Volume 4 Chapter 49: Burial of Light and Darkness

The transaction for the Thorn Technique went very smoothly. The consignor was just a Junior Apostle, and he belonged to the type of “low talent” Apostles who had long intervals between quests. After he obtained the Thorn Technique in a certain Quest World, he thought it was a rare treasure and really wanted to make a big profit from this Skill Scroll.

Unfortunately, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Apostles who would spend tens of thousands of Shattered Crystals to buy a Skill Scroll were all shrewd people. Moreover, the applicability of the Thorn Technique was really quite low. As a result, after being consigned for a month and failing to sell at several auctions in a row, its price was revised all the way down from sixty thousand to forty-five thousand Shattered Crystals, and it still didn’t sell.

In fact, this Junior Apostle had already paid over a thousand Shattered Crystals just in consignment fees. If it didn’t sell by the end of this month, he would have no choice but to learn it himself.

Thorn Technique (D+ grade active skill): This was a type of wood-element spell. It could use the life force of plants to generate a large number of wooden thorns on the roots or branches of plants. It was a magic skill that could be used for both attack and defense. If the Apostle had good Wood Element Affinity, they could even control the thorns to grow into specific shapes while generating them.

Skill description: Learning the Thorn Technique required the Law Body to have at least 200 Mana Value. Each use of the Thorn Technique would consume 20-50 Mana, depending on the environment and auxiliary materials. The Thorn Technique had various upgraded versions, but the specific information was unknown. The highest level Thorn Technique was called “Tree World Descent”.

Qin Lun exchanged the “Curved Trajectory” Skill Scroll for this Thorn Technique. Of course, “Curved Trajectory,” being a widely applicable gun skill, was much more valuable than the Thorn Technique. In the end, that Apostle even had to give Qin Lun an extra 5000 Shattered Crystals, plus seven seeds of the Snake Vine Giant Creeper.

He had collected these Snake Vine Giant Creeper seeds recently, intending to keep them for his own use after learning the Thorn Technique. The Snake Vine Giant Creeper seeds were about the same value as the Vine Seeds Mafa had given Qin Lun.

However, the vine men created from the Vine Seeds had the ability to distinguish friend from foe and could automatically attack enemies. The advantage of the Snake Vine Giant Creeper was its extremely fast growth speed. As long as it wasn’t a desert, it could spread over a large area on building surfaces or the ground in just a few seconds. If the Apostle possessed Wood Element Affinity, they could also control the Snake Vine Giant Creeper to form defensive vine walls.

In this transaction, Qin Lun actually made a small loss. Gunpowder firearms weren’t high-tech and were common in Low Magic Worlds, making them the weapon of choice for most Junior Apostles. “Curved Trajectory” was also a very practical gun skill, with a market value of around 45,000 Shattered Crystals.

However, that Junior Apostle was truly poor. He was like a dead pig that wasn’t afraid of boiling water; you couldn’t squeeze any oil out of him even if you tried. Qin Lun could only hold his nose and accept it. This time, he also got a taste of how those High-Rank Apostles he had blackmailed before must have felt.

“Unlucky!” Qin Lun waved his hand in the private room with a dark expression, as if trying to shoo away some of the bad luck.

After completing this transaction, there was nothing else he needed in the Skill Scroll section. He then clicked open the firearm consignment section. Unlike the Skill Scroll section, which had just over ten items, the firearm consignment section had over fifty pages, with over a hundred items per page. It was a dazzling array, with a rich variety, from Blue Quality equipment to Dark Gold Equipment, everything was available.

Qin Lun filtered out the Blue Quality firearms in the quality column, then filtered out firearms priced below twenty thousand Shattered Crystals in the price column, and then excluded rifles in the type column. There were still two pages of consigned firearms left.

Qin Lun looked at the descriptions for these two pages of consigned firearms very carefully and in detail. Since he had learned “Combat Gunmanship,” the weapon he was about to buy would be his main weapon for a long time to come. He couldn’t afford to be the slightest bit careless.

To Qin Lun’s surprise, out of the two pages of consignments, a total of over three hundred handguns, only less than a handful barely met his requirements. Many of these handguns were works of the Dwarf Clan from Devil’s Horn. The Dwarf Clan had extremely high achievements in mechanical technology. Many of the firearms they put into the Auction House were Purple Quality equipment, and there were even a few Dark Gold Firearms.

However, although the firearms made by the Dwarf Clan were very powerful, the accuracy of their handguns was generally poor. This was actually related to the inherent characteristics of the Dwarf Clan itself.

The Dwarf Clan was short in stature. For them, all combat targets were large in size. Plus, they had short fingers, so the handguns they made mostly had short barrels, poor accuracy, and they liked using flared barrels. The advantage was large powder capacity and large caliber, resulting in high weapon power.

This type of firearm definitely did not meet the accuracy and rate of fire requirements of Combat Gunmanship. After excluding the Dwarf Clan’s handguns, the remaining firearms were Apostle equipment collected by Apostles from various Quest Worlds.

However, because these firearms came from various Quest Worlds, they were either not gunpowder weapons, or they were simply not suitable for human use. After searching for a long time, Qin Lun finally found that only a few types of firearms met the requirements, and all of them turned out to be gunpowder weapons from parallel Earth timelines.

Among these gunpowder handguns from parallel Earth timelines, there was one model similar to an early Colt revolver that met the requirements. The early models of the Colt revolver were called “Cowboy Revolvers” or “Six-Shooters”.

