Firepower Not That Impressive?

Su Xiao slowed his breathing. Every time he pulled the trigger, a dwarf ballista operator fell on the fortress half a kilometer away. When he fired his first shot earlier, he had discovered that killing a dwarf ballista operator earned him 60 battle merits.

How could Su Xiao miss such a good opportunity? He did not use the special 17.36mm armor-piercing rounds. Instead, he used ordinary low-quality bullets. They were cheap to produce—not made by Reincarnation Paradise, but forged by someone he had found on Mechanical Street for emergencies.

Each special armor-piercing round cost 150 Paradise Coins, which was simply too expensive. The imitations cost only 25 Paradise Coins each. Although their attack power was merely one-fifth that of the special rounds, they were still enough to kill the dwarf ballista operators.

On the fortress.

Crack! Brain matter splattered as a dwarf ballista operator was shot in the head. The headless corpse was knocked back slightly by the bullet's impact before collapsing. The dwarves could no longer laugh.

This was only the beginning. In the short few minutes that followed, more than fifty dwarf ballista operators were killed. Of course, some of those bullets and ranged attacks had come from other contractors as well. Su Xiao was not the only one firing.

Although the tribal side had plenty of dwarf ballista operators, they could not withstand such slaughter. After all, training one dwarf ballista operator was not cheap. Their close-combat ability was poor, and they only knew how to operate the City-Defending Heavy Repeating Ballista.

Su Xiao's sniping of the dwarf ballista operators eased the Empire's pressure as they piled up stones. Carlos, the legion commander on the battlefield, was somewhat surprised.

The rapid casualties among the dwarf ballista operators caught the attention of the Mountain Dwarf King on the