Now that the gun is ready, it is time to craft the bullets. Before Zion could set himself to the task, a message flashed in front of him.
[ a fistful of clay offered at the temple ]
Zion retrieved the clay. He ran an appraisal.
[ Slime Clay ]
[ Made with fine meteorite dust and slime juice, this is considered toughest and most mana conductive clay in the world. It is often used by alchemists as a weapon due to its nature to allow and erase arrays as needed. ]
Zion put the clay in his hand and concentrated.
The array he crafted and written is finer than before. He took half of the clay, and returned the other half as a training egg.
[ divine power + 1 ]
As with the other days, the moment the training egg vanished, a strange type of mana started flowing in.
' petrifaction mana '
Anything they touch will turn to stone. When turned to stone, the mana conductivity will become zero too.
No wonder they sent the best clay in the world to have the training egg made.
Zion directed this new mana to a different core as usual.
The little hangman robots with tea baskets hanging in front of them are bringing him the spores from the slime mushroom. The spores are just as rubbery and soft as he expected.
One more clay ball came in.
This time, it did not even take conscious thought for Zion to create a training egg and return. The resulting mana flow was directed to a different core.
At this rate, I will form infinite mana cores, Zion thought wryly. While he was thinking these thoughts, his fingers were nimbly working. The clay that he has taken is divided into multiple parts, each formed a disk.
With the minutest flow of sword mana, he carved a magic circle on each of these discs.
The first array measured the spore in a three dimensional manner. If it's anything less than a perfect sphere by even a micron, the spore fails the selection to join the seeds.
The successful spores entered a long bamboo tube, opening to a roulette-like disk. There, they go through the little holes at the edges of the spinning disk, entering one of the six bamboo tubes. At the end of these bamboo tubes are six disks with magic arrays on them, each corresponding to chaos, sword , radiation, berserk, light and holy mana. The bullets are filled with mana up to a specific amount, then, they are pushed aside to fall into a bucket put underneath them.
The entire mechanism is made with only bamboo.
The moment the first magic bullet came out, the message popped up in front of his eyes.
[ Congratulations on making a Bullet Factory. ]
[ Bullet Factory blueprint added to omniscience. ]
[ Understanding Magic Theory from Knowledge Orb 154 ]
[ Unlocking Magic flow blueprints Series ]
[ Awakened fairy skill Barrier ]
[ Unsealing omniscience Active skill ' Analysis ' ]
Once again, there was a headache in his head. His knowledge increased exponentially.
As he looked at the arrays he created with his new understanding of magic theory and magic flow, just … so wasteful !
Sooooo wasteful !
He was using only one percent of the mana actively.
To think with this kind of shitty skill, he thought he was the most precise magic manipulator in the world !
He gained a new understanding of all the beings around him. The slime's snowflakes like gel structure !
The bamboo's single direction oriented ultimate tenuous strength !
The needle's bamboo's knitted structure he just filed haphazardly ! As such, he created loose ends in the barrel, which could affect the performance of the guns.
As his perception increased to hundred times more, Zion's working efficiency increased ten thousand times more.
He gently removed the loose strands inside the barrels, leaving the barrel perfectly straight and smooth inside.
[ Pea shooter ✫ ]
[ Can shoot a bullet with accuracy up to 100 - 150 meters. Ranged bullet does more harm. ]
Changed to three stars.
[ Pea shooter ✫✫✫ ]
[ Can shoot a bullet with accuracy up to 400 meters. The bullet pierces through in a perfect path, long before enemy can sense it. ]
Even Zion did not expect this much of an improvement. But then, the stray ends will change the course of the bullet, and that invisible level of error becomes more and more apparent as the distance increases. That's the principle of guns. All the difficulty lies in manufacturing, so the user need not think about s**t.
Now that he has made the guns better, time to improve bullets.
With his new knowledge of barrier and magic flow, Zion carved a new magic circle.
With petrifaction mana he just received, he solidified the outer layer of bullets. At the same time, he created the minutest magic circle inside the petrifaction cover, so that the magic inside the bullet will explode when the bullet penetrates something. This way, the explosion of magic occurs inside the creature, causing maximum damage.
