[My first weapon - Pedlar Custom Brass Demonic Air Shooter, or just call it a Glock 22?]
The next morning, as I wake up, I immediately went to the Blacksmithing Workshop after I kept all the other materials into the Storage Box within my room. Looking at the storage box, I have a feeling that Instead of only renting for one, why not I rent at least ten and make my room a little more like the Minecraft game that I used to play in my previous world? But as the cost soon came into my mind, it quickly vanished.
"This world is seriously crazy. Due to the heavy opposing force that coming from the neighbouring lands, the Tian Gong Country actually applied such a heavy tax towards those that have the intention to monopoly the markets. Due to this reason alone, the specific workshop started to appears as they are the only one that could sub-sell the products above medium grade to the public. Meanwhile, for those in the Lower grade, they could be sold anywhere, but most importantly, the country could fully utilize the member of their country's population to work hard in order to earn some money."
"As for the land, the Tian Gong Country had a full control on all their land, and only licensed holder could have the right to possess, renovate, and upgrade it. Although the peasants had earned a big buck from selling all those primary stage materials to the country, they are still being robbed in between before they could actually enjoy their wealth. Meanwhile, for those who have the intention to succeed in a certain path, they would have to slowly build their fame across the way until they could actually found out the path they could take."
"No wonder when Han Li told me about those basic of survival in this world last time, felt so out of ordinary and also make no sense. This is the real reason why in such a mere Ling Hun Town, its population still reach at least five hundred thousand people. If this is compared to my previous world, it already could be called as a city." I whisper to myself as I make my way towards the Blacksmithing Workshop.
The moment I entered the Blacksmithing Workshop, I immediately greet lady Su Rou first, before I passed her another piece of Night Copper Ingot to be auctioned. I then paid the two Black Spirit Crystals as the fee to use their tools and another five Black Spirit Crystals for the Accompaniment Materials, and head into the smelting workshop. I begin today's work by smelting all the Zinc and Tin Dust within the pouch inside my compartment and managed to obtain a total of 63 Brass Rod (1%) and also 2 Copper Rod (1%). With my number of Brass Rod in hand reaching 265 units, I move to the Furnace and Anvil side, and prepare to slowly heat the rods and prepares to mould them.
Since I will be making a Handgun from scratch, I begin to heat up the brass rod one by one as I slowly form each part of the handgun. From the handle to the lower frame of the body, and then to its barrel and some small internal compartments, before I begin with the Magazine. I custom made the chamber to fits a more special kind of bullet without fail and later begins with the recoil spring. I soon begin with the lever that would bring the gun together, and the next minute, I begin to assemble the Demonic Air Shooter into one single piece.
The moment I assemble the gun, I quickly noticed that this gun had a missing part. Where is the equipment rail that would be stabilizing the other parts and also the hammer that will lock the lever in place? No wonder the senior had a bad experience with this recipe and he advises me to make sure I am confident with my works before I use it rashly. I later disassembled the gun and creates the two missing parts before I assemble the whole thing into one again.
Finally, the Gun is completed, as the Magazine had also completed. With five magazines in preparation, I believe that this would easily protect my life wherever I go. I took a rest for a short while before I continue with the Demonic Metal Slugs. The moment I checked on the recipe, I noticed that instead of bullets within a cartridge, the Demonic Metal Slugs are more to a whole hard cast bullet that similar to the Lead Bullets used by a musket. With such a consumption of brass component is needed, I could only create a total of four bullets for each Brass Rod. Since the capacity of the magazine is a total of twelve bullets each, I decided to use 30 of the Brass Rod to prepares a total of 120 bullets. With 60 of them are distributed into five magazines, I kept the remaining sixty bullets within my Inventory, and also in the same time, I crafted another ten sets of the Brass Wrist Bracer's needle, and refilled the empty slot.
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Just like this, I end up using a total of two Brass Rod for the ten sets of needles, 30 for the 120 bullets, and also 30 to creates all the part to assemble the Demonic Air Shooter Handgun. The moment the weapon is complete, a choice came from the Pedlar Setup Ring.
