"You just came back from outside the Wall. I'll allow you to take a day off today and come back for training tomorrow," the young instructor said.
Upon hearing this, the five people beside him couldn't help but look at Dudian enviously. Since they were selected from various places and came to this training camp, they hadn't had a rest yet. Even if they were injured, as long as it wasn't a serious injury that would leave sequelae, they still had to train with the injury. A vacation was already a luxury for them.
"No need," Dudian shook his head and said, "I've already rested for seven days at the Purification Guard Station. If I rest any longer, I'm afraid I'll forget what it feels like to hold a bow."
The young instructor was slightly surprised. He thought that was true and then said, "Well, then I won't assign you any tasks today. You can practice on your own, and I'll come to teach you a new archery technique tomorrow."
"What archery technique?" Dudian asked curiously.
"Scatter Shot," the young instructor straightened his face and said, "You have to study this well this time. The Scatter Shot is also a very important archery technique. If you encounter a group of monsters, it can help you eliminate them as quickly as possible and cause the maximum damage. In this way, it can also prevent the warriors and knights who are holding back the monsters for you in the front from getting injured or killed. You can't be as negligent as you were when you were learning the Continuous Arrow!"
As soon as Dudian heard the name of the archery technique, he lost interest. What the young instructor said was true, but if the lethality of the arrows was too weak, what was the use of shooting out seven or eight arrows with the Scatter Shot? Although simply in terms of the total damage, it was indeed much higher than that of a single arrow, and not just a little bit higher, but several times higher!
However, if the monsters couldn't be killed and could only be injured, it wouldn't be very meaningful either. Moreover, what he pursued in his heart was individual combat ability, not teamwork. After all, relying on gunpowder, his ability to hunt monsters alone was no less than that of a team. And when a team hunts monsters, the materials obtained still need to be divided equally, which is naturally not very cost-effective.
After all, he was different from other Hunters. He didn't have the Bright Physique, and every time he went out hunting, the nuclear radiation value in his body would increase. He had to calculate the money for buying purification water into his gains.
"I will," Dudian agreed. He thought that if it wasn't too difficult, it would be good to learn it. If it was too difficult, he wouldn't waste his energy on it.
After all, his training time was only one year. He had to learn the skills that were most suitable for his own situation and the most practical within this one year.
After the young instructor left, just as Dudian was about to continue his training, the five people beside him suddenly gathered around. The young man closest to him asked Dudian curiously, "You went hunting with Lady Glary. Did you see her in action? Is she extremely powerful?"
"Is Lady Glary very beautiful?"
"I heard that when she hunts monsters, she's as beautiful as a phantom, so she's called the Ghost Shadow Assassin."
"No, she's called the Ghost Shadow Assassin because her Marks of the Demon were obtained from a Ghost-Eyed One."
Dudian was a bit stunned and speechless when he saw these people chattering and asking questions. He could only say, "You should be able to meet her when you graduate. Then you can see for yourselves."
"Even if we graduate, we'll just be junior Hunters. We won't have such a chance to go hunting with her."
"Yeah, just tell us."
The few of them looked at Dudian expectantly.
Dudian felt a bit of a headache. Obviously, they still didn't understand the situation. So far, the consortium had just been simply instilling knowledge in them and hadn't let them receive practical training to truly experience the cruelty of hunting.
After dealing with them for a few words, Dudian sent them away and then continued his own training.
The next day.
The young instructor came to teach Dudian the "Scatter Shot" archery technique. The basic requirements of the Scatter Shot mainly lie in two points. The first is grasping the arrows. When you reach out and touch the quiver on your back, you need to grab the arrows into the gaps between each finger at the first moment. Just this point alone requires repeated practice. After all, the purpose of the Scatter Shot archery technique is to shoot and kill multiple monsters at the same time. If you're flustered when grasping the arrows and it takes too much time, it's actually not as fast as shooting a single arrow.
The second point is finger adjustment.
According to the positions where the monsters are distributed, when you clamp the arrows with your fingers and place them on the bowstring, you need to quickly adjust the angles of the arrows. The spacing between each arrow is not uniform, and you need to quickly adjust it with your fingers.
Otherwise, even if you shoot a lot of arrows, few of them will hit the target. Not only will it waste the arrows, but it will also affect the efficiency and power.
Generally speaking, the Scatter Shot archery technique is not difficult, but to truly bring its function into play, you must meet the "Three Fast" criteria.
Fast grasping of the arrows, fast aiming, and fast adjustment!
According to what the young instructor said, if the arrow shooting speed and accuracy of the Scatter Shot can be comparable to that of a single shot, then it means you have completely mastered it.
"Practice well. The noise caused by battles outside the Wall can easily attract other monsters. This is a technique that a hunter must master!" the young instructor said seriously, "It doesn't matter if you can't learn the Continuous Arrow, but you must master this!"
Dudian nodded. Although the Scatter Shot archery technique didn't mean much to him, it had a very obvious effect on training the speed of drawing arrows and the accuracy of shooting arrows.
After the young instructor left, he started to practice.
The training ground for practicing the Scatter Shot archery technique was separated from the other five people. It was a small area divided separately, with four target positions. The maximum number of arrows that can be clamped by one hand is four.
However, Dudian heard from the young instructor that some senior hunters had mastered the Scatter Shot archery technique to an extraordinary level. They could simultaneously grab eight arrows and shoot and kill monsters in eight different places at the same time. This also meant that two arrows needed to be clamped in the gap between each finger, and these two arrows also needed to be adjusted to different angles for aiming. Just hearing about it made it seem incredible, but Dudian knew that the young instructor wouldn't lie.
When grasping the arrows, Dudian quickly realized how difficult it was. Sometimes his fingers would slip off the arrows or he wouldn't be able to clamp them properly. After several hours of boring and repeated practice, he gradually became more proficient, but the speed of grasping the arrows was still very slow. He calculated it himself. The time it took him to grasp the scattered arrows was enough for him to shoot a single arrow seven or eight times!
And the accuracy of a single shot was higher.
However, Dudian knew that such problems would be encountered when initially learning. He immediately endured the tedium and continued to train.
After the training ended that day, Dudian went to the Finance Department and received his gold coins.
Seven hundred gold coins filled a large heavy bag. He carried it and got on the consortium's carriage. Under the cover of night, he was going to the house allocated to him by the consortium. He planned to decorate the house as soon as possible, bring Jula and the others over, and also let Mekon and the others stay in his house.
Rumble~~!
Thunder rumbled in the sky, and dark clouds covered the sky. After a while, it began to pour down.
Dudian sat in the carriage and pulled the curtain tightly to prevent the rain from splashing in. He secretly sighed in his heart. The Disaster Rain Season was really troublesome with such frequent rainfall. But then he thought that the other two seasons weren't much better and couldn't help but sigh again.
"Whoa~!" Suddenly, the carriage, which was halfway on its journey, stopped abruptly, and the horse neighed.