Chapter 8: Her Maid
Logan kept me company during the whole training session in the Gun Range and my performance improved by leaps and bounds. I’ll shoot any target right between its eyes as long as it is within 20 meters of me.
"Today I had an enlightenment in Guns. I should call it the Art of Gunning." Logan said.
"True. Lady Vivian is a natural-born shooter. If this is a hunt in the wild then Lady Vivian will put expert shooters to shame." Jane said.
"Thank you. You two are quite good with flattery." I said as I handed back the gun to Jane.
It is hard to get braised for being good with guns in today’s society. Even though Firearms are more popular than Swords nowadays, the true theme of power in this world is Magic. Knights and Mages are the absolute powerhouses of this Kingdom.
As for gunners, Knights and Mages look down on them and they can’t compare in Social status. How so? Gunners can be trained in the span of a few months and get sent to battles. Knights and Mages, on the other hand, require years upon years of training and resources. Still, A strong Knight can be unfazed by a hail of bullets and a skilled Mage can wipe out a squadron of Gunners with a snap of a finger.
Still, a good stray bullet can kill a Knight or a Mage not ready or powerful enough.
One of the most famous sayings in the world during the first decades of the emergence of Firearms, "Fair Saints, by any Justice would a mere Devil Minion, carrying the arms of Fire, kill a Gallant Knight or a Proud Sorcerer?"
Even though the discrimination against gunners is way less than what it was a hundred years ago, the reason for the slow development of Firearms is the common disinterest of Nobles to do so. Nobles’ power comes from Magic and Firearms threaten their position if they were to get stronger.
One thing to take note of is that a Firearm combined with Magic is nothing special at all. A Gun is no different than a sword or a spell in the hands of Magic users as they can channel their power through it and perform a ranged attack while reinforcing the bullet with magic. The point is, they can perform ranged attacks with other techniques that are superior in Accuracy, Power, and most importantly Rate of Fire.
Anyway, after I left the gun range with Logan, I wasn’t sure whether to go for the "Daily Quest" or hang around the Mansion with him.