"Demonic Air Shooter with Demonic Metal Slugs is successfully created. Satisfied with your works?"
Yes
No
I choose yes, of course. As the light quickly wrapped the Handgun and the bullets for a moment and vanished. Next, a box appears from within the Status Panel, to indicates that this weapon is complete.
Pedlar Customized Brass Demonic Air Shooter - Automatic Ranged Weapon
Category: Range Weapon / Grade: Medium Grade 10
Durability: 75/75
Stats: 23 ATK / 2 ACC / 2 ATK SPD / 2 BLEED
Equipment Bonus:
Lower - 5% Chances to repair the durability by (1) when used.
Medium - 10% Chances to not consume a bullet when attacking.
Sneaky Demonic Metal Slugs x 60 - Ammunition
Category: Crafted Ammunition / Grade: Medium Grade 10
Durability: 1/1
Stats: 27 ATK / 2 SPD
Equipment Bonus: Double the damage if used in a sneak attack.
What the hell? Sneaky slugs? Double damage if used in a sneak attack? A handgun is a small weapon that would be used to fire at a range of 100 metres, and I will need to be a sneak attack to double the damage. Who will be so good to be there nicely and shot at his back? I am slightly speechless with the results of the bullet, but so far, everything has gone well. I spent some time repairing my Pickaxe and also my wrist bracer, and in total, I spent 100 of the Brass Rod (1%) to complete all my task here, as I left and head towards the Ore Cave.
With only 165 Brass Rod left in my inventory, I will need to make haste and quickly complete the mission before tomorrow midnight to obtained the [Tribute Crystal] as rewards. Since my only restriction is time, for now, I will fight against time! Through using the Goblin Pouch, I managed to keep 50 sack extra disposable trash with me, as I entered the tunnel. Since I am treated as a regular of the Cave Miners now, I am being offered to rent their Space Enhanced Cart. With the rental of 1 Black Spirit Crystals for one trip, I am allowed to rent as much as I could, depending on my capability.
After I calculate my progress, I estimate that with the 10 batteries and 50 sack of disposable trash, I could mine for a total of 600 minutes. With a full cart required twenty minutes to fill, it means I would be able to mine for a total of 30 Carts in ten hours continuous mining. Since this required no energy at all, and my stamina would be only used to collects the mining rocks, I go ahead with the plan, and rent a total of 6 Space Enhanced Cart that is equivalent to 30 carts capacity.
I went in, go for a straight ten hours marathon before I appeared again at the main cave. Some of the staff handling the cave actually thought something might happen to me because I went in for ten hours straight. But the moment I came out, they actually felt a slight relief because they have quite a good impression on me. Looking at the six full cart, I pushed all towards the Milling Area and started to Mill all the stone to powder before I sieve them to separates the Tin and Zinc Dust in their own container.
A ten-hour mining could actually yield me around 95 Brass Rod amount, so if I could maintain this for another one full day, I will be able to make this quest an early handover. I then went into the trash cave again to collect the number of disposable trash as I could and return to the tunnel once again. For the next 22 hours, I repeatedly went along with my mining and did not take a single long sleep in between. All I took is a few short nap to rejuvenate my strength, as I continued.
In total, I finally end my mining streak after my pickaxe started to fail me. A thirty-hour mining not only took a heavy toll on myself, as well on my Fine Grade Pickaxe. Although the [Tribute Crystal] is attractive, it is still obtainable in many ways, so I did not felt heartache even if I failed to obtain it. While at the end of my mining streak, I manage to produce a total of 292 Brass Rod (1%) in hand, and lucky me, I managed to get twice activation on the Level 5 Quirk, and got two Brass Rod additionally. Other than that, I managed to smelt a total of 10 Copper Rod (1%) as well, after mining for so long.
I return to the city after I rest for a while, and before me, I saw two goblins repeatedly stabbing a dead corpse that they hang it on the tree. The dead corpse had already been stripped clean of any clothing and equipment, and other than that two goblins, there is another three busy distributing their spoil of war.