The revolver in the projection was a pair of twin guns. The barrels were slender, and the small cylinders were embedded into the body just right, like a woman’s breasts. The whole gun had a beautiful streamlined shape.

The left handgun was pure white from the grip to the barrel. This white wasn’t painted on; the material of the gun itself was pure white. It was a type of metal Qin Lun had never seen before, and according to the gun’s introduction, it had a holy attribute.

The right handgun was entirely pure black, displaying a strange, moist, black glossy texture. It was also a metal Qin Lun had never seen before, possessing a dark attribute.

The grip of the white gun had a vivid little Angel holding a short magic wand. The grip of the black gun had a mischievous little bat-winged demon holding a ball of black flame.

The bodies and barrels of both revolvers were engraved with intricate patterns. They looked like artistic carvings, but they were actually symbols representing a kind of Mysterious Power.

The shooting technique and design of this pair of handguns both fit Qin Lun’s requirements well. The quality of a single handgun was red. If a single person dual-wielded both guns, the quality would strangely rise to the peak of Dark Gold Equipment, displaying superior Purple Gold quality.

In their introduction, the consignor provided an explanation for this. It was because the engraved Magical Arrays on the two guns were each only half complete. Only when held in the same person’s hands could they form a complete array and activate the Mysterious Power within the firearms.

The materials of these two firearms were extremely rare. One was Divine Light White Gold with holy attributes, and the other was Hell Black Gold with dark corrosive attributes. These two metals had opposing attributes, but both possessed memory ability, allowing them to slowly repair barrel wear. With the help of the Magical Arrays on the gun bodies, they became twin firearms.

Just based on their materials and appearance, these two guns could compare to that Saint Ice Crystal Dark Gold Sword he had once seen during the Exemption Token transaction. If they possessed a gun spirit, they would probably qualify to enter the Legendary sequence. Of course, this was only after first excluding one fatal flaw of these two firearms.

That Saint Ice Crystal Dark Gold Sword Qin Lun had coveted was also Purple Gold quality, and its price was comparable to Sub-Legendary weapons. Calculated in Shattered Crystals, it was worth at least over two hundred thousand, and it was scarcely available even at that price.

However, the pair of twin guns before Qin Lun were only priced at one hundred thousand Shattered Crystals, and it seemed they had already failed to sell once. Even when Qin Lun first read the description, he quickly skipped over them. It was only because there were no more suitable targets that he went back to consider them.

The reason, when said aloud, was a bit unbelievable! It was that this pair of dual guns, named “Burial of Light and Darkness,” had the extremely regretful characteristic of having no bullets, or rather, no ready-made bullets.

The skills of these two guns were very simple: they used their respective Magical Arrays to accelerate the bullets and lock onto targets, giving them an incredible initial velocity, while also adding holy and dark corrosive attributes. However, the bullets had to be crafted using specific molds, and could only be made by the wielder personally.

What’s more, this wasn’t even the most troublesome setting of “Burial of Light and Darkness”. The most bizarre thing was that the bullet’s power was based on the mold and the bullet’s own material, not the firearm.

In other words, if the bullet mold, which was an accessory piece of equipment for the weapon, was only Blue Quality, and the bullet materials were ordinary, then even if “Burial of Light and Darkness” added holy or dark attributes, the bullet’s power would only be a little higher than that of a Blue Quality weapon.

The Apostle consigning “Burial of Light and Darkness” had probably used these two revolvers for a long time, because he also included three sets of bullet molds—Blue, Purple, and Dark Gold—with the consignment. Among them, there were over two hundred Blue Quality bullets, forty-two Purple Quality bullets, and eleven Dark Gold Bullets, likely his own leftovers.

Perhaps because it had failed to sell once before, the consignor’s introduction regarding the bullet molds and bullet making was rather vague. However, Qin Lun could still see the hidden trap at a glance.

Although the bullet molds themselves reached Dark Gold quality, the materials for Dark Gold Bullets were very expensive. Qin Lun roughly calculated that a single Dark Gold Bullet would cost nearly 200 Shattered Crystals. Ten bullets would be 2000. If each gun consumed fifty bullets in a single battle, that would be one hundred bullets, costing twenty thousand Shattered Crystals…

Thinking of this, Qin Lun was speechless. “Combat Gunmanship” needed fast guns, not sniper rifles. Consuming one hundred bullets for two guns in one battle really couldn’t be considered much. These weren’t revolvers; they were simply two gold-devouring monsters.

Now Qin Lun somewhat understood why that consignor, even after crafting the Dark Gold molds, would painfully put “Burial of Light and Darkness” into the Auction House. He probably just couldn’t stand the consumption anymore.

Apart from the bizarre bullet setting, “Burial of Light and Darkness” fit the requirements of Combat Gunmanship extremely well. They could completely replace the FN-500 as his main weapon. Qin Lun hesitated for a while, which was rare for him, before finally clicking on the consignor’s contact number.

He ultimately decided to buy these two guns. Ever since obtaining “Combat Gunmanship” and facing the need for a Class Change, replacing his main weapon was already urgent.

Fortunately, he had only experienced three Quest Worlds so far and belonged to the second tier of Apostles. The difficulty of his Quest Worlds wasn’t too high yet. Blue Quality and Purple Quality bullets could still meet the damage requirements; he didn’t necessarily have to use Dark Gold Bullets. If he really couldn’t afford the bullet consumption later on, he could always sell “Burial of Light and Darkness” again.