Magic Industrial Age

Having already agreed, Gary Mills had nothing left to hide. That very morning, he explained in detail to Loy the ways of his Hawkeye school.

If Hayes' gun-sword fighting style emphasized the coordination of gun and sword, a perfect blend of firepower suppression and close combat,

then the Hawkeye school focused more on the extreme use of magic energy firearms.

They pursued speed in drawing their guns; being the first to shoot meant being the first to eliminate the enemy.

They pursued precision in shooting; bullets to the heart and head were always more lethal than those to the legs and feet.

They also pursued the destructive power of attacks; if one bullet could solve the problem, there was no need to waste a second.

To this end, they specialized in manufacturing various high-powered special bullets.

For example, holy water bullets against demons and devils, silver water bullets against creatures of darkness, ice bullets against fire-type magical beasts, flame bullets against water-type magical beasts, and so on...

It is worth mentioning that this was Gary Mills' forte.

The silver gun in his gold and silver pair was specially made for using such bullets.

They also sought to deal with various situations and solve various problems with bullets.

This led to the creation of special types of bullets, such as fire extinguishing bullets, noise bullets, signal flares, and so on.

However, this was Gary Mills' weak point; he had only heard of many of these bullets and had never seen them.

They belonged to a very small number of individuals within the Hawkeye school; he only knew how to use a signal flare.

When used, it could explode into a burst of light in mid-air, releasing a dazzling glow for a minute, visible from miles away.

Of course, this type of bullet was quite special and could only be used with specially made magic energy firearms.

As if that wasn't enough, the Hawkeye school also emphasized specialization in firearms, which included not only gun maintenance and modification but also the use of various weapons.

For example, you had to specialize in magic energy pistols; you also had to be proficient with magic energy rifles, which had a longer range; and you had to be skilled with magic energy machine guns for effective firepower suppression.

You also had to be able to perform long-range sniping, calculating wind force and humidity to ensure the bullet's point of impact, and you had to be familiar with various models of magic energy cannons.

Not necessarily hitting the target every time, but you had to know how to use them!

This was also why Gary Mills had Loy prepare money; to learn all of this required feeding the guns with bullets.

Without a few hundred or a thousand gold Thalers, and firing tens of thousands of bullets, it would be difficult to even get started.

Gary Mills also took Loy to his residence. After entering the basement, it was like entering an armory.

Apart from modified special firearms, almost every model of standard firearm was available here, even the first-generation magic energy muskets could be found.

Of course, these muskets were just for show. What truly shocked Loy was that there was even a 12-pound, 57mm caliber magic energy cannon here.

Loy never expected to see such a thing in a private armory, especially within the city.

He walked around and discovered that it was brand new, obviously often handled, with three boxes containing a total of thirty cannonballs next to it.

He could even imagine that if someone angered Gary Mills one day, and the old man went crazy and dragged the cannon out...

Even transcendent combat professionals would probably be intimidated!

Besides that, what caught Loy's attention the most was a weapon designed and manufactured by Gary Mills himself, featuring an ultra-strong barrel, a triangular support, but no scope, resembling a rifle.

Gary explained that this was his masterpiece, designed to cover the greatest distance and minimize the danger perception of combat professionals.

Loy knew that this was the prototype of a sniper rifle!

Strangely enough, a school as impressive as this should have been famous in the Habsburg Empire.

But in reality, Loy couldn't find any information about it in his database. Therefore, he went to the second floor of the library and consulted many books, where he found only a few scattered records.

However, according to the books, a traveler encountered a magic gunslinger who claimed to be from the Hawkeye school while traveling in the New World.

But that was the New World, and this was the Old World, separated by a vast ocean.

If Gary Mills really came from the New World, how did he cross the ocean, how did he get to Auckland City, and how did he become acquainted with Madam Linda...

That must be a very exciting story!

However, Gary Mills was very secretive about his past.

Loy tried to probe him once and realized that he was unwilling to talk about it, so he didn't delve further.

Of course, now that Gary Mills had taken his money, he didn't hold anything back in teaching him gun techniques.

The Hawkeye school was named 'Hawkeye' because its core skill was a strange ocular technique called Hawkeye Art.

This 'Hawkeye Art' was originally a specialized skill for some marksman professions. It could be combined with special secret medicines and techniques to make one's eyes as sharp as those of a hawk.

When cultivated to a high level, one could autonomously adjust the pupil's dilation and contraction, lock onto the movement trajectory of ants on the ground within ten thousand meters, and also have strong dynamic vision capture ability, static vision discrimination ability, low-light vision, and so on...

However, cultivating this exclusive skill required washing the eyes with secret medicine every day and continuing for at least a hundred days without interruption.

What Loy couldn't accept the most was that after washing, there would often be an hour of blindness.

Although the blindness time would gradually shorten as the washing progressed, Loy had no confidence in the situation in Auckland City.

