Chapter 1,172: Three consecutive shots
After making the decision, everyone dispersed and headed for the path they chose.
At this time, Maomao had already pulled out the bladed bow, reached into her waist, and pulled out three arrows.
Generally speaking, only when it is confirmed that there will be no close combat and long-distance sniping is more important than the speed of continuous fire, Maomao will only pull out one arrow at a time, and then pull the arrow out of the quiver again after shooting.
When shooting arrows, in addition to the one arrow on the arrow rest, Maomao also holds two arrows pointing downward in the hand holding the string (clamped with the ring finger and little finger respectively), so as to facilitate rapid shooting. The arrow retrieval process is omitted.
In this way, after shooting an arrow, you can immediately replace it with a spare arrow like a pen, which allows you to always have a backhand when attacking, increasing fault tolerance, suppression and speed.
Of course, this also requires the archer to be skilled and have good coordination with his hands.
Otherwise, it will be counterproductive and make you confused. That actually reduces the speed and consistency of rapid fire bursts.
Either the newcomer accidentally missed the arrow, missed the catch when changing the arrow, or the arrow was crooked and the string was unsteady... As a marksman, Maomao would certainly not make such mistakes. Erina, who is also very good at archery, can also pull out three arrows at a time and replace them seamlessly after shooting, but her proficiency is far inferior to Mao Xiaoxia, who was raised as a slave in the death arena since she was a child and was saved because of Konatsu. of.
Some armies will regard this triple shot as a required skill for archers. Some simply let them learn two-shot shooting—with a spare arrow in hand. After all, holding two spare arrows is much more difficult than holding one.
The limit of spare arrows is two.
In fact, once the legion fights, except when free shooting, only one arrow is enough, and there is no need for spare arrows. Because the archers gathered together in formation and fired volleys under orders.
Therefore, archers who often fight in small groups and fight alone use this technique more often.
Although this rapid shooting method has many advantages, its shortcomings are also obvious.
That was the second and third arrows shot later. They were all quite different in terms of speed, range and lethality. This is something that cannot be avoided by continuous shooting. After all, being able to gain shooting speed is already a huge benefit.
Only fast but not broken means that the shot is fast and does not give the opponent a chance to breathe. After all, as long as it hits the target, no matter how small the power is. If you don't hit it, it means nothing.
What's more, the lethality of this continuous arrow will not be much weaker.
Just like some mages, they use magic that is amazingly powerful but extremely difficult to hit. It looks scary, but actually... nothing will happen.
No matter how terrifying the power is, it has to actually hit people to be effective.
"Axina will definitely not die, don't worry, Meow." After seeing Asina and Maomao leave, Lingge said worriedly: "But is Maomao okay, Meow?"
"It's definitely no problem." Xuehua replied confidently: "Maomao is super powerful! Have you forgotten what happened last time?"
What happened that time was that Lingge went to a certain place to exorcise evil spirits in order to fulfill her mission as a member of the Yitian tribe. As a result, the task was more difficult than expected and she encountered a group of quite powerful monsters.
Lingge and Xuehua both almost died.
Fortunately, Maomao arrived in time and helped them out.
She used time and space magic to cause the arrows shot in the sky to split into countless arrows falling downwards, creating a powerful rain of arrows with excellent scene control.
Within half a minute, at least 10,000 arrows were dropped. An average of 333 shots per second.
The threshold for splitting arrows of this scale is very high, and ordinary magic archers cannot use them.
For Maomao, the burden is also very heavy.
So, after she completely used her spiritual power to shoot the first wave of arrows to clear the area, she took out the split crystal she made and shot the second round.
As long as this kind of thing activates the magic power and inserts it into the arrow, it will cause the crystal that senses the arrow to break and then evenly adhere to the arrow.
At this time, shoot the splitting arrow into the sky, and it will automatically start after reaching a sufficient height, copying and splitting the arrow into countless arrows and shooting them.
Depending on the effect of the crystal, the range, density and number of rounds of arrow rain that can be shot are different.
The effect is similar but the principle is different is the mirror arrow.
That kind of arrow shot down is a mirror image of the arrow, not a copy of the arrow.
Relatively speaking, the main difference is that the copy arrow will not disappear after being shot on the ground, while the mirror arrow will disappear.
Then there must be a difference in cost.
The cost of replicating the Arrow Split Crystal is much higher. Generally speaking, mirror arrows are enough, but mirror arrows can be dispersed by various means and are relatively fragile. You don't have this problem with copying arrows.
Since Maomao would use this crystal only in emergencies, she would always use copy arrows to avoid missing the best opportunity to clear the field.
Arrows will appear differently depending on the extra steps added to the crystal's creation.
For example, some Arrow Rain will shoot some special bows and arrows after every N ordinary arrows.
These are occasionally random based on fixed rules.
Special bows and arrows may be rockets, explosive arrows, ice arrows, tracking arrows...etc., magic arrows like this.
There are always inclusions in every group of ordinary arrows.
You must know that the arrow rain falls very quickly, so it will give people the feeling that special bows and arrows are always appearing.
But the appearance must be based on the split arrow as a template.