrors of the Tenma Knight than I have in the profession of making the battle of adventurers work.

But Simon didn't remember so much fear in the army of Pegasus flying in farther than the sky.

Because dealing with the Tenma Knight is more of a horrible ‘fairy’.