He always felt that there would be a major conflict between the Royalists and the old nobles.

If he encountered his blindness period when the chaos started, the trouble would be enormous.

However, Gary Mills had already given him the skill and the secret medicine.

Loy directly threw them to Deep Blue to analyze.

It is worth mentioning that washing the eyes was the first step, and subsequent cultivation actually required battle energy. It didn't necessarily have to reach the external release stage, but it required extremely precise control.

Only with sufficient control could battle energy be transported to the tiny blood vessels in the eyes, thereby enhancing the eye's effect.

Therefore, magic gunslingers of the Hawkeye school also had to cultivate both magic and martial arts.

Loy certainly didn't want to miss this skill. He first purchased the medicinal materials and prepared enough potions,

but he hadn't decided exactly when to start.

In addition to that, there were three skills called 'Gun Maintenance', 'Quick Draw', and 'Dual-Handed Balance'.

This 'Quick Draw', as the name suggests, pursued the speed and accuracy of shooting.

The truth was to unleash bullets at the enemy's vital points in the shortest amount of time!

Therefore, this skill also included quick reloading, magic power storage, and magic crystal replacement.

'Gun Maintenance' goes without saying, it included gun disassembly, maintenance, and even the production of ordinary bullets, and so on.

The difficulty of this skill wasn't that high, but the tedious part was that it required understanding the structure of almost all firearms, even including some magic energy cannons.

The final 'Dual-Handed Balance' required the balance of the left and right hands, that is, what the right hand could do, the left hand must also be able to do, and they must cooperate with each other to achieve a result greater than two.

Almost all magic gunslinger schools had this requirement. For example, in Hayes' gun-sword fighting style, whether it was left-hand sword and right-hand gun, or left-hand gun and right-hand sword, were basic operations.

And like Gary Mills, his dual-gun shooting was even stronger with his left hand than his right.

Loy was far behind in this aspect. It could be seen from the accuracy of his shooting that his right-hand accuracy far exceeded his left.

But it was really not easy to change this habit!

This was developed from childhood. The right hand had become the main hand, and its sensitivity, strength, and even subconscious movements far exceeded the left hand.

Therefore, Loy now had to learn to eat with his left hand, write with his left hand, practice swordsmanship with his left hand, and even wipe his butt with his left hand...

Needless to say, it was awkward, but it had to be overcome, and he could only change it little by little.

The last time it was so difficult was when learning Void Slash. Loy really didn't expect to encounter such a big problem just after coming into contact with the magic gunslinger profession.

Fortunately, he made extremely rapid progress in 'Quick Draw'.

With the feeding of a large number of bullets, Loy became more and more familiar with the feeling of shooting, and he became more and more accurate.

With his Colt revolver, holding the gun with his right hand, he could hit wherever he pointed within a hundred meters!

Gary Mills was a very strict teacher and a true sharpshooter. Deep Blue adopted his movements and corrected them over and over again with the 'Assisted Learning Module', which made Loy's marksmanship more and more accurate.

Of course, it was still far from Gary Mills' requirements, but once he went out, he was also a qualified gunman.

As for 'Gun Maintenance', it was purely a matter of experience. Loy had Deep Blue, so he was not afraid of any complex structure. After disassembling and assembling any firearm once, it was already recorded in his mind.

This seemingly most tedious skill was actually the fastest to learn!

In addition to that, Oliveira also followed behind to learn for a while.

He could shoot, but that was all he could do. This time, he could learn a lot.

He also encountered the same problem as Loy, the imbalance between the left and right hands, and his problem was even more serious than Loy's.

He tried to change his habits and strengthen his left-hand training, but after only three or two days, he finally gave up.

Instead, he chose to specialize in the left-hand gun and constantly improve his 'Quick Draw' skill.

As for Ang, this kid was lucky. Oliveira had him practice the balance between the left and right hands, and even specially found a teacher from a magic academy to teach him basic meditation.

It was not difficult to see that although Loy was Oliveira's disciple, this disciple was too smart and learned too quickly, so he didn't have much sense of accomplishment.

On the other hand, Ang was taught by Oliveira hand-in-hand and cultivated bit by bit, so he was even more attentive.

Similarly, he also knew his identity. Perhaps he would be recalled by the Raymond family at any time.

He was the guard captain of Earl Karl Raymond, and that had never changed,

so he needed to cultivate a guardian with sufficient strength for Loy before he left.

Ang was very suitable, not only was he smart enough, but he also had enough perseverance.

Although he couldn't compare with Loy, in Oliveira's opinion, Loy couldn't be used as a standard of measurement.

Therefore, he was very attentive to Ang.

This was his long-term thinking. He hadn't told Loy, but he was silently doing it.

Just as Loy was immersed in magic gunslinger training, the situation in Auckland City changed again.

This time, it was as if all the contradictions had accumulated to the limit, and it was finally time to determine the winner and loser.

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