The remains of the house had been completely removed, Rudina had moved everything she needed to her bag of holding and gave the safes to the village elder along with the combination to unlock them. She kept the workbench in her bag of holding though, it was as much a necessary tool as her cleaning kits. However, she did find a wizard’s spell which seemed to do the cleaning part fairly well. She still needed to lubricate the weapons and check the repair.

She had found an enhancement that she could add to her magical ammunition which allowed each shot she fired to have a magical property, this apparently was useful to hit things immune to non-magical damage. Also, the property choices were simple one for each of the four primary elements. She also found as she got better with magic the spell would open up to further choices of elements and energies such as lightning, ice, lava, holy, unholy, nature, and undeath, she wasn’t sure what undead energy was but was impatient to experiment with it.

She filled her magazines with her self-created ammunition, as they were practical, and made cleanup much easier.

The rest of the party was training alongside her, to get used to the sound of gunfire. She also gave them cheap in the ear earplugs as she had several full bags of them.  She used her personal hunting set, which was washable and reusable. Turns out thanks to magic, the cheap ones were now just as practical.

Besides her service pistol, she decided to use her Remington 700 set up as an M40. It had an excellent range and one of her armory friends from years ago was a Marine Armorer, and he set the weapon up for her. It wasn’t exactly like the version she had trained within the Marines, as it was based on the a5 and not the a2, but that was fine.  It was even better than the old one, and is a natural lefty, meant that the custom build could be set up just right for her.  She was still an expert shot with her right eye, but it was far more comfortable to shoot lefty for her. Plus, her grouping was much better that way.

To show what the weapon could do, she cleared the courtyard, and had the party follow her to the top of the tower, she fired five shots from the tower, all five were killed shots to the head of the dummies, all the dummies now had a nice fist-size hole in the back of their heads.

But now they were training together, she wanted to conserve ammo with her rifles until she had a way to replace it as she did with her pistol. Which she found would happen sooner than later as eventually, she could form a bond with a second weapon.

Together they worked on movement, as three of them relied on melee while the other three were at the range. The bard was a master with daggers, he used them as ranged and in melee. The Ranger, although he had a big sword on his back, he used a short bow, his grouping and skill were rather impressive. As he could do tricks while shooting, such as flips and cartwheels. Which he said made it harder for people at the range to target him.