[ Congratulations ! Created exploding magic bullet. ]
[ Adding exploding magic bullet to the blue prints. ]
[ Unlocking skill mana spear. ]
For today, Zion focused entirely on making pea shooters, each increasing his proficiency.
Finally, at the end of the day, he finished making the ultimate gun, its materials chosen from just the right cuts.
[ Pea shooter ✫✫✫✫✫ ]
[ When fired in short distances, even the strongest gale will not have an effect up to 100 meters. ]
[ Can shoot a bullet with accuracy up to 800 meters. The bullet pierces through in a perfect path, long before enemy can sense it. ]
With this, his basic preparations are done.
Now that he is done, he posted an advert on the guild forums calling for team mates.
[ Looking for teammates clearing 'Vampire Mansion' inside the city. ]
[ Prefer shooters with quick agile skills and warriors with holy magic skills. ]
[ Send a DM if you want to join. ]
[ PS: update your guild profile with skills, do not explain in DM. ]
[ Reward : Gun made by guild master, ammo and 10 guild contribution points. ]
This is the final place that their guild needs to clear to complete their annual quota of communal work.
In the morning, Zion sorted through the DM's he received.
Despite asking for marksman skills, the first thing he did was to filter for holy skills.
He absolutely needed the holy skills, at least one person to be safe.
Alas ! there are none.
Zion expected this result, but there's not much he can do.
Next, he went for the marksman skills, of which, there are plenty.
He finally chose five people. Two newbie's with olympic level shooting prowess, and three veterans, with experience fighting a vampire at least once before. He sent the Email to them, informing them about the meeting place.
During that time, he concentrated on making cold weapons with the bamboo poles.
There were bamboo spears, bow and arrows. At most they could scare the neighborhood dog. They will be good enough for path testing or causing disturbances.
Other than that, he made a strong rope and tripod hook, a ladder and a few whipping sticks.
The adventurers who arrived looked like a mixed bunch.
" Shall we do self introductions, and introduce any details you are missing in the skill profiles. " Zion called out.
" Matt Raul. Support, and Trapper. Can work with spears and polearms. " the bulky warrior in a singleton introduced himself.
An ax hammer hung from his waist, there was a light round shield on his back and a giant fanny pack in front. He has thick curly brown hair, brown eyes, bulging arms, and a hugging T-shirt that outlined his curves, but one can also tell it's semi armor. He wore sturdy leather pants, which looked more suited for mining than hunting.
" Bow Saintess. Sharp shooter, and I work as a team with Matt here. Best at kiting the prey. " she carried a backpack with herself, and two light revolvers on her waist. She was wearing sneakers in lilac color, and there are two blue bracelets on her arms, as well as blue anklets on her legs. She wore jeans shorts with nude leggings, and a fitting shirt and jeans jacket. Hexagonal chain mail shape could be seen on the tight fitting shirt, few bumps revealed she was yet hiding daggers underneath that bulky jeans jacket. She looked like a loli with purple hair, and too much make up, but one can see, he skill there.
" Lila Mathews. I am a healer. I am in need of vampire blood, that is why I am making this trip. Do not worry, my shooting skills are online. I can also work with swords. I prefer to use guns only when there's no other recourse. As you can see, my baby is precious. " She said, pointing to her heavy revolver, which was known for it's weight and power even among the heavy revolvers. She's a bit tall for a woman, had a clean poly tail, if not for the swords, she looked every bit like a college student.
She was wearing yoga leggings that ended at her shins, white sneakers, purple sports turtleneck, nylon arm guards, bow man's armor and knee guards. Two japanese katana's hang at her sides, and two tang knives are on her back.
Seems the turtle neck and the sneakers are a bit special, as was her revolver, but rest are alright.
" James Polliver. Shooter and fighter. I am good with daggers, and good at martial arts. Here for the guns. " The young man in rough military overalls introduced himself. He had a plain face, dark eyes, dark hair, square face and a new soldier kind of look. His shooting skills were very good, as was his marksmanship. His speciality is wild survival, but it seems he's taking a break after an incident with the guild he was in.
" Edward Steine. Mage. I am good with light magic, I am aspiring to acquire holy magic. I am here for the contribution points. " the last guy introduced himself. He wore glasses, had two inches of hair, parted three to seven, and a wand made of a golden teak wood.